Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-15
GFo~ Hstese Weekly Demoeras.l
SOUTHERN aINDEPENDENCE."

SOUTHERN aINDEPENDENCE."
| Halo. ssr.ngsr. you seem to be going
- market 2
sYes, cir. I am
What Al you carrying that plow
Ia1ong for p
Going to send il to Pittsburg.'
I TO Pittsburg, in PennAylvania ?
You're mighty right; am
What ars you going to send it there
TO get sharpensd.'
AN the way to Pittsburg to get
IGhnrpemed r
You besf>@VVeas~ starved nur black
smith out; he pulled up stakes the 9TH
er day and went to Texas
We'll, that's q rather novel idea
my friend-sending plow SO far to
get sharpened.'
Not so novel as you heard it was.-
We do our milling in st. Louis
is that so P
You're right it is. We used to have
mill at Punkinvine Greek, but the
owner got too poor to keep tup, and SO
we turned to getting our grinding done
at st. Louis
you don't mean to say you send your
grist all the way to st. Louis by
rail Z
4 didn't say nothing about girls
We hain't got no girls to send. But we
get our -four and meal from St. Lou
is
I see you have hide on your wag-
on
Yes; our old COW died last week.
March winds blowed the life out'n her.
Sendin' her hide to Boston to get it
tanned
.All the way to Boston? Is not
that rather expensive my friend? The
freights will eat the hide up
That's fact-cleaner than the buz-
yards did the the old critters carcass.
But what's the use bein' taxed to build
railroads 'thout you get the good of 'em?
Used to have a lanyard over at Lisk-
skillet and a shoemaker, too. But
ther're kerflummuxed.'
| 'Kerfummuxed-what's that 2
4
twixt you and me, that's mighty nigh
the case with our State
when do you expect to get your
leather
Don't expect to git no leather at all
l-expect to get shoes, some day, made
at Boston or thereabouts.'
| Rather n misfortune to lose a milk
COW, my friend
Not 30 much a misfortune as you
heard it was. Monstrous sight of
shuckin' and unbinin' COW, and milk
ing her night and mornin' and gettin'
only about 8 quarts day
What are you going to do for
milk p
Send North for it.
Send North for milk 2
yes; concentrated milk and Goshen
butter
oh! see the point
Mighty handy things these rail-
roads-make them Yankee fellers do
all our jobs for us now-do our smith
in, and grindin', and tannin', and milk
in, and churnin''
I
Yes, we 60 our bottom nickel on
cotton. Sendin' it up to Massachus-
etts to get it carded, spun, and wove.
Time'll come when well send it there
to be ginned, then we'll be happy
Monstrous sight of trouble running
these gins
That would be rather expensive,
sending cotton in seed
No more so than them Western fel-
lers pays when they send corn east and
get dollar a bushel and pay six bits
freight. Besides as said, what is the
use Of paying for railroads 'thout we
use the roads?'
You seem to appreciate the advanta.
ges of railroads.
4 think we ought-we pay enough
for 'em.'
4 reckon you fatten your own pork 2
| well, you reckon wrong, stranger
I get them Illinoy fellers to do that for
me. It's mighty convenient, too-mon-
strous sight Of trouble toting a big
basketful of corn three times a day to
hogs in a pen,-especially when you
udlu I Sct tlOIe W tOtc 1t W.
Il should think so.'
There's one thing lacking though
to make the business complete
| What's that 2
They ought to send them hogs ready
cooked. Cookin', and preparin' wood
for cookin' takes up a heap of time that
ort BY rights to be employed in the cot
ton patch. I was sayin' to my old
woman the other day, if we Mississippi
folks got cookin' and washin' done up
North and sent by express, we'd be as
happy as otfice-h holders
your horse in the lead there seems
to be lame
Yes, needs shoein.' If he wasn't the
only horse I've got, and l can't spare
him, I'd send him up where they made
the horse shoes and nails and get him
shod. Can't get such thing done in
our parts. Perhaps l can at the de.
pot.
How do you manage to live in your
parts. my old friend:'
why, we raise cotton. Nv road
turns off here, stranger. Gre, Ball
back Brandy. TIM glad seed you
stranger