The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-04-22

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which shonid disgracc him in the eyes of his
brother Senators. He stands charged with
slander Of kelpost nggravniin2 kind and has
had cast apoashim an mputation which it would
seem no hoHeFaolc mnn. and especially one
who assaaies tssteprcscnt great State, in the
most eSaltedi tfibnnal in the country, could
| for eneS t9pmtht support. We have before
alluded to- g Nnfortunate position in which he
had oeenPI tpy Senator George, of Missis-
sippi- 81 sIh taSpting to excuse or palute the
conduct ef - party in sustaining Malone, he
put on reto4 8dthe United States Senate the
| storyicfIuH &olQgta headed citizen of Mas
sachesetts Vb91had gone to Mississippi with
his mz4eH Rilt }hctories and employed hun
4 dreds fzl'nl.3 and who for opinions sake had
i been sssb}eete@ hnmbcrlcss insults and pcrsc-
i1a<tiosis Wing IN the burning of his fac
tory and his being compelled to leave the state
and return TO Massachusetts, With the charac-
tcristic, cowardly evasion of the authors o!
similar stories Of occurrences in the Southern
States, he refused to give the name of the alleged
victim. Then. when brought to the book by
Senator George, who informed him that there
were but two or three factories in the whole
State of Mississippi aud that one of them could
not be burned without its being a matter of
common notorcty, he hcstatingly stammcrcl
ont that il was not n factory but cotton. gin
house. The Mississippi Senator, thcrcupon de-
MED the whole story and informed Dawes. that
having refused to give the name of the gray
haired victim, he must assume the authorship.
and thereby the iuputaton which had been cast
upon the author
Under this grave charge the Massachusetts
Senator rests TO day. The army of active news
paper men in Washington, and indeed, all over
country, have cnicavored To come to his rescue
by discovering this gray haired Northcrncr, but
in vain. Finally one of them is compelled to
| telegraph to his paper at is now known posi-
| lively that Mr. Dawes has not one particle of
reliable cvidcucc upon which TO base his afro
cious calumny::against the people of an entire
State
slandc: Of this kind, involving charges of
brutality, uncivilizcd and incxcusablc, coming
from United States Scntor in his Official ca,,a.
| city, and rs such entered upon the records of
| the government cannot be classed with the ord-
nary newspaper reports dclivcd from irrcs Duns.
bc sources. lis truth has been denied, but
this is not sufficient. The Senate Of the United
States cannot afford TO allow one of its members
to rest under the impu,ation of f,lschood. If
he has not the manlincss to clear himself of the
charge to rcract it, the Senators should illus
tratc their own manhoon by cxpclling him from
the b"dy.-Chartone Observer.
| MERCHANDISE IN THE MAII.s.-Ine u">..;,..
whether tags on samples of merchandise con-
tanning figures imdicang the price and width
are mailablc as fourth class matter was recently
brought to the attention Of the Tustoilicc Depart
mcnt by some leading dry gools firms. The
railing of the department upon this question are
embodied in the following general order, which
has just been issued 10y PostmastcrGcncral
James: Tags or labels attached TO samples of
merchandise may have the price and width of
the gools printed thereon either by the origi-
mi impression or 10y hand stamp filling in
blanks left by the original print. This will not
! auth"riz, such use Of hand stamp for any
other purpose than rs desert piion of the thing
attached. 1t cannot he used to convey informa.
! ton personal in its nature disconnected from
! the thing to which the matter so stamped is at
iachcd, except at rates for first. class matter
| The width Of the article of which sample is
! given may be stated in writing, but when so
written, the purpose ofidcntifcaton being held
| TO have been accomplished rs authorized by the
statute, the price of the article cannot be added
either i'll writing or in print, without changing
the classification Of the matter to letter rates
FAILrRE or THE BLACKBERRY CHor.--Thc un
! parallclcd nature of the past ccason has capped
! the climax by an unhcard Of event. From va
riOus parts of the county comes the announce.
mcnt that the blackberry briars are dead. The
ol deSt inhabitant does not rclr cmbcr such
thing as n failure of the blackberry crop
When everything else has failed the blackberry
has offered its consolation. But it is now posi-
! lively asserted by those who have examined
closely into the matter that the briars have beer
killed to the ground. The consequence OF
this i'll this immediate section is to deprive the
people generally of cheap luxury at tim
when it is most needed AMI the poorer class OF
people of no unimportaut source Of revenue
How it will be in those sections of the Stat
where the backberr trade has been dcvelope
to n considerable extent and the fruit constitute
n principal staple, remains to be asccrtainci. -
ChHioUc ObSrrCr.
A PALrNHLE SmoT.-Thc New York WOriR
referring TO the pciticn of Gen. Malone for n
allowance of S25,OOO per year as President o
the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Rnilroa
Company, for the four years and more durin
which the business of the road was admmislcre
by receivers. and the General engaged i
working up his political REIMBURSEMENT scheme
for his own advancement says: 'Mr. MahOn
has put in n little claim for back pay rs a raroa
president at $4,000 year, and does not oiic
the slightest encouragement to any pronOsitio
to scale it down and readjuSt it n footin
: more favorable to the shareholders in the en-
borrasscl concern In his individual emmett