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Current War Reports. % a startling rl'mou from tiik french republic. London, .July 11*?Some incredible rumors me ntloat concerning the absence of Marshal Muc.Mahon and the French Conservatives. It is said there is great activity in military circles iu France, and that immense stores of war 'material have been gathered together and orders sent to America for such provisions as would lie useful iu the event of a foreign war. It is suspected that MacMahon is determined to restore the empire, and to accomplish this end, proposes to plunge into wat as nu excuse for suppressing the elections, or use the military to carry them. An election now would gu overwhelmingly republican, bafwith a war on hand, the peasantry would rally to the support of the existing government. The current rumor is, that a secret alliance has been entered into by France and Austria against Germany by which Germany is to be attacked on both flanks simultaneously, and it is believed that Itelgium and Holland can be ? -- ~i>: i? s? o?:,i ||.n| 1UUHCCU 10 JUIU I lie UIIIUMbV. It in ou.u IUU. (lie French are confident that with France, Austria, Belgium, Holland and Denmark, which powers would, it is believed, take a hand in fighting against the Hcruiansaud Hussions, Eng laud would be emboldened to range herself or tl:o tsnmo side iu order to preserve Constantino ,plc from the Mi scovitc. KS OLA Nil's PREPARATIONS FOR WAR THE Tl'HK isit taimes?imuihui.itv oit .ntratkuem. London, July 11.?The Daily News says, tha the Hritish fleet nt Itcsika Hay, with the addi tions ordered by I he Admiralty, will consist o twenty-four vessels with one hundred nnd fiftj guns und a crew of seven or eight thousam men. A special dispatch from Vienna says th abandonment of the line of Yantra, in Bulgaria by the Turks, is the more surprising, since, t judge from the stout defence of tho bridge am position of Hicla, where the Turks repulsed th first attack of the Kussians with coiisidcrabl loss, it might have been supposscd that they in tended to defend the line, and thus, by threat ening (heir Hank, prevent the Kussians from ad vancing into the interior. The Turks have so completely suppressed al information about the disposition and movement of liicir troops that not even an idea can b formed of what they mean to do, but it show either utter helplessness or else a very dee laid plan that they should have neglected th brilliant opportunities nlTbrdcd tlicni of mcctin the Kussians to advantage. The Times in a leading article says it believe the Kussians cannot advance in force upon th Hulk an 3 until they have secured their communi utw^as Jdj^conslruclini; a position on the Dar Turks. This will require a month at least.The excursions of Cossacks to Tirnova, l'ievni Sclvi and Lowutz have little or 110 military nificaiice. Paris, July 11.?A private dispatch froi Constantinople, of yesterday's date, announce the death of l'edif Pasha, the Turkish Ministe of War. No confirmation of the report has ye been received. tflKNCII AUKNTS IN AMERICA. CiiM'Auo, July 11.?The Inter-Ocean publishe startling information of the presence there am in other large cities of French agents contract ing for provisions for War purposes. Spcciti instructions are given as to how the food shnl bo packed, with a view to its preservation urn easy transportation and distribution in rations Enough food has been ordered to sustain a larg nnny during a long campaign. The Inter Ocean considers these operations significant ii view of tlio condition of atfuirs in Western Eu rope. Summor Mcoting of the 8tato Orango. At a meeting of the Executive Committee o (lie Male Grange, rairons or "Husbandry, Soutt Carolina, held at the Columbia Hotel, May tin ltith, the following preamble aud resolution wero read and unanimously adopted : In order to carry out the design of the Stati (.1 range at the last mectirg, and to further pro mole the interests and objects of the order o Patrons of Husbandry of the State, Rcxolvrd', That the State Grange, Patrons o Husbandry, of South Carolina, hold their anuu nl summer meeting for the present yoar, 1877 at Anderson C. II., on the 8th day of Augusi next. Iictolvcd, Thai the subordinate Oranges of tlx State he urged to have a representation at thii meeting, and that all I'atrons bring for exhibi tion such articles as may be of interest. Resolved, That the State Agricultural and Mechanical Socicy be rcqucstod to meet with u> and to participate in all of the discussions ol the meeting. Resolved, That the following Patrons be in' vitcd to either read an essay or open the discussion by an address upon the subjects named, viz: Dr. St. Julicn ltavenel, on phosphates and fertilizers ; General Johnson flagood on blooded s'ock; P. L Hochc, of Ashley Grange, on the usury law; General Bratton, on cattle; J. 1). Wylie, on bee culture; Dr. J. II. Foster, or poultry ; Dr. Furman, on upland rice culture ; Richard Tozer, on plantation engines ; Colonel Thomas Taylor, on corn fertilizers ; Iredell Jones, on tenant system; W. W. Russell, of Anderson, on ruilroad transportation ; Julius Mills, on immigration : It. F. Cruyton, on fence law; Mnjor Woodward, on fish culture. Resolved, That the executive ^fcimittce of the Agricultural and Mechanical Society be invited to co-operate with the executive committee ol the State Grange in inakiug arrangements in detail for carrying out the object of this meeting, and inakiug this a large and harmonious meeting of the agriculturists of the State. R. M.Kims, Secretary and Member of Executive Committee State Grange. Ma rrikii Wo.m k.n and BuiLDIKU association Roans.?'The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania rendered a decission in the cose of Wolbach and wife against the Lehigh Building Association. It de clurcs that in all cases where married women deal with tlio associations tho mortgage is good only for the actual amount loaned and legal interest. A logical consequences seem to bethat if the money loaned lias not been actually used to buy or improve tier .separate real estate, but liave been used to raise money to pay her husband's debts, or for other purposses, 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 has been a v ;ry common practice for men to hold their property in their wives' names, and, when desirous of n 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 morgnges given by married women, and a total refusal by the associations to make future loans on any terms. John Stone Pullen, formerly a New Orleans sugar merchant, member of the Louisiana Legislature and a colonel in the Confederate army, who loaned $'.?00,000 to the Confederate government, ami wan beggared by the result of the war, died in a wretched tenement in Grand street, Brooklyn, last week, and was saved from burial at the publio expense by the charity of bis poor fellow-tenants. He was born in Baton Kongo, La., ami was educated fir the ministry, but on leaving college embarked ?u the sugar business. *' ' I' "* i ir 1 1 ' ' jgte jBferitjt ?nion SKmts. R. M. STOKES,"Editor. UNION, FRIDAY JULY 20 1877. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 Copy,oao year, in aovanck, (3.00 t Copies oiiu year," " 5.60 5 " " " " " 11.00 10 " M " " " 'JO.00 ADVERTISING. Oiw square or one Inch, tirst insertion, - - - (1.00 Kach MitKHNpient insertion, ------- 73 l.ibcral discount iiiatle to merchants and others adveri isim: lor six months or by tlio year. Obituary Notices of ten lilies or less, inserted free. ^ " " over leu lines, charged iu^tdvertti9 , uients. i ?- 30 |ivr cent additional for advertisement* ordered not to appear in eouseeutive issues. Itiatf" The Merchants of this town now close their stores, every evening except on Saturday, at six o'clock. - - - ? ??*- Wo regret to siuto that our esteemed [ lownstunn, Mr. Jauics Grant, is still confined to . his bed and suffering intensely from rheuunt' tism. I - - Mrs. Mary S. llailey, the estimable wife i of County Commissioner, J. F. liuiley, died last Saturday, at her residence near Cross Keys, after a severe illness. er The first bale of new Cotton wns rccciv( at New Orleans on the 11 inst. It was raised . on the plantation of Messrs. Marim & Follin, in Cameron County, Texas. I " A man by the uaiiie ?f Miller, at Syra- I cuse, N. Y., lived siztctn hours after his neck was c 'iroke. lie was picking cherries aud fell from ^ the tree, a distance of about ten feet. J fieff lly the new schedule the train from Spar0 tanburg arrives nt Union at 10.10 in the morning ; the train from Charleston at 4.30 iu the evening, each train stopping ten minutes. fifaT T lie prominent citizens of Georgetown II are moving earnestly in the matter of building 3 a Narrow Gauge Railroad from Georgetown to e Chester. Chester will be known soon as "tlio s n Narrow Guucc town." r 0 There is no Stage of Consumption in which it ^ is too lute to administer Thrash's Consumptive :s cure and Lung Restorer. Thousands have been ,e cured by it when there seemed to be no hopes. '* Trial 50c, large 1 00. Sold bj all Druggists, ? and bv A. IRWIN & Co., Union. , Btif' J- V. Pope was unanimously nominated r. on Thursday last by the Democratic County convention of Newberry, to till tho vacancy in n the House of Representatives by the exclusion r of Thomas for contempt of the legal House. A it capital nomination and we hope Newberry will elect him. ^ Mercer Drown, of the Columbia lleytitrr,?a j paper worthy the support of all the people in the State?spent a day with us this week. c We believe it to be the imperative duly ol the j people of the upper Counties to handsomely sustuin a reliable democratic paper, like the Rej. e ister, at Columbia. - - 1 llUxf' Mr. ). L. Harris will accept our thanks for a liberal sample of tlour, ground at S. P. Harris & Son's mill, on Little Drown'e Creek.? The sample proves to be a very superior quality f of Flour, fully cuual to the bi>*? ?. ? ??? ;? m? > market. The mill has just been put in first rate B order, with a new Dolling cloth, and Mr. Hurris proves himseif to be u iir.-l class miller. c fita>" Mr. Lemastcr has now received a large f assortment of very handsome Picture Frames, choice Pictures and Glass of all sizes to suit.? f His frames arc so remarkably cheap that every person can afford to frame their beautiful I chroinos and other pictures. You can't stump hitn on size of frame or glass, for ho can fur nish any size from the smallest Photograph to a ' full life-size Portrait. ? .? ! User The fast schedule on the Railroads ( from Charleston commenced last Motiduy, und f passengers now leave that City at 0 o'clock in the morning and arrive at the head of the Spartanburg aud Ashcville road at 8 o'clock in the eveniug of the same day. This is u gioat itn* I provemeut upon the slow conch travel wc have I been accustomed to. We now receive the Charleston papers the same day they ure issued. var Last Thursday evening, while the deputy Sheriff was providing the inmates of the jail with water, and had gone into one of the cells, three prisoners, Sam. Pilgrura, Martin Drown and Iioncs Dluvk, who were in the debtors' room, wrenched out the staple of the door leading down stairs, to which the heavy padlock was hung, and made their escape. They had got possession in some way of a large iron pin, and directly lite officer had entered the farthest cell they drew the staple aud fled. The Sheriff wus quick in pursuit and fired at Pit gram, the ball striking him in the head and bouncing back, but causing him to stop. The other two got off and are still at large. They i were last seen in Spartanburg. They are a part of the gang arrested for stealing a number of i cattle belonging to ')r. A. W. Thomson. __ I B?3u. We acknowledge the kiud invitation of Prof. N. 0. Littlejohn, Principal of the Asbury Seminary, to attend an exhibition and Pic-lfic to be given by the patrons and friends of that Institution nt Brown's Store on the 26th. Wc regret that it will be impossible for us to be there. It takes constant and close personal application to business to insure the appearance of the Timm everv week nml we have nnl heeii Able to avail ouraelf of the pleaaure of attending a number of similar occasions to which we have been invited Intel;. We hope the Time* will be more prosperous next year, and we shall be able to employ such assistance us will enable us to visit our friends throughout the county.? Mr. Littlejohn's school is one of the most prosperous in the upper part of the State and we know the exhibition and I'ic-nic will do credit to all concerned. *^ .D. A. Tcwnsend Informs us that he has concluded to open the Union Male Academy, for the next session, on Monday theSOtb of this month. As this will be the last Session of Mr. Townsend. ns Principal, those who wish to avail themselves of his superior uhilitics us u Teacher should send their loya to him at the opening of the scs-ion, ore; soon after as possible. ? The Fenoe La#. Our frienil 'Tea Ridge" opens the discus of tbo.Fence Law in this issue, by presen what ho thinks is a knock-down argur against the law passed by the last Lcgislatu But beforo we lock horns with him on important question, wo will try to disabusi mind of the nonsensical idea that, because declined to publish articles offensive in s iqjudioous in langungo and intended to pa to Hie whims and wishes of men who arc n with anything the party they pre to may do, so long as they find hare no chance for official position, and whe brace every opportunity to open a gap in the J through which they may be able to crawl; say, because we refuse to publish such art having such tendcnces, there is no rcasc any oue's charging us wit i an intentio suppress discussion on any public measure to close our columns to discreet and gentle ly criticism of the acts and doings of our p officials. Our columns hare always been open to correspondents for the discussic every subject in which the public or the d cratic party may be interested and bencfi but when wo receive articles that we are i fied will cohtiibutc nothing to the good o public or party, but rather do harm by ere disscusions and much ill feeling, wo tak responsibility of suppressing them, so far a J\mtx is concerned. > Tfie Felice Law is a legitimate source ol cussion, and we invite correspondents on sides to make use of our columns, tin which tlirv can. more CTlnnnivclv I ban ii other way, ventilate their opinions of it; ai hope it will be freely anil fairly dsscussed t the election is held. "l'ea Ridge," no doubt, thinks ho "knocked the black out, the first shot," b, plying that the law docs not compel the owuer to provide pasturage, and then appe the prejudices of what he calls the "illit non-landholders" by calling it a "brilliant bug," kc. Webster defines the word duty us "that t a person is bound, by any natural, moral gal obligation to pay, to do, or perform." us the law says "it shall be the duty of and every employer, in any county or towi , which ahall adopt the provisions of this At furnish pasture," &c. to every employee, th pl^yee can demand that that duty shall be formed by the employer. But I'ka Uiduk "the employer is not bound to furnish past for an employee, if ho docs uot choose to to do so." That's true; nor is an ernf bound to employ a man who owns a cow hog, if ho docs not choose to agree to do so no man is compelled to work for amun wit not choose to agree to find pasturage, will be plenty of good men ready to agree so, if one is found who refuses. It is gem the case that the best laborers are thos< own cows, chickens, hogs, &c., and we all the best laborers will never be long out o ploymcnt, almost upon their own terms. Many persons appear to forget that th docs uot prevent any one from fencing i whole of bit f?rui, if lie chooses tp do pa. crfn put up as uiuch foncing as you please the law says to the employer you shall pi paslurnge for as many of your employee'a as you both muy agree upon. And then i he the mutual iuterest of employer and en cc to make that paaturngc as good as pj for the stock, and as safe as possible thieves. There may he defects in the law?no there are. It is a new departure from tl system of farming, and wo should not cxp< first law governing it to be perfect in i parts. Experience will rectify all the d< What is wanted now, is the intelligence ti fit from the experience of others. A few days ago one of tho most reliabl in this county?and he is a poor man, too us that he had just visited Mecklenburg at adjoining county, in North Carolina, whe no-fdhee law had been in operation for * year, and had tiken painsto enqurieof all 1 ?land owuers, tenants, dny and yearly lal ?how the stock law worked, and every not a single exception, told him it was lh< law that was ever passed, for all classei ployed in Agriculture. Under it they ha ter slock, bettor cared for and more of it before. Under it many poor men were a buy small farms and cultivate them the firs with the monoy it would have cost to bui fences. Under it, a number of poor tuei owned small farms made arrangements witl owuers to assist in making pastures and k< them up, and for a very trifling amountpaid in labor?they secured the best k pasture for their stock ; their aiock was stelen and never etrayed. Under it a man buy forty acres of laud, put up a cabin night shelter'for his cow and hogs, with^i ether expense before going to work on bis aiiu uc umu iiu lcur umi ma uuiguuur I u cow, ox, or bog would destroy the crop he slept at uight. It did more for the pone good feeling among neighbors than all the inals laws combined. Now this undeniable evidence comes I from n poor and pure man, who got it from who had tried the law, and among them who bitterly opposed it before it went an< eraiion. The land owners who have more land A I 111 t -II- t MAA 1 V cue/ ouiuvcic win uc vquuu/ iwucnu?u u new law. At pressent they have no safe) against unruly or breachy stock. But 1 them have lawful fences, and it is hard h laborers willing to maul rails at anythinj reasonable prices. Their fences are goi decay^Atfr 4?d what are now standing oat the help ef their croppers and employees, 1 mo red to make fencing around pastures, these pastures oould be made a mine of w to erery land owner, if he would fix for ho or penning the stock at night and sarini munuie. Wo know one man in this count] oilers to provide good pasture fur nuy mi of cattle a I one dollar ahead. He pens at night, anu says he believes he will save drctls of dollars by it, as he will want nomorefersion tilizers, and one application of the manure from l'nR the stock will improvo his land for years, while uent tho e()'ect8 0|" fertilizers only last one season. irc- But there is a moral aspect to this atfiiir. No '^at inan has a right to raise stook upon another 3 h'8 man's food, as many do now by allowing their cat0 wo tic to pasturo upon their neighbors' land, witlily'?? out permission from the owner or without giving nder something of an equivalent. CTCr Laying aside the cost and trouble of fencing, tend tj,e scaroity of fonoing timber and the injury they often done to crops, wo bclievo tho adoption of em- the ne-fcnco law would be of incalculable advan>arty tago to all classes of the people, in the improvo> wo ment and better care of tho stock ; in the greatioles cr security to the crops; in tho improvement of in in (ho land, by the saving of manure ; in provenn 10 ting neighborhood and personal difficulties, out > or 0f w]|ich so often grow ezpensivo law-suits, aud man" in developing and establishing fcolings of mutuublic a\ interest between the employer and employed, held Those who will not work, but depend upon 11 Ul their neighbors for subsistence for themselves emo" and stock, it seems to us, arc the only cues who tted ; wjjj 0ppO8e (he now law. satis- ?? f the Since the railroads have been running nting the fast schedule?just four days?almost every o the town and settlement in this section of the State is the has been visited by (lie representative of a Charleston ucwspapcr. We state tho fact as an evif dis- donee of the meritorious enterprise "and tact of both the proprietors of those papers. Nor is thoii ough enterprise and tact nlonc evinced iu thus quicka any ly, rocognizing the advantages the fast schedule mint gives them, but in the selection of their repreicfore scntatives they show a keen and sound busiucsc knowlodge. The best newspaper canvasser it has not a mere gns-bag, who can amuse a crowd foi y im- hours by telling tales of very doubtful truth 01 laud morality. If ho represents a sheet worhty the als to palronsgc of a moral and intelligent peoplo, h< .crate must not only act the gentleman but be one ir hum- fact. This the proprietors of tho Chnrlestot daily papers evidently know and appreciate.? vhich Their representatives arc gentlemen and rospee or le- ted ns such wherever they go. go, Mr. 11. C. Logan, of the yews and Courier each paid our town a visit last Wednesday, and raadi nship many friends for himself and the paper ho rep :l, to resents. e em: Mr. Frasier, of the Charleston Journal o per- Commerce passed through here on Tuosday, upoi says, the excursion train, and promised to spend 1 urago day with us on his return. agree llotli of these men are high-toned gcntlcmei iloyer and come fully up to our idea of what tho rcpre or a scutativcs of a dignified and worthy newspapc 1; and should be. Our people must be their owi o will judges as to which paper they will give the! There patronage, to do 11.. A few weeks aire we said wc bail a mini s wlio her vcrJ superior Flciring Mills in thi know County, but designated only one, for tho simp] f em- rea80n that, at that time, wo could not speal from experience of the quality of tho ilou e law ninde at any other mill. We can now spea n the "what wc know" of other mill*. You Cue friend. T. M. Whiteside*, of tho Uuioi i; but S'eam mill this placo has requested us to tcs rovidc ,'IC Quality of tho Flour ground at his mill stock which wc hare dono thoroughly, in every waj t will fr?m B Johnny Cake to a Loaf of Bread, nn iploy- nr0 compelled to acknowledge Ihnt it has neve ssible hsilcd to come up to tho very highest stnudar from 'he most popular brands. A few years ago our country mills were nc doubt ' liable for turning out good flour, and it i tie old gratifying to us to be able to say that thoy huv ;ot the lately been greatly improved and better miller ill its hnvo charge of them, so that now tho mills c jfccts. Union, so far as we know, turnout the very fit] o pro- e8t Quality of Flour and are deserving the pai ronagc of the neighborhoods in which they or located. e men yfe should bo pleased to know that the Flou ?told from the mills of Union Ceunty held a reputi id the ''on 'n the market equal to tho most note ? brands. Let our millers strive for such an hoi r0 ,n? orable distinction. )ver a ie met KSF" Fnon tuk Cradlk to tub Jail. Loi borers Saturday evening the sympathies?and we ma one, ??J the disgust?of our citizens were excited i e best seeing two constables, on horseback, ride in! i em- town having in charge three colored childrend bet- one 10, one 0, and one 8 years old?as prisoi , than era. The childrea were walking rapidly to kee ble to up with the horses. t year From the information we hare received, tli id the youngest child was sentenced to ten days in ja a who for stealing a pocketful of corn, as he said, t bland feed his pig ; the other two were sentenced < toping ten days in jail for stealing a pair of old got -to be hinges. They live about ton miles below thi ind of town and, we are told their parents boor ba never characters for honesty. Trial Justices Johnse could and Stokes were immediately called on to adm and a 'h?01 to ''ail on a writ of habeat eorytu. It does seem to us that the trial and convu |r any tion of such children, for such a trivial crim< crop; was not only a stretch of judicial discretion, bt nruly a useless expense to the county. Neither of th while children 'a old enough to kuow the enormity < the crime of stealing or be bonefiittcd by sue ;e anu punishment. It would have been far better t crira- have called upon the parents to punish them by sound flogging. to us * " tl T^e Railroad Meeting It is impossible to publish the full proceeding or tne narrow uauge itaiiroau meeting held a 0 Cannel Hill lust Wednesday. We shall give I than n*Xt we?'1, | The meeting authorized a survey fo ilie rout '' '* to be made, and two experienoed Engineers wer ^ employed, to go to work at once, and to mnk 9 find rePort on or before the 26th of August. .. The meeting adjourned to meet again at Fai 8 * rar*s Mill, on Lookhart Shoals, on the 26th ? no to August, and to have a Barbeoue and Fish Fry e * the oocaalon. D6 reThe people of Chester and Union are in earn est upon the sutyeet, and we feel confident th using rOB<* b* built, and thai shortly. g the There is a rumor from Columbia that evident Y who before the investigating committee convicts 1J mbor ,orbinof using the mining phoHpiiftte royal I to buy bis Kenalorship, by paying $2(Hi each I them |)ie Mac key legislators, and that he has take hun- fright and sailed for Europe. Kor tlio Time*? ' Advioe to Tax Payor*- &L' Mr. Editor:?Mill you please allow mespace for a few words concerning the assessment now W being miule: ? It will l>o confined to IYiootiai l'roperty, ex - cept where there haa been a transfer of Real 'A Estate mado since the previous assessment; in J which case the former owner is required to mnke .1 a return o( the number of acres, value, &c., and J tlio naino of tho purchaser, of the Real Es* w Ute sold by him. Those making no return o-f v? taxable property may expect to be called on to 9 ninao oain inai mey nave none. * Every Mule citizen between tho ages of twen- b ty-onc and sixty" is by law liablo to pay Ibi t Poll Tax, "except those incapable of earning a j support, from being ninimod, or from any othet I cause." This excopt ion, of course, applies only | to such as arc net able to make a support by i their ownjabor, but aro dependent on othorB ft for a living. fi To prevent nny future evnsien of the law, ah | examination of the voting lists and other sourceb _ M / of information will be resorted to to make thh I list of taxablo polls full and completo. I It may not bo amiss to add that tho necessary 1 expenses of the State Government?greatly as | those expenses have bocn curtailed?cannot be _ 1 paid, at tho present reduced rate of taxation?| just half of what tho defunct bogus Legislature $V attempted to impose?unless every man punctu* JBL. ally contributes the amount now required of him by a law enactod by good and true men, and ap- 1 proved by a Governor of tho people's own free I choice. 1>. JOHNSON, A. U. C. For tho Times. Fenee or No Fenoo. Mr. Eimtou :?It is with some reluotance that I write this to you, having notiood that you had already declined to publish communications written in opposition to certain performances of , our party, fearing you may think that what I ~ havo to say may be productive of dissentions. However, being a true democrat, in the proper sonso of the word, and thinking that the people's rights may bo better vindicated through the instrumentality of the Publio Press than by any other means, I respectfully beg leave to call ' attention to tho seventh section of tho Fence B Law, as quoted from the Umoa Times of tho ' 8th ult. | "Sec. 7. It shall bo the duty of each and^ . a ^ every employer in nny County or township which J 1 shall adopt the provisions of this Act, to furnish * each and every employee hired by him with ,1 pasturage for as many head of stock owned by j 1 such employee, as agreed upon ; Provided the 1 employee help to mako the pasture.!! , 1 r This Sectiou is a most brilliant^Mnbug, an 1 n insignificant farce, not worth its space in open f i, i.i ... r ,l. I p mi. 11. uvuiu uuk uhi v uvoii iiiovi ivu jin ijiv __ i publio good,#but comes to us in the form of Law, to delude the illiterate non-landholder into supporting it, as any man of common sense knows i- that the employer is not bound to furnish pastu- , s rage for an employee if he does not choose to e do so. I could mention other serious objections to the law, but cousidoring this sufficient to dissuade cvory man who is not the possessor of a r trsct of land, but fortunately the owner of a k cow, from Toting for tho law. I drop the cur- * tain. PKA-RIDGE. ... < Two colored men, Hartley Wallace and } 'I Wade Gentry, were arrested lost Weducsday for I. shooting a little colored boy, named John liawf. kins, aged 10 years. ' d Wallace took tho boy's hat off and kept it u?* til tho boy became angry and threw a rock at d him, or struck hint with a slick, when Wallaca borrowed Gcutry's pistol aud fired at the boy.? >t The ball struck liiux just bobiud the ear aud 3 lodged in the nock. Prom what wo con learn Lb o was a cowardly act. s j A CONlEDEBATKa KlNDNESB It KM EM IIE.H Kl>. 1 In oue of the hotly contested fights in Virginia,. l~ during the war, a Federal officer fell wounded t- in front of the Confederate breastworks. Whilec lying thero w-ounded and crying piteously for water, a oonfodnrato soldier (James Moore, ot r Burks County, N. C.,) declared his intention of i- supplying, him with drink. The bullets were d flying thick from both sidos, aud'Moore's friend* t- endeavored to ditsuade him from such a hazardous enterprise. Despite remonstrance and dan ger, now.evor, Moore leaped. tbo breastwork,, canteen, in band, reached his wounded enemy, y and gave him a drink. Tho Federal, under a kt sense of gratitude for the timely service, took out bis gold/ watch and offered it to his benefae0 tor, but it was refused. The officer then asked ? the name of the man who had braved sueh dani ger to succor him.. The name was given, and ,p Moore returned unhurt te his position behind the embankment. They saw nothing more of each other. Moore wae subsequently wounded and lost a-limb in one of the- engagements in , il Virginia, and returned to hi* home in Burke ;o County. A few days ago he received a communication from the Federal soldier (o whom, hq 0 had given the "oup of cold water" on th.e occa~ to sion alluded to, announoing that he had settled s on hiin tho sum of $10,000, to be paid in four (j equal annual installments of $2,500 each. int. vcBtigation has established the fact that there is 11 no mistake or deception in the matter.? Raleig\ ?g il Aewt. m The Boys All Bight. ?, The following postal card was received by us, it and as their friends no doubt wish to know where and how the boys of the Band are, ws h give the information in their own peculiar styles o Hr.NDiKsoNvii.LE, N. C., July 15, 1877. a Mb. Stokes :?We arrived here all O. K., last night. We are going to Ashevilie to-morrow. wants to know if the people are going ' to move up here, as they are piling all their land up together. Vou will hear from us at ths ' next station. MOUNTAINEEUS, d It Orsat Merit in Vsmals Diseases. State or Oeobqia, Troup Cs. e 1IIII IB (O OBTIIIJ IBM I MTB BXWD1DN IHt receipt of Dr. Jotiak Utdfitld, and, as a medical e man, pronounce it to be a oombiaalion of medio cine* of great merit in tbe treatment of all dtaeaaes of females for which he recommends it, r. WM. P. BKASLEY, M. D. # This Deoembar'21, 1868. Per sale by all druggists, and by A. IBWIN & n Co., Union. June 29 25 1m '* A band of about two hundrad robbara, known ? m the "Underwood gang," hare been spreading terror among the reeldents of Lewis and Carter counties in eastern Kentuoky for some time pest, :e foroing, by their depredations, the farmers to >. abandon their crops and take to the woods for y refuge. The florrvnor of the State has ordered lo out tvvu companies of liio militia to suppress Ike. n gang, who, to robbery, add the crimes of horse stealing and counterfeiting. r