The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1875-07-02
Southern "Independence."
[Nstehez Weekly Democrat

[Natehez Weekly Democrat
"Hallo, stranger, you seem to be going
to market.
ayes, sir; / am."
"What are you carrying that PIow
along for?"
"Going to sent it TO Pittsburgh"
"To Pittsburghi in Pennsylvania"
"You're mighty right, I am"
"What are you going to send it there
for?'
"To get sharpened.
"All the way to Pittsburgh to get
sharpened?"
"You bet! We've starved our black
smith out; he pulled up stakes the other
day and went to Texas"
"Well, that's rather novel idea my
friend-sending a plow so far to get
sharpened.'
"Not SO novel as you heard it was.
We do our milling in St. Louis"
ais that so?"
you're right it is. We used to have
mill at Punkinvine Creek, but the
owner got too poor to keep it up, and 80
we turned to getting our grinding done
at st. Louis."
"You don't mean to say you send
your grist ali the way to st. Louis by
rail?'
"I didn't say nothing about gris-we
hsin't got no girls to send. But we get
our -four and meal from st. Louis"
81 see you have hide on your wagon"
ayes; our old COW died last week.
March winds blowed the life out'n her.
Sendin' her hide to Boston to get it
tanned" ;"
"AlI the way to Boston? Is not that
rather expensive, my friend? The
freights will eat the hide up"
That's n fact-cleaner than the buz-
yards did the old critters carcass. But
what's the use bein' taxed to build rail-
roads 'thout you get the good of 'em?
Uaed to have a lanyard over at Lick
skillet and shoemaker, too. But they
kerhummuxed."
'Keriummuxed.-what's that"
at means, gone up a spout-and
twixt you and me, that's mighty nigh
the case with our State"
"When do you expect to get your
leather"
"Dont expect to git no leather at all
expect to get shoes, some day, made
at Boston or thereabouts."
"Rather a misfortune as you heard
it was. Monstrous sight of shuckin'
and nubinin' a COW, and milkin' her
night and mornin' and gettini only
about three quarts day"
"What are you going to do for milk?"
"Send North for it."
"Send North for milk?"
ayes; concentrated milk and Goshen
butter"
"Ohl see the point"
"Mighty handy things these railroads
made them Yankee fellers do all our
jobs for us now-do our amIthin', and
grindin', and tannin', and milkin', and
churnin' :"
al see you have a bale OF. cotton"
ayes, we go our bottom nickel on
1 cotton. Sendin' il up to Massachusetts
to get it carded, spun and wove. Time1l
come when well send it there to be GIN
ned; then well be happy. Monstrou'
slight of trouble running these gins"
"That would be rather expensive
sending cotton in seed"
mo more 40 than them Western fel.
lers pays when they send corn east and
get dollar a bushel and pay six bit'
freight. Besides, AZ I said, what is the
use of paying for railroads shout we use
the roads?"
"You seem to ar preciate the advant'
ages of railroads.
81 think we ought-we pay enough
for 'em"
"I reckon you fatten your own pOrkT
"Well, you reckon wrong, stranger.
get them IIlinoy fellers to do that foi
me. It's mighty convenient, too,-mon
strous sight of trouble totinR big bas
ketful of corn three times a day to hog
in a pen,-especiaily when you hahn
got none to tote it to-"
81 should think So"
"There's one thing lacking though t
make the business complete"
What's that?"
"They ought to send them hogs read
cooked. Cookin', and preparin' woo'
for cookin' takes up heap Of time tha
ort by rights TO be employed in the cot
: ton patch. 1 was sayin' to my old wo
man the other day, if we Mississippi
folks get our cookin' and washin' don
. up North and sent by express, we'd be q
! happy as 6ce-holders."
"Your horse in the lead there seem
to be lame"
ayes, needs shoeih'. If he wasn't tn
> only horse I've got, and 1 can't spar
. him, I'd send him up where they mad
the horse shoes and nails and get hir
shod. Can't get such thing done i
e our parts. Perhaps I can at the depot.
= "How do You manage to live in , ou
y parts. my old friendf"
"Why, we raise cotton. Ny roat
i turns of here. stranger Gee, Ball, bac
II Brandy. Pm glad aeed You stranger
% A Dogs Fatal Bites.