The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-12-20
"NARY NIGGER.Y
Alabama Town withouta q Black Face.
Atlanta Evening Journal.

| Alabama Town without Black Face.
Atlanta Evening Journal.
Think of a Southern town and whole
county in Southern State that hasn't
"nary nigger" in it. !,
ri have moved around good deal," !"
said Captain E. s. Riley, who is travel
| ing agent for the Merryman Fertilizer
| company, of Baltimore. 81 have moved
around q good deal North and South. but
have never seen but one town where
there was not single negro to be found"
"What town is that?" asked the
Journal man.
"Cullman, Alabama" said the Cap.
tain. "There's not 'nigger' in that
town, or in the courty around it. It
paralyzed me at first, and every time |
90 there, which is once every winter, /
look about to see how white people in the
South can manage to get along without
black servants"
"Well, how is it that there are no
| negroes there; and how do the white
people get on without them 2"
HOW THE TOWN WAS BUILT.
"You see, old man Cullman, q rich
German, wanted to found colony of his
race in the Alabama fruit-growing sec
ton. He selected Sand Mountain, in
the northeastern part of the State, which
| is the finest peach and small fruit section
of Alabama. The L. & n, or the North
and South Alabama railroad, granted
him privileges and the State granted him
a large tract of land, believe.
"He laid off q town established land
! Office invited Germans from the Faith.
/ erland. from Ohio and from Pennsyl-
yania and sold them land at very low
prices. AS consequence the town OF
aCullman" grew rapidly. 1t now has
1000 or $500 people, of whom two'thlrda
are Germans"
how NEGROES WERE KEPT OUT.
"How.did they keep the negro out OF
Cullman?' asked the reporter.
"They just don't want the negroes
| there aud won't let them stay in the town.
Just as soon as black face is seen in the
little city its possessor is warned that the
color line is sharply drawn in Cullman
| and that he is not wanted. He leaves
on the next train, if he can, or walks out
| of town and county ifhe can't pay or beat
his way"
do many of them try to settle in
Cullman 2"
."They used to; but the Cullmanites
have entirely discouraged the immigra.
tion of negroes into that vicinity"
NO LABoR1NG CLASS.
"Have they laboring white class in
Cullman u"
"None that you could call Class
because every family there does its own
work. the women attend to all household
cares, the children work about the house
and garden or fields as negroes do here,
while the men look after the business IN
the town, or work on the farms.o
"Haye they no servants at all 7"
| l"Oh, yes, some times you can see e
serving girl in private family. though
that is rare; but they have German
girls ss walters at the hotels. They are
as neat as pins, tidily and becomlngly
dressed, and wait on you better than any
negro walters I have ever seen. When q
family in the town or country has good
supply of girls, more than can be busily
employed at home, some OF them are
hired to the hotels"
.'The first thing which strikes you as
peculiar, is that when you get of the
| train little white boys run after you and
want to carry yoursatchel or grip You
are struck at once by the politeneas OF
these little fellows, who don't thruat their
service upon you as the Atlantic grip
snatchers; and by the conspicuous ab.
sence of the little ragged darkey:" =,
"Who blacks your shoes in CulimanY e
"Little German 'Hanses' and Fran.
zes'. in neat clothes, with stout legs and
! ruddy faces. tell you tue German does
everything that is done in Cullman. he
wants no black hand to wait on him.
| He and his household are as independent
as the proyerbial woodsawyer. They do
all their own work. The Germans don't
like the negro, anyhow, and would gel
their own people if they needed help,
but they don't. If there is one thing the
Cullman Teuton insists on is his lnde'
pendence of the outside world"
/. A GARDEN IN A DESERT.
"Is the town and surrounding country
prosperous? 2"
"fhe German settlement is garden
in desert.
"sand Mountains notoriously poor
one stupendous pile or ridge of sand,
sprinkled over with scrub.wood.
"The Germans have turned their part
of it into one of the most prosperous re.
gions of Alabama.
"Cullman has factories of all kinds
The grape factory ships annually 10000
gallons of wine made from grapes grown
in the vicinity. About S12 900 to S15, ,OOC
worth of strawberries are shipped from
the town yearly. Venison is sold in the
stores like bacon is here. Two stores
there do q business of 100000 each
There are four hotels, one on the Amer.
ican and three on the European plan"
GERMAN SONGS AND DANCES.
"Anotber interesting thing about Gull.
man is that the Germans never get too
old to enjoy themselves. Once a week
the old and young meet in 9 village
party and dance and sing the old German
songs, as in the fatherland. Beer is freely
drunk, but very little whisky. It's the
most orderly, merriest little town I e9el
saw. Everybody on good terms with mi
neighbor and himself"
THE RECORD BROKEN.
"By the way" said Captain Riley, q
forgot to mention that the 'nigger' recore
was broken once. Last winter one o.
the hotel proprietors couldn't get cook
One day he was at the railway station
and saw q negro on the train who wa'
from Chicago. The proprietor seized the
opportunity and hired the negro for fen
days. But it was very uncomfortable
for the colored man, and he soon va
moosed'. he is said to have been the
only negro who ever stayed any time II
Cuilman, the white mans town."
Luck in Farming.
I There is no such thing as "luck" ii
farming; it is good management ane
eternal vigilance, a strict attention tt
planting, cultivation and disposipg O
crops as soon as ready to sell. The
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