The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-13
Correspondents OF III, Union TIhs'.
News from the Municipality Of santuo.

News from the Municipality Of ssntuo.
SANTuC, Feb. 7th 1901.
The night ha' come with oil her silver train:
The time is come that can rest again and
dream Of -"
But before take that rest I will make q
visit. and tell some things-probably all
can ,hiuk of now. canuot speak OF much
progress on the farms, as it has been 50 very g,
rainy since the advent Of the new year, IN
connection with the scarcity Of hands IN a..
great many Instances, that but little work
has been done. ,...,.... -a.ia
My own work is very much behind, for
finished ginning cotton the very last day
Of January. We lost something on the price
Of our cotton by putting off ginning it until
the last, in order TO accommodate the pubic.
think made a good run this season,
ginning several hundred bales, but 1t was
such hard work, being my own engineer,
| and having every thing to superiutend. But ;
have such nice, temperate, and reRu ar
little engine, which is, except pretty girl,
the prcttiest moving object you ever saw :.
| and it is real pleasure to run it.
| In this connection permit me 10 tell Of O..
joke on myself, or a "muddy scrape' got
| into: After finishing ginning you can
| imagine fet q little free, and on Monday
afternoon started out on collecting tonr,
thinking would get some "pocket lining,
and was imagining how 1t would feel to hold
it in my hand / had not gone over two
miles, before / took out my account book to
look at it and shape my course by what IT !
showed, when my mule, which was "foxI
trotting," tro,tcd under sornesl low hanging
locust limbs, and they bcgan< sscyaf SSS >
L waS M.S :'NfSsn aSsn hqt 7 tssa. tssX x1lkdSii
dodge when M saia eqa, f2aoh Mll
gifted turned, The mule suddenly whifscl
and came down iuto the red mud and
water. The mule ran around kicking, and
got up running. to get out of his way, with
mud plastered on me from my waist to the
knee, and my overcoat muddy from the elbow
down. l fs;t worse than hog looks after
, taking mud BATH but caught the mule,
picked up my hat and papers, and after peep.
ing round to see if anyone was looking,
wadcd back through the mud, few hun
dred yards. to where some colored women
were washing, washed my face aud hands,
, dried my papers by the fire, aud hung my
self on the fence to dry. This is the same
mule that fell down with ne two years ago,
and then made footpath over me.
= The parsonage of the Baptist church hero
y is completed and the pastor, Rev. =. r.
7 Williford, will probably be moved into itA
a before this i, in print. Hi. s..members have>
surrendered one of their preaching days, for
one year, that he may give the Philip church,
morning services.
Mr.. J..P. Jeter has bought a two acre lot
. from Mr., l.. Jeter, and has a handsome hoszse
u nearly completed thereon.
The store Of W. T. Jones, is about ready
O for the finishing touches. Mr.. c, ID. Ran
). dolph, of Grecnvilee, is contractor and
~ builder of both Of them.
n DR.. Geo. Douglas has purchased the Owens
a house and lot, of Mrs. l. c. Crocker.
m Tho officers elected at the first municipal
-, election for this little town ore as follows:
!" Intendant, l.. B. Jeter;
&c Wardeus, c. w. Austell, r. G. Hobsop,
m r. Z. Moss and W. Il. Jones.
T. There is great deal of guano talk among
the fsrmers, and it seems that some have
y" ororred, aud are preparing for large crop
r Of low price cotton, which forces them TO sell
&C their seed at low price also, it seems.
10 AS l have said above, hands are sc'rce,
but money is scarcer. 1t so scarce that
10 believe if the moon was shining and anyone
a would offer il, would quit writing this, ,. and
m get out aud trIt mile for q quarter " =.
h. And the appe frances are now that it
be scarcer later on, for l don't think
~ is aksipele acre Of Spring oats sowed,
CT Is Almost Too late to sow them now. H.
q farmers have no oats and are compelled D.
.. buy corn, to supplement that crop they will
=, undoubtly, have n tough time next Foil,
Almost everyone will have to buy their seed
no oats, and they are very high, eighty cents
or per bushel. With all these, it is enough
to psrturb the imperturbable, for as oats is
now said to be indispensable to successful
farming, we will have to dispense with tho
indispensable; but We can all sympathize
with each other, for all are drinking from
in the samo canteen.
h. l caUe very near forgetting to tell ..,se
y was a marriage here in the Baptist church
I'd last Wednesday night, the 4th. Miss Genie
c. Zealy, of fairfield, was married TO Mr.
le Martin, OF that county. There Was good
ne many at the church 10 witness the ceremony
}; but as for any other news concerning il l
al have been unable to G can.
There have been from two TO three we'd
ut dings evero week since the beginning of
RS Christmas, among the colored people.
ID i was down at Fish Dam last Monday,
1t and saw good many little homes being
'e built. Glen Cannon, colered, is having \
store built, and there are some other smaller
,e buildings being built.
Of The Georgia, Carolina and Northern rail-
t. road has purchased O beautiful lot there.
TX and is having nice little cottage built there
on, for the Section Master. The wall uadsr
r the s. U. s. c. road is fine piece of work
o manship. The new road is smooth track.
is and there are some fine trains passes over
H. it.