The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-05-06
A Tennessee Picture that will Answer for
South Carolina.

A Tennessee Picture that will Answer for
South Carolina.
III V. r." the travelling correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, writes as follows
from Chattanooga concerning the dog law re-
Gently enacted by the Legislature Of Tennes-
see:
The best act put on the books by the legisla-
ture is the dog law. Dogs are taxed one dollar
! each, and the feminine branch of the dog fam
lily five dollars. Such law has been long
needed, but no previous legislature has had the
spunk to put it on the books. The poverty of
the State to-day is due in no small degree to
the multitude CT worthless ours, which consume
as much as the hogs, cost as much as the
schools and produce nothing
In the rural districts there are nearly as
many dogs as people, showing of itself state
of civilization not the highest Not long ago
plaintive appeal was sent to Nashville from
one hundred and forty-three colored people of
dry weather had cut off the crop, and that they
were in a starving condition. Some one went
through the poverty stricken districts of the
County, and his business being to enumerate
the population he enumerated the dogs also,
and found more dogs than people. What was
fed to the dogs would have fattened enough
hogs to have furnished the population with a
reasonable amount of meat. But instead of
raising enough meat for home consumption
they scrape up what few remaining dollars re-
main in the country. from last years cotton
crop, and send it North for bacon.
Curse the worthless dogs! Wherever you
find them in the greatest numbers you find the
people correspondingly poor and the country
wretched. I wish the tax was twenty five dol
lars and the proceeds given to encourage the
raising of sheep. Here is great central State,
adapted by nature to the production of wool,
and wool, too, of such superior quality that it
has taken the premium more than once at the
worlds fair, yet, on account of the myriads of
worthless ours which prey upon the sheep,
there is not one quarter enough wool produced
for home consumption, and the country is
drained of money to send to more civilized and
prosperous communities to purchase wool and
woolen clothing. And the, people complain of
being poor. Yes, they arespoor, and how can
they expect to be otherwise in State where
the dogs cost six times as much as the schools,
and where there is nothing to sell and every
thing to buy.
In twenty-seven counties of this State-av-
erage counties-the dogs last year killed II ,469
sheep. In the one County of Giles they got
away with 1850.
A Northern farmer who settled in Coffee
County was telling me few days ago of the
fine location he had for sheep p-raising as COM
pared with the North. Itcost only one-quarter
as much to winter sheep here as it does in the
North. The cold weather never killed his
lambs, no matter what month of the year they
were born. But there was one drawback that
spoiled all that was promising and fine. The
worthless dogs killed his sheep and destroyed
all the profits of wool-growing. He was pow
erless to remedy the matter. The country was
fairly alive with dogs, every family having from
two to dozen, the poorer and more wretched
and ignorant and worthless the family the more
dogs they kept.
The other day was reading a card from Asa
Faulkner one of the most useful citizens of
Tennessee. His life has been spent in war
fare against ignorance, idleness and dogs, (they
all go together,) and in building up the manu-
featuring interests of the State. He has q
family worthy of the man. They take hold
with their hands, and county full of such
would in few years become worth whole
congressional district of the average popula-
ton. He said that two of his sons had estab-
lshed a woo!en f-ctory in Warren County.
ture has so abundanty provided every section
of the State, and gave work to fifteen hands
no small item where very large per cent. of
the population are without employment. This
little WOODEN mill saved the county $25,000
annually; that is, kept that amount of money
at home, which would have been otherwise
sent out of the country for wooden clothing.
But the mill had to stop and why? Because
the worthless dogs-and there seems to be
about million in Warren County-killed the
the sheep and thus the supply of wool was
cut off.
All honor to the Tennessee Legislature for
passing the dog law. 1t is IN important step
in the direction of progress and civilization
Looking over into dog g-cursed Georgia we find
the wool interest PROSTATE from the same causes
which operate here; but the Legislature have
not got to the point of passing the dog law.
They will work up to it after a while, mean
time buying their wool and woolen goods in
other sections, and complaining daily that
there is "no money in the country" No, there
is no money in the country, but plenty of
dogs.
In twenty one counties of Georgia, as shown
by the late census, the negroes own and feed
4, ,211 dogs and but 265 sheep, or about Is dogs
to one sheep. Healthy condition of thingsl
Vigorous community Great inducements to
emigration.
BRAVE SpEEcH.-There were several great