The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-16

bnt yopr sight draft matured on the 20tl
inst and must be met, or renewed with
heavier interest" Talk about smiting el
knees-taint nuthin ter the rattling ell
dry bones bout that time-folks gifts
kross, krabbed and billious-shakon ayers
or then oncurabIc, and faces elongate ter
full hippo pieters-the zepher might blow
er tempest, and you'd smell in vain for
sweet odors-couldn't borry wash pot,
much less get a invitation ter dinner.
However, you had better be kereful-the
fall fights commence about this time.
Krismas komes and no kotton with 1t,
but due bills, chlls and mud and sich
mud--Jaruselam ! why sweet gum ar a
good lubricatur. and but slightly oleagi-
nus beside it-theu you ar mud bound all
winter. That's about the way we Mas
sissippi folks lived down to the war.
Since then the kraw6sh and komp2unds,
aforesaid, have jest tuck the koantry.
It's pity such clover folks havn't got a
better kountry to live in. Most Of my
friends begun !eavin the State-some ter
Kalhforny, some ter Honduras, and some
ar too poor to git away. One more year
and I'd been like them latter. read
the Kultivater. and saw that Georgy war
wakin up-makin 80 or 40 bushels of
wheat, and one and two bales er kotton
per aker-how Joanner had burst the
kotton bubble and bloomed hundred
squares to bolls, per stalk, on her amber
hills-how old Red Glover, like cold Red
Sandstone" the sub stratim of big for
tunes, had jest run spontaneous over the
hole State-ter say nuthin er Lespedeza
reaching up its Strata arms and chokin
out Burmuda and broomsedge, and caus.
ing ''old field pines" to moan a requiem
over departed greenness, maxim fine kat
tie spring up indiginus, kausin a deep
we'll er sweet milk tor flow from every
cuppen whar kows war wont to lowe =
that Chester Whites now lay lazly lollin
in luxurious lassatude down in beds er
Lespedeza, whar once "Land Pixies and
Razor Backs' browsed on broad fields er
broomsedge and poor pete, and gracefully
ground their nasal grisscs on beds er ma
tive granite, with an okasional grunt, you
know, and sawed fence rails with their
backs goin thro the cracks, and folks
couldn't keep em outer ther fields.
Well. Mr.. Editur, them above things,
and heap more, war rit by your numer
GUS correspondents, and nocked the props
from under my calculations completely.
Thinks l ter myself, if them fcllers ar
tcAin the truth, Georgy is mighty NOR
phised. and iii just take Rhody, Robert
and the nrchins-not 60 with the multi
tude this time, but got back to the good
old State OF Georgy and now here am.
shore enuff, in three miles of my old
home. sottn down on as good er piece er
land as Georgy kan boast, with prospects
of more kotton than my force kan pick
out. and l>orn enuff for yeres! Hur'ah
for hurraw! III be dad.rabbed if Geor-
gy amt the Eldorado you read about
reckon, that is ter say, hope so; fact is,
don't want ter holler too loud ylt-
might not be outer the wood', you know.
Sub rosum, Mr.. Editur, why don't your
folks keep writin bout Lespedeza? I've
been huntin fur few of them two foot
stalks with pink blooms and seed, tel
send M. W. Phillips. but its dead as er
door nail round here and amt rooted out
nuthin, neither. What's up-anybody
bit, sir? l got Hancock Dixon's pictuI
hung it up over the fire place got Da
vid (Oxford) Dixon's kotton sced. Peeler
Moena, common, ct i'd omne-skattered
Joanner periusely, and worked it ala
Dixon-well, l amt goin ter blow, bn'
will jest say that my kotton is better
than any Massssippy krap I've had ful
10 ycres err more-good wheat, oats, per-
taters, mangolds, ruta baggas-bgges'
Chester Whites, "a few Razor backs saw
inter the korn field okasional tho)--kin
kiest Spanish mareeners, good water
better nabors, luscious fruits. chesnuts
and chinkapins. Whoopee! Up goes my
hat agin, and here's three cheers fur tht
Kultivator, Georgy, Joanncr, and th'
hole Dixon family. e. kompounds. kot
ton seed, and all kombined. Who'll join
me? am yOurn,
GENES MUNRO.