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(| the TOWN OF UNION HA8 jl ^ W T T ^ W~ T? ^ E TOWN OF UnToN~HA?| (1 Throe Cotton Mills, ouo the (f I j|] 8 .11 ^ 1 M M ^HPi ?8 W / 6 C ^ \{ , . , . ,T""\., ..... _, fl j j largest iu ihoSouth. Four Fur- | I B | SJ B ^ fl I | I g */ 1^ vj 1 >xV t h An^U | ISrfcLighls!'" V?rkS I V-J -L 1 JL jl JLj k_^? | Tliroo lira.lo.1 s4?ooU. Art?-jl yp The Progress | ^'in \\uter. Population ?'600- fl VOL. Lit. NO. 28. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JULY II, 1902. #L00A YEArT * ^ MA At/ JUf. ,44 ^te. rWr ?lv^ ?W% J P. M. PARR, President. ^ ? GEO. MUNRO, Cashier. J. * Merchants' and Pla J V OF UNI< {Capital Stock ( Surplus .... ^ Stockholders' Liabilities I j. Total & Directors?J. A. Fant, V * ^ T. C. Duncan, J. T. Douglass, T Wm. Coleman. X We Solicit Y W <* *fr ?X> *0 0? <frN NEW PISTOL LAW. .4 Our Leading City Obeys the Law. Charleston Merchants Say it is a Good Law and Will Respect it. The new pistol law has gone into effect anil it is unlawful to sell or carry a pistol concealed or not concealed less than three pounds in weight or under 20 inches in length. If the law is strictly enforced, the toting of pistols will be at an end. 4-t the la9t session of the legislature the sale, manufacture and carrying of pistols was discussed freely by the members of the House of Representatives. They all reoog nized that the pistol habit in this State was getting to be too common and steps wore taken to prevent the carrying of concealed weapons. The lawmakers got down to the root of the jmactice and passed laws making it unlawful for dealers to sell pistols under twenty inches in length or unaer three pqunds in weight. The pistol law is as follows: "Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, That from and after the first day of July, 11*02, it shall be unlaw!^ for gny one to carry about the person, whothor concealed or not, ijiny pistol less than twenty inches long or three pounds in weight, and it shall bo unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell or offer for sale, or transport for sale ty use into the State, any pistol <)f less Weight than three pounds and lead length than 20 inches. Any violation of this section shall be punishod by a fine of not more than $100 or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, and in case of a salo by a neraon. firm nr cornnrafinn flip sum of $100 shall be forfeited to and for the use of the school fund of the ceunty wberein the violation takes place, to be recorded as other lines to ^nd forfeitures j provided this act shall not apply to peace officers in the actual discharge of their duties, or to the carrying or keeping of pistols by persons while on their own premises." The ^artjware dealers in the city say they will respect the law to the letter. The law is a good one, they say, and they are glad that the General Assembly saw (it to pass it. X veil )^npwn hardware merchant Py said that most of the hardware wen in Charleston had very few pistols in stock and those who had pistols on hand would return them to the manufacturers. When the lav* was passed the hardware men here at once be*gan to (iispgse of the pistols they had in stock, selling thein uc a reduced price in order n<>t to have a large stock on band when the law went into effect. He said that tbete was no uionfcy ;n pistols und the dcilcrs only kept them because they were forced to.?Charleston Post. ItJC V SAM T. OUKKC1I KN DORSES TilK TIJJES 4KGUMENT. Kelton, 8. S , .July 7, 19U2. Friend Matuis:?I have just read vrtnr <'.liliiii.ll in l-iat uul-o Ti\nr. iu. garding the new pistol law and lind your argument 'extra line/' If you continue ?9 rou have been doing lor the past few M, mouths J ipij fearful wo will lose you, for indeed suoh manure in gjeat demand. The righr ma i i? at tint right pla e. I mean at th righo work, place cannot be wel usid at this p'iti', fo' beyond all doubt our growing K lior Unserves and in a short while will demand a uiucii j^rger place JJillJIIU'llt i >11 llie HXCrhH frtl'C charged by rai'ro i b ( also, wjiliinuiy r * othe s, co nlder ex'.r i g <od. To my opinio i every man measure* corn by liia own h til bushel, therefore when I teach the conclusion I hit all are dishonest 1 am dishonest myself. ijo not consider tab lliltery ui I mean every won}, in fact a little more but will eave some for next time. ' f " . - * -iW ?* >?#$ <** <**>? *-wA. H. FOSTER, Vice President. $ D. ARTHUR, Assistant Cashier. | liters' National Bank f oiv, h. c. | $00,000 | # 50,000 J 00,000 $ 7$ $170,000 I vr V. H. Wallace, Win. JolTrios, ^ E P. McKiflSick, A. H. Foster, | our Business. >. V <m-*+ **-?* <&*> * | UEY DKNVRIl KNDOKSKS THE TIMES' POSITION. I read the "friendly" controversy between Tin? Times and Newberry Observer, and agree fully with jvl'lor Mutliis. As the Obseiv< r truthfully puis it, the old law lias been a farce, because the people made it so. The fault was not in the law. There were many ways too, to dodge around the enforcement of it. In the present law, where is the chance? Then isjnone whatever, so it cannot be a farce. It is the people, and those called "substantial," talking against laws in various ways, thp ense so many violations. You cm recount, the time wlnn s > many intluential people and papers talked so against the dispensary law, what they would or would not do, about "personal rights, etc.," that caused many violations, and some bloodshed, and now we ought to steer clear of making this law a farce. 1 have always tried to be law abiding. L had no use for a pistol to carry around, but oa one occasion, I had ah mi changed my mind, but L go back to the same old groove and say emphatically, that there Is no need of carrying pistols. If one must get out of an imaginary mid sp.Ml, better not be prepared to shoot out, but as the negroes would sav, light it out "011 you m m," or quit getting in the so ills. | I have t he ught there was no need of a law, I but I know it is not I lie law, but the j people Some may think the present, the new law. a haul one, but one could easily become used to it. for what ii the use of carrying a pistol everywhere, because a man may get killed with one on him. I know of some men who were. Jin tl(e pistol <]id not save their lives Tilt! SAD WORK Oil Till? DEADLY PISTOL?A YOUNU MAN' SHOWS WHAT IIE WOULD DO IF A POLICEMAN' CAME FOR HIM. "A young man by the name of Jease Willard. living in Union county, just beyond Whitmira, died on Wednesday from the effects of a wound received accidentally from the pistol of another young nyiu, bis friend, named Trammell. The young men were talking of the new pistol law when Trammell says: 'I'll show yon how I'll do when a policeman comes to arrest me for carrying a pistol.' As he said this he reached round to his hipjpocket and drew his gun and in some way it went off, the ball passing through lH)th wrists of young Willard and into his Inxly. That was on Sunday, the 29th of June. The young man lingered until Wednesday and died."?dewberry Observer, HURRAH FOR OLD NEWBERRY. The new law prohibiting the selling and carrying of pistols less than 20 inches long and three pounds in weight went into effect on Tuesday. a. uviu urc uu jjisiuiH 01 mat Kind in Newberry?probably none anywhere. The dealers here had about sold out their stock of pistols when the law became effective, and the few remaining have boon laid aside. I: seems to be the intention of the dealers to obey the law.?Newberry Observer. SPARTAN MERCHANTS CONCUR. Spartanburg.?The new pistol Jaw went into effect July 1 and hereafter it will be unlawful to carry or sell a pistol of less than three pounds in weight and under twenty inches in length. The legislature at its last session was determined to take somo action in regard to the sale, manufacture and carrying of pistols. The subject was fully discussed and the result was the enactment of a law that al though decidedly unique in some respects, completely and effectively meets all the conditions which confronted the lawmakers in their desire to put an end to the "pistol toting" habit in South Carolina Dealers have h id nmplo time in which to dispose of stock on hand and it is believed that most of them concur in the action ot the general Assembly.? Special to Atlanta .Jqijrnal. , COLUMBIA WILL OUSKKVK TI1K LAW. The new pistol law went into effect Tuesday and it will he unlawful for , any p-r-ou. except peace officers, to i carry, whether concealed or not, any pistol lees than tw?nty inches in X * \ %' '7* ! length or three pounds in weight. There was at first some talk about contesting the constitutionality of the law, but hardware dealers and gun dealers generally have decided t<> let it go. So fur as can he learned the dealers will observe the law strictly. ?The Daily Record. GREENVILLE 1LAS THE Ft It.ST CASE. The first ciiso heard in this section and doubtless in the State, under the now pistol law, was hoard Tuesday morning about 8:30 o'clock by Magistrate McBce, The defendants were two colored boys, Tep. Brown and Ren Davis, j The coons had been shooting their j pistols in the neighborhood of Dan . Allen's house and when the ollicers put in their appearance held their pistols in their hands. llrown and Davis were taken before the Mayor and sent to trie gang for 15 days for disorderly conduct. At the conclusion of their sentence on the gang they will be hold for trial at the court of general sessions.? Greenville News. SENATOR DOUGLASS' ADDRESS Delivered in the Opera House at Union on Memorial Day, June 3rd, JQ02. Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am here today, the object of your generous partiality, to perform a duty which ip indeed a labor of love. We are not at an open grave to mourn a new sorrow, or a recent grief; nor to revive any bitter memories or cherish any unpleasant recollections of a cause, which though lost, must ever be dear to the hearts of those who donned the gray and inarched to battle to the martial scrams ot "Dixie," but we arc here, my comrades, to pay loving tribute to the memories of the Confederate dead who laid down their lives in defense of their country. Time, the great Ilealer, has softened and mellowed the inexpressible grief under which we staggered, and kind nature has decorated the graves of our dead heroes with the memorials of tier love. Above every tomb her sunshine has shed its radiance, her winds have sighed, her tears have wept. Upon the unmarked graves of our humblest dead, she has summoned a mantle of green grasses to grow, vines to creep, llowers to bud and blossom, and the birds of the air to waiblc their sweetest lulabics; so it is fitting therefore, that wo, the survivors of that immortal host, should meet at appropriate seasons and contribute our testimonials of love and esteem, and honor those who yielded their lives a sacrifice upon the altar of their country. Their memories have been enriched and their associations sweetened, as the winters and summers have come and gone, until today we are cemented together by "hooks of steel ' stronger in our bonds of brotherhood than at anv time since tho momor. able straggle was ended. For the benefit of sonic misguided sons of the South of a later generation, 1 ant constrained to say that in the light of the glorious past, we can not consign, the future to oblivion, but from the altar of our memories, we would kindlo the thioio ot our hopes, and on these occasions pour annual ligations to the eternal truth that had its being incarnate in the Confederate cause, it is because of the eternal justice of our cause, that we have receive 1 the plaudits of the whole world, and won from foes that tribute of admiring respect. True it is that our Hag was furled, and the cause for which we fought was lost, perhaps it is best that it was so, but right or wrong, we believed then, as we believe now in the justice and the righteousness of these principles for which wo fought and sublimely struggled. Whatever may be said of the expediency of secession or of slavery, no (JonteUera'c soldier who cherishes truth and jujtico, can say that his comrades, whose life-blood bathed the hills and reddened the str. a ins of old Virginia, were ilebcls, ami trans init to the Be... hose noble sires, tiie infamous he itagc of treacher y." It is a vile slander that the motive which welded the Southern people into a solid wasa of revolt, \>;us do v<ffion to, or even defense of slavery. Not one Southern man in thirty, owned, or ever expected to own a slave. To preserve the right of tlio system of slavery, or to. maintain ihe Constitutional right to secede from j the Union of themselves, a corporal's | guard would not have followed the I recruiter's drum in any Southern i State. l?ut "the great consuming tide that bore aloft that mighrv movement for self-government was born of two great impulses, one political, the other social, one the cherished outgrowth of American freedom, the other a plant of heavier growth, of deeper root, one the love of State, the other the love of home, and tins loyaly to the State, fed the steady consuming flames of battle from Manasscs to Appomattox." The organic law of this country, | declares that the Federal (JovernI - 1 uKJub 10 vjiiu vu uumon powers, a in I tlio powers not expressly delegated to it arc reserved to the States. Thus, my dead comrades, a wreath is laid upon your hunihlo graves, and a vindication i; ode red to your ni.-tu ories unconsciously 1 y ti!0 hand of the enemy, X >, my friends, it was for a higher, holier purpose than the lust of gain or the greed of power, that we yielded up our lives. Whan men forsake all tiiat life holds dear and sv.eet, for the c<dd, hitter experiences of war?when they leave behind them their beautiful homes, flourishing cities and devoted loved ones, for the trying scenes of death and carnage, when the fond mother plants the farewell kiss upon the lips of her hoy, and willingly sacrifices him upon the altar of his country, 1 say when men and women are moved bv such heroic self sacrificing devotion to a cause, within their bosoms is the burning conviction that that cau.-e is a holy cause, tiio-e opinions which impel them arc honest opinions. We arc told that since the fortunes i of war were against us, it follows that our cause was an unjust one; do not my comrades be deceive I by the i unwarranted conclusion. A great principle never dies, and while it is true our swords are sheathed, and the war cry is over, yet even now if our honor were insulted, and our sacred constitutional rights were trampled upon, the sword of a Lee, .. it...--*- -~i i ' it 'Mivuouii yJL ti iiUiupifUil \> UUl'l from its scabbard to resent the offered inMiit to their country and punish the l,maligners of her honor. Were it all to do over again, with the fearful issues of life and death involved, with all ot the consequences which have followed in its train, L believe I utter the sentiment of my old comrades when 1 say that they would again, if their country called them, rally around the old flag like a wall of fire, in defense of home, of honor and of constitutional rights, and receive anew their baptism of fire and blood. !Stylo it rebellion if. you please, and call us Rebels if you will. If Robert H. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were Rebels I glory in the name, for Warren and Hamilton who gave their love and service to this young Republic iu overthrowing the yoke of Rritish oppression anil resisting Rsitisii tyranny were also Rebels. If Johnson, Stuart and Hamilton were Rebels, Franklin was a Rebel, and the imperishable words 'of Patrick Henry when he raised his voice in the assembly of Virginia and proclaimed that immortal utterance, "(iive me liberty, or give inc death," were the sentiments of rebellion uttered bv a Rebel. If Jefferson 1 > ?vis was a Rebel} George Washington who broke the oath of allegiance to the tyrannical government of England and waved the stars and stripes "over the land of the free and the home of the bravo" was the "Arch | Rebel of the eighteenth century. It was the love of country and of home that moved the immortal three i hundred at Thermopylae to bar with 1 ! their living bodies the Persian march I on trembling Sparta It was the ; love of country and home that held aloof the heaven given barrier under which Constantino strove to stay the Hood of Rome's decline. It was the ! love of country and home that bore I aiong in wondrous triumph that banner of crimson silk which floated beneath tne imperial eagles of France. It wa> love of c wintry and home that iiiipi lied Joan of Arc t<? inarch at t!io head of battle, and lead an arm^ to ;victo?y. a statement pays one, "ns I old as time," as wide as the pulsing I sea?the great taproot of patriotism, which makes life beauteous and governments strong. It was this sentiment which for four long years bore a loot the tattered standard which 1 Hashed athwart the pathway of the gMAMaaaaaaoHSBeaaaoBaaaaai ! TORN* I INSUR <%> | At Jow I is issu 1 Wm. A. NiCH( I BANS' 51 o ?n??a01?fJ0:4wK5*tf 3??"!?Gia3iS?S mm qrw^wmfi: r-?aceujrj? *?r- r muwi t nuti-ais like a meter ncrofi the trampid pathway of the stars. which tlii.shf'l over Smart's knightly piume, which loll in folds of woo over Stoncw;m .) icksoh's bier and who*-- lie: fur!ing ! ro'.i 'ht tin? tears :he check and brake the hcavi ofi.a-. Monuumnts may crumble and ib.il, t l*e inscriptions l?e defaced b.* tin; hand 01 tint 4 out the memory of -ueh men a Lee, Jackson tin I Davis is impcri.sk tblc. i'lo brief limits of this address will not permit more than a have mention of the great men, < ilieers ami privates. who have added lustre and ^tan lour to the Confederal' cause, nor to reeoun* *hoir deeds o: valor upon a imndre-i hmod-stani i Holds of battle from the green bills of Virginia to the sunny plains of . * . Florida. 1 no annuls of war bear testi:no.iy t > no such ->ut i <>'" gallant men a- enlisted ami served a- rivate soldier in the t.'onfedom > c.'.use. Coming largely from the ', m. people who were poor in the goods and affairs of mis world n - \ acres, no slaves, no gol d', their motive.? must have been prompted by the purest, most unsrilish an ' hi.fitc * type of patriotism Within tlieir bosoms t e hres oi patriot.sm mu-t have burned with a in do glow, fanned I)}' the 11-mies of do p e >ueeption of right anil justice. fheir e mntvy was their only he; itngo an I'fov 'his they willingly ( tiered their lives a sacrifice for principles. Nothing deterred them ' from the p.. hw ,.y of duty, through sunshine and thr t *h shadow, through povet y. pv.v e suilermg and death, their eon-- mcy was unimpaired. They fell under parching sun-, amid fee/.ing snow.--, on Holds of carnage, with nothing but the blue canopy of heaven above them and the wild winds mourning their sad reunion. The "Old (.lu ml of Napoleon.' the six hundred at llalakluv.-i who ft... ....m,.. i > hi niu vaiiejr wi iicuiu, nave been immortalized in song and story, but the achievement, the deeds of daring which characterized the humble private Confederate soldier upon a hundred battlefields where he I suffered without murmuring the j I mental and physical torture of a j thousands deaths, stand out preeminently in the annals of war as the most unparailed exhibition of courage and unfailing devotion tu duty that ever caused victory to he perched upon the standards ot comj ipiering hemes. ! They lit; 'neath many a :u ivhle shaft, t)nr noble, fallen brave: Tlioy lie on many a battle held, j In many an unmarked grave. Tltey lie by honor .nvuded svfe, In peaceful, dreamless vest; They lie by every valient hear* And patriot spirit bless'd. They cotuc <>n these Memorial l)ay?, Thcv hiinnt tltc very air ! With scenes l<>ng passed, with forms long stilled, ! With words ami deeds that wore. They come t>? mourning household hands, | They come in heart an 1 thought, ; They came in struggles they have made, In battles they have fought. They conic and living voices speak Their names and deeds onee more: >> c> give ;i iiower, a i^n, ami then ^Iomorial day is o'er. <) children, dear, who never saw * The old Confederate f^ray; Who never saw our soldiers march With lhi<? arid drum aw iv; Who never saw the dead brought back The wounded line the street; j Who never heard the cannon's roar. Nor tramp or victor feet: Keep an a holy tnist this day To their remembrance true. Who, sorely tried, were faithful found, And fought and died for you. / ~ ? s? WO j ANCE { r rate ; eel by * )LSON & SON, I CBRS. j 1 " " l'hat ?<\ though dead they still may "live: Live on, as year by year, This dav recalb the memories >o sacred ami so dear. Live >!:, though ages o'er them roll; Liv< on in linger decked grave; i Liw on in iiearis that cherish still < >uv >\vn, <?ur fallen brave. Their undismayed valor in the face of four fold their own strength, i with odds as to numbers, odds of l appliances, odds as to training, odds of ficilitivs, desperate lighting, until outnuiabered and overpowered by the 'inexhaustible resources of a magnificently oouipped army, have extorted tonus of eulogy from the pen of oven reluctant historians and comm ide I the applause and admiration of future generations. Whoever attempts to taint the memories of such men who "vital in every part died I only by annihilation," utters a falsei hoc 1 against as gallant and brave a I hand of men as ever threw defianee i in the face of an invading foe. And it :s strange that these men i d splayed such a heroism, a heroism | that challenged the wonder and adi miration of the won 1. Noble fathers make nohbj sons, noble mother? linaUc tm ble daughters, noble leader? make noble followers. The nobility I which marked the leaders of th? I Confcdcracj' was caught like an inspiration by their noble men in the Villi K First ami foremost among these matchless icador.- was the great pa'viot .ml statesman, Jefferson . ; . l> nu:..! ij ii ii in viinsuiiu county, Kentucky, Juno o, 1*08, of a Geor, gi:m father. At die age of sixteen ! !io received an appointment at West lVnt and graduate:! with distinction j in in lsd" Mr. Davis married a daughter of Zachary Taylor and retire 1 to private life on his Mississippi farm until 184*5 when hostilities with Mexico commenced. A regiment, of volunteers was organized at Yieksburg anil he was elected its colonel. I le and his Missippians took active pare in the seige of Montery, Taylor [ with Davis' Mississippi regiment, a Mpiadritn of dragoons, and Thomas and a batteiy of artillery under lh'ugg won tho battle of Buena Vista. In this battle Col. Davis was so severely wounded that he had to le- -v, ut iioiiie on crutches. In 184T l : * 1 ~ I <?n i.i* iviuni nome flic Uovernor of | Mississippi appointed liiin to fill out ! the unexpired term of Senator Sp ights in the United States Senate. | After serving out this term he was e Voted to represent Mississippi in : tii'- National Assembly from 1851 to his resignation on the secession of ' i. - State in I8<il. At this time ovulars ami oratory ruled the hour. ' i'ae I'liited States in 1850 was m its palmiest days, never before at one tithe 'li*I so many illustrious men si in tlit highest councils of the nation. In that body of giants, as it was then, with Calhoun, Webster, C ay leading its debates, we find with Mr. Ihtvis. Chase, of Ohio, Houston, of Texas. Hell of Tennessee, Sumner of Massachusetts and Tombs, of G corgia. Prescott, the historian, in hia let? tors of reinin.scones of the Senate of says: "Davis impressed me more by dignity of manner and speech with what n model Senator should he than any other that 1 hare hoard address the Senate." As a writer >1 terse, chaste, classic English. lie had few equals; his great hook, ti c "Hi oaii l Kail of the Confederate Government," show a clearloss and hcauty of stylo which proclaim him a cultured and broadlj endowed scholar. After delivering his farewell address w> the Semite he returned to Mississippi as Major General and ^Coutiuued on page 4.)