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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-04-13
BENEDICT, PUBLIC PRINTER.
AR. Henry Gets Foreign Appointments
Other Nominations

WASHINGTON, d. C.-The Presiden.
sent to the Senate the following
nominations: Thomas j.. Benedict, OF
New York, 90 he Public Printer; james
ID. Yeomans, OF Iowa, to be inter
State commerce commissioner. To he
United States consul: Walter II. Henry.
OF North Carolina, Mt Curacao. Charles
II. j. Taylor, of Kansas, recorder of
leeds i'll tho District of Columbia.
Taylor is n colorcd man. Collectors
OF customs: Charles r. Bisbcc, dis.
trict of st. Johns, Florida; John ID.
Davis, district of Beaufort, North
Carolina.
Po9tmastcrs: Tenncssee-James II.
Seslx ,l1ts5s, s5aG4s!5iG wSelRFiSshSS SlFh is F EaoeF
y, Lamb, Elizabeth City. South Caro-
iina Lewis NJ Moore, Greenwood
Joseph S. McCcns"r, Florence. Mis-
;issippi Thomas Kcnan, Brookhaven
The Comptroller of the Currency IN.
declared dividends in favor of tn,
creditors Of insolvent national bank,
as follows. Second division, 20 pc!
cent, Stat National Bank, of KnuA
vile, Tenn, making in all - per cent.
nn claim" amounting to S1O3, ,992
second dividend, ID per cent. GuI
National Bank, Of Tampa, Fla. maxim:
in all 60 per cent, ON claims proved
amounting t" SS3, 7i6.
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Harold Frederic, who is close %.
server in English politics, ie Of opin.
ion that the resignation oi NJ. Gla
stone is due not to The fact thu. his
eyesight is failing or to th2 fact thu
he IS growing feeble, bat - III. fs,
that he has been losing influence VITA
his own administration. Tko theory
is that his cabinet was cut of synpethy
with him in many things and went its
own wey regardless o. his wishes.
Roseberv was bocJmin. more OF r.
power than tho Grand Old mtn, an
SO the latter dropped hint of retire
ment after the manner OF Bismarck,
and, Ike Bismarck, was surprised to
find that there was no clamor against
his going. In other words, Gladstone
is represented as being edged OF the
stage by his young men. The danger
In his retirement does not lie SO much
In the loss OF his p@:sonality, powerful
as that is. as in the loss ot that pecu-
liar thing called leader ship. Rosebery
or any one else can be made the official
head of the ministry and the leade: o!
the liberal party; but 10 ono can in
herit the general confidence OF the
party and it's sympathizerS throughout
the world in GIaIstonn. This is "
great source OF power which he cannot
transmit. The now leader will have
party discipline to support him, bu,
he will have to create party sentimcn
anl popular sentiment.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-04-13
NUMBER Is.
War in Africa.

| Whenever we were on the march in
| Africa we always had vedettes and
scouts ont to right, left, front, and
rear guard thus if we saw party of
horsemen rushing toward us at break
neck speed it was signal to 1nager
up, which we had to do 80 often that
it could be done in twenty minutes
which is saying great deai-the rear
wagon being n long distance astern.
each wagon being almost locked in
with the one ahead of it, with the
dessel' boom Tor shaft) outside, 80 that
all wagons could inspan together. The
wagons, as described in the Lond2n
fE'as Tslss5f 5f sho1s, sacSCfding to the mum.
Der of vehicles.
We made two laagers the Victoria
one, the Salisbury another and be-
tween the two laagers the cattle 900
head truck oXen) and loot were driven.
Then bush was cut and put outside
thus everything was rs compact as
possible, and we mounted on top of
the wagons and defended the lager.
This continued day after day, tho
monotony being only broken bH burn
biit SnoOiINS tii' "O S"'iS ~ ~
river called Shangani. where we laag-
cred up for the night. OF course.
every night we had n main guard and
n picket out al. night, the main guard
beng zoe, the picket 500 yards from
the camp, and lot of Maknlak+s IA
tribe which stood in deadly fear Of the
Matabele) to the north of the camp.
On the morning of October 25th, at
$50 o'clock, we were awakened by
hearing shots fired. Immediately we
stood to arms, and looking through
tho darkness saw thousands rushing
toward u.s. When the Maxim guns
started firing there was sudden
check. They could not believe it,
made another rush, and were checked
again, and so on until morning, till
daylight broke, and some of the most
ghastly objects it has ever been my
lot to see-and / was in Egypt-were
bodies literally torn in pieces and lay
ing as near rs ten or twelve yards
from camp. -
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-04-13
How SUGAR is RcnncI.

The method used by the best sugar
retineries is substantially rs follows: ::
The raw sugar is dissolved in large
cisterns on tho ground floor, enough
hot water being added t. produce n
specific gravity of i.25. The solution
is then drawn through connecting
pipe having coarse wire strainer in
to large pumps, by which it is pumped
into the highest story Of the building,
usually the seventh or eighth. 1t there
passes into vessels heated by steam
coils to temperature OF about 2lO
degrees. Milk OF lime is added to the
solution in these pans for the purpose
OF neutralizing any acid which it may
contain. From these pans the liquid
passes down to the next floor, where it
is filtered through II series Of bags,
each mnde Of two thicln esses OF cloth,
an outer one OF coarse and an inner
one of fine cotton. The bags are Ell.
closed in Eoxes TO prevent cooling.
After leaving these the syrup is run
through filters Of bone black, which
absorb all the coioring matter left in
it. After leaving these, it is pumped
into vacuum pans, large vessels heated
by steam and exhausted by air pumps.
The pressure being thus reduced the
liquid is boiled at n lower tcmpcra.
ture, until, ut 40 degrees, cvapora-
ton is completed and the syrup rapidly
crystallizcs into sugar. This is the
process by which the best white sn%ar
is made, while poorer qnahtl'A nre
prepared by method less comPsete'
Boston CultivatcN
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Less Cotton anil More Foog prod cts.

The Manufacturers Eccg"d, of Balti-
more, publishes this week letters from
80 large fertilizer dcnlcrr in Florida,
Tennessee, Virginia, Mississippi,
Alabama. North Carolina, Georgia and
Sonth Carnlina, which show TINT less
cotton is being rhnt"l this year md
more attcntion is being given to food
products. Sixteen ofthc firms estimntc
TINT thr area of cotton planted this
ycav Will he from , to 30 per cent :,
less than last year: IS note m i'm
prevcmvnt n thc general condition Of
business.
The report to the Record Of the
Charlotte Oil and FcrtiliZcc Company
is rs follows: 'The decrease in fcrti-
lizcr used viii be 25 per cent. and the
farmers will ~nisc less cottoa nnd more
cora and hoes
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An Old Mason in Distress.

RALEIGH, n. C.-Mr. Allen, the
superintendent of the Wake county
home, found by the wayside poor
old whitc-haired man and brought him
into the city. This afternoon the
man, whose name is Vinton, was
placed in the county home. Vinton
has history. He is an educated man,
and talks interestingly. He is 75 years
old, dirty, badly clothed, with one
hand injured and his feet 80 sore hc
can barely walk. He tells me he was
born in New York, but has lived in
Wisconsin. He was colonel on the staff
of Governor there; wns colonel of II
regiment in an IaasalRh VA s8s .sf fgisaa .isia!
5iis; s1n 1865 a member oftlre Legsla.
ture of Wisconsin; was grand worthy
chief Templar of that State and has
papers which show him to have been n
prominent Temperance lecturer. Dur
ing the war he was colonel of the elev-
enth Wisconsin Regiment. He was in
1864 consul at Halifax. Nova Scotia.
He says he came into this State from
Tennessee, and has been here five or
six weeks. He has son in II bank ut
DE- S.--.:----. $50, '""'| h"hte a"
Russell Vinton.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-04-13
COLONEL LAMBS NEW PARTY.
Issues Upon Which He Proposes to Fiqht-.
Nigh Tariff, Blair Bin, Monroe Doctrine.

NORFOLK Dispatch :--ColonelW William
Lamb has discussed with Times rep
resentative his plans for conducting
the "Whig" campaign of education.
He said:
This spring I will issue the call and
think that L will suggest platform
upon which all Virginians not fee.
traders and mono -metalists can stand
want our Virginia manufacturers.
miners, anG farmers protected by the
tariff from various foreign competition.
L prefer, with Mr.. Jefferson, that our
revenue for the support Of the Fedora
government should be raised through
the custom house instead of by tax
gatherer coming to annoy us Mt ouI
homes. The Federal -4axnr4,n,AI- ~
whiaL-ohuu1d Instly pny bo,nties to
support the Union soldiers and sailort
of the civil war in their old age, and
thus necessarily contribute largely to
the Northern States, should cqualizc
matters rs far IA rrncticnblc by assist
ing the Southern States in educating
their illiter&tcs, as proposed in the
Blair educational bill. In Virginia We
are almost unarimuusly in favor of Il
II
ply of currency IA opposed To Mr..
Cleveland's & mono mctalllIim and oppo.
sition to such legislation rs * demanded
by the necessities Of our people. We
want WhiG construction of tn" con.
stitutIon to enable rs to foster our
agricultural aud commercial interests.
We should carry ont the rccommcnda-
tions OF Samuel j. Tildcn in his last
famous letter to Congress, about forti.
flying our sea coast and foreign borders,
nnd We should make our navy worthy
of the flag it floats.
Looking to the great work of tho ago,
the Nicaragua canal, we should en- force
the Monroe docrinc in our foreign re-
lations. SO rs to avoid future complica-
tiuus.
j give this brief outline Of the prin-
ciples of the Wing party, but YOU must
wait for tn" address before YOU Judge
of our claims for support by the Vir-
ginia people.
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TILo Children RyrneI to Qe0th.

LyHCHBrEG, Va. A.-Th" following al.
vice was received here: Two LITTLE
children of Mr.. and Mrs Clark, who
reside near Glade Syringe, Va, wer,
burned to death. Th" father nnl moth
cr were at the barn when they hearo
the screaming, and when they reached,
the house they discovered the youngcs,
child lying on the floor, it's clothing
burned of and its body cooked into Ii
crisp. Standing over the corpse was
the older child with the cruel Hamcs
playing over the body. In very few
seconds it, too, lay dead. 1t is Thought
that the older child met its death in al
effort to save the younger.
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Killing P0rnO:ScS bY Electricity.

Electricity has recently Drcu utiI-
i2c.l FOR purposes OF fishing. 4 net of
sariinal. as it Isl called, which WAS
nearly 1900 feet long, and is used for
catching sar(lincs. was taken. and an
electric cable with dynamite cartridges
at intervals of fifty feet, was placed
upon the edge Of it, The cable was
connected with an electric battery up
on the torpedo boat i'll such n way
that all the cartridges might be tireI
simultaneously. The net was let down
at five in the morning in very deep
water, and before this was done the
ncighboring fishermen had been asked
not to 60 ont, in nrlcr that there
might b" nothing t. disturb the por-
poises. About an hOnr after the net
had been .ct down, the pospoiaes cam"
mp i'll large numbers, &nd when good
many fish Ind been got into the net,
there were about eighty Just around il.
The cartridges wcrH then fired, anl
the explosion was SO ofcciivs that one
only Of the eighty porpri%c" escaped,
while the boats IN th1 vicinity felt NJ
shock. AM iha water wa very little
disturbed. Invention.
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DIED or HYDROPHO8IA.
Miss Annie Laurie canaday. Beautiful Yir.
ginia Girl, Dies an AwfuI Death.

ROANOKE, VA.-Some time ago a
large black dog belonging to Mr.. G..
u. Canaday, who lives on Craig road,
near Salem, hit two or three children
slightly, and his daughter, Miss Annie
Laurie, beautiful girl, aged 90, WAS
also bitten i'll several places by the
same dog, which was then killed with
out any one enquiring us to whether
or not it was rabid. The wounds were
cnutcrizcd, and in time healed, SO that
nothing was thought of the matter nm
I'll Thursday morning, when DIR. O.
Wiley was sent for hy M, A., SG,asa GaassRfSsxs, fs,sxs,,
that siifce Monday Miss Annie f,sSris
had been unable to sleep; that she was
despondent and nervous, something
unusual with her, and on that ycry
morning, when her father had brouoht
bowl of water to her Ec lside. she bnd
been selZed with II terrible paroSvsm
After rallyinG she rested somewhat and
then asked for II toothbrush and muo
TO rinse her mouth, which were hardly
brought in sight or" she WAS .o.;.
seized with violent conyulsiuns, this
time requiring to he held. and 10 on
throughout the day these par"xvsms,
fearful to behold, kept recurring. dur
ing which her strength beam, Won
derfu' and it required strong hands to
hold hor, Nor cvni.i she swallow.
though her thirst wnS excessive.
In her calmcr moments shn was re.
signed to her fearful fate, and touching
the wounds on her arm exclaimed:
perhaps it is for th" best; these will
be the means by which will soon he
in heaven"
DIR. Wiley aud DR.. Shanks did nll
that their skill could suggest to relieve
her sufierings, but she herself knew
that her case was hopeless, and ON Fri
day morning in answer to- hoy question.
DIR. Wiley told her there was no hone
and she seemed resigned. A little
later she prayed with her pastor. AMI
then remarked to some friends that
she Ind only a few hours to live.
just before her death, which occurred
ut 20 Friday afternoon, the fnnily
assembled around her bedside. while
her brother, Prof. G.. Is. CnnaIav. of
Roanoke College, led in PRAYER. Her
death occurred in one of the terrible
spasms of pain, aad when Doctors Wi
ley, Shanks and Killcn returned from
the house they said that she seemed
as one who had been nsrhyxiated.
A subscription is being taken ND nj
Salem to send the children who were
bitten by the same dog to the Pahtaur
Institute, New York, for trcatm mt.
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4 Bid PenI.

Raleigh, y. c.. correspondence of
the Charlotte Observer: A very repre-
hensihlc act was committed here hy n
Georgia detective. He brought ne.
gro named Bill Lee to The pcnitentiary,
under tn" belief TINT Lee was an es-
capped convict When he found that
Lee was not the man and was not want.
ed, he took thr first train for Georyia,
leaving the poor negro here, pennies
and in n strange place. The detective
told Lee, with grcnt GOODNESS. that the
attsr must look ont for himself Lee
went to th" executive Office and got as
3istnnce which enabled him to return
to his home and family in Georgia.
He was in his working clothes, as he
was nlnughing when arrested.
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1t is only by comparison with other
countries, observes the New York
News, that we can appreciate the
financial solidity OF the Unitel States.
Our national debt amounts to $l4 per
capita. That ofFrancc is $1l6, and of
England $S7.. Our Canadian neigh
bors have national debt burden five
times greater per head than ours.
The most wretched plight of all Gov
ernments worth mentioning is that of
Peru, with debt relatively more than
ten times that Of the United States.
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Executive Ciemency.

CoLUMAIA, S. C.-Governor Tillman
commuted the sentence of Caesar Sweet
wine, who WAS convicted Mt the Fehru.
ary term last of Court for Berkeley
Comfy Of burglary and larceny and
sentenced by Judge Townsend to alifo
term in the State prison. The COM
mutation reduces his sentence to five
years in the penitentiary at hard labor.
Governor Tillman has also granted n
fnll pardon to John Martin and Sweet
Edwards, alias Sweet Martin. who
were convicted at the fail term of
Court for Horny County of adultery
and sentenced by Judge Withcrspoon
10 a term Of six months in the penitcn-
tiary each and fine of 500 each.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1894-04-13

The mining craze seems to have
struck some portions OF Georgia and
Alabama pretty harl \ score or
more Of new gold min"s have been
opened in these States within the last
three or four months, notcs t!s st.
Louis Republic, and good many cd
ones are being worked rs they wee
never before. George HUNTINGTON
Clark predicts in the Manufacturers
Record tina: in the immediate future
the gold fields Of Georgia are goin3 10
surprise the old doubtcrs as much ns
the development o! Southern iron did.
The richest gold mines oi that Stat
are as vet untouched, he says
Georgia's gold bet covers II strip oi
country from twenty t. forty miles
wide, AMI extending across the State
from northeast to southwest, Cmbrac.
ing about 1000 sIEarc miles. Itlun>
into Alabama anI spreads out over
some 5000 sJuarI miles more in that
State. Georgia's mines have so fer
produced over sis, ODO,00D worth of
gold and silver, or more thsn those oi
any other Southern State except
North Carolina.
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Iatal Fed for Missionaries.

Sierra Leone, ON the west coas; oE
N,ricn, has sometimes been styled the
"Whitc Man Grave. nnd no fewer
tEan three Bishops IL srcccssioh died
within three years Of ihcir con.CcrI>
tiun. In tn" first twenty wears ni th"
missions existence lifty-thrC" mission
ncs or missionaries wives died at
their posts. In 1929, out nf five mis-
>iomnricS who went ont, four died
within SIX months, i'll the next year
IL volunteers were accepted, and of
tisrnr two died within four months of
thrjr landing. These losses seemed TO
ir&w out more zeal, for next year three
TH"r" went forth. Of whom two died
"'i!h;n SIX months. Boston Post.
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The Streets Be- ..,s.y Rj1e.

A Lubbock wine luuep!As sNM IS pre-
sented Prince Bisms ,Aorno a., 1D'"i ne cen
tennrinn Madeir,Ss ITO sV' "! of the
Emperor WilliamOfsm 10 Visit of re.
conciliation. One good thing general
ly leads to another Had the Emper.
or Of Germany been al Anderson, $.
C., at the close OF the late war he might
have outrivalled King Gambriuus, for
the streets all the while ran wine, the
priceless Madeira which Charleston
gourmets had seGt there for safe. keep
ing. Charleston News and Courier.
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flowers and "Hums.'

CHARLOTTE, n. Capt. Tom Tate,
conductor on the Florida vestibulc he.
tween Charlotte and jacksonville,
looks good deal better than his hand.
writing does On his Charlotte trip
he had orders for two bcrths here on
tn. trnin going north, and at Chester,
5. c., he telegraphed the Charlotte
agent to reserve two lowers" The
operator Mt Chester sent the message
Ia Charlotte IN this shape: Secure two
hams" Gresham supplies the dining
cars at this place, 20 the message, in
stead of going to Capt. Fnyssoux, the
ticket agent, for whom it was intended,
went to Gresham. Time was limited,
but Gresham hustled up town, and
when tl:2 Florida vestibule came in lie
was there with two hams, one weighing
II pounds and the other 20 pounds.
The cook on the dining car said he had
not ordered them and didn't want
them. Gresham showed the telegraphic
order, but the cook shook his head.
Gresham took the hams into the bag.
gngcroom and hung them up, declaring
at the same time that ''somebody had
to pay for EN-" Then he hunted up
Capt Tate, and it all came out. "Hams:
ha. ha.' roarcd the Captain. "Mnn
alive! Why, l tclcGraphcd for low
ers.'' Gresham stili hns the hams.
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The death OF Publisher MOnro in
New York shows to the San Francisco
Chronicle that tho vcrmiform appcn-
dix is playing an important part in
the surgery of the i,criol. Tho dan
ger that results from the lodg nent OF
seeds of fruits and berries in this use.
less part of the anatomy cannot be
too strongly impressed upon all, and
especially upon those who have tho
care Of children. Grape seed, in plr-
ticular, should not be swallowed by
those who have any regard for their
health.
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Munro, the publisher, was n victim
To his morhi'l curiosity. asserts the
Atlanta Constitution. His son hal
appendicitis, WI, oper,trL on AMI re-.
covered. Tie father had not appen. L.
dlcitis, but he got 50 mu.h intcrcste
in the operation on his son that he
fancied he had tn" disease, an,l ahs>r-
fully submitted to the surgeons knife,
so impressed WAS nc with thc desirn-
bility OF having rne's vcrmiforn Az.
pendix removed.
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PITHY NEWS ITEMS

In and around Fort Mill, s. c.,
all the cotton mills are running full
blast. ~
factory.
A S2O;000 peanrA cleaning associa.
tion has been estd dSlished at Norfolk,
Va. r.
New ice making plants have been
finished at Norfolk, Va, and Charlotte,
N. g. sX
A draw bridge is tosbe built connec-
ting West Norfolk and. Port Norfolk,
Va. sS ~
The The. new new iifaSjkl iifaSjkl hhgRs hgsR ssy
Funds are being raised to build a
Presbyterian academy at Blackstone,
Va.
The Raleigh, n. c., local cotton re-
coipts this season are 25, 420 bales,
against 90, ,7l3 to the same date last
year.
A two-ycar- child in Lincolutou,
\. c., knows the entire alphabet
Marcus Gentry committed suicide
in Ashc county, n. c., hy shooting
himself IN the head with pistol.
The steamer Wilmington, which has
long piled between Wilmiucton and
southport, Is to run hereafter between
Savnnush aod Brunswick, Capt Harper
Goes along.
Two OF The three men who drank oil
IF mcbanc at Reeves tobacco factory,
Wilkes county. \. c., ,have died. They
thought it was peach brandy.
Col. Jrlon S. Cacr, of Durham.
n. c., has sold $500, 900 worth of to-
bacco TO be delivered Ivy May 1st.
rhat is n big order.
The Virginia Silk Mills Co., at
Fredericksburg, Va, will build an adj
diti"n, which will be II two story brick
bnilding, 60Xl20 feet, and will put in
0,0O0 spindlcs. Water is the power.
The Union IS. c. Cotton Mills, n
new company which will operate q
plant of 800 looms and ~, 800 spindlcs,
has increased its capital, stock to S125,-
O0O
The Vclasco Oil Mill will add
rarding gins t" its plant for handling
Sea Island cotton grown by the Barry
settlement of Georginns and Carolin-
ians on Bastrop creek. Some of those
farmers have forty or fifty acres in Sea
Island, last years experimental crops
having, it is said, proved the Texas
staple to equal any in America.
The Newton (N. c. Cotton Mills
were sold by the receiver last Monday,
ind WAS purchased by b. ID. Heath Of
Charlotte for S3l ,00O.
Col. b. II. Moore, solicitor of tn G
New Hanover Criminal Court, died
Monday afternoon in the Goth year of
his age. Judge Mcnrcs has appointed
Col. \. NJ. Waddcll to fill ont the I'M
expired term of Col. Moore, and he
has accepted.
The Supreme Court OF North Caro-
lima has affirmed the decision that
Cashier Faust, the Salisbury bank en-
bcXZlcr, must serve his sentence.
tn" W"&t ,rn Union office in Char
lott. y. c., on tn nights of April LIST
and 2nl, &'nt out Is, 666 words They,
of coarse. were the Tillman specials.