The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1877-04-27
COTTON GROWING Ann FOon=

break out between Russia and Turkey in
the course of few days. Should the strue.
gle be. confined to these two powers, We need
not apprehcud very serious results to the
cotton producing industry, although the eft:
feet will be depressing. Russia consumes
In her manufactures at least four hundred
thousand bales of cotton and Turkey is a
pretty large consumer of cotton goods
Both these countries will be crippled in
these particulars by the war.
But it is very general idea abroad that
other powers will probably be drawn into
the struggle in spite of themselves, and that
there is real and serious danger that gen.
eral explosion may follows in which all Eu-
rope will become involved, aud the political
map Of the continent be good deal chan
ged before quiet is restored again.
1t is unhappily the case that this is COM
ing, Gift comes at time when all the
disios. Every one oi them hHa Is head over
heels in debt, and cannot carry any more.
Russia and Turkey are already bankrupt.
Austria and Italy are in not much better con
ditlon, and Germany, France and Great
Britain, cannot safely increase their liabii-
ties.
There is no telling what disastrous fnan.
cial results would therefore, follow gene
raj war. And it is certain that the common
people, in poorer food, in scantier clothing,
iRtlgher taxes, in lighter supplies of all the
cQmiorts of life, the production of which
kes trade active and bring labor, and raw
peoducts in demand. Any such catastrophe
would probably put the cotton product back
in magnitude and demand half gene.
rltion.
Now, the possibility of such result is
worthy Of serious contemplation by the cot
ton producing people of the South. They
may we'll remember that the cotton crop
they are new planting will most probably
of bales, as wcS believe; and that it may
very possibly have to seek its principle mar
ket in a continent raoked by the convul-
sious of .Yar, and dependent to far greater
extent than usual Sn the. surplus food pro-
duct of America for subsistence.
Such a state of3hings will mako cotton
worthless to producers, and if the latter are
compelled to relyiopon it to procure their
food supplies, it Will net be easy to escape
Inconvenience anA suffering. It is a con
junction of facts md possibilities which no
prudent man shos3 l6se sight of, and which
should stimulate Very farmer to active ef.
forts to render HI Gself independent Of 9th.
er sources for h6 fsod supplies Macon
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UNREELINa A yPULL-BAcK.-A most
amusing scene was witnessed on X street
the other day. A lady with q vigorous pull
baok and ap elaborate polonaise was walking
up X from Fourth street. In that unac.
countable outside pocket which The fashion
pIescribes shall be trained 10 the rear and
hung as low down as possible upon the las,
named garment, she had new, full spool d
thread-just purchased evidently. An
end of this escaping from the open pocket
caught the eye of X street gamma six
or seven year Old specimen He deity
caught the end, and holding to it, found
thai it reeled off without the promenader
being aware of it, He at once squared him
self sailor fashion, Ia the middle Of the walk
aud as she paid OF he hauled in,' hanG
over hand, to the'infnite amusement of hal
hundred men Who witnessed the operation
In brief time the line reached clear up C
Fifth ireet. from near Eourtb, and as tn,
lady stepped out on tho tagging to cross th,
strees the end ran oH, and she went on will
ltbe Snpty spool, blissfully unconscious o.
k<hs yhcrrfment behind hof back at her ex
tense. The cruel men--and by this tim,
shtndred had seen the proeess-then begaI
tospsculate upon the look Of blank assonish
ment which must have overpowered he
countenance, when on reaching home, sh
found the spool empty, which she could as
sert was full when she purchased it.
The conversation turns upon the fastidi
oasness of the times. "Why," says mem
| bsts "they' II soon say marriage is improper.
fNo, no, replies Douglas Jerrold, "thsy'l