The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-02-13
Correspondents Of Union TINES. -.
Notes from the Pea Ridge Metropolis.

NOTES from the fea mage MetropohS
KELToN, FEB. 1O.-Farm work is at a
very low ebb at resent.
1t has been raining on the Ridge almost
every day for the last two weeks, and the
mud is far more p'ent full than money round
and about Ke'ton. The roads are in ON
awful condition for travelling either on
horseback or in vehicles, the mud in places
being almost up to the axleiree.
do not feel much like writing to-day,
but will try to give you few dots.
Pneumonia is raging very strong on the |
Ridge just now We also have great many |
cases of Ia Grippe. There is more sickness |
in this section just now than has been for |
some time
MIR. J. T. Alnau died last Friday evening
from Pneumonia and two of his children
are quite sick, one with Pneumonia and the
| other with a dccp-seated cold.
Mr. Editor, in your last issue you said
| something about farmers and cotton buyers.
but in the last paragraph you did not, nc.
| cording to my judgment. give the farmer his
| due in saying, awe have often heard that
in farming there was more in the man than
in the land, and we suppose the aphorism
holds good in the sale of farm products"
Now, Mr.. Editor, do not mean to sny
that you intended to do the farmer an injus-
tice, X but you arc not accustomed to selling
cotton. and perhaps do not know that the
farmer is not allowed TO hold his sample in
his own hand and make it show up as he
wou d like to do, but cotton buyer cuts his
cotton, and then handles the sample to suit
himself, often tearing it so that the next
buyer will not better his bid. This know
by S4ps{lsRsa spS IN ,is. isss!ing cotton;
"dander." but it is a fact, undcniable, that
cotton did not sell according to grades this
season rs it should have done. Why is cot
ton not as cool from one mans hands as
another.
Mr.. Editor, It is a shame upon any cotton
buyer to bid on one sample of cotton twice
in one hour and pay more to the last man
that presents the cotton than he oferef 10
the Fl st. 1t either shows that he is sorry
Judge, or that there Is injustice attached to
the buyer, one of the two things is certainly
so il seems 10 me. l have known cotton In
sell SOC per 1O0lbs moro in the second mans
hands than the first man could get for it.
Now, cir, | say there is no justice in such
rs that, and think you will agree with me
/ will endcavor to answer Vox's sum:
If it will take 6 holes three ind three
ifths hours to empty vessel it will take
324 holes to empty the same vessel in three
ffiecnths of an hour. If am not right
; hope Vox will correct me and show m'
where am wrong.
hELTON WHEEL.
The ten trees in four rows problem wa
published and answered in the TINES las
;, year.-ED.
t xWe contend that We did no injustice t
. the farmers by intimnting that there is grca
= difference in the linen offering cotton o
, any other product for sale. We have seen
man get ! cent pound more for cotton fror
), a merchant by intimating that he "wishe
o to trade some," and after selling bales h
y bought only 90 cents worth Of goods fror
d the buyer. If man knows how to cell col
:. ton, he will not allow buyer to tear or i
a any way injurc his samples. little pei
y sistent pleading often brings slight advsnc
p on cotton, and some men have neither tn
u staying or pleading qualities to get til
Il highest price. 1t is no more injustice TO
Il class of citizens 10 say that some of thei
y have better faculties for selling ut the higl
es. andabnyipg. Mt the lowest prices tina
"a others, than. il ia To snv --.--.so q petr'
10 judge Of horse than another, or can get
d better price for horse than his neighbor
81 The aphorism holds good, FREUD Kelto
r. Wheel, there's rs much in the seller rs I'll
" buyer, particularly when there are three
&c four bidders for the same article.