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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1883-05-04

When he had called the meeting of the
Lime Kiln Club to order, Brother Gardner
aros, and said en'lem, if it wasn't for de
wheels on wagon de wagon wouldn't move
When de wheels is on, den what?" "Grease~
solemnly exclaimed an old man. "Kerrectw
whispered the president, softly rubbing his
hands together. "We hez de wagon an de
wheels. We will now pass de hat aroun'
for de grease"
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KILLING BY EXPLOSIVES There is
causefcr unpleasant but fascinating thought
in the progress of modern science in means
for destroying human life and property
Electricity, dynamite end nitro glycerinc
are becoming more familiar and more gen.
erall7 available every year, and tao time is
probably not far distant when the means o.
secretly and safely killing enemies and des.
troying cities will be at the command of
every man who can obtain few dollars.
Can any government exist while its forts
and feet arc at the mercy of any diaffec-
ted subject who is reckless enough to carry
few pounds dynamite in his coat pocket !?
Further, is any private individual safe
while every enemy holds his life in his
power with au electric battery, a few pounds
Of wire and few cents worth of nitro-gly.
ccrine and common earth
The days of violent killing aud open
wars seem destined to be at an end forever.
The rifle that kills in an instant at half a
mile is to be discarded as clumsy, expensive
and cumbersome, and we will Kill scieuti6-
cally with wire laid under or on the
grouhd an explosive that can be hidden
in y vial with strength enough to des-
t. : the strongest buildings. To-day the
most powerful and dcspotic governments
arc powerloss against few score desperate
men, and London is guarded as it has never
been since the old wars, against dozen
Irishmen. How far will science lead us in
the art Of destruction What inventions
will be brought forth to surpass the dynu.
mite bomb and the electric torpedo as far
as they surpass the battle axe aud javclin !?
When the horrible art is perfect, will all
nations abstain from war because war will
mean universal destruction, or will the
human race cxterminate all of its govern
ments, and finally itself, with its own awful
inventions, pitilessIy applied by public
hatreds and private feuds?
There is no dream too wild for the
possibilities of developed and trained human
intellect. Fifty years ago we did not think
it possible that one man could carry a tor
pedo with which he cold destroy the capital
at Washington by spark governed hun
dred miles away. Fifty years hence there
may be something at the command of hu-
man hands that Will uproot or depopulate
islands, mountains or even continents by
the touch Of key thousand miles distant,
or enable one man to destroy an army.
1t would be grim poetic justice if man
should become so wise in the art of dos
troying life that he would cause all life Oh
our globe to cease GreenvtWe News
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SETTING HENs.-This is the season when
hens run mad aud will not be comforted
unless they can hide away somewhere and
sit day and night on wooden nest egg or
an old door. knob.
Several men were discussing this ques-
tion in grocery store one evening recently.
a man who owns large flock Of Dorkings
remarked, 'Not even an act of Congress can
break up settin' hen"
"Ever tried jammin' 'em under barrel
an pourin' water on 'em p demanded the
man on the sugar barrel
EYES," said the Dorking man. 1--WE
poured water on 'em till they grow web
footed. like a blamed duck, and afterwards
found 'em in an old coal hod seLtin' away
on Jumps O coal"
"Tie red rag around one wing" said a
man who was eating cheese and crackers
"That'll fix em."
might as well offer them a chromo,''
said the Dorking man. 81 tied a whole
red woolen shirt on one last spring, and dog
my cats if she didn't make a nest Of it and
set three weeks on the buttons 2"
Then the grocer said it was time to close
up, and each man girdcd up his Ions aud
slowly filed out Detroit Free Press
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(a) Bring the patient rapidly under the
Auence of opium. (b) Tic baudagc SO
tightly around the limb as to stop all circu-
lation, and let it remain until the virus is
removed from the vessels.
Second, the removal of the virus can he
readily accomplished by stretching-using
knife if neccssary-tho wound wido open
and filling it with table salt-:he home
mad stone-well packed in, and let it
remain until partially dissolved in tho fuids.
Then let this portion be removed and anoth.
er quantity placed in the wound, aud SO
continue till tho appearance of tho parts
indicates that the operation has been CON
tinucd sufficiently long to insure the perfect
safety Of the patient. 1t may be we'll to
observe that no water is to be used about
tho patient at all, either in dressing the
wound or in removing the salt After this q
accomplished, the bandage may be removed
and the wound dressed and treated in the
usual way.
Now what is to be done when a person is
bitten by a dog -?
First. Do not lose time in considering
the condition Of the dog, but take it for
granted that he is rabid, and act accord
ingly.
Second. Let one person supervise the
whole operation. This person will send an
assistant III haste for the salt, another for
vial of laudanum, while he himself will
expose the wounded limb and take one of
the patieut's garments aud make bandage
for the limb aud apply as above directed
BY this time the two assistants arrive, and
with the salt he proceeds as above. The
other assistant is directed to administer a
full dose of laudanum, forty drops for an
adult, and if this is not sufficient in due
time to contract the pupil and to produce
other indications that the patient is under
the influence of the opiate, let the dose be
repeated. In tn; execution of this there
must not be moments time lost
To oshow that this treatment is perfectly
rational ard highly judicious, it is sufficient
to say that when hams, are salted, the salt
draws the water and blood out of the
hams, uutes with them and forms brine.
Every one who has cured his own meat
knows that the brine surrounding the
hams residue is bloody. BY chemical
combination between the salt and the
water Of the blood the latter has been
decomposed and its coloring matter, with
other ingredients, driven out. The blood
has lost its Inherent power Of acting as
recipient of any virus, while tho salt, over
and above this chemical action, is known to
be powerful antiseptic.
Insert this, Mr. Editor, in The Consttu>
ton, and let it be so widely published that
every home in the land may procure a copy
of it. If this plan OF treatment had been
known in time it might have been the
means of saving the lives Of little Harry, of
Philadelphia, the little boy in Xenia, Ohio,
and more recently of DR.. Dozer, near Gov.
ington, Georgia. j. ii. LOGAN, NJ. D.
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SelEdenial and patience are sure to meet
their reward.
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So real it was that turned my head
To the singers. rs If to see
The prayeful eys of my beautiful dead
Looking down, as Of old, on me;
When the spell was dissol7ed-I recalled no
face,
No glance, the new choir among,
And the dream hymn, fading, gave gradual place
10 the psalm that Was being sung.
Sad and sedate through the Gothic door
passed with the goodly throng.
And the quaint little church was hushed once
more,
So to rest for whole week long;
But for days and days, in recesses gfay
or memory, long locked fast,
phantom choir held sovereign sway
With the anthems of the past
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THE VANISHED CHOIR.

Once more, after years. In the quaint old church
To the choir 1 bent my ear;
But vainly through it made listening search
For the voices once held so lear.
No lack Of mclodious art was there,
Still grand were the chords fpraise,
Yet missed with q pang the familiar air
Of the choir Of my boyhoods days.
The sweet, pure food Of my sisters voice,
OF my brothers, full toned aud clear,
And of yet dearer, whose accents choice
Made my pulses stir TO hear;
And Of friend and neighbor, each quite distinct,
In the symphony--Where were they
Gone, vanished and mute--a chain dsliHked-
An accord that had died away.
mourned their loss. and then vague and dim
Grew the notes Of the later choir;
And there seemed 70 sweli on the air hymn
..s,ss n Rich and stfSas ltlthe old tame FIRE.
.sss1sSS - = " =
Eacs Yf,ae id re5isl - 3
priced,
My innermost heart-strings swept.
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butter, one teaspoonful baking powder, two
cups of -four. For dark part, two cups OF
brown sugar, yolks Of four eggs, one half
CUP butter, one cup ooffes, one cup raisius;
one half cup ourrants, three cups -four, ono
nutmeg and four teaspoonfuls baking pow
der.
DEPENDANT DoRsEY's FAITHFUL WIFE.
w Washington, April 1G.-The.e arc two
features Of the star route trial which at once
arrest the attention of the observing visitor
to the court room. One is the jury. which
has listened patiently and uncomplainingly
for nineteen long weeks to mass of tangled
and contradictory testip oDy and to tho
wrangling, of opposing lawyers. The 9TH
or is two beautiful women, who, day after
day, watch the proceedings with an intense
eagerness that reveals to every one present
the deep interest they feel in the result.
One Of these ladies is the wife of Stephen
w. Dorsey, the chief Of the defendants.
The other is the widow Of Peck, who vas
one Of the defendants. They are sisters.
They were born and grew to womanhood
in Arkansas, and there Dorscy'and Peck
married them. They are young, shapely
and sweet. faced: They are pronounced
brunettes, aud their clear complexions,
beautiful teeth and great, kindly dark eyes
would win them respectful admiration any.
where. Mrs. Dorsey is the more intense
in her expression of interest. er.gance
scarcely leaves the face of the witness dur
ing the sitting Of the Court. She never
seems wcaried, and pays no attention to
th coming and going of the crowd. Brave
ly, patiently, with true Southern courage,
she is strengthening and supporting her
husband 10 his struggle for what most men
hold dcarer than life-honor and good name
Whatever may be the fate Of her husband
the world will have nothing but sympathy
and admiration for her.
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P FULL LINES OF
ARE FOR PLANTATION AND DOMESTIC USES.

articles we have received but invite You to COLL and
LITY
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SOMETHING WORTH KNowING.-Butter
made in May and june eau &c kept swees
and good until the ensuing fall a1d winter
if one has cool place for storage, other
wise it is somewhat difficult Roll butter
may be placed in tight casks or tubs. and
covered with strong brine. This will ex-
clude the air and keep the butter sweet in
cool room or cellar. Orange county
dairymen use the following mixture in pre-.
pairing butter which is to be kept for some
time To ten ounces Of Gne salt, add two
ounces offs ,ltpster and two ounces Of brown
sugar. The diferept ingredients are mixed
together, and an ounce Of this mixture is
well worked into every pound of butter.
Willard, in his Butter Book" says that
butter SO treated, if closely packed and
stored in a cool place, will keed sound for
several years. Char1oae JonrnaL Observer
The state journal., 1883-12-29
JOURNAL CLIPPINGS
Concerning the Race in all
Parts Of the County.

The Denver Mail does not boom
for a colored Vice President.
The Texas Pacific r. r. has had to
pay $3.50 for refusing Mrs. Johnson,
colored, a seat in a first class car.
The next Mississippi Legislature
will have fourteen colored men as
members.
The Roman Catholics Of Maine
have a colored Bishop, the Right Rev.
John Hesley. He is native of Bal
timore.
Mr.. William Bailey bought an en-
tire block in Barnum's subdivision,
last week. The price paid was ST.
200, Mr.. Bailey is one OF our well-to
do colored citizens. Denver (Col.)
Mail.
Colored people Of Norwich have
issued call to colored citizens of
Connecticut to attend a state conven
ton to be held in that Thursday,
December 27th, to consider ways and
means to secure civil rights for all
citizens. Waterbury (Ct.) ADaeri.
can.
Mr.. Paul Jones of Chicago, ar
rived III the city Thursday night, and
will hang out his single as an attor-
ney at law. We trust he will sue
coed. Kansas City, it appears to US,
is brilliant field for a good colored
lawyer to enter the lists. Kansas
City (Mo) Gate City Press.
Mr.. David Ruth Dillon was twice
married. The first time to a Mulatto
woman, whose children were legiti-
mated in 1854 by an act of the Legis-
lature of Georgia. Afterwards he
came North and married a white wo-
man, Rosa Erich by name. His col
ored Rachel entered suit for divorce,
but provision being made for the sup
port of herself and children, she
allowed the proceedings to lapse.
Now, Mr.. Dillon is dead, leaving a
will dividing his large estate between
his two wives. Rachel, the first
wife, objects to this division, and
since she was never divorced will
claim all of the estate for herself and
children.
At ii cir meeting, December 18th
inst, the School Board Of Brooklyn,
by a vote Of 81 to IA, directed that
all principals Of schools and heads
of educational departments be in
structed to receive colored children,
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chusetts. the Historian, and Judge
Geo. i. Ruiiin.
Hon. Frederick Douglass visited
the Committee to day, and every
member arose, as a mark OF respect
to the grand old man; he was invited
by the Committee to make an address.
but said that he would suggest that
the Committee endorse the position
taken by Judge Harlan ON the Civil
Rights bill. After the appointment
of committees to mem0rialiZe Con
gress on the Freedmen's Bank, and a
Committee on Education, the Com
mittee adjourned, to meet to morrow,
Tuesday morning, at 10 A. M. 1t is
rumored that resolutions pledging
support to the re nomination of lresi-
dent Arthur, will be introduced in the
Committee. A great many OF the
members of the Committee favor the
administration, but John A. Logan,
the grand and never wayerihg Stal
wart, has very large following.
While General Grant, the grardest
American alive would have the unani-
nous support of the coloredspeople
if he was a candidate for nomination.
The colored people of the South
and the whole country have not and
never will forget tie services of U. S.
| Grant, the peerless soldier and states
! man
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Louisville National Executive
Committee.
From the VIndlcator.

From the VIndicator.l
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 1888.
The Colored National Executive
Committee met here to-day at 10 A.
NJ, at Col. Carson's new hotel, 306
Pennsylvania avenue. Hon. w. A.
Pledger presided. A majority Of the
delegates were represented, among
the prominent members present are
Ex Governor P. B. S. Pinchback,
Surveyor Port of New Orleans, Hon.
A. J. Dumont, Naval officer, Port Of
New Orleans, Col. W. Pledger' Col
lector of Customs, Atlanta, Georgia,
Hon. Geo. w. Williams, Of Massa-
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COLORED PRESS COMMENTS

TTNANrmrY OF THE CoLoRED Press
The colored press is almost unanl-
mousl in favor of a High Protective
tariff. because VIC. think. that is the
doctrine of the Republican party.
If our contemporaries will reflect
moment they will see that a protec
tive tariff always bears most heavily
upon the agricultural population and
If the colored people are not agrlcnl
turists they are nothing. If this is
true, and it is generally conceded, do
our contemporaries espouse the cause
Of the people or pursue the path OF
duty ia advocating a tariff system
which feeds the manufacturing inter
ests at the expense of the agricultural
interest? We think not Colored
men are generally farmers, conse-
quently they are free traders, or
should be. Let our colored contem-
raries give reason for the faith that
they profess Globe
DEFENSE OF GEoRGIAs CoLoRED
INHABITANTS Prof. r. r. Wright,
Of Augusta, Ga, appeared before the
Senate Committee on Education and
Labor, and in his testimony made an
able defense of the colored people OF
Georgia and the Negro in general,
against aspersions made by some OF
the Courbons of this city. If we had
the space we would gladly reproduce
his testimony.-4dUocate.
SEEKING REWARD FOR TERFIDY.-
A Colored man named Merrill,
| from Louisiana, who claims to be
Democrat, and made Democratic
speeches in Louisiana and Ohio dur
ing the recent campaign is an active
candidate to take charge Of the Hons'
Restaurant in Washington. The
aspiration of black Democrats are no
high, but we will bet a cookie tba
Merrill will not be rewarded for hi
perfdy with the restaurant. -B~lIe
tin.
RlGur You AEE.-The time is fas
approaching when our people shout
organize the several districts for tn
purpose of securing a decent repre-
sentation 10 the National Convention
The white politicians, ever on th
alert, are now mapping out plans an
making states which exclude such
representation. Vjnd5cat0r.
Would Do JUsr AS MUCH GOOD
Some Of our coIored exchanges wal
, to run Bruce for the Vice Presidenc
To make the advertising schen
, appear sincere why don't they pnf
the ex- Senator for the Presidency
1 once?- World.
\ A PROBABLE M1sTAKE.-Fhe que
4 ton is who will be the next Repub
] can nominee? who can unite t
), colored vote? The only man whU :
The negroes will sacrifice their Hv
for such a maD.-Bee.
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THE recent State conventions held
in the South by the colored men, are
striking evidences Of the far sighted
ness of our Southern brethren in rising
to the exigencies Of the moment. The
colored men Of Pennsylvania should
hold a convention in due time and see
that We get our proper recognition in
the State and National conventions;
and don't wait until the work is done
and meet to endorse the other fellows
work.
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Mr.. CarIlsIe's Committees.

Mr. Carlisle has at last presented
to the country his committees, and
the most casual observer will discern
at glance the ponderous amount Of
Southern bourbonism infused into
them. Never since the war has the
solid South had such sway in the con
troll Of National affairs. Of the fifty
two chairmanships the South gets
twenty. eight Of them, and two hun
dred of the five hundred and fifty-one
places, and these to some of the most
rabid fire eaters in Congress. This is
far in excess Of what the Southern
democracy are entitled to. And at
the head Of none Of these committees
has Southern man been placed with
any National reputation. MIR. Carlisle
has not endeavored to straddle the
blind, but has put a good, sound
Democrat at the head Of every i'm
portant committee, taking the greatest
care to appoint men with his own
views in a majority upon the Ways
and Means Committee. He has also
made the customary democratic blum
der in placing at the head Of number
Of committees men notable for their
lack Of ability. The entire list is q
striking evidence Of thessfew crumbs
the Southern democracy allow to drop
from their table TO be gathered by the
Northern democracy.
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Jno. Fry sailed for Brandywine
station, Va, on last Wednesday
where he will visit friends, Jno. that's
a very good station, for you will not
get dry during the holidays. You
can take brandy which will mako you
whine to think of it.
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The Dying Year.

We are called upon once again TO
witness the death Of another year.
How many will be spared to see It
depart and welcome the incoming Of
the next We cannot foretell, for lite is
40 uncertain that Notwithstanding our
proximity to 1884 we may ere its
arrival be numbered among that in
Vulnerable host Of which Bryant
speaks.
There is peculiar sadness attached
TO this..decay Of the year we feel
certain solemnity overcome US as
we watch the dial Of the clock, the
hands in their movement indicating
that we are parting With that which
is about to roll back into eternity.
For does it not plainly tech as that
we are here but for time, that we
but await the summons OF the self
sane power that controls time? In
taking retrospect have we not often
cause for regret over lives III spent,
failures to do what we should have
done, errors and offences committed
Is it not too often The case that the
year is idled away without on effort
toward improvement in any partlcu
lar, we being utterly listless and care
less as to the value of time I? Ca1
we recall lost opportunities, our short
comings Of the past? No more thar
we can resurrect the many that hav'
fallen asleep never to awake unit
that great day. The year with it
pleasures and distresses, its pure deed
and dark actions, its achievements am
failures is rapidly nearing its end
What availeth regret; it is now to
late for the past Let US, if sparec
make no set resolutions, but go
with a will and carve something OF
Of the future, lettering ourselves an
humanity and securing unto ourselgf
the approval and blessings Of LIN
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The State Journal.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922

State Journal, the only general
newspaper devoted to the interest
Of the colored people in the State
Of Pennsylvania, Published week
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