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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
LET THE GIRLS RoMP.-Most riothe,

LET THE GIRLS RoMP.-Most mothers
have dread of romps; SO they lecture the
girls daily on tho proprielics. and exbor
them to be little ladies. They like to sec them
very quiet and gentle, aud prlm as possible.
The lot Of such children is rather pitiable,
for they are deprived of the fun and frolic
which they are entitled to. Children
boys and girls-must have exercise to keep
them healthy. Deprive them of it. and
th,y will fade away like flowers without
sunshine. Running, racing, skipping,
climbing-those are things that strengthen
the mucles, expand the chest aud build up
the nerves. The mild doses of exercise
taken in the nursery with calisthenics CT
gymnastics will not invigorate tho system
like good romp in the open air. Mothers
therefore, who counsel their little girls to
play very quitely make n mistake. Bet
ter the laughing, roscy- checked, romping
girl, than the pale ily-faccd one, who is
called every inch lady. The latter rare
ly breaks things, or tears her dresses, OF
tires her mothers patience, as the forme,
does; but, after ali, what does the tearing
and breaking amount to? 1t is not wise
policy to put an old head on young shoul-
ders. Childhood is the time for foolish
pranks and play. The girls will grow
into womanhood soon enough. Let
them be children as long as they can. Give
them plenty of fresh air and sunlight, and
let them run and romp as much as they
please. BY all means give us hearty, heal
thy, romping girls, rather than pale-facet
little ladies, condomned from their very
cradles to nervousness, headache and similar
ailments.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
In a BLIssFUL TRANCE Washington,

In a BLIssFUL TRANCE Washington,
April l9.-The ouly people in town who
have any positive knowledge concerning the
Presidents marriage are the President and
his private secretary. Tho latter refuses
to affirm or deny the reports, although there
is no doubt that he would be out in great
haste with denial il'the President so wish>
cd. Several of the Presidents friends have
felt on intimate enough with him to gen.
tly chaf him upon the subject, but to
all the President has made no sign beyond
good naturedly evadiny the subject. The
lady friends Of Miss Cleveland say that if
the latter were here they would soon find
out whether there was to be marriage or
not. They all recall the fact that Miss Clev-
Gland has often talked as ifshc did not ex-
pect, after the season which has just closed,
to return to the White House to stay for any
length Of time. This is now understood to
mean that Miss Cleveland knew when she
went away from hc:c Of the maria &C. II
has been generally thousht that Miss Clevo'
land would have preferred that her friend,
Miss Van Vechtcn, should have beon the
chosen one. Miss Van Vcchte IN, during
her stay at the White House, became very
popular with the people Of Washington So
cicty.
The President aud Col. Lamont 20 out
riding now every evening over the finc coun.
try roads in the neighborhood Of Washing
ton. The President was out in au open
Victoria this evening. He leaned back,
the perfect picture of comfort aud content.
He has never looked in better health than
he does now. Those who see him in these
blooming days speak of his pleasant smile
aud tho tones of deep-scatcd content in his
voice, even when discussing plain matter
of business. His callers believe without any
other evidenc that he is to be married. Az
ono caller said to-day There is no mis-.
taking the air of ripe, mature man of the
world, who is dallying upon the blissful
Threshold of taking unto himself young
and charming wife,.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

CoTroN SEED FOR FATTESINa HoGs.-E. Nj.
of Georgia, has feed cotton seed to ptss, with n
small amount of corn meal-the cotton seed
being cooked and the corn meal stirred in after
the cotton seed had been boiling half an hour,
and after boiling another half hour it was
allowed to stand for some hours before being
fed. When fed three pounds of cotton seed and
two pounds of corn meal each, the pigs, gained
very rspidly-adozen pigs gained an average
of two pounds each per day. lie says cotton
seed is not one-half as valuable rs corn as hog
food; and yet when fed in this WY with corn
meal the grain was more than worth twice the
weight of corn alone Chicago Times.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
CONNECTIONS.

Close Connection is now made at Seneca with
X. & D, Il. II. for Atlanta and beyond.
A. With the South Carolina Railroad from
Charleston.
With Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad from Wilmington and all points North
thereof.
With Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Rail.
road from Charlotte and all points North thereof
Ii. with Ashevile and Spartanburg Railroad
for points in Western North Carolina.
G. With A. and G. Div, II. and D. II. r., from
all points South and West.
ID. With A. and Z. Div, II. and D, r. r. from
Atlanta and eyond
Z. With A. and C. Div, II. and d. r. r. from
all points South and West
F. With South Carolina Rail- oad for Char
lesion.
With Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta
Railroad for Wilmington and the North.
With Charlotte, Columbia aud Augusta Rail
road for Charlotte and the North.
q. With Asheville and Spartanburg Rail-
road from Hendersonville.
ii. With A. and c. Div, II. and ID. II. II
from Charlotte and beyond.
Eastern Standard Time.
G.. II. TALCOTT, Superintendent.
ID. CARDwELL, Asst General Passen gerAct:
April l5 IA H.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

TREATMENT FOR SHEEP CATARBm.-Make q
feeding trough in the shape of o v. Sprinkle
salt along the bottom and about one inch above
the salt apply with small brush pine tar along
the sides, the object being to get the tar on tho
Sleeps nose while they are licking the salt.
This is a more expeditions manner than catch
ing each one separately and applying; but in
bad cases they will have to be caught separately
and tar applied to the nose with small brush
Feed TO all the following:
ID. Assafotida Powd.
lb. Sulphur.
lbs Common Salt
2 bu. Bran and Oats.
This Is an excellent tonic, and after hard,
severe winter sheep need tonic and blood Dill
rifer. Cor. Wool Journal
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

FARM ACCoUNTs.-In view Of the fact
that this is an era of progress, and time of
sharp competition in the various channels
of business life, it is necessary, if he wishes
to maintain his rightful place in the race,
that the farmer should become a practical
accountant 1t is essential in farming, as
well as in other kinds of business, that we
know the sources from which our profits
come, and also the places where our losses
are to be met. 1t is necessary, if We wish
TO rise above those methods no longer ap-
plicable to our changed conditions, that we
become not only laborers, but students as
well. This question Of knowing your bust
ness relations with the farm, is not fancy :;
it is not difficult problem to solve it is
within the limits Of reason to say that every
man gifted with average Intelligence may
know for certainty where his losses occur,
and where he receives his gains This being
the case, it isn't necessary to conduct op-
erations in justas-it-happens manner
and be compelled to guess at the results
for guess work, even at its best, is mislead-
ing.
With more study, with better under
standing ofapplied business principles, there
would also be better appreciation of our
advantages. We should not so often hear
the expression Farming don't pay There
would not be so many decrying the condi-
tion of our agriculture, and looking with
longing eyes to the 'far West
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

GES. X. II. HEMPHILL CoSvERTED.-"Rich-
land the widc-awake correspondent of the
augusta Chronicle, makes n prediction rs to the
political situation at Abbeville in the following
pleasant paragraph in reference to our contem-
porary, which will be appreciated by e host of
friends, who will be glad to give him their
votes on election day:
GEN. HEMrIILL MADE A Characterization
Il. X. lIemphill, who has not been strong ad-
vocatc of the farmers convention. was in the
city this week, Attending railroad meeting.
While here he dropped in at the Agricultural
Department to hunt up ''some statistics on the
tn boys The Commissioner too X charge of
him aud soon had him initiated into the ancient
and honora BILE order Of Changers. When he
left the department building the small end of
New Hampshire corn nubbin peeped slyly out
of the upper breast pocket of the General
linen duster, n quart of alabaster beans filled
one of his lower pockets, while large cluster
Of Spanish COOLERS rat tied in the other pocket.
His hair was literally busted with hay seed
The General wore his new honors with becom.
| ing dignity, but learn that on his arrival al
home the dogs barked at him, and his friend.
failed to recognize him. But he created some
thing Of q sensation by the visible evidences Of
| his conv erson, and it is said that the politica
effect will be sufficient TO send him to the Stat,
Senate this year."
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
An UNPRovoKED Observation-Disclosures Va.

An UNrRovoKED Observation-Disclosures Va.
2.-About clock this morning f. NJ. Hughes
o young man of 81, was stabbed on Broad street,
near Fouth. When reached by policeman the
wounded man said he and two companions were
passing along the street when n colored man
passed between them. Upon being call to
account for this conduct the negro stabbed
Hughes, almost disemboweins him. The
wounded man cannot survive. He is very 70.
specially connected in this city. No arrest has
yet been made.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
PRAYER.

Prayer is the language of the heart to God ;
We all may pray,
And even while beneath Ills chastening rod +,
Can meekly say
Father. Thy will be done. o let me be
Wholly resigned to Thee.
Pure. fcrvent faithful prayer is ns'er in vain ;
The ravens cry
Reaches the ear of God, then why should
Fear that my prayer my Father will moi
heed
And grant nc all need?
Help Inc to pray, Dear Lord, and watch AM
wait
Thy time to give;
Nor may ever think the blessing late
That receive
In Thy good time, and own appointed way,
Bur, trusting. may pray.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

II hear that you are to marry wea ltby
American girl" said one British nobleman to
another. "Yaas," replied his Ludship. "You
must allow mo to congratulate you. Are there
membranes on her property" "Ya'as-the
lady"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30

Solid Trains between Charleston s. Columbia. s. G.
and Columbia and Hendersonville.
Special Parlor Cars attached to this train bes
tween Charleston and Columbia. No extra
charge for seat in these cars TO passenger,
holding First Class tickets.
j. +. DIVINE, TIM. EMERSON.
Genl Sup't. Gen'l Pass. A cen
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-30
Emslie Nicholson, Ag't.

The Corbin Disk Harrow Is adapted to more
kinds Of work than any other harrow in use
Would like to see II generally used.
J. II. MINTER.
Try One and be Convinced.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
Making an Old Woman Happy.

We knocked at the door of a wretched house, and it was opened by an old wo- man. We had been shi7ering little ourselves in our warm wool gowns and heavy wraps. This woman, whose blood was thin and old, wore-well, what was it9 The original material was lost in the patches that covered 1t. That poor, thin old woman in that. poor, thin old gown! She, led us to little bare room where, a moderate fire was burning. She gave'us seats, and Dorothea handed her the things the good women of the mis- sion had sent her. When plump chicken was laid before her, she said, fixing her hungry eyes upon it:
 "A chicken! never thought to have one again. get mutton at two cents a pound, and It's very good for pocr folks" .,~
 looked at borothea, The tears were in her eyes, and her slender fingers were nervously handling her little purse. In the room adjoining lay the old woman's only daughter dylng with consumption. Oh. that cold room that wretchcd bed. those bare walls! the thin old hightgown that the sick girl wore those hollow eyes, the labored breathing, the wasted hands!
 And yet the old woman said that God was good because her son had succeeded in getting a job in coal yard, and now they could have fire !-Butalo Express,
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
Musical Sands.

An examination of the musical sands of Kauai, California, which has excited so much interest on the part of geologists and others, shows that they possess pe- culiar microscopical structure. The grains are found to be chiefly composed of small portions of coral and apparently calcare- ous sponges; they are all more or less perforated with small holes, in some in- stances forming tubes, but mostly termin- ating in blind cavities, which are ire Quently enlarged in the interior of the grains, communicating with the surface by small opening. There were also in the sand small black particles, formed principally of crystals of augite, nephe- line, and magnetic oxide of iron, embed ded in glatsy matrix. The structure of these grains explains, it is thought, why sound is emitted when they are set in motion; that is, the friction against each other causes vibrations in their substance, and consequently in the sides of the cavi- ties they contain-and these vibrations being communicated to the air in the cavities, under the most favorable condi- tions for producing sound, the result is the loud noise occasioncd when any large mass of sand is set in motion, there being, in fact, millions upon millions of resonant cavities, each giving forth sound.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
He Was Left.

Ex-Senator Hamlin recently told how he was defeated by single hair when first an aspirant for the United States Senate in 1S47. He was before Speaker of the House in the Maine Legislature. William c. Allen was member. He was noted for the great care with which he combed his hair. One day, during a full debate, Speaker Hamlin noticed the smooth, careful way In which Aliens hair was ''done up," so he sent a page to the gentleman asking him to step up to the Speaker, Allen cum- piled, and with marked gravity Mfr. Hamlin informed him that ofie of the hairs on the top of his head crossed an other. Allen grew wrathy at once, and declared that he did not come there to be insulted. Aftewafd he became State Senator, and he stubbornly re- sused to vote for Mir. Hamlin, finally
 ompelling him to withdraw.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
Village Life in France.

Many of the houses in the village are of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, and have walls four feet thick and win dows with deep eubrasures; one house especially is a good specimen of the re- naissance. Every one in the village, as indeed in all this part of France, how ever miserable the novels they live in, is monsieur or madame. Every one is a proprietor, though very small one. They can all talk of my house, my gar den, my vineyard. The different fami- lies live so near each other and so entire ly removed from every one else, that they see each other at all hours of tho day, and the children are brought up together like a flock of pigeons. Every Sunday in summer the whole population takes to the river like ducks, swims, plunges, and teaches its children to throw themselves into the deep water from the top of rocks or to fish with their hands under the great stones of the river Afterward a joyous partition is made of the fish which has been caught, and they go home to enjoy all but the best, which are sold at Argenton, when there are no strangers in the village. In the evening they dance on the castle hill in the 6ou,ree which though long and monotonous, is full of : character. Life is very cheap at Gargil- esse. When house is for sale, which is not very often, very tolcrable residence and plot of ground in this lovely situation may be bought for e25. Half of one of the double whitewashed cot tages, in the very centre of the village life, with steep roof, and stone steps leading to its door, was that where George Sand lived, loved and wrote. The landlady of the little inn remembers all about her, and was the Madame Rosalie of the "Promenades autour dun Will lage. ."-Art Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
FOR THE FARM AND ElOME,
Culture of Cabbures.

The culture of cabbage is one that pays n large profit whenever it is we'll dones An instance of profitable crop of this vegetable growth ih Michigan, a State which is taking leading .Stsi,lon in re- gard to vegetable culture, is given as fol- lowsE It was Mir. Wilson, of Tecumseh who planted 10 acres, for which the Len awee County Agricultural Society award- ed a special prize. The method of Nh Wilson was as followss He mahured the 10 acres of stony, sandy, loamy, three: year>old sod with i5e loads ef taTn- yard manure, s,eee pounds of superphosphate, and 5000 pounds of salt. The land was thoroughly plowed and narrowed and planted July and ? with 5O,000 fiat Dutch plants, trimmed to a single leaf, and puddled with mud The land was cultivated six times and keren mellow and clean. No pests cr diseases troubled the plnnts, which bid fair to head we'll when the examiners visited the field about the 1st of October Perhaps some reason fol this success may lie in the fact that Len awee County boasts one of the ives' Farmers Clubs in that State ar in the United States.-sNeso Fo,k Times.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20

A despatch from Rutland, Vt, reports the probable murder of McNeil, the default ing president of the Lancaster Bank, by ac- complices. Mrs. McNeil believes that her huss band has cen foay dealt with,
 Additional disasters t> shippina fin the gale of Friday are reported from points on the New England coast, somo accompanied with boss ot life.
 While cleaning an old fashioned Colts revolver John T. Bevins, a ticket seller and doorkeeper at the Coliseum Rink, N. Y, Acci- deatally shot his wife, inaicinx fatal iniurfes.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 The Secretary of the Interior. in response 10 applications of settlers ia Now Me1ico to have the tract of land known as Nolan grant No 39 restored to the public domain, has made decision favorable to their applica- tions, which throws open to settlement 576,- 900 acres of land.
 Senator Harrison reported favorably from the Committee on Territories the bill for the admission of Dakota. It was accompanied by . long report embodying the constitution Of the proposed State and other papers
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
,. Ths greater the ''ensh es dttean water the niUie salt 1t Is.

The, greater the ,'cp.H q Ocean wate, the nio.e salt it is.
 It was in oldcn time customary to rat ify an agreement by bent coin.
 The Cuban dandy sometimes attends ball in black dress suit, white aecktie and green shirt,
 Ex-senator Stewart of Nevada intends to elevate a gold-nodnfed lighfning-rod on the tnc residence which he is build ing at Carson.
 Caesar bought lands to be distributed among the poor. The system of public distribution of bread or grain among tho people was not abandoned until the seventh century after Christi
 St. Peters Cathedral, just finished at Moscow, has five cupolas; and 900 pounds of gold were used in overlaying them, The doors of the temple cost $310, ,0O0 and the marble floors $1, 500, 0o0
 Tea was sold in England in 1860 for sixty shillings pound. This, consider ing the different value of money, was about twelve times as much as is paid now for pound of the same commodity.
 The practice of saluting ladies with a kiss was once very general. The cele- brated "kissing comfts'' We're sugar pldms, once extensively used by fashion able people to make their breath sweet.
 In days gone by neither sowing, plant ing or grating was ever undertaken without a scrupulous attention to the in- crease or waning of the moon. It was thought that the increase of the moon made plants fruitful and that un- der the full moon they were in their best strength.
 One of the most common weeds ill all southern and western Texas is the troms pillo (so1an.m e1eagnvoiunO, whose black berries when ripe have the remark able property of curdling milk, though they disclose no acid reaction. The Mexicans crush the fruit, put it into a muslin bag, aud sdbnierge this in a pan of milk until coagulation has taken place.
 ! Millions of squirrels have been emi grating from Mississippi to the more ele vated grounds of Arkansas. The plucky little animals swim the Mississippi Rive1 beginning at point about five miles be low Memphis, and continuing from there twenty miles down stream. Thousand of them have been killed by the farmers who use clubs in place of guns, on nc co,int of the immehse n,imbers A simila emigration took place in 1872.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20
It Cured the Cat.

A man recently cured his cat of get ting upon the table in search of proven der. He left some nitro -glycerine in d saucer close to the edge of the table and poured little milk O.. it, then went out and waited. As he peeked through the window he saw the cat jump upon the table. H. smiled. Soon the cat found the milk, and in drinking it put its paw into the saucer. The man laughed aloud with glee. Then h. heard a noise, and slowly got up from r corn-ield over the fence, picked several cords of splinters out of himself and started into the house to see how the cat felt, but was surprised when he found the cat had gone and taken ,the house with her.
Connecticut western news., 1886-01-20

To young stock, growing fast, feed good, strengthening food, which vii produce muscle and help in forming large, strong frame; While, the chioks are still growing they should be fed often and vwitE $ variety of food. They ar. often fed on fattening food to keep theaa in good order, but this is not what they want, and such treatment will often pro- duce ll-formed, weak-limbed fowhs
 Of the several remedies for the cabbage maggots tried at the New York experi- ment station, the kerosene ethtlsidn,, pre- pared as fcllo#s, has been found most effective: One pound of common soap is boiled in four quarts of warm water :; when all is dissolved-and while the sudS are boiling they are removed from the fire. One quart of kerosene oil is then added and thoroughly mixed By stirring vigorously until the mixture is cold. One pint of this emulsion is dissolved in ten gallons of hot water md applied to the roots of the plants.