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Current War Report*. % A 8TAUTLIXU Kl'Mutt fBOM TIIK FRKKCI1 UKPUBLIC. I.oxnox, July 11*?Some incredible rumors nrc nllont concerning the absence of Marshal MucMahou and the French Conservatives. It is said there is great activity in military circles in France, and t lint immense stores of war 'material have been gathered together and orders sent to America for sncli provisions as would he useful in the event of a foreign war. It is suspected that MncMahon is determined to restore the empire, uiid to accomplish this ( end, proposes to plunge into wai us an excuse for suppressing the elections, or use the military to carry them. An election now would go 1 overwhelmingly republican, bafwith a war on , hand, the peasantry would rally to tho support of the existing government. The current rumor is, that u secret alliance has been entered into by Franco and Austria against Germany by which Germany is to be attacked on both Hanks simultaneously, and it is believed that Belgium and Holland can be induced to join the alliance. It is said that tho French are confident that with Frauce, Aus tria, Belgium, llollanu nnu ucnmarK, irmvn powers woiiM, it is believed, lake a band in lighting against the Germansaud Russians, Kugland would be emboldened to range herself on the sumo side iu order to preserve t'onstantino, pic from tlie Mi scovitc. I.SUI.aml's I'K KI'A H AT IONS I'llR WAR?TIIK TIIKR1HII TAirriCS?IMUKUII.ITY Olt STIt ATKUKM. Lonuon, July 11.?The Daily News says, that the British fleet at Bcsika Bay, with the additions ordered by the Admiralty, will consist o twenty-four vessels with one hundred and fifty guns and a crew of seven or eight thousand men. A special dispatch from Vienna suvs the abandonment of the lincof Vatitra, in Bulgaria, by the Turks, is the more surprising, since, to judge from the stout defence of Iho bridge mid position of Bicln, where the Turks repulsed the first attack of the Russians with considerable loss, it might have been suppossed that they intended to defend the line, and thus, by threatening their tlauk, prevent the Russians from ad vnncing into Uiu interior. The Turks have so completely suppressed all information about the disposition and movements of their troops that not even an idea can be formed of what they mean to do, but it shows either utter helplessness or else a very deep laid plan that they should have neglected the brilliant opportunities afforded them of meeting the Russians to advantage. The Times in a leading article says it believes tbo Russians cannot advance in force upon the Italkans until tliey have secured their comniuni v? - constrncling a position on the DanTurks. This will requiro a month at least.? The excursions of Cossacks to Tirnova, l'ievna, Seltri and Lowatz have little or no military significance. I'akis, July II.?A private dispatch from Constantinople, of yesterday's date, announces the death of i'edif l'asha, the Turkish Minister of War. No continuation of the report lias yet boen received. Pitkm'ii Atir.nts is AMKRICA. CiiU'Aiio, July 11.?The Inter-Oeean publishes startling information of the presence there and in other large cities of French agents contracting for provisions for War purposes. Spccitie instructions are given as to how (he food shall bo paeked, with a view to its preservation and easy transportation and distribution in rations. Knough food lias been ordered to sustain a large army during a long campaign. The InterOcean considers these operations significant in view til' iho condition of alluirs in Hostcrn huropc. Suwmor Mooting of the State Grango. At :v meeting of the Executive Committee of tie mate orange, nitrons ontushSndry, Mouth Carolina, held at the Columbia Hotel, May the Kith, the following preamble anil resolutions wcro read and unanimously adopted : In order to carry out the design of the Stale Grange at tho lost meeting, and to further promote the interests and objects of the order of Patrons of Husbandry of the State, Resolved, That the State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of South Carolina, hold their annual summer meeting for the present year, 1877, at Anderson C. I!., on the 8th day of August next. Resolved, That the subordinate Granges of the State be urged to have a representation at this meeting, ami that all Patrons bring for exhibition such urticlcs as may be of interest. Resolved, That the State Agricultural and Mechanical Socicy be requested to meet with us and to participate in all of the discussions of the meeting. Resolved, That the following Patrons he invited to either rend an essay or open the discussion by an address upon the subjects named, viz: Dr. St. Julion llavcncl, on phosphates aud fertilizers ; General Johnson Ilngood on blooded s*ock ; E. E. Roche, of Ashley Grange, on the usury law ; General Rratton, on cattle; J. I>. Wylic, on bee culture; Dr. J. II. Foster, 011 poultry ; Dr. Furmati, on upland rice culture; Richard Tozcr. on rilantation engines : Colonel Thomas Taylor, on corn fertilizers ; Iredell Jones, on tenant system; W. W. Kussell, of Anderson, on railroad transportation ; Julius Mills, on in?migration : l>. F. Crayton, on fence law ; Major Woodward, on fish culture. Kisoh'fil, That the executive ^hmittec of the Agricultural und Mechanical Society be invited to co-operate with the executive committee of the State Grange in making arrangements in detail for carrying out the object of this meeting, and making this a large und harmonious meeting of the agriculturists of the State. 11. M. Sims, Secretary and Member of Executive Committee Slate Grange. - Maukikd Womkn and lluii.iMMi Association Loans.?The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rendered a decission in the case of Wolbach and wife against the Lehigh llnilding Association. It declares that in all cases whore married women ileal with the associations the mortgage is good only for the actual amount loaned and legal interest. A loirical consenuences seem to be that if the tnon ej loaned lias not been actually used to buy or improve her separate real estate, but have been used to raise money to pay her husband's debts, or for other pnrposses, it is void altogether.? This will, no doubt, seriously affect the vast investments made by building associations on the credit of mortgages given by married women, and will prove a grave matter for such associations. Of late years it lias been avjry common practice for men to bold their property in their wives' names, and, wuen desirous of a loan, to join with wives in the mortgage, contrary to the law as it now appears. The effect of this decision will certainly be seen in litigation consequent upon suits on inorgages given by married women, and a total refusal by the associations to make future loans on any terms. John Stone lbillcn, formerly a Now Orleans sugar merchant, member of the Louisiana Legislature and a colonel in the Confederate army, who loaned to the Confederate government, and was beggared by the result of the war, died in u wretched tenement in Grand street, Crooklyu, bi-i week, and was saved from burial at the public expense by the charity of his poor fellow-tenant*. lie was hern in baton Kongo, j La., in. 1 was educated f; . the ministry, but on j : cavii, t,..o;-i enita:ked iu the buiinet*. X ?ltc mifchlu iflnion ?im? ' R. M. STORES, Editor. UNION, FRIDAY JULY 20 1877. TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 Copy, ow year, in AOVAXCK, $3.00 i CujiiM one year," " 3JS0 5 " " 11.mi 10 ? .JOOO ADVERTISING. On* square or ouc inch, first insertion, - - - $1.00 Kaeli subsequent IiimtIIuu, ------- 75 Lllturtldkuuul made to merchants and others advi Liking lor six nioiiilis or by the year. Obituary Notices of ten lilies or less, inserted free. " " over ten lines, charged as^dveitl uieuts. Md' 'JO percent additional for advertisement* order not to apis-ar in coaseculivu issues. BKV'" 'l'lio .Merchants of this towu now clo their stores, every evening except on 3uturda at six o'clock. Wo regret to state that our estccmi townsman, Mr. Jauics Grant, is still confiucd his bed and suffering intensely front rheum tistn. ? - 8MX- Mrs. Mary 8. Bailey, tho estimable wi of County Commissioner, J. F. liuiley, died Is Saturday, at her residence near Cross Kcj aftev a severe illness. - The first bale of new Cotton was rccci at New Orleans on the 11 inst. It was rais 011 the plantation of Messrs. Mariui & Folli in Cameron County, Texas. Bki> - A innri hy the name sf Miller, ut 8yi cuse, N. V., lived tixtcen hours after liis neck w broke, lie was picking cherries and fell frt the tree, a distance of about ten feet. By the new schedule the train froui Spi tanburg arrives at Union at 10.15 in the mot ing; the train from Charleston at 4.3? iu t evening, each train stopping ten minutes. - ? Stzf T lie promiucnt citizens of Gcorgeloi are moving earnestly in the matter of buildi a Narrow Gauge Kailroad front Georgetown Chester. Chester will be known soon as "t Narrow Gauge town." There is no Stage of Consumption in which is too late to administer Thrush's Consuuipti cure and Lung Bcstorer. Thousands have be cured hy it when there seemed to be no hop Trial 60c, large 1 00. 8old by all Druggis and hv A. IUAftN & Co., Union. BUT J. Y. l'ope was unanimously nominal on Thursday last by the Democratic Coui cuu vent ion of New berrv. tu fill ilio vneanev the House of Beprescntulives by the cxelusi of Thomas for contempt of the legal House, capital nomination ami we hope Newberry w elect him. .?. Mercer Brown, of the Columbia llcyisler,paper worthy the support of all the people the ytate?spent a day with us this wet We believe it to be the imperative duty ol t people of the upper Counties to handsomely si tain a reliable democratic paper, like the A'< iater, at Columbia. _ .?> lPc&" Mr. J. I.. Harris will accept our than for u liberal sample of Hour, ground at S. Harris & Son's mill, on Little Brown's Creek. The sample proves to be a very superior t[ual of Clour, fully equal to tire luua brand ? ? ? matket. The mill has just been put in first i-i order, with a new Bulling cloth, and .Mr. if ris proves himself to be a lir.-t class miller. Mr. Lemusicr has now received a lai assortment of very handsome Picture Cram choice Pictures and Class of all siz.es to suit. His frames arc so remarkably cheap t'mt ev? peson can allord to frame their beautil chromos and other pictures. You can't stui him on size of frame or glass, for he can l't iiisli uiiv ?!* t'riuii llit> smallest I'luiloi'i-anli ti full life-size Portrait. ? Stay* The fist schedule on th c lluilroa from Charleston commenced last Monday, a passengers now leave tlint City at > o'clock the morning and arrive at tlie head of the Sp; tanburg and Ashcvitlc road at 8 o'clock in I evening of the same day. This is a gieat i provcmcut upon the slow coach travel we hti been accustomed to. We now receive t Charleston papers the same day they are issm Stay- l .ast Thursday evoning, while the dej ty Sheriff was providing the inmates of t jail with water, and had gone iato one of t cells, three prisoners, Sain. Pilgram, Mar Brown and Bones Black, who were in the de ors' room, wrenched out the staple of the de leading down stairs, to which the heavy pr lock was hung, and made their escape. Tli had got possession in some way of a large ir pin, and directly the oflicer had entered the fi thesi cell they drew the staple and fled. T Sheriff was quick in pursuit and fired at P gram, the ball striking him in the head a bouncing back, but causing him to stop. T other I wo got off and are still at large. Th were last seen in Spartanburg. They arc a pn of tho gang arrested for stealing a number cattle belonging to ">r. A. W. Thomson. e acknowledge the kind invitation Prof. N. f?. l.itllejolin, Principal of the Asbu Seminary, to attend an exhibition and l'ic-? to be civeil bv the natrons and friends of tli Institution at Brown's Store on the 26th. We rocrrct that it will he impossible for us be there. It takes constant and close person application to business to insure the appearan of the Timet every week, unci we have not he able to avail ourself of the pleasure of attcti ing a number of similar occasions to which ' have been incited lately. We hope the Tin will be more prosperous next year, and we slit be able to employ such assistance as will cnah us to visit our friends throughout the county. Mr. LUtlcjohii's school is one of the most pre porous in the upper part of the State and < know the exhibition and I'ic-nic will do crei to all concerned. Maj D. A. Townsond Informs us that he has concluded to open t Union Male Academy, for the next session, Monday the "Otli of this month. As this will he the last Session of Mr. Tow send, as I'rinripal, those w ho v\ i h to until thei selves of his superior abilities as a Teach should send tiieir leys to him at thy opening the cs .'.i. eras * i ' -Alt The Feuoe La#. ! Our friend "Tea Hidge" opens the discussion of ibe Fence Law in this issue, by presenting what ho thinks is a knock-down nrguiuent against the law passed by the last Legislature. But before we lock horns with him on that important question, wc will try to disabuse his niiad of the nonsensical idea that, becauso we declined to publish articles offensive in stylo, r. iqjudicous in language and intended to pander tp the whims and wishes of men who arc never *?2^ w't'1 anything the party they pretend 5elong to may do, so long as they find they _ have no chanco for official position, and who erase brace every opportunity to open a gap in lha party yt through which they may be able to crawl; we say, because we refuse to publish such articles having such tcndences, there is no reason in any oue's charging us wit i an intention to (u suppress discussion on any public measure, or * to close our columns to discreet and gentlemanly criticism of the acts and doings of cur public fe officials. Our columns have always been held ist open to correspondents for the discussion of 8, every subject in wmcn me puuuc ?r me mumcralic party maybe interested and benefitted ; but when we rcccivo articles that we arc satisiv j fied will coiitiibute nothing to the good of the public or party, but rather do harm by creating disscusioas and much ill feeling, wo lake the responsibility of suppressing them, so far as the a- 7Yme.i is concerned. as > TT?e FeVco Law is legitimate source of dis>m cussioii, and we invite correspondents on both sides to make use of our columns, through ir_ which they can, more extensively than in any .n_ other way, ventilate their opinions of it; and we jie hope it will be freely and fairly dsscussed before the elcctiou is held. "I'ca Kidgc," no doubt, thinks he has 'rn "knocked the black out, the first shot," by im"K plying that (he law docs not compel the laud to owner to provide pasturage, and then appeals to bo the prejudices of what he calls the "illiterate non-landholders" by calling it a "brilliant huroi it buB." &? [vo Webster dcfiucs (lie word duty us "that which a person is bound, by any natural, moral or Ices. obligation to pay, to do, or perform." So, t8| as the lav. says "it shall be the duly of each and every employer, in any county or township i . .which shall adopt the provisions of this -4c/, to furnish pasture," &c. tocvery employee, the employee can demand that that duty shall be performed by the employer. Hut l*ka Kiduk says, ^ "the employer is not bound to furnish pasturage tor an employee, it no uocs tioi cnoose 10 ajree 1 to Jo so." That's true; nor is an employer buund to employ a man who owns a cow or a ?a hog, if he docs not choose to agree to do so ; and iu 110 man is compelled to work for a man who will ik. not choose to agree to find pasturage. There lie will be plenty of good men ready to agree to do is- so, if one is found who refuses. It is generally y- the case that the best laborers are those who own cows, chickens, hogs, &c., and we all know ks the best laborers will never be long out of eml> ployuicnt, almost upon their own terms. Many persons appear to forget that the law docs not prevent any one from fencing in the whole of bis form, if be chooses ta dy so. You l(c can put up as much fencing as you please ; but ,u._ the law says to the employer you shall provide pasturage for as many of your employee's stock as you both may agree upon. And then it will rcc be the mutual interest of employer and employcc to make that pasturage as good as passible for the stock, aud as safe as possible from :ry thieves. tu' There may he defects in the law?no doubt 1UP there arc. It is a ucw departure from the old ,r" system of farming, and we should not expect the n fi r. a ? ?. a_ i r... :_ . 11 :a~ nrsi iuii governing 11 10 ou perieci in uu ut purls. Experience will rectify nil the defects. kjg What is wanted now, is the intelligence to proud fit froui the experience of others. jn A few days ago one of the most reliable men hi*, in this county?niul he is a poor inan, too?told |l0 us that lie had just visited Mecklenburg and the iu~ adjoining county, in North Carolina, where tin vc no-fehcc law had been in operation for over a he year, and had liken pains to enqurieof nil he me! L.j ?land owuers, tenants, day and yearly laborer' ?how the stock law worked, aud every one, m not n single exception, told him it was the best I law that was ever passed, for all classes cmployed in Agriculture. Under it they had bet ll* ter stock, better cared for and more of it, than ' before. Under it many poor men were able to >or buy small farms and cultivate theiu the first year with the money it would have cost to build th< fences. Under it, n number of poor men wh< on owned small farms made arrangements with lane' il~ owners to assist in making pastures and keeping 'ie them up, and for a very trifling amount?to b< paid in lubor?they secured the best kind 01 pasture for their slock ; their stock was nevet stolen aud never strayed. Under it a man could buy forty acres of land, put up a cabin and of night shelter for his cow and hogs, witlu^t anj other expense before going to work on his crop; uf and he had no fear that his neighbor's unruly cow, ox, or hog would destroy the crop while rjc he slept at uiglit. It did more for the ponce and int Kw0(l fueling among neighbors than all the criminals laws combined. (o Now this undeniable evidence comes to us rlj from a poor and pure man, who got it from those cp who had tried the law, and among thcin many eil who bitterly opposed it before it went into operation. IVC The land owners who have more land than in !ICJ cultivate will be equally benefitted by the nil new law. At pressent they have no safeguard lc against unruly or breachy stoek. llut few of thorn have lawful fences, and it is hard to find IS* iV(. luborers willing to maul rails at anything like lit reasonable prices. Their fences arc going to decay teal, And what arc now standing can, by the help of their croppers and employees, be relie moved to make fencing around pastures. And on these pastures could be made a mine of wealth to every laud owner, if lie would fix for housing n- or penning the stock at night and snving the ii ' inn nine We know one man in this county who cr | offers to provide good pasture lor tiny number of' of cattle nt on? dollar abend. He pens them %: night and M?ys he be'.icv?f- iic w... savt bunI dreds of dollars by it, us he will want no more fertilizers, and one application of the manure from the stock will improve his land for years, while ^ the effects of fertilizers only last one season. ^ But there is a moral aspect to this atfair. No inan has a right to rnise stock upon another man's food, as uiany do now by allowing their cat- j, tie to posture upon their neighbors' land, with- ^ out ptrmission from the owner or without giving something of an equivalent. Laying aside the cost and trouble of fencing, ^ the scarcity of fencing timber and the injury (| often done to crops, we believe the adoption of n the no-fcnco law would be of incalculable advantage to all classes of the people, in the improve- ?, ment and better caro of the stock ; in the great- ^ er security to the crops; in the improvement of g the land, by the saving of manure ; in preventing neighborhood and personal difficulties, out of which so often grow expensive Inw-suits, and ( in developing anu csiaoiisiuug ivuuuga ui uium- f al interest between the employer ami employed. Those who will not work, but depend upon (> their neighbors for subsistence for themselves o and stock, it seems to us, are the only cues who j will oppose the now law. Since the railroads have been running c the fast schedule?just four days?almost every 1 town and settlement in this section of the State 1 hns been visited by Iho representative of a Char- J lestou newspaper. We state iho fact as an evi- 1 donee of the meritorious enterprise and tact of 1 the proprietors of those papers. Nor is their ? enterprise and tact alone evinced iu thus quick- ' ly, rocognizing the advantages the fast schedule ' gives tliciu, but in the selection of their representatives they show u keen and sound business knowledge. The best newspaper canvasser is j not a mere gas-bag, who can ainusc a crowd for hours by telling tales of very doubtful truth or morality. If ho represents a sheet worhty the patronr.gc of a moral and intelligent peoplo, ho , must not only act the gentleman but bo one in fact. This the proprietors of tho Charleston daily papers evidently know and appreciate.? Their representatives are gentlemen and respected as such wherever they go. Mr. It, C. Logan, of the Newt and Courier, paid our town a visit last Wednesday, and made many friends for himself and tho paper lie represents. Mr. Frnzier. of tho Charleston Journal of Commerce passed through here on Tuesday, upon the excursion train, and promised to spend a day with us on his return. ISoth of these men arc high-toned gentlemen and come fully up to our idea of what tho representatives of a dignified and worthy newspaper should be. Our people must ho their own judges as to which paper they will give their patronage. .? B?9u A few weeks ago we said we had a number of very superior Flouring Mills in this County, but designated only one, for the simple reason that, nl that time, wo could not speak from cxpcricnco of the quality of the flour made at nny other mill. We can uow speak "what we do know" of other mills. One friend, T. M. Whitcsidcs, of the Uuion Steam mill at this placo has requested us to test the quality of the Flour ground at his mill, which we hove done thoroughly, in every way, from a Johnny Cake to a Loaf of Bread, and arc c unpolled to ackuowlcdgo that it has never failed to come up to the very highest standard of the most popular brands. A few years ago our country mills were not reliable for turning out good flour, and it is gratifying to us to be able to say that they have lately been greatly improved and better miners have charge of them, so that now tho mills of Union, so far as we know, turnout the very finest nualitv of Flour and are deserving the pat ronagc of the neighborhoods in which they ore located. 1 We should bo pleased to know that the Flour 1 from the mills of Union Ceunty held a reputa, tion in Iho market equal to the most noted brands. Let our millers strive for such nu hon' orable distinction. i ? - t Bear F ItOM TI1B CkADLB to TUB J AII.. I^ISt j Saturday evening the sympathies?and we may fay the disgust?of our citizens were excited at seeing two constnbles, on horseback, ride into town hnving in charge three colored children? . one 10, one 9, and one 8 years old?as prisoni era. The children were walking rapidly to keep i up with tho horses. From the information we have received, the 5 youngest child was sentenced to ten days in jail > for stealing a pocketful of corn, as he said, to I feed his pig ; tho other two were sentenced to r ten days in jail for stealing a pair of old gate . hinges. They live about tan miles below this f town and, wc aro told their parents bear bad characters for honesty. Trial Justices Johnson | and Stokes were immediately called on to admit t them to bail oil a writ of habeas corjms. It does seem to us that the trial and conviction of such children, for such a trivial crime, ; was not only a stretch of judicial discretion, but a useless expense to the county. Neither of the children is old enough to know the enormity of the crime of stealing or be benefiitted by such punishment. It would have been far better to have called upon tho parents to punish them by a 3UUIIU UUggUig. i * Tho Railroad Mooting. It is impossible to publish the full proceedings of the Narrow tiauge Railroad meeting held nt Carmel Hill last Wednesday. We shall give it next week. The meeting authorized u survey fo the route to he made, and two experienced Engineers were , employed, to go to work at once, and to inakc their report on or before the 2Ath of August. The meeting adjourned to meet uguin at Farrar's Mill, ou Lock hart Shoals, on the 25th of August, and to have a Barbecue and Fish Fry on the occasion. The people of Chester and Union are in earnest upon the subject, and we feel confident the road will be built, and that shortly. There is a rumor from Columbia that evidence before the investigating committee convicts 1). I ml,in nt using llii- mining p!nr<ph:ilr royally to buy bis Sctuiluiship, by paying eiu li In the M ickey legislators, and that he ha" taken fiig.ii ..:i i siu.eii for f.ur , i V\ir tliu Tltaes? *?u Advice to Tax Payors. -^3 Mb. Editor:?Will you please allow mespace '-"^9 >r a few words concerning the assessment now cing made: | It will bo confined to Personal Property, exapt where there has been a transfer of Reel "J state made since the previous assessment; in j diich case the former owner is required to make ] . return of the number of acres, value, &c., and 1 ic natuo of tho purchaser, of tho Real Es* , ite sold by him. Those making no return of 0 ixable property may expect to be called on to -S tako oath that they have none. "Every Male citizen between tho ages of twenjr-one and sixty" is by law liablo to pay the t'o/l Tax, "except thoso incapable of carniug a unnurt. from heimr lnaiincd. or from anv othet ~n ? ? ? o ? - - - m , ause." This exception, of course, applies only 9 sucli ns are not able to uinku a support by heir own labor, but aro dependent on othors or a living. To prevent any future evasion of the law, ah xaiuination of the voting lists and other sourceb f information will be resorted to to make the ist of taxable polls full and completo. It may uot bo auiiss to add that the necessary fxpenscs of the Stato Government?greatly as hose expenses have been curtailed?cannot be laid, at the present reduced rate of taxation? ust half of what the defunct bogus Legislature it tempted to impose?unless every inan punctU* i illy oontributes the aiuqunt now required of him >y a law enactod by good and true men, and approved a Governor of tlio people's own free :hoicc. 1>. JOHNSON, A. U. C. For tlio Times. Fonce or No Fonoo. Mu. Kiiitou :?It is with some reluotancc that L write this to you, having noticed that you bod ilready declined to publish communications written in opposition to certain performances of imr pavty, fearing you may think that what I have to say may be productive of dissentions. However, being a true democrat, in the prop er sense of the word, uod thinking that tno people's rights may bo better vindicated through the instrumentality of the Public Press than by any other means, I respectfully beg leave to call attention to the seventh section of tho Fence Law, as i}uotod from the Uniox Times of tho 8th ult. "Sec. 7. II shall be the duty of each and^fc every employer in any County or township which shall adopt the provisions of this Act, to furnish each and every employee hired by him with pasturage for as many head of stock owned by such employee, as agreed upon ; Provided tho employee help to make the pasture,"^ This Section is a most brilliautfVMubug, an insiguificant farce, not worth its space iu open air. It could not have been inserted for the public good,abut comes to us iu the lorm of Law, to delude the illiterate non-landholder into supporting it, as any niau of common sense knows that the employer is not bound to furnish pasturage for an employee if lie does not choose to do so. I could mention other serious objections to the law, but considering this sufficient to dissuade every man who is not the possessor of a tract of land, but fortunately the owner of a cow, from voting for the law, I drop the curtain. PK A-RIDGE* wo colored men, liurtley Wallace and Wade Gentry, were arrcslad last Weducsday for shooting a little colored boy, uumcd Johu Hawkins, aged 10 years. Wallace took the boy's liat oil and kept it ustil the boy became angry and threw a rock at him, or struck hint with a stick, when Wallace borrowed Gcutry's pistol aud tired at the boy.? The ball struck him just buhiud the ear aud. lodged in the nock. From what we can learn it was a cowardly act. la one of tlic liotly contested fights in Virginia,, during the war, a Federal officer fell wounded i in front of the Contcderato breastworks. While lying there w-ounded and crying piteously fcr ' water, a confederate soldier (Jauics Moore, of ! Uurkc County, N. C.,) declared his intention of supplying him with drink.. Tho bullets were llying thick from both sides, ami Moore's friendsendeavored to diisuadc him from such a hazard' ous enterprise. Despite remonstrance nod danger, however, Moore leaped the breastwork,, canteen in hand, reached his wounded enemy, and gave him a drink. The Federal, under a sense of gratitude for the timely service, took out hisgoldi watch and offered it to his benefactor, but it was refused. Tho officer then asked the name of tho man who had braved such danger to succor hiiu. The name was given, and Moore returned unhurt te his position behind the embankment. They saw nothing more of each other. Moore was subsequently wounded and Iosl a limb in one of the engagements in Virginia, and returned to his. home in llurke County. A few days ago he received a, communication from the Federal soldier to whonj Hq had given the "cup of cold water"' on tho occasion alluded to, announcing that he had settlect on him the siim of $10,000, to be paid in four equal annual installments of $'2,<">00 each. In-, vestigation has established the fact that there is no mistake or deception in the matter.? Raleigh News. Tho Boys All Right. The following postal card was received by us, and as their friends no doubt wish to know whore and how the boys of the Hand are, we give the information in their own peculiar style: Hendku.sonv1m.R, N. 0., July 'A, 1877. Mil. Stokes :?We arrived here all 0. K., last night. We are going to Ashcville to-morrow. wants to know if the people are going to move up here, as they arc piling all their land up together. Vou will hear from us at the next station. M0UNTAIN1EEK8, Great Merit in Femalo Disoases. State oe Gkoboia, Troup Co. This is to certify that 1 have examined tho receipt of Dr. Jusiuh /,'ctlfirlil, and, as a medical man, pronounce it to boa combination of medicines of great merit in the treatment of all diseases of females for which he recommends it. WM. 1\ UHASLfiY, M. D. 'Jhis December 21, 1808. For sale by till druggists, and by A. 1UWIN & Co., Union. June 2(J 'Jo Im ^j| A band of about two ltundred robbers, known as the "Underwood gang," have been spreading terror among the residents of Lewis ond Carter counties in eastern Kentucky for some time past, forcing, by their depredations, the farmers to abandon their crops and take to the woods for refuge. The Gov. rnnr of tho Stale hn-. ordered i.;ii I i. , .11,|...i,,eof I lie inililiulo 'oppress t lio gang, who, to robbery, add the crimes of horse ' -Killing no I roiiiitci It liii.g 1 k' * s*