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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01
JUDGE LYNCNs CARNIVAL.

MI Lav tn all its Horrors az Mliuna.-
Fire Negroes Taken from Jait-One
literally CIT to Pieces The Ohcr -Four
Hanged. &
MoUNT VERNON, IND, Oct. 11.-Four
negroes were hung BY mob tonight. At
7 o'clock on Monday, seven negroes went
to house Of ill-iamc and ravishcd four
white women. -Four were arrested, and at
, O'Clock this morning, Ed. Hayes aud Os>
car Thomas went to the house Of Daniel
Harris to arrest his son for being concerned.
Harris opened his window and fred two
barrels of gun into Thomas face and
stomach, killing him instantly. Hayes re-
turned the fire with revolver, shooting
Harris in the neck and arm. Harris ran
and was overtaken about mile from the
house and returned to jail As morning
camc, the matter was discussed. Crowds
gathered at the Public Square and attempts
were made to force the Jail. A mob organ
lied and boarded trains to present the militia
or officers coming from abroad. The crowd
was all the time increasing, and repprts
arf.a.s.2 80 L. .t.ou.ir 44atromas, who was
we'll liked. The widest rumors went
through the city and the mob became more
and more excited. About noon colorcd
boy was driven from the Square and fired
ut. He got two shots in the back and head,
but was not seriously hurt.
As evening approached, the mob with
drew TO the woods west Of town, organized,
masked, and waited until 10 o'clock and
then marched into town like Kuklux, ST.
lently and in good order. The Jail was
guarded by men with shot.guns and one
piece Of artillery, but the guards were
quickly ovcrpowcred, and Hayes, the
Deputy Sheriff, thrown down and the keys
taken away, while the mob and crowd fired
guns and rcvolvcrs, so as to create panic.
The four ravishers, VIM. ChaL.Sets, James
Good, J. +. Hopkins and Ed. Warren were
locked in one cell, and dgc-hammers were
used to break in. While the noise of the
hammer sounded, old Harris was butchcred
in the corridor by relatives of his victim,
and tho pieces thrown down the privy vault,
unknown to the outside crowd After half
an hours work, the bars gave away, ami
the four strapping negroes were led out,
bound with ropes around their n-c. >" .Thc
members cf the mob formed, with guards
on each side Of the doomed men, and
marched to the south side Of the square,
Ropes were thrown over the limbs and the
four strung up, two On. q tree Chambers
limb broke hnd ne 1eff 70 the sr6un L. he
asyiftad upsaad asked; to tell al Ahe knew.
but protested his innocence, and the leader
said let him swing. The rope was thrown
over the stump of the broken limb, and he
was run up and stretched heavily against
the trunk. During the affair, gun was
fired, and Alex. Crunk. the Sheriff elect,
accIdcntal'y shot in tho eye and will loose
it. john Crunk, his nephew, Nb Crunk, his
brother, and John Patterson, master bull
der, were also shot accidentally.
MINED FAEMING.-A contributor to the
-. '-";t"a on this subject
farming. | believe it better fnr c,rm.r
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

THE PRIVATE SOLDIER IN THE LATE WAR
The Private Soldier in the War Of the
Rebcllion"-- is dead, or lost, straycd or
stolen, possibly. We do not know where
he is. But he is not here. He has gone
away to some place. Perhaps he has ceased
to be necessary.
Perhaps, if he were here, he would be
in tho way. At any rate, he is not around.
lie does not so to the Legislature. We do
not find him in Congress.
lie is not carerln snnnht- 90 o o""aiS"'" +"
FOR anything. Nobody seems to know any
thing about him. Occasionally he appears
on the pension list, with one leg, wife and
seven children, and eight dollars month.
If flour takes much rise he will not last
much longer at any rate, and we shall soon
be deprived even of the occasional glimpse
NC now have of him.
1t is asserted, and quite generally bcliev-
cd that at che time he was quite numerous,
and was even considered rather convenient
sSf not, indeed, quite indispensable. 1t was
found that upwards Of one hundred Of him
were necessary in order to secure mere lines
Of commissions for three eminent and de-
serving men. When field commissions
were wanted for three even more eminent
and great mon, one thousand soldiers were
necessary. Ghe' thousand! 1t seems an
enormous number now, when by consulting
the Congressional Directory, we find there
arc none in all this proud Republic.
But twelve or fifteen years ago even that,
Incredible as it may appear to us to-day,
was considered small number. They were
private soldiers; there were even hundreds
of thousands of them.
And they were useful. They dug trench
es; they constructed long lines of breast
works, and then, whom the enemy came
within sight they climbed over them, and
went outside of them to fight. They work
cd and watched and fought. Cooperating
with great and eminent men who have
since passed ts their rewards in one Office
and another, these private soldiers somc-
times rendered very useful service in win
ming great BATHS. Oh, they were useful.
Some historians have even gone so far as to
maintain that without them the war could
hardly have boen carried on. They were
really quite useful. And now they are all
gone.
1t seems sad, looking back at the war
that none but tie Generals and Colonels
and Majors and line officers should have
.-ts;kS utIHui "i VI "'-'--------- D">,-;lnncn
x;Sicn- undoubtedly took special
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01
LEATHER SUCCESSFULLY TANNED WITH
GREEN PINE STRAW.

GHEER PINE STRAW.
During the war my brother, A. IL.
Washington (of Nashville, Tcnn.,) was SUI
periutcudent of the clothing department
under Maj. G. w. Cunningham, and he in
formed me that an Englishman had been
experimenting for twenty years to find some
material foEtanning, which would shorten
the tins aSd leave the hide plant, so that
a large amount OF oil would net be ncccs-
sary. Allstyials however had proved futile
until chance threw him into the Conttdc-
rate States, where he tried an experiment.
with green pine straw with complete sue
cess. My brother showed me samples of
shecpskin tanned in eight dsys-calf
tanned in eight weeks, equal to the best
American calf-and sole leather evenly
taneed through in four months. A longer
time for the latter would no doubt have
produced better leather, but the cmor-
genci}s of the service required an abridge-
mcnthf time, and the pine straw enabled
the tainsrs to fill the requirements. Since
the w.r the French have used spirits tur-
pentine disaetly il the manufacture Of lea
ther,~ withsSSfs-zs successs;' but cannot now
recall the authority for the statement.
The Eustshman's Confederate patent was
worthless, snd, as he has failed to take out
United Statos patent in the long time
since the 4 osc Of the war, he may justly be
supposed,t ,tS have abandoned his rights, and
Iaiave, thAefore, concluded to lay the mat
t& before A6n for further experiment. The
pine stfaM being cheaper than oak bark,
obtainabld Ill seasons of the year, re-
quiriny on a short transportation, and
.richersn tut. sntine than the northern pines,
would giSys Isu very decided advantages in
compctAgfof the markets of the world in
the production of leather.
Since NV brothers Information, retan
ny shoes by making q mixtpse.sSssaall y!
parts of tuypentine and tallow over gen
tic fire, aph,then saturate both sole and up
pers witfsif;the consequence is, my shoes
last mo-! 4hah twice as long as usual; my
last pait two half sales,, lasted fifteen
months. doubt not that if the straw was
cut and bruised by being run through a
straw cutter with short feed, it would very
quickly impart its virtues to the water in
the vat and make it more cflicacious than
if used without the cutting. Having nc
patent royalty to pay, you can at once re-
ducc the cost of the production of leather
to minimum, and enhance your profits uc.
csrdinglye With a. belt of pine 170 miles
wide, extending from Tirsiu:a to fexas
the. .Soash dan tan eAshss eaeushta-snpph
|. Lhs| Bdked States and numerous foreign
markets.
AS this is no theoretical assumption. tc
be verified by costly experiments, | doubt
not you vii. give the subject the attention
it certainly deserves, and profit accordingly
Yours respectfully,
B. Ii. WASHINGTON, VI. ID.
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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01
Kind 81 6btdiencc we would ike to render
II;,, .asDp{Y

quirc What wilt thou have me to do ?'-
He that is sincerely obcdcnt will not pick
and choose what commands to obey and
what to reject. He will lay such charge
upon his whole man rs the mother of
Christ did on the servants at the feast >
"WhatsOcvcr lie saith unto you, d. it,
With eyes, ears: hands, heart, body, sou. he
will cnlcavor, seriously and lovingly, to OBJ
serve aud diligently do whatever Christ
says unto him: "Thcn shall | not be
ashamed when have respeccwnso a4thy
commandments"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

A woman was sitting at the brcakfaat
table, the other morning, when an almost
brca,hlcss nei ghbor came in and Informed
her that her husband was dead SHE. .etlptr
breakfast, and then you'll hear bowling"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

It's funny th4rwhcn you ask a man to
advertise, he generally declines with the re-
mark that "noboIyll see it." But if you
advertise some little capcr of his in the
news column, gratis, he gets indignant over
the certainty that cvcrybody'n sec it,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

ty that the country should not suffer from
a lack of eminent men, kind of forgot the
private soldiers and let them wander away.
And so they arc all gone. Some Of them
got shot, Some Of them got married and
moved out Of the world, to settle upon tracts
of Government land, where the Indians
could get at them more easily. Some OF
them went into business. Some OF them
arc teaching school. Some of them went
away and didn't leave their parents ad.
dress. But all the same they are all gone,
aud il seems dreadfully lonesome without
them. There used to be so many Of them
-GoUihgton (Gn.) Enterprise.
INA Boat WITH a RATTLEsNAKE.-
One dark night recently three men living
near Cascyvillc, on the Indiana side Of the
Ohio, started to go over the river in a skin
which had been laying against the bank Tor
several days They got into the boat and
tho oarsmen pulled vigorously for the other
shore. When about sixty yards from the
bank the man in the bow suddenly cried
ont that he heard the hiss Of a rattlesnakc
in the boat. This caused a thrill Of hor-
ror to run through all, and in flash the
oars were stopped and all sat listening, but
not sound was heard. They concluded
that it was false alarm, and the oars be-
oan 70 rise and fall. Again the man in the
bow uttered the warning and again the boat
was stopped and all listened in dire fear,
but no sound was heard. The skiff was
then pulled across the river to CasoyviIle,
where the man at the stern jumped out in.
to the water, afraid to go through the boat.
Procuring lantern at the hotel they went
down to examine the boat and found rat
tlcsnakc with eleven rattcs coiled under
The oarsman's scat The deadly reptile was
dispatchcd, to the intense relief Of his fcl.
low passengers.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

WHAT FARMERS SUCCEED.-Tnat far
mcr will succeed who makes up his mind
that the whole secret of success is in him
self; that it is the man and not the busi
ness that tells. He will succeed if he
brings to bear tho same amount OF skill,
forethought, energy, economy and Judgment
that any other branch of business requires.
He will succeed if lie sticks as close to his
farm, as the mechanic does to his shop, and
not expect to work three or four months
and then take his ease the rest of the ycar.
That farmer will succeed who takes the
papers, and digests what he reads, ana is
not afraid of new ideas and new methods
of industry. He will succeed if 1t is his
intention that whatever he sends to market
shall be the very best, and so made and
put up that when seen it will be captiva-
ting for its freshness, cleanliness and purI-
ty, and will be uuhcsitatingly taken on ac
count Of his well-kuown character for hem
esty Of weight, measure and count. Those
who have larms may thiak themselves for
tuuato, for although they will not thereby
find sudden roads to wealth, they will Ger
tainly prove that persistent farm labor will
bring a sure reward. 1t is worthy of no.
tice, that the adventurcr and spccuator,
with blasted hopes and shattered health
and fortune, have in the end 10 como back
to the farm for health and safety. Agri-
culture is the basis of national strength
and wealth, and the most certain and liberal
support Of all who follow it intclligently.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

A man must be mightlet than the diff.
tutics eohfr6nting him.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

What We do for ourselves must perish
with us whatswe do for others may outlivc
US what We do foT God shall remain fol-
ever. FNcttt
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01
> Breakfast. + Dinner.
Greenville and Columbia r. r
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
ksla Eg A .:I 40

Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays except
olina Eairoad up and down. On and after
MONDAY, May 18th, the following will be the
schedule:
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

ICi sciuou Hiahcs u Soou WIG. II GlTi
is ill-tempcrelat at home, snarls at her parents,
snaps at brothers and sisters, and ''shirks"
tvvnc} };aSss- 3anties,thc chances are ten
own, she.,sten. sAagets home of her
-. Smako it wretched There
- :. ,---?!hAshpcy -! themselves so Far supc-
rior 70 their pSrents-tsn..-s,- ,ocra nr;v;laco
of enjoying ahcir society in l6e
ought to be al! the old people oh---'s S.2t
the assurance to ask. While their mok lers
arc busy with domestic duties, they Ill ir,
the easiest chairs, or lie on the softcst sofas,
feeding ON cheap and trashy novels, and
cherish the notion that they are very liter
airy indiyiduals. The household drudscry
is too coYss for such fine ladies as they
The busAess & their parents is to provide
them wi } nice. clothes, and to be content
with adGiiring pheir handsome appearance
in the intcrv1 of labor. Girls of this sor
are very anxi9us togct married, that they
may escape the disagrecablcness of a home
where they aroybeld, moro or less, under
subjoction therefore, they are smiling
enough to eligible bachelors, smoothing
down the frowns which alone they give to
the members of their own families. A
caller who doesn't have the chance Of see
ing how they behave as daughters, may DC
excused for faucying them loving and lov-
able beings !; but one who does see ie, is,
foolish if he commits himself by Offering
marriage to girl Of this sort. She is not
fit to be the wife of worthy man. If
she will net assist her mother in the domcs-
tic labors, aud the servants, is she not like
to be equally slothful and illtempcrcd when
she marrics 2. IF she now thinks herself
too fns to work, it is safe to expect that
her views as TO that matter will not radical
ly change if she becomes wife!
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

\ Scotch minister, in one Of his paro-
chial visits, met cow boy, and asked him
what o'clock it was. about twelve, sir"
swell" remarked the minister, 81 thought
it was more" "Its never any more here"
said the boy; lit just begins at one again"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

A mule will behave himself eleven years
and six months just to get one of.hand shot
at middle shirt.stud.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

y terrible death from phosphorus is re
ported a young man left Paris to visit
his friends at Lyons, and as soon as he got
into the carriage he lit Il match by scratch
ing it with his thumb nail, and piece Of
the incandcscent phosphorus penetrated un-
der .he nail and made q slight burn, to
whieA. .As assassesais ssaift tiaSp A after an
kSEs file paid !bssalS ssef ttie Ii tim d
swelled, then the HAND, Hnu mkt the Sofe-
arm. He was obliged to alisht at the first
station and scnd for medical man, who de-
clared that instant amputation of the arm
was necessary. The patient insisted on
postponinS the operation for few hours
until the arrival Of his father, for whom he
had teiegraphed But before the latter
could reach the spot, it was too late the
poisonous matter had gained the arm, then
the shoulder, and any operation hcucolorth
was impossible. The young mau died twcu-
ty-sevcn hours after the burn, in horrible
suffering.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

-. '-"it"s on this subject
farming. | believe it better for q farmer
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-01

The worst thing about mosquito is its
long solilcGuy as to when and where he
hai bn.thf settle down and bite.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-09
Date Palms for the Colorado River.
Desert.

General c. P, Stone, writing from Cairo,
Egypt, to General Leouc, says:
From what l have seen of the date-pro-
ducing region in this part of the world,
and what know of the Desert of the Colo
RADIO, between Cariso creek and Fort Yuma.
I am inclined to believe that the greater
portion Of the latter region can be made
productive and very valuable by making
plantations of the date-palm. This tree
not only does not require much water, but
watt is prejudicial to it, and the climate
of the Colorado Desert is singularly like
that of some of the best date producing
districts here. In any case feel assured
that all the New river portion of Colorado
Desert would grow the date-tree without
difficulty.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-09
Bids for Mail Service.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-The lowest bid
upon the long route of 1900 miles from
Fort Worth to Yuma, is that Of j. L. Chi
dester for S134,00G, but it will be dSal-
lowed by the PoStoffice Department, ow-
ing to the fact that Senator Jones of Neva-
da, and Barnum of Connecticut, were ON
the bond of the bidder, which is forbidden
by law. Jesse D. Cars bid on The route
is the fourth from the lowest.
Kerens & Mitchell's bid for the same
service was 100000, which is as low
as it can be carried at any profit
Arizona has been cursed enough with
cheap mail-contractors. Such men have
taken contracts for less than the actual
cost of carrying them, and have managed
to draw their pay without performing the
service: the Arizona public has suffered
the consequences. Contracts should be
let at figures that will enable mails and
passengers to be carried in coaches, and
without the throwing away or destroying
of papers, books and parcels. This
latter appears to have been done very eX-
tensively More than seventy five bids
were put in for the Dos Palmas and Pres
colt route and the chances are that the
new contractor takes price at which he
cannot do the work. In this case we wish
him nothing worse than bankruptcy or a
broken neck.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-09
Silver District.

Assays of three lots of ore extracted
from the old mines re-dlscovered in Silver
District, adjoining Eureka District in this
county, are as follows;
Lead 70 per cent and 79 ounces of silver
Lead 1914 per cent and % ounces of sill
yer;
a carbonate ore. lead IS per cent and
ITO ounces of silver.
As we predicted, on learning of the sill
cious nature of the gangue of lodges in
this district its ores run rather higher in
silver than those of Castle Dome, while
yielding about the same proportion Of lead
The proximity of these mines to the Colo
RADIO river. and the facilities offered for
transportation of ores, greatly enhance
their value. Several parties have lately
goIc in there well provided with tools and
supplies.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-09
WHATAB BILLION MEANS.
A Number Of Winch Few People
Appreciate the Real Sig
niffcRnce.

Henry BesSener in the London Tinaes.]
It would he curious to know how many
of your readers have brought fully home
to their inner consciousness the real sig
nifcance of the little word "b;llion," which
we have seen of late 80 glibly used in your
columns. There are, indeed, few intel
lects that can fairly grasp it ard digest it
rs whole; and there are, doubtless, many
thousands who cannot appreciate its true
work, even when reduced to fragments for
more easy assimilation. Its arithmetical
symbol is simple and without much pre-
tension; there are no large figures-just Il
modest followed by dozen eiphers, and
that is all.
Let us briefly take 4 glance at ii as a
measure of time, distance and height. As
measure of time, / would take one second
as the unit, and carry my thought through
the lapse Of ages back to the first day of
the year of our era, rcmem bering that in
all those years we have 365 days, and in
every day just Sc, 400 seconds of time.
Hence, in returning in thought back again
to this year OF grace 1875 one might have
supposed that a billion OF seconds had
long since elapsed; but this is not so. Ne
number in all these long eventful years,
for it takes just 81 ,6S7 years, II days, p
hours, As minutes, and 5 seconds to cons
titute billion of seconds of time.
For measure of height let us take
The thin sheets of paper on which these
lines are printed, if laid out fat and firmly
pressed together as in well bound book,
would represent measure of about 1,3333d.
of an inch in thickness. Let us see how
high dense pile formed by "a billion of
these thin paper leaves would leach. We
must, in imag ination, pile them vertically
upward, by degrees reaching to the height
of our tallest spires; and, passing these,
the pile must still grow higher, Stopping
the Alps and the Andes and the highest
peaks of the Himalayas, and shooting up
from thence through the feecy clouds,
pass beyond the confines Of our attenuated
atmosphere, and leap up into the blue
ether with which the universe is filled,
standing proudly up far beyond the reach
of terrestrial things; still pile on your thou
sands and millions Of thin leaves, for we
are only beginning to rear the mighty
mass. Add millions of sheets, aud thou
sands of miles on these, and still the num-
Der viii lack its due amount. Let us pause
to look at the neat ploughed edges of the
book before us. See how closely lie those
thin flakes of paper, how many there are
In the mere width of span, and then turn
our eyes in Imagination upward to our
mighty column Of accumulated sheets 1t
now contains its appointed number, and
our one billion sheets of the Times silpe-
rimposed upon each other, and pressed
into a compact mass, has reached an alti-
tude of Al, 24S miles