The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-01-19
THE BACHELORS soLILoaUY.

Marry, or not to marry? That's the question
whether It's nobcr in the mind 10 suffer
The sullen silence Of these cob-webbed rooms,
Or seek in festive halls some cheerful dame,
And, by uniting. end it? To live alone
10 more. And by marrying say we end
The bcartachc and the thousand make shifts
bachelors arc heirs to; It's cons animation
Dcvoutiy to sc wished. To marry, to live
In peace Perchance in war--ay, there the'rub;
For i'll the marriage state what ills may come,
When NC have shutHed off our liberty
Must make us pausc-thcrc's the respect
That makes us dread the bonds Of wcdlock;
For who could bear the noise of scOlding wives,
The fis ofsplccn. The extravaganza Of dress.
The thirst for concerto, for plays, and for balls.
The insolencc Ofscrvants, and the spurns
That patient husbands from their cOnsorts take,
When he himself might his quictness gain
By living single? Who would wish to bear
The jeering name Of bachelor,
But that the dread of something after marriage
tAh, that vast expenditure of income
The tongue can scarcely tell puzzles the will,
And makes MS rather choose the single life.
Than 60 to Jail for debts we know not Of
Economy thus makes bachelors of us still,
And thus oar melancholy resolution
Is still increased upon more serious thought
TIE GREAT FLooD IN EUROpE.-LOn-
don, Jaaulry "a b :rlin dispatch to the
TmeS says: The inrnlationS are taking
the form ola great public catastrophe. The
distress is increasing hourly Th2 military
and civil authorities are making the great.
est cxcrtions to mitigate the misery of the
disaster. There is no 81 IN yet that the crisis
of the calamity is reached, High tcmpcra.
turc and rains continue. At Lulwigshafcn,
opposite Mannheim, where the great Rhine
dam gave way last night, the lives Of hun
drcls of people are impcrillcd. y steamer
rescued many hundreds, including the sick,
The deepest distress prevails.
MANNHEIM. January 9.-Thc town APP
pears to stand on an isthmus in the middle
Of a vast sea, The great Rhine dam gave
way last night. \ steamer and forty.Gvc
boats rescued the people by torchlight. The
village of Tresenhem has been deserted
and third of the inhabitants Of Oppan have
abandoned lhcir homes.
LONDON, January "a dispatch from
Wcisbadcnreports three Thousand persons
homeless at Lulwigshafcn two thousand ut
Mannheim and two thousand at Worms
They ar. lodged in schoolhouscs and chur-
chcs
WEIsBApEN, January 9.-Ten thousand
persons are rendered homeless by the floods
in the district near Worms, and are in dan,
ger OF starvation.
VIENNA, January G-Thc Danube has
risen to to the hcigh Of 40 ccntimctrcs,-
\ thousand persons residing in the lower
parts Of the city have been compelled to
quit their homes Traffic on the railway
connecting Vienna with Moravia is suspcn
ded. The large railway bridge over the
Danube has been demolished and the Wen
ma terminus Of the road is flooded
PEsru, January 9,-Tho Danube has
inundated prcssburg, thirty four miles from
Vienna.
GENEvA, January 9.-Thc Paris and
Lyons Railway on the French frontier is
washed away. Direct railway service between
$witzlanl, France and Italy is interrupted.
PARIS, January G.-Thc rivers Saonc and
Doubs have inundated several villages
'rhirty-two houses have fallen at Lougcpicr
IL the department Of Savno ct Loire. The
River Seine has again reached the level Of
the December flood.
GENEVA, January 9.-Ihc railroad be-
tween this city and Belle Gardc has been
washed away. Direct rail communication
with Franc! and Italy is interrupted.