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Elic ?(rtfc!ilij tflnion ?imcs. : *. j R. M. STOKES, Editor. UNION, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 187*J. - jL ? JERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1 f'npv, ouo your, in aovasck, 'iCuiiKjoiic yi'iir," " ? 3.75 fi ' " " ' H.50 10 " ' * * ? ' 15.00 ADVERTISmo. Otie??iuare or one Ineh. first insertion, - - - $1.00 Knoli i>uh?i|i?>iil insertion, ------- 75 l.ibornl discount made tn merchants ami others advertising for six months or liy tlm voar. Obituary Not icon of ton linos or loan, insorlod free. " " over ton linos, charged as Advertisements. B^Tiu No new cases of Yellow Fever in Memphis, nt last reports. Weston Challenged. A iiin.ii in this County thinks lie can heat Weston's time ami endurance in a walking match. . ^ Rain in the Mountains. A private letter intortns us that good rains have fallen the past week at Asheville, llctidcrsonvillc and around those places. Accidont to Folly Dupreo. On Tuesday last l'olly Duprec, an nged person well known in this community, had tlio misfortune to fall and break her leg while coming from a spring with a bucket of water. It is supposed she cannot recover. A Warning to Bathers. Air. Henry Daly, formerly in the Shoo business in Charleston, died vory suddenly in Augusta, Geo., on the 10th inst., from apoplexy, produced by bathing in cold water while in a I. I nnn.liltnn The Macarthy Horso Powor. The ad vei'tiscmcnt of this admirable now Invention is unavoidably omitted this week. It will appear in our next. In the mean time, we we are requested to say, Mr. 1'. T. I.cmaster will canvass the County ns Agent for the sale of the Tower, and will give all information necessary. Tickets to the Mountains. We arc requested to state that. Excursion Tickets to the Mountains, good to return up to the 1st of October, are now for sale at. the Union Itailroad Ticket ollice. These tickets will allow passengers to "luy over" at an> point on (lie roads and tcsume the trip at pleasure, up to the above stated date. ? ?. . ? Gono to Hampton. Our young and talented friend, M. D. McSweeney, who has for some time published a No. 1 paper atNincly-Six, AbbevilleCounty, hns removed (o (he County of Hampton, where he will publish the Hump/on Guardian. We congratulate the citizens of the County of Hampton in being so fortunate as to secure such a true and worthy gentleman to conduct their County paper. Ifthey will give him adeeont support ho will give them ouc of the best papers in the State. ?. # . -Mortality Among Childron. The present hot, dry and dusty weather has no doubt mainly been tho cause of much sickness among infant children. We learn that not only here, but in many of the adjoining towns nnd Counties tho sickness and deaths among children have been greater than for many years past. lMiring ihe past week ihc following deaths of infant children have occurred in this town : On Monday, the Utli, son of ("apt. A. II. and llettic Foster, aged .'I months. On Wednesday, Hie lGtli sou of W. 1), and Fin ma I). Humphries, aged -I mouths. On Wednesday, son of W. A. and Holt, aged - months. Whow ! Ain't it Hot! ltidn't we have a "heated term" last week, from tho morning of the '.hh to the night of the 12th ? The thermometer, in a shaded position, ranged front 1(K)? to 101?, ami where only partially shaded i-t got up to H>7?. In positions where the reflection of the sun affected it with force?not exposed directly to the rays of the sun ? it rose to 12'1?. A friend suggests that we adopt the idea of the Hetroit Frtt J'rrr.i, and throw away all the thermometers- then, per'haps, we will not feel (lie heat so had. as we shall not know how hot it really is. That is, no -louot, upon tfcc principle mat "ignorance is 1 ?1 iss."' <? The Henderson Barbocue. On our first page will lie found a pretty full report of the proceedings and speeches at the llailroad Itarbccue at Hcndersonville on the lih, which we take from the Columbia R"ii*frr. We were too unwell at the time to take full notes and the report we give is fuller and hotter arranged than ours would have been. Union was represented by the following influential citizens: lion. T. II. Jeter and l.ady, Win. Mintra and Lady, Maj. J. It. Siccdman, J. T. Hill, II. I,, (loss, \V. A. Nicholson, l>r. It. F. Uawls, A. 11. Foster, It. II. lltce, Col. 11. I.. Coleman, and I!. Ji. Uawls. Of the road, its prospects. Sic., w c shall speak hereafter. It's too hot and dry to write railu'oaJ articles now. Death of Bornard U Rawls. With deep sorrow we announce the death of this most excellent young man, which occurred at the residence of his Father, I>r. It. F. Uawls, on Friday evening last, the 11th insl., in his L'dd year, f erimrd was one of the most amiable, moral and promising young men in this community, and was sincerely loved by everybody. Only a few weeks before his death he graduated with great credit at WofTord College. No young man could have brighter promises for a successful future in this life than he. Highly educated, with pleasing manners and governed by a high sense of integrity and pure moral and social principles, he bid fair to be one of the leading young men of the community, and we can but think his death is a great loss nut only to this County but to the State at large. It is very rave that wo had in one sa \ >uog mi many of the essential f|M'ililios of eliaraeler that go to make up the truly perfect man an 1 cili/eti ns was possessed by our departed young friend. "Whom the Clods love best die young." Hot, Dry?Hoter Dryer> Never were thirsty people worse UijMippoioU'J than the citizens of this uad inaay other parts of Ms County, last Sunday evening. During the whole of I lie morning flic cloticls appeared to be gatliering'oTcr ndKi'rounJ tis for a general rnin, aft'd the hope was raised that lite drought was at ftn end. About 3 o'clock the drof.s coin% % . . i nienccd to patter down, and it secincd^thnt in, every direction a generous rain was falling.?? The wind billed, the ntmosphere became cooler, and a grateful feeling pervaded the whole community. Hut our hopes were of short duration. The rain fell very siowly for about an hour, when the wind airain rose anil scattered the clouds, leaving us barely enough rain to lay the intolerable dust. In Goshen Ilill, Santuc and Joncsville Townships and generally through the I'ea Itidgc region, wc learn a good rain fell ; but in other parts of the County they either had no ruin ut all or about the same ns at this place. Around Fair Forest, particularly, from (libites' store to Murphy's Mill, the crops are sutforing sadly. Upland corn is now beyond redemption, while that, on tiie low' lauds is beginning to fail.? From what wc can hear and see it is now almost impossible to make half a crop of corn or cotton in this County. The Gardens arc completely ruined in this vicinity, and unless rain cornea soon it will Ijetoo late for winter vegetables. We also notice a number of forest trees dying, while young fruit trees nre shedding their leaves and look sickly. The gloom deepens around us. At present writing we can sec no indications of rain, excont that the wind has Komnu'lini clinngcil. A Narrow Escape. Mr. YV. A. Wix^our Town Marshal, made a narrow escape from being killed last Saturday. Me had started for home in a buggy drawn by a untie, ami in hoisting the buggy umbrella, the mule took fright and rati away. Mc dashed down the steep hill beside our office at a fearful rate, and when about half way down, Mr. YY'ix was thrown from the buggy among some obi logs ami lumber. He received some severe injuries, but they arc not dangerous and he is now on the streets, on duty. for t lie Tiuies. Lotter from Big Iko. Clout?i;Ysvti.i.k, July 8, 187'J. Mil. Hditor :?There being no correspondent front this community to the 7'imr.f, that we are aware of, we have thought perhaps you would like to hear what we tire alt doing and the gossip generally. Well, in the tirst place, we arc | almost iicKtcu ?o death over that last note litile | Jcems wrote about getting only twenty-five cents | for sitting on iho Jury at J. M. Greer's Court of Trial Justice, ami wonder if lie ever got tliot.? The rest of us think it good fun, as we then all get together to talk horse talk, swap mules, discuss the great benefits of the Fence Law (for it is working in this community like a charm) and, last of all, talk politics?that is, who we will run. North of I'aeolet", next year. We nr?y inclined to think that Jectus intimated in his i article that he does not enjoy the fun like some i of us ; but we sincerely hope that the next Leg I islaturc will inuke more Trial Justices, givethem big pay and, above all, raise lit tic Jeetns' wages at least to ibirly-sevcn and a half cents every lime he sits as juror. We hope lie?that is, little Jeetns?wiil not get riled at what we say, but we do hope that he will always be prompt to attend (he Court, when he is drawn for a juror. Hut one thing he says, wherein his head is level, and that is, where he intimates that we all should take the Times. Well, Mr. Kditor, we know we ought, but how can we, when we can't raise enough spomlulix to run the old women and children ? Hut some of us will take it next year, if it breaks us. He assured, Mr. Kditor, we will help yo t out just as soon as w e can, for wc have always becu charitably inclined to home institutions. If Trial Justice Greer will j draw us as u juror eight times and pay us twenI ty-ftve cents each time, then wc will be able ! to take the Times. Now, Little Jeetns has never thought of how easy lie could, in that way, pay for a newspaper, or lie would not have struck for higher wages. Wc don't think we could raise enough money to buy a drink of Hloekndc Sweet mash if it was not that we have I some />iotts jtrojifc in this corner who persist in going to law, not to get justice, but simply to pay some of us broken down aristocrats a quarter now and then to sit as jurors. Little deems may say what lie pleases, but we say hurrah for the man who is so happy as to get his quarter a day for sitting still and listening to some Josh I'il| lings talk, and, more than all, being iuslrumcir tal in adjusting the little dillicnllics existing between his pious neig ibors. Now, we mean when we have nothing very particular to do, and just now we have not, as wo are all pretty well up with out crops. 15y the way, the corn and cotton crop is About an average?but badly in need of lain in this immediate neighborhood. The wheat crop is better than last year, averaging about seven to eight bushels per acre, which is a lair yield for the land around here, and especially the way it is put in. A New Kng'.andcr would j be surprised at our doing even that well if he I would coine down here a few days before Christmas and see how we hurry up things to get in our wheat, lie would simply call it a farce.? Of course there are some exceptions, there he! ing a few individuals who give their attention to this important crop. ' The dam?that is, the mil! dam -question, is ii11w IK * io v 1 11 1 1 *r,M ^ * ^immi (inn in interest to outsiders. J! very man in our cotumunity lias ail opinion of his own nbont if, find ! of i!Oi:i'.?c everybody is right. One soys I lit.* 'la?i is I he cuii'-e of ruining the I'ottnm lands | above it, nnd another says it is a curious thing . hoiv a dam which has been standing over a hun i deed years 1ms jiwl been found onf n- being instrumental in de-ti' yiug so much line hotiotm. in- mail said a few days ago he h ; I the /h;m l/nc-linti v oiild lie settled at the <1 l.cr t'onrl, ! one way or an .ther. lilti I KM. .? i The pastors n| the \1ethodi?f and l'res I hyterian chnrclies aie in the ut uint tins. qj). * For Hi-* Tilmw. 1 The County Fair and Pomona Grange. The toil of the week it -ndcd, and niy U'om is now .it f-'< -I laiunrher work litis Auished, and now sit* down l-? read, Our hoiue la very <|<iiut, the children are all at test, A* I write the homely letter to the brother I love best. ,, 1 have much that's new to tell you, so do not think it strung* ? To learn by this bit of writing, I'm .Master of a Grange! ll 'l is true to.acerct societies i|i,m?--I I've always been, ? nui in is wm ocrorc iijc g'xxl of co-o iteration I'd 30011. We meet once a fortnight now in i'ouiotia Mall, . As we rait Jfc<Wb/ii is lied upper rooms in the house of t! ^ *Roufa foJfy^Pw^fartners, wlio there ran tuke our wives, j' And hy work and conversation liariuoni/.c our Itv.-s. Wo ask eaeiiotlnr questions in asocial, kindly vein ; ti la-arti how to lesson taxes and inereas the yield of grain; (j To whittle down our troubles, to Imild op lor its joys, . To beautify our farmer homes?educate our girls and ' hoys. it We look in each other's faces, we grasp each other's hands; j| As farmers and as ueighlmrs we protect inch other's lands; We watch each ol Iter's laiu'is from dogs and wolves that prow I, Si And as I'at roils vote together while the isditielans howl, j, We agree no more to listen to the grand spread-eagle speech u Of the ring and monopoly ngent, who lakes all in his a reach. u We are learning to live in h:\rnioiiv, and as flowers from , (lie sod 11 'arow to meet the sunlight, so we're growing up tolioil. fi (tiir home is now far happier than e'er it wus before, w Again the hloom'sou l.aura'seheek.tisin theilavs ol'vore. Our house i> l< -tier furnished than it was wlnvi voti were s' here, ll I'or co-o|H'ratlon a profit left for all of us lust year. ,, f hir tivighlHirs now call socially, w lieu comas tli event id", As paucc, friendship, prosperity, does with us now abide. P This letter tells the story, so, brother, think not strange It If I ask you soon to visit ii", anil then to join the <irangc.\ ^ As I laid down your lust issue, containing it t| notice of a meeting of tlie County Fair Associa- It tion, I accidentally took tin an old acrriciiltiinil J' paper containing (lie above poem. There is not J"' much poetry in it, but is there not n good deal j, of truth? I have, therefore, taken the liberty v of forwarding it to you, Mr. Kdilor, with the u hope that you may fmd room for its publication, 11 together with a few remarks herewith appended. I am well aware that you have many mid varied gi valued correspondents, .vho keep us posted as to bi tlio various "bits" of County news; some are ^ busy exposing (lie many "bonanza frauds" from |(1 which (he County has, is, and will sutler; others In are "showing up" (he failings, shortcomings hi and inefficiencies of the many county officials ; then, again, are we shown how one party can (|| villify and abuse another and prove to us how in those we always thought good and honest citi- 'g zens arc asses, liars ami scoundrels; whilst some, I'1 re regardless of (heir accustomed modesty and re- o( tiring natures, conscience stricken, are rushing to the front, 'tlio much against their wills, ex- 1? claiming, with a slight paraphnsc on the words J'1 | of another, "Woe, is me! If 1 save not the > ..... i country, i pcnsu. ci 1 say, wiilt so luany valuable interests to be l' thus ventilate:!, it is asking a good ileal of our for space for a reference to plain every -tiny busi- ^ ness matters. Vet I venture to aflirni lliat if ii these corresponilents of yours will change their te tune?will "pick on another string?" (this ,L may be ba<! slang but it has the meaning) ami | then dip their pens in tin; other ink an I then (t. let good words (low front tlicni?words ?>f en- j rn courageiucnt, of exhortation, of enipiiry, of in- ' y| formation, "pro and con '?as to all agricultn- j ral auil mechanical science and art relating to tj, a farmer's business, you would sec evinced an | lie interest in our matters never before experienced; i c'' a waking up of our people to try and realize some of ilic brilliant possibilities of our noble l0 calling. ?*Mi^vould witness a most successful an Fair; you would see the old love renewed again 1,1 in these Oranges. And why shall we nut have \a grange or agricultural society ; an association I t |l for our mutual benefit ? 1 care not what name ' /? you give it. Why, 1 am told, when the Spring t j" .Meeting of the society was called and an ctfort ' made to reorganize the Pomona tSrangc?under I u whose charter the Fair property is held?there | h was one party present besides President and '' Secretary. The chief Motto of our grange was, "In es I sentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all : s things charity." If 1 have a heart-lelt wish it j is. that this poor pen might from this text, upon a mil [nig*-, iruw ik m:i iinui iiim wdiun muse every sleeping Patron or Pinner from the lcih.tr- r gy that now seems to liiml him hand and toot? . h he quietly hugging tlie delusive phantom of - 11 llqpc?hopiaff M1 n "better lime coming,'' a (( better crop, something to "turn up," instead of rousing himself up to will, to do, to he some- | n thing, to be some use iu his day and generation ^ and some advancement to the business of his j life. We have a society intended to devclopc a | better and higher manhood and womanhood | <1 among ourselves ; to enhance the c nnforts and 1 attractions of our homes, that none might he | ii more attractive than our own ; tostrcngihcn our j , attachiiieiits to our own pursuits; to foster tun- ' t tiuil understanding and co-operation; to reduce 1 our expenses, both individual and corporate ; to ( * buy less and produce more, in order to make | j our farms self-sustaining; to diversify our crops a j and crop no more than we can cultivate ; to dis- , I countenance the credit, system, the mortgage \ 1 system, the fashion system and every other sys- ' t loin i?-ii<iiit>; 10 prodigality tin'I iiunkriiptcy ; | o t-iit-li taking for his own individual motto "pay j v as yon go." Meetingtogether, talking together, , s working together? buying logtilier, .-'oiling to- < gotlior, ami, in general, acting together for mutual protection ami mlvaiieeinent, as occasion might require. For our business interest wc I ilesirc to bring producers ami consumers, far! mors ami manufacturer-s into the most direct ami friendly relation possible. Ilenee we must tlis- j pense with a surplus of iniddleinen, not that ! we are ut-friendly to them, but we do not nerd ^ them, and they might do as we are forced to do. R We did not propose to wage any aggressive war- .t fare against any other interest whatever. <>n t| tlie contrary, all our etforls, so far as business i ! is concerned, arc not only for the benefit of ihe n producer ami consumer, but also for all ether '' : interests, and intended to bring ihcsetwo parties r| into speedy and economical contact, tl | This, Mr. Ivlitor, was, in part, our "Magna i t! I Charta. ' What have those given us who 1 \ laughed it to scorn, threw it overboard ami called a I the granges humbugs and a failure? Would we a have a Fair Vssoeialion, or would there ever be 11 i a county l air held, if it was not for 'the oxer- S j lions of a few ? Is this right or i- it to lie de- d | nicd ? Is this not juuuUor ili.it all ought ?and | ?h<>nld h? interesleT^NPutd share a part ? i tt Hut I am talking too long to get to my main question, which is. 'h?n itiiiin/ oirl who nrr 170/07 r j to nllci -l the iw/iw/ t>f 'hi? / nion ('<>iinti/ / ;ir j p ; Antociahnn, to be held at Union Court House, on > Saturday the 26th .Inly. 187'.'? ' Now, if I am righ'lv informed, this is a meeting of the ,\gri e citltii' >1 society, for the free an I ea-y disrn-sion of all matters of interest to tanner-, a- well afor making arrangement- for ill" next annual ; Fair. Won't every wideawake tanner consoler c | it im duly a- w -11 as privilege to j >111 I In- n-iciv c ami do all in his power to pu-h along and tor p I her it' chjeois and interests? 'I hen by build- 1 I ing up ami honoring his own avocation. v | n for l In: Times. The Homestead?Crops, &c. Cuoss Ktv.i, July, 1871). Mil, Entrou. :?i am glad thai Cross Keys was ot represented last week, uud therefore did not out rioutc to tliui over-dose. Well, "after a storm Itere is generally a calm," so 1 can have the hole tieid to myself this week'.' According to promise 1 now propose to review lie Homestead law. It will be remembered tlgtt t the year 1808 a convent io.n met ut.Columbia, jr the purpose of amending our State CouStt"Lttion, or, we might say, to frame a new one, etter suited to the changed condition of affairs. ' will, also, be borne in mind tlial the honest, itclligciil voters had but little voice in selecting lie uicn who composed thai Convention. That onvetilion (instigated by the Devil 110 doubly aw proper, in their wisdom, (?) to incorporate I lllilt V.UM.TIIIUUIMI, <1 liin V A V I I I J ' ? I M IIWIII 1 V < nd sule real and personal property to the mount of $l,~>00. Thus, by an organic law t' the tilatc rendering null and void all laws tor lie collection of debts by civil process, from the ict thai few men owned more property than as exempt, l'ropcrty being the best collateral ucurity upon which credit was based, it struck death blow to tiie credit system. 'I lie people, i their impoverished conditions, were not prearcd for a change so radical und sudden. The gislature, in attempting to remedy the evil, assed the Lieu law?the legitimate offspring o, le Homestead. .Many know, to their sorrow! ow badly it has worked. Hut the greatest ob,'ction to the Homestead law is its tendency to jrrupi and dcuiorali/e our people. Men will lake fair promises to obtain credit. They "will ay out of the lirst cott >u sob', or bring you the ery first money they can raise," It is a lament mi credit ny lying ami dissimulation, become utte law-abiding. \\ hen vuii attempt to gel dial is justly due you, tliey pretend to get miry ami tell you "to help yourself ; 1 claim the i-uetil of the law," thereby adding insult ami ishoiiesty to lying. A man that acts tlitis ecrliiily feels hiiuscll dcgiaded 111 the eyes of all iiuesl men ; lie must leel despicable ami mean; l1 knows lie lias acted "Itshoneslly. In fact lie is luadc :i long stride toward ilie Penitentiary. lieu a man steps from the exalted plane of utIi, honesty ami virtue, ins downward course i vice is often rapid, bringing him to a disgraceil end. Cursed witli a taw upon our statutes r eleven years past wliieh gi\es liee.ise to the tuple of South Carolina to lie, ami steal indi etly, we need not be surprised at the long list criminal cases in our Courts. There is a notion among tttr people that so ng as ihey keep within the bounds of the law icy are shielded Ironi reproach : it matters noi jw unjust the law may lie. fatal delusion ! iglit and justice ever remain the same. I hey iieuaie from llini who holds the scales of jusce, and lie will reward every man accenting i his deeds. 1 remember an expression tua.lv by an intclgeul iarmer, soon after the pa-.-agc of the otnestead law. Says he, '-lake away the law i compel men to pay their debts and precious w will pay. I thought lightly of it at the i ::.e, but nave found it to be true. A recent writer says: Some men have sliel- j red llicttisclvos belaud homestead ami batik* i|il laws, iIy ail sorts of n oudulcut practices, i-y have conveyed their property to otiters ? try are clothed in |>ui'|> 1 o and line linen ; lure i|itiiuusly ever day; drive last Iturses ; ride in . e tinest veliioles ; revel in luxury, while their niest creditors, with their wives and tittle ones, I oalcd out of their hard earning* hy lying and j I sorts of sli it |> rascally practices, are sutler- j g lor the necessaries t>i life." Now, Mr, iMir, if the law works hadly. and lends to cotvupt id tie moral i/.e on r people, w hie It I think no ca till honest nmn eati deny if he has t bought serious- 1 upon the snojoe;, let u- call a c-m\cut inn this ill for the purpose of iiiiiotidiug our t'oiisliiu- j on. The sooner we reinrn to good old ??/. '?; ; limit times in this respeet the better it will he i if us. Then the limn who refused to pay a i.-t tiehl, was regarded as dish-mcst. Well do remember how careful those gout I obi eiti/.etis ere to lay up and lie prepared to meet prompt the demand- against them as they beeame tine, hit few waited to be dunned even. Hut .-a I to elate, in-ft of liu-m have passed away in I their otis are demoralized, from living under dill'crnl laws, ami have ceased to follow ill their footleps. As I sai-l in a former article, "some men (tribute this state -if a Hairs to the laie war,' ml even t ry to excuse the nisei ves, ami quiet t heir otiseietiee- in this way. Many of your readers cincmbcr tiie ready excuse of the soldier, when e did a mean act during the war. "Well, hoys, l's war times, you know." llut it is loo late suv, we must look elsewhere lbr the causes of lit* present condition. A few local Items ami 1 close. Haiti is badly ceded. A light shower fell here last night Sun-lay) which has livened up vegetation; but lilies- more comes soon early corn will be ulnost a failure. -While writing, 1 learn that in tortious of this Township a heavy rain gla-llone-l the hearts of the farmers last night.? 'otton is standing the drought well. It is very mall on red lauds. Some complaint of lice.? The new comer, mentioned by yntir cot responlent 11 in; \ n, made its appearance in this seeion ear!)* in the spring ami still persists in iininiiiing its lavages, defying hot sun, dry vcalhcr ami everything else. Hope some of -iti* scientists will give us a history of the pest, t is much larger than the common bml-wortu, bout j of an inch in length, covered with dark irowot spots. In its movements it appears to ic endeavoring to crawl through itself, tllad o see such flattering accounts of a largo yield f small grain throughout ihei'ounly It speaks fell for our farmers. Hot us raise all we c--nume at homo, then what Cotton we can, ami ttr independence is secured. ('. 11. II. ? 1 or tiie Times. Tho Heat, Drought, &c., at Skull Shoals. .Ii i.v 1 "?. 1K.lt. Mtt. r.MTiMt: ? Unless my theriaciuett r be uilty ??!* freaks or my .senses ut fault, 1 r?~I week avc us I lie hottest weather I ever experienced. ly instrument. hanging in the same place wiili te same surroundings since May 1}>7">, lias ever indicated a higher temperature than lO-0 11 last Wednesday, '.'tli inst., when the mercury use to lOd0. (tii the 11 >1 It it rose to l(t|?, on ic llth to 1 <Mi0, and on (lie I'Jtli to On tat day, at no time from It? o'clock M. to p. I. was it lower than 10tio. The sun produced scorching, Mistering sensation. The very ir, which wis constantly in motion, fell hot ns ion'_'li it came from the hosom of some hunting alnra, and foiaihlv reminded mo of - is ol wuicn we read. Yesterday the air felt delightful thermomcpr !ss? f.?r the highest. We are very dry and without any prospect of tin. t "rops have stood the drought well to the resent, hut will fail rapidlj without rain.? iow is the critical time. | hope ?onte sections got l tin on last Sunday vcniif.': had only a sprinkle. smiif IN'.h. o I ... I I \ I' I., I I I I 1 II I'tic > II ' I I if i iM|>- h ull) ?11 ii.Ill in |'ii is nf lift 1 ' IIilly. i- *li*|I til? 'flu* IMifi lii'M I'/ ? 1 ' ''if I'i'itiiI i mi m"-' cnnr li*" I"'p. '11i 11' -i11 I- of 'ioriw of ? i n iro r'hnhl. nwl iftmili n*'?r pri'ilM ! Tor tlio Times. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Mt Joy, July 7, 1870. Mil. Euitoii : ? l'lease allow us a small space in your columns to lay bet'oro tlie public the condition of the public Schools among the colored people of this County. In 1872 this County was employing a large number of teachers for the education of the col ored children ; litis continued about three years, $inoe theu ihu^bcuuber has been considerably Teas for a few" causes, some of which are t?uc, < * others we cannot Vouch for: 1. Teachers had to devote till their time in teaching and never received their pay at the proper time?this is one of the worst evils we have to contend with now?and the larger unlabel of them had to dispose of their claims iii rcuuceu rates, so lacy couiu hoi, anoru io ih lior lor so small an amount. li. Some ot' tlie white teachers, employed. Io teaeli the colored children, were but a little better qualified than the colored teachers, and the Trustees and the Commissioner would say they could not do any better, as the greater number of colored teachers who made application were not competent. ;! The schools are opened at such seasons of the year dial the teachers who are i eally competent are oil at schools and the children are engaged oil the farms. I. The commissioner and trustees do not id re the colored schools proper attention. Now, in relation to this subject, we would say that the small amount paid and the neglect of paying ntf tiie school accounts, have been tlic causes of many good teachers not coming into our County and teaching. They have a great anxiety to come to Union, and when they make enquiries concerning schools those who know-canuot.say anything to encourage them. \S'e have a large number of young men and women who arc now able, and many more arc becoming able, to give our children just such iostructitn as they should have, and they are always anxious to come.? Spartanburg is blessed with a largo number of these young men and women. Last year ihcro I were lourticn colored teachers who had been taught during the Winter and Spring at iiiddlc University, t hat lotto, and Scotia Seminary, N.C , who taught Schools in Spartanburg County, besides others from other Colleges and Seminaries, and all id' them on first and second grades. Now, when I'uiou becomes so she will open her schools, pay her teachers at the proper lime, and give the right attention to her schools, she, too, can boast of such a I losing. Then the trustees would have no need to employ such white teachers us make applications for colored schools. It is certain we cntuiol now get white leathers who will take the interest in tcaching Ihal colored teachers will. Ten vent s ago we could, hut that lime lias jiassed, for those who arc interested in ottr welfare aie beginning to think that wo ought tii have teachers among ourselves, and we have thetn, and as soon as l.tiion County makes the proper arrangement, they can lie had. If the schools would open ahout .tunc or July, and the teachers could receive their pay at a |>roj or time, we would have no trouble in getting cumj.cleat colored teachers; for at that, time tliev are out of school and can he eiiijiloved to teach all the colore I schools in our County. Now, ahout the attention. We know of a school that lias heen in session seven years.? The fit.st two years we had one trustee who would visit ottr schools, hut since then we have not had-a single visit. If the trustees who are now appointed will not \i>it our schools, why not appoint one colored trustee in each school district, to see after the colored schools? The commissioners have never visited a colored school in l'inekiieyville township since 1872.? Shall we have better attention and better teachers V It is for the managers of the schools to say l?y their actions. C. W. F. II. J. l-'or the Times. Dots From Smith's Ford. Fntr.sn Sntur.s : ? 1 have often thought that I would keep you j.-.-iod with the news from this jiortioit of the County, hut I am such a poor letter writer that I have postponed doing so till now, nevertheless, 1 will altemjit to give you a lew "Hots," and will commence with the crop prospects : Wheat was good hut not enough sown, f'orn and cotton are looking line. We have been favored with partial showers iij> to this writing? I the bth,?so our crops have not suH'cred as yet. We had coiloll hloSoolos about l lie L'Oth of,) title, and I think the crop is about three weeks ahead of any season for a number of years passed. The animosity arising from the Fence law is , gradually dying out ; and as soon as we can get. ' our pastures better fixed up 1 think it will linnlj ly die out. (in the iilii insl., some tenants on my place ? Mrs. Nancy Woo l and her son-in-law, Mr. tliltnan Fowler?got their house and contents burned, during the absence of the family, with I he exception of a lew articles that a colored man. named Oreen Feeler saved, by prompt and energetic action, and then lie very mngnuniinotisly presented Mr. fiii. Fowler with a shirt and a pair of jiants. In the afternoon of same day we were summoned to lite deal It bed of Mrs. : ("lark, a very aged old lady, supposed to be about , ninety years old, but she died before \vc coubl j reach her house. About three years ago sho uasea-'t oil" l?y her friends and relations and i sent to the p-ior house in this County. She was ' :i member of the Ihtptist Church for a numher of year.;, and I being pastor of the Church could not feel satisfied to let her remain at the poor house, so had her removed to my own place, and i have h id her cared for ever since, through the help of the kind Coniiiiissioneis and a little ' help wo have obtained fioin others. Sabbath evening following, I preached her funeral serI in on, at her own request, to a large audience, ! from the text : "If in this life only we have | hope, wo are of all men most miserable." ,1. T. Yellow Fovor in Memphis. Am OtJiriijl .\rl;iiitw!ril'/m^nt />y thf. /itmnl <>f ir.iiii,. Mkmpiiis, July l<t. -The Hoard of Health this* morning issued the following order : "To the people of the City of Memphis wr would say, quietly remove your families to place of safety until we can at least see whether the few cases of yellow fever will assume all cp identic form. "To the people along the lines of the different , routes of travel we say. (here can he no possible I danger of infection f>r many days to come." i"ivo new cases are reported this niornino no I one ileal li, an infant of .finite ,1. |{. |{.,v ?f ilie I rimiiial I'miri, who, lotreilior wiili another is 111 progress, i ilie trains being uu '?1 ? l<? carry away the liint Ireils who are rcmly ami anxious In leave. I.\ll.I! \ni? lin ir.it NF.W.s. | Mkmi'IIH .Inly II.?There have hern no neuroses n|' l'i vrr in-ila\. ami I lie panic of yesterday has greatly mb-i !? !. livery thing this morning is rpiiei. The sick iitemlx is of .lll'lge Kay's faiaily are progressing favorably. No sj reft I of the license is an I iei pal e I. li is sai-1 I hat fully ."i,(MH> i. ip.e I<*li iIn- city vrsler.lay. T* e ini 1i.igli! i.ai.is of the I. mistiHe an I ?ioiii| his am! (hi. ( i..n li.iili il 1 -1 i -.'III wi re ip iwileil lo ?n!!' < a! imi. I1 r n|s sent nil' -nlsli* I rains, ill | \ i t were tillable In iri,ii|lim?"l,.l|o al who ttel I ' . ve in li.V being f 'in|.el:i il . tetuaiii nvei mi' il 1 la I b" l.illle lb el; llnill'oa'l i ooivls mil its last liain at noon, the anih'Ti't't