The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1894-12-14

Neuerdi.
We will be glad ifs1me reader will let us
know where we can get copy of "Dray-
tons Memoirs Of the American Revolution
The 2nd volume of which was published in
1921. :.
Our friend +. V, Going of Kelten, is no
common man lie did something one dag
last week that is without parallel in Union
county, we think. If not, we have never
heard of it, Our Trial Justice took up n
man for pcddling without having paid his
license fee. lie was stranger, but the
trial justice had tn carry out The law. SO
MIR. Going, (who never saw the man before
or knew anything about him) went his secu-
riiy until he could 20 home and get the
money and take it to the Clerk Of the Court
and pay his license, which he did promptly
next day as he agreed to do. Now any man
who says tha, Jock Going isn't one of tho
best men in the county tells what isn't so.
Our thanks are due our honorable Sena-
tor, }. L. Douglass anl Representative in
the Legislature for official documents sent
uS. From what we see of the procs cdings,
they are hard at work. What we fail to ask
them TO do we have no right TO condemn
them for not doing.
Last week cur trial justice court was en-
gagci III hearing a di>pcusary c,se The
dsfcndents were represented by Hon. j. NJ.
Gee, before jury, and n verdict Of 'nvt
guilty was rendered. Such liquor as come
within the Statutes as personal bagg ,ge'
was promptly turned over 10 the claimants.
The other was hel by State Constable La'i-
mer for further oric,s from the State Com
missioner. We wi say, however, that the
case was tiied before a jury of SIX as good
men as are i'll the State, and after having
the complex law fully discussed and cx-
plained decided as above stated
We arc decidedly in favor Gf amending
the llawkers ard pcddcr's license law. SO
rs TO allow those who Lar,er goods, except
patent medicines, f'r chickens. eggs d,iry,
garden, orchard cr farm products Except
seed cotton) to do SO without paying q Ii
censc. We want market for what VIC raise
and don't wish indirectly to ray license to
sell it. This class Of ped!lcrs are a great
convenience to our people who raise such
things for SAFE, and it gives them an oppor-
tunity to exchange them for such things as
they need, without any trouble. To lax
these is to tax the producer. We hope o.sr
legislators wi consider the matter this ses-
son and see the propiicty Of the amend
ment suggested.
With considc' able interest we arc looking
forward TO the action of the Legislature in
the matter of selecting State Historian to
finish writing up the history Of the South
Carolina troops during the late war. This
work was delegated to the late and lameutcd
Gen. j. B. kcrshaw, at the last session of
;hat body. But he died hny;us it unfinished.
Including every arm Of tho Military service
both volunteer and miliriaJ cur State fur
nished $4,000 men. OF this num"er over
2S000 were killed in battle or died from
disease. Fully one-half of whom today are
sleeping in unmarked and unknown graves.
Upon every prominent battlefield East of
the Mississippi, South Carolina was repre-
sented. The dust Of her sJfis is, scattered
from JohnSon's Island and E!nira, n. " TO
the great Rio Grande. The historian who
tells the tale Of hcr devotion to duty-and
the suffering of her people will acknowledge
that every soldier was a Spartan, every
general Leonidas and cgcry battle a
Thcrm,pylae.