Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-23
ROUGE on Nae oHIoANs.
A Barlow Farmer " no Don't Take
Much stock in the Exeursionists.
From Tie Cdr,ersUlus ga Coarant.

From ne CdrersUius tGa) COarant.
A level-headed Barlow citizen said he
had been amused, provoked AZ d Disguised
to see how the state of Georgia had been
imposed upon by ''OhIo farmers coming
TO settle among u.s."
''Djd they quarter on you?'' asked the
scribe.
mot much, for I smelt mice some
weeks ago. ] kinder got suspicious when
there was so much Hospitality hanQuetiDg
| and riding around called for-tree, gratis,
tor nothing. People that aim to buy land
don't flourish with no such airs and
races. Business is business, and if |
was to 90 to Ohio 10 look at land |
should be suspicious OF a crowd that
umPed up so smart to snow me all the
land they had, and was so willing 10 sell
it that they would board half a regiment
| to get a chance at my money. Why. bless
! your soul, dear COltrdat. one OF my neigh
bOrs killed a turkey, stuffed one OF the
eXcursi0nists 50 full OF good things that he
grunted when he climbed into the buggy,
to be repaid after this fashion; ''lf YOU
had this sort Of land in Ohio. and you had
our sort, you would not give me one acre
for a thousand of 1t. Why my good tel
low, ] wonder yOu don't starve." Now
that was a nice return for hospitality
! free buggy rides and free tickets 10 this
c0untry--was it nOty'
| Your scribe said it was rather djscour-
aging.
"Plague take 'em," said the irate citi-
zen, ''they sent messenger to Rome a
week or so ago, aud even tue women
turned IN their sleeves and went To cook.
| ing to fix up banquet, had floor mama
ger appointed, and set all the lawyers 10
getting an address of welcome by heart
aud had the last one of them poor nler-
chants, real estate agents, and hotel
clerks wrought up to frenzy OF expects
tiOu, running to the cars with every horse
| that could be hiredror borrowed to haul
up the Ohio frauds to the general place OF
meeting and eating, and what do you
! reckon it amounted TOP"
| The scribe could not say.
"Well, I'll tell you. Two men, two
women and boy put in an appearance,
| while the balance were sea tered All the
| way from Chattanooga down. haviD z
! raised the same sort OF rumpus every
step of the way. It's my h0neet opinion
tbSt Cherokee Georgia will not recover
| from the ra d OF these Ohio bummers and
deEdbeats this side Of next Christmas.
Blast Their pictures! MY son-n-law had
! poor farm that | know he's mighty tired
| OF, Tor be wants to get 10 town like ali the
| balance, and he and Susan Jane killed
/ their last turkey to feed a great green
| gawky hoosier, who concluded to
come along and see where Sher-
man whipped the rebs. as it was a
| free ride and free grub all the way Bob
| and Susan Jane don't Ike to hear much
about ONO farmers now at present. hut |
| told them it W pull dog, pull devil Bob
expected to cheat somebody into selling of
| his piece of land at big price, and that
somebody was smari er than he was at the
game Of cheating. Take my word for it, il
amt helped Georgia much to throw SO
much land on the market, particu arly to
them greedy, close-tisted exeursiOnists,
who are laughing in their sleeves at the
whole GEORGIA population. One
of them said: "lf your land is
so choice, so productive. so healthy,
and 50 everlastingly better than any
outside the Garden of Eden. why in the
kingdom do you want 70 sell it all out to
! usp Dog gone 'em, | could stand 1t all
better il Bob had not filed Susan Jane so
| tulI of castles in the air, and made the poor
thing work herself nigh to death TO feed a
| lot of swindling deadbeats, who will have
a big time laughing over the poor child's
big dinner when they all reunite away
back in Ohio. / never did like Yankees
nor any kin to them, and hope to gra-
ciOus we have bad the last grand hurrah
on Ohio excursiOnlsts."
The COUTdRt nibbled its pencil and set
il down, and to save its life it could not
count up any big thing that had resulted
| f ON the big blow we have all 6een making
| for about two months and MALT, and we
have got to hear Of the first sale or rental
that has resulted from Ouf gushing bospi-
tally and pTOfuse attention to the "Ohi0
farmers looking for homes"