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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-12-24
Our Premiums for 1881.

As many Of our subscribers have expressed q
desire to subscribe for some Agricultural jour
nal we have made arrangements with the pub
fishers of that elegant Monthly, the "Americdn
Agricuituria and that useful and practical
journal, "The american Farmer" by which we
can provide the Union Times and either of those
excellent works for Farmers upon the following
terms. for 1881:
The Times and american Agricultural. 50. 10
The Times and American Fdrmer ............S2.75
To THE LADIES.
We will send you the Union Times and that
beautiful, useful and instructive magazine,
Godcy's Ladeys Book. for 1851, for the small
amount of 1925.
No Lady should be without Gody's Ladv' $
Book, and no family in Union should be without
their County paper, the UNION TINES, now that
they can be had so cheap.
Our Cotton Market.
The market the past week has been rcmarka-
.'y h-;"'. nrl good prices inininad for the
higher grades, Sales for the week, 725 bales, Al
prices ranging from y for stained, to lls.
Ba" a merry Christmas to oil our subscribers
and good fat Turkey for each family,sis our
sincere wish.
Dea- An incendiary fire at Orangeburg, on
Saturday morning last, destroyed the Office of
the Democrat with several other buildings.
ne1- We regret to learn that Mr.. Charles G.
Scott who has supplied our citizens with beef
for many years, is now lying very sick from
dropsey
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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-12-24

'SusPENEEp. York, December To- Sled.
cnburg & Co., manufacturers Of cigars and i'm,
portcrs Of leaf tobacco, corner of Read and
Church streets in this city. and at Key Nc>;
Florida. have failcd. They were lie lar: est
mGnuf,c,iirhs Of cigars III lie country. and
ihcr credit liabilities are rcLoIscd ut i5Cu,ICO
il Is ,hcuGhi e., irns may lc :h|c ic settle in
fulIt
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-12-24

& "A DIsfATcm announcing the result Of the re-
Enumeration Of three townships in South Carroll
.ia has been received at the census bureau. The
1 Following is che result compared with the
former cnumoTatiCn: NilistOn Township, Barn
we'll County. first enumeration 2.CG9, second
Enumeration 2,723. gain 81: StcsrpCn Township,
chesterfield County first enumeration 2,OSc.
kecond cn8meraiou 2.O10 loss 10: B. DAD River
Township Lexington County, first enumeration
2,i2G, SECOND enumeration 2,jlS, gam %.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-12-24
List of Jurors

rawn for Extra TrW, 10 Commence y"i
4th, 1881.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-12-24

VERY AprRDrHIArE.-,-ii who said. "Surcp
little children TO come unto me" was the great
founder ofthe gladsomc feast Of Christmas. nndit
IS iu Ills honor that uphold ihc feast and glnd-
Gen the heart. Of l;tle ones hc Lowell so dearly
1t is q pleasure, n holy pleasure. to make their
smiles brighter, their laughter chccricr and
Inorc musical. lie, us all. then. properly cclc-
braie Christmas day Oyangcbury Democrat.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
The Zulus Eat Some Meat.

1t was such a scene as / am powerless
to describe. Each boy sat at the fire in
front of his own particular stick or ram
rod, on which were the little knobs of
meat; but beside each was pile of long
strips about an inch thick, and some of
them a yard in length. While the
knobs were slowly roasting the boy
would take one of these long strips, CON
tanning at least half a pound of meat,
and, holding one end in the fame,
would let it get toasted for a few
seconds; then he would place that end
in his mouth, and begin to chew it,
placing the still uncooked end in the
fame, and at the same time watching
that the knobs on his stick did not get
burned. For three hours or more not
q boy moved from the fire, except to
cut up fresh supply of meat or to have
q drink of water. All this time they
hardly spoke among themselves ;
but as the night advanced they
broke into low monotonOus
sort of humming chant, during
which, one after the other, they re-
counted some adventure of the day, or
expressed their delight at so much good
food, the others ali the while keeping
up al eCCOupdIy Ing CuOI us VI IHS Ad1h-
ming chant. Occasionally they would
raise their voices to a yell, and then
sink them so low as to be almost inau-
dible. Woodward and myself turned
into our blankets, and were soon luIled
asleep by the monotonous but not un-
pleasant singing. AL through the
night the boys alternately ate or sang,
and several times when 1 awoke / saw
them still hard at work chewing down
the yards of meat.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
A Lucky Ranch Boy.


lAuIeha (NeFsJ 4LoSEaSL'J
About three years ago band of
horses from Iowa arrived in town,
driven by the owner and several
herders. Among the latter was a boy
of about II years of age, bright youth,
who had been picked up in Omaha, a
waif, drifting as impulse and OppOrtu-
nifty impelled him. At this point he
quarreled with his boss, and left his
employ. He had been working for his
board, and there we're no settlements to
make, and he found. himself adrift
among strangers without q cent to his
name. For a year or more he led
rough life, loafng around the saloons,
picking up a subsistence as best he
could, and a good portion of the time
depending upon the restaurant swill
barrels for his meals, disputing with
Chinese slOpmen and the ShOshone for
the choice scraps that found their way
to those receptacles. About eighteen
months ago Messrs. Ford & Hathaway
noticed the boy, took pity upon his for
lorn condition, and sent him out to
their ranch, where he has since been
employed in doing chores and making
himself useful. In the mean time an
uncle of the youth, wealthy old
bachelor had died and left him property
amounting to $4,000. This was sit
uated at his old home in Illinois,
and of course the youngsters where
abouts became an object of interest.
Advertisements were inserted in the
leading papers of the East, but six
months passed by and no tidings came.
Finally information was had of his
leaving Omaha with band of horses,
and the next step was to trace out the
owner of the herd. 1t took three month
to locate him and find that he had left
the youth in Eureka. Instead of ap-
pealing to the newspapers with the
customary information wanted" a
month more was consumed looking for
him, when he was at last traced to Ford
& Hathaway's rancho, and the long
search ended. There was no question
as to the identity nor any dispute as to
his being heir to the property. At the
request of the administrator Of the es-
tate, Mr.. Ford bought the boy ticket
to Chicago, furnished him with an out
fit of clothes, etc, and about three
weeks ago started him for his home and
fortune. We are pleased to state there
were no legal quibbles intervening to
prevent his taking immediate posses
sion, and he is now enjoying his good
luck, and doubtless he contrasts his
present state with his condition two
years ago, when the swill barrels of Eu-
reka were his main dependence for a
living,
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
PREACHERS and Actors.

The New York Tribune makes the fol
lowing comparison of the amounts re-
ceived by prominent ministers and
actors: Beecher gets $4,000 Edwin
Booth, 100000 year. DIR. Hall, of
Fifth avenue, and DR.. Dix, of Trinity,
get $4,000; while E. A. Sothern earns
over $4,000 as Lord Dundreary, and
John q. Owen plays thirty weeks an
nually for $4,000 Talmage breaches
for $4,000, and Joe jefferson plays forty
weeks as Rip Van Winkle and earns
$4,000. The scholarly and gifted DIR.
Stores has $4,000 salary, and Maggie
Mitchell earns $780, to $4,000. DR..
Cuyler works hard and faithfully for
$4,000 year, and DIR. Hepworth tor
$4,000, while Dion Boucicault had Just
finished a season as the Shaughraun"
etc. at $4,000 week, and his managers
scold him in the public prints because
he would not play longer at the same
price. DIR. Potter, of Grace Church,
has$10, 900 and a parsonage; the eloquent
DR.. Tiffany has so, 600; the once vigor-
Gus, and now venerable Or. Chaplin gets
$4,000, while pretty Miss Nelson makes
over $150,000 year, and Fannie Daven-
port earns 81, 900 week every week she
plays.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
Sorrows and suiferings Of Royalty.

IParts Cor. New 1OEE lIlDune
When ex Queen Isabella was celebrat-
ing la Fs5s de8 Rois she received
telegram which robbed her of all
strength The little Queen, who few
weeks ago was married with so much
pomp and who seemed the happiest of
brides, did not bear up, as the official
prints of Madrid represented, against
the shock she received when pistol balls
whistied by her and the Kings heads.
She has fallen into a. state of health
which gives rise to the gravest appre-
hension. Fit follows upon fit. If the
Kirr goes out unaccompanied by her
sh, more dead than alive during his
absence. When he takes her with him,
she masters her nervous terrors when
she is in the streets; but the moRent
she returns to the palace a collapse
takes place and she falls into a fit.
This state of things is complicated by
the ,pect of a Prince or Princess of
Aus ...t.t, which in all probability will
if birth is survived, be an idiot. 1t ID
impossible not to feel for the poor young
Queen who went so joyously in Novem-
Der to assume the antique crown which
the enamored King offered to place on
her head. Queen Isabella was as happy
as the bride-elect. Her distress of mind
is now unuEterable She can not eat or
sleep. and she has gone to the country
in the hopes that brisk walks in the old
woods of her park will calm her nerves
and restore her strength.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
The Hog Trade.

The Cincinnati Price Current of JAM
1ary contains an exhaustive review of
the hog trade of the West during the
year just closed. This paper has re-
oeived prompt replies to letters ad.
dressed to all known pork-paCking points
In the West. The answers represent
over 80 per cent. of last years interior
packing, and from these reports, which
are published in detail, we are enable to
learn some interesting particulars in re-
gard to the pork interests. During the
winter of 1889, 2,180, 500 hogs were
packed at what are termed interior
points in the West, being exclusive of
the six large cities, where the total was
$500, 142, making an aggregate of 2, $780,
64S. Interior places which packed
l, ,975,797 hogs last winter have packed
to dates of reports total of 1858, ,733,
against l, 1,253, Ill to same time last year,
and the estimates for the remainder of
the season make the total of 2,161 POI to
March l, or 185, 404 more than last year.
Estimating the unreported points, less
than 10 per cent. of the whole, in the
same ratio, we have an aggregate pack
ing at all interior points of 1923, ,733 to
date, against 1888, Ill last year, and e.
38I POI as the estimate for the season,
against the total of 2,18O,59 last win
ter, or an increase of POI ,3O5.
According to the Cincinnati Price
Current Ohio indicates an increase of
about G0,OOO; Indiana, 10000; Illinois,
but little variation; Iowa, about $4,000
increase; Missouri, no change of cOnse-
quence; Kansas, $4,000 increase; Michi-
gan, 1000 decrease; and other States
varying but little, compared with last
winter
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17

supposed pocket-book, John opened one
of the letters, and by its perusal, found
that his brother was to return by the
next packet in October He induced
the boy to allow him to deliver the let
terS so that he might explain that Mr..
Newall had opened the letter by mis-
take. For q time he was in great
suspense, as the carrying out Of his
plans required that the packet should
arrive after darE,
AS soon as he found that the tide
would exactly suit his purpose, he made
his arrangements. Disgusting himself
and procuring a boat, he boarded the
packet on her arrival in the Tay, and
induced Henry Hawk to go ashore.
Midway between the vessel and the
land, he drove knife into his brothers
heart. Then he carefully stripped the
body and flung it overheard. Securing
the money and valuables in the clothes,
he tore them in strips and cast them on
the waters. Landing at a secure spot,
with his brothers portmanteaU in his
possession, he went to sailors board
ing-hOuse and dressed himself in the
dead mans clothes. Then with bold
ness and wickedness unparalleled, went
to his dead brothers home and received
kiss of welcome from the woman
whose husband he had slain.
On trial witnesses were produced who
stood by the dying bed of the murder
Gus wretch and heard his confession of
his crime. These consisted Of DR..
Nimmo, a prominent physician, Mr..
Sims, a distinguished surgeon, Or. Car
ruthers, Presbyterian Clergyman, and
Ann Mackay, nurse. The confession
had been reduced to writing bv lawyer
and duly signed and witnessed.
The Court adiudged James Hawk to
be illegitmate, but entitled to succeed
to his mothers estate, which was con-
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
Freemasonry in Egypt.

The reported discovery of Masonic
emblems within the foundation Of Gle
opatra's obelisk at Alexandria has put
Oakley Halls paper into quite nervous
huttef, and set it jumping at the con-
clusion that it has found the missing
Masonic link between the time of Solo
mon and the thirteenth century. This
may be the case-and again it may not.
Since time immemorial Masonic
lodges, or, as the modern PharaOhs call
them, i" protectories," have existed in
Upper Egypt among the natives; but
the strictest rule which the Egyptian
brothers have enforced among them
selves is not to make themselves known to
foreigners. There is as little known
of their existence outside of the fra
ternity as is known of the festivals OF the
Sioux Indians among tne BedOuins.
All that foreign Masons know about
Maonry in Egypt IS simply in connec-
nection with the European lodges in
Cairo and Alexandria, which have
their charters from the Grand Lodges
in Scotland, England, France and
Italy. The world is kept in dark ig-
norance with regard to the existence of
FreemasOnry among the descendants OF
the Pharaohs; and yet it is fact be-
yond dispute that some sixteen native
lodges exist on the banks of the Nile,
in Upper Egypt, and though they may
work in an almost entirely different rite
from any used in Europe or in this
country, their emblems and other mystic
ties are nearly identical. Those who
visited the City of Stout, in Upper
Egypt, and gazed on that bold prOjec-
tion of the Lybian range hOneycOmbed
with catacombs, had they turned their
eyes on the opposite side, on those XII
osques looming through the distant
groves, might have learned that one of
these Mosques is used exclusively as
Masonic temple. Girkeh, Kened, and
other towns on the Nile possess one or
more Masonic temples.
The strongest argument, however,
which can be brought to show that
F Freemasonry ,sexisted among the great
astronomers in Egypt is that the ma
tive Egyptian fraternity to-day, of
which nothing is known abroad, is COM
posed exclusively of Copts. They are
unquestionsbly the greatest mathema-
ticians of that country, and consider
themselves 1.-The direct descendants of
the learned Egyptians, from whom they
claim to have inherited the mysteries
of the order.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
Effects of ReIIad0nna.

If medical student of Bridgeport is
not more careful, the country may lose
a great physician. This young man
supports himself by working in one
of the shops, but spends all the time he
can redeem in studying medicine with
we'll known physician. He recently
presented himself at the shops in such
an amazing mental condition, that his
friends thought he was either drunk or
crazy, and they finally induced him to
go home. Arrived there he ordered
dinner, although he had partaken
bountifully a short time before, and
when it was before him he began to
break the dishes. Then he rushed out
Of the house and into the garden, where
he proceeded to dig up the mud with
his hands, and act generally in a most
unreasonable manner. A doctor was
summoned and the riddle was solved
For the sake of noting the effects of
belladonna upon the human system, the
physician of the future had taken
dose; but he carelessly took so much
that it produced a delirium with the
above manifestations.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
The New York Lady Clerk.


Customer to lady clerk in very large
store:
Customer" Show me some pins"
Lady clerk talks on to the next lady
clerk:
"And he said that she-and he-took
her to Wallack's-and he-and She
opera--and he"
Customer Will you show me some
pinsf'
Lady clerk goes indiaerently to shelf
and takes down a box of pins, giving
customer impression that she had heard
che first request, but wasn't quite ready
to attend to il. Lady clerk puts the
box negligently down before customer
and goes on talking: And he was
every highland land she-and he
oh! / knew they were there-and L
and she-and he-and She"
&c want English pins"
L. O. (glances at customer as If very
much annoyed that any other pins
should be called for than those il is
most convenient to take down. Puts
box back very leisurely, talking as
usuaI-" And land he-and She.
o, Pm sure saw him-and land he
and she"
-" Have you any English pinsT'
@. O." No; and land he-and she
1.-the OpeEa-and r."
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17

A NEWSPAPER item says that Joe
Jefferson owns the best orange orchard
in Louisiana. Well, he has not got
much to brag of. We charged on one
of the best orange orchards in that state
once with company of cavalry, cap
tured it without firing gun, and then
the oranges were so sour that one of
them would shut soldier up like
Jack knife in four minutes. We tried
to find the owner of the orange grove to
arrest him for treason, in raising sour
oranges in times of war, but he had
waltzed away on mule.-PecEs NIL
paukee 6Hn.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
Is LIFE WORTH LIVINGT
sCRIBNER's BRIc-A-BRAC."

THE BABE.
Bepupl-and round me glowed
Huge masks, with staring eyes
And smiles alarmed me more
/ after saw pantomimal story.
I had no sense of time-noT overmuCh
A sense of anything
I wOke!-mv ewes confronted with q glory
That made them open more and morei
1t seemed they'd crack to take 1t I'M
anon, a wall of black would supervene,
d try to fight it off, and CRY alOud!-
The light was out!-
Brief, brief candlel
THE LOVER.
Another speIl-twas not the one at school,
Yet taught me more than aught beside;
being like myself,
But unlike mora hner-tatrer-
To every sense and thought never zesL
And never meaning.
How great had been the void
That now was bTimming o'erl -
What measures depth could hold it ALI
Riches untold-a world unknown before
The idoll-and worshiped.
Twas burning then, was life and love
Brief, brief candlel
THE OLD MAN.
Twas further on: I've staying power
For friends are gone, snutted out
As though they ne'er had been
Whilst l. who miss them here, live on aIonel
A retrospect of graves
And lust ahead-my own.
There's over all ghOstly hue
And rosy, golden day no more
AS seen with infants, lovers eyes
The fame of life is burning bluel
And unwinding- near the final hicke5f
But at its best it gives me handle
To ask If it were worth the candle7
Brief. brief candlal
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
OFFICERS,

D. A.UARPENTER, PRESIDENT.
IT, n MCOLU NG. G.NICE~PREsIDENT.
COLUMBUS POWELL, SECRETARY a TREAS
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-17
FOR THE
Sn~SaQRR.
6ssssss .sls 9sIssass less Z s5fIh.
NORTH and VRSH!.
Do net fail 60 see thS St your rleiset rendH
by the
NASHVILLE,
CHATTANOOGA
ST. LOUIS R. R.

For maps, time tables and all information in re-
ard TO this route, call on or address
w. l. DANLEY,
Gen. Pass and Ticket Agt., Nashville, Tenn
WM. T. ROGERS.
Pass. ARt.. Chattanooga. Tenn.
A. b. MRENNE.
IunIT79 If Trav. Ct, Atlanta, Ca.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-08-31
Old bets, the

Eleven elephants belonging to Forepaugh's
menagerie marched gravely out of their quar-
teis yesterday III order of size to a huge wat
ering trough on Michigan avenue, in front of
a saloon. A thousand people at once crowded
around them to see so remarkable a sight and
the fun. As all Ohio man would say, "tle
woods was full of it," Old Bets. the largest,
weighing $4,000 pounds, had a dry wink in
her eye, as she surveyed her admirers, and
amused herself and them by picking off an
urchin's hat, sousing it in the WAFER, and then
tossing it into the air. The crowd were not
satisfied with these exhibits, and slyly pulled
the several tails of the elephants. Old Bets
shifted the air for a moment, and took it with
IA cOmical glance of contempt, the insigniti-
canoe of her prosecutors. At a given signal
eleven trunks-and not the Saratoga kind,
either-raised in the air. and deluged the
crowd with Lake Michigau's best. The small
boy that for once in his life has been treated
with all the GRASSLAND he can hold, and that
i'll one t%ri-ennial day, scattered very suddenly
at this onslaught. If elephants can think a
smile, the Triumphant wag of the big ears
certainly expressed a grra at chunko OF satistac-
ton. Old Bets now marshaled the company
into line at the word of the keeper, with
baby elephant, Charlie" S months old. and
weighing 500 pounds in the rear. As the
procession moved grandly back, their tails
pointing III Il straight llnt WtStNdTu, the
keeper volunteered one of those thrilling in
cidents in connection with them, which are
more or less common to the inmates of the
jungle. Only male elephants wear tusks
and all but one of the three males of this
company have lost theirs in their bitter fights.
Old Dick, second in size, is the fortunate pos
SCISSOR of a fine pair of tusks, which he wields
to terrible advantage. Down in Littleton,
n. H., he rebelled against entering his car.
His unusually ferocious mood necessitated
the sending for Charlie Forepaugh, Jr., who
has supreme control over the ami
mails generally. Charlie at once
charged on Dick on horseback, and
ordered him to enter his car. In
Il great fury Dick brought his powerful
trunk around and knocked .FoIepaugh insen-
sible of his horse. Old Bets had carefully
scanned the whole proceedings, and at this
critical instance rushed on Dick and bore
him down to the earth with her mighty
strength. After giving him a terrible punish
ment, such as was meyer witnessed by man
before, she carefully picked up the insensible
young man in her trunk aud bore him ten
derby to a place of safety. Dick gol up and
skunk into the car like a whipped cut, moan
lug with his punishment. Since that time he
! has never disobeyed, aud carefully avoids
offending "Oid Bets."-Inter-Ocedn.