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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
A. PovERRgsTRIcKEN MONARCH.


withdrawal of the Sherman resOluti8d.
tie had fondly anticipated that through
some favorable legisia%u he would he
enabled to restore the credit of his king
dom and make a loan.
There can be no doubt of it that the
potentate is in bad way financially. 1t
is related that when he resolved to come
to this city and had accepted the invita-
tion to take passage on the cruiser Char
lesion as the guest of Admiral Brown, he
found that he was short of funds and was
unable to make loan. In this financial
crisis he went to the royal treasury and
rit]ed it of its entire contents, which ag-
prcgated $lO3. so, a sum entirely made
ouatc to- the royal needs; but not to be
disappointed in his desire to come to San
Francisco. he went with his suite aboard
the Charleston and set sail.
The second day out Il poker game was
started. and among the players were the
King. Admiral Brown, the captain, the
flag lieutenant and one or two of. the ma
val officers. In few hours the contents
of the roval treasury had found their way
into the pockets of the naval officers. and
the King was financial wreck. Admiral
Brown was importuncd for small loan
of S3 the flag icutcnanta a little later con-
uibutcd 81 so. The captain paid tri-
butte of 81. and the result was that when
| the Golden Gate was reached every Off
Ger on board had in his possession from
one to three 0 Us bearing the Kingly
signature.
So runs the tale, and it is said that
even the walters at the hotel have contri-
buted in the way of small loans to NEE
the expense of the royal visit.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
VO OL. XXII.--NEW SERIES.
8 8 There arc about ~, 900 persons In
]. '.3soa il the United States. There are,
IS 1sr mosp pepsons sout. Of
belong to the criminal class, !,
making 1SO. .d6s. criminals, or one for
{ every 400 inhabitants.

During tho last twelve months actual
settlers have taken up some 10, 900, 900
acres Of land in the United States, or
nearly 30, 600 square miles. When, says
the Chicago Tribune, we can increase
our actively agricultural area in one year
TO an extent nearly equal to the whole of
Scotland, and have the fact passed over
with mere paragraph of connect, it
may no longer be doubted that we are a
great nation inhabiting great country.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

Fish has always been considered a
brain food, but until how the oyster has
occupied no especial place az sh t.ias cate
CORY. A change, however, will be ef-
-fected. ayer- a. Warrington Star. shnuld.
Mr. Bradley T. Johnson's proposition bo
accepted. Mr.. johnson proposes that
10, 600 acres of oyster farming land in
the Chesapeake be given by the State to
Johns Hopkins University for scientific
cultivation, the proceeds % go to educa-
stion in Maryland.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
Gan It Be True ?

The Scientific American says: In our
country, three -fourths of the nations IL
literacy is i'm the South. Forty per cent.
of the whole population of the South CAD
not read the New Testament. OF the D.
OO0. 600 illiterate voters in our country,
I 500 900 are in the South. The negro
population, now about {, 600, ooo, increas'
es at the rate of 500 per day.
Among the more than 2 ,0O0, ,Ooo noun
tain whites in the South, one-haif cannot
read. OF the 500 % Indian children, less
than Is, 900 are in school. The Chimes
in America are few, but they represent
onc.third Of the population OF the globe
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

The Piers, of Milwaukee. are family
: of lawyers. The husband and father,
! the mother aud three daughters are all
: lawyers. Kate, the eldest daughter, a
beautiful brunette, has appeared before
the Wisconsin Supreme Court. She
proved by her straightforward argument
and citation Of authorities, admits the
! Detroit Free Press, that she has not mis-
taken her vocation. She is associated
with her mother, tho two making the
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

The San Francisco Chronicle says that
nwhen Stanley first told the horrible
story Of Jameson buying a slave girl
and turning her over to cannibals in or
der that he might have subject for
stketches the civilized world refused to
believe the tale. Now, however, evil
dence has come in from many quarters
to confirm this story Of white mans
degeneracy, and there seems no escape
FROM the conclusion that one OF the
most refined men In the Emin relief
party sank to the level Of the slave.
hunting Arabs"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
COTTON PICKED BY MACHINERY
Steel Fingers Doing the Work of
Human Fingers in the Field.

The essential feature is $40 fingers or
spindles projecting through and from
hollow cylinder. These fingers are ten
inches long, and have at tho end of n
brush or tip of fine wire, and set in four
grooves radially is horse hair, clipped so
it projects from the fingers about one
twelfth of an inch, the tip and hairs on
the side being the means of getting the
cotton from the bolls. The fingers or
spindles are given whirling motion by
system of cog gear enclosed within the
cylinder Moving forward, the cylinder
revolves, the fingers come in contact with
the cotton, the whirling motion of the
fingers entangles the cotton lint, and it is
picked, then carried upward and back
ward until cleaned from the fingers by
brushes, and thrown into receptacies hold
ing sixty pounds of seed cotton
The revolutions are so timid that the
| fingers which project at the spokes of a
wheel strike the plant without a raking
motion, for that would damage the plant.
No injury comes to the leaf or bolt from
running the machine over the plant.
With a width of four feet, length sever
feet, and height of five and half feet
the machine complete, weighs about !.
q a0Q essss easy dsAught q
ulo snssgnssI;. t,.aSo, vI Sasr ss,s,..sony
Road, and saw the Campbell machine in
operation.
The rows were 1875 yards long, ant
} were gone over twice, the result being
, the cotton was cleanly picked out of tn
bolls. the machine being as thorough il
this respect as the fingers of the colorct
man. No in Jury to foliage, bolls or branch
cs, of the plant was noted.
, In the morning when the cotton wa
slightly damp, gathering from one row
made by the machine weighed Il litt!'
more than thirty pounds; the waste
knocked on the ground by the machine
, was picked up by hand and weighed five
!, ouuccs. In thc-aftcrnoon, with the cottoi
perfectly dry, the cotton picked weighc'
over % pounds, and the waste picked vi
weighed nearly three and one-hal
pounds.
The time made was about five pounds {
minute or 300 pounds an hour. Allowing
, time, literally, for emptying the rccep'
taclcs, stopping for repairs, meals, and 81
, on. the machine could easily work tci
+ hours day and would gather 5000 pound
, at total expense of not more than $3 pc
day, making the total cost of the pickin
for each bale $3.50. At present price
the cost is fully $40 Waco, Texas, Da'
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

KrLKENNY, IRELAND, tCablegram.
The result of the election held Monday
to fill the seat for North Kilkenny IN the
House of Commons made'vacant by the
,leath of Mr.. Marum, was announced.
1 The polling resulted in victory for the
anti. Mi Pornelites. their candidate, Sir John
Pope Hennessy, being returned; Hennes-
sy, 2.5O2: Scully, 1855; majority for
Hcnnessy, LAG. m
Mr.. Scully, the defeated Parnelilte,
has filed petition praying that certih-
cate of re- election be not granted to Hen
messy, the successful candidate OF the an
| ti-Parnellites.
MIR. Scully's petition is based upon the
| allegation that undue pressure was brought
| 10 bear by the priests upon the iiliteratt
voters ofthe onstituensy-4- Especial com
plant is made of the action of the clerg.
in connection with the canvass OF Castle
conner, during which Mr.. Parncll and hi
friends arc alleged to have been assault
| ed nv a mob led by priests.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

The Russians eclipse all other nation
In the magnitude of their scale of bell
founding. An immense bell, weighing
over one hundred tons, was founded in
Moscow in the early part of the eight
eenth century. 1t was twenty yards in
circumference, and twenty-three inches
thick. During fire in the same year a
g,Secs weighing eleven tons was broken
and for nearly century the bell
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

Uruguay is another Suth American
cowntry which is SH into financial
trouble. The intel "a its debt AMOUNTS
60 SS. .099, ,Qo0. .suufTit is compelled to
borrow money to meet the interest alone.
Investors who were piuched in the Argen-
tine catastrophe will take care not to get
involved In Uruguay speculations advises
the Prairie Farmer, if they do not wish
to meet with another similar disaster to
their pocket books.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
A Novel Logging Road.

The following might be adopted with
success in the South: Mr.. Angus Nc
Pherson, of Cumberland county, Nova
Scotia, has built It miles of railway
into his lumber woods this summer, and
is now running train on il. He has al
ready taken out about 100 cords of hem
lock bark, ard is now ready to begin TO
carry out logs The rails he used are
round spruce poles, properly six inches
4 in diameter at the larger end, tapering
F: down to half the size, and neatly joined
| ut the ends. The sleepers are small
round poles on which the rails arc spik
ed. The rolling stock consists of small
upright engine, eight horse power, ant
two fiat cars, manufactured by A. Nc
Pherson & Co, Oxford. The tires of fh
wheels on engine and cars arc mad
with a flaDge OH both sides to proven
them from leaving or spreading the rails
and the wheels have play enough on tn
axles TO accommodate themselves to an
ineouslity in the width of the rails cause
ty the difference in size of the pole
used
Mr.. Mcpherson has gone TO no unne'
essary expense in grading his track. Il
has followed the hills, and says he HI
comparatively level track. The engil
, is. placed between the two cars he use
so he has no trouble in making up h
train. He expects this engine 10 do Il
work of eight horse and he can carry I
> his work al, winter even IL there shou
be no more snow than there was duri
l the last two OF three seasons. 1t was t
. scarcity OF snow in late winters II
prompted Mr.. Mcpherson to adopt Il
2 means OF getting his logs out to the riv
1t cost apout $500 to lay his track, a
: the engine cost $40O. What has alrel
l. been done shows clearly that the plan
IN feasible. The 1imhcrmau.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
IMPORTED NEWS.
The Cablegraph Brings Tidings OF
Great Interest.

Chang, the famous Chinese giant, has
become naturaliZed British subject, and
an earnest religious worker.
Professor Boch and his assistants have
completed their arrangements for the pre- 4
paration and distribution of the curative
lymph.
The Queen has an immense cellar OF
wine at Windsor and supplies are regular
ly sent from the Castle to Osborne and
Balmoral Champagne and claret are the
wines i'm most constant use, but there is a
splendid collection of cabinet Rhine
wines, some extraordinary old sherry
William Nv. drank no other winc-a
great quantity of port, including nearly
all the best vintages, and some of the iin-
est imperial Tokay in the world.
Last week three wild boars were shot
| in the Queens Swine Garden, in Wind
| sor's Great Park, of which two were for
| her Majesty and the other was sent to the
Prince of Wales. Wild boar was first
served at the royal table at Christmas dur
ing the reign of George Nv.
The rumor thst plot to overthrow th'
argentine Republican Government exist
ed. and that several persons had been ar
rested, has been confirmed. The plot
however, is not an important one, and tn
public is not excited.
The Czarewitch has arrived at Bomba
ON his tour of the East. Upon landl"
| the CZarewitch was received with muc
| pomp and ceremony by the British clvi
military, aud naval authorities.
: Professor Koch has been made an no
9 orary citizen of Berlin. He is the four
t man to enjoy that distinction. HIS &C
It leagues are Prince Bismarck, Count Mo
y ke and DR.. Henry Schliemann.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

All these roads are in full operation
except the last named, over which trains
now run as far south as Abbeville, s, G.
The grade from Abbcville to Athens,
Ca, is finished and ready for the ties,
and n very material portion of the work
between the latter place and Atlanta is
finished
The country between Portsmouth and
Monroe, North Carolina, which latter is
the starting point of the Georgia, Carolina
Il Northern, has been greatly benefited
by this system, as have Sanford, Hcnder-
son, Kittrell, Raleigh and many other
towns. Southern Pines, which few.
years since was pine forest, has village
of nearly 80 houses and several health
resort hotels The principal products
Of the country bordering the trunk line
between Norfolk and Monroe are pine
and oak lumber, bright leaf tobacco, cot
ton. corn, wheat, oats and hay, peaches,
grapes and small truck of many kinds
Leaving Monroe. the first place of i'm
portance in South Carolina, is Chester, a
town of much business activity and of
considerable wealth. and in which, of late
years. number of flourishing manufacto-
ries have have been started. Next in or
der is Clinton, a sizeable town and the
t aiding place of many well-to 10 farmers.
Between these two cities several new viii
lagos have been started at convenient
spots on the line, where stores aud dwell
ling houses are going up rapidly, and
from all Of which many bales of cotton
have been shipped this season. Green
wood, the next town, is in the midst of q
very rich farm country, which continues
| to some distance below hbboviiie. Thi
natural resources Of the entire region that
| will I've traversed by this railroad between
Monroe and Atlanta are great enough Il
assure heavy freight business in boil
directions rs soon dis the road shall 3
completed.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

The example Of the heirs Of fioh Aus
trian is worthy Of imitation in this coun'
try. remarks the San Francisco Chronicle.
They have given $1b, 900 out Of the
estate to found school Of housekeeping
for girls. Hfres schools of cooking were
established in all American cities, the
people who gather statistics at the end OF
the first quarter of the next century would
note marked decrease in dyspepsia and
seriousness and considerable gain IN
physical stamina among the American
people.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

The fifth and sixth articles in their ST.
Louis Declaration of purposes,
SECOND DECLARATION OF INpEPEN
DENCE.
read thus:
-. To constantly strive to secure en-
tire harmony and good will of all man
kind and brotherly love among ourselves.
IS. 10 suppress personal. local, sec
tional aud national prejudices. all un-
healthful rivalry, and all selfish ambi-
ton"
An ideal rs high as Heaven-an echo
of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. They
have determined to "bear one another's
burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ "
They pledge themselves to alleviate Suf-
'cring and pain, to care for the widows
and educate the orphans of their dead
This is climbing the heights of life. This
IS pure religion, undcfilcd.
They have gone into politics not be-
cause they are political organization.
They have been
FORCED TO 90 INTO POLITICS.
because their principles were social, econ.
omic and religious. All social and econ
omic questions have become political
questions, and oil political questions are
religious the political arena is where al,
the great questions of to-day aud to-mor-
row must be fought and settled Let no
man deceive himself by believing that this
organization is but passing episode in
politics Remember its foundation is not
primarily political, but social and econo-
mic. 1t is the embodiment of grand
moral idea-it is the movement of a rcvo
luton. 1t will not go backward. MAY
God give its leaders wisdom.
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NDehNCE DEPARTMENT. i iFiI, r
A New York City Divine on the
Alliance.
The Moral Import of the Movement
Reviewed and Thoroughly Elk
planned From a Baptist
Pulpit.

K Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., pastor OF the
Twenty y-third street Baptist church, New
York city, was greeted Sunday morning
by the usual crowded house. The sermon
was the beginning of new series, on the
subject, ''What is Religion2" The ser
mon was preceded by the following re-
view of current events:
The real sensation of the year 1890 is
the advent of the National Farmers AL
lance and Industrial Union. 1t is no
mushroom growth. 1t is here to stay. 1t
is the resistless movement of millions un-
!. .dfr- .sre expressions of centuries. Its mo-
tive power is social, economic religious
and political. The advent of these en-
battled hosts is the most pregnant event
OF this generation. 1t is the beginning
A REVOLUTION
that will shake this continent and move
the world.
The first time they gathered around the
ballot-box was the 4th day of last No
vember. They pollcd between two and
three million votes, elected the Governors
of three States, sent forty men to Con-
gress and scared the life out of hundreds
they did not send. What is
THE MORAL MEANING
of this great movement
|. 1t is the protest of the patient bur.
den bearers of the world, who have toll
ed through weary years, struggling be-
meath the wrongs of economic and politi-
cal supcrstitions In America the farmers
have literally become the beasts of bur-
den Of the nation. Their business has
been to feed over 65, 200, 600 people, to-
gcther with the hosts of the old world,
with the products of the years work, and
then through the winter eke out a miscr-
able existence wrestling with their
MORTGAGES, CYCLONES AND FLOODS.
While they are doing this, we laugh
and grow fat, dance and make merry in
the city and bet how much they will
make next year, buy and sell their crops
fifty times before they are planted and
charge old ''hay seeders" with our losses.
The question is whether these men, the
freest of the free, the authors of this coun-
try's liberty, shall assert their rights and
obtain justice, or degenerate into the con
dition of tenants and serfs The condi.
tion of labor in all other industries hav,
undergone marvellous development and
changes in the past hundred years. TIL,
farmer works under the same stern condi
tions, perishing in the midst of boundles
| prosperity, for others. He has determine.
| to effect a change in these conditions, an,
" .oii lxaa AZ
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The Buffalo (N. " Fire Department

The Buffalo IN. W Fire Department
has lately received novel fire engine,
which has excited much interest in that
city. The carriage Is constructed en-.
tirely of pspier mache, all the different
{ parts of the body, wheels, poles and the
rest being finished in the best possible
manner. While the durability and
powers Of resistance possessed by thii
material are fully as great as those o.
wood, the weight is, of course, muel
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

Ills natural, declares the San Fran
cisco Chronicle, that every Englishman
who fanciss he hos grievance against
Stanley should attack him q. this time,
fos ek@nley has laid bare Tao weakness
and crime Of two Of his Euglish officers
I, way thst must bsvory humiiiating to
e II friends. The British public, which
Il always prsting Of the superior morale
Of English officers in foreign service, has
5 had : bitter dose to swallow in these re-
velstiops Of BArttelot's cruelty and inca-
pscity and Of Jameson's abnormal passion
lof csnnipsism.s Of the facts there can be
% lonsssS any dispute. stanley has
os,s unsoathsd ftcm out . conflict which
slms tbrsatspsd his good hame,
&3sdon q his policy q siisnc'
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A large fish dealer in one OF the city !:
markets says that during the season IL ~
a common thing for the fish dealers te
have as many as fourteen different k'na'
of fish on their stalls,
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NUMBER l..
SEABOARD AIR LINE SYSTEM
A Great Railroad Company Rapidly
Extending its Lines.

The Seaboard Air Line system, which
now extends from Norfolk, Va. to Alb
bcville, s. c., and which by October I,
1891, will be running through trains be-
tween Portsmouth and Atlanta, Ga :, is
composed of the following roads:
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02

sxcavated, andnow forms the dome Of q
chapel which has boon built beneath 1t.
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Miles.
Scaboard & Roanoke, 80
Roanoke g. Tar River, SO
Raleigh d CASTOR, 97
Louisburg Branch, 10
Durham & Northern, A
Raleigh e Augusta, %
Pittsboro Branch, 10
Carthage Branch, II
Gibson Branch, 10
Carolina Central, 267
Georgia, Carolina s. Northern, 28s
Total, 931
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-02
AN EDITORIAL ExpREss1oN.

The Progressive Farmer saws editorially.
Senator Vance agrees to obey the in
structions of the Legislature, if il "une-
quivocally" directs him to vote for the
sub-trcasury plan. -
1t is now the duty of the people to meet
and indicate to their Legislative represen-
tatives their will as to whether Senator
Vance shall be instructed to support the
''plan" or not. In these meetings there
should be the freest discussion of the mer
its and demerits of the ''plan," with a
view to ascertaining its practicabiiity. It
has been said that the mnir-sty N
farmer, in North Car.H pposfek q
sub-treasury vtn. II tm to makex>
lists, now is the tim& financemen aK
itself. North C4rolinB Epds Tor reform,
impregnable in their det 'speciai scheme
but are not welded to am agreement to
of bringing it about ThSl Legislature as
obey the instructions of the ejfsury plan,
to supporting tbe snb' TO Vance's re-
will aliav ali onnos;t;on his expressed
election. which arose from, of reform to
opposition To the scbanna omitted. The
which the alliances orc cor lower to secure
alliance have IL in tbe;r of Vance by
| for their reforms the supposI through inc
| issuing Instructions to hiis.,.esct 10 secure
| legislature, and if they nd not pe ms
these instructions that nehS OF olner-
ences hot woon V.noo nJ low an oppOr-
hos heen fomnd Thana Md wise embo-
t,in;ty to make q oorafu cs in the plans
dimeht of alliance nrincip& &o"gh' peiorc
of reform which will be ~
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Ege BRING Z q! HlsE:
The Farmers Alliance win sommit
the State Legislature to the sub
treasury Plan and Instruct

The last issue of the Raleigh, N. c.,
Progressive Farmer contained the follow
ing correspondence between Mr.. Elias
carr, President of the State Farmers AL
lance, and Senator Vance: