The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-11-20
LITTER FROM WILLIAM.


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EDITORS CLARION;
The cows lave quit my cotton field
but have been terrible upon my garden
They have demolished my cabbage.
have an idea of writing piece to som,
of the agricultural papers and set fOrtl
the evil of cows getting into gardens anC
| other pisces net prepared for COWS, bu
Mr.. Jones advises differently, for thu
reason that, as a general thing, he con
siders agricultural and religious papers
rather dry, and not as readable as some
others. He advises me for the present
to give nay views on the COW question to
TIE CLARION, and as soon as possible
join the Grsngers, "and with the
Changers stand.p Then, he says, can
talk COW ad nGuseuna Mr.. Jones is not
of the opinion that / could make a big
Granger, like Gen. Sharp, but that
might get up close to Capt Eugene
Sykes or Capt. John Allen, two rising
Changers of the East.
The difficulty about COWS is, that they
are not provided for. During the Sum-
mer, when the grass is green, and the
meadows afford the best pasture, COWS
never break into ones garden, but when
October and November frosts kill the
grass, and no food is given to the cattle,
what are, they to do? They must eat or
die. People, especially poor people, will
have great many cows and dogs. No
supplies are laid up for either, but both
must eat, and, in some cases, it is hard
to tell what they do eat. Dogs 60 out
into the woods and catch rabbits, that is
to say, some dogs do; others cannot. The
rabbit, as general thing, runs well, and
running is what he relies on. Cows are
not built for speed, and if they were,
they could never catch rabbits, and if
they could catch, they could not eat them.
They eat things ike cotton and collards,
shucks and corn, and, as the school boys
composition has it, "and various other
things" Now my opinion is, that when
a man owns COWS he should provide some
thing for them to eat. 1t would be bet
ter for the cows and better for the own
ers. The cows would grow much larger
and give more milk. No matter how
fine breed you may get, if you tell your
cows, that the world owes them living,
and they must go and get it, and they
go lowing about the country, and jump
ing into the gardens and fields of other
people, you will soon have no cows, or
very scrubby COWS.
I am in favor of law making every
man limit his cows to certain boundaries
and compelling him 10 feed them well.
Once upon time the Legislature passed
a dog law, and there was much indigna-
ton thereat. Still the law was good
one-good for the people, but rather Sc
we're on the dogs. / know one man in my
neighborhood, who has twenty dogs, and
all of them are very tall and very poor.
Now if the Changers would consider this
COW question, much good would come
out of it. People must SOW small grain,
gather hay, and make preparations for
feeding cows well through the winter.
They must have shelters built to protect
them, and then the ''hollow horn" will
unknown as bovine distemper. Where
cows are not provided for, and they jump
into fields and gardens, much forbearance
is in order; but, when it becomes neces-
sary to keep them out, Stout says a good
shot gun and plenty of ammunition are the
only sovereign remedies. / think Stout
is right.
The panic gets no better over here.
So far as | am concerned, see no diff
ference between this and any other time.
1 arr always in a panic, if having no
money constitutes panic. Last year
hauled my cotton to the Depot, and have
never seen one dollar of money that it is
supposed to have brought. Many parties
who have large tracts of lands, and num-
bers of hands to feed, and very much !
Theyare selling no cotton,
and can get no money until they do sell.
Our preacher told me last Monday that
I was talking a great deal about money
matters, how scarce currency is, and at
to devise means of relief, ETC.,
when the fact is there is as much money
now as there was before Jay Cooke broke,
and all it needs is circulation. That is
what l say. That is my theory. l am
in favor of circulation. AT the late cleo
ton Robert Lamply Every highly colored) |
who can neither read nor write, was
elected Justice of the Peace. Robert was
an Ames man in the late canvass.
Robert is my nejghbor. Being ambiti-
ous Robert aspired to Office, and he has
been elected. Robert is judge, elected |
by the people. He is clothed with auth
ority. To quote the language of the
Hon. A. K. Davis, ''This is progress"
I am opposed to progress. ''The good
DID times never comm any mo-" The
choir will rise and sing,
Rock of ages cleft for me,
Let me hide myselfin thee"
WILLIAM.