Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?1 f?sssyv jy Special Sale! SlaugliteflF Knockout S? I Our nine day Special SalBv ? ten day Slaughter Sale h^Btf |? ended, we are now going || A Knockout Sale For 30H ID g in which we are going t^gkl IE Spl 1-3 off the price, for cas^Mx>' " tf 4 t>n ail goods except CirpHf?.. j ?1 Now Is Your 1*1^ I Thousands attended out^BlS || i|g which were, beyond a rBrScE II able doubt, the grandestER^ , 11 || for bargains Union haJHftf II ||j had. We give you morflftit SI ||| for $2 than you can bu^HfYOU! II ||| where for $3. Why viBpfr1 II ^ the money and must II ||g New Up-to-date " are arriving daily and are .going Co. i at 1-3 off the price. want ijj ^ woman and child in Union couq^^H#jf gg 50c or more with us in tfie next *7^ jfifi ?| give you 75c worth for 5Uc. If SSSSTCI to see us come again, if n<\jt you pg opportunity of your life to Thousands of goods for thousfl^^Hr ^ Come we want to see you. ^ .^tnec" Yours For Busitj^lB of a ec^om? life -i pJ$lic thinS2^a n. w. w A JL# T cents a loaf.'' r^jthe leade6"*8,'$)U mean\" 81 ARRIVALS" AND~ DEPAR. UKto Be^fS^pSo"^ or tke Double Daily P?A8?nKer Trains. E. Bailey b. Knot be used* ?*er^zXi Eppreciation of the r Union, S. C. general nianagtjgft may prompt tion of conditions to. values. niturc Manufac-yvjt may mani^ ?'?trinaTTCTTniy without rh> Train Koing North 0,00,.. m. The Editor or reason might or might not ? South 11:86 a. m. , . .wre are ai tne sulCidal?it would depend " " North 2:8o p. in. . . paountains, or jiipjr?but it would not be sa South 8:53 p. m. g^dor?Class ()f *Maine.- Suj" Even if he had resources wh utw stop at!Union* "."that ami Industrial ?t buvintnt would Practically nreclude f of nrrivnl nro nrnntinollv *> ? ?' -- - ??* ent at their con- Tbp ure such a course would be 1 departure. Any change in this schod- . T ... V ine market ?-eneralshin ulc will be* published In Tnit Timbb for 8CS, Junc 4tll? 'h it feeds ?eneniIsniPthe benefit of the public generally. ty-one young laqita, growing WHAT IS A CORNER? , among whom is ^ ratio like A campaign for higher pri Local News Notes ?tho?|^ A Points Personal and Otherwise be elaborate and bfegjty ha8 sim^y meanran'lttlfrnpt , Picked up and Paragraphed Memorial ie standard tain more contracts for the < by Our Pencil"Pusher. devoured, livery of a commodity than c G tors rake be fulfilled. A corner is Dossil a Services in mcmo^dogs,, for 0nly when the ''shorts"--?hc Dr. Webb Thomson was in the ^mith, deceased, \&hc bolts wbo baye promised to deiive] city Sunday. AuVi^r ? f some have overestimated their abil the Uiion I)rugRcSlgan "?W cordin'1^ man hasSug'ht S.^OO^bluh. the Union Drug Uo. J. R. Fi MQ-iydej an of corn for ?eptember jelivei P ' Miss Susie Lathan, of Chester, is f orref tic a mass Those who have sold it doi visiting Mrs. Sarah McCubbins. 18. The own it, but have gone "short" ? r, i . t m ? t to one made the promise to deliver t Miss Fannie McCaughnn, of 1 he notice of the J process corn merely on a bet that t Newberry, is visiting Capt. and stockholders of the Lfey selb market will go down, expecti: Mrs. F. M. Farr. Grocery Company had I. holdg to buy back *heip CQ^C^ at C. H. Foster, Esq., of Jonosville, jBarnes wS?wasaiiVet a Pfice lo^er than the one at whi was in the city' Tuesday on pro- ^^SZt ftg ?l#*? fessional business. or wcre taken bv the??u m.? delivery arrives. Thr er were u\Kcn oy mc~ltb a minl0ns Qf bushels of corn ha Mr. I.ouis Garner and sister, Miss *arr and. Thomson and bg jn_ b^n soldj on]y 1,500,000 can 1 Sarah, spent a few days this week regret the mistake but wben delivered. The sellers must bi with friends in the city. harm done, since it api4pn}es back their promises from t Mrfl AnnH T_r nowofCo 18SUC C?rrCCtcd; T * Jt buyer at the best terms they c; Mrs. Ann !I Jeter, now c#a?p Rankers Ass the make. This is a corner. Su< lumbia visited Mrs. P. E. Fant Matt bankers ASS^ the operations ^ ^rely carried and other friends in the city this that the full conclusion. The bul week* at i' J iVir ? nes- get scared. There is always tl Miss Christine Dillard, of Spar- Bmik and Mai Jno A *dl? ganger of the full amount of d inrtloit*/* itlaU/.rl A f-"" * . ..... i-tiuniii iuibb . -, , .", j 01 liveries being made. """f ! l u rector represented this bt%,n Louise Browning at Clifford enn- Association wl^.?l *" ? nary last Saturday. Thursday in Anderson, S. 0f WASTE OP HUMAN Miss Annie Johnston, of Meek- Emslie Nicholson, Preside^ LIPE IN AMERIC/ lenberg county, N. C., is visiting Wm. A. Nicholson and sonil l,cr sister, Mrs. J. R. Caudle, on represented this bank at thfc By DANIEL T. PIERCE. South Mountain Btrect. ation. Oiliccra of the I eoph^ ? Mrs. W. H. Gaston, of Chester, wl'r? to ' 1 - Fifty-seven thousand, fivehui who was here for the Federation, Son Lost Mother. Sf YT of6*. ^7lua,< .?f ^ 1 remained in tho city a few days, "Consumption runs 1n our fi "1? United btates by acciden the guest of Mrs. I'. E. Fant. and through it I h-tmy Mo and injuries." The census (Bu writes E. B. Re id, of Harmony letin 83) 80 classifies this nun Miss Cornelia Sartor daughter of "For the past fivei yea ;^?w*Mber of deaths for the year 190( Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sartor who has j tke.1 n?nK?n^CNeS Dist'and all independentinvestigate! been teaching school near Orange- for Consumption, which has savt agree that this is an under, rathe burg, is at home for the vacation, from serious lung trouble.'than an overestimate, of th mother's death was a sad loss Rvprni/p Thp nnwihpr of appi Bishop J. S. Caldwell wlHpr^ch geid, hot ho learned teat lunj, tej} *?*, that do nc next Sunday raorm g cure it. Quickest relief and cuJresult fatally is not given, an Chapel, A. M. E. A coughs and colds. Price 50c and :we can only guess at the total Rov. J. H. Manly will prcaoli at ,1 guaranteed at I>r F. C. Duk?'.rememberingr that non.fatal a] P- m- atore. Trial bottl a . ways largely outnumber fatj accidents, however a catastroph may occur. - ? W AU| JLOUC | THE BANQUET TO THE BA I ERS. A Preliminary Reception the Residence of Presid Brock, of the Bank of Am son?Banquet Given by Citizens Served in the P in Excellent Style. Anderson,. May 23.?Spec The social feature of the Hank Association came to a climax evening, when the hankers v tendered a reception at the pala residence of Mr. J. A. Brock, pr dent of the Bank of Anderson. rj muses would have to be called u] to (ll'SW'I'ilu1 Mm v<wv>?>/v vnv kahiuviiiu 11m'rioi the residence, which had l>ccnd< rated especially for the oceasi In the receiving party were 1 and Mrs. J. A. Brock, Mrs. IT. Ligon, Mrs. Cora Ligon, Mr. si Mrs. 11. F. Manldin, Mrs. Thci Strickland and Miss Lucy Ilro\ The visitors were received in reception room and were ushe: in the dining room, where refrc nicnts were served hy Misses Li F. Strickland, Ixmise Ligon, Li Brown, Mamie Brown, and M Daisy Brown Dean. After t hours the party was takenl fr< the residence^ to the park, Jwh the bahquat was given by Jic ci zens of Anderson, and served the ladies of the Civic Ass?iati< The menu was as follows: 'Th various cares in one gre? p<> combine the business of t]Br li that is to dine." Salde do Fruit, Fish a^BCrei Crackers, Swedish Timl^Vs> paragus on Toast, Shc^B Spring I^amh, Sauce cnt^B^rcl Peas en Croutons, C^Bd^K Broiled Chicken, Beatci^B*'8011 Potatoes en Printemps. ^B0'1 ,n Romaine, Saladc Tom ate, Wrflc'(( Angel Cake, Pound Coke,V^? la Nunnally, Rouquefort, <eate Cracker, Coffee, Ci^patiics in stiim. rnanh:. 'ssarv I andTnS *nes' wealth ' There ii nothin a s1ure , it, Thislf viV?c.c,dent? st be I every day," and ^ 'He/ought ST than any S*U?S??S5S^ laps, I Jat hr^S, * henJofjtnyi^uon /with traffi sTa- Trackage figures. The fa To mains, nevertheless, 'me lish railways carry twice as : be passengers as ours do in a on and kill and injure only onene. as many of these passen ich To put the case otherwise, ail- railroads killed 10,000 peoph sad injured 75,,000 last year, lish railroads in the same killed only 1,150 and in, 6,785. There is still an ces way 0f making the exhibit: to One passenger in 2,316,( killed in the United States; tt passenger in 8,461,309 is 1 5b" in Great Britain; one passe de' in 139,740 is injured in tne U an States; one passenger in 47< bIe is injured in Great Britain; )se employee in 399 is killed ii United States; one employ lty 916 is killed in Great Britain .a employee in 26 is injured in ~ls United States; one employe U6 is injured in Great Bri }_ t At the very lowest valua . these figures show that slaug be and maiming by railways ca "e reduced to a minimum. T n& is no mystery in this. Enj - a railways kill and injure only on tenth (it is really one-twen he if the relative number of ee sengers is considered) as n v? people as are killed and inj be nere simply because the Enj W roads are equipped with sa he j?s * ' ' - uev ices ana systems which roads are not compelled to ad On English roads all do .^? track has the block-signal tem. On our roads only an ie significant percentage of do e" track is so equipped. On si track in Great Britain the 4 'sfc or check system universally vails, and engineers do not ei a section of road until thej ceive a check showing that section is clear. Head-on rear-end collisions as a coi quence are practically unkno 1- No such system and nothing n experience shows, that takes t? place of it, exists in this coun 1- Besides the block-signal i- staff systems, interlockinor ), nals are much more gener s used in Great Britain than in >r United States. These pre\ e the giving of go-ahead sigi i- unless the track is clear. G( ?t rally speaking, English raih d management leaves as little I, possible to individual capacit: I- faithfulness, while in the Uni il States the "human factor" pi e j a very large part, and is resp | sible for a large percentage rrnri^lsAM ????in??> *???4 4 a ioettTng4*Fixed For Summeil JJ I Will be Easy 1 "*k B with our line of Summer goods to select from. H arK \ye are showing a nice string of Lawn Swings, B I Porch Rockers and Settees, Piazza Blinds, jj and Vudor Shades and awnings. IF YOU WANT THE BEST jj get a White Mountain Ice Cream Lreezer and j a Leonard Dry Air Refrigerator. We have I just opened up a new lot of Nottingham Lace J Curtains, Portiers and Hall Curtains in tap- ] estry, Bag-Dad Stripes and Mercerized, from Jj $2.75 to $9.00 the pair. jj A lot of new crop China and Jap Matting ffl just opened up. I Special prices for Cash jor any article in Jj our store. 1 ? | BAILEY FURNITURE CO. | >8. | I ?Wb ARE?1 'IllThe ButWV ?cop^l, >asi\ B m boys and niggers *CM Ifl i ~vowd them into the jail ne, H J', "while they would prowl around lit> u m i> " "H ',tfW and look worse than a sheep killla B f *3,500 a mile to operate; ing dog. If any of them are m\ pi American roads spend only $5,800 living today, the state ought not a J, ?*nd a mile. to claim them as her citizens, but as much To decrease railway casualties send them to the coast of Guinea r exists we need five things, according and let them stay with the case of to expert opinion on this subject: negroes where they belong. After .e work- (i) Universal adoption of the they filled the jail they then took les and block-signal system or double some to Columbia and had some I death track and the check system on form of a trial and sent some to result, single track. Albany penitentiary and some d about (2) Use of the interlocking died there. Myself and several ig done signal system, and of steel in- others were arrested abou"1: the yhy we stead of wooden cars. first of February, 1872 and cast nation (3) More men and more com- into prison for illicit distilling, to use patent men in the actual opera- and some got out on bond and 'ing to tion of trains and the upkeep of some did not, and about the 21st roadbed. > of March we started to Charles(4) Prevention of . excessive ton %o -the United States court by railway "em- and when we' got there every^ ir ' ^ thing was negroes about the jail c and thg public anui/f?-Uie govern- and they searched all of us and ct re- g0 much force and more took our pocket knives and they tfiSSl on our railway^g^r^"^? John Bevi* jmll off his 1 year \ evfffducing -tTinmen. * stairs and went into the tower, tenth the killing waste of life two j^nson, a negro dsOt,tT?.NORBOUTiiivlitrta. " jured 1 wvuiu nuirMa^. J myself. But they did not keep other us there only for about two hours by w. h. h. bevill. until they gave us larger rooms. **81S " . When our trials came off in one Away back some thirty-five April we got our sentences rangnlled years ago there arose up a clan jng from two months to twelve inger called the ku klux, and there were months. Uncle Jim Sinclair got nited various superstitions as to where tbe twelve, but he was the only 9,848 they came from. Some asserted one who had much life about one that they came from a swamp in him. When we were all tried i the Georgia, others said they came they sent us back to Union to ee in out of a great cave in the moun- serve our sentences, and C. P. ; one tains in Tennessee. Still others Scales and myself ought to claim the said that it was an uphevalof the the jail, for we were the first ie in dead from the battle of Second that were initiated or went up tain. Manassas; xnd indeed this last jn a blanket. So if it had not tion, was the ol ^gro woman's opin- been for those belchers, the very rhter ion. Wht one called her up dogs of the devil, things would in be one night and asked her for a not have been as bad as they here drink of water, the old negro were. Sometimes I would not glish handed him some in a gourd, care a straw if there were some one- He said, "Hand me the bucket," more ku klux, men of the right tieth which she did. He took the pluck to take charge of the loafpas bucket and stretched out his ? * -- era, uress tnem nicely and make iianjr necK about as long as Uncle them go to work. People need ured Peter's gun barrel and drank it their work, but because there is ?lish all, and this started the slang of not big money in a little work ifety the "rubber neck, fori do not they won't do anything but loaf our remember of hearing that word around, steal something to get Pi use(* prior to that time. After on the chaingang to get apiece uble he drank his water he cleared up 0f bread and bacon. The best sys- his throat and told the old negro way is to strap off some and in- that was the first water he had maybe the rest will take a modest uble drank since the Second Battle of bint and get themselves a job nir" Manassas, for he got killed there and go to work, then everybody aff and had just come back. The at WOrk times would be some pre- old woman staggered back and better, nter said, "De law me, boss, has ' , . m r re- Gabel dun blowed his horn ?" He r? the said, "No, not yet, for he was The Liberty Bell, and only in the spirit." He then ??? nse- turned his horse around and rode From the earliest times the wn. away, leaving the old woman in Philadelphia statehouse bell has , as greater wondpr and astonishment been ? ? uj uiuui ui patriotism. It me tnan she evel* had been before, sounded the repeal of the stamp try, And as for my part, I do not act, and in 1766 it tolled forth and know where they first started the closing of the port of Boston, sig- from, but I do know that they It announced the first battle of ally kept things quiet for a while, the American Revolution and the the and I think done some good, and passage of the Declaration of Inent at the same time they done some dependence, on which day, we ials things that they ought to have are told, that the "great bell me- let alone. Now there were some rang all day and almost all night.'' tfay good men in that order, but they It announced the surrender of as , carried it too far. But the worst Cornwallis and the establishment f or thing they done was, they took of the constitution of the United 'ted! some of the meanest men into States. It has given a hearty ays their order that ever lived in welcome to foreign visitors and *>n- Union county or any other county I tolled the requiem of honored j of 1 ?men whose deeds were blacker and respected dead.