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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

gsA- AS many may not be familiar with the
plot of II NJ. S. Pnaforc, to be rendered by nm
amateur Company of this town on the night of
the 4th, we will state that it is most laughable
burlesque of the British navy, and has captiva-
ted the largest audiences all over this country.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Fair Forest Union.

Fair Forest Union.
Don't forget that the Fair Forest Union of the
Union County Baptist Association meets With
the Fairview Church this (Friday) morning, at
IL O'Clock 1t will DO an interesting meeting.
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rS9- II. NJ. s. Pinafore, TO DO seen on the
night Of September 4th, at Nicholson's Hall
for the benefit Of our Agricultural Society.
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nSyn Mr.. J. c. Wallace has moved his Law
and Trial Justices office to the room next to th'
Times Office.
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psA- A fire in Richmond, on tho Goth, de-
stroycd "Castle Thunder n building used dur
ing the war as prison house for both Federal
and Confederate prisoners.
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ington was sold in Columbia last Tuesday, Mt III
cents.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

Ray Governor Simpson has appointed Charles
Bolt and Joseph G. Gault Notaries Public ofthis
County.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

HSs" Ifthere is contract for future marriage
in this town we have not heard who the parties
to it are. This, hover, does not imply that we
have have no marringeable parties.
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peYy~ The contract for building Mr.. Nichol.
sons ino residence has been awarded to MIR.
Kane.
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To Occasional.

To Occasional.
We regret that your interesting letter did not
arrive until an hour before our paper went to
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

BD" A new tin roof, well painted, now covers
the inmates of our Jail.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
The Fever Inoreasing.

We regret TO state that The Yellow Fever in
Memphis is on the increase On the 26th, "a
cases were reported--20 whites and IA colored. /.
The Tsntonic Relief Association, representing
tho German societies Of Memphis, has appealed
TO their countrymen for help. Remitiances
should be scat to A. Goldschimdt, President, or
John l.. Echbere, Secretary.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
]. f. DRowN. Sec'y.

Az EARTHQUAKES. Catharine's, Ontario,
August 2l.--A sharp shock of earthquake was
felt here Mt 2.68 o'clock this morning.
Niagara, N. Y, August 2l.--There was SO.
we're shock Of earthquake here at O. clock this
morning.
Warrington. August 2l.--Dispatches from
Port Dalhousie, Thoroli, Wei and, Allansburo.
Beansville and Port Robinson. Canada, report
severe shocks Of earthquake about 3 o'clock this
morning.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

GRAIN NEEDED IN EuRopB.--P Paris, August %.
--One of The chief bullion houses of Paris esti-
mates The insufficient crops Of England, Prance
United States TO the amount Of EGO .OOp. 600.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

Avery pious and respectable man, Of good
family, always has the Upside track when hp
commences TO be rascal. lie can do more viii,
his winning ways than burglar can do with q
crow and jimmty IN. o. pfeatune.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The St. Louis Police Commissioners
have entered upon an earnest crusade against
lottery dealers and gamblers, who have been
officially notified to close their business at
once under threat of the extreme penalty of
the law.
A Denver and Leadville stage was
robbed on the night of the 18th just outside
of the latter place. About S 800 was secured
in money and valuables. The robbers were
polite to the ladies', whose jewelry they de-
clined to take.
Richard Stevenson, United States
Deputy Marshal, was shot to death at King
man County, Kansas, on the 3Oth ult. by a
horsethief, who escaped to the Indian Ter
ritory. Stevenson had arrested the thief at
Wellington, and was returning with the
prisoner and property to Kingman. Both
men, together with commercial traveller,
were in a carriage. In descending Il decliv-
ity the thief snatched Stevenson's revolver
and shot him through the breast. He then
disarmed the commercial traveller, mounted
the best horse and fled. Stevenson was well
known in the State, having been Treasurer
of Lyon County and County Commissioner of
sumner several terms.
The Orchard City Mills and the ele-
vator Of Olnstead Il Cameron at Burlington,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
The Good Old Deacon.

The squibs uttered against New Eng
land deacons have little or no justifica-
ton If tub of butter or barrel of
apples is made up of alternate layers of
good and bad, it is said to be 60 deacon
ed.'' The epithet does not refer to the
character of deacons, but to an old prac-
tice of deaconing' a hymn.
Fifty or sixty years ago hymn books
were not SO common as they now are.
Some churches owned only two books.
1t was then the custom for one of the
deacons to read two lines of hymn,
which the congregation sung. Other
lines were read and sung in the same
way, until the hymn was sung through.
As class, deacons have been the most
trusted and influential men of New Eng
land villages. If a man died leaving
property and family, the deacon was
made one of the executors, and the
guardian of the widow and the father
less. If the neighbors had a dispute
about property, they g left it out y to the
deacon. Was a son maynard, the good
deacon was as frequently as the good
pastor asked to i" talk - with him.
In the s. Recollections - of an old gen.
tleman, an anecdote is told which Illus
trates the character of at least one of
the New England deacons of the olden
time.
Elisha Hawley of Ridgefeld, Conn,
was a soldier of the Revolution and n
deacon. He was good man of bust
ness, but he never charged purchaser
one cent more than the article was
worth The Golden Rule was his rule
of life.
One day he learned that a widow had
been reduced from n competency to
poverty He visited her. Fearing lest
he might wound her feelings if he should
offer money or charity, he said:
Madam, l think L owed your late
husband fifty dollars, and I've come to
pay it to you as his legal Representative"
"How was that?'' asked the lady
somewhat startled.
81 will tell you. About twenty-five
years ago, soon after You were married,
| made furniture for your husband to the
amount of two hundred dollars. have.
been looking over the account, and find
that l rather overcharged him in the
price of some chairs-that is, | could
have afforded them ut somewhat less.
have added up the interest, and here,
madam, is the money!
The tears came in the widows eyes;
she half suspected the deacon had CON
structed the debt by willing that he had
made an overcharge. What was she to
doP-thc money was on the table, and
the deacon had left the house.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
" Hooking" Money.

Sneak thieves sometimes play smart
tricks jim securing their booty. In prepar-
ing for one of these the thief provides
himself with q cane or umbrella, and in
his pocket carries small iron ferrule
which fits closely upon the lower end of
the cane or umbrella. A tish-hook is
fastened to the ferrule on the outside,
and thus prepared the thief enters a
bank or counting-room where the clerks
apartments are separated from the pub
lie office by glass or wire screens. The
thief has business, of course, and while
the attention of the clerk is called away
by an accomplice or otherwise, he puts
the cane or umbrella through the little
window or door and literally hooks
whatever he can reach in the form of
bills. This little game was played on Il
Boston house to the tune of $l60 last
week
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
WIT AND WISDOM.

THE New Orleans Picayane thinks
that the most important " fishery ques-
ton ~ is g Have you got biteP"
FLESH is flesh, and paint is paint, says
the plain spoken Graphic; and not all
the art of man, or woman even, can by
any possibility make the one be mistaken
for the other.
BEWARE of the landlord who wants
you to make his hotel your home. He
invariably arrives at the opinion that
when you are home you cut your beef
steak with hatchet and masticate it
WHEN p. T. Barnum, a young man,
poor and in debt, left Danbury, says the
NeWs, he said to Judge Whittlesey: Z" i
will pay that bill when / get rich" The
Judge drew down his official features
and disdainfully replied: ''That viii be
when a sieve holds water" In few
years the visionary young man was in a
condition to pen the following lines to
the Judge: % have fixed that sieve"
"WHAR did you gIt dis yer watermil-
fionp L do declar', jackson, hits de
bes' one / tasted sence de s'render!'
said Uncle Cap, beatifically. ''Nem-
mind whar it come FROM" replied Jack
son 80 at's muffin to you. You eat.''
Uncle Cap winked the wink of discre
ton, went on with his piece, and care
fully saved the seeds. But when the old
man looked at his ''patch'' that even
ing, he at once perceived where that
melon had come from and he has been
"totin' round trouble for dat ar niger
Jackson, ever since.-NeW Orleans
Times.
Z" PsHAw,'' said Czardine las he seat
ed himself in the Times sanctum, the
snake-stories that are going about are
all too thin. Why, just look here. Last
spring l went out into the woods. 1
took along an umbreller, which | laid
down onto some rocks. Well, sir, about
an hour afterward l went to get my UNI
breller, as it had begun to rain little.
| took holt of the handle, and, as | give
it a shove, something began to tear, and
us the umbreller flew open a live black
snake fell to the ground, split in two
from its head to its tail. The confound-
ed critter had actually swallowed my
umbreller, and I never noticed it until L
showed up the dumb thing and split the
animile from stem to stern. ''-Whtte-
hall Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
THE YELLOW FEVER.

There were eight deaths from fever
and 16 new cases at Memphis on the LIST. A
thorough system Of disinfection has beer
adopted, every house in which the fever ha.
appeared being completely fumigated ant
clean-ed. The funds of the Towards being
exhausted, President Langstaff has gone
North to see about future supplies.
There was one death FROM yellow fe-
yer ut New Orleans on the LIST and two new
cases reported.
The Houston Quarantine difficulty was
terminated by the discharge on habeas cor
pus by Judge Jones of the parties arrested
for violation of the local quarantine law, OF
the ground that the Board of Health OF
Houston had no authority to order quaran-
tine. No action was taken in regard to the
Houston officers, arrested for stopping the
mails.
A genuine case of fever was reported
at Bailey Station, Tenn, on the LIST.
Deputy United States Marshal Kirby
died at the New York Quarantine Hospital,
of yellow fever, on the LIST. He contracted
the disease while i'm charge of Il schooner
from Port au Prince.
St. Louis quarantined against New Or
leans on the list.
There was one death from fever on
the LIST at the st. Louis Quarantine Hospital,
leaving nine cases on hand, two of which
were reported convalescent.
On the I'd there were four deaths from
fever and % new cases at Memphis.
The New Orleans Board of Health
states officially that UP to the Dist tilt there
had only been II deaths from yellow fever in
that city this year. They scout the idea that
there is any danger Of an epidemic there this
season.
There were eight deaths from fever
and 26 new cases at Memphis on the Sd.
The State Board of Health approved the
plan of quarantining the city by mounted
patrol of 30 men, which was ordered TO be
put into immediate execution. No ingress
or egress is to be permitted except upon
special passes.
The National Board of Health, on the
Sd, issued an order declaring New Orleans
an infected port. All vessels leaving for
Mississippi River ports must be duly in
spected under the National Quarantine law.
One new case was reported.
On the 4th there were 10 deaths from
fever and 81 new cases at Memphis. The
Howard Association announces that their
treasury is empty and make an appeal to the
people of the country for assistance.
There were u deaths from fever and
10 new cases at Memphis on the 9Th.
Five seamen, from Haytien ports,
We're admitted to the New York Yellow
Fever Hospital on the 9Th.
For the week ending the 9th there
were 152 new eases Of yellow fever at Mem
phis, 10 of whom were white and "A colored.
Total number of cases to same date, 1,O05.
Deaths for the week, 43; total number of
deaths to date, 272. The number of new
eases reported on the 9th was IL; deaths, 10;
on the 9TH, II new eases and eight deaths.
There were three new cases of yellow
fever developed at New Orleans on the 9th.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
The Waiter Caught Him.

When they serve you brandy i'll Paris
it is brought in a little caraffe marked
off on the sides so rs to show exactly
how many glasses are taken out. When
you come to pay the garcon has only to
look at the caraffe, and the amount re
naming tells how much has been used
This gave an ingenious gentleman an
idea. He would drink three petits rcrroS
and then pour in water so that it would
appear he had but one. He thought
nobody observed the mean trick.
After two or three days this customer
found the brandy very feeble, and lac
called the garcon.
Garcon,n he said, ''what is the
matter with this brandy?"
at is the same, sir"
ssThat can not he. Day before We
ter,lav it was delicious, to-day il is hard
" stronger than water
81 have the honor to inform Monsieur
that il is not only the same brandy, but
that | have carefully given Monsieur
every day the same bottle"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

The steamer Brest, OF Glasgow, conveying 13,
passengers, Italian, Swiss, German and
French, from Havre to Liverpool en- route for
New York, went ashore off the Lizard. Five
Italians, a German and Frenchman are miss
ing.
West Winchester, Ont, for the murder of
his father and sister. Brown confesses that
he is the murderer, and says he was impell-
ed by some strange feeling to commit the
awful crime.
Theodore Daniel, colored, under M
rest at Union, Boone County, o., for an as
sault upon young lady, the daughter of his
employer, was tied to Il tree and shot by Il
mob on the night of the Sd.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

GEN. MILES arrived at Fort Keogh on
the 28th ult. with his command, bring
ing with him nearly 1000 half-breeds,
who have been furnishing arms and am
nianition TO Indians between the Yellow
stone and the boundary line. He has
cleared the country of all rowing bands,
and driven Sitting-Bull's followers
across the American line, besides break
ing up the Illicit traffic in arms and am
munition between the half-breeds and
hostile Indians. The campaign was
very successful, considering the small
loss to Miles.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

A RECENT Washington dispatch says
that the Secretary of the Emigrant Aid
Society of that city is constantly receiv-
ing letters from colored people in all
parts of the South asking information in
regard to Kansas, the prospects of en-
ployment there, cost of transportation,
etc. These letters all indicate an in
crease in colored emigration from the
South. The Secretary is convinced,
from the general tenor of his CORE
spondence, that the movement will be
quite general the coming fall, and not
confined to any particular portion of the
South
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

AT Waynesville, Warren County, O.,
on the morning of the I'd, the dead
bodies of Mrs. Mollie HATTIE, her sister,
Mrs. Weeks, and the latter's daughter,
Myrtle, aged IL, were found in the house
OF Mrs. HATTIE, where they had lain I'M
discovered for week and had become
badly decomposed. They were all
Drained with a Ratchet, aud lime had
been sprinkled over the bodies
to delay putrefaction. Mrs. Hates
son, Willie, bright boy of 1S, few
days before left for Cincinnati, and it is
believed he must have known of the
murder, although it seems impossible
that he could have had hand in it..
Mrs. Hates divorced husband lived in
the town, but no suspicion attached to
him. Mrs. Weeks lived in Cincinnati,
and was on a visit to her sister in
Waynesville.
--Willie Anderson, the son of Mrs.
HATTIE, one of the victims of the Waynes-
vile co. murder, committed suicide at
the village of Plainville on the night of
the I'd, by shooting himself. This is con
sidered as evidence that he had hand
in the murder, but it is generally believed
he had accomplices. Willie's most in
innate boy companion says he had been
for some time receiving letters, which
he kept closely concealed, although he
generally showed him all his CORE
spondence. Willie was a great reader
of dime-novels, and some think his mind
was morbidly affected thereby.
THE official vote of Kentucky for Gov
ernor at the late election is as follows /:
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

RESULT OF THE LATE ELECTION.

RESULT Of THE LITE ELECTION.
Returns from the recent election, received
up to the Sth, indicate that Perkins, Repub
lican, is chosen Governor, together with the
entire Republican State ticket, with the pos
sible exception Of the candidate for Chief
Justice. The estimated plurality for the
Republican ticket is from 1900 to 10000.
Kalloch, Workingmen's candidate, is elect
ed Mayor of San Francisco, together with
the majority of the candidates on same
ticket.
The Republicans elect three of their Con-
gressmen, and possibly the fourth.
Legislature undetermined, but presump-
lively Republican.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

The Cuban revolution has again been
set in motion, the first overt act being
the capture of an army convoy between
Manzanillo and Bayamo by small force
OF insurgents. $4,000 in gold and a
large quantity of commissary stores fell
into their hands.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

NEWS was received at London on the
9th, that II Afghan regiments at Cabul
had revolted, and in connection with
the populace had plundered the Ameer's
arsenal and stores, after which
they attacked the British Embassy
The latter was defended by Il force of
only 70 armed men. They fought brave
ly. against overwhelming numbers, and
finally, when the Embassy was fired,
they sailed out and were cut down
in hand-to-hand encounter Mai
Cavagnari and all the MEM
bers of the Embassy are sup
posed to have been slaughtered
The Viceroy has ordered Gen. Roberts
to advance on Cabul, while Gen. Stew
art has been ordered to hold Candahar
The alleged cause of the mutiny was
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

that the native troops had not received
their back pay. 1t is believed at Vienna
and Paris that the attack was due to
Russian intrigues.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13
Mr.. Edison's New Telephone.

SARATOGA, N. Y, Aug. 30.-Mr. Ed
ison occupied the evening session of the
Science Association tonight with a de-
scription of his new electro-chemical
telephone, giving illustrations of its pow
er and mode of operation. An immense
audience was present, filling the Town
Hall to its utmost capacity, and the ex'
periments were received with great in
terest and enthusiasm. The telephone
was operated from an apartment in the
building at some distance from the hall.
The difference between the new instru
ment and the ordinary telephone con-
sists in its capacity to convey the voice
to Il room full of persons without any
ear-piece. The sounds of the voices
were very distinct, and one of the most
curious features of the experiments was
the conveyance of two voices distinctly
at the same time, the one singing and
the other repeating the alphabet. Mr..
Edison stated that he could not attempt
to explain the reasons for the remarks
BILE results obtained, as he did not fully
comprehend them himself. The fea-
lures of the instruments are the use of
carbon points, and, in obtaining the
wave, he explained that the current
was broken by the friction occasioned
by the revolution of a piece of chalk
against the metallic bar attached to the
diaphragm. Several thousand vibra-
tons of this were produced by the turn
ing of crank worked by a person in the
room to which the sounds are transmit
ted, thus placing the transmission of
sound in the hands of that person. The
chalk used is saturated with Il solution
of phosphate of potash, which rather
than any other salt produces the re-
quired result. Mr.. Edison could not
explain why. He only knew that he
could not obtain the results in any other
way. Mr.. Edison asserted his belief
that before long a person making a
speech in New York may be heard
through the electro-chemical telephone
by hall full of people in Saratoga, or
that a concert may be given mt any place
by artists in another city. During the
experiments the cornet was played and
g John Browns Body" was sung and
transmitted with perfect distinctness
and heard as plainly as if the instrument
and voices were in the room.
A REMARKABLE woman is Mrs. Thank
full Taylor of Washington, VT, aged 20.
In her younger days she thirsted Tor Il
thorough knowledge of English, Greek,
and Latin, and, being poor, she worked
for her books and then studied them rs
she stood at her spinning wheel. In this
/ way She not only educated herself in the
languages, but she learned ecclesiastical
and profanc history, medicine, science
/ and general literature.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

A telegram has been received from
Prof. Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arc
tic explorer, dated Yokohama, Sd,
as follows: "All are well. We
left winter quarters on the 18th
and doubled the East Cape the Goth of
July. We proceeded thence to Law
renee Bay, Port Clarence and Behring's
Island. Have had no sickness and no
scurvy. The Vega is in excellent condi-
ton,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

THE New York Prohibitionists held
State Convention at Syracuse, on the
Sd, and nominated ticket headed by
Prof John w. Means for Governor.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

CHARLES DE YOUNG, who shot the
Rev. 1. S. Kalloch in San Francisco, has
been admitted to bail in the sum of
S25, 900.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

THEY tell of young man at Saratoga
who has suit of clothes for every three
hours in the day, exclusive of his night
dress.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-09-13

Republican, 81 ,sS2; Cook, Greenback,
1884. Blackburn's majority, 1897.
The Democratic majority four years ago
for Governor was sc, 1871.