The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-19


he began with Bonaparte's great speech
to his army in Egypt. Soldiers, forty
centuries are looking down upon you
from the heights of those pyramids"
But there are no useless pyramids here
to mark the tyranny of kings or the
downfall of q: mighty nation. There are
no soldiers here and no forty centuries
either. But only about forty weeks are
looking down upon us from the Tallapoo.
So hills-hills that are natures peaceful
monuments and that are to day smiling
down their smiles upon this exhilerating
scene.
Tell me ye winged winds
That round my pathway play,
Blow ye on ary spot
Like our own Tallapoo-say.
And the winds said, nay. In due time
he pot warmed up 10 bis work and put in
lively on Marco Bozaris.
Strike for the green Of your sires.
Strike for you affairs and your fires.
But don't strike for higher wages in
Tallapoosa town until we get the brick
block and the glass works done. He
closed with liberty or death and shook
his ambosial locks and gave the nod for
dinner and everybody shouted Amen.
Then came bountiful multitudinous
repast, and after reasonable rest the
afternoon was devoted to fun and frolic,
and the night to an open air platform
dance, at which the yahkes girls paired
with the Georgia boys aud the Georgia
girls with the yankee boys, and they are
mixing up splendid, and before anybody
knows it will be mating and hormonizing
the sections.
Tsllapoosa is emphatically yankee
town, and the New York Herald or any
other Herald can't smother it nor stop its
progress. The people keep on coming
and buying and building. The air and
the water and climate are delightful, and
these are enough to charm the Northern
people who are blizzard sick and long
for more temperate region. They are
not only content with their new home
but are delighted, aud every man who
comes and locates writes back and
brings some of his more timid nabors.
Here is thriving population of 5000
people living in a brand new town that
year ago had only 600 souls. These
people have come from the extreme north,
from Maine to Minnesota, and all Of
them have some means, and are putting
their money in some enterprise. A large
plant of glass work is nearly completed
and there are various email industries
established. An immense. wagon factory
is projected. Their iron furnace is on
the way. They have market gardens
that can't be surpassed. A down east
Connecticut yankee came out the last OF
February and bought fifteen acres of the
poorest, whitest, gravliest land lever saw,
and after taking up two hundred and
seventy. four stumps, has made it rich,
and now sells every day as fine potatoes
and onions and other vegetables as ever
grew. he wears a bell crowned fur hat
and is the very personifcation OF old
Brother Jonathan as we see him, in the
pictures. He is as lively and as happy
as jaybird. Three yankee girls are
here teaching school, and I'll bet that
some of our widowers will marry them
before the year closes. Away back
before the war, when yankee girls used to
come South and teach school, our widow
ers married them as fast as they came.
They were smart. self reliant and econc.
mical, and that is the kind Of wife
widower wants.
There is large saw mill plant and a
big planning mill that were brought from
Michigan by Michiganders. They are
grading streets and boulevards, just like
they do in Atlanta or any other preten.
tious town. There is not drone in that
bee gum. Everybody works. If one o.
our home made mechanic goes there to
work be soon learns to take livelier
lick, for he has got to keep up with the
yanks or quit. These people have come
to stay and our people are giving them 9
warm welcome. They will help US in
many ways. If they have not got the
iron for their furnace they just step over
to Barlow and buy it and by and by they
will be selling to Bartows their wagons
and wheelbarrows and glass and all sorts
of contrivauces. I wish that more o.
these yanks would leave that blizzard
country and come down to this blessed
land where they can spend the rest of theiI
days in comfort. II they want to break
up the solid South and have national
brotherhood that is the.way to do it.
BILL ARP.