The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1893-02-10
For the TINES.
News from the Farm---A Good Negro Gone.

PEA RIDGE, Feb l.-Mr. EpITOR AS
"Kelton Wheel has been locked for some
! lime, and no other writer from the Ridge has
gwen your readers any news from this sec
ton, concluded to say something. At the
beginning, let me say, haven't any expe.
rience in writing to newspapers.
| 1t IL needless for me to say anything
| ABOUT the cold weather we have all iust
| passed through. The farmers have done but
| iittle work up to this time on their farms,
| but we hear the ring of the axes now, aud ;f
40 have no more bad weather soon the farm
ers will start their plows soon.
hope the experience of the farmers last
year will not be forgotten, for if they in
crease the acreage in cotton this year we
| may look for q low price for it next fall.
There has been a great deal of moving
among the farmers in this section this year
which think is q pretty good evidence that
they are in better condition than they have
been for some years l will only mention
one that has moved from this county to
Spartanburg, namely, A. Jackson Foster
colored lie is well known in this section
rs an industrious honest, christian man.
lie was one Of Uncle ''Si'' Fosters slaves, |
and had god example set before him il;
Ills young days, which, after his freedom, |
he tried TO practice. The people of the Ridge |
could have much better spared scores of |
other co'ered men such ~ prowl about at |
night and Sundays with "chuck "A luck
box or n deck of cards in their pockets. with |
n few white men who have lost all respect
for themselves, their families, their country,
and their Cod
-ss.,-h.-is aai..f.lu tr~.,a :. ,sa,r,,.
stand this immortality is not confined to this
section, but to all or almost all of the countv
This evil should be stopped, if it takes the
old whipping post law to do it,
have brancled off flom what | intended
to say about Unc;e jackson. lie moved to
W. "A, Lindsey plantation, on Pacolct River.
the first of DecembeI, 1853 or 1869 and
moved off Of the place to Spartanburg the
first of December, 1899. lie toid me that
he had paid Mr.. Lindsey over sixteen thou
sand dollars rent for ;he II or % years tha,
MIR. Lindsey owned the land-paying him
IN average Of over one thousand dsIlars n ,
year on less than 800 aercS Of land, for sey.
'ral ysars-good farming.
lie was never idle. For many years he I
hreshed wheat, gnned cotton, and had
hingle machine and an evdpera,or, and ,
made molasses and shingles .
Our country would be blessed il we had
many Jackson Fosters. lie raised a large I
amily OF children and gave them oil a good Il
cucatlon. One is II preacher. some are 8
eaching school and one is at n medical col n
ege, preparing himself 10 practice msdicinc. ! y
Jackson, with all the old slaves will soon | !
ASS away, and their old masters with them. | c
EB negro problem has batiied the best efforts u
nr ablest statesmen, AID the question is no II
carer solved now than it was twenty years n,
60. The negro has been tool for the n
oiliical demagogue, and men in all business II
ave taken advantage of his ignorance lie IL
aS coEt this country more blooishel and a,
'ouble than anything else, and ] fear we a,
ave not yet reached the end T.RMER. C,
Eighteen box cars anl n gondoln of the "
|. ,n'h a:o'i"" roai were smashed by a run Al
at Oraugeburs on Friday. .,