The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-31

screamed out, '::Sving away, swing away
I tells you nottings, but I meet
you in he'll all de same, and den I swing
you oop."
aDid they kill him, mamma 2"
"No, children, no They let him dowl
and gave him drink aud told him to 60
But the funniest thing you ever saw wa
your pas store. He and Bob Hargrov
had the biggest storehouse in town, ant
they put twenty thousand dollars
worth of goods in it and went tt
trading. :.
"Why, where did they get the goods
mamma ?''
swell, there was a man in Jail in sel
ma, and he wrote to your pa to come
down and get him out and hewould Civ
him ten thousand dollars. So he ven
and got him out and got the money ant
paid half of it for q pound Of opium anG
the other half for four dozen cotton cards
on the leaf-that is they had no backs
nor handles. 1t was justine wire stucl
in the leather, and he brought home the
whole stock in little valise. Mr.. Har
grove put in half box of tobacco and .
fewibnnches of factory yarn for his ten
thousand dollars and they went to trad.
ing. You cauld have put the; whole
stock in q big vheelbarroW. They sold
the opium at five dollars an ounce in
gold and~the cards at two hundred
dollars a pair in confederate; money.
You see all the cards in the country
were worn out and the women were in Q
bad fix; 80. they, would club together and
bring in chickens and potatoes andgaor.
ghum and old bacon and trade for pair
of cards."
"Well, mamma what did you all sleep
on when You first camef'
."WhyTweibor : couple of mat:
tresses and slept on the floor, and ,re
cooked in . skillet. We had SO little to
cook that We got along very we'll. We
had 20 sugar nor coffee pori: i:i milk moi
four. Yourpa heard ofscow somewhere
and paid three thonnand dollars for her
confederate money was almost as plenty
as the leaves on the trees-eyerybody
had pocke.full. Hundred dollar bills
were common, but they woulden't buy
anything hardly except q drink Of mean
whisky. Some of the cavalry soldiers
used to give hundred dollar bill for
drink, 80 they said. Before the money
go. SO bad your grandpa sold his farm
for fifty thousand dollars and moved to
away down country to get out Of trouble
and he invested his money in cotton in
Columbus, and Wilson's raiders cams
along. and burned it. Poor man. But
he was like Job. He never lost his in.
tegrity nor his cheerful disposition. I
never heard him complain about any
thing.
TELL ON, MAMMA.
,"Well, you must know that Sherman
wanted to make the people tired Of war,
and SO he took away all their horses
and mules and everything that they
hadn't hid away 10 the Ewamps. The
men were most all-in the army, and the
women and children did the best they.
could, and hid some things until the
yankees went away. Sam Jones and q
few dare devils hung on their tanks and
stole horses and mules most every night
and hid them away off in the swamps.
Sam was nothing but boy Of sixteen,
but they say that he stole over one hun.
dred and gave them all away to thepoor
people who had lost their stock. You
see he got some old blue yankee clothes
and put them on and went about among
the guards who had charge of the extra
horses and he made out like he was a
yankee too and he generally carried with
him q deck of cards and got them drunk
and before morning he would have
several ct their horses and mules away
off in swamp. He was just as full Of
mischief then as he is now, though his
mischief wss of different kind. he
was fighting the yankees; then and he is
fighting the old boy now and. there
isent much difference after all.
"Why, you ought to. have seen our
smoke houses when we got home. They
had converted it into bakery and had
the finest bread troughs you ever heard
of. They made them out of the Presby-
terian church pews and they built a
great long stable on our lot of the
church lumber. Their horse troughs
were made OF the pews, and the pulpit
was scattered around. We cleaned out
the smokehouse and dug up the dirt and
boiled it down and. made salt of it.
Smokehouse dirt that has received the
drippings of salted meat for years make
splendid table salt when it is boiled down
and clarified. We made right good
coffee out of dried sweet potatoes. I
used to make hats for my children ont Of
old scraps of cashmere. Your pa built a
fence and boat without a nail. He
bored holes in the plank and pinned
them on with wooden pins. The war
made US all powerful shifty,' as Cobe
says, aud 80 we got along pretty well.
The children all kept we'll and strong
until the war was over and doctors came
home from the army. And there was no
Law suits nor courts until the lawyers
cane back"
.'You have to thank the yankees for
that much, don't you mamma 2"
"No; don't thank the yankees for
anything. They run me and my little
children all over this country like we
we're dogs. Your pa makes out he has