Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-02-04
Natchez Weekly Democrat.
Southern E'Tndependence.o

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Halo, stranger, you seem to be
going to market
Yes, sir, l am.
What are you carrying that plow
along for?
Going to send it to Pittsburg.
TO Pittsburg, in Pennsylvania ?
You're mighty right; am.
What are you going TO send it
there for?
To get it sharpened.
All the way to Pittsburg to get
shNpened?
You betL 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 plow SO far to get
sharpened.
Not SO novel as you heard it was.
We do our milling in st. Louis.
Is that so?
You're right it is. We used 10
have mill at Punkinvine Greek,
but the owner got too poor to keep
it up, and so we turned to getting
our grinding done at st. Louis.
You don't say nothing about grist
we hain't got no grist to send. But
we get our flour and meal from St.
Louis.
l see you have a hide on your wa
gon.
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 a fact-cleaner chan the
buzzards did the old critters carcass.
But what's the use bein' taxed to
build railroads 'thout you get the
good of'em? Used to have tan
yard over at Lickskillett and shoe
maker, too. But they're ksrfum-
muxed.
KerhuInmuxed-what's that ?
1t means, gone up spout "a d
twlxt 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-expect to get shoes, some day,
made at Boston or thereabouts.
Rather misfortune to lose milk
COW, my friend.
Not so much misfortune as you
heard it was. Monstrous sight of
shuckin' and nubinin' COW, and
milkin' her night and mornin' and
gettln' only about quarts q day.
What are you going to do for
Send North for itG
Send North for milk?
Yes; concentrated milk and Co
shen butter.
Oh +! | see the point.
Mighty handy things these rail
roads--make them Yankee fellers
do all our jobs for as no,w-do our
smithin', and grindin', and tannin',
and lnilkin', and churnin',
see you have bale of cotton.
Yes, we go our bottom nickel Oh
cotton. Sendin' it up to Massachu-
setts to get it carded, spun, and
wove. Time'Il come when we'll
send it there to be ginned, then we'll
be happy. Monstrous sight of trou-
bic running these gins.
That would he rather expensive,
sending cotton in seed.
No more so than them Western
feilers pays when they send corn
oats and get a dollar a bushel and
pay six bits freight. Besides as |
SAID, what is the use of paying for
railroads 'thout we use the roads !?
lou seem to appreciate the ad-
yantages of raiIr Dads.
for 'em.
reckon You fatren your own
pork z
Well, you reckon wrong, stranger.
! get them nlinoy fellers to do that
for me. It's mighty convenient,
too, strous sight Of trouble to-
ting big basketful of corn three
times day to hogs in pen-es-
pecially when You hain't got none
to tote it to.
! should think so.
There's one thing lacking though
to make the business complete
WHAT that?
They ought to send them hogs
ready cooked. Cookin', and pre-
parin' wood for cookin' takes up a
heap Of time that ort by rights to be
employed IN the cotton patch, ] was