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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-22

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from the slime Led.,of the Dead Seq, Which
induces depression of spirits snd,excessivc
fatigue This is possible, but probably i'm.
ag'nation has something to do with the
feeling. True it is, however, that neither
man nor living thing tarries many hours in
It's vicinity, nor is a boat seen on its soita.
ry waters, although from their high snc
ciiie gravity everything foatable swims on
lts surface with remarkable buoyancy.-
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survey its boundaries and sound it's deptbs
has done SO very impcrfectly, driven of, If
remember Alright, bJSickness.
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fourth part of solid matter, of which one.
hall is common salt. 1t is said tho bottom
or bed Of the sea is asphalt, and Jumps of
bltumen are frequently seen on its shores,
as are also flakes of sulphur The scene Of
solitude is awful, nor can | IMAGINE anv
punishment more severe than to be ler
here alone even for single week The
valley Of the Dead sea is surely the most
extraordinary feat of geography. Its wa
ters have been sounded, and found 1920
feet deep, so that it's bottom is nearly mile
lower than Jerusalem Ever filing and
without egress, yet it is never full--asured.
" no unfit type of tho "vallcy of the shad.
0" OF death" Bathing our hands IN is
waters, disasreeablc feeling remained mn.
I'll we had afterward washed them in the
Jordan fufthcr on in the afternoon
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NOWLS THE TIME TO MAKEUP YOUR
CLUBS

HOW TO REMIT-Get Q POST Office Money
Order on Philadelphia, or Draft on Philadei-
phia or New York. If you cannot get either of
these send Bank-notes, and in the latter case
register your lotcr.
Parties desiring to get up clubs send for a
specimen copy, which will be sent free
Address, Godcys Lady's Book Publishing
Go. (ldmited), zoos Chestnut Street, Philadel.
phia Ia.
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@How THEY PLANT Corn IN TIE
MoUNTAINs--Hon. w. p. Price rcit.
erate~ the charge which Specr has EN-,
phatically denied, that the latter had said
that the mountaineers could only farm BY
shooting their seeds into the ground out Of
shot-guns, owing to the fact that the hills
are so steep.
1t is thought that this shotgun accusa,
tion against mountain farmipo will dof,,,
Speer. What would be received elsewhere
as attcsting the enterprise of the noun.
ta'necrs, is received by them with indigua.
ton.
Think of the enterprise involved in
man raising good crop on hillsd. 50
steep that he had 40 shoot his sccd !, rho
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-22

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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-22

Fitz Hugh Ludlow, in his narrative of
travel in "Tho Heart of the Continent .
tells of an eccentric genius who improved
on the old yarn to the effect that the weo.
ther would have been colder if the ther.
mometcr had been longer" by saying that
ne had been where ''it was so cold that Tho
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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-11-22

GAMBLERS LOCKED IN AN AIR TIGuT
VAULr.-Among the desperate devices re-
sorted to by the Chicago faro-bank proprie,
tors, to evade the vigorous raids Of the po,
lice favorite one is to lock up the in
mates in fire-proof vaults, which are sup
piled with ventilatiug holes for this pur
pose. Sunday morning at l o'clock George
Haukins's place was raidcd, and seventeen
players we're bundlcd into the vault, the
door locked and the police admitted, Han
kins aud colored servant remaining out
side. Instead of going away, as usual, on
finding the room deserted the officers, who
were up to the dodge, sat down and waited.
Noticing the ventlating holes, they stuffed
paper into them and again sat down and
waited. In about an hour the air in the
vault had become so vitiated that the pris.
oners became desperate, and from the in
side came faint cries of "Lct us out VIC
arc nearly dead.Y Even then the proprie
| tor refused for time to liberate them, ant
when he did the seventeen inmates rushed
out in state bordering on suffocation. On,
old man was nearly dead, and all were ter
rIuIy exhausted. The confinement Of scv
entccn men in an alright vault only clever
feet square was dangerous experiment
which faro-bank patrons will hardly con
sent to try again, and its disastrous result
will be of value in aiding the police in thei,
efforts to suppress gambling in Chicago.
National Republican., 1878-09-04
"BErTER OFF" THAN WE THINK.

The grumblers who complain of hard
times now are beginning TO be cornered.
The people are looking into the facts of the
situation for the causes of existing COM
plants, and in doing so are finding out that
they arc "better off now than they think
The first discovery they make in this in
vestigation Is that dollar now has about
five times the purchasing capacity 1t had in
1864, those flush times when the reckless
ness of war-engendered speculation seemed
to put money within the easy reach of ev-
erybody. In other words, they find that q
dollar will go as far to-day in procuring the
necessities of life as FIVE dollars did four
teen years ago and it does not appear that
wages or salaries, or whatever you may call
the compensation earned by labor, have
been reduced to correspond with this
shrinkage of values and consequent en-
hancement of the purchasing power of those
wages. 1t is true they have been reduced
to some extent, but the clamor against it
has served to protect the salary receiving
or wages-carning classes from any glar-
Ing outrage in this respect. In fact,
the average Of wages is higher now
than it was before the war, while the
the cost OF living is nearly, if not quite, as
low. A comparison of the prices of the ne
cessities of life, as they stood in 1864 and as
they stand in 1873, proves the truth of these
assertions beyond the possibility of doubt.
Gold was then rated at $50; it is now with
only 1.0Ol in greenbacks, The following
table presents many interesting points OF
comparison which sustain this assumption
National Republican., 1878-09-04
PERSONAL.

ES-ATroRSEy-GENERA AKERNAS Is at the
Riggs.
Dr. HAYWOOD, of New Haven, Is at the Eb.
bltt House.
MIKE ROONEY, of England, is registered at
the Imperial.
W. II. MACY. ESQ, of New York, is stopping
at the St. James.
d. II. CoNTEy, ofSan Francisco Is guest
al. the Ebbitt House.
CAPTAIN c. NJ. TorrEN, U. s. n. is anchored
at the Ebbitt House.
Hon THOMAS RYAN, Of Kansas, is sojourn-
ing at the Ebbitt House.
TALMAGE insists that there are holidays In
Heaven us well as upon earth
EDWARD KING denies the report that Victor
Hugo has become partly insane.
Mn. GEORGE PARSONS LATHRoP has become
the editor of the Boston Courier
Mr.. J. D. EzELI, of Columbia s. C., Is In the
city on brief visit, and has rOsns at the st.
James.
JOSEPH $. TCLL, ESQ.,, q prominent lawyer
OF Philadelphia, is registered at the Ebbitt
House.
FRITZ" EMMET has pocketed about $1,000
during four weeks tour among the English
provincial theatres.
Bishop SIMPSON Is lin Utah presiding over
the territorial conference now In session. His
family are with him.
LYMAN GRISSELL, of Norwich, Conn, has
lived four years on cat-hesh. The boys supply
him at ten cents cat.
A SPAN Of elks harnessod TO buggy Is the
novel team A. II. Moore drives through
the streets of Fargo, Dakota.
Rev. W. F. WATKINS, Of Baltimore, Nd,
former rector Of the Epiphany Church in this
city, is guest at the Ebbitt House.
ATToRSRy-GESERAL DEyESs, during his
recent stay In Massachusetts,, visited North
field, where he studied law years ago.
Mr.. RICHARD H. DANA, JR., of Boston, will
start early in October for long visit to Europe.
He will bo absent for two or three years.
EDITOR STOREY, of the Chicago Times, in.
sists that there seems to be nothing woman
will not do in Paris-except to behave herself
EN-. Cook, of New York J. r. Tucker and
| W. Z. Sale, of Boston, Sidney De Kay aud A.
Bait, OF New York, are guests at the Riggs
House.
THE house in which Justice Bradley, of the
| United States supreme Court, was born, Is still
standing, q little to the south of the village OF
East Berne.
Miss ANNIE LOUISE CARY, the great con
traltO, who Is now OH her first visit TO Saratoga
is described by recent visitor as ''an unspoiled
agreeable girl"
CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG, who will sal
from France to the United States Saturday, /,
to have set of magnificent professional COS
tunes made at Worth's.
MIR, Tom KARL the tenor singer, after sup
porting Miss Cary In several concerts, intends
taking European tour, which will occupy hi
timo until next spring.
CHARLEs K. HUNILK, and J. Murylees
of England p. +. May, of Pittsburg +
G. Muhal, Of Pennsylyauia, and +. Z. Balan
of Gettysburg, are stopping at the Arlington.
THE Little Church Around tho Corner
has been outloue by the Rev. DR.. A. L. Stone
of san Francisco, from whose pulpit Walter
Lccman, the oldest actor on the Pacific coast
National Republican., 1878-09-04
POLITICAL NOTES.

SENATOR GEORGE II. PESDLErOS and Hon.
Frank Hurd arc to speak at Clyde on the i2th.
CHICAGO refused to tender the freedom Of
the city to President Hayes as he passed.
through.
KEARNEY was very lucky in st. Louis. Ho
got his hat back from the crowd when ho
passed II around.-Chicapo Times.
GENERAL SHIELDS. the old Scared veteran,
Is prominently named rs successor to Arm.
strong, of Missouri, to ill out the unexpired
term Of Senator Bogy.
THE New York Conmsrcini says: "The
young Democracy of this State are coaching
Mr. Purcell, of the Rochester Union, as their
candidate for Governor"
THE Labor party in Ohio came very near
making fatal mistake one day last week.
They came within three votes Of nominating
workingman for Congress.
RETURNS from the West show that within
the last two weeks seven Greenback organs
have ceased publication. Since last March
forty Greenback papers have 90 ne the same
road.
SENATOR MCDONALD, Of Indiana, says that
tho Nationals may hold the balance of power
in the Legislature, and that Senator may be
elected not booked on tho states of either the
Democratic or Republican parties.
THERE Is said TO be not the slightest doubt
Of the recollection Of Senator Jones, OF No.
vada. He Is popular among all classes in the
State, and whatever may be the result Of the
election, he is likely to have majority of the
Legislature.
THE only Congressional district In Maine
where the Republicans are in any danger OF
losing Congressman Is in the fourth. The
Democrats and Greenbackers are united, and
the election will DO very close. Tho Republi.
cans will win II there Is virtue In hard work.
f,Nn ,.,it .
Swann's personal friends, the gentleman stated
that Mr.. Swami would certainly run as a can
didate for reelection in the fourth Congress
sional district, and that he would win. Mr.
James A. Buchanan will not therefore be
candidate e.-Buifinlore Herald.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

THE Arkansas Democratic papers Of dates
Immediately preceding Mondays election in
that State, were filled with paragraphs like
the following:
Come home, Democrats and help save your
county.
Stand to your post, Democrats. The Green
hackers are on the run.
Absent Democrats. who have run away
without cause or reason, should at least return
and vote
Conscience makes towards Of us all. But
conscience doesn't say to Democrats to leave
the city. A true soldier never deserts.
To man secreted in the elevated foliage
of a coniferous giant of turpentine orchard,
this kind Of frantic yelling would have in
dicated that o serious struggle was going on
on the ground floor. But he would have
been mistaken. The Democrats were simp-
ly bowling at each other for the fun Of the
thing. They had already intimidated and
bought up all the obstreperous and incen-
diary "niggers" in the State, and no neces.
sity eIh'ted for such struggling yelps, ex-
cept to- deceive the bull-dozes with a
Chinese-gong demonstration of opposition.
They were fighting wind-mills and blowing
the fans themselves
National Republican., 1878-09-04

With the single exception of the item of
coffee, this table may be accepted as correct
in every particular. The price given as the
present rate of that article is estimated
upon the value of an inferior grade but one
that is in general use by the poorer classes
The lOVting oil the list for 1864 is SGl,U7,
while that fol 1878 is but Sl3.45 for the
same articles. In ls64 lHborcrs were paid
at the rate OF - and 50 Per day, while now
the came class OF workmen receive from 81
to $l.25 per day; but the u day they
now earn will purchase nearly five times as
much as the 81 they earned in 1864. Mean
while many salaries, such as those paid to
the employees of the Government and to
National Republican., 1878-09-04

TILDEN's present occupation is ftly de-
scribcd by an illustration applied by local
paper TO a Nevada aspirant for a county
Office, who is said to have m empty barrel
planted in his yard and TO devote an hour
every evening to hailooing his wished-ior
title into it, and then jumping back to hear
the pleasant echo. In TILDESs case the
empty barrel is supplied by the POTTER
Committee and the halloOing into it Is aided
to no little extent by the expenditures from
that famous barr o money in procuring per-
jured testimony for that committee.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

THE Monumental idiot" so to speak,
who drizzled through three-fourths of 4
column of platitudos in an attempt to write
Senator Combines political obituary in
the Democratic organ yesterday succeeded
remarkably in bctraying larger amount OF
ignorance and arrogance than arc usually
accumulated by single individual under
the ordinary lease of life. The effort re-
minds one of what POPE has TO say of that
class: 1T is with narrow-souled people rs
with narrow-necked bottles-the less
they have in them the more noise they
make in pouring ii out"
National Republican., 1878-09-04

THE Democratic Congressional Commit
tee and their fragrant organ are pooling
their issues in and around the Capitol, and
il the figure that surmounts the dome is
not appropriated to party purposes, it will
be for the reason that it cannot be made
available. The heavy bronze doors, with
their artistic ornamentatiOn, unless kept
red hot, are in danger Of being appro-
priated. The House wing Of the Capitol
edice has become den of thieves during
the vacation OF Congress-
National Republican., 1878-09-04

THE Washington REPUBLICAS dcnounces
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Com
mittee because 1t is using rent free the rooms
in the Capitol building which belong to the
people. This, from the organ Of party which
has made every Government building In
Washington apolitical Matching place for fifteen
years, and which used To have the bulk Of its
campaign printing done at the Government
Printing Office, may be said to be sublime
baltimore Gd.etLr
II the above was in any degree true it
might establish case but the only truth
that can be pressed out of II is lodged in
the virtual admission that "the Democratic
" Congressional Committee is using, rent
" free, the rooms in the Capitol building
I" which belong to the people The Repub-
lican committees have hired and paid rent
for their headquarters outside the Capitol
building, and it has never had its campaign
printing done at the Government-Printing-
Office except as the law provides, in the
way of speeches from the Record, and then
by paying for the same at cost and ten per
cent. added. To represent to the contrary
is the sublimity of falsehood-that is all.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

THE New York World, instead of attack
ing Secretary sHERMAS's mastery fnan-
cial effort ut Toledo, contents itself with
scolding because the custom-house officials
of that city are vigilant in examining the
baggage of those who are returning from
the Paris Exposition for contraband arti-
cles. It is too had that proper care is exer-
ciscd to guard against smuggling at this
peculiar juncture, rs well as at other times.
1t prieves the World.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

SENATOR Combines recent letter to the
last Saratoga conference continues to receive
the approval of the Republican press of the
country. The Cincinnati Times says mo
" loftier, sounder Republican platform has
been framed this year" We add that
Senator Combines utterances are always
apt to be received in the same way, for they
are always as lofty and sound as this Sara
toga letter. 1t is to be regretted that he
does not speak oftcner.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

As will be seen In another column, we
have among us large delegation of men
representing the railway postal service of
the country. They are truly worthy
body and we cordially welcome them to
the National Capital, and hope their stay
with US will prove to be both pleasant and
profitable. 10 this connection it is gratify-
ing to know that similar Organizations-
somewhat national in charncter-are fast
finding out that Washington is one of the
best places in which TO hold their annual
meetings. In the near future it is believed
every body will appreciate this fact and be
governed accordingly.
National Republican., 1878-09-04
DIED..

YERNQNEOn the ID instant In Alexandria. Va,
PHILLIP r. NERSpN In the 1911 year OF his age
Funeral Will take plars rom tho residence OF his
s0nn law $40 King atruet, Alexandria, to-day, at so
o'clock Friends and relatives respectfully invited TO
attend.
OFFUrF.-At his residence, Montgomery County,
Md on the ~ OF September, at a. NJ, HILLEARY l.
OFrUTr, aged ~ years
Funeral at residence, Wednesday, September I, at
10 a. NJ, proceeding to Oak Hill Cemetery, George
town. ~
National Republican., 1878-09-04

THE Prince Of Brindletails" is the eu-
phonious political nickname bestowed upon
Senator MERRrMoN by discriminating con-
stituency at his home in North Carolina.
We don't profess to know exactly what 1t
means, but it nevertheless strikes us as ap-
propriate.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

Is party whose Congressional commit
tee violates every principle of right and
propriety, by openly and boldly appropriate
ing the properties of the General Govern
ment to party urposes-yirtually stealing
from the Government its oflice-rent, its gas
its stationery, its clerk-hire,a portion of its
printing, and all that is decently done-en-
titled to be trusted with more power in the
Government The people, knowing these
things, will say not. Theft, open and
shameless, and lying, brazen and unblush-
ing, now constitute the chief stock in trade
of the Democratic party. Its committees
steal and plunder in small way, and thus
teach their followers that if the time shall
come when q broader field of plumber is
opened TO that party they can depredatc un-
der high precedent and plunge their arms 10
their shoulders into the property and treas
ure of the nation with impunity. Their
committee does it, a Democratic House has
done it, aud their organs encourage and ap-
plaud each depreciation, demanding, how
ever, rs reward for their sOrtid efforts u
liberal share Of the plunder thus secured.
This is Democracy in ISIS US it dcvclopes
its true inwardness to the country and
If these things shall appear in the green
tIee what may We expect when greater
power is entrusted with such a party? 1t
will soon demand that larceny shall become
mere matter of book account, aud false
hood and perjury shall be condoned in u
note Of hand.
National Republican., 1878-09-04
The Millennium.
[st. Louis Globe-Democrat

l-l' LOUIS
Mr. Benjamin F. Buffers platform sounds very
like a proclamation Of the millennium. He Is op-
posed TO usury and discrimination of all kinds {;
hopes that the wOrklngmen will get their rights,
and insists that the first step In that direction must
he his election as Governor of Massachusetts do
nOunCcs the blOated bOndhOldcrs, and insists upon
printing plenty OF money for all. There may be
fools who believe that len means It, but there is
nothing in his past history TO fortiy such delu-
National Republican., 1878-09-04

IL his recent speech at Edgefeld Court
House. WADE HAMPTON became Extensively
noisy in his denunciations of the late Re-
publican State convention, because Of the
resolutions adopted by that body to the
effect that terrorism elected HAMPTON in
1876, and that the fear of rifle clubs would
prevent the Republicans from electing a
State ticket in 1s7s." As usual, HAMP-
roS's speech abounded in hypocritical cant,
in which he declared that every citizen
would be allowed to vote the ticket of his
choice. The candidacy Of Messrs. RAISEY
and SMALLs will soon demonstrate the
truth or fhlsity of these Hamptonian asser-
tions, as these gentlemen will be elected by
large majorities unless the bullet and the
knife do their work and Republicans are
again driven from the polls. 1t is not
enough for HAMPTON to insure peaceful
election, but he must also secure an honest
and fair count of the votes What boots 1t
il, after loyal votes have been polled, a set
of unprincipled roughs capture the ballot
boxes aud substitute Democratic for Repub-
lican votes? The country will soon learn
whether or not the late South Carolina Re-
publican Convention was justified in cx-
pressing q want Of confidence in HAMP-
TONS professions Of equity and fairness.
National Republican., 1878-09-04

GENERAL GRANTS Endorsement of Cen
eral JOE JOHNSTON as the ablest of all the
Southern generals ought to aid him in his
election from the Richmond Na.l district ;
hut it will not.
National Republican., 1878-09-04
Buffers Love for the Laborer.
Tsp rlngfold UniOn.l

The Lowell district Is tho only one In which But.
Ter has gained any prominent Republican follow.
ing and that Is due tp the fact that he Is heavy
Middlesex Manufacturing Company, in which he
is largely Interested pays its stockholders % per
cent and several OF lis men eighty cents per day.
"Gined, gallant glorious Butler" is Dennis would
say. No wonder the workngmcn rally 70 his sup
port,
National Republican., 1878-09-04
Jsn Davis for United States senator.
Meridian Mississippianl

II the people of the North will persist In making
Grant President again. with special reference 10
the governing the South with a strong military
hand 1t occurs TO US 10 DO the best Offset and the
prUperes return We could make To return Jefferson
Davis TO the United States Senate from Mississippi.