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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

TnE CRors.-Reports from all parts Of the
county agree in this one respect that the crop
Of upland corn will be q complete failure, worse
than the crop Of 1866 or 1869 some of the old
farmers say Il will be less than the crop of 1916,
Young corn, IL it has been we'll worked, prom:-
ses good yioaa. Tho showers OF tho last two
or three weeks have benefited the cotton, and
we hear encouraging reports Of its condition.
Chester Reporter.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

The RICHMOND POsTOPPIcE.-Richmond, July
ia colored letter carrier named Leroy NJ.
Lee, connected with the Richmond post office,
was arrested this morning for stealing registered
letters from the nails Letters which had had
their contents purloined were found in his pos
session. Lee was examined and committed to
Jail In default of 81 900 bail
The sureties Of Postmaster Forbes have obli-
gated themselves to make good the deficiency in
his accounts by noon on Thursday and if that
shall be done no steps towards o criminal pros
ecution will be taken. The postoflce is now vir-
tually in charge Of Assistant Postmaster Holli-
day, whose accounts were found to be strictly
correct. Col. Halliday is one of the postmas.
ter's bondsmen.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

MORE ABOUT OArs.-Capt. X. T. Mockbee
has harvested this seas On l6O bushels Of oats
rust proof kind-from two aud half acres
Here is another added to the large number Of
instances which prove that it pays to sow oats.
This crop is destined to take the place Of upland
corn in this country. -Chestcr Reporter
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

A THOUSAND DoLLARs REwARD.-New Or
leans, July 9.-Johnny. aged two years and
seven months, the son Of John Cain, who disap-
peared June 10th, is now beloved to have been
stolen. He has light hair. inclined to curl, and
upper front teeth gone. The child is we'll grown
and talks plainly for his age. has a full face,
fair complexion and girlish appearance.-
Though thousand dollars reward is offered
the police find no traces but believe he was car
ried away.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

No PisTOLs.-The Town Council of Laurens
has passed an ordinance tc prevent the carry
ing Of concealed deadly weapons within the
the corporate limits.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30
DEFERRED NEWS ITEMS

1t Is stated that farmer near Ninety Six,
Abbcvile County, raised 1,Ol5 bushels Of oats
this season on seventeen acres. without fertilix-
;n0
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

A GiRL KipsAPPsp ny CiRcus MEN.--Nsw
York, July pa Pittsburg special states that
Salome Burkett, a young girl who was kid
mapped by FIVE men belonging to Boyd & Peters
Circus, at Shanksville, in Somerset County, has
been found, and e. C. Peters, A. ID. Davis, II.
Marks and Clark Wise, the men charged with
the crime, yesterday had hearing before Judge
Hanlon, in Greensburg. Miss Burkett was put
on the stand and testified TO the outrageous
treatment she had received, fully identifying tho
prisoners rs part Of the circus gang that had
maltrcated her. She is in n very deplorab!e
condition. The case will be ferreted out to the
bottom. Miss Burkett is n little country girl
and only fourteen years Of nge. The most in
tense indignation prevails in Grecnsburg. and
threats of lynchng the offenders are feey made.
PITrsBURG, July 22-The proprietors and
about ffty attaches Of Boyd & Peters Circus
have been arrested for the abduction Of and
outrage upon Miss Salome Burkett. Of Somerset
County. Upon n pelimary examination, Miss
Burkett testified that in leaving the circus, she
was separated in the crowd from friends who
accompanied her and forced away by gang Of
circus employees to q ticket wagon, where, un-
der threat Of instant death, she was afterwards
outraged by the whole party Of dozen or more.
She was then taken in a wagon 10 Turner Cross
Roads ard released. In attempting to make her
way home from there she was caught by FIVE
more showmen and again outraged, alter which
she remembered nothing more until she was
found near Somerset, Monday night. The girl
is now partially demented. Intense excitement
prevails in Somerset and Greensburg.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30
aeSotad 10 goFqulturt goriisaltare o

in my face. started back with seven of
the men who were near and ran into the
waste lock. The air pressure crowded the
door shut at the East end. At first it was
blocked by joist which we pulled out and
then the door Stunned to. The lock has
doors at both ends, and glass dead.eyes to
admit the light. Through the dead. eyes
We could see the men inside the tunnel
The water was rushing in. Peter Wood.
land, City Assistant Superintendent, stood
at the door outside the waste lock, which
was stationary. It would not move with
US without knocking out tho dead. eyes
This would be fatal to the men outside rs
the water would rush 10 and drown the
men in an instant. Woodland knew this.
but stood at the door. His face was ghastly
white, and he realized the terrible danger.
He said to me, "Tom, quick burst the
dead.cyes and do what you can for us - i
knew it was death to US all if did not do
80, and obeyed the or Ter. As the glass
broke, the air rushed 10 and the waste lock
shot out into the main shaft, leaving the
men to drowo, as the space occupied by the
shaft filed with water in an instant We
were wholly stripped of out clothes when
We crawled out. l heard rush of water
at our back; it filled in fast, but the obstruc-
tions kept it back long enough for us to
escape from the main shaft. It was all VIC
could do to save ourselves. Woodland was
standing in the water up to his waist when
l last saw him. 1t was sure death, aud l
had to knock out the dead eyes as told
you. He knew rs we'll as I it was over
with them. l shall never forget the look
on his face or the sound of his voice when
he told US to save ourselves, though the
very act was to insure his death.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-07-30

Whep is fire like bad husband? When
Ii goes out at night
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16

unprecedented area of wheat, will
next summer under decreased for
ign demands, find the bottom dropping
out Of the price of the wheat he will
have to place upon the market. And
there again the omnipresent Wall-street
capitalist comes in with his little horn
spoon and dips off the cream into his
own already oyerAowing bucket. Per
haps there is no way Of getting at these
things; but still, when the Millennium
comes, We propose to have our staples
manufactured as near the place where
produced as possible, as for instance cot
ton, wool. iron, &C., while the breadstuffs
we produce shall be mainly required at
the mills and shops that produce the
fabrics, implements, ETC., our citizens re-
quire, and of 50 excellent quality as to
enable us to send manufactured goods
abroad, instead, as now, of sending our
surplus in the shape Of breadstuffs and
raw materials.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
Editorial Spinnings.

The iron spectators are trying to bar
the market.
The corn crop of the West is quite
a-maize-ing.
Where be now the baseball bat-tallions
that used to was?
January said it thaw-t little rain
would scarcely be mist
The bottom is said to be dropping out
of that Mt Vesuvus boom.
Beruhardt's pretense Of being sculp-
tress is declared to be rather thin.
A Justice of the Peace should always
give his decisions with judgment-and costs.
One reason SO many girls sew for a
livelihood is that they do not like to be maid ser
wants of. ... ....
There is man in Chicago whose feet
are so large that he can easily use one of them for
| door guard. ..r.-
The red-breasted robin is welcome at
the cottage door, but the blackleg robbln' the
| bank vault is not 80 popular
1t is feared that the crop of ice har-
vested this season will be light one owing to the
seed being rotted by excessive moisture.
Araminta Jane says she will try an in.
visible green beau at the next reception, and
thinks 1t will be becoming to her style.
When the sun wants to fool the chick
ems into going to roost three or four hours before
bed time it always gets behind the moon to doit,
as, for instance, the othor day in Oregon.
A kitchen girl who is an expert at
ironing is a domestic treasure, hut one vino ex.
GELS at stealing 1t would be thought irony to ex-
tOL
advertise, says snoo3lefx. on 10000 fences;
puff my pills in almanacs, that tell their ex-
cellenees;
circulate my circulars and scatter lots of d0dg-
ers,
And hang up chromos in hotels and houses taxing
| dodgers;
And why their means don't move mankind to
buy squite surprising,
While Smitherkins, who only does newspaper ad-
vertising
Is physicking the masses Of the whole united Ma
tion,
And keeps his bilious pills and trade in constant
operation. ~. ,,..i'
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
APaper masouer.de.

The following, from the New York
World, will be interesting even to our
readers who are strangers to the locality
aud persons mentioned, as paper mas
querade" is rather new:
Mrs. James Couper Lord gave paper
masquerade ball at her residence, No. AZ
Park avenue, last evening, in honor OF
her son and daughter-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Brown Lord, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll, her son-in-law and
daughter, and who have not long been
married. The parlors were decorated
with draperies and ornamental designs
of paper, of which the prevailing colors
were blue and pink with an inter mix
ture of gold and silver.
All the costumes of the guests were
picturesque.
Mrs. James Brown Lord wore gold and
silver paper, with an Egyptian talma Of
cloth Of gold and silver.
Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll wore skirt OF
Dolly Warden wall paper, with waist and
train of lilac. @fe,
Miss Clara Potter appeared in the
characterof brown paper parcel marked
"this side up with care" '9li' i'Nil I.
Miss De Forest impersonated "Queen
of Hearts,"
Miss Elsie Lord was dressed in blue
paper with sailors hat trimmed with
roses.
Master Willie Lord wore tennis suit
of blue paper.
Miss Nicoll wore dress Of blue pa
per showered with silver stars.
Miss Edith Jaffray wore a blue cos
tune Of paper, with powdered hair.
There was no set cotillion, but dancing
throughout the evening. The music was
by Lander. The supper was served at
IL by Plnard.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
The Cincinnati Star .

THE DAILY STAR is served by carriers
to their subscribers in the City OF Cincin.
natl and in all important Western cities
and towns for IL CENTS PER WEEK,
payable to the carrier. Or the paper will
be paailed, postage paid, to any part OF
I, the country for so CENTS PER MONTH.
% per annum.
THE STAR is the only STRICTLY INDE-
PENDENT NEWSPAPER published in
Cincinnati. 1t Is taken and read by
people Of all parties and shades of opin-
ion, and it seeks to present the news oi
allkinds fairly and faithfully, with justice
to kn and with especial favor to none
THE WEEKLY STAR--N PER, YEAR,
circalates in ell parts OF the country, and
Is a first-class family newspaper.
ADVERTISING RATES-In Daily. 12K
{. CENTS per line, or 81 per square OF eight
lines agate measure. In Weekly, 20
CENTS per line
Address THE. STAR v.
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
LAGGING JUSTICE.

1t is said that the United States Su-
preme, Circuit and District Courts have
heard and determined more cases, and
cases involving larger amounts, within
the past ten years than had been passed
upon in all the eighty preceding years of
their existence. Still the dockets of most
of these Courts are crowded with cases
waiting adjudication. The judicial ma
chinery of the Government has not kept
pace with the country's progress, not
withstanding nine Judicial Circuits were
created by the act of April 10th, 1869,
and the addition that has been made to
the occupants of the Supreme Bench.
The Supreme Court, as the final arbiter
of momenous legal questions, is entirely
inadequate to fulfill the duties for which
such Court was provided by the Con-
stitution. CAses involving the most i'm
portant interests of the citizens linger for
half life time upon the docket before
they can be reached. This delay is often
times serious to the parties interested, and
always detrimental to the public.
1t has been customary occasionally for
the Court to advance important cases
upon the docket, or take them up out Of
their regular order. This custom, of
course, works rank injustice to all other
litigants whose cases are thus superseded
or set back, and on the 5th inst.
Chief Justice Waite entered rule
refusing to take up cases until they were
duly reached, although several very i'm
portant cases could not be disposed of
under three or four years. Some of
these thus lingering upon the docket
involve questions that interest the whole
commercial world, and matters in which
the several States are interested in their
sovereign capacity.
Now, why should this state of things
exist for year or month eveng' Why
should not the demands of justice have
been anticipated by increasing the work
ing force of the Court in time? If
the reconstruction of the Supreme
Court has become necessity to en-
able that body to discharge its du-
ties as a coordinate branch of the Gov
ernment, let it be reconstructed. 1t has
confessed its inadequacy to deal promptly
with the business that comes before it,
1t is overworked to that extent that its
rulings can not be marked with the de-
liberation and research that characterized
the decisions of Marshall or Taney.
The fact is that the whole judicial sys-
tenn of the country, from the highest
courts to the lowest, lags many years be-
hind the demands of the age.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16

was sixteen years ago, the school, town
and county tax has advanced from $1S,-
65o,O72 in 1862 to s4S,072, 27O in 1878.
He points out the absolute necessity of
measures for checking the power to Gre
ate local debts and of municipal extrav-
agance. 1t has been heretofore urged,
and we think with wisdom, that there
should be provision in the State Con-
stitution restricting the municipal obi
GERS from creating corporation debts be-
yond a certain per cent. of assessed tax
able property in towns and limiting the
rate at which municipal taxes can be
laid. Aprovision Of this kind ought to
be effective in restraining irresponsible
city officials from squandering the money
Of the taxpayers and dissipating the
revenues of cities in jobs that have
money in them for contractors and po-
litical favorites. Saf
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16

Miss Helen J. Hunt, the young wo-
man who shot her mother in Boston, has
been discharged from arrest on the
charge of murder. The Coroners jury
has accepted the presumption that the
deed was done by the daughter while in
q condition of somnambulism. There
are circumstances connected with this
sad affair which have not been explained
and now 1t Is not probable that they ever
will be. The mother was not only shot,
but her skull was fractured. The girl
admits the shooting, but for the fracture
she does not pretend to account. 1t is
not certain that regular trial would
have resulted in clearing up the mystery
lit could not have done so if the evi-
dence before the Coroner is all that could
have been offered by the Government in
a criminal court The prosecuting officer
will probably, therefore, not interfere in
the case. ,,.,..ra,- 81.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
THE STAFF OF LIFE

If there is any commodity or thing
whatsoever beneath the skies that specu-
lation fails to lay its hand upon, it need
only to be named, and, presto, it will be
appropriated to the purposes of the Wall
street Shylocks. In Chicago the elevators
and grain repositories are so gorged with
grain that many Of the railroads center
ing there are forced to refuse to accept
wheat Tor shipment for that city. In
New York much the same state of affairs
exists; grain, that is to say wheat, is
piled. in vast masses, waiting for turn
in the speculative crank that shall
send 1t up peg, 50 that these accuniu-
lations now withheld from sale may,
figuratively speaking, be made to bring
bigger grists to the operators mills.
The hope Of these gentry is that the
known shortness Of crops abroad may
force up prices so that even above ruling
rates it may be profitable to ship to Eu-
rope, the holders not feeling satisfied to
accept present quotations. There are,
we sec it stated, now eight hundred and
twenty vessels in New York waiting
freights, at almost any terms, to foreign
countries, but the grain syndicate refuses
to ship without higher prices. 4. Some
seventy-five Or eighty vessels at most are
at present receiving, and meanwhile the
accumulation Of wheat and -four goes on
increasing, and prices to home consumers
continue abnormally high in consequence
of the vast stores of the staff of life held
out of market in the hands of spectators.
We have congratulated the country upon
being able to supply our own people
with breadstufs, and yet spare, 125, ,0OO,-
600 of bushels to foreign countries, but
if this is to make bread dear to our
workingmen at home, and place the
profit on the better price secured for the
staple in the pockets, not of the farmers
who grew the grain, but rather into
those ofia syndicate of wealthy Wall
street spectators, we shall look upon
this foreign demand as a benefit, with
some very dark shadows behind it. The
existing condition Of the wheat market
will bring its own remedy, and the rene
dy, unfortunately, as remedies in such
matters generally do, will fall upon the
producer, who, having under the stimu-
lus of present activity, sown an
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
AN EDITOR.

Pittsburg. Penn, September 10th. 1871
est Jacobs Oil cures Rheumatism; Of this am;
convinced. For two years have suffered with
rheumatism In my left shoulder and right srns,
and last fall was incapable OF attending to my
Autes and lay many night unable to sloep. on
severe attack of this trouble struck me- and this
time concluded tn try st. Jacobs OIL must 40
knowledge with but little confidence in Its m6ritA
I freely confess that the result has completely q
.onished me. The first application relieved the
pain very materially, and the continued use ol
only two bottles has completely cured me of thia
chronic evil and tnat after the most eminent phy.
sicans and their prescriptions had been OF no
avail. therefore consider 1t duty to publish
he above for the benefit OF all sufferers wtt4
Rheumatism and kindred complaints"
G. \. HEIi.NANN, Editor Republican.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16

IN the six large pork cities, together
With the other minor points of the West,
the pork packing Of the current season
as compared with that Of last will, it. is
estimated, show falling off of some
100000 hogs. The figures ct and $780,
900 as against 7,4S0, 900. last year. This
is attributed in part to the, better, price
Of corn than last season, 50 that there was
less inducement to convert it into pork.
In the six cities of Cincinnati, Chicago,
st. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee and
Louisville the number Of hogs packed
last year was 100000, while this year
the number is put down at 100000, or
q decrease Of 100000. % a.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16

THE1criminal extravaganza with which
corporate officers have during the past
twenty years been managing municipal
Affairs in'ihcorpoated cities and villages
has got to have more careful looking to
in future or nine tenths of the corpora
tions of the country win become bank
rupt. We have seen the condition to
which Memphis, Tenn, Elizabeth, New
Jersey, and several other towns have
been brought within the last year or
two, and may thus judge what may be
in store for others that fail to watch out
carefully in the matter of corporate ex-
penditures. Mr. Comptroller Alcett, Of
the State Of New York, publishes some
facts with reference to that State that are
worthy Of attentive consideration. While
the sta,e tax proper Is today less than it
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16

THERE is a sea captain in New York
sixty-s years old who was the sole
survivor of two terrible shipwrecks in
mid ocean. Upon one Of those occ lsions
he Aoated three days and half on a
piece OF timber with the sharks nibbling
at his toes and only sustained life by
drinking the, blood of a canine compan,
ion, After all this litter experience the
old SEA dog surrendered to widow last
Tuesday and was married. ,..,..r 80,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
DIR. WASHINGTON.
A Colored Doctor Before q Celored
Justice.
TThe Stock Gazette,1

1Hc otOCk uuZcItt.
The other day DR.. Washington, a col.
ored man, was arraigned before Justice
of the Peace. charged with something
like NAL medical practice. He had given
colofed man a dose of medicine, and
that colored man did not live but one
hour afterward. Al.
The Justice was a colored man, and
probably knew as much law as the Doc
tor did medicine. When the Doctor had
been arraigned, the Justice asked:
doctor Washington, how long is you
been practicin' OBJ Medicinew
"Sence de wah, sah7"
'"What book on de fisick an de human
reconstruction did yer studyw ,...
"'Oh, I studied huff Cornstock's g
Philosophy 'mong de number. Now
Jedge, le'me ak you jes' one pint. What
books on de law did eber you studvw
"Pse heah, prisoner, afore de bar ter
try dis case, an not to stan a 'zamina-
ton. Comm from de law language to
plain nigger and mule, what the HI
made you kill dat MANI 'Splain your
self, sab, or I'll put de clamps Of my
'thority on yer"
"Ef dar's man in dis country what
can explain hisself, Use de man." said
the doctor, arising. "Some few days ago
| vented a new medicine from roots dug
outen de groun'. Hit struck me dat dat
medicine, would cure de rheumatic, an
when went ter see de man what Is dead
now concluded to 'speriment on him.
No medicine amt No 'count till you
Experiment. wild it,, All medical 'ventions
has ter be. proved. When Bright vented
de kidney disease, he didn't know it
would work tilt he tried hit. / figgered
it up jes dis way. Says ter myself, eff
dis medicine cures dis man hits good;
but ef.hit kills him, it wont do TO tamper
wild, or let lie aroun' loose 'mong the
chilun. Well, l gin him de- medicine,
and about an hour afterwards he was
dead. How would / aknowed dat medi-
cine want ftten for use ef I hadn't q
tried ,itf Don't you see the, geography
OBJ my .gegements Science, must be
'vanced, yer know J
~ 'tDats q fac" "Isaid the justice, after
musing awhile, "de Iin6 are we'll sus-
tanned. Mr.. Constable, turn dis man
loose, and caution him not to vent any
noah medicine in my township"