Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-05-19
A Mississippi Scene.

\ staurcr, "a very oh>rrvinE man,
ov.rtahrs Il wagner "'ming to
town, and they talk about matters
and things IN general pretty much
as follows:
Eyes, I'm gwine to tho depot fol
4 load of st. Louis -four .
"That's a long way from bone
"You're right it is, We used to
have Il mill ON puukiuylnc creek,
but the owner got too poor to keep
it up, and SO we turned 10 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?"
81 didn't say nothing about grls
-haint got no girls to send. But
we get our ionr and meal from the
mill at St, Louis"
al see you have a hide on your
wagon" =,
ayes, our old COW died last week
March winds bowed the lite out'n
her, Scudin' her hide to Boosting
to get it tanned"
"All the way to Boston? Is not
that rather expensive, my friend!
The trcights will eat tho hides up. ~
THAT a tacl-cleaner than the
buzzards did the old critters car
cass. But what's the use bein taxed
to build railroads thout you get the
good of'em. Used to have a tan
ward over 1T Lickskillet, and a
shoemaker, too, but they've kerr
hummuxed."
Observation-Disclosures that Z
at means gone up n spOut-and
twixt me aud you, that's mighty
nigh the casc with our Safe"
"When do you expect to get
yonr leather"
"Don't expect to get no leather
at all. Expect to get shoes some
day made al Boston or thereboutS.
"Rarher Il misfortune to lose .
milk COW, my friend"
"NOt 80 mach Il misfortune as
YOU heard it WAS. MonHrous sight
of trouble shuckin' and nubbinin' u
COW and milkin her night and morn
in and gIttIn only about three
quarts u day"
"Wh4t arc you going to do tor
milk"
"Scnd North for it,"
"Scnd North tor milk y
Eyes; co~nsccrated milk and Go
shen butter"
"Oh! | soc tho point
"Mighty handy thing, these rail
roadE-make them Yankee telI els
do all our jobs for us now, the
bIacksmithin', grindin', tannin', and
miIkin', and churnm'."
81 zee you have a bale of cotton"
"Sending it up to Massachusetts,
to get it cardcd and spun ID wove.
Timc'lI come when we'll send it
there to be ginncd, and then we'll
be happy, MonstrouS sight of
trouble rnnnin' these gins
"Tbat would be rather exp"p
siyc, sending cotton in the seed :"
"NO more SO than them WestP r..
fellows pays when they send So n
East and get a dollar a bushel nd
pay six bilS freight. Beside as |
said, what's the use of payi|1 raII.
road taxes thout We W Il the
I"
You seem to apprccis . The ad.
vantage Of railroadS!"
Al think we onsht. &c pay c.
nough tor them"
a reckon YOU ia" n your own
pork 7"
"Wcll, you reel n wrong, ytran.
ger. | got them Iinoy f~eIIers to
do that for ne. is mighty convo
nicnt, too-p Is,rous sight o
trouble totin' big basket of corr
times LAY to hogs in a pen
'pecIaIIy W n you haint got mt
corn nor hogs to tote it too"
81 she ii think So"
"The ! is one thing lacking, tho
to ma the business complete
"' rat's that
tlley ought to send them hog
re- " cooked. Cookrn' and prcpa
RI wood tor cooKin' takes up
r Ap OF time that Ort by rights t,
! c employed in the cotton patch
1 was Sayin' to my old woman tn.
other day, it VIC Mississippi folk
could get our COCHIN and waShir
done up North aud sent by express
we'd be as happy AZ Office holders.
"YOur horse there in the lea
seems to be lame"
Yes, needs shoein'. If he wan
the only horse I've got, and | can
spare him, I'd send him up wher
they make the horse shoes and mai
and get him shod, Can't get sue
a thing done in our parts. Perhap
can at the depot"
Chow on earth do you manag
to live in your parts, my oil
friend?"
"Why, VIC raise cotton. Ny roa
turns off here. Gee, Ball Bacl
Brandy Pm 0Iod aoad ,,o,