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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-03-15

"GERMAN SYRUP."-No other medicine in the
world was ever given such test of its curative
qualities as Boschee's German Syrup. In three
years two million four hundred thousand small
bottles of this medicine were distributed free Of
ehargs, by Druggists in this country to those af,
-1icted with Consumption, Asthma, Group, se-
we're Coughs, Pneumonia and other diseases Of
the Throat and Lungs, giving the American peo-
pie undeniable proof that German Syrup will
cure them. The result has been that Druggists
in every town and village in the United States.
are recommending it to thir customers. Go to
your Druggists, and ask what they know about
it. Sample Bottles 10 cents. Regular size rs
cents. Three doses will relieve any case.
For sale by all druggists and by GIBBES s.
CO. 1l-2w.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-03-15
SORREL MARE STOLEN /

SORREL MARE STOLEN !
Stop the Thief.
CTOLEN from my Stable, on Friday, the Goth
~ of February, a deep SORREL MARE, with
red name and Tail, a small white spot in the
forehead, the right eye defectivc--called "moon
eye'-white hair up to her Pastern Joint, and is
about or years old.
THE THIEF.
have every reason to believe that the mare
was stolen by colored man, named Wash Jeter,
as they both disappeared the same night
Wash is about % years old, about 0feet inches
high, dark mulatto. Walks one-si1ed the heel
Of his left foot never touches the ground his
left hand rs half the size Of the right and he
carries it with the palm turned backward and
upward. His right eyelid has been split up TO
the eyebrow and gives him an ugly appearance.
Any information that will enable me to recov-
or my mare and capture the thief will be well
rewarded Address j. BRONlE JETER,
Santuc, Union Co.
March s 10 At.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-03-15

"EUREKA' is the sentiment Of countless suf-
ferers who find the balm Of relief, and the foun-
tain of their health and strength, in Ayers SAR-
sAPARILIA. 1t is the most potent of all the al
teratives to purify the system and cleanse the
blood. 1t possesses invigorating qualities, so
that it stimulates the faded vitaities and purges
out the corruptions which mingle with the blood,
promoting arrangement and decay. We are as
sured by many intelligent physicians that this
medicine cures beyond oil others of its kind,
and we can fortify this statement by our own
experience.-Athot Hass.) White Flag.
AVEnY Coon REAsoH.-The reason why only
one sample bottle of MERRELL's HEPATINE for
the Liver will be sold to the same person, for
ten cents, by our Druggist, GlBBES s. CO., Is
because of tho enormous expense of importing
the Hepatine into this country; but as there
are fifty doses in the large size bottle, it seems
two cents per dose is cheap enough after all for
a medicine that cures dyspepsia and liver COM
plant All who have not had a sample bottle
are entitled to one for ten cents Mt GlBBES s.
cos Drug store. Three dose relieves any case
of dyspepsia, constipation, indigestion or liver
complaint, in the world. Regular size bottles,
fifty doses, Sl.00.
Eas~ 10 Cent Sample Bottles Merrclrs Hepa-
tine for the Liver, and Globe Flower Cough Sy-
rup for the Throat and Lungs, at GlBBES &
co. 10-2w.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-03-15
A Compromise on the Bond Ques ton.

T. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston
Neos and Courier, under date of 10th inst, says;
About o'clock p. NJ. it was whispered
around that compromise on the Bond question
had been agreed to by both parties in the con-
ference committee, aud when the House ad-
jeurned shortly afterward the Speaker announced
that a caucus Of the Democratic members of the
General Assembly would be held at 4.30 Z. NJ.
At this hour the caucus was called to order by
the president, aud Senator Jeter, chairman of
the conference committee, at once rose and pre-
sented thU'teporf and the wrsseelscef1fe feenlfse
which had been agreed to. 1t is as follows:
The committee appointed by the caucus
charged with the duty of considering, and, if
possible, of suggesting some plan whereby may
be adjusted the differences of opinion between
tho members of the Democratic party respecting
tho Funding Act and the report of the Bond
Commission thereon, respectfully report:
That they have conferred with each other and
have discussed various plans Of settlement, and
that they have finally agreed unanimously upon
the adjustment herewith submitted.
As they have been appointed to suggest plan
for adjusting the bonded debt of the State they
have considered as part of the same subject,
and as in very great measure inseperably con-
'nected Herewith, the outstanding floating in
Iebtedness Of the State. The plan Of settle
mcnt which had been adopted by o former Leg
islature, and which has been accepted by the
majority of the bond creditors of the State, in
Guiding Barring Brothers s. Co., proposed to the
holders of the State bonds, in payment of their
claims Mt the rate of ffty per cent thereof. AS
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-03-15

1t is a significant fact that the price of gold,
rs quoted in Wall Street, New York, instead of
going up on the passage Of the Silver Bill, has
actually declined. What say the goi-bugs to
this result
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Berk shire Swine.

Berkshire Swine for Sale
l. by J. II. MINTER.
Jan II I'm
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
A Strong Presentiment.

Without exactly admitting that pre-
sentiments are always verified, it is use
less to deny that they are frequently the
shadows cast before the coming events
A story bearing on this subject is told
of literary man of some note. He had
occasion to remain in strange city for
few days, and engaged apartments in
quiet street. On the evening when he
took possession,h he was struck with some
thing that appeared to him mysterious in
the manner of the maid-servant, who
looked Ikea man disguised, and he felt
a very unpleasant emotion. This feeling
was strengthened by similar deport-
ment in the mistress of the house, who
soon after entered his room, and asked
him if be wanted anything before he re-
tired to rest. Dsliking her manner, he
soon dismissed her. and went to bed, but
the disagreeable impression made on his
mind by the maid and mistress kept him
long awake; at length, however, he fell
asleep. During his sleep he dreamed
that the corpse of gentleman who had
been murdered was deposited in the cell
lar of the house. This dream, co-operat-
ing with the unfavorable, or rather re-
pulsive, countensnces and demeanor of
the two women, was quite sufficient to
destroy all hope of sleep for the remain
der of the night. He rose at daylight,
therefore, and proposed to quit the house.
To his surprise, rs he was leaving it he
met the mistress in the entry, dressed as
il she had never gone to bed. She seemed
to be much agitated, and inquired his
reason for wishing to go out so early in
the morning. He hesitated moment
with increased alarm, and then told her
that he expected to meet friend He
was suffered to go out Of the house, and
when revived by the open air he felt, as
he afterward declared, as if relieved from
impending destruction. He stated that
in few hours after he returned with
friend, to whom he had told his dream,
and the impression made on him by the
maid and mistress; he, no wever, only
laughed at him for his superstitious ter
rors, but on entering the house they
found that it was deserted, and calling
in gentleman who was accidentally pas
sing, they all descended to the cellar,
and actually found corpse in the state
which the gentleman's dream had repre-
sented.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
The NarroweSt Railroad Ever Known

A new railroad from Bedford to Bill
lerica enjoys the distinction of having
the narrowest gauge of any railroad in
by the commissioners some three weeks
| since, and is now running seven trains
each way daily, and is curiosity in its
way. At the invitation of Manager
Mansfield, the press of Boston and
Lowell were invited to ride over and in
spect the new enterprise, which they
did yesterday afternoon in company
with the Directors and invited guests
Starting from the Lowell depot, half
hours ride over the MiddleseX Central
brought the Boston party to the south
ern terminus of the narrow gauge road
at Bedford. The appearance of the lit
tie cars and engine of the new road was
unique indeed. The cars set very low
on the trucks, are forty feet in length,
six feet two inches outside width, with
walls three inches thick, leaving total
inside width of five feet eight inches.
The cars are made by the Ranlett
Company of Laconia, New Hampshire,
and are models of neatness and beauty,
being finished in fancy woods. The
seats, which are upholstered in plush,
are ranged after the usual order, each
seating but one person and each car but
thirty persons. All the wheels of the
rolling stock are eighteen inches in d.
ameter, except the drivers on the engine,
which are thirty inches. The engine is
model of compactness and is a sort of
double ender, thus saving the use of the
turn table. After trip over the road
one marvels at the smoothness with which
the train passes over the ninety different
grades in the 5 SO 100 miles of road-bed
to the northern terminus at North Bill
lerica. All trains are equipped with the
Miller platform and vacuum brake, and
the rolling stock at present consists of
two locomotives, two passenger, two OBJ
servation, six fat cars and one box car.
The locomotives, with coal and water and
men, weigh twelve tons each the pas
senger cars four and one-hslf tons, and
the cost of the same was respectively So
500 and $4,000 each. The road cost
about 100000 all equipped, and the capt.
tai stock OF the corporation is $4,000,
OF which $4,000 has been paid in. 1t
costs SIS day to run its trains.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
Theirs Training.

Boys in the public schools of France
in the beginning of the century, when
Theirs was boy, were encouraged tc
read the Monsteur. He devoured its con.
tents of Napoleon's prodigious victories
and triumphal marches and counter
marches over Europe. He followed the
"Grande Armee' over the Atlas which
lay on his desk, and explained to his
classfellows strateeical and geographical
points, and the obstacles which the con-
queror overcame. The Bulletin de J. En-
ptre was read aloud by professors to their
pupils in the Lycees. 1t was written in
tawdry, declamatory style for the igno-
rant multitude, which furnished raw ma
terial for Bonaparte's armies, and facts
were too often made to give place for
high-fo epithets. Theirs amused him
self by taking bulletin of victory for
theme, and expanding it into full ac-
count of the battle, which he read aloud
at recreation in the court yard, and car
ried it home to his friends on the Sunday
following. His grandmother carefully
stored up these Juvenile compositions,
suggested by the bombastic poverty of
the official newsman's style. A sketch of
the Bridge of Lodi-a retrospective study
lis as full of action as one of Horace
Vernet's battle pieces. These early writ
ings, some few of which still exist, were
permeated with the military spirit of the
time in which they were written. Theirs
genius was awakened by the increasing
din of war, and by the bonfres on the
Provence mountains, which blazed forth
the news of land victories to hostile fleets
standing out to sea. In youthful essay
he maintained, with an argumentative
skill which must have astonished his pre-
ceptors, that France, to avoid being the
weakest, should be the strongest of Euro
pean powers.-Mdcmillan's Magazine.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14

BRICK TEA.-A correspondent writing
from Hankon, in China, says: There Is
very large trade in brick tea, which is
prepared here for the Russian market,
ana is shipped hence by the way of
Tientsin and Pekin. Nearly half of the
foreign merchants here are Russians, and
they have several factories for the prepa
ration of the bricks. This morning |
visited one of the establishments and
witnessed the process. The dry tea is
weighed out into portions for single
bricks, and each portion is wrapped in a
cloth and placed over steam boiler.
When it is thoroughly steamed it is
poured into mold and placed beneath a
machine which presses it into the re-
quired shape. Some of the machines are
worked by hand and others by steam both
kinds are rapid and efficient, and it did
not appear that the steam had much ad-
vantage. Five men working a hand-ma-
chine and receiving twenty cents each
per day, were able to press six bricks a
minute. The steam press worked only a
little faster, and the cost of fuel must be
nearly equal to that of muscle.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
A Fable.

There was once an Industrious and
Woodworking member of the Stomach
family, who for thirty years had occu-
pied the lower floor on the premises of
Mullins, the dashing young broker, where
he held a life lease.
Brains, the agent of Mullins, lived In
this garnet. Stomach and Brains had
logged through life, so far, the best of
neighbors till Mullins, their landlord, got
rich and got drunk, and thereafter kept
drunk, such things being incidental to
the stock brokers' life, and constituting
part of the wear and tear.
From this period eternal war existed
between these two ancient families. Of
a morning Brains, in state of acute
suffering, would call on the Stomach to
give him little rest. "Not a bit oft"
replies Stomach, 81 stood up under
perfect douche of cocktails and cham
payne for your amusement, until two
o'clock in the morning. You got all
the fun and did all the work 1t wasn't
a fair division of the spoils, but | am
going to see that the consequences are
served out in the proper quantities"
SO Mullins tossed in his bed with a
raging headache till ten o'clock, and
then arose and dressed. Stomach had
resumed something of his good nature by
this time, and so the boss ventured on
glass of Leidesdorff street bitters. 1t
electrified things on the lower floor, you
Can believe,an burnt a hole in Stomach's
coat, and so escaped. The usual remon-
STRANGE was sent up to Brains.
"Look you, Mr.. Brains, l wish you to
say to your principal, that when he took
these premises, thirty odd years ago,
there was an implied contract, on his
part, to keep them in repair, but if he is
determined to burn them up, and to die
like 'maudln Clarence in his Malmesey
butt very well; only let it be Malmesey
and not the hell broth which is dispensed
from the saloons in the vicinity of the
Stock Exchange"
"D-n the fellow" said Mullins, when
he heard the complaint, "I'll teach him
to interfere with my business. l mean
to have good time while stay, and I'll
drink all pay for"
And so all the afternoon and evening
he spent in filling his system from garnet
to cellar. 1t was too late when he tum-
bled into bed and tried to sleep, but sleep
came not. Along the nerves the intelli-
gence was flashed up to the Brain that
the Stomach would not permit any sleep.
Desperate at this news, Mullins paced
the floor till near morning, when Brains
suggested that he should squelch this
low bred striker with dose of choral
hydrate.
"Good" said Mullins. "a bright idea
that, friend Brains. Well see whether
this corporation is to be run by the
officers or the employees"
"Now, them" sang out Brains, "stsnd
from under, there" And the choral
went rushing down. Mullins got his
sleep, but it was his last, and the Stomach
got his revenge; the choral had doused
the glim.
The popularity of this fable is that it
is true.-Agonaut.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14

"MR. SECRETARY OF WAR;" said the
President, slipping rainwater from glass,
upon the bottom of which bit of lemon
peel had been rubbed, 81 learn that bands
of marauding Mexicans and Indians are
making things lively for our people along
the Rio Grande." II fancy it is all right,
your Excelency," replied the Secretary,
crossing his feet the other way, and
spreading a silk handkerchief over his
head for another nap; II have ordered a
squadron of cavalry and two rapscsllions
of infantry down in that direction. Then
there is old Sam Houston and Uncle Davy
Crockett each right bower of strength
in himself" but, my noble Roman,
they are dead" "Deadf" echoed the great
War Minister, leaping to his feet, dead ?
Do you mean it, Well, by Jove, if Sher-
man won't send me the reports of casu-
alties how am to know thingsl What
ho! without, there2 Ride after the troops
en- route to Texas and turn 'em end for
end. tell you what it is, Mr.. Presi-
dent, country where they get away with
such men as old Sam Houston and Uncle
Davy Crockett is no safe place for reg
lars" And this excited man seized the
Turco- Russian war map and pointed out
the perils that beset our southern border
from incursions of the wild Bulgarians.-
drQondut.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14

ABOUT SQuAws.-A pretty Indian
squaw does Dot exist among the Sioux
they are all fat, short, stumpy, and I'M
graceful in movement. The tall, slender
A lfaratas and Juanitas are purely Great
ures of romance, and far removed from
these fat squsws with their faces painted
in vermillion hues, and their short skirts
and homely moccasins. The beaded en-
broidery on moccasins and blankets are
for the braves only, and it is surprising to
notice the tasteful designs in which some
of their pieces are ornamented. The
squaws never greet US in as friendly a
manner as the braves, and their stare is
quite different from the benign smiles and
how of the men. When they meet a
lady driving, they make remarks that
must be sarcastic, from the way in which
they are enjoyed, and when a lady on
horseback presents herself, their laughter
is immoderate. AS they ride with foot
in each stirrup, side sandle causes them
to stare, jeer and shout with Laughter
81. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
Remembrance.

A fine old Highlander told me last
wear how the year before be had gone
back to the glen he had left half a cent
ury ago. where no man knew him or re-
membered him. But said he, Il heard
of a woman alive, up the glen, whom
had thought well of when lsssie, and
she of me, in shy way; still, you see,
we had no troth between US to make
things sure, and so the strain of time
and distance broke the thread. l set
tied down hereway; and the memory of
it was all dead. until heard her name.
Then | said, i will go up the glen and
see her l wondered whether she also
had lost all track of me; for it was
rather sad, We see, to be left out in the
cold in this way. She came 10 the door
a white haired woman, So altered il was
hard to mind her at all. She looked at
me in a wondering way, gave one sharp
cry, and said. John, is that you after alll
/ asked her, after s. while, how she knew
me; and she answered, The heart never
forgets, John; don't you mind what
good friends we werel saw the lsddie
and heard him speak when saw your
face and heard your voice" Memory
flashing out into remembrance had made
sill old things new for her, as she sat il
the near Beighborhood of that inheri
lance in life where there is no marrying
or giving in msrrisge, but where mel
and women shall be as the angels o
God.-RObert CoIter.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
Off Rough Point.

We sat at twilight nigh the sea,
The fog hung gray and wierd,
Through the thick film uncannily
The broken moon appeared.
We heard the pillows crack and plunge,
We saw nor waves or ships,
Earth sucked the vapors like sponge,
The salt spray wet our lips.
l Closer the wool of white mist drew,
Before, behind, beside,
How could that phantom moon break
through,
Above that shrouded tdes
The roaring waters filled the ear,
white blank foiled the sight
Close gathering shadows near, more near,
Brought the blind, awful night.
o friends who pass unseen, unknown!
o dashing, troubled sea-
Still stand We on a rock alone,
Walled round by mystery.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14

AN unregenerate heather lately played
i. upon the ladies of three counties In
Western Pennsylvania in way they de-
spise. 1t appears that some months ago,
the ladies were visited by slight, grace
full, and unassuming young woman, who
announced that she was the agent of a
"Women's Dress Reform Benevolent
Association and that she desired to
call their attention to a new invention OF
immense hygienic value. The new in
vention consisted of the application OF
the six-button glove principle to hosi-
cry. The cheapness of the article induced
ibers, purchases, the agent booking all
the orders and invariably producing a
tape-line, with which she measured the
customers understandings and noted
down the proportion thereof. Finally at
the last town she visited she went and
got drunk, whipped barkeeper and was
arrested, acknowledging herself to be a
man tout on a lark" with no stockings
to sell and no Philanthropic Association
behind him. Then there was Mysteries
and a demand for sal volatile all over
these three counties.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14
Gen. Clusters Death.

Sitting Bull, in talk with a news
paper correspondent, gave graphic ac-
count of his battle with Gen. Custer, and
of the manner in which the brave Long
Hair, so called by the Indians on account
of his long locks, met his death. The
chief said;
Those men who came with the Long
Hair" were as good men as ever fought
When they rode up their horses were
tired, and they were tired. When they
got off their horses they could not stand
firmly on their feet, they swayed to and
fro. so my young men have told me. like
limbs of expresses in great wind. Some
of them staggered under the weight of
their guns, but they began to fight at
once.
"Our young men rained lead across the
river, and drove the white braves back,
and then they rushed across themselves,
and then they found that they had good
deal to do. Thestrouble was with the
soldiers, they were so exhausted, and their
horses bothered them so much they could
not take good aim.
"Some of their horses broke away from
them, and lett them to stand, and drop
and die. All the men fell back, fighting
and dropping. They could not fire fast
enough, though they kept in pretty good
order. They would fall back across a
coulie and make a fresh stand beyond on
higher ground.
There We're great msuy brave men
in that fight, and from time to time while
it was going on, they were shot down
like pigs. They could not help them
selves. One by one the officers fell.
When the last fight took place, where the
last stand was made, the Long Hair
stood like a shesf of corn with all the ears
falling around him.
Not w,cundedi"
NO"
How many stood by bimi"
"A few
when did he falll'
HE killed man. When be fell he
laughed"
You mean he cried QUIT"
NO, he laughed, He mad fired his
last shot"
FROM tsrbinei"
No-a pistol"
did he stand up after he first felll'
.'He rose upon his hands and tried an
other shot, but his pistol would not go
off,"
"Was any one else standing up when
he fell DOWN.
lone man was kneeling, that was all.
But he died before the Long Hair.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-02-14

TURNING AWAY PROM WRATH.-She
lives at Ottawa, Canada, and this is how
she managed it: She thought it would
be Just as well to commence house keep
ing right away, and begin the new year
with training up husband in the way
he should GO; but her father thought diff
ferently. So she invited all her friend:
to the wedding at certain church at q
given hour. OF course there was big
crowd, including the angry father, who
was prepared to forbid the banns with q
shotgun. Meanwhile, the young lady
and her adored William went to another
church and were quietly married, and a:
they left the sacred edifce she remarked
that where there was Will there was I
way.-Detroit Free Prsss.