The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, August 03, 1877, Image 2
She "Siltthlg Pinion Siines.
R. M. STOKES, Editor.
UNION, FRIDAY _AUGUST 8 1877.
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?ay~ I.ost Monday the Itrick Machine turned
out 1,100 bricks in fifty-five minutes.
We are pleased to see our friend McKisaick
once more upon his feet and walking the
streets.
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Cart. J. (?. Winsmith, a member of the
Spartanburg bar, died at his residence on Tuesday,
last, of brain fever.
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Btiy C. W. Dwight and corps will commence
the experimental survey of the Chester and Union
Narrow (lunge railroad next Monday.
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Procure a bottle of Thrash's consumptive cure
and lung restorer, and stop that dreadful cough.
Trial, r,0c ?1 ,10. Sold by all Druggists, and by
A. IRWIN & Cu., Union.
HP3&, Mr. (Irant is hauling rock for the foun
dations of McNeace and Davis' new buildings
while other contracts have been made to rebuild
upon other lots of the burnt district.
Stay On our first pngc will be found a de
scription of a trip to Tryon Mountain. It i;
worth reading.
On qui fourth page is an account oflhcStrik
era' riot in l'ittsburg.
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Bight ltcv. Bishop llowc will nmkc hi?
annual visit to this pnrish oil the 17th of this
month, lie will a?lminj>ter the solemn ordi
nance of confirmation anil conduct Divine scr
vices on the Sunday following.
Hon. fleorge Uuist, who held the offic
of Ordinary for Charleston District for twenty
two years, and was ever held in the highest es
iimot'iAn l.v alt wlm kn?w K5tw
,i . hiul ?i* . .? ilm rlpa *a? nl lit yeari
We regret to lenrn that Miss Mador
Eittlejohn, one of the most nniinble young lo
-dies of this County, daughter of the lnte Di
'J'Los. littlojohn, died very suddenly last Wed
tiesdny night, near Olatidyburg, aged about 2
years.
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Sunday last, in Columbia, the thci
momctcr went up to 00 in tho shade and 110 ii
the sun. On the same day the thermometc
stood at 02 in the shade, at this place, and w
thought that was hot enough for all culinur,
purposes.
ISffk.. Tb news from the Eastern war is vcr;
unreliable, hut there is little doubt that th
Russians are getting the best ot' the fight. Ther
is still some apprehonsien that England n?n;
fin it it necessary to take part in it. If she does
4|_ \ _r
The Strikers, in the North and North
(ast arc returning to work. In the Soulh-wes
they are still holding out, but doing no ollie
mischief. In most instances where strikes ur
kept up, it is suppesed that the rioters drive:
frens rittshurg are at the bottom of theui. Mos
of the Railroads have resumed their regula
(rains. Most of the trouble is new in Ohio.
sow belowing to Mr. John Eison, bit
tea by a nud dog on the 20th of May, was at
tacked with rabies on the 20th of July?jusl
two months?and died the following day.
A valuablo yard dog belonging to Col. I. U
McKissick of this town, was on Monday last
discovered with symptoms of rabies?foaming
at the mouth and glaring eyes?and shot.
JCtaJT- Through the kindness of our prompt
paying subsciber, Mr. II. II. llurgess, wo bave
received n sack of truly fine Flour, ground af
Mr. John McCarly's Mill?formerly known as
the Dr. Ilerndon Mill?in Newberry Count}'.?
We aro truly pleased to find that the mills of
this and the Adjoining countios are vieing with
each ether in the quality of the Flour they mike.
Rttolr i- ??? ?
.v <u?i Djuni, gcQucmeii, and you will
profit by it.
ttST It is strange how many of the County
and city papers begin now to look upon the Charleston
Ntwt and Courier as wc did over two
years ago. When we attacked that paper for
voluntarily stepping to the rescue of Cardezo,?
then charged with the same offence for which
he is now under $20,000 bond?most of the
eounty Editors defended the conrsc of that
journal, and asked?"if we can't rely upon the
News and Courier, who can wc rely upon ?"
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Change of Sohednle.
On and after next Monday the Schedule upon
tho H. U. & C. ard S. and A. Railroads will be
changed as follows :
The lip-train will arrive at Union six minutes
later, i. e., 4 , arriving at Spartanburg 6?.
Passengers will remain at Spartanburg all night
and jtart for the head of (he road, llendersonvillc
and Asheville, at 5 o'clock the next morning.
This change is made for theconvenience and
comfort of passengers, who will be able to reach
Hcndersonville and Askeville early the next
day after leaving Charleston.
We are truly pleased to state that oiu- Town
Council have "broke ground" to form a fire department
in this town. They have commenced
digging cisterns on Main Street and intend purchasing
u fire 1'ingiue. Their intention is to
build four cisterns that will hold twenty thousand
gallons of water each, and when the engine is
purchased to form an efficient Fire Company.?
It is never too late to do a good deed ; but it is
generally believed that had this work been done
when we first advised it the losses by the two
last fires would not have been the one-twentieth
part of what they were, while the lower rates
of Insuranoe upon property would, by this time,
have paid all tiio expenses now to bn incurred.
.III - - aaai-uu I w -r mmagga=a=?w
The Fenoe Lew.
>Ve here given the discussion of the Fence
Law to our correspondents this week. All ye
ask of them is, to mako their communioatioqp
ns short as possible?like that from "Farmer/^
that they keep their tempers and refrain from
personalities end abusive language.
We have no idea that tho people are prepared
to adopt the law at this time. It is a cnpnge
from what they have been nccustomed^flhl
their livos, and South Carolina Farmery orb
hard to turn from the old beaten path their dad'
dies and grand-daddies started them in. The}
must bo cducnted or forttd to it, before they wil
give it countenance. Their education luustcomi
from honest and fair discussion, and proetica
evidences of tho good which such a system lis
wrought in other sections. The force we alludi
to will be that of circumstances. Except wlier
1'iuc iiinurr is uuummni?nuu 11 is wen ?\nuni
that pine lands do not prodtfee pyie trees aOe
once cut down?rail splitters are rqry scarce air
fences cannot be built and kept up much longci
unless at a cash outlay that farmers cannc
stand. A few years more and the fencing <
Union will not bo much more than shadow
around the crops. The colored labor ef th
county is already hunting up all the casici
work, and labor is not so abundant that the fa
mers can dictate alf the teruif to it. , It
ting scarcer and more scary of hard work cvci
> year. At the same time the stock of the labor*
' is increasing in numbers so fast that in a fe
years the land owners will either have to fen
in their whole lands to secure pnsturagc for the
i own stock.
There is one other way by which the bencfi
- of the Stock law may be practically shown:Let
a number of land owners adjoining coi
t bine to fence in all their own territory, unci
4 one fence, fence up their own stock, and ma
pastures for themselves, tenants and laborci
?both the latter assisting?save the manure
the stock, and thereby show their neighbors t
advantages derived from it.
0 We believe with our correspondent, "CIc
hopper," that soiling would bo found most pri
itablc as well as most acceptable to a large n
| " i j " * ?'! ukamvu. 0
htivc had some experience with lucern, as
a soiling crop, and arc satisfied that it would e
able every farm, be it large or small, to devi
a sufficient space for every head of stock (k
[. ouyht to be kept upon it. We know that the n
g nure from one cow will keep lier in lucern.
All that is necessary is to set apart about oi
quarter of an acre, prepare it well, lay off
drills two feet apart and sow about three pir
11 of lucern seed. Gather the manure from t
r cow carefully, put it under cover, and car
e every spring scatter it between the rows ai
* plow it in deep. This will give you a sc
ing crop that will last for forty yanrn and ke
? your COW in (rood order from earlv Snrin<r mi
_ ? -r? ?
late Fall. Of course every farmer makes wint
c foo<l for his stock.
y We have heard but one nrguinont against t
! law which we think should have any force ;^a|
vtiiient, if not impossible to mako pas tun
i- Such eases, however, are rare, and can be n
t in most enscs by the system of soiling, for sui
r ly the owners of stock must live near enough
c water for their own use, and, by proper arranj
i' ment, only in dry spells would exist the nee
t sity for hawling water for stock,
r Like our correspondent "I'ca Ridge," we ha
no lack of argument for the Stock law, but ns t
subject is so fully discussed this week, by ol
era, we will give them the field.
I t&~ A correspondent from this town to t
Charleston rt mid Courier, over the signatu
f R. W. S., deals some trenchant blows to 4
Railroads in thie State, for their unjust discrii
, ination in freir?hl? iviwl * 11
...... ?v ttiv UI?1V 1IUIIID Ul III
city, for their blindness in not moving to pi
vent it. II. W. S. places the whole matter
its true and strongest position. If Chariot*
1 desires the trade of the interior towns, thwav
nues from those towns to her market must 1
1 as cheap and attractive as the avenues to oth
markets. This driving business from poin
along the lines of our railroads ?o the terraii
of those roads, merely to compete with lines
other points, it appears to us, is the most suic
dal policy that could be adopted, for all coi
cerucd. The idea of a railroad destroying a
business and prosperity along its line, and drii
ing freight to where it mint be carried at tl
very cheapest rates, looks very much like cui
ting off the nose to spite the face.
ier We would again call the attention o
tax payers to the law requiring all persons liabl
to pay a poll tax to make their returns to th
Auditor. The law is very strick in the mattei
A fine of Five dollars and costs is imposed upo
ever one failing to make such' return, and th
Auditor has positive instructions to find out an
report eiery man who attempts to evade thehu
in that respect. The tax goes to the educstioi
fund, iu which those who only pay a poll tax nr
deeply interested. Those employing laborer
should inform them of the stringency of th
law.
JtiaP" Our friend J. I'. Elkins, at Alston, hat
sent us a liberal specimen of his sweet goldei
Butter and fine Irish Potatoes, and after roost
ing ?a few of the latter and applying some oi
the butter to them, we found they both agree*!
with our digestive organs admirably. Of hit
butter he says: "If you don't think I've go)
some fine cows lo tell, just try the butter I gel
from tlieui."
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major ?. J. Pope, the Democratic eQjfc
didate for the Legislature from Newberry, sad
Messrs. Chalmers and Moffett, the Democratic
candidates for Clerk of Court and County Commissioner
of said oounty, were handsomely elected
on Friday.
basket of fine fruit graced our table
last Monday, from our friend Jss. Grant, who
we are glad to say is getting as active upon his
feet as ever. We don't know what this town
would do without Mr. Orant.
e*
For the Times.
A Good Farmer Advocates the 8took Law.
Cross Keys, July, 1877. T
Mr. Editor :?You invite discussion upon the g
Sleek law now soon to be voted on, and I nvnil '
myself of the invitation to give some of my ?
views upon this most important subject:
| We have now to decide whether wo will in- <
i close our stock or farms, whether we will fence <
our own stpek in, or any and everybody's stock '
DTouC. I favor the stock taw ft - ? ffnlu 7""IT j
. reasons : i
r 1st. Because of the great amount of labor
I saved.
I zu. uccnuse 01 iiic prcscrTBiion ui uur uc?
1 timber.
s 3d. Because every man look* after his own
a stock only.
e 4th. Because you arc not obliged to fence at
a all, ; you only have to take care of your own
r stock, any way you please,
d bth. Because you can sow wheat, or oats at
, any time or at any place, and have no fear of
it other people's stock tramping and destroying
>f the crops, and injuring the laud besides,
s 6th. Because this law would wrong nobody.
ie You have only to attend to what belongs to you
st in your own way.
i- 7th. Because of tho benefit to the renter or
12 laborer, lie has yearly to do a great deal of
y extra and useless labor in fencing, far which lie
sr gets nothing. Now, if all this useless labor was
w turned into some paying business, it would ence
able many to purchase land and homes for tliemir
selves. It would multiply small farms. We
would have better stock ; wo would cultivate
ta batter land?all the good spots wherever found.
Our land would improve, and we would have
n- more trees and vegetation, and it is well known
er that where trees and vegetation is most nbunkc
dant it rains more regularly. In the Mountnin
rd region, where there is abundant woodland, there
of is more rain, than in tracts of country all cut
he down. And would not the leaves of trees and
all vegetation absorb the floating malaria nnd
id- thereby cause the country to be more healthy?
of- 1 favor the stock law because it wrongs none
ia- and benefits the majority,?especially those who
are tenants?for the land owner is bound to fura
n>... pasturage. ,
n- Again, wo would have more time to make matte
nure and fix up conveniences about our homes.
I Vnnw rtf innn ulta Iiaua aa oIaaV n* nil i?1,a
1a- have to fence a great ileal, while under this law
if they owned no slock, they would not have to
,e- build fences nt nil.
in If wo had no pasturage at nil, oncacre in Mil,ts
let or Lucerne would feed two cows, and even
h0 that would be better thon working every winter
lv in making fenoes that would prove insecure nt
n(| lost. A. FARMER.
pji'" From the most reliable sources the list
CP of casualties during the riot of the strikers in
1,1 Pittsburg and Bnllimorc, on Saturday and SunCr
day, the 21st and 22d of Inst month, is summed
up as follow :
* Estimated dead 34
P Estimated wounded 100
J." m -rm? tor *?
If,.oif in Baltimore 8
*' Killed in Pittsburg, Saturday J9
Killed in Pittsburg, Sunday 84
re
l0 Total 61
Wounded in Baltimore 40
5e" Wounded in Pittsburg, Suturdny 9
e>- Wounded in Pittsburg, Sunday 100
Te Total 149
?'e Total killed and wounded 210
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The striking mania is getting round this
he way. On Monday last the colored employees of
fe tho Chester and Chcraw Railroad struck for
he higher wages. Thcv have linmwl nnii.i..? i??
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n- their own lingers, as yet, and will go to work ns
at soon as hunger pinches.
?. The hands cinployod at the brickyard at thia
in jdace struck for higher wogca last Tuesday.?
an 'l%sy had contracted to work for the month at a
e^" certain price, and after discovering they could j
bo not collect for the work already done unless they '
er filled the contract thoy wisely concluded to grin
ts and bear it a little while longer.
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Judge Kershaw has apponted Col. J. A.
_ Hoyt, Editor Columbia Register, Receiver of Hardy
Solomon's Rank. Very good, and wo hope
jj the Col. will tell us something about the school
money of this county deposited in that concern
by 11. H. D. Byron, late County Treasurer.
Gen. D. H. Hill has sold the Southern
Ilome, published at Charlotte, to F. M. McDowell,
if Esq. The General has made the Home one of
e the best and most influential papers at the South,
e and our best wishes attend him wherever he
r. may go.
n For the Times,
e Distriot Conference,
d Tho Spartanburg District Conference for 1877
* was held at Mesopotamia, July 25-29. Large
Q Congregations were nreseat from <u? '' ?
? and the good order observed and the close at*
tention given to the proceedings were in the
e highest degree creditable, for the weather was
intensely hot and the exercises occupied aboi t
, six hours daily. A fair proportion of delegates
j attended, notwithstanding the distance of the
Church from many points of the District, and
f from railroads.
I There is reason to belicvo that the proceedings
, of the Conference and the religious services, not
t only gave pleasure but much profit also to many
who were present.
The following resolution, adopted uuanimously
and by a rising vote, was ordered to bo publishu**
;
| Unolvtd, That the thaulcs of the Conference
i are gratefully tendered to the citisens of Meso- 1
potamia for the generous and oordial kospitnli- *
ty extended to us, and also for fiee trans porta- 1
tion to many of us. * ,
Arrest
of More or thk Lkdford Murder- 1
em. ?Frank Moss and William Beach, two more >
parties charged with being implicated in the
murder of James Ledford, have been arrested ,
within the last week. 1
For tlie Tlinca. M
Something Aboat The Ftttoe Law. 1(
Mb. Editor :?Tho writer Iim been fully con- ?j
inced for eeTernl years that ? law, requiring <|
took of all kinds to be kept up, so as to pre- tl
ent them from invading the nreniiees of any, y
avc their owners wm s licaitleratum earnestly to J
>e desired, for the following reasons; J
First. Such a law will do awsy with the pros- $
:nt cun.bersoiuo, unsightly, inconvenient, and d
jxccedingly costly system of fencing out stock, G
n order to raise -crops. Tho present system of
plantation fencing ifc a relic of barbarism, a le- ^
pronch to civilisation, and one of the grcalcv j
ind most unnecessary taxes upon tho country. t
How many persons have taken the time or the (
pains to estimate the cost of a panel of fence? (
Something like the following will bo nn npprox- ,
iination to the cost : ,
Cost of timbci per hundred rails $ 1 00 ,
Cutting and splitting per hundred 76 (
Hauling out, " about 26 ,
Putting up, " " 10 ,
Total $ 2 10 |
Making 21 cts. the cost of an oidinury panel
of plantation fence, to begin with, llut this is
not all. Every panel will render valueless 120
square feet of land, orau acre to every 807 panels.
This, at ten dollars per acre, will be about
2} els. per panel, which, added to the foregoing,
gives 28} cts. per panel. But this gives little
more than half the cost of a panel of fence for,
say fifteen years. The repairing and cleaning
out fence corners will average not less than a cent
per panel per year, making 80} cts. per pincl.
It will be nothing to tho point to say that the
fence need not be repaired and cleaned out every
year. The damage to the crops from the weeds,
briars nnd hushes in tho fence corners, if neglected,
together with the depredations of brcachy
stock, will amount to that much, or more.?
llcnec, a tax of about 2} cents per panel per
year is nbout the cost of the ordinary plantation
fence. And the cost of fencing loan individual
or to a community will be the same were thcro
hut one cow in each community running at large.
It is stated that one shabby scrub cow was for a
time the only animal running at largo in a certain
community in York County, yet the keeping
up of over a hundred dollars worth of fencing
was necessary to protect the crops of the
community against that cow. I he freed man who
owned her acknowledged that he hnd lost fifteen
days, in all, hunting Tor her, for which ho could
have gotten fifteen dollars at work; while tho
cow never would have brought more than ten
dollars. Here was a shabby cow made to costa
community considerably over a hundred dollars,
when with a small patch of luccrn she might
have been kept fat in a stable or email lot nil
91111J III V ft
But put the matter upon a purly moral basis;
what right has A to allow his stock, many or
few. to run upon the landB of B. to the detriment
of the latter? Or, under what moral obligation
is It to incur any expense to fortify
himself againstthe incursions of A'sstoek ? None
whatever, in either ease. Hence, tho present
system of keeping stock involves a stupendous
moral wrong.
But the objection to the new stock law comes
up as follows: "What nre tenants who own
stock going to do ?" "What are small farmers
going to do, who have no lands to spare^Mwrast
urn go ?
At first sight, to those who have never devoted
any thought to the subject, these seem to be formidable,
insurmountable objections; But we
think it can easily be shown that they amount
to nothing:
As to the stock owned by tenants. It is well
know, that this stock is, upon tho whole, quite a
small affair, both as to quantity and quality.?
Now let any person put the comparatively few
?jja
that slock on tlinntlmi- ......... ...
???.. vApvusu umiijr i nil CM
t ) e amount of the value of all suck stock?then ask
yourself, is it right, is it politic, to burden the
country with such n heavy tax, merely to keep
in existnnce rui insignificant amount and quality
of stock, which, nt best, does even its owners
hut comparatively little good ? Is it not time to
take into consideration the necessity of remodelling
a tenant system so expensive to the country
in general ? The snmo principle is applicable to
the small farmers who have not land for pasturage.
The question is, has a tenant, or anybody
else, tlic moral right to own stock, or any other
commodity, which he is not able take care of
himself? Or hns a tenant, or any one else, the
moral right to own stock or other commodity, if
the owning of such stock or commodity involve
other< in inconvenience or expense without re
munerntion? Moral science would inevitably
return tlie negative to eacli of these questions.
The present system is therefore unquestionably
a violation of moral law, and it would be better
for the country if all pcisons not able to keep
stock were prohibited from owning it. than that
the country should be hurdencd with the presscnt
cumbersome, expensive, annoying system of
plantation fencing ; for no moral law can be violated
with impunity, either by individuals or
communities of individuals.
But do not understand me as suggesting, as
the remedy for the evils of the present system,
the abolition of the ownership of stock to any
extent whatever. The remedy suggested is the
i inauguration of a new state of things, which
I can much more easily be done than to continue
the present system, a state of things which would
do away with tho evils and expenses of the
present, and enable both landlord and tenant to
own inoro and better stock. The remedy is not
the keepiug up of stock and pasturing them.?
Few persons hive lands adapted to pasture, and
fewer still could spare such lands for pasturage,
even where such lands are found. Tho remedy,
is in toiling of stock. This is far from being a
Utopian scheme, the merits of which have yet
to he ascertained. We write from actual, personal
observation, to any nothing of information
concerning the practice as derived from other
source*, it consists in keeping up stock in a
small enclosure convenient to water, and in feeding
them upon green food raised for tho purpose.
This may consist of Rye, green Corn,
Barley, Clover, Millet, or Luccrn ; but at the
head of the list stands Luccrn. To show what
can be done with Lucern nlone, we refer to an experiment
made by by Ur. Glenn, near Alston in
Fairfield county, lie hns been successfully sowing
various grasses, with clover and lucern during
the last two or three years, and he has become
enthusiastic on the subject. He has in i
his garden a patch of lucern, one-sixth of an i
acre, planted year before last. He eut it seve- i
ral times lest year, but it is still better thib year.
He commenced to c it it early this Spring, an- I
has been feeding three horses and a hog regu- I
larly, and we believe a mule or two, giving to the I
four first named animals little of any other feed, I
and they keep fat?the two horses working all I
the the time. Stock of all kinds are very fond 1
of it and thrive on it almost exclusively. Now, <
if one-sixth of an acre will keep four animate, i
as in this case, it is easy to see whgt one acre of i
such lucern would do. 1
And whether the recent fence law be adopted
h\ thit n*A??U a- ??A * *
wr u<nf me ntmou herein luggti- I
ted for raising and keeping stoek should be l
sdopted. It is the method chiefly pursued at <
the North, as w? ore informed, where they 1
raise more and better stook, more milk, butter
*nd chccse by far, than we <)o> The late Win. i
Walker, of 8partanburg, author of several mus- 1
ic books, told the writer that while staying in
Philadelphia, since the war, superintending the I
publication of one of his books, he spent an c
evening with Mr. T. K. Collins, author of the c
Timbrel ot Zion," who at uiilking time invited t
I ti Walker to see his cow. He found in a neat J
ittwith stable attached, quite a fine cow. A |
fighter of Mr. Collins* seating herself besido S
it cow, took from the htttef-quito a quantity of I
je finest richest milk. Mr. C. informed Mr. |
'. that this one cow was all that any ordinary
iied family would need ; "that ho did not think j
f keeping but one milk cow at a time, 'lhls
ow was kept up in that lot and st&tflo, soiled
uring the summer upon green food, aud grodmed
very morning like a horse.
Since we commenced this article we have been
gf^l^^qUi^jgliUlKUittmiirant from the
Iforth, at Gtmncy City, I liinKo^l^he
nraclice of letting cattleTtln at large, Ije- ;
:auso of the waste it involves. He contends J
hat a cow kept up will yield, a ton per year oi
t fertiliser, equal, if not superior, to a ton of
>rdinary commercial fertilizers, which is cvi.lently
true. Hut instead of this our farmers let
lliclr stock run at large, fence them out of the
crops, getting by no means an over supply of
milk, butter and beef, and buy commercial ter4
lilizers at ruinous prices, whilo, by keeping
and soiling llio stock, each cow would supply a
ton of excellont fertilizer, with milk and butter
besides. Hence, if we reduce the Question t6
one of fertilizing alone, we find flint stock kept
up and soiled, will more than pity expenses ift
fertilizers alone, to say nothing of the increased
yiold and quality of milk mid butter.
As to tenants' stock, landholders can well afford
to arrange for the keeping and soiling alt I
tiie stock owned by tenants, llarringthe saving
of the cost of plantation fencing, it will be decidedly
to the ndvantnge of landholders to do
this, for the reasons just indicated. Self iatcr-^^
est nlouo would prompt this, independent of^^k 1
The whole matter may be thus summed up :
To keep stock and soil them will result in the
following advantages :
First. The heavy tax of fencing out stock will
be abolished .*
Second. Tho loss of stock from straying and
theft will cease almost ontircly.
Third. The damage to arabb Innds, resulting
from stock running thereon, will be prevented.^^
Fourth. The losses resulting from bad fcnce^^^
and the consequent depredations of breach^^^
stock, will bo prevented.
Fifth. The foolish quarrels and lawsuits
growing out of the depredations of stock will
bo prevented.
Sixth. More and better stook can be raised
and kept, by keeping up and soiling, thnn by allowing
stock to~ run at large, or evon upon the
fields of their owners.
Seventh. Cattle kept up and soiled will pay
or more than pay, the expense thereof in manuro'tfltfhe.
.
Eighth. Hundreds of aor?.s of valuable
hedgerow land around old fields could be utilized,
which otherwise will remain valueless.
Ninth. The time and labor necessary to keep
up the present oumbcrsome and expensive sys
tern 01 plantation fencing, could be directed Into
some profitable channel.
This article is already too long, but the importance
of the subject to the country in general
is our only excuse.
In conclusion, wc would say to that class of
tenants who may have taken up the notion that
the new stock law is an infringement of their
rights, to disabuse their ininds of all such
groundless notions. IiOok att icsubjectas itrcally
is ; consider the advantages that roust ncruo
to every class of the people if the stook are kept t
up and soiled (not pastured) and fences dispensed
with. And thoso who are favorable to
the adoption of the fence law should loso no
opportunity to explain the nature and advantn
ges of the proposed system. Call meetings,
have speeches, and by every proper means endeavor
to create a wholesome public opinion on
the siUtiQC1 The. .tlroo lias arrived when a
changeTsnmpernllve. The dTO Jfftludiccs and?
suicidal practices, which have already well nigh
ruined the country, by destroying the forests,
skinning the soil, leaving the greater portion of
the surface hnrrcn or washed into gullies, inust
I bo abandoned and superceded by an intelligent
| system of management, adapted to the present
I state of things, or the country will yet be ruined
I beyond redemption, despite the ousting of the
carpetbaggers and the inauguration of the
Hampton regime. The physical and political salvation
of the couutry depends upon the intelligent
uud well directed iudustrv of the people.
CLODHOPPER.
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For the TtineaArgument
for the Fenoe Law.
linowa's Stork, July 20th 1877.
Mr Editor :?For some time I have been oonr- *
templnting tin nrtioLs fior the-Tim as. upon the
r.v|.vg<u vuiiuge mi our icnce system, and as wo- *
are h&viug a fine rain, and in just the right timer
I am at leisure and will make the effort- Alii
radical changes meet with more or IcMtABposbtion,
and to overcome this, which is considerable'
in portions of the County, 1 give you my views,,
which 1 think arc sound, bnsed as they are upon:
simple oud even-handed justice to all. It is*
hardly worth while to go into a statistical-analysis
of the cost ef fencing our crops ; it is eupugh
to say that it takes 700 panels of fencing to eaolu
lineal mile, the first cost of which will be, inround
numbers, $106. Upon this it is easy to.
see that to enclose one section it will cost $420.
Now find the square miles in the County, and
double for cross fences, and see if half a million
dollars will cover the coat of fences ip Union,
County alone. The fencing of our crops,,as every
one knows who has it to do, costs in ffvs years
the value of the land ; to prove which I bring,
forth the fact that, to have cleared, fenoed and.
a cabin and out-buildings erected upon twenty-,
five acres of land, (the land owner furnishing thj^
timber,) a tenant will demand the whole of the
first three crops?by far the most valuable the
land will over produce,?uumanured?nnd worth
the price of the land. The garden, out-houscs
and dwelling, and much of the fencing will need
repairing the f< urth year, when you roceive it,
and from thence forward the expense increases
yearly, \\hen wo take into consideration the
increasing demand for timber, caused by our
increasing miles of rail way, the demand for
building purposes, carriages, wagons, agricultural
implements and mechanics' totals, it is well
to eoasider and sec if we are not a set of Vandals,
Goths and Huns, in rsspect of timber waste, especially
as wo waste it without one single sound,
practical reason for it; and the generations (
ing on will say, if we continue ibis system, thi^^B
their forefathers were simply a set of consummate
asses?and they will say justly.
mi
4iion, inrowiug n?!(ia the unjust and uncalled
For losses entailed upon railroad companies, in
the wrecking of engines and cars by cattle upon
their property?and strange to say, the cost of i
the cattle, too?we hare, in the trespass of pattie
on the right of way upon our ik>ads one of
the greatest and most frequent causes of the loss
>f human life known to civilisation, rendering
mi Irnml Ir?u.l '! ? J -
.. ? . V- ?iint o IIIIIIV unugcruus, lll(|
retarding schedule time to tho annoyance and
Ions of timo?which Is money.?to the public.
By allowing cattle to ruu at Wgewt least ona->
:ent h of the crops are destroyed yearly, causing
he killing or one-tenth of the stoek annually,
md one-tenth more to be spent in lajv suits,?
rhen feuds spring up among neighbors which
ire handed dowu front father to son, in many
nstonces causing bloodshed and even the anni- j
hilation of whole families by violence.
Starving cattle break Into fields of oorn, colon
or wheat; they are abused or killed ; the
iwncr says d?n you, build up your fences, the^fe
titer replies build yours, ami there's the rub,
or there is not to-day fire consecutive rods of