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VOL. IX.?New Series. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, NOVE\ijiER 2.3, 18^7. .*. NUMBER. 46. : - ? u j?L-ixi -- - - n l . j ,i __ . ul- . , . |- t i . _ . Nl I ' Foster & Wilkins AUK Now opening their Fall Stock of goods, which ia complete in nil departments, viz*. Ladies Dress Goods. Shawls, Clonks, Fancy Goods. ? Jloscry and Gloves Goods for Men's Wear. Jeans, Cnssimercs, Tweeds, &c. Boots and Shoes. in Every .Vnriety, nnd ?f such qunlity as we ...... cauQuacanice to give sntiafaqtion for Men, WoREADY MADE CLOTHING. The largest and most complete stock that we have ever brought to this market. HATS AND CAPS OF ALL STYLES. HARDWARE, WOODWARE. ROPE, FARMING IMPLEMENTS &o. We feel confident that we can please all parties in waut of goods, both iu quality and prices. We keep Good GOOIlS and aro willing to'sell them, for Cash, as low as they can be bought in any of the surrouuding markets, Oct 5 39 tf N 0 TI CE| NOT ICE!! * MTv TASOIt BTOKC,, ^' ?AM now fully prepared with a full and well selected Stock of PALL AND WINTER GOODS, i ?TO BE? SOLD FOR CASH, ! ?AT? BOTTOM FIGURES. My eld customers and as many new ones as will lavor mo with their patronage, will find my prices as low as goods can bo bought for forty miles around. Some who have spent tims_an<llal>oi to go to Spartanburg to buy their supplies, after care- 1 fully examiniqjr my goods and prices, acknowledge thcy^$Q\ild see no dill'erencc. S* I AM DETERMINED j 'NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD, * ' BY ANY ONE. i Those indebted to mo must make imm?y^^Bf payment. I will give them more for tlusr^^^Hj ton than they can get for it in Union, burg, Chester Charleston, in HI MONEY, As every sensible persons knows, wheels of business turning. EXAMINE MY STOCK and you will be satisfied that 1 can and will do what I say. TV. A. NIOOHIKEAI), Mt. Tabor. Oct ?f> 42 4t JT. E. Adger Ac Co., CHARLESTON, S. O. JORUEllS OF FOREIGN AWDOMESTIC iiarjjwJTRE. 'CUTLERY, GUNS, and SADDLERY. , BAB IRON AND PLOW STEEL. CUCUMBER PUMPS. I I lIHIt iMi'N SCALES. Agents For South Carolina For I lie Celebrated FARMERS' FRIEND PLOW, ONE, TWO AND THREE HOUSES, AT REDUCED PRICES. LIBERAL TERMS TO THE TRADE. LA11GE ASSORTMENTS OF A{;i'ienlturnl ImplemontH. AORICUTURAL STEELS, A SPECIALTY. Bull Tongues, Turn Shovels, Seootcrs, Sweeps, Heel Bolts, ?fcc, STATE A(iKNTS, TREDEtiAlt HORSE AND MULE SHOES. Orders receive prompt and Careful Attention. J. E. ADGER & Co., Charleston, So, Ca. Aug 31, 1877 34 3m R. F . R A WLS & C 0. Drugs and Medicines. A FULL supply at 11. F. KAWLS & CO S. No 1, East Union. July 20 28 tf Patent Medicines. BRADFIELD'S Female Regulator, Simmons' Hepatic Compound, Sftiwipnrilln ami Yellow ' Dock, at II. F UA1V1.S tr i o'si No. 1, Fust Union. July '20 18 tf Pure Medicinal Wines. VNI) Liquors, for snlent B. F. BAWLS Si CO S. No. I, Lost Union. July 20 28 tf French Candies. A FRESH supply of Fnncv Untulies, nt & J\_ ' B. F. BAWLS A CO S. No. 1, F.nst Union X|np 20 28 If ' Sheriff's Sale. The State of South Carolina, V( COUNTY OF UXIOX. ai In the Court of Common Pleas, j Richard C. Thomson, as Administrator of u Wm. P. Thomson, ngninst John P. Thomas, as Administrator of L. It. Jeter, deceased, Jos. T. Jeter, John C. P. Jeter, K. G. II. Jeter, Harriet " C. Jeter, Mary L. C. Jeter, Nancy S. Jeter, Ed- !I1 ward W. Jeter, Robert G. A. Jeter, Wm. O. Jc- b ter, Edward C. Jeter, and Traverse B. Jeter. |? PURSUANT to an order to me directed from a| the Hon. T. J. Mackey, Judge presiding at J|; the Court of Common Pleas for October Term of The Court, 1877, for Unioif County,*Sodth Caror P lina, I will sell before Union Court House door, on the first Monday in December newt, within p the legal hours of Sheriff's Sales, the tract fif'ji land, containing about five hundred and forty c. acres, conveyed by L. 11. Jeter, deceased, to HarricfC. Jeter.situate in the Countv of Union and bounded on tho South by J.T. Jeter's land, !l" on the Kast by J. T. Jeter's and Meador's laud, si and the North by James Thomas' land, and on <*t the West by L. 11. Jeter's and J. T. Jeter's land, j*c on the following terms ; Onj-third cash, the balance on a credit of one 01 and two years, with interest from the day of sale; purchaser to give Bond and a Mortgage of the ui premises, to secure the balance of the purchase b< money. rj It is further ordered, that the Derd of Conveyance, made by L. B. Jeter, deceased, to Har- P! riet C. Jeter, described in the complaint, con- sc veying th^ land above mentioned to said liar- F riet. C. Jetar, be and the same is hereby declared til te be void tad of no effoct, and said deed is hereby t)imtcd to be delivered up to the Clerk . of .this Court to be Cancelled. fflWfhsr UttWT^d that I sell all that tract w of land known as the tract, on the ct first Monday in December next, Containing about cr acres, being a part of the lands conveyed by said L. B. Jeter, to Mary L. C. Jeter as de- ' scribed in the Complaint ; to be sold by the u< ShcrilF of Union County at the time and upon P< the terms hereinbefore mentioned in the Sale dt above mentioned. tu g-j The State of South Carolina, ro COUNTY OF START ANJiURO, ta Tii 4-lin 1 ^ xu kuv4 uuulv ui x luuaif. jj( Martha Sumner. Francis C. Linder, Cornelia Liudcr, Wm. II. Lancaster, John A. Lancaster, or Gordon Lancaster and WoHbrd, against Samuel ea Lancaster and Jena Lancaster. l)UIiSUANT to an order from the lion. tj, L George W. Nichols. Judge of Probate CJ of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, I will sell before Union Court w| the first Monday in December next, within the legal hours of Sheriff's sales, all that tract of on land lying in Uniou County, belonging to the Es- j i Ie of Sumner Sumner, decensod, containing j,, |:ty-two acres, more or less, lying on llayncs- ' h branch, waters of Sugar Creek, bounded o x.inds of B. A. Gregory, Jasper Gibbs and [ers ; sold for partition among the heirs at pc ?v of Sumner Sumner, deceased. ca 1'EHMS, CASII. Purchaser to pay for titles. , . R. MACBETH, S. U. C. , November 8 1877 45 3t J * Sheriff's Sale. cr to The State of South Carolina, ta COUNTY OF UNION, ^ In the Court of Common Pleas. II. L. Goss W T. Thomson I d f bj and Win Munro, Foreclosure ?-Kiliiam M. Stewart-. T)UK8UANT to an order from the Hon. 1 L. C. Northrop, Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of the State of South Carolina, . I will sell before Union Court House door, on the first Monday in December next, within the lc- cr gal hours of Sheriff's sales, all tliattractof land re located in Union County in Cross Keys Town- w< ship included in Judgment for foreclosure of the ja Mortgage in the above stated case, containing two hundred and thirty-two acres, more or less, bounded by lands of Jthn Ray, James M.John- ls son, B. T. Bishop, Boss Alexander, and J. F Frank Smith, being the place whereon William M. Stewart, the defendnut, now resides, and sold as the property of William M. Stewart, to fyreclose a Moitgage in the above stated. * #. TERM OF SALE. One-third of the purchase money to be paid in Cash, the balance on a credit of one and two years, with intorest from j c' day of sale, the purchaser to give bond and a 1 i' Mortgage of the Premises, to securo the purchase j,, money, and pay for titles. .. R. MACBETH, S. U. C. ,, November 10 1877 45 !U JJ' Sheriff's Sale. P1 The State of South Carolina, ,l ot COUNTY OF UNION, - of In the Court of Common Pleas.' Benjamin II. Rico, ft al, against Daniel Griffin, , et al. I PURSUANT to an order from the lion. T. J. ' Mackoy, Presiding Judge, at Union Court m Mouse, for Union County, al the Court of Common Pleas, at October Term, 1877, I will sell of before Union Court House door, on (lie first .,] Monday in December next, within the 'egal hours of Sheriff's sales, all the land heretofore P] set apart to Mrs. Mary Griffin, widow of Anthony lianey, deceased, as her dower, under Ul order of this Court filed day of , on oi iiic loiiuiving terms, 10 wit : (J. One-half Cash. the balance on a credit of one year, with interest from the day of sale; the purchaser to giro bond and mortgage of the Premises to secure the balance of the purchase h: money, and pay for titles. di It. MACBETH, B. IT. C. w November 8, 1877 45 3t ^ \VIT MITNT COLLECT. '? OlJIl Notes and Accounts are in the hands of ' Messrs Shnnd & Munro for Collection.? 1' He had the misfortune to lose heavily by the ttl fire of June 3d. and must have money to coin- t! nience business again. Oil* FRIKXnS will come up prompt I v and give us a shove up the hill. (II It It KS k Co, ' Nov 2 43 2m h PLOUGHING CROPS UNDEB. L To what extent have the evidenofs faorcd the plowing under of green -crops, tid how do the advantages of manuring in lis way, couipar s with barn yard manure ? would Ijko to hear from the Farnt Jourul on this point. J. T. S. It is easy to answr that the growing of rcen crops?clover more generally than ay other?has saved many a farm, not leased with extra strong soil, froin hopeissly ruuuing down, ensuring good crons t, the same tiuic. Some otherwise sensible ten, go so fur as to say that a green crop lywedjmidcr renders a soil too acidJvw|iijio cannot be said* to add ufhteri?Tlj*lo reductive capacity. These conclusions are imped at, and should not have weighty beinse the experience of years, not bringing at mere opinions arrived at by guessing, i uicu arc to apt to do, lias shown coocluvely that the plowing under of green ops is one of the means at our command >r ameliorating a soil which needs artifial aid. The claim that these green crops> turned uder, afford only a little woody fibre at ist, and that the gain made must nccessaly be very small, is not sustained by ist experience, uor docs it agree with cus which may be declared to be analogous, or instance, most men are familiar with ic wonderful effect which the burying of icayed woody fibre has upon the growth vegetation occupyyiug a site over or near here such deposit has been made.* Wo edit the results secured by planting auy op ou the sito of decayed, stumps. A >ition of this advantage?and, by the way, ) iuconsidcrable portion?comes of the irous condition secured to the soil, by the seay of roots beneath the surface. The irning under of green crops secures this me porosity, and there is scarcely any oui to doubt that the advantages to vegetiou from turning crops under, couks rgely from the friable and mellow condi3ii in which the soil is placed by this ;onoy. It is with a plant as with a horse au ox, tho food should bo placed within sy reach. Wo aiui to do this with the ttor, as by this mode we expect to socurc e greatest gain to tho beast, with the least ;peusc of feed. To place obstacles in tho IV.. as are calculated^ to annoy tho iTstauu "TSntter "htti ife.-il ioSs, in ~praceoi uug iu? rations in tne utmost quiet, or acing the plant in hard impacted soil, will terfcro with the object, no matter how >od the feed or how rich the soil. So in the case ol' the plant, as much deiuds upon the case with which the roots u permeate the soil in search of nutrient, as upon the mere richness, chemicalconsidered, of the soil itself. As to the comparative merits of green ops and barnyard manure, it is uot easy state, because of the many things to be ken into account. These do not couic up, >r are they suggested by your enquiry.? his it is safe to say, that it is better to ake your own manure in your barnyard, j keeping all the stock you can consistentcarry, thau to depend upon growing cloibly, you can count your manure an clear ! tin, whereas, you hardly need to be rcinin:d that in growing the clover to turn un;r, you not only appropriate the growing . op, hut the use of the land for the cur hi. year ai.so. lour manure counts as iste, and you make it available without doying any crop, and further than this, you lect your own time, when no other work in the way, for hauling it out.? II astern 'arm Journal.' Fairs The Farmers' Schools.?ITuu eds of letters come to us yearly, askirg ?out, matters and things which afro very illy exhibited at the Agricultural Fairs rery fall. A far ncr who observes the re stock, implements, machines, and other tcresting objects at these exhibitions, and akes a study of them, will gain much valiblo information. Thoso who attend the irs. with tlieir goods and live-stock, arc cased to have them seen and' examined, is their business to show what they have i exhibition, and we. never yet knew one them to give an impatient or churlish :ply to any civil inquiry made of thcui ; at on the contrary, have rilways found icm eager to impart Hi formation. Now lis information is precisely what every farcr wants, lie needs to be instructed lout the differences in character and value live stock, the uses and workinrr of im. lemcnts and machinery, the value of imrnved gr...ns and other products, the kinds * artificial fertilizers offered by tlrr. inanlacturers, and scores of other matters, not ily of great interest, but of value in his lily business. Then, farmers need to meet igether and talk with one another about icse things, and compare views. It is ' irdly possible for any two "farmers so to iscuss matters relating to-their busyness ithout mutual benefit. The County or tatc Fair, is the placo of nil* others fov , irmors to meet with one another, and also > meet those who provide them with iinIcmcnts and -various other supplies. 1?y II means let every farmer not only attend ic fairs, hut use all his faculties when lore, in the effort to learn everything that i possible. A fair is a great school for the inner and His family.?American At/n'culiri*t. WINTER PA8TUBES. It ia desirable to avoid aa far as possible, an annual expenditure for labor io the manage- 1 incuts of our lands. We require a certain * amount of forage for winter. Pulling fod- c dor is ot?e of the operations of the firm.? a Well cured fodder is the most palatable ? forage which can be given to horses So is J champagne the most agreeable of fluids to e uian. Hut the fodder is too expensive for c the farmer's horsj, and the champagne too I expeusivo for the farmer man. Just thiuk o of a farmer going into a hundred acre corn- < field, with a gaug of hands, and handling I eighfr-acres of grass a day, say sixteen tons, a raked up by a horso lake, teddercd by horse ' power, loaded into th?- jt;igpn and .thcueo 1 itito the barn by .1 hay lifter untouched by t huolnn hands in the whole process. 1 Hut there is a cheaper process than this. 1 It is one that cannot be adopted at the 11 North because the climate will not allow of 1 it. This cheaper plan is to provide win'.cr ' pastures for mules, horses, colts and cattle, ' thereby enabling them to mow and save 0 their own hay without cost to us, either in ' the way of negroes, tnowcr, hay stacks or 1 barns. I The way to obtain a good winter pasture ' is simple and not expeusive. Take a piece c of wood land, thin out the worthless timber, 1 leaving rail trees and most beariug trees.? The exact distance cannot be given, because ^ trees differ very much in thcanioutof shade 1 which they produce. The Kentucky rule ? is to thin timber, so that the ground shall v get sunlight, at least a portion of the day, c otherwise the gra?s will be sour, and rcjec- 0 ted by live stock.' The ground should be I1 well sprouted; grubbing is not necessary, ' though it is best. The tree tops and brush 1 should he piled and burned, and the ashes ^ scattered. Except for appearance, the logs Y need not to be piled and burned. The ground should not be plowed ; grass seed should be sown. The available live stock c of tho farmer should be turned upon it to trample in the seeds. Hogs arc excellent 0 for this purpose, feeding them shelled corn, v scattered as widely as possible, and feeding x in a different place every day. The seed sown, should consist of orchard, 1 blue, herd and meadow oat grass, if the f; winei L..U Ui, trtrtWtTtcWr Otto tmstrel of this -J mixture to be sowed to the acre?ono-half 1 orchard grass, and the other seeds in equal v proportions. Persons wishing an immediate use of I this pasture, may plow or harrow the sur- ? face, and sow rye with grass seeds. In such a ease the logs must be burned. The rye will not make good grain, but will give v excellent winter and spring feed. This j. operation must be performed in August or September. Hut most persons will prefer the cheaper plan, and sow in February grass seed alone. As soon as the native grasses and weeds will appear, live stock should be turned in to eat thcin down. They will not hurt the young grass, but benefit it by consolidating the soil. So long as these weeds and native grasses springs up they must be fed down. Ip the/all they cease tq_grqw, ami sown grasses should DC left "ingrazed until New Year, when they should again be put upon theui. Jn a year or two the native grasses and weeds will disappear by close grazing and tramping and a good sward of artificial grasses will be formed.? Grange. Grass, Clovkr, Turf.?The Great and Good once told the young man, feed uiy sheep, and repeated it the third time. The English statesman, the third time, said to the young student, who wished to aIA/1. *' 1 ' " " biuijiK.-utt;, UUIIUII, aciinn, an 1011 Three times, Dauiel Webster said, "read I the Dictionary," to the young aspirant for 1 legal fame. I So, the Maryland Farmer urges, and has n urged, that the farmer who would make his r: land fertile, and keep it so, that he should t make turf, grow clover aud grass; and \ when he has got a turf he can make grain, s or any other crop ; a good sod of clover or 1 grass, or both, plowed under, makes a soil i that will grow all others. . 1 Undoubtedly, it is bWtcr to sew timothy a or other grasses with line, narrow leaves, in I the fall?September or October?as they c need time to got sufficient growth to stand a the winter and hot sun; and an application v of five to eight bushels of planter to the a acre, and 100 to IJOO pounds of bone to the a ncfe, to be harrowed in'lnt tho-timc St SScd- i inc. will cive hnnnfifu much mnrn'tti'in # V,.. - o> - ' o ; I cost: anil later in tho fall five to ten bush- s els of common salt will also pay. s Hut wu, believe that it is better to sow 1 clover Oarfy in the spring, followed up with plaster anil bone, or other phosphatic fertilisers. c / Anil in both eases, fall or spring sowing, t 'there is great benefit in sowing plaster ini- t mediately after the grain is harvested, and t after the first mowing.?Maryland Farmer, r , Financially ( the farmer is the safest man in the country. *()f eleven hundred, and r twelve bankrupts in Massachusetts, only t fourteen were farmers, and yet the fanning i community numbers full half the popula- t lion. The people must live, and while the u use of luxuries may be diminished by hard t times, there always will be a call fur the pro $ ilucc of the farm. Farming has, of course, t felt tho general depression in business. f REMEDY FOR CEREAL DISEASES With respect to smut, the prevention of hat disease by pickling the seed seemed so roll recognised by all that very little ovF lence was taken as to its nature and cause, II the evidence being directed to the best gents to be used lor pickling. l)r. deuckc, who has had considerable experimee of the disease in agricultural districts, tonsidcred that instead of the usual pickle of iluestone, sulphate of irou should bo used, it a strength of four ounces to the bushel lissolvcd in hot water, the water to flow lalf n foot over the wheat. Mr. Ky, anaytical chpmist, recommended the 3ecd to _ _ . iv steeped 1n sulpfii7rtc uCW, ttien flrtctt in m i .<ieve and dusted over with fresh or quickimc. A coating of sulphate of liuie is lnts funned over the seed, which will proect it in the soil. From the evidence of he practical witnesses, blucstono a'ppoared o bo most generally in use as a pickle; but til appeared to be of opinion that it had a endeuey to weukeg the plant unless the soution was supplied very weak. Several tad tried sulphur and quicklime, with more tr less success; but, on the other hand, all he scientific witnesses were of the opiuion hat unless dissolved, as in the form of sul.1 > 1 1 >ii vii iv; iiuiu, suijinur wouiu do a i most valueless as n picklo. All the practical men conurrcd ill the opinion that the addition of [uicklimc to the seed after the application d the pickle was of very great advantage. Ju the question as to the length of timo he seed should remain in the pickle, it was jiven in evidence that it was the practico nth many farmers to let it remain in soak ally a few minutes, in most instances never xeceding two hours. The chemical witi esses, on .the con tray, considered that 110thng less than eight or ten hours, according o the state of the weather, would he suficicnt. Dr. Mcuckc said eigh', if the feather ho wet, and twelve if dry. The various pickles recommended are : 1. Hluestonc, 4 ozs. to the bushel, soaked ight hours, then dried with quicklime. 2. Sulphuric acid, 4 ozs. by weight to ach bushel of seed, diluted with as much rater as the seed will take up, then dried vith slacked lime. 3. Flower of sulphur mixed with twice ts weight of fresh slacked hot lime, ten callous of water to each pound of sulphur. L'lu0-ft.ruin it sulphurot of lime with which 1 . 1 ? no wncai is to bo well moistened and aftcrrards dried with fresh slacked liuie. 4. Sulphate of iron dissolved and nptlied as above, recommended by Dr. douckc.? Qaecnslantlvr. Blunt hut Thuk.?There is said to he . young man in the Missouri penitentiary vhosc parents at tbeir death, left him a ortuue of 850,000. There is where his ' '*-* . jareuts made a fatal mistake. If they had - ... aken the precaution to invest that sum in . small dog. and shot him, and then had imply left the young man a jack plane or a rood saw, with printed instructions how to ise it, the chances are, that instead of bcng in the penitentiary, he would to-day lave been gradually but surely working his ray into a handsome competency and an lonornblc old age. But ever since the days )f Adam and live, parents havo made it-a . .... joint to toil and struggle all their lives in irder to realize a sufficient sum of money o purchase, when they are dead and gone, heir sous each a first class through ticket o the devil, and it is uot much to be wonlercd at that so many of their sons, reared n vice and idleness, as too many of them ,r.~~ ? i-> rni;ii arc, nave 110 nigncr ambitum than to nvest their inheritance in just tliat sort of ransportation. ? Pleasant for IJari> J)u ink Kits?The jouisville Courier Journal, which is pubished in a State where whiskey ought to ?e good, if anywhere, confirms the statcnent that probably nine hundred and linety-niue gallons out of every thousand hat are sold as brandy are made from a ile compound of whiskey swill, distilled pirits and chemical abominations, and adds: And as it is equally true of whiskey, what n the name of goodness arc we all to do or something to drink ? It looks as if wo to be'driven to the pump in spite of us. f the world at large kiicw of what villuiuias stuffs brandy and whiskey and wines re mafle of, the present crop of drunkards rould be about the last?or, at any rate. II future crops would be small. Nearly ill, or quite all, the liquors that arc retailed lowadays are undoubtedly a slow but sure loison, and to drink them habitually is iuiplv a roundabout way of committing uicidu, and unless you guard yourself care"ully, the way is not very roundabout either. Cleaning tub Hen-house.?If the inrciul poulterer will look to the under porions of bis perches, and as faithfully apply ho saturated kerosene brush to this part of he premises as lie does to the top and sides md crevices, once in a while, he will find t profitable for the removal of vermin. Lice brood and breed and live under tbo ousts, in great numbers, in the day time hey are thus partially secreted. In tho light, wheu the fowls settle down to their 'ousts, these millions of parasites crawl up, ind nestle themselves comfortably among lie bird's sofi feathers?where they sublequi-ntly stick to their new warm quarters intiI they are curbolated or sulphured out i gain.