The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, December 26, 1902, Page 4, Image 4
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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little ones make big business
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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'
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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
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arnings regularly 1
i/vill have a partwill
work for you
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i this bank. The size of fy
jr with us?a number of Jk
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our money out of your
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KERCH!
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;est line and prettiest assortment of Htti
Union.
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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
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$5 and $6. I
well known brand "MONARCH" full
1 for comfort, style and durability.
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