The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-03-06
Correspondence Of the Uoi,n TIMES.
Santuo City and SurroundinRa.

SAnTuc, March, 2.--Pursuant 70 desire
| TO make another rem visit. and when asked
whats the news" to tell something, but
being poor rconversationalisf, with nothing
much 10 please the reading public, an
inclined to think had better make these
visits few and far between" Ne,erihe:
less, will try and give = ,psMs.
Southern Bniiding Sus| " <8SIksIor, !, a.
Nashville Tenn, was in MOT
I and organized q branch Of the Associatiop,
with the fol owing officers: President, L..
Is. Jeter; Secretary and Treasurer, W. T.
Jones Directors, Rev. C. r. Willeford, J.
| T. Jeter, c. w. Austell, aud j. w. Gregory.
About seventy five shares have been taken
here. :
The Town Council Of this place has elected
MIR. j. L. Jeter, Marshsl, but the place is so
quiet and orderly, that ho has not had an
occasion for exercising his authority. A
strong little prison has been built Though
sm,l. it looks formidable aud cbeerless.
Preparation are being made to improve the
| streets.
Mess j. w. Gregory, and c. w. Austell,
have purchased a township right of q patent
fence, and good many panels of the fence
is being built in this section, on account of
the economy Of rails.
There are great many oil field pines
being cut down in this section to open up
more land to put in ton, white others have
more than they con we'll cultivate, il planted
in ;n cotton ~ IN Some express themselves as 60.
| ing TO turn their attention TO corn afid
peas Tho weather has been so wet that n
great many farmers have not been able to
SOW oats. Those who have done much SOW
ing, did 50 when the ground was very wot.
The'e are, generally, renters, or those who
are careless of the future produc,ivene.s of
their land. Ii little care was taken of the
land the country would be largely benefited.
and somebody would receive thanks from
somebody in the future. II the land owners
III long time rast, had been more thoughtful
OF the future welfare Of the generations then
u come, II wou d not be such hard matter
FOR tillers Of the soil to exc out subsistence.
| do not want to upbraid the dead. hut We
see their mistake, aud ii is our duty to seek
to improve upon their methods.
| Some ime ago one of your Ke!ton CORES.
pondents, "Kelton Wheel" told of the man
ner in which birds were hunted, and which
was beginning to make the bird dog and
shot gun offensive TO great many farmers
&c, and thought, judging from his de.crip-
| tion, it would pole into iusignificence, when
placed alongside of some bird hunting that
Is done solely for money, down here. 1t
seems that party is organized for Tho pur-
pose of killing birds for sale, and it has re-.
suited in the almost complete determination
of the "Bob.Whi,e" family and his folio vera.
good many, both white and colo el, dis
approve of such hunting. While some have
no ohjec ion to hunter going OH his piaco
to hunt for pastimc and for FANNY use,
they do object to their going there to hunt
birds, which ere the .ame as their own pro-
perty, for sale. Such hunting, has a lem
denoy to lead the public to believe that il is
impe'led by greed, to satisfy their own ex-
iremely selfish aims, nnd it n.o inclincs the
public to think they have an almost ire.
pressible inclination TO gloat over the
almighty dollar and to fl their pockets with
| them.
There is something I am constrained to
mention, that of The filthy habit of using
toeacco in church, to say nothing of using
it elsewhere. don't think should have
mentioned it here. at least not now, if 1 had
not. white in church, Sunday or two ago,
got my hand into some Of the fil,h. If they
must chew in church why not spit in their
tuuofi oaSyie3 il out in their owl