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THE UNION TIMES PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ....by me.... UNION TIMES COMPANY SECOND FLOOR TIMES BUILDING BELL PIIONE NO. 1. L. G. YOUNG, - - Manager Registered at tin* I'ostollice in I ni??t S. C. as second class mail matter. 8CBSCKII'TION KA'l KS * One year - - - - $!.<* Six months ... - .50 Three inontlis ... .- > ADVKH I'lSlCMKXTS : One square, lirst insertion - $1.00 Every subsequent insertion - .50 Contracts for three months or longer will be made at reduced rates. Locals insert* *! al 8 1-3 cents a lint'. Rejected manuscript will not be returned. Obituaries and tributes of respect will be charged for ?t b?Jf, rates. ?- uwion, s. c., y.\nciT rn; i50ti. We urge upon the people the necessity tui'l expediency of going to the mass meeting to he held Monday night, March lb, in the Court House at S o'clock. Every citizen is interested in the proposed move, which will, if carried out, result in great good to the city. There is no one who is not more or less inter-1 este 1 in a good and economical administration of the city government. We make no charges of any kind against the present administration, as we helievo the otlieers composing the council have done their host in administering the affairs of the city. We desire a har monious and unanimous voice of the people in shaping the future conduct of our citv authorities. DIFFERFNCE IN SECTIONS. We publish in this issue of Tin-: Timks in another column an article entitled "Violence Toward the Negro North and South." What gave rise to the expressions therein of rebuke and reproach to both sections was the inhuman and unjust treatment of some negroes in a city in the State of Ohio a few days ago, when innocent negroes became the victims of mob violence. In the South it is only those charged with heinous offences who suffer from mob violence and the innocent go fice; but in Ohio when one negro shoots or otherwise mistreats a white man, the whole negro population are made to suffer by having their homes burned and the negroes themselves driven from the towns and cities like dogs without regard to any fault or act of their own. If a city or town in frouth Carolina had been guilty of such an outrage the pcopu: oi uic Aonu woiuu nave asked the president to plan* those people under military law and an army of the I'nited State.- he sent to enforce martial law. GREENWOOD'S CHORAL FESTIVAL The people of Creenwood are to he envied and congratulated upon the enterprise projected l?y the Lander College Chorus Cluh and their associates 4ii giving to the public* u sn highly enjoyable occasion as is promised 'by the choral festival which is booked for April IS and 1!? in Waller Hall. Lander college. Cnder the directory of Miss Louise K. Ileilnian, the music director of the college, the chorus club and associated artists will give to the public their lirstannual musical festival. With the artists of unquestioned musical talent and wide reputation, who will participate in this musical festival, leaves no room for doubting tbe eomplefo success of this laudable undertaking. This musical festival will doubtless prove a formidable rival of the grand annual musical festival of Converse n college, and Greenwood will have every reason to he proud, as has the boasted prestige of our sister city, Spartanburg. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Perhaps in no eity in this country is there so little attention given to the cruel treatment of animals, and Union forms no exception since it is an every clay occurrence that poor, crippled, lamC and almost dead horses and mulo^-Ai'c driven through ibb ads and lAiutcp by the drivers to their utmost strength to move faster. We do not know tint there is an organization in this city tor tin1 prevention of cruelty t > animals, if not there ought to he, because in the enforcement of law what is everybody's business is nobody s business, conI sequently the criminal goes 1111whippe I of justice. Our city fathers should have an ordinance forbidding tin; use of animals which are not physically lit for work and when one s seen on the street a policeman ought to have the right to seize animal and driver and rescut; the poor brute from persecution by its cruel inhuman master or driver. The savages had more kindly feelings for their horses than to ride or drive one that was not fully able to do his bidding without pain and sintering. Look after this, you /aw and order league. WOVf Mt M.M5AIHA GIRL PILOTED GENERAL FORREST. A Thrilling Adventure Which Required 3 Courage Only Possessed by a Southern Girl. ( imi; st.vn:.) In response to your request for contributions to your Woman's edition from any of the ex-Confederate States, I send a story that should In; told throughout the length and breadth of our beloved land, for the principal actor in the incident related?(.Jen. Forrest?helonged to all that wore the gray or loved the "Cause;" and the noble girl that piloted him did what thousands of women stood ready to perform throughout the South in those trying days. The, opportunity only was hers, an Alabamian; and the incident occurred on Alabama soil. The writer, then a young girl, heard a staff officer, the courier of the .story, relate it soon after hostilities ceased. The lapse of time may have obliterated from memory some of the details, hut in the main it was indelibly fixed in memory's chamber. Thus runs the story: In the latter part of April, 1SG3, a Federal colonel?Streight?received orders to swoop down through northern Alabama into (Jeorgia to destroy railways and bridges, and thus cutofT Uragg's communications south. It was a daring exploit, but Streight was n brave and able man, and undertook it, thinking to move so rapidly that the demolition would he accomplished before the Confederates were aware of his presence, lint there was a greater than Streight?X. 1>. Forrest? watching like an eagle its nest of helpless hirdlings with the instinct of a mother divining the object of the murderous plunderers. The pursuit began near the foot of Stand mountain and for five days a running fight over the mountain and into the valleys, almost without intermission? day or night?was kept up, the men actually sleeping in their saddles, and their exhausted horses replaced by those the enemy had taken en route from the citizens, and that in turn the Confederates captured from them. Somehow Forrest never seemed to rest, and somehow he communicated his spirit to his men. Where he led they followed?and lie led. Wherever they halted for food or water the women crowded about them, hedging them to recapture and send hack the old men and young boys that the "Yankees" had taken away with the mules and provisions. Ah! it was as much the appeals of those helpless women that tired the hearts and nerved the arms i f those Southern men as the inspiration derived from their leader, for no woman in distress ever I appealed in vain to a true southern | man. On, on, the little hand, though i dwindling daily hy death, moved ! like a cyclone, circling in its course to surprise and prevent the foe ; from getting their much-needed rest. Provisions abandoned in 1 flight and often half-cooked, and j on the lire, constituted the sole subsistence of the pursuers. Streight i was heading for Koine, tia., and the road lay across Black creek, a deep, swift-flowing stream. Near the bridge across the. creek was the farm house of a widow?Mrs. Sanson. Her only son was a Confederate soldier and had been very ill in the army hospital. Ojdy a fewhours before, the raiders arrived 11 it; young man had reached home on a sick furlough to recuperate, and, exhausted, was in bed when Streight's men dragged him out, and forced him on before them, a prisoner of war, the mother and sisters following to the bridge, begging piteously for the staggering sou and brother. The last gun and man over, the bridge was fired and was burning fiercely when Forrest and his escort rode up, and near the youn^'ipri still lingered?the mother having returned to the J ?7^ house, perhaps to pray for her poor wa boy. The enemy's guns were TO planted on the other side of the w* creek and even Forrest was com- gfe pelled to halt, to consider what was 5^ to be done. The elder of the girls, fo a maid of about 16 summers, took in the situation, and called: ig2 j "Whose command?'1 Lifting jjTjn his hat, the general answered, "N. SHl B. Forrest's," "You want to get over the creek?" gSi "Yes, miss; can you tell us if there is a ford near?" ?? "Yes; I would take you to it if 1 had a horse. The Yankees have taken ours." |gS j "Then, jump up behind me, j? miss," said Forrest, riding his horse beside a log. i Without a moment's hesitation =** the girl mounted behind the s<'Idier, EJ as her sisters ran towards the house Sfe , calling to their mother. The latter fig came rushing out just as 'the girl MT pointed up the stream, and Forrest j gave reins to his horse,.-command ing a courier to follow. IE 1 cttml w .f.iT :*?. ? 'you doing! People will talk about ! you." j P | A moment's check on the reins ? ; h "Madam, I am N. U. Forrest. I eg : will return your daughter safe." M "I don't earu if peoply do talk; g I am not afraid to go with (Sen. , S Forrest," came in quick succession sL ! from soldier and girl. The reins R J slackened, the horse bounded fori ward over logs or whatever lay in its way, as if it realized the precious- s* ness of the passing moments. Passing over about a half-mile brought S? j them near the ford, and dismount- (gj ing they climbed the banks of the | creek, which it was necessary to c|$ ; follow some little distance to reach 1 the ravine leading down to the ford. That brought them in view of a ?* detachment of guards thrown out gj* | on the other side of the stream and ?5 1 balls began to whiz about them. ?? The girl inquired what the noise "Rille balls," answered her coin- ^ pan ion. , i /ft (Quickly taking her hand from his arm, she stepped to his other side, ?5 and next to the creek, saying: j fi* "They won't shoot me?a girl." l>ut Forrest gallantly placed her w? again on his left, and said: j g "T will not permit you to make 85 breastworks of yourself for me," 1 ?S and reaching the ravine unharmed >?? he put her in a hole?made by the gS teaming out of the roots of a fall- gt ing tree?and commanded her to ? remain there until his return. Then getting on hands and knees he crawled down the ravine makint? > j observations; and when satisfied re- case turned to find the girl just behind has him. soni "Did I not tell you to remain in ine\ that hole?" he asked in a soldierly bo t tone. it is "Yes, general," she said quite as 1 eh* firmly, "but you might get wounded to s* and it is my purpose to be near ft, you. ' nort Rising to his feet the general gave crjti his arm to the fearless girl, and ;nn0 again they climbed the bank, and are, again the balls came tearing up the vj()]( . dirst about them, and one passing p|.u. ; through her skirts she naively said: vj()i, "They have only wounded my hoop-skirt," and, taking her sun- the bonnet from her head she turned long towards those who were firing and jndi waved it triumphantly over her pie, head, at which?be it told to their prat i honor?the firing ceased, and tak- timing oiY their own caps, they waved () them high in the air and cheered ou^ . the brave southern girl. n The courier having been dis patched in haste for the troops to i move on to the ford, Forrest met tjK. , them near the Sanson bouse and ^U1 lustily they cheered the young j }] . woman as she leaped lightly to the ground. The general die moulded, lifted his lmt and gave her as knight- ol ^' ly a how as was ever bestowed on u:m queenly woman, and in a twinkling ut remounted and dashed away leading j)Ut to the ford. The creek overcome, j( down its side hack to the road, and p, to still burning bridge they came. ()j (), The girl stood on a knoll near the i g ; end of the bridge, and with her noul bonnet bailed the chieftain. The ^r(l!l men began to cheer. Forrest raised bis band commanding silence, and, t-(()n taking off bis bat, called across the s,nii rushing waters: rp "What can 1 do for you?" < " Recapture and send my brother *' !*' I Kick." N.e,t "1 will b fore 10 tomorrow," and I.O.lill. tl'? The old hats were lifted again and a cheer after cheer rent the air as the ,1( intrepid leader and men dashed on * .UI11 after their prey, which, thanks to .Miss Knnna Sonson's prompt and 1,1,1 heroic deed, were captured and the Jn<) nroiner returned before 10 o'clock ".l"' the next morning. shoi: Mattie W. IIahkkll. y"( Sclma, Ala. 8,1011 ? pror Violence Toward the Negro-In the terc< North and in the South. eri.v coloi One of the serious things in this taini country is the treatment of the (.urjr negro criminal who has been guilty Of certwiu hoiuoua criojea, In audi tt C1 ? --- - - i HI liSfei ^ J*iI?21?I 1 Til j | The bes | $3. jj IV)sitiv< | dressy, I able Sh j The | has jus | and lov 1 | gun m * The on I i Shoes. 1 | i Mutui I lbbhhhhb 8 wlmt is known as lynching been far too frequent, and in c instances acconipaitVd with reusable cruelty. Whatever may he causes for this mob violence, to he greatly deplored; and it i ioves every law abiding citizen' >ek to remedy this son; evil. >inc years ago the people of the h were very severe in their cisms of the southern people >ng whom most of the negroes and where most of the mob ance and lynching then took e. But in recent years this aiicc toward the negro criminal 5 has spread to many places in north, so that the evil is no ;er a sectional one. In Illinois, iana and Ohio the colored peofor certain reasons, have been tically driven, by force and ats, out of certain communities, j nly last week there was a acrious ireak at Columbus, Ohio. Some , oes had shot and seriously in- j d a white railway man. A mob ; icred, and not only threatened ! life of the negro, but assailed | negro section of the place and j in burning the houses of entirely i icent persons. This is worse \ i than what happens in the j h. Ilcre the negro criminal, self may be taken by a mob and ! , to death with little ceremony, I innocent colored people are not estcd. In Ohio, the whole negro illation is assailed for the crime ne or two. The north assuredly no longer any ground to donee the southern people for their tment of the negro; for it seems o clear that if the same condis prevailed in both sections the e things would happen, his is an evil which belongs to actions of our country to remedy, her section should cast stones the other. Especially should north have intelligent consider11 for, and sympathy with their 1 hbors in the south, in the cirstances of difficulty in which are placed. All section^should e in seeking to improve the' ill condition of the negro. All{ abiding people, north and south,. ild discourage and frown down h law. A systematic effort ild he made to have the laws nptly and efficiently adminis1. The negro should he proppr? tcctod, and both white and *cd people should unite in mainng law and order, and in scig the speedy punishment of rimioals.?Christian Observer, WEAR t Shot ;t Man's Shoe evei on the feet for 00 and $3.5 sly this is the most stylish, most loe ever made. 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