The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-01-25
News From North paoolet.

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ETA JAMS; January 2I.-E,thsr eur
carelessness or an oversight with the com.
positor, caused the omissisn Of one word in
the rule that We gave last week for dividing
the plank that completely reverses our
meaning. We should have said, stake half
the sums Of tho squares Of the ends" eto.
We make this correction that those who
may have discovered the error may like.
wise have our explanation of II. We will
further say that the answsr to the question
oftwo weeks ago is one cubicinoh.
Those who have expressed fear that the
winter is too mild for good crop to follow,
may take down those fears. II isn't too
late yet. The present spell may make up .
good deal Of lost time in that direction.
The Alliance is beginning to move
things. understand that they are order
ing oats, -four and corn, at ratsA much
cheaper than through the regular channels
Of trade. May they prosper and come
out right in the end, is the wish Of those
who are not members; and even tho reliable
merchants will give any success they may
have in betteriug their position, hearty
"a men,
The rates at which they are getting their
supplies through the Alliance is not known
to US, and If known it wouldn't do to make
them public, though fud that somo Of the
'outs" pretend to know great deal Of what
the Sins" are doing; it isn't the case with
US though.
Somo people can't keep secret, and
many of that stripe will, no doubt, drop into
the Alliance too.
As an ignorant backwoods newspaper re-
porter, we, perhaps might take the liberty
to say in regar to the good work the Ai-
lance has SO nobly begun, that eff the Jews
ever expect to evangelize the world, they
| must begin at jerusalem aud if the far
msrs ever expect to accomplish what
believe the majority of them are working for,
they must commence at home. Those peo-
pie who cit around country stores and whit
tie away their time talking of high prices
| and hard times, brought on by merchants
and mouied men, don't see themselves a.
| other people do. They must remember that
if their time is their only capital that that
capital must be employed, or ell lost time
placed on the debit side Of their account
with themselves. The wide-swake, pro-
| gressive, determined men whs are the head
and foot of the Alliance can't afford to
take such dead weight into their brother
hood. 1t will kill it too dead to skin.
1 pf ha Gco
should be, mans energy, thrift and perae-
| vsrancs. When these virtues begin to re-.
| lax he becomes Jonah in the ship and
| should be tossed overboerd at once. The
| Alliance would then be what it is intended
| to be-a protection to the farmer as we'll as
the wife and children who have q lazy, in
dolent husband and father to keep up.
Every other industry and profession would
tuen do homage to the man who, merely
for want of system, has been football
from time immenorial-the farmer.
MIR. R. B. Lemaster and Miss Mollie No
Kown were married last week. They have
the congratulations of their many friends.
The new moon in February is Mr.. "Msck"
i Oor1au lmo 70 Bos out wagon lmpor'
We don't know what he will do this year
as there's no new moon next month. You'll
not need wagon timber the next time this
occurs, Maok.
We regret to say that last week Mr.. A.
W. Lotsprich, Of sunnyside, was sum-
moned by telegraph t, tho bedside Of his
very sick daughter. in Greene County
Tenn, his former home.
| Mr.. Mason Garner, who recently went
| from this section to Clifton Factory, we are
sorry to learn, has lost two Of his children
| from measles.
A. and B. borrowed SITS, due one year
hence. with interest at 10 per cent. The
interest was taken in advance from the face
of the note. OF the sum left, A. took sec
and b. the remainder. At settlement wha
part Of the interest should each pay 2 An
swer in two weeks. Vox.