The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-07-20
For the Times.
Letter from North Pacolst

For the Times.
Letter from North Pacolst
July 18th, 1877.
FRIEND Stokes EVERY letter containing
news will make the TINES more readable, there
fore infict another upon you. There is much
sickness in this vicinity and FIVE deaths have oc-
CURED in as many days. or the deaths it is
painful to record that of DR.. Thomas Littlejohn,
and the only son and child of Il. II. Brown
the remaining three were negroes. The disease
being principally that known as Summer Dis
ease and confined chiefly to children.
The wheat and oat crops have been garnered
and the result is more than satisfactory. 1have
heard that wheat could be- and had been, bought
stGafneys for 75cts and ST.. per bushel. know
1t can be had in Spartanburg at 81 %. The
cotton and corn crops are doing finely; the corn
is the best we have had for many years the
scotton is small and two weeks late, though clean
of grass and healthy. Gardens arc good, and
with green corn, tomatoes, squashes, cucumbers
beans, potatoes and good shoulder meat at 81
and clear sides at 81, the prospects for famine
are slim.
We are having some talk about the stock law
The negroes, when they have it explained to them,
declare themselves willing to vote for it, and we
could easily carry it in this and Goudeysvile
townships, were it not for a few land holders who
are very much like the dog in the manger--bc-
ing unwilling to eat the grass themselve, seek
still to prevent those whe can and who desire it.
The stock law would be productive of more ma
terial benefit to this State than has been the
whole legislation for twenty-five years past, but
the sudden change is "too big boo for colt"
send you an ear of corn which proves con-
olusively be, the fact that the silk is fer
tilizsd by the pollen from tho tassel else how
comes portion of the latter between, in lieu
of the cob Show it to the scientists of Union.
Glad to see you have another excellent CORES
pondent from our fine North Pacolet Country.
WE'LL we bid fair, in the early future, to beat all
other portions of the County and State in fugi
tive literture and journalistic talent, Us we have
in tho excellence Of our cotton, corn and wheat
crops.
would make an effort, Stokes, to reply to the
brilliant letter Of "Pacolet," but the scintill,
tions Of his mighty genius are with me fruitful
source Of amaurosis, and the "lengthened sweet
ness" Of his measure, SO "long drawn out" fall
ing upon my tympanum as it does like the
am lu|laa like the flowers of Summers eve by
twilight dews" into forgetfullness of all else
save his 'love of a. - "duck of a. "per-
Jeetiy spendid'' piece /; and hope he will write
that "pisce" again, just to tell us once more
about "them arr peach tree leaf poultices, which
he does so nicely. Now, if the little children
who distend their dear little intestinces with
lots of nice wormy plums and pears and make
of them q nursery for embryotic curculios, could
just once know that they were being treated
with Hydroeyanique acid poulticcs, instead of
vulgar peach tree leaf poultices, how their little
faces would beam with joy, and how quickly oil
signs Of tympantis would disappear, and the
curculio nursery be with the things of the past
But what suffering he might have saved if he
had written his letter before the children became
i'll, and told them that this wonderful HYDRO
cyGnie acid, was composed Of Hydrogen and cya-
nogen, and then told them that the first is an
inilamsble colorless gas, of extreme lightncss,
of specific gravity O,O692, and in consequence of
its extreme lightncss is often used in filing bal
looms, alias gas bags, (hence in constant requisi-
tion by us country correspondents) that the lat
ter is compound gass, of one equivalent of
h'troGen anu Two OF caroon, ana On essential
ingredient of prussian blue, having an odor
like that Of crushed peach leaves. soy, if he
had explained, as he could have. .done-having
just graduated at "Wofford '*-the last Zoo
sperm in the fruit would have perished as quick
ly as if given bath in Carbolic acid
had almost forgotten to speak of the Railroad
and German Millet. The people in this section
are enthusiastic upon tho subject of a Morrow
Gauge from Unien to Gaffney's, and have no
doubt but the farmers along the line would
work out much of the stock, and the right of
the way be given in every instance. Then, too,
we could engage the services of that wealthy
Corporation, the Thickety & Gilkey drainage
Company. as they seem now to be out of o lob.
Then things would move and the whistle of the
engines fall upon our ears in a twelvemonth.
German Millet has been extensively planted
twhen we consider our people are so hard to
get out of the old ruts) and is looking finely
Much more will be planted another year and
soon fodder-pulling will be abandoned.
J.w.T
= Just there, friend J. w. IT,, you got clear off
the track but, as il Is the narrow-gauge you
are running the fall don't hurt much and "Pac-
olet' will have a chance to administer dose TO
you, very eaectually, before starting again.
.
COMPLIMENT TO JUDGE CooKE.-The Charlotte
observer, after quoting the recent exp preston of