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

The following characteristic littl,
sketch is from the Natchcz, Miss, Den,o-
craf.
"IIalloo, stranger. you seem to be go
| lug to markctW
Yes sir, am"
What are you carrying that pillow
along for?''
"Going TO send it 10 Pittsburg."
"To Piitsburg, in Pennsylvania %
You're mighty right, am"
Wliat are you going to send it there
''ro get sliarpencd."
"All the way to Pittsburg TO get sllar.
pened %
"Ion bet. We've starved our black.
smith out. lie pulled up stakes the
other day and went to Texas"
"Wcll, that's rather novel idea my
friend sending plow 80 Gar 20 get
sharpcned."
"Not SO novel as you heard it was.
We do our milling in ST. Louis"
as that so"
"You're right il is. We used to have
q mill at Punkinvi:lc creek, but the OWL
or 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 nil the way to st. Louis by rail?"
81 didn't say nothing about grst-we
hain't got no grist to send. But we &c,
| our -four and meal from ST. Louis"
81 see you have hide in your way
on"
eyes our old >vw died last week.
March winds bowed the life out'n her
Scndin hide to Boston to get il tanned y
al the way 10 Boston? Is not tina,
rather expensive, my fricud? The
frcghts will eat the hide up"
"Thn:s fact- -clcarncr than the buzz
yards did the old critters carcass. But
what's the use bein' taxed to build rail.
roads, 'thout you get the blood Of 'em I
Used to have n lanyard over at Lckskil-
lett, and a shoemaker, too. But they kcr.
ilummuxed"
"Kcrllummuxed-what's that ?"
ut means gone up n spomt-and twixi
you and me that's mighty nigh the case
with our State"
when do you expect to get your
lcathcrY
"Dont expect to get no leather at all
expect to get shoes, some day, made al
i'ontoii vi tuClCuUOuLs.
"Rather misfortune to lose a milk
COW, my friend"
mot so much Of misfortune as YOU
heard it was. Monstrous sight of shuck,
in and nubbin in a COW, and milkir.' hel
night and mornin' and cotton only bou,
three quarts day"
What are you going to do for milk?'
"!Send North for it."
fSnpI NortL e.
"Yes concentrated milk aud Goshen
butter"
ooh | see the point"
Mighty handy things, these, railroads
make them Yankee fellcrs do all our
jobs for us, now-lo our s,nithin', and
grindin', and tanin', and milkin', and
churnin."
"Ycs, we go our bottom nickel on cot
ton. Scndin' it up to Massachusetts to
get car,led, spun and woyc. Timc'll
con.o when we'll send il there to be
ginncd, then wc we'll be happy. Mon
strous sight of trouble running these
gins"
"That would be rather expensive
| sending cotton in seed"
"No more sol than them Western fclers
pays when they send corn East and get Il
dollar bushcl and pay six bits freight
Besides AZ, said, what is the use of pay.
ing for railroads 'thout we use the road ?'
| You seem to appreciate The value ol
railroads"
81 think wo ought-we pay enough
for en-"
II reckon you fattcn your own pork p
! well, you reckon wrong, stranger.
get them Illinoy follers to do that FOL
mo. It's mighty convenient, too; mon
strous sight of trouble toting big bas.
ket full Of corn three times n day to hog.
in pen, especially when you hain't go
none to toto it to-"
81 should think So"
There's one thing lacking though tc
make tho business complete"
"What's that7"
They ought to send them hogs read,
cooked: Cookin', and prcpnrin' Woo
for c0okin', takes up n heap of time tha
ort by rights to bo employed in the cot
ton patch. was sayin' to my OLD wo
man, tho other day, if we Mississipp
folks got our cookin' and washn' don,
up North and sent by express we'd bo rs
happy as oiiicchodcrs."
| "Your horse in the lead there seems t,
be lame
"Yes. needs shocin.' If he wasn't tn,
only horse I've got, aud 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 can at the depot"
"How do you manage to live in you
parts, my old friend ?'
"Why, wo raise cotton. My roat
turns off here, stranger. Gee, Ball, bacl
Brandy, Pm glad 1 seed you stranger"