The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-23
For tho anderson MteHigencer.
A Racy Letter from Jemimy Cutie.
PURLAsKI, OcoNEE Co., S. G.

MR.. EDDITUR: beg leeve tn trubble you
agin on the subjeck ov the Greenvil & Columby
Railrode. I am still the original, bonner6de
owner ov the same identikel sheers ov stock
which I TUX with other unfortunets at the be-
ginnin. Now, hev newer blamed the people
who advized me tu subscribe for their patriot
ism, but I've had strong misgivins for long
time as to their Judgement No dividins for
me as yet, tho was promised 10 persent frum
the start.
want sum infurmashun. Firstly, what's
the reezun yu Edditurs, frum A tu lizard, are
so tender-footted and skeery and pertickler
about printin ennything which looks suspishus
or damajin to the stockholders and the peepul
ginerally in the management of railrodes?
Now, emmy little improvements or patchin up,
emmy repairin or buyin new ingin, is blazoned
in in every paper, with long and interestin
comments; whilst whole cumpany may be sold
out, or gobbled up, and nary word. Now,
don't blame emmy body fur sellin out to Patter-
son and Cumpany, fur they did promis power
full things-two trains q day, branches every
where, frum the seehoard to the sun, moon and
stars, big dividins and plenty of intrust. The
wunder il that emmy boldly believed them.
They tryed tu buy frum me, but sed Jemimy
did not want emmy sugar in hern; she'd jest
wait and see. Well, she hes waited and seen,
and things git no better FAST by no means, not
at all at leest, no outside dividins mongst the
stockholders. Now, they tel me that the rode
has been sold agin, and that it is ernin power
ov mummy, and when axed what bekum ov it,
they teled me that sum judge sumwhere had
granted junction, or sum sich thing, preven-
tin emmy boldly from suin, and also had made
the Greenvil & Columby Railrode its own re-
seever and disburser, so that it was rite hard
tn diskuver emmy thing about it. Now, Squire
B. tells me he never heerd or red of a
debtter bein made his own reseever and dis
burser before, and he il jubersome that it can't
be so. But, if this il so, Mr.. Edditur, we are
in speshal fix no intrust, no dividins, bonds
down to nothin, and stock ditto and the cum
pany itself in the courts, which ginerally re-
seeys and disburses with considerbel freedum.
Az sum in rithmetick, how long by this
swettin prosess of not payin emmy intrust, BARN
down the bonds, &C., would it take coppera-
shun to swallow itself by its own earnins?
Theirs the Blu Ridge Railrode (anuther pet
ov mine) in the same mellonkolly condishun-
exsep theirs nuthin tu reseev, and consequently
nuthin tu disburs. But why can't the railrodes
in the State act with sum sence? Why can't
they opperate Il bleeve that's the wurd) sum-
times in the intrusts ov the people? Now, l
wanted tn send sum bride froot frum Tuckoa
Sitty tu Anderson, but would yu bleeve it, Mr.
Edditur p I had tn pay tu Greenvil, 40 miles
further than Siniky Sitty, and then "a miles
back tu Anderson. But the fun oy it waz the
froot waz lost on the way, and both rodes de-
klared they had never reserved it, and went so
far az tu say it waz never listed, when one rode
charged rs sents and the uther l doler fur
about bushel ov bride apples. And on in
quiry, du heer that the merchants ov Ander-
sun pay doller and thirty sents barrel fur
-four frum Missoory, and can't git it down frum
Siniky Stty, but pay 40 sents barrel frum
Greepyil to Andersun. Hoao IL that fur hi !?
(if dare use vernackuler expresshun.)
1t duz seme tn me, wher Legislator grants
a charter tu folks tu bid railrodes, they hav or
ort tu exercise the right tu compel the copper
ashun tn Operate their rode in the public in
terests sumwhat; and if two or more imprack-
tikable Prezzidents chuse tu butt their heds tu-
gether and be kontrary, tu see that the public
duz not suffer. But purhaps I am all wrong,
and don't understand the flosofy ov transporta-
shun at ALL Perhaps people who propose tu
act fur us deem it better that our people shood
alwaze bi provisshuns in NJ York or Bawlti-
more, and send it by Charleston and Columby
and if we a0iU persist in byin in the West,
wher sich things are raized, that the leest we
can du il tu send it down tu Branchvil, and
then tu Columby-all fur pure patriotism and
luv ov country. Now, Jemimy begs leev re-
specktivly tu differ. She bleevs in byin in the
cheapest market, and sellin in the deerest'
(when she haz emmy thing tn sel,) and in gittin
tu that market on the shortest lines.
But, Mr.. Edditur, ther il one consolashun.
If the debt ov the Greenvil & Columby Rale-
rode il down tu nuthin, and the cumpany bies
it up out ov its own ernins, then I du acktually
bleev that my sheers will loom up and be
very valuable tu sum ov my posterity.
And ther il anuther thing. see bi nay last
hateAigencer that yu hev bin tn Washintun az
a delight, tu ask Ginerel Grant and Congress tu
reckernize that the tax payers in our State
shood be little better attended tu, and hav
sum little say in the Guverment l goes with
yu on that line, in reason; but wood like tu
ask yu viii our ralerode copperashuns, mostly
owned bi the tax payers, don't du the same
thing? Why don't they give the minority
| atockho1dors q small voice in ther manage