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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

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Oats Me, SAM, SAY 1T AaIN."-If
Wendell Philips and Gen. Thomas Conway
could have heard three ebony skinned phil.
osophers discussing the merits of some Of
their sable brethren they would not haran-
guc the people of Boston with tircsomc
lectures about The Southern white people
cheating the colored man out of what he
makes. A few days ago three colored til
iers OF the ground met, and after jovial tee
bees and hearty hand shaking, the first oh.
served:
"Well, Sam how's you gittin' on wild yo'
crop"
"oh, fine, fine. jst tell you what Gabe,
"Well, Duke, how's yo' CROP" asked the
second darkey. My crops jist middlin'
dis year, Sam, but heap better den some
Of my ncighbors'.
"lll tell you what's de fact, boys" again
chimed in Gabc, "Some niggers am dis
way: Dey plant morcn dey kin tend, and
deyH hire to work other peoples crop
when der own am nccdn' it The very worst
kind aud de consequence is dey got muffin
to show for what dey planted, gin layin.by.
time. De fact is dey's hyia'.Gy de whole
year round and sccin'dcre crop taken per-
session of by de grass and den desc same
niggers turn right round and Say de white
man cheat 'em out Of what dcy make. tell
you, boys, dcre aint word of it so; and
as Tor me I'm gwine to work my crop fust
of any, dis chile am"
Then Duke slapped him on the shoulder,
and says, OATS me, Gabe, say it agin," at
the same time giving vent to merry
chuckie, in which they all joinod.-Lau-
rcnsuiNc UcroM
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

CoTToN WEIIHING.-Thc Town Coun
Gil OF Spartanburg at meeting last week
decided to take the weighing of cotton in
their own hands. Hereafter they will con-
troll this matter. The weighers will be
sworn and the price will be only ten cents
bale. This will so into operation the first
of September.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

They were sailing over the moist recess
Where the salty pillows played,
And he was telling his Betsy dear,
That he'd ne'er wager laid
In oil LIS life, so good was he;
Then she made out to say,
why, what fih Right here and now
You've got Bets ON the bay -
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

are two more-thc Saluda and Bates Vile
factories the former is near Columbia
and the latter at Bat .svillc, Greenvile
county. They produce about the same
quantity and quality of good as the Reedy
River Mill. Both appear to prosper
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

A man will sit on a picket fence all the
afternoon to sec baseball game, but put
him in church pew for three. c.quarters of
an hour and lie will feel uncomfortable.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18
Greenville and Columbia r. r,
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
G4R N GO 60

Passenger Trains run daily, Sundays except-
ed, connecting with Night Trains on South Car
olina Railroad up and down. On and after
MONDAY, May 10Th, the following will be the
schedule:
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-07-18

Che vicinity 0f stainstSr email slSz
tion on the Air Line Railroad, IN Ocolce
county. They commenced operations about
year ago in a two story wooden building
with small capital. The machinery used
is known as the Clement alta chment, which
transforms seed cotton. into very superior
thread. Various superiorities are claimed
for this invention, which are open to doubt,
but nobody can dispute its labor.saving
qualities. The laborious task of ginning
and packing the cotton after it is picked is
entirely dispensed with. The local de-
mand exceeds this mills production.
In addition to those already named there
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
lIEATHEN IDEAS OF HELL.

AS the subject of hell has been, and
is still under discussion in the theo-
logic world, the orthodoxists in civil
ization should be concerned to know
what the inhabitants of heathendom
think of it. The natives of the Mar
quesas Islands. according to an Amer
lean who has lived among them for
years had studied their character, Gus
toms and creed picture hell as region
of profound darkness, no ray of light
ever entering it except on the arrival
of a spirit from earth. By this ray
the newly condemned spirit is guided
to the special seat appointed for him
or it-and there he remains in i'm
penetrable shadow until the next COM
er brings a flash of light. There is no
other punishment for the doomed.
They are, however, ,singed on entrance
because they are then obliged to pass
a huge demon, who flaps his wings
and exhales fire continually. Women
it may be interesting to know, are sell
dom sent to the Marquesan Tophet,
owing to the love (witness the GUS
tomary egotism of the male animal
even in Polynesla) and devotion they
bear the native chiefs and priests, who
(here is gallantry) would be inconsol-
able without them, even in Paradise
But women are not admitted to the
highest circles of the good place, pre-
pared alone for men, who can, how
ever, descend to them when they wish
to enjoy feminine society. There are
different places of divine life for wo-
man, the loftiest being reserved for
those who have lived and been loved
most intensely in this world, and
whose greatest bliss will come from
the visits of the spirits of the chiefs
priests,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
INVISIBLE PATCHES.

The invisible patch on boots and
shoes is thing that the owners of di-
lapidated fancy feet coverings delight
IN. But to get one put on by the cob
bier costs nearly as much as by the old
way. This need rot be, for any boy
can put them on himself in the fol-
lowing way, given by a correspondent
of the Country Gentleman
Take gutta percha, half ounce BIZ
sulphuret carbon, two ounces. In
wide- mouth bottle put the two togeth-
er and shake occasionally until the
eutta percha is dissolved and is ready
for use, when the patch is to be applied
scrape the boot or shoe until the black.
ing is off and the leather is a little
rough. On this dust with fine resin,
minutest quantity serve the patch the
same way. Then spread little of the
cement on both the shoe and patch.
Apply like court plaster, and smooth
with a warm spoon or iron, and the
shoe will aoon be ready to wear. A
few hours will harden the cement.
When properly done the patch will be
invisible, and will last as long as the
shoe. This cement is waterproof
The gutta percha, shaved to thin slices
is kept in India rubber stores for the
above purposes. Ten cents worth will
do the work of family for long
time. The bi.sulphuret of carbon j.
sold by druggists, and will cost five OF
ten cents an ounce. The smell, which
is offensive, soon passes of.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
HARD TIMES.

We have in eur mind, says an ex-
change, q brilliant and cultivated
young lawyer who started In life with
twenty thousand dollars and refined,
beautiful and accomplished wife. He
is now q sort of factotum in q carpet
mandatory, running hither and
thither at the beck and call of those
whom he secretly despises, doing
heavy tasks far beyond his strength,
yet eager and anxious to please, lest
the slender support which he derives
from this msnial work be cut off. We
know a gentleman who was a bank
president ten years ago and owned his
carriage, who now does copying in an
insurance Office at thirty-five dollars
month, supporting-God knows how
"a wife and five children on it. We
know of a gentleman who once
held high Office in western State,
who solicited work at cleaning out
Offices and building fires. Nor have
the changed times less bitterly affected
woman. Jennie Collins, of Boston,
famed for her employment bureau and
working mems home, says in her last
report: MANY kind ladies who hired
their servants Of me in the past years.
have been obliged to apply for employ
ment themselves Of late. I sent la
dy to q hotel-as a housekeeper, and
the most humiliating part of it was,
that her room was in the attic with
two of her former servants We are
constantly learning of women of edu'
cation and refinement, formerly
wealthy, who are engaged as seams
tresses, nurses and housekeepers; and
in one case we even know of lady
who would be at home in any parlor
in the land among educated people,
who served as a cook in hotel for
months.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
WORKERS UNDER GROUND.

1t is not generally known to what
extent we are indebted to worms for
the preductiveness of our gardens and
fields. 1t has been found by q series
of experiments carried out by Ger.
man naturalist that the tunnels made
by worms into the earth are frequent.
ly of much service to plants whose
roots occupy the channels that haye
thus been made. The mold of our
gardens, and fields, too, is improved
to an almost certain extent by the
burrowing of these humble insects.
Each worm, in less than a week, pas
ses its own weight in mold, and ex-
tremely helpful to the growth of plants.
When it is remembered that there are
in every acre some $4,000 worms and
that in addition to forming every day
about thirty.seven pounds of fine
mold they open up the sub-soil and
render it fertile, we shall gain some
slight conception of our Indebtedness
to these apparently quiet, insignifi.
cant and generally unthought-of little
workers.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
INELUENCE OF THE moon ON
CROPS.

A correspondent of New York
paper was planting potatoes on the
increase of the moon or in the light of
the moon; several of his neighbOrs
were present and discussion arose as
to the effect of the moon on certain
crops. Answering its correspondents
inquiry, the paper says: There has
been always q powerful superstition
that the moon exerted q great influ-
ence upon the affairs of mankind, but
this idea has prevailed chiefly among
those who did not understand the ut
ter impossibility that the moon could
exert any such influences. Formerly
the stars were supposed to assist
the moon in these interferences with
mankind and their labors, and to be
able to read the stars was equivalent
to the possession of prophetic powers
Now the stars have lost this reputa-
ton, and the moon is IN fair W ay to
lose what little is left of it. Formerly
crazy people were mOon-struck,' but
now, when we see lunatic derived
from Luna, the moon, and really
meaning moon-struck), we do not
blame the moon for it. The moon has
now fallen SO low as to be supposed
by some to influence only the twining
of beans on the pole, the planting of
seeds, the wasting of fat pork in the
pan, unless it was killed under grow
ing moon, and the making of soft soap.
To reasonable person this seems q
small business for the moon to engag-
ed in, or q very unlikely thing that
the moon can exert any such influence.
If any difference occurs it will be from
other causes, such as soil. weather, etc.
Lastly, it is absolutely certain that the
moons influence on our atmosphere
is so very small that it cannot even eff
feet the weather in the least
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
wuERE POETS ARE RURIED.

Chaucer was buried in the cloisters
of Westminster Abbey, without the
building, but removed to the south
aisle in 1866; Spenser lies near him.
Beaumont, Drayton, Crowley, Dem
ham, Dryden, Rowe, Addison, Prior,
Congreve, Gay, johnson, Sheridan
and Campbell all lie within West
minister Abbey. Shakespeare, as every
one knows, was buried in the chancel
of the church at STRAIT ford, where there
is . monument to his memory. Chap
man and Shirley are buried at St.
Giles. in. the. Fields; NARROW, in the
church. yard Of st. Paul's, Deptford J;
Fletcher and Massinger,in the church
yard of St. Saviour's, Southwark ; DR..
Dunno, in Old st. PauPs; Edward
Waller. in Baeconsfeld church-yard ;
Milton in the church yard of st. Giles !,
Cripplegate; Butler, in the church :
yard of st. Paul's, Covent Garden ;
Otway, no one knows where; Garth,
In the church-yard at Harrow; Pope,
in the church at Twickenham; Swift,
in St. Patrick'e, Dublin; Savage, in
the church-yard of st. Peters, Dub
lin; Parnell,. at Chester, where he
died on his way to Dublin DIR. Young,
at Welwyn,in Hertfordshire, of which
place he was rector; Thompson, in the
church-yard at Richmond in Surrey
Collins, in st. Andrews, church, at
Chichester; Gray, in the church yard
at Stoke-Pogis, where he conceived
bis 'Elegy,' Goldsmith, in the church
yard of the Temple church; Falconer,
at sea, with 'all ocean for his grave !;
Churchill, in the church-yard of St
Martin's, Dover Cowpcr, in the church
at Dereham; Chatterton, in a church
yard belonging to the parish of St
Andrews, Holborn; Burns, in St.
Michael's church-yard, Dumfries; By
ron, in the church of Hucknall, neal
Newstead; Crabbe, at Trowbridge
Coleridge, in the church at Highgate
Sir Walter Scott, in Dryburgh abbey
Southey in Crosthwaite church, neal
Keswick.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
SAD BUT TRUE.

The people like to be swindled.
There is not a month, and scarcely q
week or day passes without some
body being victimized. Pedlers sell
the farmer job lot of dry goods for a
hundred and twenty-five dollars, and
he learns, too late, that it would be
dear at twenty-five. A stranger comes
along and stripes the barn all over
with lightning rods at half-pricc. The
first streak of lightning that tries to
climb down jumps off at the top joint,
and away goes his grain, and stock,
and utensils, and the fire shows up
the rod as tin instead of copper. A
cheap insurance man drops round
and he takes out policy at two
third rates, and after his house has
gone up in smoke, he learns that the
company has also gone up A sleek
stranger calls on him and appoints
him agent for reaping machine, or a
patent feed steamer. Don't want q
cent of money, but gets him to sign a
contract that he will make an effort to
sell. In about eleven months he finds
that that contract has been converted
into a promissory note for four humid
red dollars, and sold to an innocent
party, and he has to foot the bill if it
takes his last cent. A sewing machine
man calls with new tangled machine
noieeless, self-adjusting, warranted to
run forever; do better, stronger, fast
er sewing than any other in existence,
and he hauls the WOO! over your eyes
to the tune of forty dollars. After
the first week or two you find the ten
sion gets out of fix; the shuttle don't
work right, the needle drops stitches,
or breaks and your machine is worth
seyenty-fve cents for old iron. An
organ seller comes along. You don't
want to buy any; but he only wants
to take it in the house and let you hear
it, and in spite of all you can do he
makes you help carry it in. He sits
down to it and runs bis fingers over
the keys. Then he rolls up his eyes
and let's his voice out. What music,
and what sipgingl If they can do as
we'll as that in heaven, you want to
go, right away. Then he soft-soaps
your wife, aud gets her to join In on
odd Hundred and he compliments
her on her sweet tones. Your little
girl is cosxed to help the music along,
and you are gone up. 1t isn't bit OF
use for you to talk. Such low price
and on such easy payments, no money
down, and your wife and daughter
carry the day. He has your paper
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
EXERCISE THE LUNGS.

One of the conditions of perfect
health is physical exercise. In its abb
sence the whole system suffers deteri-
grafton, and falls short of that Develop
ment which is necessary to the vigor-
Gus action of the different organs. More
than any other organ, however, do the
lungs suffer and it is not difficult to
explain why. In order that an organ
should be abundantly supplied with
blood, and one of the agencies which
plays an important part in propelling
the blood through arteries and veins is
muscular contraction. The alternate
contraction and dilation of the muscles
forces the blood along the vessels.
When a person is exercising vigorous
Iy, the respiratory movements become
greatly increased, the air vescicles be-
come dilated, the blood is propelled
through the minute capillaries, which
constitute a large portion of their
structure, and the lung tissue receives
the nourishment which it requires, and
which is necessary to its integrity and
efficient action. From insufficient
bodily exercise the lungs suffer in two
ways-for want of sufficient blood to
nourish them, and for want of neces-
sary expansion. The result is that the
lungs, more frequently than any 9TH
er organ, become affected in those who
lead inactive lives. This fact makes
it incumbent on all, and especially on
those who have weak lungs, to spend
a portion of each day in vigorous phys
ical exercise. We mean by this, exer-
else which calls into vigorous action
all the muscles of the body-exercises
which causes the skin to glow. the
perspiration to start. Two hours of
this kind of exercise each day is not
too much, and it should be performed,
when possible, in the open air. A cell
ebrated French physician says that
person, to be healthy and strong, should
exercise to the point of perspiring eve-
ry day.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20

discounted at the bank and goes on
his way rejoicing. For four weeks
you are in paradise. Your wife hugs
and kisses you every time you stick
your head in the door, and site down
on your knee with her arm around
your neck Gust as she used to when
you didn't kesr whether school kept
or not and didn't 60 home till morl-
inC while your dear little daughter
bangs thunder out of the new machine.
At the end of four weeks it's all up
two tongues gone in the heavy bass,
hole in the bellows that would sink
ship, the veneer begins to peel off,
and the whole thing wheezes like q
wind broken horse with a nightmare.
Then there is pandemonium in tho
household. The. old woman says it's
all your fault, and you say it's shern.'
and the ecowls about the house would
turn water into vinegar, or give the
pigs the lock jaw. The old wind tor
turer is as deserted as a graveyard at
midnight, and its music is all rests.
And then you go and see . lawyer to
find out if you can't get out of it on
account Of being swindlsd. He says
that's all right, and you pay him five
dollars for saying SO. Time for pay
ment comes, and goes, but no ono
calls for the money. just about the
time you arc congratulating yourself
that the old thing is cheap enough
when you don't have to pay for it, the
banker steps in and shows you your
note. You swear like Turk, but it's
no use, you have to plank down tho
specie, and for another four weeks IL
isn't exactly heaven at your house.
Now sll this is just as easily avoided
as not, if you will only exercise lit
tie common sense. In the first place,
you are very foolish in supposing that
you can get any first class article for
half what 1t is worth. People don't
do business that way. If you jew
them way down, they get even with
You (and little more) by putin in
worthless article. Pay fair prices to
our men here at home, and then you
are safe.-[Iron Valley Reporter.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20

leaned over q paper of jewels to
breathe upon them, and return with
four csrats of diamonds upon it's end.
Tho old man seized the adept thief by
the throat and found the sparklers
stuck to his tongue. The thief COM
promised with the,old man for $1,000.
There was no arrest made in this case.
1t is estimated during the three years
that this man patronized the diamond
dealers of Maiden Lane that he real
lied fully $4,000 from his adroit dis
honesty.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20

A RICH old man was jealous of his
young and pretty wife. Falling sick
in due time. and feeling about to die,
he summoned his wife to his bedside,
and besought her, as last favor, with
tears in his poor old eyes, not to mar.
ry the object of his jealousy, neigh
Dor, when he was gone. Il will not
said the dutiful woman,-'I will not,
my dear husband; be in no concern
for him,-nay, I could not, for have
for some years past bsen engaged to
anotherp
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-20
AMERICAN SHARPSHOOTERS IN
THE RUSSIAN ARMY.

Letters were received in this city on
Saturday from the members of the
American corps of riflemen who, at
the outbreak of the Russo Turkish war
sought service under the Car as sharp
shooters. All of the corps were MEM
bers of Col. Berdan's' Sharpshooters
during the Civil War in this country,
and their services were sought by the
Russian Government at the express
recommendation of Col. Bertlan, who
holds extensive contracts with the
Russian service while the Grand Duke
Alexis and the Russian fleet were at
this port. During their service in the
Russian war the leaders of the party,
Jack Ketch, of Galveston, Tex; Will
liam Dwyer, of Boston, and John and
William Taylor, late of the Ninety
fifth Pennsylvania (the GOsling Zou-
aves), have been repeatedly decorated
on the field of battle for bravery in ac-
ton. During the passage of the Bal
kans, Ketch, who commanded the
corps, was called out before the Rus
sian army and invested with the Cross
of st. Stanislaus by Gen. Skobeleff, to
whose personal staff he was attached.
Ketch is the man who went to Creed
moor and made nine consecutive BULBS
eyes at 1000 yards. When Col. Win
gate and the Range Committee asked
him who he was, he answered that he
was q" a stranger from Texas" De-
tective Charles Hagan, of the New
street police, who was also a member
of the Berdan corps, says that he ex-
poets the Russo-American sharpshoot-
ers will return home about the begin
ming of July, their term of service hav-
ing been limited to that time,C[New
York Sun.