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THE UNION TIMES I PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ?by the? UNION TIMES COMPANY Second Floor Times Building. 1 J NO. R. MAT II IS, Editor. I L. Q.*Young, Manager. / . J / ? Registered at the PostolBce in Union, 8. C., aa second-class mail matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ------- $1.00 dlx months ------ 50 cents Three months ----- 25 cents. ADVERTISEMENTS One square, tirst insertion - - $1.00. Every ul(sequent insertion - 50 cents. Con n acts for three months or longer Wll be nade at reduced rates. Locals inserted at Si cents a line. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will'be charged for at half rates. UNION, S. C. PECEMBEK 20, 1902. An etfort is on foot to have the Legislature make a liberal appropriation for a South Carolina exhibit at St. Louis, Mo. South Carolina should have an exhibit there. With Christmas, the Carnival, Peck's Bad Boy and Bob Taylor all in one week ought to be enough to to furnish amusement and entertainment for the people of Union. It seems that the negro Crum is ufter all about to receive the appointment of collector of the port at Charleston. It is said that Roosevelt has investigated the charges against Cruui involving his integrity and found them groundless and that Oruin is to be appointed collector unless other charges which can be sustained come up. It is also understood that V. J' Clayton is to get the place of Marshal of South Carolina. Charleston and Savannah were given the fro/eu face at the organization of the new Southern Base Ball League, very much to the surprise of both cities, neither were admitted to membership. Another organization, however, has been formed with headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., the larger Southern cities are not to be represented. But the Minor T.nncme think they can make a successor the organization. Besides Charleston and Savannah, Spartanburg, Columbia, Grsenville and Augusta will be a-ked to join. This ought to get up / a real strong league, y * ? Mr. \V. S. Lay ton, the ownerr of tho Carnival now holding forth in I'nion. is a native of South Carolina. Ho was born and reared ut Florence, S. C., and is a very pleasant gentleman. lie has about 1GU people with him and there are fourteen shows in the aggregation. Ho says it is his ambition to hold his record of keepin* his shows to a high class strictly moral standard, and that he believes when he leaves Union ho will leave the best nf feeling regarding himself anil his shows. Should his shows prove to be the kind he says they are h-> will he met half way by onr people, and he will find a hearty welcome here. (>.ne hundred and fifty people are very hard to handle and keep tvery thing going without some confusion and jar. But we hope everything will pass (.!T nicely and that the occasion will indeed prove 0:10 of enjoyment and harmless amusement. Christmas is here and with it comes joy and gladness for everybody. Few people there be who do not banish ill feeling toward their fellow man during Chri itmas. When we look around and see the happy smiling faces on every lu.nd, we aro led to believe there is something in Christmas besi les big dinners and Christinas gifts. The greeting of people on the streets sec in to be moro cordial than at other times, the hearty grasp of the hand, the glar.ce into the smiling countenance, can but make one feel happy nnd the good feeling thus becomes oontageous, and all are mado to feel that the weight of the burdens of life have, for the time being at least, been materially lightened. The children are happy, that makes us happy, avo then try to mako others happy, thus increasing our own happiness. Glorious Christmas. It comes but once a year, but it leaves the world bettor every timo. \Vo could not do without Christmas. Thk Timkk wishes each and every one of its readers a joyous Christmas and a very happy nnd prosperous New Vear. -4 Letter From The Fat West. i Denver, Colo., Dec: 14, 1002. Jno. 11. Matiiis. Kdk., Union, 8. C. Dear Friend:?Your last issue of The Times came through with great speed making as good record as the best and reaching me Monday. l'iease i*ermit me to correct the following errors: You make me say the third child of Mr. Neil M"J?itchen\s was named Jesse, when it should be James. Also you make me say Miss Tense Adair when it should be Miss Tinse Adair. Well we have began to have real Christmas weather out here. It began snow ing at 0 a. m. Saturday, 13th, and never stopped for a moment until noon Sunday, 14th, but the flakes were very small and only appears to be 10 or 12 inches deep on the level; the sun came out lit it a. in. onnaay. l-un, origin arm clear, but tlie snow blowing from the mountains did not quit falling for more than an hour later; it really looked more like spring time than winter. Well I had promised to tell something of the dark-side of life near Hunter's ltend. I assure the dear readers of Tiie Times that it is not at all a pleasant task to tell of many things that one will see and learn while passing through a very thickly populated district like the one just mentioned, and it is not for the gratification of our sensational ruind that I shall attempt to tell of a few* things that occasionally occur at this famous Bend, but it is for the information of the readers of our homo paper and for those who are really desirous of knowing the truth whether good or bad that 1 shall tell of some things to he deplored, as is well knowu by all who are familiar with the life and character of the Mexicans or Spanish Americans, as they are sometimes called. Gambling of all kinds is one of their chief attractions, their greatest amusements and apparently their highest ambition in their own State they have bull tights, cock lights and dog lights, with many other barbarous manifestations of ancient barbarity, where they can win or lose all the money they may be able to get hold of, but such sport as they like best is not tolerated in Texas or any other part of the United States, so they have learned to amuse themselves with many games, the chief one seems to be what they call Mexican Monte. The negroes all seem to have learned this game iu well as many others, but they have a great fascination for t liia nnn ncvuinlo 11 rr <im1 comn nf t lioivi IlliO \UIK' VO^LV/UUI J) MIIVl CWIIIC l/l V1 lUlii are play i 112 all the time whether day or 1 night. They have a law in T< xas prohibiting gambling of this kind, but it is ati absolute impossibility to stop the ; practice or even check it very much. The negroes and Mexicans are not the only ones who are fiends of this fashion, sad to say, there are a great many white jK'ople who belong to the gangs who spend all their spare time gambling, that is when they think there is not a detec^ live on their trail. It is a very common sight to see negroes, Mexicans and whites going towards the iiver early Sunday morning, though many of them go tla-re Saturday night with the excuse of fishing, and they rtally do fish some, but they also play Monte as well. Tlmy are not afraid of the settlement people seeing them, but mo b-ing a stronger they would almost have tits trying to iliilo f l?n nnr.lo ? 4l*v \j place where they were playing and all would betrin talkinir nt mice nhmit the fish they had or had not caught. A great many stay on the river all night Saturday night though they have no sign of a iish when they come home at 10 a. m. Sunday, but they can tell interesting stories of fishing and are ready to go again the next Saturday night. Dining the summer when there is very little work to do, and when the weather is too hot to do that little work, the gambling mania becomes more intense, but the river being from one to two miles disbud front the majority of the shanties and these fiends of Monte Carlo not being of a very laborious turn of mind, esjiecially at this season of the year and under the rays of a semi-tropical sun, they usually seek a more convenient and nearby resort, there being several bluffs running through this bottom or part way through it, some of them fifteen or twenty feet high and so steep that they cannot la* cultivated, and they h ive allowed bushes and vines (bushes are usually box elder, elm and live oak; vines are the mustang grape) to grow all along where they can't cultivate. Some otv the bushes are fifteen or twenty feet high and together with the vines make a very good shade when all are in full foilage. These bluffs form an ideal place for the gamsters, so they rep ire to these places rather than walk a mile or more to the river. They frequented these resorts so often that any one in the bottom could tell almost to a certainty where the garg could be found at play, but the inhabitants, for fear or other wise, would not give them away, but theie \veiti detectives sent to catch them which they succeeded in doing at several different times. There was a very favorable place for the gang not far frotn the home of Mr. ,1. II. Bailey, and when the gang was brought to trial the indictment. was for gambling at Bailey's Bluff and nearly all the testimony bore evi lenee of gambling at Bailey's Bluff, though the place had never had any name, inure then Bluff, yet the familiarity with which the new name was used and the excitement over the trial of so many, established a perm merit notorious name for that particular Bluff, and since that day Bailey's Bluff lias been second in importance only to Hunter's Brad. Notwithstanding the lessons these lawbreakers have been taught they still persist in violating tl,o laws of their beloved Suite. As I have said before there aie about three times as many negroes in this Bend as there are white people, yet the negroes rarely commit any s?*i ions crime against the white people, jet among themselves they are always having trouble. I hid only been there a few days when early one morning the news was brought to my brother that a notorious negro had been killed during the night previous, about a mile from my brother's, so we went to the slaughter pen, and of all the excitement I had ever seen among negro ?s this wa3 the most peculiar. Tire negro had been shot through the head with a Winchester rifle at so close a range as to leave the powder marks on his shirt, ("1 would not show on his face) he was killed in a lot w hile trying to climb over the fence at tire end of a sin ill crib; he had a pistol J in his hip pocket. The blood hounds from Austin had already been brought iud put 011 the trail and ran about a mile towards the river, but not mixed up with a lot of negroes working and lost the trail. There were hundreds of negroes who had gone to work before they heard of the murder, but none of them did u lick of work after they heard of the murder, until the r.egro was buried. One negro hud already told of mother negro coining to his house the night previous and borrowing his winr.lka .11A .\M* ?% *1 . 1 It kn/lb thot tVkOm _ ijiicaitu aiiu Uiiii^uiK it uacrv mat iijv/iiiing with one cartridge shy. The negro 1 who borrowed the Winchester lull just. 3?ine on tho scene asking what was the matter. The officers arrested him at ( mice and put the bracelets on him. The . gun was sent for and soon arrived, and " in a few minutes Dr. John Hunter had ] die bullet cut out andTt just tit the win- n Chester. There was near a thousand uegroes in sight and thfcv were all in ] Duuclies from a half dozen to one hunIred and every bunch of negroes set ined . :o be trying tiie murderer or else trying die one murdered. Several negro women came near lighting while discussing the good qualities of the murderer ind the one muraered. Some of the actions of negioes were at times a hun- i lred yards away fnJhi where the inquest was being held and were busily telling all hey knew, heard or what somebody elsu ; lad heard or knew. They kept that uproar for several hours and until the ;orpse was taken away. Nearly all Jionght the one charged with the murler was guilty, but he would not say a word, though several of the negroes isked him if he was guilty. At last ' when some were saying that the accused would sure he hung, one old sober look- , iug negro who had been very quiet spoke ' )Utin long and doleful tone: "Well iat one he done dead and gone and hang- ing dis other one won't bring him hack, ' best thing we cau do let him go, c ime we want all we got." However the one jhavged with murder was taken to Austiu to await trial though mauy of the white people thought he had done a noble work.for ridding the <Jouutry of the worst uegro in the bottom. The negroes have a church only about three I hundred yards from where the negro was killed. Some of them seem very religious and a great many of them go J to church, though many go only at night. There wero about 40 baptised at one i time in the Colorado river while I was ' there, but 1 had gone to Dallas oa the date and did not get to see it, but the < preacher had told them that baptism . would wash away their sins, and when some of them came up out of the water they begann Hopping their arms like , they had wings and veiling at the top of ' their voices, "1 am light as a feather."' Some of the negroes have line hacks that will carry a dozen or more persons, and they did have ponies to pull the hacks, but feed got s > scarce and high that many ol' them gave the ponies away or ! let them starve to death, but they still have the hacks and they hire or borrow horses to drive in the summer and go to all the meetings and gatherings of t li^ir color that they hear of. Tiny hard'y ever have anything ahead to live on and are usually dead broke when Christmas is over and then they will work for titty cents per day until work is plentiful and 1.... <l..r ?111 UJJIC ui Will leave you without notice and vou have to let them have all they want, even though they get away bohind, or else they will leave you at anv time. Will tell you somethiug of the Mexicans next time. With best wishes to all W. G. Bailky. JOTTINGS AROUND WEBSTER An Interesting Better From a Bevel IIended Correspondent. Mr. I'Mitor: I have been reading Tjik Tim its ten years and have not missed an issue. By thus serving its readers no one lias cause for complaint as to irregularity of its ao pea rat ice. It is a profitable investment annually that one can be so readily informed as to the welfare or otherwise ot his followman far and near whether in the rural district, town or city. One good weekly paper should be in every home, and preachers and .teachers should make it a part of their duly to eucournge the people along this line. The letters from Texas which appeared in recnt issues of Tiie Times were more than interesting. As to the publie school system would be pleased to see more in detail. Our system here would he improved to some extent were the press to give it more attention. The unsteadiness in the price of cotton has moved about all of the remnant crop. It is the same old game replayed which is adverse, to the farmers' profit. While the real farmer is among the most J Lay Up A . Ofyoure I and you \ ' ner that day and II X. Money ni'ikes 4 per ~fl<, twice a year if deposited it: J<j you/ account doesn't matt( little ones make big business T T ever you please. keep y pockets. This bank is the p S The Peop B. F ARTHU] r HAND CHRISTIV We have just received the bige Children's Handkerchiefs at 2ic Cent's Handkerchiefs, cambric i badiesi Pure Pinpn TTnmlkorrdn Beautiful Line Ladies' Pure Lii Loc, 25c, 35c and NEW LOT Our trade in this line has i :>ers and colors. (Why?) Sim 27-inch Jap. Silk in pretty even price only .. 36-inch Black Taffetta Silk, wai Pretty Line Stripe Waist Goods New lot pretty stripped Flanne Our stock of ladies' and misses , Complete Stock of Gfood, Warm Blankets, G8c a pt Large Size Comforts at $1, $1.21 Heavy, Warm Lap Robes, large $2, 82.50, 83, 83.50, 84, $1.50, Just?in a new line of the and $1.50. Wear-a "Monarch' MUTUAL D R. P. HARRY, M independent of any class of bread earners. Yet, while not realsijpg the nature of his independence, alldWs himself to be llustrated again and again by similar agents. Those who depend solely on the one crop?-cotton?for a livelihood should have learned by experience what to exl>ect at the close of each year. The school house near Webster caught on lire a few days ago. No damage, only an appeal for a stove due which is now built. Mr. M. M Tate has killed a 4GS pound hog. Dr. Oliver Tate has one which is thought to be of the 500 pound type. \fI tuona Kuo o IV... A'ii, xvwuu> v/ ni.no Iiuo (t tuui Iiniiitll^ Ulll pi*? tu.it has already weighed 135 pounds. There are several farmers in the race. One who does not get a premium for growing the largest hog the attempt may result?a fine porker?and the contestant be benefitted after all. Mr. G. H. Tate, of Miss., is visiting his brother. Mr. M. M. Tate, and other relatives and friends in Cherokee. lie has not been here in 45 years. lie is astonished at the improvements made. Stating it brjeriy, whei^ljo left, Gaffuey did not exist. In this letter there is one dollar as evidence that Turc Timks is to continue its weekly visits to the place where I am at present located. One who does not read a paper at all has a very limited knowledge of the occurrences in the world at large. B. Frank Foster, Jit. Part If? arnings regularly 1 i/vill have a partwill work for you night. k F cent, interest compounded i. i this bank. The size of fy jr with us?a number of Jk . You can draw out when- [ our money out of your dace for it, [ lesBank. ^ R. President. v . KERCH! IAS PRE? ;est line and prettiest assortment of Htti Union. ; to ind pure linen, 6c to efs, hemstitched, o len, Plain and Embroidered Handkerchie LADIES' KID ncreased to such an extent that we can ply becuse we sell the BEST $1.00 GLO^ New Lot Silks.^ ing shades and black, would be cheap a -ranted not to split, value $1.50, our price ?, new shades, only 15c and * lette, the 13ic kind, at Jackets. Jackets is getting beautifully leas on ae LOW PRICES. Blankets. Umbrellas for L iir up to $5.00. 3, $150 and $2, Some very choice he } size, at 81.50. o 111- nntrAKi . - 7 I uiIIV WTCIOI X 1IV/C *! $5 and $6. I well known brand "MONARCH" full 1 for comfort, style and durability. m goods n ST* Qpp | Watching Your 1 Shoe I" lr UNION SHOI l I Main Street, . . ? r.f &' ' "- * U viv- ' i?S'r-'^ ' tEFSf IENT8. akwchiefc tvtr seen in f t 1 *# 2oc? W.OO. ft at 10c, 12 ic, 50c ^ GLOVESrearco!y k$ep in uunrvTE MADE/, j I ir it 65c, our low 50c. i $1.25. ............. "count of our extreme adies and Gents indies, also^^- choice drv^JL jMtui prices 91 BiNT, ositQ Hotel Union) K ...,.* I I - 'a i * I r I 1 iterest. j .< E CO. Union, S. 0. |l 4 C*