The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-05-11
UNION c. H., SOUTH cARoENA, MAY II, 1877.

CAROLINA, MAY IL, 1877.
million of lives, and they will not be all
Russians and Turks either. can hardly
believe thatthe Turks can Withstand the
shock. They may save Constantinople, but
if they lose overy other point what good will
it do them? General Sherman also took a
favorable view Of the effect Oh this country
He added:
1t will keep our people at work day and
night to provide for Europe, if there should
be general war, and that now seems inev-
liable to me. believe all the great powers
will be directly or indirectly involved be-
fore the year is out. In the parts of the
country 10 which the field fights will GER
tainly take place half million men OH
either side can and will be used The Rus
slams will have to pull along very fast
through the summer, for they get all their
4tssfjs ~ Il tAeixsa;l
these Are rarely ava aflab bi6
| Gen. Sherman said h was in favor of
allowing some of our army officers to visit
either army without pay and serve on staff
duty.
Mobile Register The effect that war
between Russia and Turkey would have on
the United States may be conjccturcd by
studying our market reports. The hostile
rumors which have been flying between the
capitols of Europe for the past few days have
led to sharp rise in American wheat and
all breadsuffs. Other causes have operated
to stiffen the market for the past six months;
but it is noticeable that American wheat
has been steadily advancing since the early
| part of last fall, when the Eastern question
| began to be most threatening. Since then
the rise in wheat has been nearly 60 cents
bushel. The prevalent belief that the
spring would see the opening of great
war in the East has certainly done its part
| it this improvement of prices. From these
facts the New York Post concludes that such
war would be materially benefit to the
trade and commerce of the United States.
1t would create large European demand
for American grain and flour and provisions
of all kinds, and the effect of this would be
to stimulate manufactures and business in
nearly every branch Of industry. Ocean
ircighis would partake Of the Improvement,
and if England were dragged by circumstan-
ces into tho vortex of the war, American
commerce, having the preference for the
carrying trade, would get start which it
has not enjoyed for nearly twenty years.
| Americans with these thoughts in their
minds, to say nothing Of the concern which
they feel in the promotion of Christianity
and civilization in Turkey, will eagerly
watch every days development of the Eas.
tern question.
- MaasAis AnReals lhatKeep Russia,
| and Tufkoy 6ku no longer DC avcftcd.V AT
ready the tramp of armed men can be heard
on the banks of the Pruth and the Danube,
both nations hurrying for iard to completion
their armamcnts for a long and bloody con-
test, in which perhaps all the nations of
Europe may be forced to take part. Fear
full as the crash must be and pregnant with
momentous consequences to Europc-ths
country may fiud it the occasion to recover
its lost commerce. if wise and lberll poll
cy be adopted by Congress with respect to
the shipping interests, while manufactures
and agricultural products will secure
market all over the world, which will put
life into the palsicd busines circles and make
our wharves and workshops resound with
the hum of active toll. Europe's difficulty
is certainly the opportunity of the United
States.
| RUSSIA.
Nav York Times The great northern
empire, which, according to appearances, is
on the verge of war with her inert, but not
yet moribund, southern neighbor covers
about one sixth of the solid land on the
globe, an aggregate exceeding nine hundred
million square miles. Hcrpopulation, num-
bering about 90,O00,000, comprises more
than hundred different nationaIities, and
at least half that number of languages are
spoken within her boundaries, She has
debt Of not far from twonty y-fvc millions
roubles, the roube being..of the value in our
currency of 1911 cents, so that represented
in dollars, her Indebtedness amounts to near.
ly $4,000, 100000. Her revenue was set
down for the last fiscal year at 525 ,000, 900
roubles. Her army numbers in fact about
100000 men of all arms, though since the
decree of 1872, enforcing service and in
terdicting the evasion of substitutes, it has
paper basis Of half a million more.
Hoo CHoLERA.-Thc Paris Intcligencer
says that j. Nj. Dunn, Esq, of that county
has used the following recipe for hog cholera
for several years past, both before and since
the war, with great success. His ncighbors
have also used it, and they say it has never
failed to cure the cholera when the hogs
woald cat it, and that it will arrest the dis
ease among those not already sick, if fed to
them ShelbyOiNc (Te"n.) Commercial