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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

NEW POSToFFICE RULEs.-POstmaste
General Key assures us that an arrangement
has been perfected by which letters with
out postage will be Immediately forwarded
to the Dead Letter Office.
A pair Of onions will go for two scents
Parties are compelled to lick their own
postage stamps and envelopes the postmas-
tes cannot be compelled to do this.
Nitro glycerine and dynamite must be
forwarded at tho risk of the sender. IF
they should blow up in the postmaster's
hands he cannot be held responsible.
Whom letters are received bearing no
direction, the parties for whom they are
intended will please signify the fact TO the
postmaster, that he may at once forward.
It is unsafe to mail apple or fruit trees
with the fruit on them, as some of the post
masters have weakness for such things.
Bottles of whisky should be well corked.
1t is earnestly requested that lovers writ
ing to their girls, will please con6ne their
gushing rhapsodies to the inside of the
envelope.
Ducks cannot be sent through the mails
when alive. Their quackiug would disturb
the slumbers of the clerks on the postal
cars.
When watches are sent through the mails,
if the sender will put notice on the out
side, the postmasters will wind up and keep
in running order.
Old maids, feather beds, and inflated bal
looms, - unavailable.
6Tsa Smith gets his mail from GA ,279
postofices, hence letter directed to John
Smith, United States. will reach him.
Babies can be sent as third-class matter,
provided sucking bottles and napkins accom-
pany them.
Eggs are not mailable upless fresh and
should they become chickens on transit they
become the property of the Postofice Depart
ment.
When you enclose o money order in
letter always write full and explicit direc-
tions in the same letter, so that any person
getting the letter can draw the money.
Alligators over ten feet 10 leught are not
allowed to be transmitted by mail.
Garlic, onions, assafoetida, gum camphor,
switzer, limberger, and sapsago sent through
the mails should be left open at the ends.
Letter-carriers arc required to have pene-
tration enough to know when letters should
be delivered to jealous wives hence, if he
delivers letter from your girl to your wife
you can have him discharged.
The placing Of s.amps upside down on
letters is prohibited. Several postmasters
have recently been seriously injured while
trying to stand on their heads to cancel
stamps placed in this manner.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

A FORCED LETTER.-"Tve got a letter
here," said Colonel Scion yesterday, (which
some one ur nuther is tryin' to play off on
me as reglar letter from Joe Kuntz,"
and the Colonel placed the letter on the
desk. 1t was neatly written and Joe's name
was signed to it correctly.
Certainly, Colonel, that's Joe's letter."
said we.
"No, stree bob, no sir" said the Colonel,
very positively, "that air letter is forgery
coz Joe suffers worse than whisky fowin'
outen bottle, an this ere letter roads as
straight as q mllraec."
And the Colonel wouldn't be convinced
that Joe didn't stuttcr in his writing - Oil
Ciy Derrick.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

RowDYIsM IN SpARrANBURa.-Lat
there have been two dangerous rows among
the negroes Of the town. Down below the
Spartapburg and Union depot one man was
severely cut by another, and his life was
despaired Of for q few days. Another dis
graceful fight took place out on the Howard
Gap Road, about Bas Weaver's. Three or
four persons, some Of them women, took a
part iD this. A double -barrelled shotgun
pistols and savage dog were the weapons
used very freely. Two or three were wounded
but none seriously. The dog is supposed
10 be the most peaoeable and law-abiding
member of the families engaged in this row.
We would suggest to Sheriff Thompson to
keep his triggers handy, for they will be
needed to hang colored brother soon, if
they do not stop their foolishness. Spar.
tan.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

CHICKEN CHoLERA.-Mr. w. Il. Huff,
one of the most successful poultry breeders
in the State, gives the following as a sure
preventive of that prevalent and very dis
astrous disease known rs chicken cholera.
viz: "Capsicum, rosin, copperas and sui.
phur, In equal weights, thoroughly mixed.
Feed in corn meal Dough- tablespoonful
to dozen fowls, to DO given daily as long
as there is any appearance of the disease
afterwards, once or twice week till the in.
fection entirely disappears. A piece OF
coarse cloth saturated with the same prep
aration aud spread under the eggs, will pre-
vent breeding Of chicken lice or other YER
min in nests" Mr.. Huff assures us thai
he has never had diseased chicken sine.
tho introduction Of this preparation. It il
certainly worth trial, as it is generally {
fatal disease.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

DR.. d. Galen Jones, v S.-sThis ere
animile, sir, has got a concattynation of the
carteroia aster, actin on the jugglar, which
is aggyvated by a mobbid oondishun ov the
mestiforious CLAN r
Horse Opner.-"Goodness, gracious
He'll die, sure! He can't get over all
them p
DR.. J-"No, sir. But it is lucky you
called me in time. shall give min dost
ov high -hoss- amos, an you'll see him sur.
yivc TO onct."
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

An Indiana murderer, under sentence
of life imprisonment, has been released for
six months. His health is so bad that he
would speedily die if kept in confinement,
and Governor Williams has given him tho
vacation for recuperation. Bonds are given
for his return 20 prison at the expiration Of
the half year.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

A ROMANTIC GIRL OF THE PERIop.-
One day last week man at Fort Wayne.
Indiana, employed young man to Law some
carpets. He was handsome youn. man,
nj. %"!:.. romantic cast of mind not at all in
harmony with carpet-laying. He met the
daughter of the house, who also had ro-
mantle streak and an admiration for hand.
some young men, which, it seemed, was as
likely to absorb carpet-layer as any one
else. She fell awfully in love with the car
petlayer we are speaking of-or, rather, she
believed she had done so. He fell Just as
awfully in love with her, and, being very
romantic, she didn't take the trouble to in.
quir, anything about the carpetlayer. He
was just too beautiful for anything, and SO
romantic, and that was all that was re.
quired to make good husband. The
young woman agreed to marry him almost on
sight. She did not even say anything to
her father about it, fearing that he might
be willing, and thus Illustrate her romantic
little schemes for an elopement. She had
her tender young heart so set upon sliding
down rope from a back window that she
couldn't bear to think Of being disappoin.
ted. Well, Of course, she had her own ro-
mantle way about it; the programme was
carried out in u charmingly romantic fash.
ion and the carpetlayer and the young wo-
man got away to Indianapolis and were
married before the situation of affairs was
suspected. The young woman, concluded
it was juet lovely. Three days after there
was another elopement to which the roman
tic young woman was not a party. Her
husband gathered up all her jewelry and
what little money she had and went away
to hnd another romantic girl to elope with.
The young wife has gone back to her papa,
and very likely in a week will be making
arrangements to fall into the clutches Of
another good looking carpet-layer. Ever
SO many girls grow up that way.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

The New England Farmer inquiries,
"What cows should farmers keepr" Fubbs
suggested that they should keep their own,
as a serious Inconvenience often arises from
propensity to keep those belonging to
other folks
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28
NOW Is THE TIME TO MAKE UP YOUR
CLUBS.

The State of South Carolina,
THE COUNTY OF UNION.
In the Court of Common Pleas.
Matilda Webster, Mahals
Webster and Amanda Web Copy summons.
ster. Plaintiff, For
dgaiass Relief.
James g. Love and James G. Complaint
Love the younger, Served
To the Defendans above named.
VOU arc hereby summoned and. required 10
l. answer the complaint In this acton, which
Is fled In the Office Of the Clerk Of the Court Of
Common Pleas, for Union County, ut Union, In
Of your answer TO the said complaint on the
subscribers at their Office, No. 2 Law Range.
within twenty days AFTER the service hereof, ex-
elusive Of the day Of such service and IL you
fail TO answer the complaint within the time
aforesaid, the plaintiffs In this action will ap-
ply TO the Court for the relief demanded in the
complaint.
Dated Union, 8. c., 2sth April, A. D. $780,
MUNRO & MUNRO,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
(-1 JAMES MUxRo,
SEA- Clerk
To the Defendant. James @. Love, the younger:
Take notice that the summons herein, of which
the foregoing Is copy, was fled in the Office
OF the Clerk Of the Court Of Common Pleas for
Union County. at Union, in tho State Of South
| Caroline. on the 28th day Of April, 1880.
MUNRO 4 MUNRO.
Plaintiffs Attorneys,
2 Law Range, Union, s. G.
! April 80 IL /6t
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

SKIN GRAFTING.-The Hartford Post
tells the following story of the experiments
made on Windham County boy: HCn
the 3lst December, 1873, Jesse, an eleven.
year'old son of Edward Morgan, an influen-
tial citizen of Canterbury, fell into a shall
low vat containing solution of potash in
boiling water. He struck on both feet, the
liquid coming nearly up to his hips, and
instantly the skin of the legs commenced
to peel off. 1t was found that the flesh on
both legs had been so thoroughly boiled
that no cells remained for a new skin to
form growth upon. The boys life was
one Of excruciating agony for months. Last
April young physician determined to at
tempt the salvation of the lads life by skin
grating. The boys parents imploring him
to undertake the operation, he was finally
induced to try it. Over 1000 gratis were
used, the mother of the child, anoble.hearted
Irish coachman in the family, the lad him
self and many Of the neighbors submitting
portions of their cutice for the operation.
Hundreds of visitors flocked to see the pa
tient, and implored tho doctor to try piece
of their skins in the operation. The pieces
OF flesh were pulled off with forceps, and
we're about three times the size of tho head
of a pin. The process ofgrafting is similar
to that employed in horticulture. The
gratis grow fastest in the Spring months.
One Of them is put on q muscle, where it
sinks in and deposits cell, after which the
top sloughs of. Although the work is not
yet complete, the legs are nearly restored
to their normal and natural functions, and
the child can walk short distance without
a crutch, but is still very weak from exhaus-
ton aud emaciation."
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

IL is only tho female sox who can rip,
darn and tear without being considered pro-
fame.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28

Latest thing in boots--Holes'
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1880-05-28
8 AM U Ell 8. STOKES,
TRIAL u u . TsI O Il,
Union q. H., 8. q.

= All business in the jurisdiction Of Trial Jus
tice attended to with promptness.
Once In new building, next door TO THRs
Office.
JAMS u
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17

so rigorous that the evasion of any Nj
hilist always furnishes matter for nine
days wonder. The Governor General
of Kief Gen. Tchortkoff, derived much
of the ill-fame with which his name is
invested from an order that he issued
some time ago that all prisoners at
tempting to escape were to be shot down
by the sentries without any effort being
made to induce them to surrender.
However, neither this order nor the sub
stitution of solitary confinement for the
usual mode of caging the Nihilists in
gangs, has had any appreciable effect in
diminishing the number of escapes.
Fomin, the Kharkoff leader, created
some sensation in 1873 by escaping
through chimney, and the seventy
criminals confined in the same room
with him would doubtless have got clear
also, had not the 18th, very stout man,
stuck at the top of the shaft, and so
blocked the way for the rest. To pre-
vent similar occurrence, the governor
of Slootsk prison, in Minsk, placed Ter
enti Tcherentsoff and Ivan Savantseff
in separate cells, depriving both of their
bed linen and superfluous clothing, for
or they should try and lower them
selves from their third-story windows to
the ground. The Nihilists, however had
scarcely been in prison a fortnight when
the governor, one morning, found to
his chagrin that his birds had flown.
Aided by pocket knife they had made
ladder capable of being taken to pie
ces from the wooden floor of their cells
and the ironwork Of their bedsteads, and
at night, having picked the locks of both
rooms, they had descended to the base
ment, amerged through a trap on the
courtyard, and fixing their ladder against
the wall, had clambered over and sue
cessfully effected their escape
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17
An Ancient Jutland Tomb.
pall Nall Gaaeft

Our correspondent at Copenhagen
writes: can interesting and probably
unique discovery has been made close
to the town of Randers, in Jutland, of a
grave, dating probably from the sixth
to seventh century, containing the re-
mains of woman who had been bur-
ried in her-richest attire, it being still
possible to trace the dress, which had
been interviewer with gold thread.
Across the chest were laid two bands
of gold lace, on the top of which again
were laid some ornaments composed of
colored glass beads, some having an
outer shell of gold leaf, and several cut
like diamonds, as we'll as small peforat-
ed silver coin. To the left Of the body
was found q knife pair Of scissors a
small milestone, for needles,) ard a
small glass cup, which was broken in
pieces. In the tomb was found also the
remains of q wooden pail with iron
bands, which had contained the food
supposed necessary to support the de
ceased on her journey to Hades. The
discovery affords another proof of the
exceptionally high position occupied by
the women in Scandinavia during the
heather times in comparison with near
ly all other heathen countries the body
had evidently originally been enclosed
in coffin of rough oakcn planks. Great
interest is taken in the scientific exam
nation of the silver coin, by which the
actual period may be at least approx
imately ascertained.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17
The convention then took u recess, and then
fsr Iee PRESIDENT the first ballot

SOME time since Morris Livingston, a
wealthy Israelite of Utah, visited Pough-
keepsie and met Miss Rachael Rosen-
baum, a prepossessing young lady of
social position, to whom he became en-
gagged. On returning home letters
passed between them, and the enamor-
cd youth presented his fiancee with a
handsome diamond ring, necklace, and
other jewelry. Subsequently the girls
father found out that Livingston had
been married and divorced in Utah and
caused the engagement to be broken off.
Livingston asked for the return of the
jewelry he had given Miss Rosenbaum,
but was told he couldn't have it, where
upon he began suit to recover the trink-
cts on the ground that they were not
given as an absolute gift, but on the
condition that a marriage should follow
between the parties. The outline Of the
defense is foreshadowed as follows:
While Livingston was in Poughkeepsie
he was entertained at the Rosenbaum
residence; banquet, the cost of which
was considerable, was given in his honor,
and the jewelry referred to is held as an
offset to the same.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17

Since last November he has handled no
less than O,0OO, 600 tons of iron, most of
which was purchased in England when
prices were high. When iron began to go
down, and many persons who had entered
into contracts with him broke them on
some pretext or other, and the material
was thrown upon his hands.
A SPECIAL from Las Vegas, of the Sth, is
to the effect that Miguel A. Otero, vice
president of the New Mexico and Southern
Pacific railroad, has received what seems
reliable information that the Navajoes and
Utes had powwow near TERRA Amielo,
in Rio Ariba county, in this territory, and
it was understood that the result of the
council was to make war in common against
the whites If true, this is the most i'm
portant information, and troops in large
numbers should at once be poured into the
Navajo reservation and the Ute country.
Although Col. Geo. P. Buell., with four
companies of the 18th infantry, and some
other troops, is now on the march to Fort
Wingate, which is almost in the centre of
the Navajo reservation, still his force is
entirely too small to prevent an outbreak.
The Navajoes are rich in horses, cattle, and
sheep, and could place at least six hundred
well-mounted and armed warriors in the.
fold - .ugl-t...
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17
CRIME.

SOME scoundrel dosed the lunch pals OF
workmen at kingmsn's pork house at
Indianapolis, Ind, whereby a number o1
them were made sick, four of them danger
ously.
WHILE Geo. L. Maxwell and family Of
Campaign, ILL.,, were in the yard talking
thieves entered their house and secured !;
valuable gold watch, Il large amount Of
silverware and jewelry, and SlOOin money
HARRY PORTER and Pat Fenny, of Ii;
Porte, Ind, quarreled over 4 horse-tradt
and fought with knives, cutting each Other
seriously. Porter is known in Chicago
where he shot a saloon-keeper about a yeal
ago.
ANGLE TAKATo, secretary Of the Jap
anese legation at Washington has com
| mitted suicide. The only clew to tho
cause of suicide was letter left by the de-
ceased, in which he stated he had been con
cerned in the insurrection of 1877 in Japan
! and had forfeited his honor.
AT Norfolk, Va, on the 2nd inst, !;
colored seaman belonging to the schooner
Mignonette, killed the captain and cook
and severely wounded the mate, and took
boat and escaped to the shore. He is
supposed to be hiding in the swamps.
AT Boston on the 3rd inst. the jury il
the case of Charles Demond, the ex-treas
urer of the Massachusetts Home Mission
arv Society, charged with embezzling $780,
coo of the funds Of the society, disagreed
this morning and were discharged. This
was the second trial.
Miss KATIE HILL, II years old, disar
peared from her fathers residence in Font
du Lac, Wis, three weeks ago, and nc
knowledge was had of her whereabouts un
til the police were informed this morning
that she lay dead at the house of DIR. ii. IL
Miller, cancer specialist. The corner
jury is endeavoring to fix the responsible
ity
JOHN J. CLARE, who was jailed in AL
bion, New York, some time ago for break
ing into the Union bank at Medina, Or
leans county, broke his prison bars and es
capped. Another prisoner was with him
but they were both recaptured inside of al
hour.
ELLISON HAMPTON, living within twent,
miles of Sumter court house, 5. e., bea
his son, of 10 years, to death with leathe
thong. He first beat him until his arm
broke the switch, and then tied him up t
stake in the yard and struck him nearl
400 lashes, the boy expiring under tn
| lash. The father has been arrested
A DUEL duel took place last week betwee
A. C. Elave Esq, of the Richmond Wig
and Col. Thomas Smith, son of ex-Gov
Smith, of Virginia. Elave was seriously
but not fatally, wounded at the first fire
The duel grew out of comment IN tn
Wing, upon denouncing cx-Gov. smit
among others, hence complicating his sor
Warrants are out for the arrest OF the cor
cerned.
| AN indianapolis dispatch says eigh
cases of fine goods belonging to the s,oc
of Ed Stuart, the tailor who LETT town late
lIy. after transferring the stock to his brotf
er' were found in an ice-house this ever
ing. The goods were valued at $4,000, an
we're taken by constable, on behalf Of $
Stein & Co., of Cincinnati. Stuart's fai
ure is bad, his debts being s25,DO or $50
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17

Ir is said that American beef and
mutton are cheaper and better i'll
London, Liverpool, ane Glasgow than
they are here This surely ought not to
be. 1t is very well to send an excellent
quality of meat to foreign markets, but
home consumers should not be de-
frauded thereby. Several causes of the
inferioritv of our meat has been men
toned: it is said that the best animals in
our livestock yards are exported to
Europe, and the second quality shipped
to Cuba, and home consumers have to
put up with what is left However this
may be, there is no doubt but that there
rs a great difference in flesh of animals
which have been hurried from distant
places and driven directly to slaughter,
and that of those which are first rested
and fattened.
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17

SOME of the Canadian papers are in
clined to criticize the snail-like pace
with which the Canadian Pacific rail
way is being constructed, and to con
trast it with the speed at which similar
works are pushed in the United States
Certainly considering the millions that
have been expended and the years that
have been wasted stretch Of about
$50 miles of track operated only by con-
struction trains is not fattering show
ing. There seems, however, to have
been new energy infused into the Cana
dian government, as work Is now ac-
lively in progress on a section of two
hundred miles of line from Winnipeg
west, with prospect of having it open
ed this year Meantime work is slowly
being pushed on the line from Thunder
Bay to Winnipeg, though some two
years seem likely to be required for Its
completion
The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-06-17
VERY LATEST NEWS.
A Record of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.

THE house foreign affairs committee, on
the 2nd, postponed action on the Lorine
bill until next Thursday, the 4th.
THE senate bill ratifying the Ute agree,
ment has been amended and passed by the
house.
A LARGE number of sugar importers and
dealers will be here this week to lobby a
little on the tariff.
ADMIRAL AMMEN has dispatch from
Engineer Menacai, of the 5rd, stating that
the Nicaragua Congress has confirmed the
concession recently made by the president
of that republic to the American company
for the construction of the inter-oceanic ship
canal across the Isthmus.
BURTON c. Cook, attorney of the Chi
cago and Northwestern railroad, is in
Washington 1t seems that his railroad
wants to extend the line to Deadwood and
pass through the Indian reservation. Red
Cloud, Spotted Tail, and other chiefs are
here, and he has been in consultation with
them on the subject. The Indians profess
to be willing to grant the privilege pro
vided they are paid enough for it.