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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-20

ree- We had the pleasure last Monday
or very interesting visit from our talented
young frieLd, Prof. e. c. Eimore, the popu-
lar Principal Of tho Pacoet High School
Mr. Elmore is not only young man oil
superior mental abilities, but stands de.
servedly high socially rs man of ire.
proachable moral character.
Mr.. Elmo.e says Pacolet holds il. own
we'll with other towns and cities around il
10 the march of progress and business ad-
vancement. Its population is perccp,ibly
increasing, while the saw, the trowel and
the hammer give ringing evidences Of
thrift and prosperity.
The Memorial service of cx-Presi dent
DaTis's funeral, on the llth, was observe d
with patriotic solemnity by the people o
Paco!et The stores were drapcd in mourn
ing and closed, while the church bell.
tolled from IL to IL o'clock, EgSNssEsey, y
venerable soldier Of the Cross of Christ and
OF tho Confederscy, Rev. A. A. James, held
impressive services in the. Presbyterian
Church, which were attended by very
large congregation Of the citizens of the
town.
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Letters from Europe.

One Of the most interesting; as well as the
most valuable pamphlets VIC ever remember
reading, is little work sent us by the
author, Capt. Thomas w. Patton, business
Manager Of the Asheville Daily Citizen.
The work is series Of letters written by
Capt. Patton, from many of tho most noted
places in Europe, while on an extended
excursion, aud published in the Ashe-
vile Citizen at the time but they were writ
ten in such pleasant and attractive styl and
contained so much interesting historical in
formation, now almost out Of print, of the
tries through which he passed, that they
were considered eminently worthy of being
put in more convenient form for preserva-
ton, and to be placed alongside of the
literary works of more eminent travellers.
Capt. Patton is one man out of hundreds
who should always be travelling. lie sees
everything while passing, and has the talent
and happy faculty of telling what he sees in
the pleasantest manner, and embellishing
1t with deeply interesting events of by-gone
years; thereby making his letters pure
and profitable source of literary entertain
ment.
We think the Captain has struck his forte,
in the newspaper business but We confess
he is nearly the last man of our acquaintance
that we expected to find in that business
Not that we doubted his mental ability, but
we had no thought that his taste was in that
direction: lie gets out the handsomest and
we hope he is 'rolling in the trade dollars
We feel an interest in him, for he is an
old personal friend, and his father,
}, +. Patton, almost built the S. and U. r.
r., and is favorably remembered by all who
were living here at that time.
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Farm TALKS.

never before have seen tho farmers SO
far advanced with their work at this season
of the year. Owing to the unusually favora-
BILE fall, the majority Of them are through
gathering their crops, have sowed their
wheat, and are ready for Christmas.
Cotton Is short, from third to fourth,
yet having received better price for It than
last year, and having run less on time for
supplies, buying less and paying moro on
cash basis, thereby getting better bargains,
the condition of the farmer is much better
than usual.
Every honest man will rejoice to see the
hopeful future for the farmer, and IL we
who till the soil will utilize the means within
our reach, using energy and economy, moth
ing is to prevent US from becoming pros
porous class of people.
And now I advise you, brethren, to keep
out Of debt. Don't get anything on time that
you can possibly do without. That is one
thing that has ruined financially SO many
farmers-paying long time prices. Tho
honest farmer has been made to pay high
time prices for goods furnished to doubtful
parties.
1ass--.rvuw vvery man Can reap just what he
sows. We will not he forced to puy the
uncertain debts Of Mr.. A. or Mr.. B.
And hope and believe, brethren, that the
advantages and benefits you have derived
the present year arc only forctaste of
pleasures and blessings that are in store for
yourselves and families. Lay your plans
thoughtfully and prudently, for the coming
year. Protect your stock from the inclem-
ency of the winter, by erecting comfortable
shelters for them, and keep those shelters
well Uttered with pine needles, leaves, or
something else that will add to yonr compost
heap. With little labor and care you can
make large amount Of manure at much
less cost than to buy commercial fertilizers.
Keep your farming tools out Of tho weather.
"There is more in saving than in making"
and your farming implements will last
twice rs long when not unnecessarily ex-
posed to the sun and rain.
Let us spend our time in making our
homes more comfortable, convenient and
attractive, and our farms more remunerative.
The thoughtful progressive farmer can
always have some paying work in store,
Indoors or on the farm, for all kinds of
weather.
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G. =. GARRETT.

G6" The time for paying taxes, before
the penalty will attach, has been extended
to February 1st.
We now suggest that the law be SO
changed that certain parties in the State
may take their own time in paying their
taxes; or, that no day be specified Tor The
closing Of the tax books. If :hc law CAV,
Tie LIST of February as the last day for pay.
ing taxes, we believe the legislature would
be urged to extend the time until after tn,
cotton season closed and the cotton buyers
had gone into Summer quarters
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A Davis Monument.

The Nashville (Tenn.,) imerican has pro-
posed an organized movement on the part of
the newspapers of the Southern States to
| raise fund for the erection of monument
to Mr.. Davis. The idea is to get distinct
organization of the newspapers for this pur-
pose, or to cooperate with other organiza-
tions the family of the deceased to be con-
suited in regard to the location of the mon,l-
mcnt. The plans and details of the or
ganizaton are to be agreed upon hereafter
Ne,cs and Couricr.
To which we give our most hearty ap-
proval, and stand ready to respond to any
call made upon us for that purpose, il
possibly within our power.
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$746 so, made with one little mule, some
thing bigger than goat Others in this
neighborhood are doing equally as we'll
Would say to AZ. W. j." that we have n
real monstrosity at this place. Our first de-
scription was correct, in the main. The ami
NAL is living, though little stupid. Come
over L. w. j., we would take pleasure in
showing you the wonder of the 10Th century
Mrs. Ella Rowell returned to her home at
Jonesville, after visiting friends in River
side.
Rev. B. c. Lampley, preached at Philippi,
on Sunday, 9th inst, from the text, "Prc-
pare to meet thy God" The preacher han
died the subject plainly and forcibly, and to
the good of his many hearers. JOE.
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A CHRIsTNAs aR11TIN0

We respectfully tender our Christmee
greeting TO all the readers Of the Tlnns, q
especially do we send them to the memb1
Of every Sub Alliance in ths cos..y, tcgsthSf
with their wives and children, and hope,
brothers, sisters and friends, that tho Christ
mas Of 1889 will be the most pleasant and
satisfactory you hare ever spenty and that
every heart in our quiet country homes my
be made glad for the blessings received, and
for the social Intercourse Of our kindred
and friends.
Let US older folks try to make the children
happy, for how pleasantly does memory re-
vert to the Christmasscs of our childhood
days. Then, from one Christmas and hog
killing to the next, seemed almost an age,
and how longingly did we look for their re-
turn, and with what childish anticipations
were our little stockings hung up to receive
the presents conceived by the precious loved
ones, whose lifeless hands havo long since
been folded to rest. And now that We, their
children, have taken their place, and be-
come parents, may We transmit to our chill
dren fond reoollections of innocent Christ
mas joys, as lasting as life itself.
What blessing and pleasure are tho
happy, intelligent and innocent children.
Here we may build our monuments and
shape destines that will hast throughout
eternity. What responsibilities for us!
And now what shall we soy to you, my
cotemporary writers for the columns of the
TINES? We wish you who are married, q
pleasant Christmas, happy New Yee and
long and useful lives. And to you, friend
+. w.. j., and other young bachelors Of the
quill, we hope you win have q splendid
time with that sweet, innocent, modest little
maiden, and speedy consummation of the
time when your destinies win be one. We,
too, experienced, in the years gone by, your
uncertain rest Of veal or woe. We wish
You success.
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Hot Supper ut Jonesyille.

The ladies ofJonesville wish to announce
that they will give Hot Supper and enter
tainment plays, inierpersed with music on
the night Of the 25th inst; the proceeds to
to be used in completing tho Jonesviile
academy.
Jonesville has been noted heretofore for
it's Jamons suppers, genial hospitality, and
pretty girls, but The ladies promise that
this occnssi"n will excel by far all previous
present and participate in The pleasures Of
the evening.
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The Williamst ton Female College.

We call attention to the ADVERT sement OF
this old and popular institution for the
education of young Ladies', under the sue
cessful management of Rev. s. Lander
We are informed that the College is enjoy
ing unprecedented prosperity at this term,
having lis pupils upon its roll. We have
been somewhat familiar with this institu-
tion for many years, and have always con-
sidered it one CT the best in the South for
the Q iucation Of young Ladies.
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Rev. W. I, Herbert.

Rev. W. I. Herbert.
AT last Session of the general Conference
of the NJ. f. Chrch South, Rev. w. |. Her
bert was assigned to this station, rs pastor
for the next Conference year. a
Mr.. Herbert comes to the people of Union
from Chcraw, where he filled the pulpit
acceptably to the congregation and COM
munity for four years.
lie is yonng man of ability, and christian
ZEAL and by his affability of manners he is
calculated to draw around him the young of
our community, and exert IAN influence for
incalculalhhE -ggoStf.
We welcome him and his excellent wife to
our hearts and homes, and ask the blessings
of heaven upon his labors in our midst, for
the Masters sake.
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NEWSPAPER AGENCY.

Now is your time to subscribe for coed
weekly paper. | have been appointed
Agent for the Weekly .Nehcs and Courier and
the Atlanta Constitution. Call at the Post
Office and get sample copy.
| vii also take subscry tions TO the
County PAPER and all other papers wantel,
at club rates. CBAUD GRAHAM.
%.
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A Basket Dinner and q Christms Box
TH0RNWELL oRPHANAaE.

There will be Basket dinner and Christ
ma, box at Flint Hill school house on Christ
ma, day. Every one who may read this
are invited to come, bringing basket to help
the dinner, and gift for the box. We are
making up this box for theTbronwell Orphan
age. mo toys) Anything that will be serpice-
able in n household Of 65 children solicited.
Committee.
Mrs, Col. Coleman, Mr.. /. M. Mobley,
Mrs Erwin Z. Cofold, sir. Joseph Turner,
Mrs II. M. Lee, - Mrs. NJ. 8. Lee,
DR.. j. II. HaniiltGslu -'--t.----.
The reason Posey taking the lead in
fancy goods, is because he has put the price
of everything down Lou, Low. Low.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-20
Prompt Paying.

The Liverpool, London, and Globe Insur-
ance Company, ofNew York, represented by
Mcssrs. Farr & Thomson, at Union esti-
mate its losses in the recent confagraton at
Lynn and Bosto,: at $275,OOO. Within the
sum will be paid to the policy holders, and
leaving large cash balance on hand in the
bank without rcsorting to the securities held
by the company,
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Election of Deaoons,

At a congregational meeting of the Prcsby-
tcrian Church last Sunday morning, Mcssrs
Thomas f. Bailey and Samuel S. Stokes. were
elected additional Dcacons of the church.
The ordination and installation, services
will take place at an carly day, of which pub
lie notice will be given
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-20
The Bible Society.

The annual meetisg of the Union County
American Auxiliary Bible Society, will be
held in the Methodist church, at u o'clock,
next Sunday evening. Rev. r. II. Law, the
General Agent will addres, the Society.
The public is cordially invited to attend.
s. s. Stokes, w. III. MILLER.
Cor. Scct'y. President.
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VERDICT IS THE CRoNIN UAsE.-Chicapo.
Dec. lG.-rhe Cronin trial has resulted in a
verdict. Coughln, Burke and O'Sullivan
were found guilty of murder and the penalty
fixed nt life imprisonment Kunze gets three
years; Beggs was acquitted.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-12-20

gS1Y Rev. Chas. II. Willcford, of Santuc.
WHO was called last week to the bedside of
his mother, who was dangerously ill, at
kcrshaw, has returned, leaving his moth her
out Of danger.
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List Of Letters

List Of Letters
Remaining in the Postoffice at Union, for
the week ending Dec. GOTH, 1889.
Mr.. James Anderson, Miss Maud Mccoy,
Mr.. Charlie Holland, Mr.. Madison Nor
Miss Essie Hollings- ris,
worth. lMr. X. s. Foster.
Margret Little,
Persons calling for the above letters will
please say ifadvertised. and will be required
to pay one cent.
J. C. HUNTER, p. M.
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n9- A Masonic Supper will be given at
the Union Hotel, next Friday, the 9th
Tickets can be had from Capt. G. G. May.
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nea. The town Council is having the
cistern near the Court House, archcd over
with brick and cement
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have the largest stock of Toys. Nmas
Presents, China and Crockcry Ware, ever
brought to Union. Don't forget TO call and
see my elegant Stock
G. p GARRETT
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POST OFFICE DIRECTORY.

Tho p. Q. will -ha opened for business
from 8 A. nj. to $50 p. NJ.
The Money Order Department will be
opened for business from 0 A. NJ. to 4P. NJ.
The Northern mail will close at =.
NJ, aud the Southern Mail at 80 p. NJ.
Any inatteption or irregularities should
DO reported promptly to the p. NJ
j. c. HUNTER, Z. NJ.
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The Cotton Market:
Sales for the week, 767 bales: prices, 81
@9.So.
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CHRISTMAS CARDS.

Go early, and select some beautiful new,
and cheap Christmas Cards at Posey's Dru q
store.
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a@- Tho C!ariosophic Society of the
State University will give public exhibi,
ton sometime in February next, at which
Mr.. Z. o. Sarratt, Of this county, will be
the Orator.
rhnIIES wanting Toys, Candies, &o., for
Christmas Trees, or anything of the kind,
'e cure and call to see my large and elegant
tt'ck. Special prices given for large or
uers. G.P. GARRETT
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Educate Your Daughters.
A ND before deciding where, send for q
IA Catalogue Of the
WILLIAMSON PENALE COLLEGE.
THE SPRING SESSION WILL OPEN
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1890.
l will come up from wrights Hotel,
Columbia, Saturday, February I.
&. LANDER,
President.
Williamson, 8. C, Dec 1S, 1890.
Dec 20 81 Il
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XMAS GOODS OF all kinds. Raisins.
Nuts, Currants, Cirop, Candies, Fruits,
ETC., ut GARRETTS.
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VIII make negatives this week and part
of next. md fnish-.l.~--:- -A---- -.
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Union Prices Current.
CORRECTED WEEKLY ny
FARR & THOMSON,
Piano for Sale,

A NY one wishing TO make nice Christ
"A mas present, can buy second hand
Piano very low. Enquire st this Office,
k1-Ik
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-20

pany, she moved into lodgings after firing
of hotel. During the next morning the
landlady called to ask how she had rested,
and on being told that the "Merry Noun
tain Maid" had Put in eight hours of good
solid sleep, she rubbed her hands in invisi-
BILE soap, and remarked: " Yes; a black
slept in that bed the night before" GA
black whatg exclaimed Miss Summer
vile. GA black lady," responded the
landlady. why. you don't mean to tell
me that niger slept in my bed p cried
Miss Summerville "Oh, dear yes; we
likes 'em here" replied the landlady. 1t
took ten hot baths and dozen cakes CT
sweet-scented soap to convince Miss Sum-
merville that she was clean.
The new farce comedy for Donnelly and
Girard, written by Paul Potter, is called
"The Directory" and bristles with fun.
The humor of the play consists in the fact
that everybody on the stage, save two, is
named John Smith. One John Smiths
failure to do what another John Smith
wants done by third John Smith involves
the fourth bearer of that Pan-Anglicsn
appellation in world of trouble All the
incidents that can possibly be contributed
| by the transformation of others and the
mixture of these social Smiths keep the
farce boiling like a gypsy kettle in hazel
copse. 1t is, effectually, string of merri-
ment, fine drawn and glistening, and the
two chief 'farceurs" of the American stage
ought to have no trouble In making it q
most valuable theatrical property, especi-
ally when it is borne in mind that Alice
Harrison has been specially engaged
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-20
Photograph iu Medicine.

sThe advantages of the photograph, y
said a physician yesterday, "are very great
to medicine, and may be of incalculable
Importance to surgery. A prominent
practitioner, J. NJ. Bleyer, has demon
strated its value 1t seems that, while the
deepest tone that our ears are capable OF
recognizing is one containing sixteen vi
brations to the second, the photograph
will record ten vibrations or less, and can
then raise the pitch until the ear can dis
tinguish repetition of them. So, in
versely, the vibrations which are above
the highest rate audible can be produced
in like manner by lowering the pitch.
"The photograph, because of these
qualities, is used in this way: 1t is placed
on table near the operator An appara-
tus, somewhat similar to the trumpet used
for deaf persons. is fixed to the recording
cylinder of the photograph, and the other
or larger end of the trumpet is placed
against the part of the chest to be ex-
plored. Then the photograph is set in
motion, and the work begins. In order to
register upon the wax cylinder that part
of the chest which is intended to be ex-
amined, 1t is necessary to register its ana
tomical name-lIke the supra clavicular
region. Then the tube is placed upon the
chest, and the slightest noise accompany
ing the breathing is registered with an
accuracy which would be impossible to at
tain in any other way. In receiving the
sound from the instrument the OPP
orator places a stethoscope which
is attached to the monograph, to his
ears, and all the tones are heard in their
varied pitch and tone, as they come along,
with clearness. The anatomical terms
serving to indicate the regions bounding
certain sounds are also accurately repro
duced"-N Y. Times.
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BO0k-FARAIFNG.
MANUFACTURE OF MUMMIES.
They are Now Made TO Order by Chea
ing Arabs.

They are Now Made to Order by Chea :
ing Arabs.
Zenas Nader of Berlin, writing to the
Detroit Journal SAYS:
| find that it is no longer necessary to
go digging in the musty catacombs for
Rameses cor any of his contemporaries
We can have them made to order by two
very clever Arabs, who will furnish kings
queens, and princes at very reasonable
figures. | have had the distinguished
honor of being presented while this manu-
facture astonished my eyes, A dead man
was brought into the shop at Gournah, on
the Nile. | think the Arabs paid three
shillings for him, or in the native money
what three shillings would represent.
The body was put on a slab and the
entralls were removed. The brain was
drawn through the nostrils in precisely the
same manner as Herodotus describes the
embalming process in his Euterpe. After
that the corpse was thrown rudely into a
largely vat of brine After remaining
there for period of fifteen days it was re-
moved and hung by the heels from a
rafter. A small brazier was put under the
head and filled with some sort of sweet.
smelling wood and fired. After this all
the doors were closed and the corpse
smoked like ham.
In ten hours this operation was COM
pleted, and | beheld a most remarkable
change. The body had turned almost
black. 1t was shrunken fully one-third
The features were pinched just like those of
mummy, and it bore the appearance of
great age. Some aromatic drugs, the ma
ture of which | did not learn, were then
prepared, and the corpse was filled with
them, and by the same process that the
brains were removed the skull is filled
with gummy substance smelling like san
dalwood. A mummy case made the day
before, but looking ready to fall apart from
very age, was produced, and the corpse of
the peasant, previously painted and gilded,
was put in it, and long scroll of parch-
ment was prepared by one of the rogues,
giving history of the dead mans deeds
some time during the reign of Thotmes,
about 1850 B. c., when, in fact, he was a
few days before gasping out his last breath
on the burning sands near Gournah. The
body | saw prepared sold, think, for e4O
to the Academic des Sciences in Paris.