The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-07-21
Corresponds nee Of the rrxss.
News frcm Nerth Paeolst.


ETA JAxx. July 16.--Thc past week has
been unusually hot and dry. and crops are
badly in need Of rain. Last Saturday night
We had gentle shower that did q hltle
toward cooling the air. ~ s,s
Almost every farmer has got through.
work exceps. -pexhspss one or two farrows,
which they are waiting TO put IN after ram
comes.
We attended the Alliance picnic al Kel-
ton last Friday. l4th inst. IL was q big
concern. Everybody was there, it seemed.
Our friend, "Keltou Wheel will no doubt
give your readers IN account Of It this
week.
Editor CAN'T, Of the Piedmont Headlight.
Judge Hill, Of Spartanburg, Messrs. G.
Walton whitman and G.. B. Fowler, osndi-
dates for the Legislature, Capt. John r.
Jeffetjes, State Lecturer, aud Hon. Stan
ysrpe Wilson, Senator.of Spartanburg, were
the speakers. To give even q synopsis Of
what they said would make this article too
long for the space allowed. Our notes
taken would ell at least three columns Of
the paper, and for us 10 present such q
lengthy manuscript would provoke the
editor to say something he isn't in che habit
Of saying, although he 10 and hASkelNkxs
been realy 10 give the Alliance n fair shdsta
ing and has fought bravely for them.
Messrs. Whitman and Fowler confined them
selves strictly to State. politics. Capt. Jef%
ferries dealt directly With Alliance principles
and demands, while Mcssrs. CAN'T, Hill and
Wilson each took broad through and swept
the field of State aud National politics, to-
gether with the Alliance demands aud the
reform movement generally. 81
The best estimates are that I.6OO pr 1900
people were on the ground, and your cor
respondent didn't see single drunken man
OR hear a-Hefd that could not have been
,..d in The presence OF ladies and children
(hundreds of whom were present ps.' .~ ~i'f Ridge
- HtQest.,.pr. and as for dinner there was an
: All Rdance, and il of the best that the SOL,
market and kitcbcn could produce under
the skillful hands Of the noble women whose
iovaltv To the nobe cause mover has and never
will be doubted. or course, there were
contributions Of trunks, boxes, baskets, etc.,
TO the stock of viands from other sections oil
Union county, and perhaps from the neigh.
boring counties, but Pea Ridge was the
focal center and to its sturdy citizens, male
and female, the success of the occasion may
justly be attributed.
MIR. John F. Estes is quite sick.
Messrs David and Jessie Estes, Of Gross
Keys, are on q visit to this neighborhood.
Mr.. Worth j. Duncan and family, Of Paris
Texar, are ON visit to their old home ant
friends in South Carolina. Worth looks a
IL he hadn't hal q sick day since he lei
here.
= Miss Mamie Kendrick, of Blairsville
York county, is visiting the family OF MIR
"A. F. Kendrick at Sunnyside.
Miss Susie Petty was bitten by snak
week before last.
Pacolet river is very low at Skull Shoal:
Fully one-third of the bottom Of the rive
there is dry now.
Showers are passing about and crops il
different neighborhoods have been refresi
ed somewhat by the rains.
Mr.. +. Kcndrick has two teams engage
hauling for the factory at Union.
We regret to learn that Mrs Viii ie Hor
is quite sick a, Gaffncy. She was Miss JOS
Gregory, and has many friends and relative
in Union county, where she was raised.
Mr.. Frank Vaughau's daugter is still yer
sick.
Mr.. I. J. Hughes was Kicked on the Il
one day last week by his horse, from whis
he is suffering considerable pain.
We regret 10 learn that Mrs. A. A. Sa
ratt 10 quite unwell at hOr home at Gatn'
City. She has our sympathy. Vox.