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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
Through the South to California.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Especial. THE
President and Mrs. Harrison will leave
on their Southern trip and California
tour between :ho fifth and tenth OF April,
going by way of Lynchburg, Danville,
Charlotte, Atlanta and New Orleans, and
thence to the Pacific coast over the
Southern Pacific. Announcement of
Southern stops will be made later
The President goes to attend the for
NAL opening of the great Leland STAN
ford, Jr., University, Patio Alto, Cali
fornia, to which Senator Stanford has
already given twenty million dollars, the
buildings of which cover many square
miles, and designed to give to every
needy child of that state a literary, scien-
tific or mechanical education. The Uui-
versity is memorial TO the dead son of
Senator Stanford, and he is expected to
endow it with an additional twenty mil
lion, making it the largest. best furnish
ed and the most richly endowed school
of the whole world
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
GEORGIA CENTRAL GONE.
The Richmond and West Point Ter
minal Octopus Scoops it In.

SAVANNAH, March 25.-The lease OF
the Central Railroad of Georgia to the
Richmond and West Point Terminal
Company in the name of the Georgia Pa
cifc Railway was practically decided
upon at meeting Of the Central Rail
road directors here to-day. The Termi-
nails proportion was discussed and re-
ferred to a committee, which agreed
upon the terms of the lease tonight.
The lessees will take the road and as
sumo its indebtedness, and will guaran-
tee the stockholders 7 per cent on the
capital stock, which is $7,5O0,000. John
II. Inman, Hugh Inman, Samuel Inmap,
John G. Calhoun, Pat Calhoun, Charles
ii. Phinizey and Mr.. Swain, of New
York, were at the meeting to-day. Pres
ident Inman left here tonight for Au-
gusta. He will be in New York next
week, where the lease will be consumat-
ed. 1t is said to night that everything
will be transferred in about two weeks
The lease of the Central will give the
Georgia Pacific a through line from Sa-
vannah TO the Mississippi river.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
A Carolinian Honored.

New York, Especial. ]-Lorettus y.
Metcalf has resigned the editorship of tue
Forum Magazine, after fifteen years OF
close confinement to review work He is
TO be succeeded by Walter II. Page, ap
experienced newspaper man who has been
the business manager of the Forum. II
has been through Mr.. Mctcalf's able di
rcction that the Forum has achieved high
distinction in the literary world and has
forged to the front as one of the best OF
American periodicals. Mr.. Page is well
qualified Tor the new duties upon which
ho will enter. He is gentleman, n
scholar-sone people have accused him
Of being crank, but no one has ever
charged him with any lack of honesty or
ability. Mr.. Page is a native of North
Carolina and has had a long and varied
experience in practical journalism, which
will serve him to good purpose IN the
higher walks of literature upon which, -
will enter. The salary is $1O, 1000
anuum.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

President Polk Has Something to
Say About the Farm.
Hne culture Peanuts Discussed By
August 81. Pegan. .---other ALI
ance Matter,

Wewant to say to all our readers, and
especially to our farmer readers, some
tnngs about debt. We are sure that
what we say will help every one who will
carefully read it and act upon it.
Inc time is Mt hand when it Is neces.
sary TO prepare for another crop. Do not
go into debt to buy what YOU want to
enable you to run another crop, il YOU can
heip 1t. Ii is bettcr-far better-to make
small crop, and let IL be all your own
at harvest time, than il is to 60 in debt
IN order to pitch big crop and tako the
~ q sl6 Sa wA MN bslls4 Aees q SisS. sSe
row tho money on your farm for year or
TWO and pay, cash for what you buy. Be
sure not to buy much. Again we say, II
is better to make small crop and have
It all your own when IL has been made.
than 1t Is to go In debt We arc sure
that the man in debt is not free In any
ssnsc-cannot consider himself frce-is
not considered free by his ncighbors-and
worst of ALL il not considered free by
his creditors.
Many debts that hang over and threat.
cn the farmer could have been avoided il
he had managed his farm SO as to make
ms bread and meat and clothing ut home
we are deeply in earnest when we say we
want to sec our farmers make their meat
and bread and clothing at home. ANY
larmcr can raise and keep few sheep
The wool from these will make tho vcr,
best Of clothing for both man and woman;
and the lambs come in splendidly for
fresh meat during the summer. Flax
will grow splendidly in this latitude; and
in addition to furnishing tAs ,se. ws... ue,-. e,--.
market crop. Let our farmers, then,
raise some sheep and swine, and grow
some flax, and make their own clothing.
and live on the farm, and live of the
the farm, and keep free of debt, and they
will become prosperous and happy
1t is tho duty of every farmer to buy as
little as possible; and what he does buy
should be bought to the best advantage
and be paid for on tho spot. Alliance
men now have purchasing agents, through
whom they can purchase to the very best
advantage; and they ought to form clubs
and make their orders through these
agents But the main thing is not to buy
any thing you can do without, until you
arc full handed and able to indulge your
tastes for elegant things. Let us econo-
mise this present year and not go In debt
and tho prosperity you have been signing
for will surely come and como speedily.
Let us keep out of debt at any hazard,
and all will be we'll
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
PEANUT CULTURE.

The following letter from August ii.
Pcgan at Port Wallthall, Va. on the sub
jcct of peanut culture will be interesting:
was amused to read on the aEricult-
ural page of the Commercial Gazette of
January z, in an article (selected of
cOurse,) on the Couture of Peanuts" the
grave statement that the nuts will not
form unless the blossoms be covered with
earth as soon rs they open. The daily
:"'H -as tic writer styled it-may Dc in
tcr sting to amateurs who plant for amusc
mcnt, but just what il would be here in
Virginia, where farmers have twenty acres
and upward in peanuts it is difficult to
imagine. Tho notion is rs absurd as
planting thirgs in the moon. When the
blossom falls off the slender stem bends
over and the little pod goes into the
ground, where the nut Is perfected.
Here in Virginia the planting is done
about the first of May on elevated rows
(similar to sweet potato ridges, but not
so high) three feet apart in the rows.
Sandy land is the best peanut land. They
are cultivated similar to corn, ridging up
the rows some at the last working, so the
pegs, as the little pods are called, have
nice, mellow soil to sink into. They do
not require extra rich land, but must have
some lime to fill we'll
The last season here was a good one,
and from fifty to nearly hundred bushels
per acre were raised; but generally fifty
To sixty bushels is considered good
crop The vines make excellent cow feed,
and are selling for $40 ton. Toprevcnt
mice or anything else from taking up the
seed, ii is coated with coal tar. The same
is also done here with seed corn, and then
ashes are put on the seed to make it dry
TO handle Less than pint of ashes
will cover q bushel of corn or of peanuts,
either, and save lots of rcplanting.
y
Arrangements are being made in Mimi
esota whereby a subtrust of the Farmers
National Trust will be organized. The
farming fraternity of the whole North
west, consisting Of 60, 900 men, propose
to form this trust, and make their own
market. shrewa men ale at tho head Of
the scheme, and before the seed ripcns
for 1891 the farmer will know what he
is doing.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

The Chicago Herald observes: A news
paper writer notices and deplores the
lack of good masculine carvers of fowl.
Laziness of men is assigned as the reason
for this state of affairs. Formerly the
art Of carving was considered part of the
education of every head of family.
Pater familias occupied the seat of honor
At table. In front of him wss placed
pile Of plates and the odoriferous body
of the goose, duck or turkey about to
be devoured. There never was any hesi-
tation on the part of the master of cere.
monies. At the proper moment he
whetted his knife with CHEEKY sound
and plunged his huge fork boldly into
the bird. Proudly and with assurance
he worked. He knew wherc to cut to
extract the oyster dressing, how to saw
off q leg and just how thick to slice the
white meat. That carving is fast becom-
Ing a lost art among men Is shown by
the fact that so few young men of the
present day know how to cut up bird.
Nothing embarrasses a modern beau so
much as to ask him to carve. If he un-
dertakes the task at all he does we'll IL he
keeps his subject on the dissecting table.
This state Of things is, perhaps, unavoid-
able, so many young men living in board
ing houses and hotels, where they have
no opportunities for practice. 1t should
sisher become fashionable for ladies to
do all the carving, or else lessons should
bs given N our public schools.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

Lieutenant Wilson, who was with
Commodore Farragut during the war,
has history that is like a romance from
the "Arabian Nights" if imagination
may be allowed to fill in the rounded
periods. About eighteen or nineteen
years ago he left this country for an ex-
ploration of Europe and Africa. He
reached Zanzibar in the course of time,
and by some chance learned of an island
called Johnna, lying off the coast Of
Southern Africa, a considerable distance
below Zanzibar. which could he pur-
chased for small sum of money. He
visited the island and found it to be in q
delightful climate, with a soil especially
adapted to raising sugar cane. 1t is
shc"t twenty avo by thirty miles iu si1e,
and, having bought it, he proceeded to
turn it into vast sugar plantation. La
Dor is cheap, the cost of living next to
nothing, and the sugar commands high
prices at Bombay. He has several hun
dred employees, has made the island a
veritably little kingdom, and has become
immensely wealthy.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
A Notable Flag Presentation.

The Sailors Home at Charleston has
been in want of United States flag evet
since Its re-erection after the earthquake,
Tuesday It's desire was gratIf{ed by tho
presentation of new flag, which came
to them under sad and peculiar circum.
stances. During one Of our recent heavy
blows the tug Vulcan was wrecked on
the northwest breakers at Georgetown
bar. The captain and crewe constructed
life raft and were saved by pilot boat,
but the tug was lost with everything on
board. On the last trip of the stcamc,
Santeo to Georgetown Capt. Hopkins
discovered a piece of floating wreck
with signal of stress flying, and what
at first appeared to be two men aboard.
Hastily changing his course, very heavy
sea running, he approached the piece OF
wreck and found it was small portion
of the deck on which the mast was still
standing with United States flag flying,
Union down, but there were no men
was steam pump on the wreck. Find
ing that it would iIhperil his own vessel
to try to secure the pump he did not at
tempt to do so, but broke off the mast
and secured the signal flag, probably the
only thing that will ever be seen of the
ill-fated tug. Capt. Hopkins decided at
once to present the flag to the Ladies'
Seamcn's Friend Society, that it might
float over the Home and Bethel.
The flag is entirely new, 6x1O feet in
size. 1t was presented to the Society on
behalf of Capt. Hopkins by the chap
lain, and will hereafter wave in graceful
folds over the house of God and the
home of peace.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

Most of the poetry appearing in cur
rent periodicals. is written by women, as-
serts the Boston 7raoeller. The sex has
an easier knack of versifcation than man,
as well as more sentimental cast Of
mind, and these are the qualities mostly
.4al.tiaguiahing the poetry of tie day.
Even in literature as in everything else
man is more practical than ever before,
and now takes to prose in preference to
poetry, because it pays better. But
woman is not whit behind him in this
line of writing, and, generally reviewing
the field, may be said to be more than
holding her own in literary work.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

Mrs. Carrie Williams, silk culturist,
of San Francisco, says the industry will
be brought into prominence at the
Worlds Fair. Over $40O, 600, 900 is
employed in the business annually, and
Americans have not taken enough in
tcrest in it. A company Of Japanese,
direct from Toxic, has purchased tract
OF land in San Diego County, CAL, and
will engage in the industry. San Fran
cisco has Ladies' Silk Culture Society,
the only one in the United States.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

That electric light has an uncanny
way of showing up Unmatched colors
most women, affirms the Boston Tran
script, have learned te their cost, while
some there are who have even found their
compilations scarcely able to bear the
strong, fierce light; but now the doctors
are taking up the tale, and arc utteriug
grim warnings. 1t seems that, under GER
tain conditions, the electric light will
cause an illness almost precisely similar
to suDstroke.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
OTHER STATES.

Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the
Morgan steamship line in Galveston, is
dead. He was widely known, and dur
ing the war occupied a prominent position
in the confederate navy.
The incorpo,ators OF the Pan American
Transportation Company are called to
meet at Mobile on April 10TH for the
purpose of organizing a company and
electing directors. The books will then
be open for stock subscriptions. ,
No legislative act was ever more on
perfume than the Mississippi Emergency
BILL which passed both houses of Con-
crcss just before the final adjournment.
The 81 900, 600 appropriated for imme-
diate use enabled the Mississippi River
Commission to hold itself in readiness
to fight the floods then impending and
which have since poured into the delta.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

The Now York Court Of Appeals has
decided that Lady, who lost Q cloak
while trying on suits in q cloak store, II
entitled to recover the value Of tho gar
msnt and $50 damages for the trouble
and irritation to which she has been put.
She laid the cloak on the counter In
sight Of the clerks, but when she needed
1t 1t was gone. The court ruled that the
garment was temporarily in the care of
the clerks.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
Stick To a Good Thing.

A cash offer of 81, 500, 600 for South
ern iron and coal property now in full
operation was made not long ago and de-
clined by the present owners. The offer
was made by English people through
American representatives, and the money
was in hand to pay for the property, but
the owners thought they would prefer to
keep it rather than to havo $7,5O,,00O.
As the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad
Co.'S property is the largest of its class in
the South, it may bc well to say that this
offer was not made to that company.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
ELWL
Getting Ready for tho q. o. State
Conventional Distinguish
ed Delegats.

ed Delegate.
State Secretary Wynne is now hard at
work securing speakers and yetting up
an attractive programme for the Young
mems Christian Association State Con,
vention, Of South Carolina, which is To
meet in Charleston April 10th. State
secretary Coulter, of North Carolina,
will be present, and also State Secretary
Jenner, Of Georgia. There is probability
also Of securing the presence of II. o. vii
hams and James Farie, Jr., of Savannah.
But tho Charleston Association mon
seem to be prouder of having gotten
James McConaughy, of New York, to
agree to come than any one el,c. This
gentleman stands head and shoulders
above most of the general secretaries of
America, and his work in New York CITY
has been cminently sssSssscrl Mans
neId In 1870, at Charleston, by Mr.. Nc.
Conaughy and Mr.. Hall, also of New
York. His genial, hearty manner and
sincere earnestness made many friends at
that time, who will bc delighted to greet
him again. Mr.. McConaughy comes by
invitation of the Charleston Association
to deliver their anniversary address, but
OF course will help at the Convention
also.
From the present outlook it is evident
that the Y. M: G. A, will have great
and enthusiastic gathering in the CITY by
the Sea. An invitation is now beipp
sent all over the State, urgently inviting
al, all associations to send large delegations.
ihe invitation is cordial, and the local
Association proposes to handsomely care
Tor all delegates. They know how to do
it, and propose to do their best.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
What 1t Costs to Murder fn Tibet.

had arrived at Kane in an evil hour,
in the midst of the festivities of the 18th
of the fourth moon, when the people
from far and near congregate there and
the chiefs review their men, and when
drinking and fighting are the order OF
the day. In Tibet nearly every crime is
punished by the imposition of q fine,
and murder is by no means an expensive
luxury. The fine varies according to the
social standing of the victimT-12O bricks
of tea (worth rupee brick) for one OF
the "upper ten," eighty bricks for per-
son of the middle classes, forty bricks
for woman, and so on down to two or
three Tor a pauper or a wandering
foreigner, as Lieutenant Lu Ming yang
kindly informed me. He said that there
was hardly a grown-up man in the coun.
try who had not murder or two to his
credit, and later on Mgr. Biet, the Bishop
of Tibet, corroboratcd this statement
TIE Century.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
Receiver ohamberlain's Big System.

The consolidation of the management
of the South Carolina Railway and its
leased lines and the Three C's gives to
Receiver Chamberlain and General Mana
ger Warfahe control Of NO dub. "a. ...s
largest cage of railroad in South Car
olina. = Ney have charge of the follow-
ing lines,
South Carolina Railway, Miles: 242
Three C's Road 14S
Columbia, Newberry and Lauren
Railroad 46
Cumberland Gap Road "a
Total: AGO
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
Tho Story of the Trnsk lSruS az
Country.
Where They are Situated, and the
Capital Invested and Labor Em.
ployed in the Industry.

WAsHINaroN, ID. O., Especial THE
census Office has made public the bull
etin on truck farming, which for the
nrst time in the history of the country,
mas been made the subject of census in
vestigation. The statistics arc compilctl
from returns which had been received up
TO January 1, 1891: =
Truck farming, a. considered In this
report, is distinct from market garden.
'ng. The former Is carried on In favor
cd localities at distance from market.
water and rail transportation being ncc-
tyaaaSxsr~ vlAAkau- n -a0nIa IaaanAAd ~->.-
local markets, the grower OF vegetables
using his own team for the transporta-
tion Of his products direct to either re-
taller or consumer.
Uupwartss of sto0, 900, 900 arc invest
ed in this industry, tho annual products
reaching u value Of &78, 507, 1866 for farms
after paying frcights and commissions,
and realized upon 634, 444 acres Of land.
There are employed in this industry 216,-
785 men, 0,254 women and 14,S74, chill.
,lrcn, aided by 1896 horses and mule.
aud s,0:l, zoo, 90 worth of implements.
The Norfolk district, embracing 49,
3'5 acres, shipped products valued at
81, 600, 500; the South Atlantic district,
1,741 acres, products $18, 1S3, ,518;
Mississippi Valley 10, $50 acres, products
81. 079, ,7S3. Nearly rs per cent. of tho
truck produced In tho United States
comes from belt Of country along tho
Atlantic coast lying east of line drawn
from Augusta, Me-, to Macon, Ga, from,
Southern Georgia, Alabama and Florida,
along tho north and south lines of rpil a.
TnYSag8, 81 fUdls aud Kansas CITY, Snl
from the celery district Of Michigan and
Ohio. Moro or less of truck, however, Is
produced In all tho States.
The following table shows tho acreage
of leading vegetables grown upon the
truck farms of tho United States:
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
Southern Hen And Measures
Photographed.

Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphio
Dispatches From Many Points :,
In Our Own and Adjoin
ing States.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

One can appreciate tho perfection at
tanned by the modern science of Wall
street rumor-mongering, soiloquizes the
New York Commercial Adcertiser, when
he learns that the leading railroad
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

For many years it was believed that
the atmosphere had great deal to da
with thread making, and that good
thread could only. be made IN Scotland.
It is now known that It is all in the
twist and nothing in tho atmosphere.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

NJ. Marcy has succeeded in photo
graphing the movements Of an animal
under water, taking proofs at the rate Of
fifty in second, with exposures from
10000 to 10000 Of second. A set OF
twelve photographs gives ell the phsse
of the undulations which the medusa
,mpresses upon its umbrella Of . locoao.
tor apparatus. Another series exhibits
a squid leaping out Of tho water. A ray
has been taken In profile while waving
the edges Of It's fat body; and the
curious mode Of progression Of COMA
tula has been taken.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27
VIRGINIA.

The Methodists of Danville arc holding
interesting revival services.
Bessie, little daughter of DR.. r. M.
DAVIS, OF Buckingham county, was buru-
ed to death Thursday.
James F. Sheppard, charged with em-
oezzlement, was found guilty by the Sa.
lem Criminal Court.
Ten thousand dollars of Danville city
bonds haa bean taken nm -..-.--- =
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0p NJ u y IA
the pay of the 'bear" combination, whose
duty it was to telegraph his employers
any unfavorable news about the health Of
the tourist.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-27

The test Of every system, political or
educational Is tho men it forms.
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VOL. XXII.---NEW SERIES.

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