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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

TnE Memo RULE AT THE SoUTH.-A.
X. Mcclure, the editor Of Ahc philadelphia
Times, writing 10 his paper from Columbia,
says:
,"None know better than the masses of
the colored voters OF South: Carolina that
their attempt at sclf.rule has been terri
bic failure, and they are now distrustful Of
all colored leaders, while they have moth
ing but curses for the desperate white ad.
venturerswho impoverished both raccswhile
assuming to elevate and benefit the negro.
1t was this feeling that made the election
of Hampton possible in 1876, and the scep;
tire once wrested from such race will not
soon be regained. They feel little hope Of
aiding themselves by negro restoration.
They saw-the State robbed of lands for ne.
gro homes and the property stolen by those
who claimed to be the friends of the negro.
They saw taxes wrung from property to ed.
ucatc the negro, aud large portion stolen
outright and the schools made merely n
mockery of education. Now they see sew
enty-fve thousand colored children ir free
schools, and nearly twelve hundred colored
teachers instructing them under the bere.
icencc of the State. They see, also, an
amendment of the Constitution adopted,
making fixed and irrevoCable appropriations
for free and equal education, and the Gov
ernor Cf the State declaring for still greater
increase in the facilities for instructins both
whites and blacks. They see business and
confidence revive; they have more labor
and better pay; they are steadily increasing
their friendly relations with the whites by
leases Of lands, and many of them are be.
coming small proprietors since they have
ceased to neglect industry to follow the
commands of selfish leaders and large
proportion of the more thrifty class have
openly taken their political stand with the
whites, while thousands of others, espe-
cially in minority Counties, refuse to take
any part in politics They have majority
Of from 10000 to 10000 in the State, on
strict color line division, but there will never
be another solid negro vote castin this State.
Superior intelligence and will must rule
here as in all other places in the world, aud
both whites and blacks understand it. There
will be unjustifablc methods here to re-
press such negro Counties as Beaufort and
Charleston, and they will need the correct
ing hand of justice; but until all the laws
of human nature and Of interest shall be
reversed, the white man will rule the infe.
rior race, and he will do it better in the
South at this time than the negro can rule
himself. This is not the sentimental view
of the race issue in the South, but it is the
truth"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

INpIANA's GREAT PIaEoN- -RoosT. The
most notable pigeon roost in the West is 10.
Gated in the southwestern part of. Scott
County, Indiana, and covers many huudreds
of acres of the forest To this roost come
nightly, in tho fall season, when pigeons are
abundant, millions of these BIRDS They
commence arriving as carly as 8 o'clock
in the evening, snd often until midnight the
focks pour in. The birds leave at daylight,
and by or o'clock all have departed for
the feeding-grounds, often hundreds of miles
away. During roosting season this pigeon
roost is an exciting place. Hunters from
oil parts Of Indiana, from Ohio aud Ken.
lucky come armed with shotguns and long
poles, and supplied with torches and sacks,
the latter to be FUSED in carrying soff the
captured birds The hunters usualB begin
their work about 8 o'clock in the dYening
and thence on through the night the scene
is an exciting one. The roar Of shosguns is
heard on all sides. Added to this is the
cracking and falling of the limbs tof the
trees from the accumulated weight Of the
pigeons upon them. Torches fash on NIL
sides through the forest, the crash of the
long poles through the lower limbs of the
trees as they sweep down the birds, the
shouts of the hunters and the whirr Of the
wings of the rising aud settling focks Gre
ate confusion worst confounded. Thous-
ands of birds are killed nightly, and during
the day droyes of hogs roam through the for
est to fatten on the killed and wounded birds
left on the ground during the nights foray.
At intervals of many years the pigeons
change their roosting place, but never locate
far away The Scott County pigeon-roost
has been famous resort for more than
eighty years. y
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

TnE HABIT OF SELF .CoNTRoL.-If there
is one habit which, above ALI others, is de.
serving of cultivation it is that of self.con-
troll In fact it includes SO much that is of
value and Importance in life, that it may al
most be said that, in proportion to its pow
er, does the man obtain his manhood and
the woman her womanhood. The ability to
identify self with the highest parts of our
nature, and to bring all tho lower parts
into subsection, or rather to draw them all
upward into harmony with the best that we
know,.is the one central power which sup
plies vitality to all-the rest.
How to develop this in the child may
we'll absorb the energy Of every parent !;
how to cultivate it in himself may we'll en-
ploy the wisdom and enthusiasm of youth.
Yet it is no mysterious or complicated path
that leads to this goal. The habit of. self
control is but the accumulation of contiu.
ued acts of self denial for -~Arthy nhiaci-
il is buS the, repeated authority OF the rea-
son over the impulses, Of the judgment over
the inclinations, Of the sense of duty over
the desires. He who has acquired this
habit, who can govern himself intelligent.
ly, without painful effort, and without any
fear Of revolt from his appetites aud pas
sions, has within him the source of all real
power and all true happiness. The force
and energy which he has put forth day BY
day, and hour by hour, is not exhausted mol
even diminished on the contrary it has in
creased by use, and has become stronger anc
keener by exercise and, although it ha!
already completed its work in the past, it il
still his well-tried, true aud powerful wea
pom for ,utpre conflicts in higher regions
| Philadelphia Ledger.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

ARE We GoINa Too. FAsr.-Seyer,
M!'sers 4 In a position to kaow the exact stat
soa commercial affairs have recently uttered
2M'nous hints. They say that the oondi.
4 uons DOW alarmingly resemble those nre.
cedlng oraskes that in the past have sbacts
eu the business Of the entira coun,r,,
Inc prosperity of the last fow va.ss
nas gain called into life and reckless .o.;s
~ sne specuiators whosssdestruction is ON.
Y question OF lime, and general business
: q. SecoMing rapidly entangled and identi.
nea VITA them. Men are unlearning bitter
Lessons ! and departing from the safe 2 rules @ orl
s's.r returns for fair Investments. Another
era Of "fush times" based on hollow an.
pearances and airy trust, is being brouobt
ABOUT Southern business men are notnraI
conservative, having neither the suner.
nuity or the irresponsibility that produce
rsckiessness and dangerous methods. II
would be well however for them TO loot woIi
=. 20 themselves, and make all safe against tho
.nreatened storm. Each man knows hoe,
now to do this for himself. ''
Ihe great commercial crashes
periodically at the North. sunnlv
'trong reason for commercial d;vorea e.
"a 80 - eeutiOu 10 0therS, Their |
esn9us Gus OF doing business are too fast for
: : me nave not yet acquired the strength
v:wsl,nsta0d J. !, a severe shock and recoysr
Il. s.Sa saSf: oing with them 5 W.
would soon get far beyond our depth. AS
long us Northern cities are our recognized
business centres, we are constantly ex-
posed to dangers which we can not avoid,
even If We sec them. However averse we
may ba to rash speculation in New York,
we form so small part of its interests that
our protests or resistance are not felt, al
though the fall will drag us down. With
business centres in the South, however, they
will be controlled by the generally identi.
cal Southern interests and sentiment, and
We will have our affairs within reach of
guidance.
Meantime those who are involved with
Northern cities would do we'll to sec that
the wreck will fall clear of them. Legit.
innate risks are necessary to all business, if
we desire to progress at all, but if the ship
is being steered toward rock we should
look carefully and prepare Greenvile
/ Neios.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

cam looking for work % Indignantly
responded the honest tramp. Not much
I amt. There's too much work in the
country now. ] am trying to keep out Of
the way Of it,"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

WHAT You Do, Do WELL-When you
undertake to do anything, be in earnest
about it; do it with your might Fortune
and fame are often lost by not being in earn.
est. This is a real world-a world of real
work, real success, real conflicts, real fail
ures, real triumphs, real defeats. And let
no man be 50 over confident in his own abil-
itieS as to look with indifference upon the
difficulties before him-the danger and tri-
ais that he must pass in order to reach the
goal upon which his eye is fixed. Full and
glorious success never yet did crown the
languid aud indifferent exercises Of the
powers of mind and body. 1t requires
effort to push ones craft against the current
of rivalry, jealousy and vice, and if one
would have his progress marked by complete
triumph his efforts must be well directed,
constant and unrelaxing. But he who feels
that he has only to be inactive and wait for
tn, wind of fortune to drift him into the
haven of wealth aud fame, has lost every
promise of success, and is in far more dan.
ger of ultimate disaster than the tempest
tossed mariner, though his mast be gone
and his vessel shattered and torn by the rag.
ing sea. BE in earnest meet the Difficult
ties which daily arise with determination
to conquer and rise above them. Let not
your adversary find you sleeping or dream
ing of an easy conquest. Too much en-
fidence in ones powers is fatal to success
aud often brings defeat most DISASTROUS
BE faithful, be true, be kind, be firm, be
earnest
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

A crosse yed man who said that he was
going to "vote as be shot, had his ballot
carefully put among the scattering BY the
iudicious inspector.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

Married life reaches the acme Of bappi--
ness when a woman can eat cradkcrs ia
bed without any complaint from her hus-
band
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14
NOTICE 4
10 tourists and Health Seekers.
SUMMER SCHEDULE TO THE MouNrAlEs..
Spartanburg, Union q Columbia
- - -AND----- c = -
sparfanburg a AshevilIe II. u.
k2 ME

Is.r
srARrAsBuno. s. C. May IL, 1850.
. On and after the above date the follovineE
SSnedule will be run over these Roads daily
Sundays cxcepted):
UP TRAIN.
ease AIston,....... ................... 100 D. mn
N Sn'ou.'.. .'.... so %. M E
Leave Spartnnburg. 18 n :,
arrive At hendersonvile............ 80 p. I'M.
Close connection is made at Aiston with train
IRON =, columbia on Greenville 8 Columbia Road.
a NJ Coumoia, connection is made from 0s,Arvcs--
ton, Wilmington a,ii Aug1nsr =
At Spauaranbnrg, connection Is made at Air.
IizneDepot with trains from Atlanta and Char
iotte, also with Stage Line 10 Glenn Springs.
AT Hendersonville. connection is made with
hrst class Line Of Stages to AshevilIe, arriv.
ing there the same evening. @
Hkr Parties desirous OF visiting Cossnr,s
Head or other points of interest can be provided
with hrst class convcyances from the Livery
Stables In Hendersonvllle at reasonable fStssx s
= =
viii leave Heudersonyille 8.35 o. ui
Spartanburg .80 p.
Union LOO p, m!
Arrive Mt Alston ......s...... 4.30 p. m.
These Roads are in excellent condition fur,
nished with first class Coaches |; provided with
all necessary appliances for safety and comfor.
Of Passengers. At Spartanburg and Hcndcr
sonville the Hotel accommodations are now am
pie for large increase Of travel. They will be-
found well supplied with good Mountain fare
| at reasonable rates. rs
FREIGHT TRIMS.
The Freight trains will run three times o.,
week, viz: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
JAMES ANDERSON, sup,t.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

"KEEp GITTINa'"-"My friends" said
Plato johnson, in one Of his oratorical
moods, ode worl" am so constertuted dat
while dar am jest bout huff for everybody
who is wilin' t., work, dar amt morsel
left fur de man who sits under de trees an
'spects de apple to fall in his mouf
"Now, is studied apples all my days,
an / nebber knew one dat wouldn't hang
onto de limb until it was shook down-dat
is, OBJ course, asound, sensible apple.
"Don't stan 1$Aa' de corner OBJ de street
wild wild expecteEbn dat the man who
Ibis dar is goin' to come out on de cold side
walk an ask you to be his son-in.law.
"I'Ve seen many man lOa6n' 'roun'
Forty-second Street Depot as though he
felt sure dat if he stayed dar long huff Mr.
Vanderbilt would come out an hand him
check for one million dollars an say,
"Young man, take dis small pile an be
happy"
"No; de better way am to git your eye
fixed on something, an den keep movin' +,
keep movin'. DE whole philosophy Of life
is in de little words, Keep gittin', and az
ter awhile you arc sho' tofn' yourself some
whar."
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

Rubber Goods for Gentjemen aud ladies ca
be found q. SPEARS 3 COLToN'ss
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14

Ladies' Cloaks.
WE have an elegant assortment Of the latest
styles Of Ladies' Cloaks.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-14
Black Cashmere.

II you Intend buying Black Cashmere don
''n = 'A'"''' 'n' spEaas i coLroS,s
Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
Practical Knowledge.

The world little inagines how largely it is indebted to the laborious researches of scientific medical men for many of the most important truths relative to human health, happiness and life. As population increases, and the value of food is enhanced, the knowledge which chemistry has elicited is becoming more and more valuable m a practical point of view.
 Some kinds of food are more nutri- tious than others, and if it should be found that articles which are cheapest have most nutriment and give the h1gh- est ability to labor, then knowledge be- comes money to the poor. Tables vary, but some of the general results are as follows: One pound of rice, prepared for the table, gives 88 per cent. of nu- triment, and, consequently, relatively proportional ability to labor, compared with other articles of food. A pound ot beef, costing 15 cents, gives only 26 per cent. of nutriment. According to these estimates, therefore, rice, as an article of food, Is 100 per cent. cheaper, 100 per cent. more valuable to beef, yet countless numbers of the poor Ill the large clues straln polnt ual!y to purchase beef at 15 cents @ pound, when they could get pound of rice for one-third of the amount, the rice, too, having three times as much nutriment as the beef, making a practical differ ence of 600 per cent, aside from the fact that boiled rice is three times easier of digestion than roast beef, the rice be- ing digested in about one hour, roast beef requiring three hours and halt There in meaning, then, in the reputed fact that two-ffths of the human family live on rice. We compile, therefore, the following tables for preservation, as being practically and permanently use- full. All the economist requires is to compare the price of pound of food with the amount of nutriment which it
Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
Rather Enthusiastic.

The Wilmington (Del Daily Repub
 licdn lately contained the following ,tsm of popularinterest: Dr. J. F. Speck, who is connected with the Wilmington Euery Evening, speaks rather enthusi- astically of St. Jacobs Oil. Dr. Speck states inst he uses the Oil in his family as house hold ieme dy, sort of univer- sal panacea for all aches and pains, and has always found it to act most happily. His attention was called to 1t by the many testimonials in its favor, and he one day used it upon himself for sore throat. Two applications were sufficient to effect cure. He also used it on his little girl for sore throat with gratifying success. The same child had scarlet fever this winter which left the tendons of one leg much contracted. Tho little prattler couldn't walk without assistance and suffered much inconvenience and pain. Several applications of St. Jacobs Oil restored the limb to it's normal con dition and she has not experienced any trouble since. Dr. Speck states that he has also seen the Oil act charmingly in toothache. He thinks St. Jacobs Oil is sterling remedy, and does mol hesitate to recommend it for rheuma
 tism. etc. 's .'sgt t.. r
Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
Trying to Escape.

Bolts and bars and walls built to re. sist the teeth of time are not always sufficient to restrain the convicts in the State Prison at Auburn. Confinement seems to sharpen the wits of the prison CTS, and not only have they been known to devise successful plans to escape, but to invent most ingenious appliances and machinery. Old attaches of the prison could tell stories of the achievements of coEvicts that would read like fables, and yet be as true as sacred writ. Every morning the contractor drives in through the north gate, and receiving his load of three or four barrels at the kitchen, drives out again. A convict several years ago thought he saw in the swill- barrel means of escape, and he pro- ceeded to put his idea into operation. He enveloped hls head in cloths and got into barrel of liquid swill. The gate keeper is provided with long iron rod, and is required to probe or examine every load, no matter what it may be, that leaves the prison. When the wagon reached the gate, the keeper ran the rod into the barrel in which the convict was concealed. It struck an obstruction, and he plunged it in again with consid- erable force. He was amazed to see filthy object emerge from the swill and utter muffled cry of pain. It did not take the keeper long, however, to deter mine that it was 8 convict attempting to escape. The clever plot of the prisoner created great deal of comment at the time. A prisoner once disappeared, and no trace of him could be found. The officers searched for 8 week without avail. Finally, after all efforts had been given up, the keeper of the tailor shop instructed his men to remove the pieces of cloth, of which there was 8 great quantity, from beneath the cutting bench. The bench was entirely closed, with the exception of small aperture into which the odds and ends were thrown, and while the pieces were being taken out the missing convict was un- earthed. The man had been waiting for an opportunity to get outside the
 walls, but he waited one day too many
 it proved. He had been fed regularly
 by other convicts, who brought him
 food in their pockets from the mess
 room.
Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
Percentage ot
Lincoln,s Gettysbnre Oration.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent 8 new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
 Now we are engaged in great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We have met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate portion of that field gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
 But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedi- cate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devo. tion to that cause for which they gave us the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these deaG shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have new birth of freedom and that govern ment of the people, by the people, fol the people, shall not perish from tho earth.
Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
The Devil Fish.


 The Octopus, also called the devil fish, has eight arms. It is bottom animal, like 8 huge, uncanny spider, crawling about inserting its arms and body into crevices seemingly one-t third it's size. The body appears like an oval bag, and is often raised, from which extend the eight arms lined with suckers, in the midst of which is the mouth and bills. They often show great variation of color, various tints following each other over their bodies in quick suc- cession, while the eyes seem to flash with green, baneful light. They have no pen, and their power is shown in the fact that in 1877 large one caught an Indian woman at Victoria and carried her into deep water, where she was found hours after still in the embrace of the monster. The Octopus Punctatus has been found to expand fourteen feet, and one was observed at Sitka that had a radical spr cad of nearly twenty eight feet. This species is common in the markets at San Francisco, where it is eaten by the French. Numbers of fine specimens of these creatures can be seen in the collection of the museum at Central Park, and Yale possesses 8 specimen that. though only four feet long, weighs 14a pounds. The appear ance of these creatures as they move along can hardly be described, and the feeling of horror experienced by the writer when first accidentally grasping one in the coral will not soon be for gotten. They are extremely powerful, the arms often giving way before the suckers that, like so many air-pumps, cling to the flesh. They rarely attack 8 person. The power with which they hold on to an object can hardly be realized. The writer has speared mum bers of comparatively small ones in the Gulf of Mexico, and in lifting them into the boat they would fasten upon the seat or blanks, requiring all the power of a strong man to detach them, ofte1 the spear tearing the body part away il the effort. The small ones are ex
 tremely common on our Southern coast
 and one named after Prof. Baird i
 found in the deep waters of the Gulf o Maine,
Connecticut western news., 1881-12-21
Salt in Diphtheria.

In a paper read at the Medical So- ciety of Victoria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having for many years re- garded diphtheria, in its early stage, as purely local affection, characterized by marked tendency to take on putre- factive decomposition, he has trusted most to tho free and constant app]ica- tion of antiseptics, and, when their em- ployment has been adopted from the first, and been combined with judicious alimentation, he has seldom seen blood poisoning ensue. In consequence of the great power which salt possesses in preventing the putrefactive decomposi- tion of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has often described for diph- theritic patients living far away from medical aid the frequent use of a gargle composed of tablespoonful or moro of salt dissolved in @ tumble of water, giving children who cannot gargle teaspoon or two to drink occasionally. Adults to use the gargle as prophylactic or pre- ventive, three or four times day.