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u ?*-.*. * es^r /tw twg town or union ^mhflbblbk^^b^eifijblfesyj^i^k^^^^y^tfi---fc1 *t p^b^l ~w~ ~m m~ b ^ s~~^4 outside of the city [9lm Cotton Mttfm, one Knitting i i ill i ' lm i i 1 l 1 Three Cotton Mill*, one Knitting /tSar F^ni^r^Manufmctn ringCon' ' TP H' "^jSf^flP^BSK^ 'wf p^k! > M / MJ Mill, another building, Gold MinZeZdod shec?/*, Water Workfand -^j '" i.. ' i wb i j l y* Taxable value in and out of town Metric Light*, Population 7,000. ^ ^ ~ ~M~ w -m- w ^ $3,000,000. ,/;*l^ |"-' '|fl" ' SARTUC SPARKS. feraonal Mention? Bad Out-took for Crop*?Hey DOmrer Cornea ' to Vniem?Shake* Handa With Vox. ) 4,lf rou have ? Mood wArth Joying, Lots him. Yes, and let bin know That fst lata Mas, ere life'* evening Fringe Us brow witb sunset glow." Yes, and tall a girl so too. Don't tell your neighbors, but tell her. Bat no joking, too much is kept back until a person is beneath the ed* sleeping. Song birds da not seem to be very MMaeroos, if the singing is an evidence. Perhaps the cool weather is ft damper on their confidence. t L...U -l - J ? * * * whuw arvuuu iuu ueipeu CO dean and straighten up the house Sunday taorniug. Now, if a real Me* girl wants an annex who can be usefcl as well as ornamental, let her p* in her "wanted" ad. Iftrs. May Jeter, of Carlisle, came u Saturday to risit her mother, Mm. Ophelia Jeter. flKn Jalia Thomas, who has been tkiting at Union, returned home on last Saturday. Rsr. W. H. White filled his pulpit at the Presbyterian church yesterday, 8rd Sunday. Text 1 Cor. 10:16,17. Mr. L. B. Jeter went to Columbia Sunday on a special visit. Mr. Jay Gould Coleman, of CarIhdfL came up Sunday on his regular waeklv visit Mr: and Mm. R. G. A. Jeter went to Bedalia Saturday to see "the old Iblks at home," and attend services t Padgett's Creek. Sacrament was taken at the Presbyterian church Sunday, also a col* . lection was taken to purchase new hemdhOoha. ' Corafcsll is expecting | to Re?e this week to attend the re union in New Orleans and sfer-l w- ..wards to iMt mistime if -Ahbita*.! |jr> ^wdmw Ifituhsll and little! (^^Wir,^ula^ wpnt ^owsT to tl?e JjorttoBf ^witt hS and conld see that the trip to this special reunion Wto the beet inresttnept he had made in eonulime, . The "Company" has worked the reed front this place to the Shoals in good order. an<Us it has never been worksd before, end it looks nice this ftno vesthw. I wonder if the county wiH hare la pay for working. it this year, as it?j? necessary, fop this .work to safe machinery, etc. A rsry good rain fell here last week which did considerable good, where it fell, hot ft jpai not eaten* life and sections are needing rain qnito badly. ' * - ' < - * Reports are continued that cotton kl dying, the earlier planted baring the stand badly broken by tke dying onfc 'The feather is entirely too p<^celW*or any other fonng pub. ? .TSatij bare bepri mrCittly improved tH? W?* tpw wieki TS? f*Il prop *?s almost despair*} of for spine tiffltt b?* *0* ?ro begftiWfog to please. Wheat a very poor, as then will ho little else than straw. 1 It is reported that farmers who ore Cttiag ia teams sad buying same to d tot the dam are making "big money" at f2.60 per day per pair of males, wagon and driver, and others tre a tickling of the foot to bay and al also. If mere money ean be made with one Hr o# males off the farm, it seems H would be a pare business move, to take all of yoar males to Wilthis 7**r and 1st the ? |aty} reft, wbjch jr peed*. If one Mms pays* better KftUliilg than by farming, why weald not two, three, fear or a whole big farm pf them. A traction engino was sent down from Spartanburg and arrived here to y?* <# *> ftoory.>??(?? *r the dam, and it wtll gtre the contractor a lift, so far as that kind rf hauling comes io. Indeed it belongs to Mr. Tonne? himself. It is now pulliog logo for derricks, the logs seventy fett long and twolve inches r 4l. .~-_n J _tn .i? ?it ?? hi if"'1 rnu, mw wui men pan . torn* hear/ boilers. The young men I la charge seem to understand their business, despite the feet thet some " meb uuy whoop around and tell these how to do, assuming the role of chief cook and bottle washers. The engine was quite a novelty and tone seem to "lose their head over it. M any were the expressions made concerning it, jokingly and ?? ? St" \ '"V - ^ "vT^'.'vX'jS. N. , ' r..'. ^J- -(.WW. there. As I had expeetajpl ffcet many who are peraotal fr^de,- josd I fell to listening to MMiQ af thei^ war time experiences* (for fid soldiers will talk about that) and some reunion pleasantries. Th^r made me wish that I had prepared to j 'in them on the trip and^MM^Njffl see Vox whom I had ji3H?o*n for several year*. lie is a Jftd friend of mine as well at a nH ?rw. spondent. lie was a edeSiSe h=T my father in the war for sft think he was with hiimiH9^M&f>father) shot an alligator,- 4f*?& it into camp which so ^taqjj^H^.t^e horses that he camf dca$9 in the guard house for brittylft it to 1 have heard nothing since the accounts in Tub Timi? JMrJThe State about the (<shootihga^||fi^L there was a sequel to be* or I could see nim, hut it;|p|jbMjM it seems. Ernest may hasty in lawlns or he may tiBHBp justified, but ne has so far as I have heard, to b4j|k)$J&Ki or run out of the " c >%ttfry? ,v UP j would like to figure inafPBB|^^j i*jgaK>r"mp?p9fteaij mpnr"or bigoted towards the white people andjtf that affair is true, I know no white people did it. Bat sneaking of ulawing" there is too much of it by both races, whether justified or not. But you can often find men unscrupulous, both white and black fools, from pure downright meanness, naturally and embellished by cultivation, that are constantly coing to law, and better people will have to take many things to keep from being "carried to law" by those people who have no principle, nor care anything for character, to keep from being in a "mess" with them. Then the "lawing" ones may think the Other is "whipped." But it is better, for a decent and respectable mawte give back?when he isn't a financier loser?and let people think, fura falsehood will not stand throughout, but truth will assert itself, and SbOw -the right man in the true light. r L... k. .JJ *v_j. :r a:. - _ jl Ainto ucou IV1U til aw Ji SUJlDlDg 15 gained by lawing the gainer is also a loeer. , IJon't let as gentlemen <la*.!\ IJe? Denver. ... W/trimi5C|NCE|. Happening* In and Around Union During Reconstruction?A Brave Father and Son?A Hit of Their Snhaeqnent History. (Continued from isaue of May 8th.) by j. l. strain. I will for the time being, drop Ueqry Fernandez and bring another figure to the front in order that I may more fully and intelligently lead the reader to the sad ending of flenry Fernandez's life.' A few years after the trouble mentioned at Union took place, what is known as the Ku Kluz war broke out and this, of course, sent another batch of refugees from this section tojthe^great W est. ^.mong them was |q;u cojpraae enq rriena r. Jell Huges. I have already told the readers of Mr. Hughes hegira on that memorable occasion, and it will not be necessary to tell it again. Mr. Hughes had now been in Texas for some time and was getting pretty well fixed up for a man in his circumstances?having through one misfortune and another lost most of his belongings except-his honor, energy, pluck and perseverance together with his noble and faithful wife and bright little children. At that time (thirty years ag t) in many sections of Tex ?s tho pistol, bowie knife and shot gun were the supreme law of the land and the man ' bit teV wa^ clan." * Henry then weat on |o tell Jeff of bis cbming to Me him to get bfm to assist him in stealing his children. His wife he said was all right and she would go but wouldn't leave the children. She was waiting f>r an opportunity to **.1 off. Henry told Jeff of the landnehad on the Brazos rivers whither he expected to go and settle in case he got his wife and children to go with him. But he couldn't and wouldn't go without them. The circumstance was a heartrending one and touched Mr. Hughes in n. v*rxr ?An<W nln/?* H minded Jeff that his was a very perilous undertaking. If the Scales found out his mission they would be sure to kill him. "Well," says Jeff, "how is it with the children? Will they want to come?" "Oh yes, 'they'll come if they get a chance,' said Henry. "All they'll want to know is that they'll have protection." ' That settles it," said Mr. Hughes, "I'll tiring them or I'll stay there till some one hawls me away foot foremost." Itfow Henry, ?i4 Mr. Hughes, "you take a pieoe of paper and draw a diagram ?f Dr. Scales' house, the roads leading to it from different directions, the out-houses, trees, gardens, fences, etc, so I will not be mistaken in the place when I get there. Tell me the beat way to go, what room they will'likely sleep in and what kind of fastenings to the doors, gates and so forth, so I will have nothing of this kind to study when I get on the {ground, and I'll do the work or die in the attempt." Lest I make this letter too long and tedious I will withhold the rest of it till my next which will appear shortly together with other mitters which will interest a very large* number of your readers. (To ho continued.) FROM THE FAR WEST. Interesting Trip From Clinton, 8. C.. to walnut,' Mine.?Changing Soenea Along the way. (Concluded from last week.) The country at Middleton, Tenn , is a littlp rolling, though the aem< kind of sticky 1 and the same kind of timber. I reached Middleton about d a. m. and the rain wai still coming down very lively, but soon became a mist or mere fog; here I had to ohang) oars to a little nir row gauge railroad which runs frou t Sfiddleton to Pontctac, and as they (nrij-havc^nc train per day on this lifaglfcid to wait until after noon. tti^Tiien the train came in it brought I 'wifenf my cousins, W. P. 11. Bailey, r' alloxan of'his neighbors from Jones t *JflHBHtafifth oounty, Miss. The t tttBE fmr over about an hour ahd tMpi we started South. I W^nlyl lad about 15 miles to go to K tfiilnti* ,*? that wag the most sociiT?e gentle i friendly load of of passena.^bcil. he Jin.jfcf had ever seen; erervV 'w'oor car was acquainted be) foro?wagbad got a mile from Midlle1 ton* Th%conductor has nrn the v train for Tnany years and owns a U large stock of the road. The agent ' tfron* Walnut was on the tHin, he' pr\ _ it-- - .. . _ * ? . - ' j vwna a gooa lot ol stock in the 4nfact every one who works on w ft stockholder and are all jast*bo\j#rtc ftmily working for each nt Ue bad7j^an<l a]l who patronize the 4 I*? intimatcV acquaint! officer and agent of You don't need to buy a j^KZMpiltes you so choose, for you conductor the same rate Would cost. The coun1% JyMWdleton, Tenn,, to WalJfeta more rolling as you j approach tbp latter place and there wm only two very small pines obIi entire route. At the hack for Jonesbont four miles east Immediately after the country began to i and soon we were le quite steep hills as ouse colored mules about three inches of in all directions and g the mules, but tbe the same color of the ide very little differjolor was concerned, liles we reached the bottoms, which was ith "white oak logs split up about twice the site of an hraMtPff fence rail, in,4 the writer thinks the rocky- road to Dablih could hardly be compared with this one through the muddy bottoms. The bottom is about a half mile wide on the west side of the creek and in some places the logs had hecn torn or washed out so that the mud would come up to the axles, but those mules had been there before, so they kept climbing around until they got out of one hole and into another. The creek sure has the right name and there is no creek in South Carolina to make a comparison with this one. It is so crooked that it is utterly impossible to tell in what direction it is likely to bo found again, and the water seems absolutely still, and the only way to tell which way tho water is llowing is to see on which side of the logs the trash is lodged. The creek is full of logs, many of them have been ?i - ? '? buiuvru iu merp uy peopio clearing land along the banks, and at one place a large hill got so wet that it slid down into the creek and caused the creek to seek a new channel by cutting its way through u fyld. Thefp wpre treed three feet in diameter on the earth that slid down and many of them still stand perfectly erect while others toppled over during the land slide. After crossing the creek we proceeded up a hill where there was some red mud very much liko the hills of South Carolina. All through these bottoms and on the hills east of the creek the timber is very heavy, consisting of oak, sweet gnm, holly, elm, b.irthj and many others similar to those found in South Carolina, but no pine as yet. After climbing the red hill we came in sight of lovely farm houses, though no farms in sight, as many of tho farmers lire on the hills and hare their ^arms several m^les away on the creek. Thc'p? the bp^sps \>epatpp t^prpvnumerous until soon wo were in the midst of tho little village of Chalybeate, known as Chalybcato Springs. There is a very bold mineral spring at the foot of the hill on the north side of the town. They have a fine college and several good stores, cotton gin, saw and grist mill and a tan yard. Nearly the entire town is owned by native South Carolina people or theip dpft-cnuants. We had to stop a few tim:s to see an 1 old South Carolina native, but owing ! to the bad weather we made ot)r way as fast as tfcoep mouse colored mules 1 could go for another mile east to the 1 little town or po9tofRce of Jonesboro, 5 and when we got in sight of that place we were in full view of a tvpi1 . cai South Carolina home. There j were red muddy bil's, pine treef cedars in the yard, ro60 bushes an honeysuckle vines, cows in the cot ton iield, hogs in the pen, goats ii tho yard, chickens, turkeys am cuckleburs scattered every where, am last, but not least, dinner on th table. A house full < f vi.Mtors, th doors open wide welcoming us come and here will say we felt at home a: never before in a strange land anc among those we had never seen be fore. With best wishes to The Time; and all its readers, W. G. Bailey. ?? GREATLY ALARUEI) By a Persistent Con fill, but Per mancntly Cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mr. II. 1\ Burbage, a student af law, in (ireenville, S. C., hail been troubled for four or five years with a continuous cough which he says, "greatly alarmed me, causing me to fear that I was in the first stage of consumption." Mr. Burbage, having seen Chamborlan's Cough Kennedy advertised, concluded to try it. Now read what lie says of it: ,,I soon felt a remarkable change and after using two bottles of the twentyfive cent size, was permanently curcu." Sold by, F. C. Duke. ? m > AUNT HEPPY Writes a Letter T clling of the Long Ago?More About Harry I Fernandez. Mr. Editor: After reading the letter of your Etta Jane correspondent in last week's issue about "Ilarry" Fernandez and his father I thought I would just give some recollections of the "dear dead long ago." Forty-three years 020. I. a little lassie just entering the teens, was boarding at Dr. B. F. Hawls and attending the old Aoadeiny, presided over by Hev. J. D. McCullough. I remember tha coming war daily. discussed, (acccsaiooj f I saw the first torch light procession in Union. I heard some fine speeches by as able men as. South Carolina ever produced, the Munros, Gists, Wallaces, Maj. Townsend and a host of giant orators. Alas, many of tbem went forth the next year as soldiers battling for their country, and many, very many, never returned. I used to love to go to picnics alter the war and hear Col. I. G. WcKissick speak, but it was not to pay a tribute to Union's grand orators, her noble sons and hen patriotic (lead that urged me to write, but to relate a circumstance in Harry Fernandez's life. I had been introduced to him by Col. McKissick at the May party and had met him the Sabbath the Baptist church dedicated in 18G0, bv\t not seen him since until the time X am going to relate, the Spring of 18GG, I think in March T went tn Tlninn ?? 1 - - 11? ...M. vMf ? VM? vv UU1VU IU ULM* U1C train for Spartanburg but 1 found after getting to Dr, Hauls' that the train would not go Hp till Tuesday, qnd the doctor, laughingly, remarked I would have to pay them a visit ' willy, nilly." (Ilow I liked and respected the Doctor, he was quaint and yet so pleasant at times and was always ready and willing to help us girls in our studies.) There was a camp of Yankees stationed at Union and were occupying the house Mr. Nolan lived when I was ut school there. On Tuesday ^h$ doctor escorted me to the depot and found me a seat noar the stove, and as he starttd out he stooped over as if to bid me "good bye'* a second time an^ whispered "use your cy?s hut not your tongue," tben he shook hands with my seat mate and so left us. There v^as a blind gentleman Jrom Fairfield, a pit\no tm\cr. QU the train going to Spartanburg to tune the College piano. 1 knew him well ar.d knew he had been very wealthy till the Yankees burnt his gin house, all his t ? .1 i-: - * - wuuii huu uia carriage and buggy, in fapt his fino richly furnished house all were burned by the vandals, and ho was rabid when he was near one, j What was my consternation when we were about ^fhPTP Hr. Hernd^y.'d hPfl30 (ik **s thei1^ Rt%d by the railroad, t^j sec the Yankees oome straggling in the train, some of them drunk, aU of them disorderly. Aunt gallic Fernando* was sitting by me, Harry was standing at her back between our seat and the one behind him. Aunt Ballio was trembling like a wind shaken loaf. Mr Feeater, the blind man, locked black and defiant, his little son s % V i. Norris, l?d him as he paid hi* "i.egro il servant vai free and his son in bondage." The Yankee i were n Unrrliin * ' '"*4*- ?L *" *' ??m* JV.BIUIJ5 wna* tney [1 aould d> vlien they caught t >e d? rl Fernandez. I could not 1 ?ok at e Harry, bad sa I wanted too, but you r can conceive his feeling when one of , the Yanks, drunken beyond r.ason, s seated himself on the arm of my seat. 1 I trembled for fear Ilarry would * knock him down and so be recogn:/.ed, but Noiris to'd his pa and Mr. j Fccster yelled, "guard come to this drunken dog, be is annoying a young lady and her mother under my care." Well they yanked him away from there and wo were not molested . again. I know now we could never havo made the trip without him being known, but the sun was set- ; ting when wc lefc Union and the l lights were few and dim. 1 When wc stopped at Jonesville \ Aunt Sallie get off and I went to the door with her, (she was rather large) 1 and with Mr. Feester talking like he had known her always and Ilarry enveloped in a long army coat and cape got off, and as he grasped my hand in good bye I had a parting 1 glimpse of his eyes thanking me in silence for what I had done for him, for I told Aunt Sallie many little anicdotes about Ilarry and how I heard he was off for California and other things of him, and the little Yank seated at my left listened in Uam-U ^ A * * * ? * .vuv^ muugu uc iuuh.ea ho careless, but they did not get Harry. The negro man that betrayed Mr. F. was afterwards killed fn his cahin. Ilia widow camo to her brother's in this vicinity and died a lew tears ago. After Mr. Feester lost all but his 800 acres cf land ha toned pianos till the time of his death, hot he said he never woold forgive the Yanks for he was blind and had eight children, the oldest, Norris, twelve years old, and dear old Dr. Ik and nearly all that I knew 43 years ago are gone, to the "bfetter ' land" I hope. Cabal, S. C. "/ ? T Quick Arrest. J. A. Gulledge of verbena, Ala. was twice in the hospital from a severe case of piles causing 24 tumors. After ilrw*. tors and iill remedies failed, Bucklen's Arnica Salve quickly arrested further inflammation and cured him. It conquers aches and kill pain. 25c. at F. C. L)uke, Druggist. Jonesville Jottings. JONFSVILLE, May 1&,?A good rain last week and wr.rmer weather has put a smile on the face of the farmers. The planting < f the crops has not been finished yet; and a great deal of corn will be put in this week. Much of the fruit is turning vellow and falling off the trees; caused no doubt, by the late hail storm. The John llames Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy are arranging to present a number of crosses of honor to Confederate veterans on the evening of the 3rd of June. They desire every veteran that has applied to them for a cross to be present on that occasion to receive their crosses in person. The Chapter will serve refreshments at I the same time to aid in raising funds I fo? placing a monument to tho memory of the Confederate dead in the cemetery here. The exercises of the graded school will close on tho Ath of June with an exhibition at night at Almau's Hell. \Y. H. S. Harris will leave here this morning for New Orleans to attend the rounion of the U. C. V's? All the veterans that attended the State reunion of the U. C. V/s m Columbia returned w ith much praise for tho unbounded hospitality of Columbia's good people in entertain* ing them. llev. L. T. Carroll filled his pulpit here yesterday morning and last night giving his hearers two good, intornotin a? .u.VIVUtlU^ S?(UIVU3] Telephone. A Startling Test. To save a life, Dr. T. (?. Merrilt, of i No. Mehoopany, l*a., made a startling i test resulting in a wonderful cure. lie writes, "a patient was attacked with violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera- A tion of the stomach. 1 had often found Ml Electric Hitters excellent for acute ^1 stomach and liver troubles so 1 pre- 41'1 . scribed them. The p&tient gained from -JM the first, and has not had an attack in 1 14 months." Electric Hitters are iioai- mmam?J tively guaranteed for Dyspepsia, IndU pest ion, Constipation " and . Kidney 1 troubles. Try them. Only 60c *1 , "P. C. Duke* ?