The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-08-07
Southern independence.


sketch is from the Natchez, Miss, Demo-
crat:
"Halloo, stranger, you seem to be 60
ing 10 market"
"Yes sir, 1 am."
"What are you carrying that pillow
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 sharpened."
GAIL the way to Pittsburg to get shar-
pened ?''
"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 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 to have
mill at Punkinvine creek, but the own
er got too poor to keep it up 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"
'I didn't say nothing about grist-we
hain't got no grist to send. But we get
our -four and meal from St. Louis"
81 see you have hide in your wag-
on."
eyes our old vvw died last week.
March winds blowed the life out'n her.
Sendin' hide to Boston to get it tanned" :"
call the way TO Boston? Is not that
rather expensive, my FREUD? The
freights will eat the hide up"
"Thats fact-clearner than the buz-
yards did the old critters carcass. But
what's the use bein' taxed to build rail
roads, 'thout you get the blood of 'em !?
Used to have a lanyard over at Lickskil-
lett, and shoemaker, too. But they kerr
fummuxed."
"Kerhummuxed-what's that"
cit means gone up spout-and 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 get no leather at all
expect to get shoes, some day, made at
Boston or thereabouts."
"Rather misfortune to lose a milk
COW, my friend"
"Not so much of a misfortune as you
heard it was. Monstrous sight of shuck-
| in and nubbin in COW, and milkin' her
night and mornin' and cotton only bout
three quarts q day."
"What are you going to do for milk?"
"Send North for it."
"Seud North for milk?"
eyes; concentrated milk and Goshen
butter"
ooh! I see the point"
mighty handy things, these, railroads
make them Yankee fellers do all our
jobs for US, now-do our smithin', and
grindin', and tanin', and milkin', and
churnin.'"
eyes, we go our bottom nickel on cot
ton. Sendin' it up to Massachusetts, to
get carded, spun and wove. Time'll
come when we'll send it there to be
ginned, then we we'll be happy. Mon
strous sight of trouble running these
gins"
"That would be rather expensive,
sending cotton in seed"
"No more so than them Western fellers
pays when they send corn East and get a
dollar a bushel and pay six bits freight
Besides as, Isaid, what is the use of pay.
ing for railroads 'thout we use the road ?''
"You seem to appreciate The value Of
railroads"
"I think we ought--we pay enough
for 'em."
IT reckon you fatten your own pork %
"Well, you reckon wrong, stranger.
| get them Illinoy fellers to do that fol
me. It's mighty convenient, too; mon
strous sight of trouble toting a big bas-
ket full of corn three times a day to hogs
in pen, especially when you hain't got
none to tote it to-"
"I should think So"
"There's one thing lacking though to
make the business complete"
"What's thatP"
"They ought to send them hogs ready
cooked. Cookin', and preparin' wooc
for cookin', takes up heap of time thai
ort by rights to be employed in the cot
ton patch. I was sayin' to my old wo
man, the other day, if we Mississippi
folks got our cookin' and washin' done
up North and sent by express we'd be as
happy as otfceholders:"
"Your horse in the lead there seems t
be lame."
ayes, needs shoein.' If he wasn't the
only horse Pvc got, and can't spare him
I'd send him up where they make the
horse shoes and nails and get him shod.
Can't get such thing done in our parts
Perhaps l can at the depot"
GLOW do you manage to live in YOU
parts, my old friend ?"
"Why, we raise cotton. My roat
turns off here, stranger. Gee, Ball, bach
| Rrondv I'm rlad I seed Won stranrer"