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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
PEACE LIGHTS ON BELGIUM,
The Country Barely Escapes Most
Dirteful Calamity.


BRUSSELS, (Cablegram.)-A nation
yesterday on the verge of civil war is to.
day completely at peace The air of ter
rible suspense like that which hangs over
two great armies about to be arled
against each other has vanished. TIE
escape from dreadful slaughter was bv
the smallest chance.
The plans of the revolutionary leader,
are now becoming known. They counte.
With sood reason on turning the guns v'
the: regular army, reinforced by the
mob. against the Civic Guard and the
police. The conflict would have been
one Of the most sanguiuary in the history
Of the Government, and the moarchy il.
self would have been almost certaib:,
overthrown. Then would have com,
Communist reign, foreign interference,
and endless complications for all Europe.
1t must be admittei that the leaders
Of the revolt have remarkable control
over the people. The orders to retur.
to work have bcon almost universally
obeyed, and there has no. been the slight
est disturbance.
The agitation ~ universal suffrage
without plural voting will be continued,
1t 10 not likely to lead TO any such crit
ical situation as that Of Wednesday. II
the demand is not grsnted by the present
Parliament II itprobably will be the fi.st
Chamber cIioscn under the systs !,
adopted.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
SOUTHERN NEWS BRIEFS.
Items Of q General Nature and Other
States.

Items Of q General Nature and Other
States.
Although arly three decades have
elapsed since the peace Of Appomattox,
here are still 182 of the 493 general
offi .eSs Of tho Coufed racy surviving.
Their, is horse in Florida that be-
-omes wildly excited and unmanageable
whenever any one app oaches him having
+, breath that smells Of whiskey. He is
,ot Kentucky horse
Gov. Brown, Of Maryland, is the only
,ne of the Southern Governors who takes
The least pains with his moustache. The
,nds Of it are twisted and waxed In truly
French fashion. He is also the most
ashionably dressed and stylish looking
II the Governors.
While Sam Small is writing poetry for
IN Atlanta newspaper his old rival, Sam
ZONES, 10 still beating bis record in saw
.pg souls. A revival conducted by the
Rev. Jones at Bowling Green, KY, last
Teck, resulted In the profession" Of re-
igicn by s,5oo Of the ungodly Of that
|,ity.
Bishop Key, OF the Southern Methodist
Episcopal Church, who was recently
married. ct Sherman, Texas, to Mrs. l..
4. Kidd, president Of the North Texas
Female College, the ceremony being per.
'ormed by Bishop Galloway. !, little
over 80 years old aud is said to be the
inest looking OF the Southern Methodist
Blshops. S
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
UNION G. H.. SOUTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY APRIL 2s 1898.
NORTH CAROLINA sQUIBs.'
Newsy Gloanings from Cherokee to
Currituck.

Newsy Gloanings from Cherokee to
Currituck.
A sturgeon Weighing $50 pounds
was on the Greenville market last
Faiday. 1t was caught in a Dutch net
below Washington.
The North Carolina Corundum Wheel
20. have completed their $3.50, 900 min
ing plant at Sylvia.
The Farmers Alliance have opened a
general merchandise store at Durham,
capital $4,000.
The pos Office at Clairmont, Catawba
county, was burned recently and Gilmore
Cloninser, the deputy postmaster, has
been arrested and bound over to the
Federal Court at Statesville, charged
with embczz'ing tn, money and stamps.
John F. Lifsey, who killed his brother
'n-iaw, Chas. Key, at Garysburg last
december, was tried at Northampton
court last week, and the prisoner was &C
quilted. Senator Ransom was of counsel
In the case and received fee of 81, 900.
Fire at Kinston burned ton residences
,nd church. The wind was very high.
The IS is est IN tied at see, 900. The
busiaess p rt of the town was not aff, ct
ed. The fire burned itself out.
At Raleigh Frank Bachelor, son of
the Hon 10 eph B. Bachelor, while out
driving complained of pain in his heart
and soon aftcrward expired.
Abner Adams, of Watauga county.
sold beautiful curly walnut tree the
other day to L. L. Couucill, of the firm
OF Councill, Taylor 6 Co., of Elk Park,
for the sum of $435. The tree measured
three aud one.half feet through at the
stump and is said to be curled from the
!eets to the end Of tho topmost twig.
Such trees are of fabulous value. Mr..
councill may realize 81, 200 or 81, 500
for it.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
New Profession---The Gutter Out.
From the SATURDAY. Review

From the Saturday Review
The world is ovcr-populated with ami
able, good looking young men: highly
educated, healthy and wholly i-clpablc
of earning their livelihoods. No ,nge-
nuity can provide bcrths for all of them,
but some might be employed as "cuttcrs.
out This is new profession. The
duties of the cutter-out are few, simple,
and agreeable. He or she has merely to
make love and to ride away. Thus, put
case that some ones daughter, niece, ,&or,
it may be, favoriIe cousiu, has become
engaged to man who is not liked by
the family. To resist her choice is futile.
Opposition merely fans the flame of pas
sion. SO you send a note or telegram to
the central Office of the "Sociey for the
Utiliz 'tion of Johnnics," and they de-
spa'ch a cutter cut He is young, hand
some, agreeable, perhaps lord or an
honorable. baronet, very likely. His
duty may be explained in word-he is
to cut out the young lady's aflianccd
lover, to make her out OF conceit with
that disagrseable person, and then to re-
tire gracefully to me>-e9tlandish part
OF the globe. The sch m, is peculiarly
valuable to parents, but any one may
make use of it. OF course there may also
be, and should be, female cutters out, to
be slipped at young men who have en-
tangled their affections undcsirably.
Lord Algernon is fond of tn, rcctor's
daughter, of the gardenr's daughter, of
whom you will. Instead of crying if
you arc his lady mother, or swearing if
you are the Duke, you send up t. the
central depot for really first class cut
ter-out, married lady preferred. In
very few weeks the rector's daughter, or
the gardenr's daughter is as discousolate
as Calypso, and then cutter-o out dis.
appears, carrying with 'ner the respectful
homage of the family whom she has res
cued.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
PALMETTo CHIPS.
News and Notes From Here, There &
Everywhere in South Carolina.

Gverywhere In South Carolina.
The Girls of Converse College, Spar,
anburg, had an Arbor Day all OF
their own last Friday, aud planted many
trees.
Work on the Cathedral at Charleston
Is progressing None but Charleston
workmcn have been engaged on the
,uildipg.
Farmers barns are being burned by in.
c:ndiarics through spartanburg and Or
'nscburg counties. &
Ths Charleston, Sumter s. Northern
Railroad Co is enlarging its Sumter ma.
chine shops, putting in foundry, bias,
furnace, etc.
The Home Insurance Company of Co
lumbis has decided to go out of busines.
The company has been in business fc,
about three years.
Work has begin on the extension Ct
the Atlantic Coast Line of their branch.
from Sumter to Remini, - miles south.
west, va Oeangcburs. to Denmark, con
Meeting there with tho Ssuth Carolip.
and South Bound Railways.
Mack Sh lton, whie convict from
Charleston County, made hi. escape from.
tho penitentiary Thursday. He was uc
der two years. sentence for burgla, y
and only had seven months longer to
servo. He is skilled mechanic and mad ,
himself duplicate key, which he use.l
TO unlock the door to the post from which
ho escaped.
The sinking fund commission of Sout.
:'arolina, which had power granted b..
the Legislature about year ago to ass um.
control Of and lease the oyster beds OF
that State, his now taken the matter IN
hand and is granting leases to responsible
applicants. BY a wise provision of the
law each lease is for twenty years, and
during each year the lessee is required tc
reRlant one, twentieth art of his territory
thus insuring the rcp'anting of the entire
area by the Inns the, lcise expires. Th,
rental charged will vary from ten cent,
to one dollar per acre annually. -.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
VIRGINIA HAPPENINGS.
The Latest News Items in tho Old
Dominion.

The Latest News Items in tho Old
Dominion.
A new bank has commenced business
at Martinsvilie, known as the Farmers
Bank.
Both the Presbyterian and Episcopal
pastors at Abingdon resigned last week
Rev. j. j. Lloyd of the latter having a
call from Lynchburg.
Ollie Brown, a 10 year white boy of
Richmond met his death Thursday by
falling under lumber wagon.
The cightieth anniversary meeting of
the Virginia Bible Society was held last
week at the Grace-street Presbyterian
church Richmond.
The Roanoke Machine Works has re-
ccived orders for eighteen locomotives,
thirty cabin cars aud two wrcckins cars,
the whole aggregAting about $aos, 500.
in value.
The Governor has granted three par
dous, viz: j. w. Fairfield, sentenced in
1890 to 10 years for stealing; Jacob
Smith who had served ono out of three
years for grand larceny Walter Miller
who was sentenced in 1878 for 90 years
for house burning.
August 9th has been nam ed as the day
for the gathering of Virginians at the
Chicago Fair. On that day the two hun
dred and seventy-fourih anniversary of
the assemblying at jamestown of the first
representative legislative body Of Ameri.
cans will occur.
A Richmond newspaper expresses the
hope that ga real Confederate dinner"
will bo served st the Memorial Bazaar.
Such spread would comprise ''rye cof
fee, 'slapjacks, sorghum, Nassau pork.
rice soup, potato pie and other delicaciss
that pleased the palatcs OF ths>boys when
they got big boxes from home"
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
THE NEW RAILROAD UNION,
It Enters the Field with q I.ist o,
Officers and 1I,OOO lTsmbers.


CHICAGO, LII The members Of the
various labor organizations that have, been
in daily session during the past week
perfecting the new national railway order,
which will be known ., the American
Railway Union, finished their preliminary
work.
The officers elected are: Executive
Board-Eugene ". Dsbs, George w.
Howard. w. 8. Missemsr, 8. Kelihsr,
w. H. Sebring, L. w. Rogers, F. w.
Arnold, Henry Walton, ,ahd y. A. Clarke.
The Board elected the following
officers for tho year:
Eugene ". Dcbs, President; George
w. Howard, First Vice. President; w.
8. Mls,emer, Second vics-P President, and
8. Keliher, Secretary.
1t has been decided that tie Eastern
country will be divided iuto districts,
and one member Of the Executive Board
will be assigued to . special district,
which will put nine orgsnizsrs into the
field at once. The entirs membsship Of
ths Order Of Railway ns,men have al.
rsady voted TO join the new order. This
win start the new union with 1S4 lodges,
having = memherehip Of nearly 10000.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
A Lady Did the Carving.

The desk which Mrs. Co ten and Mrs.
niddcr North Clrolina Worlds Fal,
Commis ioners, had con,truc cd ms
memorial tn Virginia Dare, the first whit:
child born in America, was made OF
white holly from Roanoke Island, Viz,
ginia Dsre's birth place; was designed
by Silas McBce Of Scwauce, Teuu.. and
carved By Miss Kate Cheshire, of Tarboro.
This desk is tribute to the memory OF
Virginia Dare, from the women of this
State, and will be s;nt to the Worlds
FAIR.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
COLUMBUS CARAVELS.
The Arrive Towed by the Spanish
Fleet.
An Excessive Amount Of Gunpowder
Burned Again.

FORTRESS MONROE, VA.-The three
= Columbus caravels arrived here at 10 :eC
o'clock Friday morning in tow of three
Spanish war ships, and were received
with great thunder OF salutes and display
Of flags from the counties represented by
the fleets. They dropped anchor at the
I'D OF the American line of vessels.
~ day could not have been more
beaStlI2r the scene moro impressive a.
they came the road, decorated from
jib-boom to tshl:l and with the flags Of
CASTLE and AragonA A<5 of Queen Isa.
bella standing out and flutteriug in the
gentle breeze. The little feet was tum
bled about on the Virginia coast Friday
in lively fashion by the northwest
wind that blew oil day, but it managed
to make the C,pes early in tho morning,
and, after taking pilots aboard, proceed.
ed in.
At the head of the feet was the uhpro.
tected cruiser, Infanta Isabel, towing the
flagship Santa Mari., which displayed
the flag of tho admiral. Behind aud a
mile eastern came the torpedo vessel
Neuva Espana with the Nina as her
charge, and in the latter's wake was the
big black protected cruiser Reina Re.
gente with the Pinta. They were towed
by at least quarter of mile of hawaer
and looked like so many ducks sittipg on
the water with tho feathers of their tails
P.acked. When OF the fort the stars
and stripes were thrown out aud were sa-
luted by the leader, the fort quickly re-
spending.
Before the Santa Maria was abreast of
the Philadelphia, the Dutch frigate Van
6peik ran up the Spanish colors and sa-
luted them with thirteen rounds. Then
the Russ an ship, General Admiral. COM
menced to salute aud later overy flagshio
in the harbor homo. cd these, curious look
Ing crafts and the cvrntry they came
from
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
Two Doomed Men Respited.

COLUMBIA, 8. C.-Napoleon Leville,
the Charleston wife murderer, was re.
spited until May 10th by the Governor.
There is considerable doubt as to his
sanity and commission will be appoint.
ed to pass upon his mental condition.
Wade Hsines, the colored rapist, SEN
tenct d to be hanged, was respited for
the fifth time. His execution will take
plac, two weeks hence, unless in the
meantime some alleged additional evil
Hence is developed In his favor.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
aohe Smiths Patronage Court.
lFrom the st. Louis Globe Democr

e>'' S"S w. Lou'S 0iooe DemOcru
WASHINGTON, d. G. -IIoke Smith has
Introduced novelty. He has establish.
ed what might bc c.lled patronage Q
court. Finding himself bcs by the
impor,unate friends Of rival candidates
for certain Office, Secretary Smith in
forms them rs fast as they call:
"Gentlemen, will set time when /
will hear you in regard to the qualiica.
tions of your candidate
He consults memorandum book
which might be very well entitled, "the
Office seekers's docket" and makes an
entry, OF which tho following is an illus.
tration:
Saturday, April s-Govcrnor of
Oklahoma, p. n.y.
When the day and the hour come round
the friends Of the candidates assemble
in the Secrctary's Office. The private
secretary acts as outer guard, aud informs
all comers on other business that Sec.
retary Smith is engaged, Promptly,
when the little hand aud the big hand on
the clock indicate the appointment.
secretary Smith leans back in his big
Chair and asks:
how many candidates are represented
40. TINS oince'
Inc Pattisans announce their candi-
da'es ~ Turn. ine secretary keeps tab
On 'n0 nngers OF MS 1911 nand, bending
do"h nnger as oach candidate Is an
nounceo.
vc' ne says, looking at the fingers
wnen tne names OF entries ceases:
now, now much time will you re-
qulrer
inere Is nasty canvass In each group
ana .nen some scattering suggestions.
"e'' says mr. smith, 'eay an hour
ior eaon candidate. VIII that De enoughp
osuaiiy II is enough ana more than
enosgn. secretary smith calls the name
oi .ne csna'aa'e nrst In Alphabetical
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
SHUT OUT THE BRIGGS MEN.
Ill Feeling In thu Cincinnati Presby-
tory Over General Assembly
Delegates.

tory Over General Assembly
Delegates.
CINCINNATI, GA very bitter feeling
iug has been developed b.tw.en the
Smith and orthodox factions of the Pres.
byterisn Church over the action of
tho conservatives in refusing to give
the Briggs men a sing'e delegate to
tho Gercr.l Assembly, although they
represent large minority Of the mem
bcrs OF the Church and ministers in this
"icsb terry. TIE Rev. j. L. Taylor, on,
cf tho lea ling lihcral ministers, said that
the other sido wero trying t, boycott him
him and other minist rs VIII, believed
that the Scriptures were not absolutely
'itho It error. Everywhere he went to
deliver sermons or addresses he learned
tn It anonymous communications of warn.
ing had preceded him. It Is said that at
least five of the wca!thie>t churches in
this vicinity have threatened to refuse to
pny their assessment for the delegates to-
the G,neral Assembly, because the men
chosen ara regarded rs bigoted beyond
any of the others who were named for
delegates.
The orthodox side is also raising a
howl. They ch rye that the berals have
circulated stories of difference, in the
orth ,dox church s, which threaten 10
lead to disruption a1d have led some of
tho mini ters to resi- IN. 1t is conced, 4
by every one. except q few hothcads
among the orthodox. that the Presbyter
ian Church 10 this section Is in a bad
-.y, and that II tho General Assembly
convicts DR.. Briggs thero will probably
bc schism.
The orthodox declare that they can,
under oil circumstances hold the churches
but this Is as vigorously Il nied, with the
assertion that the courts havo declared
that, unless there is somethiog in the
charter OF a church binding it to some
particular form Of worship, it can with.
draw at any time by majority vote of
the members. Several of the wcalthiest
churches in the city are not bound by
any such restrictions, and two of them
are said to be getting ready to c.dc.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.-The issue of
Brggsism involved the Pr, sbytery of
Philadelphia North Into fever hest at its
second days session in Germantown. The
excitement was precipitatsd by Fmuklin
T.. Shepard, IN Elder in III, First Pres
byterian church of Germantowo, who in.
troduced an overture to the General As.
'embly not to consider appeals from the
Presbytery, but to, direct that they be
made to the Synod In the regular course
30 as to keep up the dignity of the Synod.
DR.. Briggs name was in cverytody's
mouth in few minutes
Elder Shepard thought DR.. Briggs was
IAN injury to the church," and if he re.
mained it might cause dis. upton. The
Rev. John Peacock thought the Synod
Of New York abundantly abe to look af-
ter the Briggs case.
The Rev. L. F. Benson said his blood
bsiled whtn he saw Presbytery after
Presb, terry ask the General Assembly to
convict DR.. Briggs. He thought the
Presbyterian church " ere large enough
to hold him. The Rev. Charl,s Wood
thought DR.. Briggs would be silcnced in
The end. Elder shci ard withdrew his
resolution.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28

MoSoNoAHELA CITY, PA.--About
midnight James Bur,inett Of Coal Centro
shot aud killed his mothsr-in-lsw, Mrs.
Lettio Tray Tninkipg burglars had en-
tered t,se heuse, hc got his shotgun, and.
Without speakins 70 the Intruder, fred
both barrels. Then he got . light and
found be had shot Mrs. Tray IL the bead.
she died instantly.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28
wfliam B. Puett Suicides.

LENoIR, N, C,--William Benton Pustt,
a prominent young citizen of this county,
who has lately been drinking heavily,
committed suicide, blowing cut his
brains by pistol shot ent ring Mt the
forehead. The act was prccipitated by
q suit for divorce instituted last week by
his wife. who is q daugat r Of promi-
ncnt citizen Of Mitchell
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-04-28

NEW YoRK. MIS-. Almira Russell
Hancock died at 4iao p m Thursday
afternoon. She was the widow OF General
Winfield Scott Hancock, the Democratic
candidate for P. es'dept IN 1880.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-23
Cannon and Enloe.

WASHINGTON, D. c., December lS.--Ihe
item in the urgency deficiency bill of S29Q'-
600 for special examiners to look after pen
sion frauds brought about discussion III
the house of the policy of the administration
on pension matters.
Mr.. Cannon thought it was time for con-
gress to examine into the manner in whieo
the pension Office was being conducted. he
referred to the clause in the Presidents
message declaring that every neighborhood
has its FRAUDULENT pensioners. The depart
ment was claiming saving of 81 ,000, 600 al
ready, yet after thorough examinations Is
was found that but $31,099 had been eeszz-
ally paid out to pensioners by forgery, par
jury or false PRESERVATION. He undertook to
say that there was no more fraud in the ad-
ininistration of the affairs of the penslen
office, which disbursed annually $160.0oQ,-
600, than in the adjudication of cases ia The
courts of the country.
Mr.. Enloe, the old antagonist of Ex-Cosn~
missioner Raum, declared the pension de-
partment under this administration was the
greatest of the government. 1t was doing
noble work.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-23

Thousands of people have gone to their
death with Bright's Disease of the Kidneys
or Diabetes without suspecting the nature OF
their trouble until within month or two of
the grave. 1t is now declared by one of the
most reputable drug associations in the
country that these kidney troubles are the
result of Uraemic poisoning and that GER
tain cure has been discovered. The major
ity of people who find health and strength
gradually failing either have no suspicion of
the nature of the trouble, or having always
been told that Bright's Disease could never
be cured have shrunk from the knowledge
that they were victims of it. Now that
cure has been discovered, however, there
need be no hesitation in learning what indi-
Gates the disease, and each case can be tested
at home by the one interested without either
expense or inconvenience. Progressive ply
sicians are now agreed that for the several
months before child birth all women are
especially subject to kidney troubles, and
that tests should be made during this time
to determine whether sugar or albumen in
dictate kidney disease. The many cases of
Uraemic commissions occasioning death at or
preceding child birth are due to this cause,
which is too often overlooked and unsus-
pected. From all this it would seem plain
duty to take advantage of the offer of the
American Drug association, whose address
is Cochnower building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The offer is that to each person sending their
address test outfit, including full direc-
tons and apparatus for the most accurate
test for Bright's Disease and Diabetes, will
be sent securely packed in a wood case free
of cost. The association is we'll known to
US and can be depended upon to do just what
they say.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-23
DR.. Amick Talks OF His Cure.

C1NuNNAT1, December 18.-At a meeting
of physicians prescribing the Amick cure for
consumption, called to discuss with the dis
coverer, at his home here, his published as
sertion that change of climate is unnecessary.
DR.. Amick said to-day: ga warm dry eli
mate is beneficial if the patient stays in it
permanently, but harm always results from
stay of few weeks or months when the
patient returns to a colder temperature or
lower altitude. Unless patients desiring my
treatment" he said, ''can 60 away to remain
until May, advise them to take the medi-
cines in the comfort of their own homes, but
before they definitely abandon any proposed
trip, depending absolutely on my discovery
to cure them, l urge each to first try the
treatment free of expense, and then decide
for themselves, / therefore furnish free test
medicines for all having any lung trouble to
enable both physician and patient to Judge
by results"