The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-09-09
Correspondence Of the TINES.
All Sorts Of News from z. w. j.


SASrUc, Sept. 5.-zThs election is over,
aud many Of us hope that we may be able
to hear something else through the papers
than everything that can be thought Of that
is bad, even if false, copied and re-copied.
to paiut some one worse than he is. have
never seen such Inconsistencies a. hav. s-e--
1;=ri-JSs .y Ine newspapers, IN pretending
that il is bad TO abuse while using vitupera-
ton aud abuse at the same time. People are
getting tired Of such, and Eiitors must Gil
their Papers with something else, if tkel
wish to please the people.
am sorry to say that whiskey was
rather freely used at this place on the 30th,
il not at Union, at this place. for one, am
told it caueed much bad behavior, cursing
and fighting. When will electioneering
wlih whi3key cease! 1t has most demor-
alizing effect, aud if the voters and people
generally will vote aud use their influence.
to defeat any and every candidate thes'
electioneers with 1t, thex rould not o.
stop the practice, but would ins1fe.F
election Of sober, clear headed men 70 Once.
There was picnic here on the I'd, and o.
match game of ball, between the Santuc'an
Whitmire teams. The score was 3S to 16
in favor Of the Sautuc team. goodly
number OF ladies from each place, was
in attendance and they did much cheering
for their respective clubs
Our "boys" are becoming good pl,yers,
aud deserved all the cheers they received.
The picnic was a success, and all present
enjoyed it highly.
The County S. ). Convention, held at this
place last week. was an enjoyable affair, for
me, as all such are, and L learned much
.herefrom That wa, all right. Mr.. Editor,
on your part, IN Withholding my report of
, the proceedings, as the Secretary was the
proper one to report them; but he and
others requested me, as | was the resident
| correspondent Of the TINES, to report the
| proceedings, which alone prompted me to
devote considerable trouble and time in
getting up the points and put in shape.
The event of events, for me, WAS the
meeting of the Union County Baptist Asso-
citation. with the West Springs church, on
the 3Oth, 3lst and Sept. lst. | will not
give any of the proceedings, us the minutes
! when published will show to ali who get
them. | will merely say the same officers
wero re elected. All Of the delegates were
prompt aud attentive upon the business of
| the Association.
DR.. I. NJ. B,iley, Cor. Sec'y of the State
Mission Board. Rev. j. l.. Nass, of the Con-
ME Maxwell Orph mage, and Prof G. B.
Moore, of Furman University, were present
and talked up their respective charges.
We were assigned to Mr.. VIM. Lttle. aud
| were The recipients of the moat lavish kind!
heartedness and genuine hospitality. Stay
lug within one milo Of Glenn Springs, we
could go up every evening, drink mineral
| water, meet friends from Union, rest our
selves, or walk over the town, and esurely
walk ba:k home, to find our animals fed :,
and supper ready, then hitch up AMI drive
10 West Springs to enjoy good sermon at
night On Thursday morning, afer break
fast, we drove over to the gold n mes, sislAs
seeing. Many OIL your readers may De
ahead of me in seeing the mines and
machinery, but many have not seen them.
There was not much being done while we
were there-only prospecting, and not
much of the machinery was running. We
visited the large double motion steam pump,
about ! Of Il mile from tEe mines. tha, was
forcing water through inch pipe, to
supply the engines, anl f,r other uses At
! the mines, electors was being put into the
shafts to draw off accumn'a atei water instead
| Of hosting it. Wo entered tunnel in
| which they were At work, but we would not
60 fer. We then followed 4 sold rock on
to tho end, many feet under the ground.
II was as dark US milnirht ir Fgyrt, nul w.
had to Continuc lighting matches to see
Our breathing would actually roar, and TO
shout would cause Il terrible roaring. We
| failed to see the samps at work, but we saw
much that wa, extremely interesting to us,
and felt more than paid for our visit.
The church is only short distance fro-.
the mineral splins, and could enjoy ,ha,
water. like Vests better than Glenns.
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