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

REMARK ATLE CoTI"N HE0rS.--The newspapers
calling attention to the won !crtul success
of MIR. } J. Crump, whose farm is near Abcr-
deem Miss. He las adopted II new process Ill
cotton planting, and the remarkable results
which have followed his experiments are attrac-
Aing the notice Of planters. In 1871 Mr.. Crump
produced 80 pounds of ginncl cotton to the
acre 900 pounds in 1873; and the prospects
this season point to the heaviest yield lie has
ever obtained. Tie Aberdeen MisS.) ErGEtv'r
gives the process Mr.. CuImp prepares his
land in Deccmbcr by digging holes three feet
from each other, eighteen inches square and
eighteen inches deep; those holes he fills with
manure To- within four inches at the top, and the
Tcmaiudcr of the way with the top soil. At the
usual season he plants with view to having
three stalks to hill, AMI piles the clay from the
bottoms of the pits as deep over thcir tops ~
the supply will admit of, with u view to Keeping
down the grass, and then cultivatcS with hand
and hoe, never allowing plough 10 be used
The prcnaration is made in December in order
subiuc the fiery qualities Of the fertilizer, and
the holes when prepared will make at least three
crops without changing their contcnts-thc sec
.ond crop generally hciu" the best, and the first
and third about the same. This plan has gone
beyond the sphere of experiment, and there is
I'D longer necessity fI. n man to scrapc dozen
acres When he can obtain more cotton and better
cotton by cultiyatimg Two o" three by Mr..
Crump process.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Fire at Fish Dam.

On Wednesday night Of last week fire oc
CURED nj Fish Dam, burning down two stores
No details have reached US, but it is suspected
that it was the work of an inccndiary. \ man
told US some time last year that there was more
cotton made in those stores than on any two
plantations in Fish Dam Township. 1t was n
shame to burn up two such prolific plantations.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
I've Sailed the Wide Seas ever"

The good ship rinatOre will be moorcl in tho
Union l!nrbor on Thursday, Sept. ith. That
able commander, Capt. Corcoran, will have charge
OF the craft aml her full complement of trusty
seamcn. Ii is hintcl that Sir Joseph Porter list
Lord of The Admiralty, accompanied by IN all
miriug train of female relatives, will visit the
ship on II tour of inspection.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
i ScYcre Aceilent.

Little Thallc"a Bailey, aged : years, met
with severe accident last Sunday in falling from
II icncc and breaking his arm between the wrist
anl elbow The limb was set hy Dr.. II. S.
Beatty and the little fellow is doing we'll under
his suffering.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

By. We thank Mr.. Jas. Grant for Improving
to call and renew their subscriptions can do
without fear Of falling into hole in the floor
The way for such visitors is now smooth,
and safe, and we invite them to call AMI sec the
Improvement
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Atlanta Medical College.

We call attention to the advertisement OF the
above college. We earnestly recommend this
Institution to those desiring medical education
We are assured, from its reputation, that those
who avail themselves of its superior facilities
will not have cause to regret their chocc.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Inc Palmetto Yeoman.

Is the name of n new and sprichtly evening
daily paper just started i'll Columbia by our old
friend &. VI. McJunkin. 1t is published at the
low price Of 81 a year, 40 cents month, and
10 cents u week. Mr.. McJunkin is q first class
printer and ono of the best men in the State,
and We hope his venture will be Il success but
we think he is working much too cheap 10 make
money.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

GE9- AS many may not he familiar with the
plot of II NJ. 5 rinaforc, to be rendered by nm
amateur Company of this town Oh the night Of
the 4th. we will state that it is most laughable
burlcsquc 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

neG- The commander of II. NJ. s. Pinaforc
invites everybody to 60 and sec his gallant ship,
on next Thursday night, the 4th, at Nicholson 3
Hall '.and SO do his sisters and his cousins and
his aunts," who will all be on board to welcome
visitors.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Gone to Market

Mr.. +. NJ. Cohen is now at the North watch
ing for the best chances to buy goods cheap for
his customers.
Capt. \. H. Foster has also gone north to buy
his winter stock. He expects heavy Fall and
Winter trade and will buy accordingly. For
safety his good wife and Miss Emma Brandon
accnmrnmics him.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
nown with Independents.

In the recent Greenvliic CITY eleCtioh ihcre
WAS n ve,y considerable "indcpcndcnt opposi-
lion To the regular Democratic ticket, ana where
ever there is such opposition the Democracy is
i'm danger We fear there is growing tenuen-
cy towards "indepcnIcntsIn' all over the stare
and the vote in Grcenvillc may bc regarded us
very lust cause for alarm. Last week III cohSer-
sation with a citizen of this county we were
threatened with independent candidates ut the
next election if the legislature does not repeal
the Stock Law, and the Indictment AMI prosccu-
ton Of voters and managers oil cicc'ioh II .ne
count out should not be favorable to the reVoi"-
tionists In some of the lower counties u IS re-
ported that there is no danger ot any rcsiSancc
from the old republican party but the oppOsi'ioh
is coming from Il much more dangerous anu III
sidious foe Our party organization IS IN great
peril and there arc mcn III tins state VINO "o"."
sink the Democracy tomorrow IL upon 's run
they might rise to prominence ana pos''ioh'-
They arc most narrowly to Oe Na'ch'u ah"
frowncd down 10y every patrlo'ic, rue c"'"c'.
The same cause that united us III lS'" Is present
with MS to-day and should move us to Just such
devote cd patriotism and proud deeds as hitue ina.
wear immortal. If we give way to passion anu
let our selfish prCjudiccs blind our Judg'nch' ann
go in with any element organized against 'hc
Democracy We will commit political murder anu
do tho State incalculablc harm. The next cam
noipn will be one of the most important ever
conducted in this State and orr only safety Is Ill
Democratic unity. Our leaders have not Always
been faithful to their pledges, they have dealt
too tendcrly with the great radical criminals
perhaps, and they have not worked MS mnch ior
the good of the party rs for the Sratiiicatioh oi
their own selfish ends but these things should
not diSuntc the party lr our present leaders
have failed to do their duty there arc othcr men
TO select from and whatever differences we have
can bc and should b. settled within the party
If Governor Simpson is not the riEht man 10
lead the Democracy let them turn him out ana
put some one else III his place but never let IL NC
said that any one man broke up the Democratic
party 80 with other men in the Statc-wc nave
good men enough to take their places when they
have all failed TO do their duty. We want no
divisions, no schisms, no independent cRnLi'
dates and ne man should he countcnanccd III
ihc community who would make his "wnadHancc-
mcnt higher than the safety of society the sue
cess Of the party and stability OF the government
ANY man who lived III South Carolina during
the long night Of .aaical wrong and oppression
will know what this independent movement
mcans-nothing hut the loss OF every 'hlhS we
have gained and the dark dcsoation OF utter de-
spair- lGGcriNs WcdiUH
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

rE1- II. NJ. :. Pinaforc, TO DC seen Oh the
night of September 18th, at Nichosson's Hall.
for the benefit of our Agricultural Society.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
The Only Chance to Sec Her.

The Pinaturc will not be in Union during Fair
week, rs that .'smartest lad in all the fleet,
Ralph Rackstrnw" and several others Of .hc
crew will havC sailed for other ports before the
tiMc appointed for The Fair.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

COL Eylxs AMoxG MS CUNSrIrrENTS. Lam
caster, August lS.--Col. Evins, our immediate
Representative in Congress, has recently visited
This portion of his constituency. lie made II
speech last Monday cveaing i'll the courthousc'
giving a brief account of his stewardship AT
Wnshinrton lie thinks the constitutional
questions involved in the debates at the lats cN
ira session Of Congress will in large measure
CngrosS the attention OF the people III inc hcAt
Presidential campaign, and that the hhailci"t
question will not enter largely into the same
lie thinks from the present outlook, that Scna'
tor Thurman of Ohio, has the best chance Tor
the Democratic nomination, and more especially
if Gen. Ewing should win the gubcrnatorinl race
this fall lie has however, great persona! re
gard for the great Delaware statesman 'oI'
Evins is very conservative in his views
Col Eyins manifcsts deep concern Tor the
welfare of the National Government, and his
t..I....- ..."l~ NJ, Ncuis'nuentS
arc for the South to devote itself TO the govern
mcnt, to aspire to lead in directing the affairs
of government, to assume the rcins, to strive to
reform The abuses, and make the General Govern
mcnt great boon to the whole people, North ~
well rs South. lie showed that ii was possible
for the South, by the exercise of n wise states
manSh,r, to control the affairs Of government.
IS she once accustomed TO do. This result,
he said, might be accomplished by rigid ad-
hcrcncc TO the Federal Constitution, and 10y
adopting measures to cXtinguiSh the fires of
sectional hate. Such broad views, incucatcd
both North and South. would soon give suprom-
acy to the principles Of the Constitution, aud
Elacc the government su the foundations pre-
pared by the sagcs of 7G. Would not the cast
al observer say that this is wholesome doctrine
:or the youth Of the country:
Rain for the last three weeks or more has
been quite sufficient, and the crops have i'm
proved, and oar people as they come to ;own
from thc country show more hopeful faces. But
tie crop will not lc an "vcrhSc-SP'rW I"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Shooting in San Francisco.

On the I'D Rev. J. 5. kalioch, the working
mems candidate for Mayor Of San Francisco,
was called from his study, by Charles DcYoung.
one of the propricors of the Chromjclc ncwspa.
Of that City and shot. The matter grew
out of vulgar personal abuse. in which kaloch
called the mother Of DcYoung n prostitute
kalloch was living at last accounts. Both of the
mcn are pronounced Radicals and it is an cHsc,
to tie Yazoo affair.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Fair Forest Union.

Don't forget that the Fair Forest Union of the
Union County Baptist Association meets with
The Fairvicw Church this (Frday) morning. ut
IL o'clock. 1t will DC an interesting meeting.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

rsa- 4 fire in Richmond, on tho 2Gth, de-
stroycd Castle Thunder a building used dur
ing the war as a prison house for both Federal
and Confederate prisoners.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

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

gsD" 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

H:iy" Ifthcre 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 marriag ageablc parties.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

Rs.iy- The first bale of new Cotton from Lex
ington sold in Columbia last Tuesday, Mt lo
cents
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

bsyn Mr. J. c. Wallace has moved his Law
and Trial Justices Office to the room next to the
Times Office
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
Tho Weather and Crops.

The continuous rains ard cold nights arc do
ing riischicf to the cotton crop. From all parts
of The County complaints come to us Of rus; and
lice. The plant has grown too mush weed since
the rain commenced and has net put on fruit i'll
proportion. Many who, three weeks age. were
so hopeful of making fair crop are now much
depressed under the conviction that they will
not make half a crop, while some say that moth
ing hut late and favorable Fall will give them
even that. 1t is opening slowly. except where
the rust has taken it.
All are sowing turnips more cxtcnsi'eIy than
ever before.
S'"G 10 Tcc!n TGai M IcaSt doabis the
quantity Of oats will lie sown, aud better cult
vation given them. Clever, Lucernc, and the
grasses arc receiving more attention than be-
fore.
The corn crop will he short, rs general thing
but in some sections of the county good crops
have been made.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29

EEIs'" The cohtract for building Mr. Nichoi'
son S fine residence has been awarded to Mr..
Kane.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-08-29
To Occasional.

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

such work has long been much needed in this
State, and we ':opc it VIII hc well sustained. 1t
is an eight PAGE paper. handsomely printed and
contains much valuable matter. whiic the price
Is put do"n to the low figure Of ~ cents II year
This journal is published hy that cntcrprisins
firm, Mcssrs. Walker, Evans * Cpgswcll, a,
Charleston, which is Il guaranty of its excel
icncc. Among its regular contributors VIC find
the names of Eiugh :. Thompson, State SUPER
intcndcnt "i Eiuctisn, J. II. Carlisle of Wof-
ford College, and n number Of other prominent
gentlemen connected with educational in>tiiu-
tons throughout the States, an v? may be sure
it will be an admirable paper.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
The Vanderbilt Will Case.

The sudden close of the celebrated Van
derbilt will case, last week, gave rise to the
report that the court was the result of a
compromise whereby each of the contestants
was to receive a million of dollars each.
This report is now authoritatively denied.
1t seems that the case of the contestants
utterly broke down on the introduction Of
documentary evidence of whose existence
they had no suspicion. The main argu-
ment of the contestants has been that the
distribution of property by the will was SO
unequal and unjust as to create strong
presumption of mental unsoundness or I'M
due influence, and the general drift Of the
evidence introduced was to show that at
the time the will was made Commodore
Vanderbilt suffered under physical diseases
and mental Authorizations which were in
consistent with the possibility of his sanity.
But all this claim utterly failed upon the
introduction of several former wills of the
Commodore executed when he was in the
fulness of his strength and the best state
of his faculties, making precisely the same
determinations and against precisely the
same heirs as his last will and testament,
which has been the subject Of this protracted
contest. Those previous wills, made when
his mind was at its best, prove most con-
clusively that the final distribution of his
property by his last will was in pursuance OF
a deliberate and long settled purpose formed
many years in advance of that state of his
health and of his mind which was alleged
as the ground for setting aside the will pre-
scented to the surrogate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
Presidential Prospects.

The New York Herald having discovered
in sundry interviews at Albany and Wash
ington the strength of Mr. Tilden among
New York politicians, has extended its in
QUESTION over the whole country through in
terviews with the democratic Congressman,
and finds that he is by no means so strong
out of his own state-in fact, that he is not
strong at all. The tabulated opinions of
one hundred and twenty-seven Representa-
tives from twenty-seven states exclusive OF
New York and the ten solid Republican
delegations) show that ffty-seven declared
themselves emphatically against Tilden,
while thirteen made him their first choice,
nine would find him acceptable, and the
rest had nothing to say about him. Some,
like Governor Swami, of Maryland, discard
him "on the ground that he hasn't the
physical vitality to properly administer the
Office" Many, like Goode, of Virginia, OBJ
jected to him because she had his chance
and let it slip their opinion being that he
should have issued proclamation Novem-
Der Sth, 1876, declaring himself President,
and that he meant to take his seat. Thur
man was the favorite, particularly because
of his financial views, which commend him
to the South and West. Bayard was not
very strong, solely because his state carries
only three electoral votes. These opinions
are interesting, and probably represent with
accuracy the judgment of politicians, as
moulded by the South and West.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
The Gravelin Case.

OF the hearing before Governor Proctor,
last Thursday, the Rutland Herald well says
"The refusal of Governor Proctor to grant
reprieve in the case of Henry Gravein
will meet with general approval. The char
acter of the evidence offered was so flimsy
that Governor Proctor might have rested
his refusal there, but his brief, sensible and
candid review leaves nothing for the most
honest doubter of Gravelin's guilt to carp
at. The Gravelin hubbub owes its origin
to the same cause as the recent appeal in
the case of Phair the rowing Ariel OF a
Boston newspaper rushing hther and thither
in search of new sensation, and struggling
with characteristic unscrupulousness to palm
off as new facts the frothy fables of his own
contriving. Eliminate the sensa
tional newspaper factor from either the Phail
or Gravelin case, and the whole matter sim
mers down to the old women's tales of the
condemned and his interested friends. There
was nothing in the Phair or Gravelin case
that would ever have had strength enough
to have risen above the usual gossip of a jail
yard had it not been for the industrious
exaggerations and fabrications that were
printed in the Vermont correspondence of
the Boston press"
Rumor now has it that another appeal is
to be made to the Governor at the last
moment preceding the day of execution
the l4th.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
The Pittsburg Riots.

The press of Pennsylvania is just now en-
gagged in an animated controversy as to VINO
is bound to pay for the great destruction OF
property caused by the railroad riots OF July,
1877 BY the strict letter of the lew 1t
would fall upon the county of Allegheny, in
which Pittsburg is situated, just as the great
draft riots in New York had to be compen-
stated by the city and county of New York.
The people of Pttsburg dispute the justice
of such rule. They say that the railroad
riots did not originate in their county; that
they were not planned by people residing
there whom the county authorities could
have controlled, but were the result of a
widespread conspiracy which happened to
be executed in the city of Pittsburg. 1t is
not disputed that the sufferers ought to be
compensated, but it is contended that the
losses should be paid out of the state treas
ury. 1t would be heavy and crushing
burden to the one county which was the
scene of the riots, but light burden to the
state at large. Had it been mere local dis
turbance the county might justly have been
held responsible; but inasmuch as it was a
general conspiracy of railroad employees ex-
tending over wide region, and as the de-
struction of property did not begin until the
state authorities and state troops had as
sumed control, it is maintained, with great
appearance of justice, that the state, and not
the county, should make compensation for
| the damages.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12

New CHINESE BILL.-Senator Jones, of
Nevada, will offer a new anti Chinese bill at
the opening oil the extra session, which will
simply restrict immigration to fifteen in
each vessel. The bill will go no farther
than this. 1t is thought the President will
give it his approval. The bill will be ac-
companied by joint resolution asking the
state department to inquire into the state
ment by citizens that Chinese who come to
this country are virtually slaves and under
contract to the six Chinese companies in
San Francisco, to work out the price paid
for their passage. As the Burlingame treaty
has in contemplation only those Chinamer
who voluntarily emigrate to this country
the restriction of coolie emigration canno
be obnoxious to its provisions. In case tn
statement as to the condition of peonage il
which these Chinese emigrants are said 3
be held be found true, the government wi
be asked to open negotiations with tn
Chinese government for the purpose OF rem
edying the evil complained Of.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12

THE PLAGUE.-The continued prevalence
of that destructive epidemic or "plague in
Southern Russia, and its extremely virulent
and contagious character, induced the Presi-
dent, on the 9TH instant, the Surgeon Gen
eral advising, to issue his proclamation for
bidding until further orders any vessel from
any port of the Black Sea or Sea of Azof
conveying any articles liable to carry in
fection, or any vessel from any port of the
Mediterranean or Red Seas having on board
such articles coming from Southern Russia,
to enter any port of the United States until
such articles have been removed from the
vessel, and the vessel disinfected and thor.
oughly ventilated. The suspected articles
are to be disinfected, either by chemical
agents and exposure to free currents OF all
or by burning, as shall be determined IL
each case by the Surveyor General of the
Marine Hospital Service.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-03-12
The Great Senate Debate.


The memorable scene in the United States
Senate in the early morning hour OF Mon
day week-a synopsis Of which is given in
another columns significant of the respec-
tive positions, sympathies and tendencies OF
the two parties. The democratic party,
through its ablest representatives, appeared
as the champion and eulogist OF jeff. DAVIS
Mr.. Lamar put the arbitrator on the high
est plane of patriotism, aud declared that
his name would be revered and honored by
the people of the South in company with
those of Hampton and Washington. Mr.
Thurman defended and sustained Davis
and assailed Massachusetts, as a state "whose
treason had been more violent and longer
that of any other These remarkable dec
larations brought the Republicans to theil
feet. Messrs. Hoar and Blaine expressed
the patriotic feeling of the country, and Mr.
Chandler, in an impressive and impassioneo
speech, pictured the perjury and treason Of
Davis, and declared his amazement that hi
should live to see this arbitrator eulogizet
in the United States Senate