Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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4d ''' ^ yj *^*^L City o/dnion and Suburbs Has f |^ | w | pp m T TT J^ t^l/fXl X ~M M" X^ ^"^1 City of Union and Suburbs Has FI Larg.? C?"?n lvl5'18; ? ?nUti"* 1 1?1 U |. ' \JL\ i Hill--'7 1 8 \ M Ij Five Graded Schools, Water Works, Silt: ?n?J Spinning Mill w\th Dye I lant, Oi H I 1 . I I I I I M/ I I 1 , .Sewerage System, Electric Lights, Three |g|| Mill, Furniture Manufacturing and II I 'J I | ^ I W W ffiPjBBMag' I I W I I I J L J Hanks with aggregate capital of $250,000, H Lumber Yards, Female Seminary. - -M^A X_y ^ 1 _WL V/ Ji_ _M_ JL ? JL _M-Jk T^J % Electric Railway. Population 7,000. YOL. L1V. NO. 39,;. "*"* , UNION, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY,-SgTEMBER '23, 1904. ^.00 A YEAR: YOUR ? WE ma^e an ? ** accommodat aim is to make spect YOUR ba all may feel a where those of may expect the ? as those more fa Km, A, NICHOLSO e or cotton N PARMER'S hands, sed j Not to Sell in 'ptember and Oc Itober. New York, September 13. Col. S. F. B. Morse, president of the Southern Cotton Corporation, talked this morning about the probabilities of cotton production, after reading the Financial Chronicle's yearly report. He had just been asked by one of the largest manufacturers of the South, if not the largest, to give him his frank opinion as to what course the spinner should pursue in anticipating his future requirements in the light of the facta as Mthey exist today. To this spinner Colonel Morse replied: "It is -my opinion that those pinners who fail within the next BO or 40 days to take advantage Bf the 'future i arket' will find Biemselvea obliged to pay for foot cotton after that period, Brobably thore than they had to Bay last year." j | Commenting on the Chronicle's of in relation to the eonsumntion of American mills, which, with a crop of 1,000,000 bates less than the year before, was only 6,213 bales lcfy3. In other words, in 1902-1963, with a crop of 10,758,326 bales, American spinners took 4,151,091 bales, whereas, in 19031904, with a crop of 10,128,686 , bales, the United States consumed 4,144,878 bales. "And that," continued Colonel Morse, "in face of the hue and cry about the curtailment of production due to high prices; about mills closed up owing to a cotton famine, and all sorts of other misleading claims set up for the purpose of bearing prices.. These figures indicate that Great Britain and the Continent were the greatest sufferers from the dearth of raw material and enforced curtailment. The XAIV* M Ml AilMAMf 4 U rk UtMiig atiusa uic watci ucui^ B65,400 bales less than the year pefore, is it not plain to the pro^^ducer that there exists a European shortage which must be made- out of the coming crop"! The world's necessities are in creasing, not diminishing, and the demand for the staple mus1 I increase proportionately. This mustvinevitably raise the price o1 I cotton goods to a higher level, s< as fo correspond with the increas< in the cost of all other necessi ties. In other words, the singh exception should not be made ii the ease of so universal a necess ity as the main material for thi clothing of the world. "It is beyond peradventur* that the South now holds its fu ture prosperity absolutely in it / own hands. The planter is ii better shape financially to hoi his cotton, and thus avoid th customary market glut which fo many* years past has invariabl been, present during the harves season. If, therefore, he wi meet bis immediate necessitic sparingly, he will find the d< mdnd for his product steadily ir creasing as the season advances and by raising his p^ice from th minimum of 10 cents he will rea i^e the full value of the produc || which he largely lost in 190! I 1903, wheh the lion's share wei [ to the middlemen and speculate I as it likewise did, but to a consi< I erable less extent, during tl | laet season. "This, therefore, is my advii f to the farmers of the Souti | Let those who are not in a fa position to hold for fair prices I all their cotton sell only enoug fei BANK. | ! earnest effort to I ( ;e all classes. Our I i i this, in every re- | a nk; a bank where E t home; a place g s moderate means } | \ same treatment j"~ | ivorably situated. | I i: IN & SON, Bankers. | c 11 n 1 1 v to meet their most urgent needs, n holding the rest until the demand ' shall put the price, say, to $10 a h bale above the present offering. f( 1 "As I stated in my previous t( talk with you as to what the tl farmer might be justified in sell- a ing for at the outset, develop- b| ments do not yet quite justify a} any accurate estimate as to what the ultimate crop will be. Suffice hthat, regardless of the magnitude w of the crop, it is also self-evident vj that every bale of American cot- b( ton will be required at higher w prices than 'futures' now com- fn ] jiiaiiu. ^ "In the very same paper in tv, which I read the Financial er Chronicle review appears a tele- n gram from Texas, in which Pres- sa ident E. S. Peters, of the Texas ba Cotton-Growers Protective Asso- ba ciation, advises the farmers of ac the South to hold their cotton for ba 12 cents, adding that 15 cents is pr not in the least a remote probability before another crop is yj( planted. As between the Finan- QO cial Chronicle and Colonel Peters Qf i the latter, perhaps, is in the bet- re, ter position to judge conditions. an | As between the two, I should be pe I inclined to follow the advice of su | the man in touch with thops^nds "Speaking of T-xas, it is nard o(> to reconcile the position of the cr, | Chronicle in lending credit to the fQ report of the Department of ba Agriculture in the claim that no essential impairment of conditions ev has resulted from the adverse in- ge fluences up to and including w] August 25, and at the same time fr discred;ting all pr^' as state- a( ment^ from the sarr source that es the boll weevil \y . a permanent be fixture and its fV-id of operations c0 would continue to expand until fa it had invaded everv cotton nro during State in the South. The f0 inference is that the Financial Chronicle credits the. Department m of Agriculture in its bearish conelusions, but discredits the same ^ authority in its declarations con- q cerning the damage done bv the 0j boll weevil and the probable fu- aj ture extent of the ravages of that q( . insect." Sl Commenting on the foregoing, di Gen. M. C. Butler, formerly A United States Senator, but now w ' a farmer of South Carolina, who . 'happened to be a visitor at the ir I officfe of the Southern Cotton Cor- tl : poration at 74 Broadway, said: \\ j 'Of course, it is too early to ven- tl f ture an estimate of the crop, b ) but I am advising all fellow- \t > farmers who can do so to hold k - for 12 cents. If the warehouse a 3 plan of the Southern Cotton Cor- y i poration was now in operation, p - with, money to lend the farmers, B at,an interest charge as low as b 6 per cent., few Dales would a e come into sight at a lower price 1< - than that. The secret of fair u s prices lies entirely in the farmers y n ability to hold his cotton until it \ d is actually needed by the spin- a n noro " ? C ""?? I * It will be remembered that it ( y was General Butler who so vig- 1 \t orously called down Secretary c 11 Wilson last, season when that ( >s worthy aspersed as common J- gamblers the men who were then ' i- trying to get for the farmers for i s, I the firsts time in years, a fair S i ie I price for Their cotton. Secretary i 1- Wilson then promised to "take 1 t; off his hat" to the General if cot- ] 2- ton failed to go down to seven or 1 it eight cents when the gambling 1 rs .was over, tasked the General i 3-, If the Secretary had kept his ie promise. "No," said he, "and now I shall not be satisfied with :e jhis merely taking off the hat he h: talked through so recklessly, but ir shall insist that he send new or hats to Brown,.Havne, Morse and :h ; the others whom ne called gam oiers, as well as one to me." Mr. Atwood Violett cabled the following message to. Liverpool -his morning: "In conseqvience of present :rop outlook, I estimate the American cotton crop this season it 11,000,000 bales maximum. I sxpect 12 cents some time this eason, perhaps higher." Discussing the message, Mr. fiolett said"This expectation as to price 3 because of my belief that the lifference between the supply to e obtained out of the current rop and the needs of the worlcTs pinners during the next 12 lonths cannot be made to fit without a material enchancelent in values. "The world's cotton spinners ave been fighting a windmill ?r the past nine months, conmding. as they "have done, that ! le gambler in cotton of the 1 merican variety was responsi- ? le for all their woes and short- 1 ?e of American cotton. In \ -her words, the gambler must t ave eaten the cotton. Other- \ ise its absence from the world's 1 sible or invisible supply must i s accounted for in some other t ay. The other way now Seems have been that there was crop r rVimiof TU^. 1?1 - ?-^v.vrw. x Jit: uaies were not v ere to make the crop ap" 1? ' than Culoirel TTesU;i a ew Orleans Cotton Exchange h ys it is. Even in his 10,011,000 t; lies there were at least 50,000 lies of thrashed cotton, a char- s ter of cotton, by the way, that I id never been included in any t< evious crop. 0 "This would leave the actual o eld of last season about 9,950- ti 0 bales, including 194.000 bales c; linters, which the Census Bu- tl au found up to March 1, 1904, a d this was, of course, added to g rhaps by 25,000 bales of linters v bsequent to that date, Thorp- * Mivuiu oc icuaicU uy n 0 bales more out of the last A ap, leaving the total available a r spinner's use3 about 9,725,000 n les. A "The world's spinners, hower, took anything they could e t?linters, thrashed cotton or b hat not. Now they are con- v anted with the possibilities of s crop so much smaller than the e timates they have recently A ien fed upon by their American f ^respondents as to bring them e ce to face with another short- g je between supply and demand 2 >r the current season. r "The Southern planter and v erchant has been educated to J i-cent cotton, and as \lh cents c ew York and 18? cents New t rleans was quoted with a crop i : 10,000,000 bales, the South is ? iking with a crop of even 1.000-1? X) bales larger, ana tne woria s t lpply qf cotton of all kinds re- i need to a minimum, why that of merican growth should not be 1 orth 14 cents. i "The aggregate effect of hold- 1 ig by the whole South during ; le next four months of a bale or j vo here and there might make j le amount brought into sight < y Janurry 1, 1,000,000 bales . ;ss than would have been mareted under conditions existing t the time the cotton-planter /as, comparatively speaking, overty-stricken. "Characterizing those as gam?lers who last season contended, nd are still contending, for a Bgitimate advance in cotton val- j les avails nothing, provided those >roducing the crop and those j lelping to make it in the South ire of the same mind as to the i lemand, and a very- large imount of it before the crop of, L905 can be put in the ground, | >r still more important, before it ;an be put on the market. "The world needs our cotton, rhe spinner knows it, and more mportant still, the planter knows it, and the extent of these needs s so great immediately?and will become greater still as the season progresses ?as to leave it entirely within the power of the South to to obtain an advance commensurate with the world's spinning requirements.'' Thomas P. Grasty. Special Correspondence Manuuf&cturers' Record. The next best thing to halving credit is having money. s AFTER FORTY YEARS. How Old Confederate Veterans Were Received : at Manassas. The Greenville Daily News last week published a letter from Mr. P. A. McDdvid, a survivor of the Fourth South Carolina regiment, C. S. A., who went to the third Manassas in the hospital corps with the yirst South Carolina. He writes: "Afterjforty-three years I am tenting aflfeirv on the old camp ground. /We reached our camp last nigKt and had to pitch our i tents after dark, so we were all i very t,iriM, but got a good night's < rest. s < This morning Captain Beaty i Smith fiotn Clover, York county, ( who was m the Sharp Shooters, i Jenkin's \brigade and myself lired a hack and took in the r joints where we fought forty- c ;wo and tforty-three years ago. Ye first;;went to the. Henry c louse, where the hardest fight- t ng was done during the first bat- t le- j.i * narKea at this house, e r?d and Bartow fell, t nd wher&fi$n- Bee, just before c ,? fpll Jackson the immor- p alname/f. ^newall.' I; From /here we drove to the t tone hcfcse, thence to see Mrs. g )ogan( wfkp. lives near Georgeown. / Slw'gave us a great deal c f information about the position f: f the different commands in ac- i? ion. We did this in order to lo- S ate the lines of the second bat- n te. After trying in vain 10 lo- a ate our position, Jenkin's bri- c< ade, we drove to Stone bridge, tl rher? *' e Fourth South Carolina ei xeal IS .. fir h^'t^n of our company, a nd whetfJt Winton Earle was tl nortally 'grounded, also where a Ldjutant Walkes was killed. e Captain Swnith was not intersted in th$! position of the first I attle, sc/'I yielded to him and fi re drove back to the field of the t econd battle, where we dismissd the hack and took it afoot, r ifter pandering for hours we o ound at last just what we want- d d, the place where Hood's bri- v ;ade fought the Fifth New York S Zouaves, which I witnessed from ny position. From that point ve werJS to the very spot where r ienkin's brigade made a grand \ iharge and the Second Rifles sus- ( ained the greatest loss. I car- i ied the colors throuerh it all and r im alive to view the place where 1 50 many brave men fell. I found ( ;his printed on a large board to t nark the spot: 1 'Here the New York Zouaves ] ost ia6 killed, 208 wounded and < missing and never accounted for: 1 :otal, 361 out of 462 taken into i iction. This loss was inflicted I inside of seven minutes in resist- ! ing Hood's brigade, Longstreet's charge. Largest loss on record. < August 30, 1862,' Captain Smith was in the Pal- i metto Sharp Shooters and knew ; the spot where the five brave men were killed and of that number the three sons of Methodist preachers. I cut two sticks close to the spot. I hope I will not lose them, for I know they are from thefyery spot, or within a few feet of it. We have been out all day. Car-1 ried some hardtack for lunch, j and now I am writing this by the j light of a candle, and you can imagine how hard it is on my eyes. We have orders to leave here at four-thirty in the morning to march to Thoroughfare Gap, 15 miles away, to attack the Brown army. I thought I would get out of the tramp, but I have orders to go with them to assist in taking care ot the 'wounded.' Being under military discipline, I suppose I must go. I was very sick all day Sunday and when we reached camp I was in bad shape, but the boys fixed me to bed on a nice cot and tucked the cover around me like I was a child. I slept well and was able to make today's tramp of ten miles or more. I have just received a copy of the Greenville News in which young Jenkins gives me a grand F. M. FARR, President. T KC Merchants and Plant Successfully Doing Businc is the OLDEST Hnnk in Ui Q hus n capital Hud surplus o 1 is tlio only NATIONAL Ha B E tins paid dividends hitioui E 8 pays FOUR per cent, int 9 is the only Hank in Union a m has linrKlar-Proof vault, # I pays more taxes than A LI. WE EARNESTLY SOLIC send off. I was never an officer th in the Palmetto Riflemen, however, I was a private in that K company nor was that company te n Colonel Bowen's regiment. Company L, Second Rifles, Colo- qu lei Bowen, is the correction. pi; Everything looks natural a- cli ound here. Camps are in every th< lirection, and it looks like war in th< larnest. Everything is carried no >n in grand style. Even the wa- tio er in the springs and well has hei leen analysed and marked either gr< :ood or bad, and neither man feN aUp,\ye.d ^gejhe the rnment employes are concerned, elephones, telegraph signal en orps, rockets, etc., place all W< ioints in instant communication, to t is perfect in that respect and vol he manouvers this week will be ap] rand. his Captain Smith and myself re- wh eive a great deal of attention not rom the northern troops, espec- the illy the Fourteenth New York, wa ?{ fU. r ^ ' wi me uiucers ui mat regl- 1 lent were in the two battles, disl nd when we go near them each see ompany turns out and gives tha iree cheers for the old Confed- die] rate veterans. The Fourteenth tiei few York is in our brigade and jeci sk us to come and dine witnjiiei hem and want us to tell them all hei bout the war and what we kill- the d each other for, etc. Ta; I enjoy it all in a sad way, for ad< remember that on this famous hei leld I saw the last of some of my of ruest and bravest friends. nol Our wing of the army will wa nake the first attack at Thor- ma ughfare Gap, will be there two th< lays, return and the other wing It vill attack us. All will wind up Ta Saturday with a grand review. th( The daughters of the Confed- th< ;racy have erected a beautiful pr< nonument near Groveton which vas unveiled last week, and Gen. yo Sorbin was one of the speakers, th< i New York band furnished the gr nusic and a chaplain of a New on fork regiment offered the pray- so ir. The ladies of this chapter ;ell me it was a perfect love th feast. All those army officers ho r\oirl rrlrvu/irior trihiifAC tn Confederate dead. They all re- M i)uke me because I am not wear- ro ing my cross of honor. I never thought of it and regret that I ar should have forgetten. w I suppose we will reach home st an Monday unless we go to dz Washington, and I don't think in there is much chance of that. I N am enjoying camp life so far and st feel like I can march as far any in of the young soldiers." ir ROMANCE OE AN V OLD HOUSE. Where Jefferson Davis la Married Daughter of Zachary Taylor. 1 A litflrt fromn Vimiaa I hat ^ rx 11 vi/ivy i i aiuvy iivuou vi iul stands amid great beech trees in " the rear of an imposing structure h; of recent date near Crescent Hill 3' and a record iti the Jefferson i county court are all that is left to tell of .a romance involving fa- T mous names that was consummated sixty-nine years ago. o It is little known by Louisville c people that in this house, which v is now used as servant quarters, c Jefferson Davis, afterwards President of the Confederacy, on June r 17, 1836, married Miss Knox Tay- t lor, daughter of Gen. Zachary ( Taylor, afterward conquerer of $ Mexico, and president of the i United States. <1 In the Jefferson county court's< \ archives there is a record of mar-; \ riages for 1835 which contains c # J. D. ARTHUR, Cashier. E lers National Bank, iss at the "Old Stand." lion. 1 $1(10.000, ink in Union, utinK to $200,400, orcst on ilopoHits, Inspected by an otneer, in?l Safe with Time-Lock, tlic Hanks in Union combined. IT YOUR BUSINESS. ??ay. ie following: "Jefferson Davis and Miss nox Taylor, of legal age, daughr of Zachary Taylor." It was a romance with a sad selel. Davis took his bride to his intation in Mississippi. The mate was not favorable, and 9 young woman, accustomed to 9 purer air of Kentucky, could t stand the miasmatic exhalans of the swamps. Soon after r arrival in Mississippi she sw ill, stricken with malarial 'er. Within three months of i time she became a bride she The pathetic sequei ma.rs.eo il Taylor's objection to the idding seem to have been due the prophetic feeling of a de;ed father. He strongly disoroved of th? matnli ho(-nr??" vv.? ww*TCCU daughter and Jefferson Davis, 0 was then a soldier, with ;hing to indicate the great, ugh mournful, career that s before him. 'his opposition was not due to like or mistrust of Davis, it ms, but to Gen. Taylor's fear t as the wife of a gallant solr, on what was then the fron\ his daughter would be subted to/*-'-^10 ardships. neart. Mrs.-uiuotf.; xuj..., * aunt, espoused the cause of s young lovers, and when Miss yior came to visit her, she ied her pleadings to those of r niece. After a long course persuasion Gen. Taylor, though t relinquishing his objections, ,s prevailed on to permit the irriage, which took place in 1 home of Mrs. Gibson Taylor, is not known whether Gen. ylor attended the wedding, )ugh Mr. Hancock Taylor is of 3 opinion that he was not esent. It was from this house that the ung soldier and his bride, after e usual, merry-making, conatulations and blessing, set out O iAlli?no\r unfKnrvnmAOf 4-Vv*>4 jvuiiiv^j vv 11,11 uaj/}/iiicoo tuau soon to be changed into grief. Such is the story of long ago at centres around this little >use, which now stands to the ar of the residence occupied by r. A. Levy on the Brownsboro ad. At the time Jefferson Davis id Miss Taylor were married ithin its walls it was a two ory structure with broad veran-. is built after the then prevail-* g style for Southern homes* ow it has beeen reduced to one ory, and has been transformed to a cottage.?Louisville Evenig Post. /e Have $31.16 Apiece. rm i ne amount 01 money in circuttion in the United States is now reater than at any other time in le history of the country, the ?gregate being $2,558,279,984. fotwithstanding the loss in volme through the loan to the Cuan Republic, this total is $169,78,806 more than on September -t /\AO , rjiM. Based on the estimates of the 'reasury experts of a population f 82,098,000, the amount in emulation if equally distributed /ould give each man, w| hild in the United Star The per capita circuj isen steadily at a fi han'the jwpulation has )n September 1. 19(X 29.90; on the same dai.~ in 1902 t was $28.55; for 1901 it was >28.18 and for 1900 it was $26.85, vhile on September 1, 1898, it vas $23.96, an increase of 23 per tent, in six years.