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wmam.* ^^ tT t^ ~t 1%^ wn I si^S^S^E .l*.U * - I \ I f1 \m| I VI Hj N Z!-T^r^t,%"Z: 7 Qr*de<i Schools, Waterworks and . . m V I ^ W I ^ H M V J L '* Taxable value in and out of town t Bloctrte Lights, Population 7,000. ~ JPM'. ^? -A- ? Vifc^ *-jL ' ? , -M- _ _ .X * _ - M M T^S 9 $5,000,000. i *w? ?--^ . T, . J --' j g" 1 J^-!Ut "> ' -"* BJ" .. ''1 . .? .. __ I ; VOL. LIII. NO. 19. ONION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY. 5MY 8, 1903. #1.00 A YEAR: }< 111 1 ii 1?. m*. 1 l ill . 11 1 ' 1 . 1 mm ? * WAK REMINISCENCES, * Happenings in and Around Union ' Muring Reconstruction?A Brave Mather add Son^A Bit of Their JStK>soqMMf VMdry. \ r . . .. . t ' s" BY J. t. STRAINS 1 Mr. Editor:?Jl\>r somo time your correspondent has been on the Background and have had very little inclination to write and consequently my work has got a long way behind. For a long time ypur correspondent hat been trying to keep up with the 'l most interesting features of your j aewspaper work as. he considers* | pern?giving Historical and remin"oi^tal ^cconnts of times and men? | ^<1 thus spending his leisure moments *rv f?.r4h?^n?fi^tSl0^e *uch. Muting. R7? onry now and then X can pick up a character I can fV.low ' ease,-and somotimes I get a Mnlf^jry ind sometimes a short one, tut I always try to got one that is enteresting whether 1 make it so to the reader or not. Tiie Times will remember that I promised a good i while ago to give another chapter on Mr. Jeff Hughes, and I have got personal reminders of that promise with request that I do So. I. must necessarily connect the names of other 5 well lrj??o*rn characters in Union county to toll what I am going to tell now. These will be remembered by oar older readers no doubt. Just after the war^ while the town of Union was guarrieoned wna federal Hoops it was a very common thing for its citizens, or those of the county, to "get up a row," and there Was, it seemed, certain, parties who had a penchant for this kind cf work, not becauso they were lawless characters themselves by* any moans, but simply because they could, tffot bear to think of the, to them, sad change, the termination of the war had brought npon the country. Union county ira| Doted for the pluck of its citizenahin. und ??? '? -r *1 UO UllU UI I the belligerent centre* l&fib ma do _ military rule ft necessity- in the eyes ^" ffwXpnerajl government. J - * ?ijSttne time t speak oT plenty of -eye" .was> being sold in the town and this was by no means a pacificator of the chaotic state of affairs. The town was practically without local wlfigoyernment;. and everything was Subservient to military rule. During the time of which I speak and of which I may, on another occasion say much more, Jim Fernandez, a nUed man came to town one day. Mr. Fernandez, as tho older people knew. him, was' a man of undaunted pluck. Ilia courage-was of the highest type, so much so that N it ofiimee discounted his judgment. Any way;-daring his visit^te the town one day something tpok place .that, provoked' Ite' military authorities to attempt his arrest. This he could nut nuu wou'.u not suomit to, and started for his horse. Rename down the street from the direction of tho court house followed by a posse which he held up by telling them to keep their distance or hp would kill eomebody?pistol in hand ready and willing to carry out his threat? at any" .moment. Just as he turned the corner where the Bank Building now standi, his son, Renrv Fernandez, came "up front the otherMirection. Seeing his father pursued by the crowd, without waiting to enquire as to what was up he, with the spirit and couragfe of a Volney Beckner, drew his pistol and began shooting, and in less time than it takes te tell the story the-street was cleared, .the posse scattered in every direction, most of them taking refugo in tho old hotel whither they wpre followed by Henry.:. Ffcmandez. firing upon them at every jump. Henry then joined his father,, Jim Fernandez, and the two started for iheif home in the country. When they got to the f>rks Qf tho road one took road leading toward the hanging ground,: t the other g^ing on toward Spartanburg, Henry said HC-L- T 1 . ? yj up iatu?i. 4: aiucr, 1 nave neara a groat deal of talk about your pluck j but I have never seen it tested to my siti?f<<ctton. I expect they will be after us with a posse to arrest u?, and I propose to stop light here and di j if it be necessary rather than run ? \ anotner foot, what do you say?" With the so^g-froid of a Leonidas his y father stopped, dismounted and led his horse to the roadside and hitched it, took off his overcoat and fssteued it to his saddle and prepared to carry ' tJ'y y ' oat the expressed wish of his son. Henry seeing this was fully satisfied that there was no reason to distrust the courage of his father^ said: "Father, that's enough, I aim satisfied now that you are what you are claimed to be," and resuming their journey the two rode on. They were not followed as it fiappencd. Things went on in the even tenor of their ways until sometime after that, when the older Fernandez, who was at a neighbor's house, was called to th6 door one night and shot down bJ a posse who it was reported went to arrest him for some offense with which he was charged, and, which it is not necessary to ihention just in^ this connection. Anyway, ?' time afterwards, wc are told that a J negro, who it waT thought had re- < ported his whereabouts on the night he was killed, was killed and his | head severed from his body. Suspicion naturally rested on Ilenry 1 Fernaqdez, who eoon left the country 1 and went to Texas. There ho mar- , ried the daughter of a well-to-do physician, Doctor Scales by name. The two lived happily together so far as it is known, until their home was bleared with two bright little boys, , when from some cause meddlers broke up the happiness of their home. , The Scales family, especially tho i father and his two sons, became embittered against Ilenry Fernandez, i but his wife maintained t?~- s^/aity S.-J to him. Ilenry found 1 out that a no account kind of a fellow in the neighborhood had been t very officious in bringing this trouble ' on him?in taking and bringing news, ? thus widening tho breach until Henry ' was forced to separate from his fam ily and again resume tbe role of an 1 exile?homolcss and apparently pen , niless. This was more thnn his nature could well submit to. In his f erambulations he never forgot his wife and chijdren. lie hold them dear to his ?manly heart. And as often as he could, would correspond j with them either through letter or by some friend who was willing to serve* } "him. But always it was done with v the utmost secrecy, for the Scales I were as dtsperate men as were the t Ferharidezes. But the hand of fate e was at work. S: In his wanderings Ilenry located a piece of bounty land on Brazos river, Texas, belonging to his father which he had obtained through the land olfice at Washington for serviee rendered in the war with Mexico. This was. about two hundred miles from his adopted home where his ? wife and children were held, as it ( seemed, uiider suiveilance by her father and two brothers. However, 1 in his ptr.mbulations, Henry Fer- , nandez caino across the fellow who ' played such a conspicuous part in getting up the trouble between him- , self and his wife's people, and he i (llenrv) took a cow-hide and. as Uncle Jeff Ilughes says "wore him to a frazz." , (To be continued.) : JONESViLLE JOTTINGS. t Farmers Busy?A Union Picnic? , Prospect for Frnit Crop Good? ( Personal Paragraphs. - Jonsevii.le, M ty 4?The afreets cf . our town these days are not thronged with pcopl) from the country. Farmers are in the fiold from early morn to night, aud they come to town Saturday to d > their trading; this is allright aud proper, for the farms must support the towns and now i3 the time of year to push the farm w >rk. The first Sunday in Miy is always a red letter day with the colored people at'their Baptist church here, and yeeterday was no exception to the rule. They cima from every point tf the compass until the church grounds was full of them. Theie was a half d zen or more preachers, and the sar' vices continued moit of the day and again at night. At Gilt a 1 church the Rev. M Ffllmttt fillo'lKii nnlnit ?..rl ... _..ww Mio |/i? |/i v nuu pt OAUUCVl to a large congregation. The M?th)dist Snnday S^hdol will picnic at Wiite Stone Liihia Springe the 29 >h of to is month. The other Sunday S^hoo's of the town will j ?in them, and a <Uy of pleasure is anticipated f?r all who go on the outing. The S>utlc:n Railway will furnish au extra coach and give special rates for the occafcit n. What lull ecome of the pototo bug?, I have neither se?n nor heard of one j th's season. I am not comp'aining of 0 ' their, absence. In talking with farmer* about wheat, I find the prospect* very poor, and the oat crop will btfshort a* the acreage is small. Thore 1* a fair crop of fruit left oh the I rear. Rain is needed to assist the ferment /in preparing their landa for finiihrog planting, and to bring op the early planted cotton and corn. The colored Old Fellows are build* ing a large ard commodious hall in our town. . The Jonesville Manufacturing Oom piny has commenced to build: about IWitlltw kniiaa. -? . .. uuuouii 1UI ujnl?MTHt Sc7eral of our town people attends $ the xntnicil festival ia Bparttpbtirff.' last week. ' / A *k : v > ' Mr. D. H. WaUaoe, of Udioff^has taken a position in the store of the J. J. Little] )hn Oo. . 8.vera' veterans from this community will attend the rounion in Columbia next week. W. II. 8. Harris will represent the camp here at th9 reunion in New Orleans. Mr. Vernon Askew, of Mount Tabor, was in our town last Saturday. Mrs. J L. McWhirter and Miss Fannie McC *avy spent 8unday in Spartanburg. Mrs. J J. Litth j >hn is visiting her mother at Asbury, Miss Alioe Lilt lej oho, of S'.ar Farm, spent Sunday in our town with relatives. Dr. A. 8. Foster went to the musical festival in Spartanburg last wank. Mrs. Leila MvNaace, of UuioD, is visiting re'a'.ives iu town. Mr. 1^. W. Long has been ad Jed to he police force here and the time is livided between him atd Mr. A. O Sprouse so that one is on duty all the ima day and night.' The Yarn Mill has discontinued -uuuing at night. I a tho death of Messrs. David N. Vilburn sad Gilliam H. Jster Union jouoty loFes two of bcr very best citi i us, auu incir Umilies have the iymp%thy of this writer as well as the 33"pie all over the oounty. M?v E, L. Eiaon, of Gatfuey, visited i'b pareuta in JonesnlU yesterday. The Joneaville Guarda are putting a aome good time drilling these Sattrday evenioga Mr. Sim Msbrey ire been drilling them. M\ Mibrey ias served in the regular army for leveral years and was also in the tinisb-American War. TELEPHONE. Tribute to Gilliam H. Jeter. 1jy j. l. strain. Etta Jane, May 1. Mr. Editor:?Your correspondent 4IIcy Denver" has paid a most excellent tribute to our late comrade in irms, Lieut. Gilliam II. Jeter) every word of which I fully endorse, and with all my heart thank him. ? only egret that my poor pen can add tothing more, or 83y more fully what kind of a man he was. I knew aim at a time it took men to be men. Makeshifts were not current then, and Lt. Gilliam II. Jeter was one who could always be depended upon in the greatest emergency. It is said that while Diogenose, the Grecian philosopher, was passing through the s'.reets of Athens at midday with a lighted candle, some one seeing him thought he was crazy, and asked him what ho meant, and his reply was, "I am looking to find a man." Could he have come across our dear departed comrade, Gilliam llobson Jeter, he could have truthfully said I have found him. The man does not live today in whose unswerving integrity I have more confidence than I had in Gilliam llobson Jeter. These who knew him as an officer in the army knew a gentleman cf the very highest type?cool, true and gonerou?, lie never asked his men to go where* he was not ready and willing to lead them. At Deep Bottom, Virginia, in 1864, while Gary's command were fighting great odds the men were ordered to lie down and protect themselves as best they could from the grape shot and minnio balls which were sweeping the earth like a hurricane. Frank Millwood was sitting behind a stump And looking over it. Lt. Jeter told'him to get down and protect himself until they came within proper range. But Frank either didn't hear or understand him and so remained as he was. Lieut. Jeter went to him at the peril of his own life and made him get down. Our men held the line and repulsed the charge. After the fight was over Frank examined the stump and found four ainnie balls imbedded in * J r? T ' ?" it. Several yeara > afterwards Frank met Lt. Jeter at Vlion anl said to him: * Lieutenant J if it hadn't been for you at Deop Botfoin I never would have {pt baok to the cooling ground mighty man lias fallen. To do "vight, as he saw tho light, was his I rule of of actien. It may with equal troth "be said that his labor- were a h;Ue: index to bis subsequent ant1 continuedindustry to the end. Ilia 1)1*0 Vas devoted- to the welfaro and dsyation ?fhis people morally, socialpolitically. Ilis character for honesty and his latecritv onnlil i be .jgpestioned. v4Hs public career, tKough long and Eventful, was one tbat was particularly free from everything that waa^^Apuro or even eus- 1 picious. His emnple is one that is in every particular worthy of emu- : lation. The ottly thing that is con- < soling in the death ef this great and i good man is the Ifcct that he left be- ] bind him a glorious record, and his having lived a lite so pure and spot- < less he was enable$Nto say, 'T have ' fought a good figbrt* I have finished 1 my course, I have kept the faith." ' 1 STATE SUMMEA SCHOOL. 1 - I Circular Letter forty*suatn. j Superintendent Information*-Abwtt the Sumntof School. Tho State Summer School for Teachers will be held at Winthrop 1 College, Hock Ilill, S. C., trom Juno 23rd to July 21st. Winthrnn P. ^1- 1 f ^ . logc is an excellont pla^e for such a 1 school because of the splendid equips ( mont, accessible libraries, reading * rooms, and extensive aocommoda- ( tiona. Arrangements have been made for boardit^g in the college and this gives the South Carolina Summer School <{uito an advantage over some others because the teachers are convenient^ Inflated and can enjoy better atWarHagitt... ^ Courses "of study have been provided in Pedagogy, School Super- j vision, Elocution and reading, Grammar, Literature, Rhetoric, Library I Work, Drawing. Sight Singing, f Music, History, Geography, Arith- 1 metic, Algebra, Geometry, Obscrva- . tion Work, Nature Study, Botany J and School Gardening, Manual ; Training and Kindergarten Princi- ' pies. Somo of the ablest teachers of the State and Nation will take j part in this work and a large attendance is anticipated. t A special feature of this sehonl 0 will a sarins nt fcjlJrrtaaea by some 1 of the most effective platform speak- * ers available and some work wiU be * done looking to the Educational ' Campaign which has been planned * for the summer. A meeting of t o t County Superintendents and other campaigners will be held during the session of the summer school. In addition to the regular courses of work by the teacher students, there will bo lectures intended for ' such students as desire some recre- ' ation as well as work. Quite a number of teachers, after a hard year's > work, do not desire regular study, ! hence this arrangement. A prospectus, giving full announcements, will be issued as soon as possible from the office of Superintendent of Education. County Boards aro rapidly making recom mendations as to instructors lor the various County Summer Schools and 1 as soon as these arrangements arc perfected, the schedules will be pub lished. Thp Rreuitu ftf Unman I Ifa hiviii; vi IIUIIIHII LIICi When we look back to the many generations of the human race that have long since been wrapt in the dark clouds of the past, then the brevity of human existence and the insignificance of the individual iv seen. Man fills out his allotted time,performs his portion of labor, feols h'.s share ol pain and pleasare, and then pacses down to the grave that awaits us all. Mature smiles thro' centuries unchanged, the rain falls, the sun shines, the oak waves in his mystic beauty, the sparkling waters of the little brook are ever singing their sofi lullaby, the crjggy mountain that has stood the storm and blast of so many winters still stands with hi* huge form raised high toward the heaven, but mm conies and passes away as the clouds do over the heaven and is as forgotten as the vapor that is absorbed by the glorious rays of the sun. J While we live nature will smile I upon uf, and if we chooso we can return that smilo and thus make our sojourn here ono of pleasure and peace. And when we die the sunlight will only f ill on our graves and the great work of the creator will roll on and take no note of our loss. Life is not only short but serious, and the more serious beciuso it is short. How few men realize that they must soon fill a cold and silent grave. They know that tho time will surely come. They sec friends and loved ones laid in the tomb, vet tliev cm not realize that they too must soon present that same solemn picture. But alas! it is too true. Only a little longer shall this heart heat. But to realize this sad fact should oot make us sad, but rathor give us courage to push on to the prize, and in the end gain that blissful eternity prepared for the faithful. Some men arc sad and gloomy because they would not be happy, but would, if it were in their power, j bang the heavens above with crepe. [ throw a inantlo of gloom over the bosom of this beautiful earth, pluck the bright stars from the sky, veil the sun with clouds, pluck the silvery moon from her glorious place in the firmam9ht, shut up'ouT gwdea* and the fields and their flowers with which they aro so beautifully bedecked and doom the world to an atmosphere of gloom. This is not only wrong but was act so intended. Let this brief life ac passed in usefulness and good leeds. Such good inlluenocs will alcss others while we live and rejoice >ur hearts in eternity. "Ju ANITA." LOCKHART NEWS NOTES. Good Preaching?Snd Death. Lockiiart, May 4.?Dirt was rrokrrv for-the now will one day last veck. Tlio work is progressing incly and it takes no prophetic person to say that at some time in he future it will be "Lockhart Mills" n fact. Mr. T. J. Ilannan, the brick man, s hu9tling business with a rush to it. The output of his machine is over 10,000 a day. Protracted preaching is in progress it the Baptist church. 11 ev. J. D. 3ailey. of Cowpens, is doing the reaching. His sermons arc mostly i lirected to the church, lie is preachng a series of sermons taking as his *ixt what John was commanded to vrito to the seven churches of Aoia 1 is found '.t. Or.,) ami 3rd chapters ! >f Revelation, The preacher nas1!jandled his subjects well, delivering I ~ ' rj >everal fine sermons. As yet there lave not been any accessions but much interest is manifested. Mrs. Ada P. Meggs died here on die evening of April 30th, in the 2oth year of her age. She was married on March 10, 1901, to Mr. .J. C. Meggs. Iler husband and a little girl baby nearly three months old survive her. The death in her family (Crick) deserves notice. Iler father May 8, 1801; her mother March 24, 1902, and her own April 30, 1903. Sho was a member of the Baptist church and died in full hope of meeting her God in peace. She had been in declining health for 3emc months but death came unexpectedly.even to her own family. Iler remains were taken to Columbia for burial. The following named pcrscna went with her sorrowing husband to Columbia to bury her remains. M essrs. M. C. Burnett, Willie Click, George Wifks and Miss Kate Dou>? _ ? ?o las?. iiomo. EAST UNION LETTER. Doings in and About Moimtch and Aetna. Everything is moving along nicely about the Monarch and Aetna Mills, and the warm weather seems to bring smiles to many stern faces, and pleasant word? from many drawl lips, A revival meeting which has been in progress at Monarch Mills for two weeks, onducfcd by Rev. It. A. Sublett, and his singer, Mr. J. A. j Durham, closed Sunday afternoon. Thoro was great interest manifested on the part of the people, and fust class preaching and singing on the part of the preacher and singer. About twenty-live persons united with the church as a result of the ! meeting. > The Kev. Mr. Suhlctt is u preacher of very deep spirituality, freshness of thought, pleasing in sUle and convincing in argument. Mr. Durham is a singer of fine abilities, sweet voice and a very generous disposition. Ho sine* tb* *"v gospel with great power. The health seems to be generally good with only a few minor complaints, and everybody seems to be pleasant and happy. I think that in the near future the territory embracing Monarch ami Aetna Mills will be a model mill town. A largely attended and interesting Sunday School calls the people together every Sabbath afternoon, with preaching every Sunday by the pastors of the different churches. A great many people who have never been to our town should come and see the people und drink some of the good water and they would perhaps want to stay, for it is a good place to abide. This scribe has no news at present but will come again when he gets something new. llusTieus. WASHINGTON LETTER. (From Our R?gular Correspondent.) Postmaster General Payne will spare no step3 to bring the abstraction of tllicial papers from Tyre: safe before the courts, and as a preliminary st p has mcda President Roosevelt acquainted with all the details of the case to elite, in order to have the Caief Executive cogmzince and cooperation in all the steps taken. Mr. r<1)08 I8cis that his kindness to Judge Tyuer was seriotsly abused, and had ho ue t tempered justice with mercy the latter ollicial would have been dismissed in disgrace some time since instead ot being allowed to resign, in 01 dor to save his uamo and fame from stigma, Now Mr. Payne is thoroughly aroused, the more so since hit clemency has been made the basis of insinuations that he has not been in earn* estia regard to the current investigations. He has recommended that the Tyner case be taken to the ciurts and has advised that the natter go to the United States Attorney lazing juri diction in the district of Columbia, with instructions to submit the case to the grand jury. President Roosevelt's leputation as a reformer points to a vigorous campaign against oflicial ofletd jrs as soon as he can return to the liehl of actipn. General Miles' report on conditions iu the Philippinee as he found them did not provoke as much interest ai such a document from the commander -?\?La army might have done under other circumcfuue^v. T_ place, it reallp disclosed nothing new O -V .? aid contained nothing sensational. The only information it gave in tddition to matters threshed out many times lofore, was that tome irregularities existed in dealing out supplies, but there charges have yet to be proved. In the second place, the War Depaitment, in iesuiug the report tsrv fit to incorporate with it the reports of tho chief officers of all departments which came under General Miles' observation, ard these d icumcnts were practical refutations of the latter's findings. Whatever political use partisans may make of the document, it can be said that the hunters for sensational Philippine atrocities w.ll not find this a storehouse of abuses and misconduct. The decision of the Supreme Court, made early in the week on the disfranchisement rof tho nrgro voters, leaves tho question still in abeyances, and in much the same status as before. Tho way pninttd out is that the redrtsj for a politicil wrong lies wholly iu tho political fiaid a d that the voters of tho country themselves, either directly tr through their C>pgrjssiuen can lrake any redress which mav be crrfffaiv. &inn? ito - ^ _ _ ^ ? j . w.xw vuviv . a A constitutional guarant e - that each II use ' all he the judge of the elections, roturus, and <\ lalilica'.ions of its own members' the case is legally or rather politically provided ft r. Too Grout A Risk, 111 almost every neighborhood someone has died from an attack of colic or cholera morbus, often before medicieno could l>c procured or a physician summoned. A reliable remedy for these diseases should he kept at hand. The risk is too prcat for anyone to take. Chanherluin's Colic. Cholera and Diarrhoea Itemed y his undoubtedly saved the lives of moro peiple and relieved more pain and sutTciingthan ai J other medicine in use. It can always be depended upon, fol 1 V>y, F, C Duke*