The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-08-13


the trainer, and after a rapid, clean, strong
walk is acquired the speed-gaits should be
attended to, though very carefully, until
they arc brought to good degree of pro-
6ciency. Horses may be made to attain
almost incredible speed at this way Of going
| if due care is observed: We have known
numerous road bred horses that would
walk from four and half to five miles an
hour without urging, and many, in fact,
most wcil-bred road horses, could be taught
| to cover greater distances thar this in the
same time if it wero not for the pernicious
custom Gas we think) of putting the colts
to the trot rs soon as they are in tho har-
ness and before they are really bridlewise.
Every farmers boy knows that he can do
bettor job of work-plowing, narrowing
or working corn-with fast walking team
which makes the dirt fly than with slow
one. The saving Oh farm when the
horses walk three miles an hour, or even
when they walk two miles and a half, is 20
per cent, or in other words, the fast team
can rest a whole day in the week and yet
do as much work rs the slow team-do it
| easier and do it better. In times as at
present, when the work is pressing or the
| weather uncertain, the fast team is treas
ure. While every effort has boon made to
increase the speed Of the tro.ter, the draft
horse men have been working for pounds
with little regard either for muscle or walk
ing-spccd. 1t is very great mistake to
suppose that the draft horse can not be
trained to walk rapidly. We have been
breeding to a Pcrcherob for four years
that often walks niue miles in ono hour
and fifty minutes, over a hilly road, and
his colts are all rapid walkers. Life is too
short to spend it in poking along after
team that cannot get their heads up. The
lazy man to whom exertion is burden
actually works harder than the brisk,
rapid worker.- lIuN,cos .NonMy.
| GRAVEYARD GnOULs.-Mr. John G.
IIumphries of Durhamville, Aiken County
\ s. c., writes to the Al$c': Itc,o,ve.. o., @
an account Of an outrage p":pH:ratcd on
the night of July 9th, at the cemetery oil
g9a tJaay t" Rasih Ra shuHfaAh HAhpish IS I'd in ASsn ken
County. nsa. lIanscy's Bridge on tho North
Edsto River, but the cemetery is on the
opposite side Of the river. \ young man
named Tillman II. Williams, Of exceptions
ally good character and woll connected died
seven months ago and was dcccntly buried.
On the 24th of July the grave bore the
evidences Of having been deserted, and rel
ativcs Of the dead man had the grave
opened, the body removed and. an autopsy
held, when it was asccrtaincd that tho
chest of the corpse had been cut open from
Just above the navel to the claviclc or col
lar bone, the knife ranging centrally
through tic stcrnum making an incision
more than twelve inches long. The heart
had been removed and the hands deprived
of their thumbs. The affair has caused
much excitement in the ncighborhood.
| pILLERING. --TEcy were coming down
from Saginaw on the boat, and as a swell
rocked the steamer, hcyouns lady screamed
out, aud craw,cd around until she seized
the young !naE arms.
'pilcr yer head right here, Susan " he
exclaimed pattng his heart with one hand
and slipping the other around her waist.
when fellow loves girl as love you
he could take her on his back and swim
eighteen miles in bcJ-line and then &c
home and hoe corn till shutdown. Pillel
yer head right here, my 1--we. and if she
raus, and halls, and thunders blue blazes
don't you sIucal one squcal.
'Arc "" safe p she trcmblinsly inquired
Safe as cow tied to brick wall cigh
teen feet thick. my love. just lean righ
over here, shut your pcary eyes, and fee
as contentcd rs if yc sat on the top rail O
the pasture fcucc, waitin' for a tin ped
dler to arrovc in sight "
She pillcrcd,' aud everybody remarked
that he looked like q hero.
GAVE uER LirH roR OrngRs.-St. Paul.
Mimi, August IA Butte. Montana, special t.
the Psoarsr P''~ gives the particulars Of the
drowning Of Miss Jane Macarthur, formerly 0
that city, IN heroic effort 10 the lives OF
others. For year past she had been condUc
ting a cattle rnnchc on the upper sun Rive
with her Old mother. She was encampcd OF
the bank Of tic river when Judge Armsronj
with his wife, laughter aged -, son aged -
and n sister, attempted - ford the river with