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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02

II. Kohu, of Prosperity. s. c., as pres
ident; J. w. Emmerson, of Lakeland,
Fla, first vice-president, and Thomas
Gamble, of Savannah, secretary. The
association proposes to devote itself to
promoting the interests of Southern can
ners, and will hold meeting next March,
probably in Atlanta. to perfect a per-
manent organization. The canning in
dustry is spreading rapidly in the South,
and the necessity of such an organization
as this has been felt for some time. An
estimate OF the number OF cans packeu
last season in the Southern States is given
as 35,O00,00O.
The South Carolina conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, met
in their one hundred and seventh sessions
at Trinity church Charleston, s. G. Bishop
Hendrix. of Missouri, opened the confer.
epce with the communion of the Lords
Supper. Twenty applicants, fol
membership were admitted to the con-
ference, and number of deacons were
elected, and were ordained on Sunday.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
As Seen From Horseback.

s'If you want to expsriencarA~ ~ novel
sensation," said gentleman C9 sports
Colonel's uniform as member OF Gov.
ernor's staff whenever said Governor
turns out on parade, "just get on horse.
lack and take part In some great FRO.
cession like those which marked the
Columbian festivities.
cit is the most curious feeling that
you ever experienced, will wager hat.
1t beats hasheesh or opium smoking all
to pieces. 1t is unlike suy other thing
that you ever saw or heard or felt.
cat first you are all right, aud you
hear the bands aud see the great furrowi
of humanity on either side of the way a,
distinctly as you ever saw anything 10
your life. But after while things be.
gin to grow blurred to your senses. IN,
music dies away aud there is nothing bu
dull roar in your ears, while the crowc
becomes merely a dull aud iudistinc
mass without form or meaning in you
f6SgedAfcs.-mcu-nSu3T TruuEsnr Havesu
high buildings, boys perchcd on chin
neys or sign boards orin solh e hazard Gus
place. You watch one Of them will
. fascinated eyes, expecting every minute
to see him fall and be dashed to pieces
on the pavement. You are constantly
filled with an overwhelming feeling that
you are to be witness to some dreadful
accident, but for the lite Of you yol
cannot turn your eyes away from it.
After a while you cease to be human
being at all and become mere automa
ton. You are not controlled by human
emotions, but by the magnetism Of the
crowd. 1t is some such sort of hypnotic
state, 1 apprehend, which men get intt
during battle and which makes then
so unlike themselves. New Yorl
Herald,
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
Inventions of the Hour.

A machine for imbedding wire netting
in glass.
A tailor's measuring square with q
plumb bob attachment.
A printing press operated by an elec.
tro. magnetic mechanism.
A pneumatic cushion to be placed OF
the ends of telephone receivers.
A process for making artificial mica
sheets for electrical insulation.
A paper knife that is especially adapt
ed to cutting the wrappers on rolled
papers. ,uruns so
that they may be arranged at any desired
angle.
An electric branding stamp, the type
being kept red hot bv means of an elec.
trical resistance.
An electrical light hanger that is ad-
Unstable to any angle by means of uui-
versal joint.
Il door lock so constructed that when
the key is turned it switches on the
lights in the room.
A mat formed of sections, each section
having loop Of rigid material with
rings of rope surrounding it, the sections
being clamped together.
A gravity motor for pumping pur-
poses, the weight being lifted to the top
of derrick, whence, by clock WORK
system, it operates pump rs it slowly
descends.
An automatic medicine stand for the
homepathically inclined, consisting of
two cups, two spoons and an index that
automatically marks the next cup from
which medicine is to be taken.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
The Sharks CuriOu, Ear.

Sharks have lately been affording con.
tributions to science. The biologists
have been vivisecting them for the pur.
pose of finding out about the functions
Of the ear, which in fishes is made to
some extent on the same pattern as in
man. The fact has been known for
some time that the ear is not merely ap
organ of hearing. 1t has to do with
the sense of equilibrium. Light has
been thrown on this matter by removing
portions of the auditory apparatus of
sharks, which are thus rendered unable
to MAINTAIN their balance in the water.
The part on which this faculty seems to
depend is the "labyrinth," and the
same effect is produced by cutting the
nerves communicating with it.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
Charleston and vicksburg Postoffices.

WASHINGTON, D. C.-There are only
two positions, as postmasters, now vacant
in large cities, viz: Charleston, S. c., aud
Vicksburg, Miss. In the former office
A. H. Mowry, appointed during the
Cleveland administration, is postmaster.
He was appointed in March, 1887, and
his commission expired in December
last. Dr. Crum, a colored man, was
then nominated, but the nomination was
subsequently withdrawn. 1t is probable
that no appointment will be made and
that the President will permit Mr.. Mowry
to remain.
The Vicksourg postofice is in the
hands of the sureties of Mr.. Hill, erst-
while postmaster, and is being we'll con-
dcucted. There are several applications
on file for the position and it is believed
that the Office will shortly be filled by
appointment.
Cabinet talk is still heard among the
politicians. They say that w. F. Har,
rity is booked for the Postmaster Gen.
era'ship, aud that Don NJ Dickinson will
probably be made Secretary OF State, al
though n anxious for the office.
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4 COTTON uALAmITY.
n. N. Neips Estmats Of the Crop
Shows an Affirming Shortage.

n. N. Neips Estimats Of the Crop
Shows an Affirming Shortage.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Henry y. Neil
has just issued his circular on the condt.
tion of the cotton crop. He lowers his
estimate TO $500, 600 bales, and says:
'During the last two week we have re-
ceived careful aud complete repor Is from
almost the entire cotton area and the
unanimous opinion is that the shortage is
so great as to amount TO real calamity.
These reports do not come from planters
only, but also from people who are look
ing for cotton for the purpose Of buying
it and whose interest it is to exaggerate
the prospect OF supply, not to underesti-
mate it. We have now reached the per
iod when the receipts urc5elEays found
to be governed principally by the size Of
the crop, as the time has passed when
the lateness of maturity has any effect.
The weather generally has been favora-
BILE for transportation and the facilities,
which are. of course, greater every year,
and the prices have advanced far beyond
what planters would have expected or
been satisfied with had they had good
crops; there is, therefore, no possible ex-
planation of light movement but the
one that the crop is very short. Per-
haps the planters are holding back some
what, they must be doing SO OF the crop
could not be even $500, 900; but does
any one suppose that at these prices
planters could hold back if their crops
were larger and yet port receipts to No.
vember 10th inclusive, are just equal to
those of 1sS6-'S7, a $500, 600 crop, 500
600 bales behind those of 1887 '8S, q
1000, 600 crop.
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. An electric railroad to run 100 mile,
an hour between Chicago aud St. Louis
is projected. "This sounds big" oom.
ments the Now York Tribune, "but the
range Of electrical possibilities has by no
means been reached. The successful
operation of such road would doubtless
point to important changes in our
methods Of transportation. A speed OF
100 miles an hour, however, will require
an almost perfectly straight track, an I
on the great majority of the railroa Is of
the East 1t would be entirely out of the
question. One most excellent thug
about tho proposed new road is that it
will hare no grade crossings"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
"COmpr2sscd Tea. g"

A novelty for travellers who enjoy the
cup that cheers is "compressed tea"
This is put up by certain Russian firms
resident in China. 1t is made OF the
fine dust Of tea-leaves, but is none the
less expensive for all that, for it is COM
pressed by the powerful force Of steam
machinery into compact tablets which
take up about one-sixth the space which
the same amount of loose tea-leayes
would occupy. Tnese tablets are in
turn enclosed in tinfoil, then in fancy
paper wrapperJ, and finally packed in
metal lined cases. Put up in this way.
the tea is considerably easier to carry,
and the fine dust of the tea which is
usually sold at low price is made use
of to good profit. Tnese tablets Of tea
have been extensively used for some
time in Russia, for every Russian enjoys
his cup of tea and knows but little about
coffee, though the Turk, who is at bis
very doors, makes the very best coffee in
the world. Thus far these tablets of tea
have not been imported to any extent
into our country. New York Tribune.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02

In an article urging the construction
Of better roads in the United States the
New York Sun remarks: Much of the
-- trnA,hla with n,o-;.~-- ----'--' VI
wagon wheels, relic of the days of
high -priced iron. The narrow rim is
very hard on the average road when
heavy loads are carried. But accepting
this peculiarly of the tires, fuudanen-
tai rule in road construction should be
to keep the substances which form the
bed firmly in place. This need is shown
by the shearing strain on road foored
with gravel. In cities blocks of stone
or asphalt can be laid, but not in couu-
try districts, on account Of the cost, aud
the best ordinary substitute for tn
country is angular bits of stone, so
driven together, on the macadam prin-
ciple, that they will not be moved by
the pressure of wheels.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
A Cow i'm n Bear Pit.

A comic scene took place sb16e, time
runrosFtrmundingcn was driving COW
into the capital, and had arrived at the
Muristalden when the animal bolted,
and, jumping the rails round the we'll
known bear pit, arrived at the bottom
without injury. The proprietor thought
that his COW was lost, but he was mis-.
taken. She attacked the bears bravely,
who, utterly routed, retired into their
den, into which she would have fol-
lowed them had she not been prevented
by the keeper of the animals, who let
down the trap door. Then the cow
went to the slaughter house and fulfilled
her destiny.-New York Times.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
Drank the Whiskey and Died.

KNOXVILLE, TENN Sam Lancaster,
po fellow, misju ige his abilities. Iic
had been drinking a good deal for =
month or so. He wake into a saloon
and bet with the crowd there that no
could drink SIX small beer glasses full
OF whiskey the bet being against the
price of the W piskcy. His wager was
taken, and he drank the six glasses OF
whiskcy lie fell to the floor after
drinking the last, and in few minutes
was dca l. Alcoholic poisoning was the
VIC dict lie was twenty six years old
and Fl cman on tn" E. +. V. & G. roa :.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
A Soldiers Home Proposed.

COLUMBIA, s C.-In the Senate bin
was introduced by Senator Abbott look
ing to the establishment of home foI
aged and disabled Confederate soldiers
in this city at cost of $40, 900 and $3.50
per year for each inmate.
a bill will also be introduced to am
end South Cardinals general election law
known rs the eight box law, the idea
being to retain some of its features and
in corporate some of the features Of the
Australian ballot system.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
GUT OF WORK.
A Despondent South Carolinian Com
mits Suicide in Georgia.

"A D6SpOnQenC SOuCn CdrOllulau SOu1~
mits Suicide in Georgia.
HAwKINsvILLE, Gar. &. Chestnut
committed suicide in room at the Pu-
laska House at noon, having taken three
ounces of chloral since last night. He
claimed Marion, s. c., as his home. He
had been here only ten days, a perfect
stranger and was looking for work. He
had been very despondent for several
days.
He had $13 80 on his person. A let
ter from his mother, received last night
from Galivant's Ferry, was urging him
to settle an account he owed there, as
tn. party did not think he had been
dealt right with. No work evidently
caused the act.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.-The discovery
mas just been made that the wheat crop
of Minnesota and the Dakota, is millions
Of bushels above all estimates. The re-
ccipts yesterday at Minneapolis were
ov,r 1. 100 cars, the heaviest days bust
II So of the seas IN, but on many other
days during the past month receipts have
run up TO nearly 1000 cars. Grain men
have been estimating the crop from
So, 900, 000 20 fG5, 900, 900 bushels for the
three big wheat States, but they are all
beginning to hedge now. Th' Sc who
put their figures at 100, 900, 900 have ad-
dcd from O,000, 900 to 30, 900, 0)O more,
and those who figured higher than that
originally have gone up as high
1870, coo, 900.
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together with the feather trimming. The
upper part of the skirt has the darts neces
sary to make it set well on the hips. Thes.
parts are ve-y carefully sewed and pressed
and IN order 10 make them invisible. ~
the back the dress falls in folds, The
bodice, which is joined TO the cape, decends
some inches below the waist, and the front
breadths of it are lined. The yoke is OF
velvet edged with feather trimming to which
is adapted the fold that crosses tho yoke.
This fold can be made either in silk, tho
same shade as the dress, OF in different
shade. II gradually diminishes as far as
the back, where II entirely disappears wiiieI
~ 81: ihe cape. The vest is perfectly
straight is fashioned on muslin lining,
wi,houC darts and lined with silk. In cut.
ting the cape. a. it is somewhat difficult, It
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
officers of the Knig hts of Labor.

ST. LOUIS, Mo.-The Knights of Labor
elected tn sc officers: General Master
and Treasurer, j. w. Hays, General
Worthy Foreman, Hugh Cavanaugh.
The executive board chosen consists of
l.. V. Powderly, John Davis, T. B. Nc
Guire, and A. w. Wright.
Previous to adjournment, the conven-
tion adopted a resolution on the Home
stead strike, rcciting that it was the
sense of the Knights of Labor that the
outcome Of the recent struggle was de
,,la.ahla l.aA Jl.<A -:A-,N---L-Tv-
fesst, great economic questions. The
resolutions ordered that the general ex-
ecutivc board be instructed to issue an
appeal for aid for needy strikers.
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two small circular piles of powdered sugar,
designed to represent the circle Of sand that
Foucault arranged upon the ground all
around his pendulum.
The plate represents the earth. AS lopg
as 1t remains stationary, the match, at
every oscillation, will pass exactly through
the furrow that it has made in the two piles
of sugar.
If, in order to represent the rotary motion
of the earth, we gently revolve the plate,
and consequently the forks and cork, we
find that that has no inhnanna-A lha
proof of this in seeing the match at every
oscillation make q small furrow distinct
from the preceding.
We can thus demonstrate in q simple and
practical manner the principal of the inv ri
ability of the plane of oscillation of the pen
dulum, upon which was based the zebra
ted experiment of the French scientist.
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Oae good result which the illustrated

Oae good result which the illustrated
American thinks is likely to follow Eng.
-t1e stoppage OF The 7coutract labor
business. The supply Of labor for the
coffee plantations in Mexico is small,
dear aud unreliable. The planters, there
fore. turnel to the natives Of the South
Sea Islands to obtain the worImsn need.
ed. Two years ago cargo of 3o) Gill
bert Islanders was laude1. TIE natives
were under contract to WORK on tho
coffee plantations for three years at from
81 to $40 month. At the expiration
of that period they were to be returnoi
to their homes. Notwithstanding the
contracts the laborels were virtually
slaves. How many will ever reacl hone
again remains to be sean.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-12-02
Stranya Eros of Bees.

The direotness of the bees flight is
proverbial. The shortest distance be-.
tween any two given points Is called
bec line. Many observers think that the
immense eyes with which the insect is
furnished greatly assist, II they do not en-
tirely account for, the arrowy straight.
moss Of its passage through the air.
Every bco has two kinds of eyes, the
two large compound ones, looking like
hemispheres, on either side, and the
three simple ones which crown the top
of the head. Each compound eye IS
composed of $500 facets-that is to say,
III UU1v5t Is rc1cotod 5000 ttmus ON its
surface. Every one of these facets Is
the base OF a hexagonal pyramid, whose
apex is fitted to the head. Each pyra.
mid may be termed an eye, for each has
its own iris and optic nerve.
How these insects manage this mar.
velous number Of eyes is not known.
They are immovable, but mobility is un.
necessary because the range Of vision
afforded by the position and the number
of the facets. They have no lids, but
are protected from dust and injury by
rows of hairs growing along the lines at
the junction of the facets. The simple
eyes ara suppose to have been given the
bee to enable 1t to see above its head
when intent upon gathering honey from
the cups of flowers.
Probably this may be one reason, but
it is likely there are other uses for them
not yet ascertained. A bee flies much
in the same way a, a pigeon that is to
cav, il first takes an upward spiral flight
into the air, and then darts straight for
the object in view. Now an expert,
mcutcr on insect nature covered. bees
simple eye with paint and sent it into
the air; instead of dartng straight oil
after rising, it continued to ascend.
Apparently, then, these eyes are use in
some measure to direct the fligut. -Poar.
sons A eckly.
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White-Tie Races.

Race meetings in India generally in.
clude some comic features, and the
latest novelty is "white-tie race" in
troduced at Kirkee. The competitors
ride certain distance, dismount, and
kneel before lady while she ties
white tie round their neck in, a neat
bow, then they remount and start for
the winning post. Much depend, ON
the iady's ess.-Chicago Times.
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President d. W. Fisher, of Hanover
College, Ind, gives the New York Iude. e.
pendent information which throws some
light on the possible origin of American
races. He says: One of the recent grad.
yates of Hanover College, w. L. Lopp,
for the past two years ha, been in chary Q
Of the Mission School for the Eskimos,
at Port Clarence, Alaska, on the Amer.
ican side Of Bcrng Strait. A letter
under date Of August 31st, 1892, to my.
self, says of last winter: "No thaws
during the winter. and ice blocked in
the Strait. This has always been doubtel
by whalers. Eskimos have told them
that they sometimes crossed the strait Oh
ice, but they have never believed them.
Last February and March our Eskimos
had tobacco famine. Two parties Give
men) went with dog sleds to East Cape,
on the Siberian coast, aud traded some
'eayer, otter aud marten skins for Rus
sian 70, and returned safely. It
is only during an occasional winter that
they can do this. But every summer
they make several trips in their big
wolves skin boats--forty feet long.
These observations mag tnrow some light
upon the origin of the Prehistoric Races
OF America Mr.. Lopp 10 in every way
n reliable man, and it would seem to be
n pity not to give to the public the i'm.
portant fact which he has narrated above.
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+ The number of schoolhouses in tho
United States is 216,33O. The esti.
mated value of all public school prop.
erty is 1923, 565,532 The total reve-
nues of the public schools are: From
permanent endowments, $9,s25, 127 ;
from taxes, State, $25, ,177,O67 local.
$ss, 1928, ,3s5-S11s,5 sos, ,412; from other
sources, $s,794, ,431. Total revenue,
$135, 1875, ,O1O. ss.stsissS:.s. sstsisSes .szsSs,s--
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would y. peter to try II in any worthless
material FIRST so that there will be no
danger of spelling the good fabric. II is
cut out of a single piece. The plested
sleeves are sewed on to the armholes OF
the waist and trimmed with band OF
velvet. Tho cape may be wadded and
lined with silk.
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AN AFrER,pINNBR BxPERIMENr.
Foucault's Pendulum Easiiy Initiated
with an Orange and Thread

Foucault's Pendulum Easily Initiated
with an Orange aud Thread.
At dessert, it is possible, by means Of an
apple or an orange, 10 repeat the Foucals
pendulum experiment. which was executed
under the dome of tho Pantheon in 1881,
says the E.oci.icui Ay'. Pass q match
through an orange and allow the cuds 70
,.rotrudc on each side, and TO ono of these
ends attach thread, Attach the othcr OK.
tremity of the thread to the head Of n pin
inserted in a cork aud support tho latter by
means Of three forks, the handles of which
rest upon the edge ofa plate. Now cause
the pendulum to.swing after so regulating
the length of the thread that the lower
point OF tho match shall come very near the
bottom OF the plate and mark its passage in
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The National Farmers Congress.

LINCOLN, NEB. The National Far
mers' Congress held its final session. The
laxity of the inter-States commerce law
was condemned. A resolution was pas
sed expressing sympathy for the Farm,
ers' Alliance and kindred organizations.
Savannah, Ga was selected as the place
for the next meeting in December, 1893
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An Awful Little CrimkS&

DURANT, MIcH Herman Grensel, the
eight year old son Of a prosperous far.
mer near here, confessed to An attempt
to poison his parents by putting paris
green into the well because his father had
chast>ed him. His parents and two
farm hands are seriously i'll and cohsid-
erablc stock has died
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Marriage of Il Methodist Minister.

en-, Jr., of Monticello Station, Fairfield
county, and Miss Matte Anderson, a
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. w. l.. Ander-
son, who live about five miles above here,
were united in marriage by the father of
the groom, Rev. A. J. Cauthen, ST., Of
Beaufort Both father and son are mem.
llliEspb, scnSsnlth .GsesSL Conference.
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1t will surprise many people, the Bos.
ton Cultivator is convinced,to know that
on the average as many people freeze to
death in Massachusetts as are killed by
lightning. For the ten years to the end
of 1888, the number that perished from
either cause was the same-thirty- two,
or an average of only little more than
three persons year.