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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
A Girl Whipped by White Cans.

New ALBANY, IHD., Especial. There
was another brutal whipping by White
Caps in Crawford county on SUNDAY
morning, n which yc ing woman of IS
years wa, one of the victims. William
Mcclure and his atrp-dau, ;h,er live near
Leavenworth, the county en- of Craw-
ford county. They Wei reported to lie
living in adult.ry, but there was no
proof OF this charge. About 10 o'clock
on Sunday morning twenty masked
White Csp., all armed with revolvers.
went to the McGu'-e residence, broke
down the door, AID seiziIg Mcclure,
who is about SO ye. is old, and the step,
daughter, they dragged them to the
woods and tied them to trees.
Then the clothing of both victims was
lowered to the hips nd the White Caps
commenced the work of switching them
on the bare backs, fayIng them from the
shoulders to the hips The young wo.
man shrieked for mercy at every blow,
but her appeals were vain until she sank,
fainting from the pain. She received
over fifty lashe', and her shoulders.
back and hips were frightfully lacerated.
Old man Mcclure received seventy -fiv.
lashes, he also fainting under tha savap
pun1snmenr.. hIrsrA uric rro--%inriee,Ss.
White Caps notified them them that
they were found in the county twent
days later they r-oild be hanged. Tn
outrage has created the most intense =,
citement, aud is denounced with gre;
bitterness.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
D0Y08 8ElKE06O ID NEWS
The South's Increasing Foreign
Trade.
The American Export Commerce
Changing It's Base..The
Comparison.

No feature of Southern progress is now
more worthy of careful study than the
increasing trade of Southern ports. Re-
cent railroad combinations and new lines
have made it possible that large volume
OF traffic will hencef nth reach the sea-
board at Southern ports instead of by the
much longer all-rail route to the North.
Inns ls illustrated in the heavy shipments
OF wool from Utah to New England via
Savannah and Newport News, recently
mentioned in the Manufacturers Record.
Srraaf "a ia tina ino.>>->- :-.-IL. -f.>-.;..,
trade OF Southern ports, it does not ade-
quately represent the growth of their
commercial interest, because the heavy
increase in coastwise trade, of which no
statistics are kept, is not shown in any
manner. This is not simply an increas-
ing business in cotton, lumber. naval
stores and phosphate rock shipped to
Northern ports, but a large growth OF
traffic between the West and Northwest
aid New England through Southern ports
instead of by all-rail routes, as formerly.
he foreign exports from the South con
tinue to show rapid increase The val
ue o these exports for the eleven months
OF the fiscal year ended May 81 were as
follows:
For the II months ended Nav 81.
1890, to al for the South 1901, ,451 ,277;
total for the whole country 1904, III, 1874.
For the II months ended May 81, 1891,
total for the South, 1921, 179, ,9O5; total
for the whole country, 1926, 1913, ,864.
The increase from Southern ports as
shown by these figures was nearly 800
OO0' 200, while the total increase from
the whole country was only $22. 100, 900.
-Southcrn ports made an increase of $50, :
CC6, $50. while the combined net increase
at all other United States ports Was ro1'iy
e.tenth as much, or 81, 900, 900.
!he largest gains shown by Southern
points were 50, 800, 900 at Galveston, So
10000 at Charleston, So, 800, 900 at
Newport News, $4,000, 900 at Norfolk
and Portsmouth, s., 900, 600 at Savannah
and $2, 100, 900 at Wilm ngton By far
the largest percentage of increase was at
newport News, where the value advanc-
ca from sc, 300,0 900 to $1O,194, 600.
Every month brings out more promi
nently the increasing Importance of New
port News and Norfolk as destined to he
two of the greatest commercial cities of
the Atlantic coas'. Their foreign ex-
port trade is now nearly as large as that
OF Philadelphia, city of million of in
habltauts. With 'rn railroads having
their seacoastl - at the towns cen
teEina sronndS11 ON Roads. and with
these roads fast extending their Western
and Southern connections and thus in
creasing their hold on through business
and with the Development + the manu-
featuring interests of these towns, ther,
Is a certainty of great progress and OF
their taking rank in the list of the
worlds great scaports.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
AV0laaCIleS.

Snow-slides play greater part in shap
ing the Himalayas, according to Colonel
H =. B. Tanner, and office. Of the Indian
Survey, than geologists generally suppose.
rms author has encountered four distinct
kinds of avalanche. The first. and most
common, is the precipitation OF a mass of
new snow from slopes too steep to retain
more than a limited quantity. These
occur generally in winter and early
spring. The second kind of avalanche
is the old snow, loosened by the heat of
the sun. They may be heard through out
the summer and autumn, and, though
usually not of great extent or weight,
are dangerous from the unexpected and
irregular manner in which they slide off.
The third kind can only be seen when
the mountains are of peculiar structure,
and are really ice aud not snow avalan-
ches. They are of very constant occur
renee in some localities, more particular
ly where small glaciers are situated
high up on the crest of mountains, and
are gradually pushed over the edge. The
fourth kind was seen by Colonel Tanner
but once, and not known to have been
described before. It is very curious, be-
ing the movement of billions of snow
balls, about the size of ones head, which,
in stream a mile and half LONG.
slowly wound down the upper part of an
elevated valley IN the Gilgit- Darel Noun
tains. How this form OF avalanche
originates, or how the snow is rolled up
into the countless balls, is a mystery
Trenton (N. J) american.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES
Yellowstone Park Scenery.

The merits of the scenery of Yellow.
stone Park appear to Professor G. f.
Wright to have been considerably exap
gerated. The figures representing the
height of the mountains around it above
the sea are deceptive. A mountain
10000 or 11,O00 feet high does not
look extraordinarily large and massive
when it does not rise more than 1000 or
5000 feet above the elevated plateau on
which it stands as base; but those 1000
or 5000 feet are all that is shown of the
naountain-rim of the park, while the
glimpses to the outside mountains are
few and far between. The grandest
views are those on entering the park as
one looks outward to the encircling rim.
The geysers, Professor Wright says, are
decidedly vulgar, and one can afford to
die without seeing them. Boiling paint.
pots, with only one dull color in them,
arc not inspiring. Acres of. lspdS,laid
waste by sulphurous waters and gases,
such as greet one on every hand in those
geyser basins, can be seen at any time in
Pennsylvania where the water is pumped
from the coal mines to spread its desc.
lation all around. .-Neu York Commercial
d3pertiser.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
A Zulu Dainty.

Mealies are the chief food Of the
Katirs, but they rejoice at an occasional
opportunity of feasting off tough
"trek" ox-po matter if it has died from
natural causes-albeit their glimmering
of religious superstition forbids them the
use Of animal food. They !oathe Eel, as
we should loathe eating a snake; but, on
the other hand, their fancies for certain
tidblts run in a curious direction. One
afternoon spray of glittering green fol-
iage is brought to me, from whence are
depending the most enormous caterpil-
lars have ever seen in my life, as thick
as my thumb and twice as long fat,
green fellows, studded with small, spar
king scales. The little Zulu girl from
whom they had been obtained wept bs-
cause "we had taken away her food" I
fatty declined to try caterpillar or
two, whereupon native eagerly selects
a couple of the finest, p;nches off their
tails, ,manipulates glove fashion the wrig.
Cling creatures one within the other.
frizzles them before the fire, aud firaily
daintily devours the nauseatin3 morsel
with the lingering enjoyment Of an Eng
lish schoolboy eating fine fresh straw
berry. y.-Blcsspool's M13asin,.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Something of Texas's Bigness.

81 live in the greatest State in the
Union" said Richard M. Anderson, of
San Antonio, Texas, at the Metropolitan
Hotclin New York City, land from what
know of her resources 1 think her ex-
hibit at the Worlds Fair in Chicago will
astonish the people of the United States.
The largest wheat farm in this country
outside of California IS situated in the
Panhandle of Texas, OF what is known as
West Texas. 1t comprises 10, 900 acres
on the railroad. ten miles east of Colo
RADIO, and is owned by company of
some of the best known capitalists of
Dallas, Fort Worth and Colorado. This
immense tract of land lies high and al
most level, while the SOIL is rich and
dcep. with hardly any timber. The farm
is ten miles wide, extends forty miles
north and south, and is all being fitted
for cultivation. The work is principally
done by twelve immense gang plows,
which turn eight burrows at one time.
Our cotton crop last year was something
over 10000 bales and there were
$50. 600, 300 bushels of corn. We have
within our borders z, SOC, 900 cattle, A.
800, 600 sheep, 1.4O0, 90 horses and
mules, aud other things in proportion.
Texas is 2 great State. ."-S. Louis Re-
Dublic,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
A.,E. Gammage is suing a physician
of Grand Ranida AI;nh Go. osa nnn e.

: A. E. Gammage is suing a physician
Of Grand Rapids, Mich, for $50, 900 for
having performed an operation upon him
against his will. a.page was to uh.
dergo an operation vel. He was
placed on the operat !, ..apte and every
thing was ready, when his nerve failed
him and he declared the operation off.
DR.. Peterson insisted upon going ahead
with it, and endeavored, with the assist
ance of attendants, to administer chloro-
form. Gammage resisted. Two police.
man passing by were called in, and upon
the representation being made that the
patient was insane, assisted the doctors
and attendants in putting him to sleep.
The operation was then successfully per-
formed. When the patient revived IL
was found that his left arm was broken
ia two places, the injuries having been
Sustained in his struggles against the
apesthetic. 1t is for those injuries and
his laceratei feelings that he brin %
s,,;As -
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
4 Subterranean Lake.

A traveller who recently visited Bibb
county. Alabama, says that near a place
calico Six Mile Creek nc came across n
held OF two or three acres which is over
suhterranean lake. The soil is only three
o' ionr feet thick, and you can take
sharp pole and drive it through to the
water beneath. Half dozen men iump
pss up ana down at once in any partic-
ulaI spot, will make the corn stalks trem.
BILE fors'sn or twelve feet around. Tn
tue ,dryest seasons that patch of ground
If always damp, not to say wet, and il
can be distinguished from the rest of the
heid ny the luxuriant dark green of the
corn planted on It. In one place we'll
has been dug to the water, and they say
100 foot line failed to roach the bottom.
The water Is clear and as cold as that OF
an ordinary spring, but there seems to be
no current.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Pickpockets Are Born.

A man must have the physical endow-
ment to be piokpocket, just as d man
must have certsin mental endowment
to be poet, says q noted criminal ia the
st. Louis Globe Democrat. The iiEing Of
the pocket must be taken hold Of -ahaas
an inch from the top on the inside, 1t
must he drawn up easily and quickly At
the same time
Not more than half dozen move.
ments of ths fingers should be necessary
to get the lining out far enough. With
the lining, OF course, will come the
pocketbook, and this should never be
touched by the fingers until IL IL ALMOST
ready TO drop into the hand of the thief.
Some experts never touch the book
until it is in the hand. Now, the fingers
to do this should be slender; not necss.
sarily long, but thin and flexible, aud
the best pickpockets are those whose
finger ends are naturally moist,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
1t is generally believed,

$ 1t is generally believed, remar
Franb Leslie's, that suicide annuls an i
sprance policy. Aa exception to Il
1ilS must be noted. In the Unit,
States Circuit Court at Kansas City, Nj
Judge Caldwell has decided case
which suicides does not annul. Un6
the laws of Missouri suicide does not a
null unless it can be shown that at I
time Of taking out of the policy the
sured contemplated suicide. John
Berry took out policy in the Kuigt
Templar aud Masons' Life Indemui
Company doing business in that Stat
The policy provided, as all policies d
that self-destruction would anuul
Judge Caldwell held that this provisit
OF the policy was rendered null by t
laws of Missouri; aud, though John
Berry committed suicide, his heirs m,
recover under the policy.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10

Uhe OF the singular facts developed by
recent discussions as to American laws
OF maj riage, is the wonderful variance
under the statutes of the several States
aud Territories, Of what is known as the
'lawful age of consent" The different
conclusions to which public opinion has
come, through legislation, on this
subject, would sce,e.ty be believed, OBJ.
serves the New York Nsps, were not tho
facts matter of record. The English
law had fixed the marriageablc age for
boys at fourteen and for girls at twelve
years, and such was tho law in this
country up to recent period, when we
began to improve upon the wisdom of
our ancestors. In New York that was
the law until the year 1887, when our
Legislature raised the age, at a sudden
jump, to eighteen for boys and sixteen
for girls. Our new rule has been fol-
lowed by Delaware, Michigan, Nevada,
Nebraska and Ohio, Another group OF
States. such as California, Oregon, Min.
nesota aud Wisconsin, have fixed the age
at eighteen for boys and fifteen for girls.
Still another, as Georgia, Alabama,
Arkansas and Illinois, have seventeen for
boys aud fourteen for girls. Others, as
Texas, Iowa and North Carolina, insist
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
41e ERIRAx,. July 70, 1891.
State Agricultural Society.

COLUMBIA, s. g., Especial. Col. T.
w. Holloway, secretary of the State Az
ricultural and Mechanical Society OF
South Carolina, has issued the following
circular:
The annual meeting of the society will
te held in the city of angeburg on
Wednesday, 5th August. The subjects
selected for essays are practical and are
recommended to the earnest attention of
the people, and it is hoped that there
will be very large attendance of not
only the members of the society, but of
all if interested iRthe development of the
resources of our State. The subjects are:
''Thc Aims of Clemson College and
the Methods to be Pursued in their At
tainment," by II. A. Strobe, president of
Censor College.
"Fig Culture" by Prof w. F. Mas
sey, Raleigh, N. c., professor of horti
culture, botany and mechanic arts.
The Tariff and how it Affects the
can, of Spartanburg.
"Fungoid Diseases of Certain Agricul
tural Plants and Fruit Trees" by E. B.
Moore, of Anderson, 8 G.
1.-The Canning Industry of South Car
olina," by G. s. Nettles, Darlington.
"Fancy Poultry" by Ross a. Smith,
Charleston.
''Raising Poultry for Profit" by DR..
s. Il. Lea, Cokesbury.
"Cotton tulture in Russia" by John
8. Scott, Mars Bluff.
There are several other subjects that
will be discussed; among the number is
sorghum by distinguished agriculturist
who will be able to prove that it is one
of the most important crops grown for
forage
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Through q Trestle.

NEWTON, N. c., Especial. IA passen-
ger train on the Western North Carolina
division of the Richmond and Danville
railroad went through Setzer's trestle,
near Newton Tuesday morning at about
II o'clock.
Captain Limster, the conductor in
charge of the train, was instantly killed,
as was y negro brakeman.
The train Is q total wreck. IL Is mi
raculous how the passengers escaped with
their lives. The passengers and luggage
We're transferred and will go by Spartan
burg.
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Brabham Hung.

oHARLorTE, N. c., Especial. Henry
w. Brabham. the negro who last April
killed John B. Mocca, al Italian with a
compiling pin was hanged in this city last
Thursday morning at II o'clock In the
Jail corridor. There were at least 1000
persons present. Brabham confessed at
the last moment Of committing the deed.
He died by strangulatiop in III minutes,
when his body was cut down, elnI,almed
and shipped by express 10 his relatives AZ
Bamberg, S. g. Brablam was in his
22Dd year and gambler by profession.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10

The population of British India,
corfling to the census that was taken IA
February last, now runs up to 22o, 5OOya
600, OF an increase within ten years 81
26, 100000. There is an additional
population of IS, 900, 900 in those Eat
Indian States that are under feudo.orv
rule subject to British influence with
British protection. The peasants'in some
OF the congested districts sfe seeking
new homes in regions wbsfe the popula.
ton is less dense than it is in the pro-
vinces of Bengal and Oudt. Mr.. Gibson
says that in the single province of Bengal,
which has an area only one-twenty- third
as large as that of the United States. the
population is 9,oOO,O 900 more than that
OF the American republic, though Bengal
is almost wholly agricultural and has
lfcsresIy any }RSgs manufacturing centres.
In that province there are 7f5 persons Z
every square mile of cultivatable land.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
ous riot occurred on tho CT

N GUS riot occurred on tho Charlotte
Co!uhi lin & Augusta i,a;n Saturday, night,
betweeA August. and Columbia. A party Of
negroes returning from n fourth of July
celeb, atiVn in Augusta bee .me involved in
n dispu'e which resulted in one Of the num-
Der being literally cut to pieces. aud ten
others beibg badly wouniej. The scene
was one of terror. The white people rushed
from car to car AMI finally teok refuge in the
slet per. The conductor locked the car where
the riot wa, g'ng on ani let t,cn fight it
out. Pistols and razors were used freely
The negro who did most of The cutting and
who killed ne o'hsr negro jumpe from the
train and escaped.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Judge Irving Halsey, in his meme

Judge Irving Halsey, in his memor
address over the grave of the famo
PAGER, Tom Hal. in Tennessee recentl
asserted that this peculiar stride "
used by horses $500 years ago in Gree,
and that the proof of this fact is to
found in the equine figures on the m,
bles stolen from the Parthenon by Lo
Elgin.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Aimed for a Grow and Kilied His
Father.

SARATOGA, N. Y. Especial. Morgan
b. Coleman, 20 years old. living in the
peighborhood Of Fort Ann, was shot and
killed on Sunday by his son, Frank
The boy was in hiding to shoot crows
which were pulling corn IN. the garden.
Just as he had his ain on a crow aud
anlied the trigger Of his gun, his father
stepped from behind ON outbuilding and
eceived the charge III his body, from the
effects Of which he dica.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Lady Macdonald Raised to peerage

I,osDoN, ICablegram. lit is officially
announced that Lady Macdonald, widow
OF The late Premier of Canada, Sin Joha
Macdonald, has been raised to tho pee.
age as an acknowledgment Of her hus-
bands long snd distinguished pubic
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Appointment of Postmasters

WAsuINeroN, d. c., Especial. Tho
president has appointed the following
n,med postmasters at offices which were
recently raised to tho presidential class:
Mitchell G, Hall, at Cordele, Ga. Miss
Ella N. Henry, ElbertoD, Ga. Walter G.
Shaw, Hartman, Tenn. James p. Ed
mosdson, at MAryville, Tenn, Ezekiel
y. Gilbert, at Bueua Vista, ys,' 60, :;
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-07-10
Bureau Appointments.

WAsHIseToS, d. G., Especial Sec !,
retary Rusk to-day made the folio ing
appointments in the weather bureau sei
vice: Cleveland Able, rc-appointed pro.
fessor OF meteorology; III, A. Hazen. O:
Connecticut; Thomas Russell, Of Micis-
gan, and @. f.. Mariven, OF Ohio, meteor
ologists; e. j. Bugbee, superintendent
OF telegraph lines, and y. j. Robinson.
chief telegraph operator =
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Figurcs collected by the Ahner ia !.
Statistical Association show that the bred
at which people marry is steadily advans,
) ing. The average age Of bridegroom
now is twenty eight, and twenty-five
the brides.
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NUMBERS
While the Surplus Decreases s5, ,O0O..
600 During the Past Month.
Decided Falling OF Of Receipts from
all Taxes During the Past Fiscal
Year---Increase in In
dian Expenses.

WAsurNaroN, D. c., Especial. The
monthly public debt statement was issu..
Ell today in an entirely new form. IT
combines both the secretary's statement
OF the public debt and the United States
Treasurer's monthly statement of assets
and liabilities, heretofore issued sepa-
rately. Comparisons with the last
monthly statement and the statement is
sued July 1, 1890, shows an increase in
the public debt during the past month
during the past fiscal year Of $s5 GU $685.
The surplus in the Treasury to day in tho
new form of statement put out isi
placed at $50, $685. s0s, or about five mil
lions less than month ago, with no
change in the interest bearing debt of the
Government during the past month.
THE BONDED DEBT.
The bonded debt of to-day is $61O.-
520, 12O, made up in round numbers of
$50, 900, 900 fours and $50, 500, 900 four
And half per cent. bonds
Government receipts from all sources
during the past fiscal year were $401, $780,
716, or about one million and half less
than during the preceding year. Gus
toms receipts were $219, 900, ,653, or
about ten millions less than during the
preceding year; internal revenue receipts
were $145, 943, ,2S1, an increase over the
preceding year of three millions and
quarter, and receipts from miscellaneous
sources were nearly thirty-six millions
greater than in the preceding year. On
the other hand expenditures during the
fiscal year just closed were $3sS, ,696, 1924
against $31s, ,040, ITO during the preced-
ing year. Seventeen millions and half
Of this increase i found in the pension
change of $1s4,415, ~ .S.' @ the past
year.
INCREASE IN EXPENDITURES.
Civil and miscellaneous expenditures
during the year amounted to $11O,147,.
399, an increase oyer the preceding wear
OF nearly thirty millions. Indian expen-
ses were $S5, Se6, 1913, or nearly two mil
lions more than during the precediug
year.
Navy expenditures were $26,115, ,O0s.
or four millions more than during the
preceding year, and War Department ex
penditures were $40, 723, 116, or four and
quarter millions greater than in the
preceding year; $37, ,s27 ,2O1 were paid
out during the year for interest on the
public debt, and &c, ,401, 22O in premi-
pm on S114- 600 Qn0 bonds purchased
and redeemed during the wear
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Itch OF HI tman and horses and ,lari NAL
cured in 80 minute. by wooltords Sanitary
Lotion. This never fails. 30 d by j. NJ.
GIBBS & son, Druggists Union s. q.