The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1878-06-20
A Trip Down the Country.

'f@'' tNNN~'' fthiiSS sSAiP II you thluh IL
worthy of space in your columns.
The first place we will notice is
Piercetown, which.is located in An
derson Co., on the main road leading
from Anderson, @. H., to Shutdown,
another leading from there to Green.
vile. 1t consists OF four families, two
blacksmith shops, one wagon and
buggy shop, one store. One mile
below, we came to the dwelling of
Mr.. W., who we met last July at
Grove Station, who was a strong
advocate of fencing stock and turn
ing out the farms, which he has got.
just before coming in front of his
house, my attention was drawn to a
calf tied around the neck with a
rope Is or 90 feet long to a stump in
a grove of timber, and its grazing
was patch of dog fennel and penny
royal, which it didn't devorr very
ravinous. One mile below Mr.. WIS
we left the A. and q. road, turning
eastward two miles to OrrviIle. Pas,
sing there. some 4 or 5 miles, I came
to Mr.. Els, who was taking his mules
from the wagon. He spoke to me
and l stopped. After the usual
compliments, he asked me where |
was from; I told him P. "Ab," says
he, lyon have not got the no fence
law up there" Itold him no, and
we didn't want it. He remarked
that he had been enlarging his pas
t"re, that there was fifty acres in it
and he feared bis stock would perish
Ibis last charge was, for Gods sake
never have the no fence law. | drove
one mile and took lunch and led NV
ST. ok. We then crossed the G. and
q. Il. r., some fifteen miles from
Anderson, @. Ii. and five or six from
Williamston. The next llace of note
was stantonviNle, situated OH a high,
dry ridge, where the road leading
from Orrville to Cooley's Bridge
and road from Honea Path to Will
llamston cross. 1t is in a delapldated
the buildings are old and
weather. beaten, From this place we
turned down the II and w. road,
three miles below we come the beau
titul little place Calhoun, which is
located in one Of the prettiest, white,
sandy country we have seen for g
town. There is nice Baptist church,
school house, two shops Zone iron, the
other woody and everything seemed
to be alive to their several interests.
tEom this point, four miles down in
the direction of the Toogalo, I cross
ed the Anderson line into a small
corner of Abbeville and down to the
eommodions mills Of Mr.. M. E. He
has a brick house, 30x35, two stones,
four sets of runners 0wo for wheat
and two for corn cotton gin, circular
saw. His mills are on the. .Toogalo,
twenty four miles from Anderson @.
ii and twenty miles from Laurens
.. Ii. His dwelling looks we'll con.
structed from the road; he is in Alb
beville county, two miles from the
line, four miles from where four
counties corner, Anderson, Green
Vile, Laurens and Abbeville; he is
full bloodded Irish, and came here in
4s, without anything except what
clothes he had on his back. He says
he would not take $4,000 tor his
machinery. He has fine stock; saw
one of his cows and priced her; he
said he might take $500 for her, but
no less. He said he wet to the Gen
tennial To buy some fine stock, not
satisfied with his, bnt did not see but
one that he would exchange his for,
she br night 81 800, and be come
back home satisfied that his was good.
We then crossed the river just above
he mills at an island, where the first
bridge extends to the Island, then
crossing the leland, some 90 to 80