The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-04-22
corrsspopispce ofths TIsEs.
Eeua Hron, North Pacniat.

N ETA JANE, April 1s.-The call for o
Teachers Associa ion should elicit the sup
port and st,en'i of every teacher and
friend ~ edocaion in the county, AMI We
rope hsia provo = success. .'-'
On Nr. w. ). WikiDson's place, in York
county, last Saturday. the little seven year
old boy Of Mr. Will Brake6e,d came pa.r
nsngIng himself lie got up on a chair to
get into swing, and by some means got the
rope around his neck, and was swinging
when another boy came TO his assistance
and relieved him. lie was nearly dead
when taken down.
Part OF yesterdays Sunday school lesson.
is beautifully iruurated by AdIis9n, in the
following lines:
"Wbat though in solemn silence all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball,
What though no cal voice nor sound
Amid their radiant orbs be found;
In reasons ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth \ glorious voice.
Forever singing rs they shine,
The hand that made us is diUine."
On Sunday nigh Of last week We had q
sensational runaway match, in which Mr..
Ward Rice, aud Miss Hattie Ross, (botb
colorsd) were tho principal actors. Rev. ).
ID. Bailey pronounced tho ceremony, anu
Mrs. Lewis, the brides mother, gave Waddy
Thomson g"cj pounding with her fist. She
told him she was q man -of-a-woman.
Prof. Aycock, Of the kc'ton school, gave
us pleasant coil last Saturday. lie was
accompanied by Mr.. "Bos.," Fowler. one Of
his pupils.
Miss Laura Estes visited relatives and
friends in ork county last week, and
returned home yesterday highly pleased
with her trip.
Our friend +. W. J. will please undor-
s.,.k fo, 60 IL
people Of any thing wrong in our endorse
meut Of l.. &. Us ar icle. We hold = theory
hat the character of the church can't be
sullied by the misconduct Of even its minis
ter. We believe tho people Of Salem (Bap-
tist) church did their yfuH duty rs chris.
tIaus in supporting AMI upholding their
min ster until in an unguarded hour, and
perhaps in n demenled condition, he proved
recrsant to his trast. We are among the
last men on ca tn to throw straw III the
pathway of such devoted self-sacrihc,ng
christians ms make up that church, and l..
e. J. no doubt feels just like we'd in regard
TO such an unfortunate matter-ons which
/ the devil only will try TO make capital out Of.
Mr.. Editor, you are certainly correct in
your estimate of The cha ac;er OF ouI people
and their readiness to punish any outrage
upon the Chief Executive or even the hum,
5le.t citizen tf our State while in the dis
/ charge Of duty OF in the enjoyr ent Of their
const itutional liberties But if lynching
had been necessary Capt. J. Il. Moorheai, n
dyei-in-the-woo'. Tllmau man would
have "bosscd' The job, though you and me
would have taken u hand too, NJ doubt.
Several of our farmers planted cotton last
uoek- This week will plough early
planted corn if the ground is in season.
Tho peach crop on the high lands is re-
| porte not seriously damaged by frost.
We planted variety Of 6arlen seeds last
Friday.
MIR. SIN tn Wood has been running poria-
6ie saw mill on this side Of Pacolct. Smith
is go. ahead fellow.
No fr.she's this year, for Mason Millwood
| found II wasp nest near the ground down by
the waters edge.
Mr. Noah Buicc, Of Goudeysvillc, is first
class photographer. Ills outht is in readi-
ucss TO do any work in that line.
Miss Anna Mi,luood is still very sick.
DR.. Jack Wood, Of keltOn, is now attending
her,
While our farmer brethren are complain
ing, AMI perhaps justly, too, of hard times,
we must say they arc woefuily remiss in
their duty to themselves aud their children.
Not single boy among us is trying to learn
how to sipe horse, mend a chain, sharpen
a plow. or to half sole shoe.
Brother farmers, let us not spond all Of
our time and ammunition in "cus.ing" and
discussing pubic men and measures, bur
los k moro to those little leaks about home
which arc largely responsible for our pcnury
George Petty und Joe Estes caught II cat
fish last Saturday that they said weighed
seven pounds. 1t was a whoppcr." We
didn't see it weighed.
| have no fau,t to find with the m an ge-
ment of this paper or single one of its COR
respondents. They are all c'cver fellows,
aud are doing what they can to improve
The people. mcniallT, morally, socially
und hnanc' ally; but there are some
writer's in the world who ar. certainly
disgusting when they 60 to slsshing
around among us "clou-hoppcrs'' and
"Shy locks" If some of them would pluck
the feathers from the wings oftheir imag ma
ton and put them in the tail Of realty, their
pieces would be more readable. The success
OF one person is tco often made to dersnd
upon the failure Of another, and facts are the
poorest things in the wcrd to depend upon,
when they a'c against us. Old men are
often as bal rs ltte boys. They want I"
have g. cat Zig rag tied over little sore.
VoI.