The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-08-06

60 to that and camp anu stay aii Inc I'LL,
and for radius of q hundred miles the
wild beasts came by night for water, and
the bears and wolves and panthers and
deer and prairie dogs would drink to-
gether and there wasent growl nor a
fight, for you see they were all beset by
common danger, and understood it and
raised a flag of truce around the water,
and Colonel Patton said that his men all
partook of the same feeling, and never
raised gun to shoot, Notwithstanding
they were nearly starved for fresh meat.
And that is what the poet alluded to
when be wrote "A touch of nature makes
the whole world kim Go on, Mark"
"Well, as I was saying, you never
heard of such climate as they: have on
the eastern slope of Washington. The
boys don't wear shoes the year round,
and if it wasn't for the fogs it would be q
splendid country to live in. The fogs
don't rise until 10 o'clock in the morning,
and sometimes they are so thick that you
can move it around with broom and
sweep il out of the house. It's like cob
web, and you can wrap it around with 9
stick OF a broom and carry it out. Inev.
er saw them do it, but that's what they
told me. You can't raise corn there, but
wheat and oatsand vegetables just grow
immense. T saw Irish potatoes fifteen
inches long, and as big as my leg. Half
a potato is enough for a moderate sized
family. They slice them crossways like
We do for Saratoga chips, only the chips
are half an inch thick and as big as sau-
GERS. Everything grows big out there
but the people. I never saw as many lit.
tie, scrawny, screwed.up people in myllife.
They are most all forsigners-low Dutch,
Poles, Italians, Swiss, swedes, Irish,
Chinese and every other sort, and not one
in ten can speak the English language.
They can't call for light to match a
pipe with, but they have to make signs
for everything"
About this time our train received a
shock and put on the brakes and stopped,
and ne all got out to see what was the
matter, and found that We had run into
two mules and a double seated buggy,
and two negroes and white man and
seven jugs of whiskey. One negro and
one mule we're killed and the others bad
ly broken up. Nothing of the buggy
could be found except the tires. It was
close into town, and the people all came
running. The wounded we're soon cared
for and the train went on... Such is life
and such is death when men are coming
from stillhouse loaded down inside and
outside with whiskey and try to beat
railroad at crossing.
The next thing will be three or four
lawsuits for damages, reckon, tor rail.
road is an institution to be picked at and
pursued, right or wrong. They are
our greatest benefactors and civilizers,
and not one in FIVE makes any money fol
the stockholders, but the liberty of q ten.
dollar cow is of more importance than
the lives of passengers or the wreck of an
engine. was On the train one night
when a wandering bull threw our train
from the track and the engine down a
bank and we had to stay there until
morning, and a thousand dollars would
not pay the damages, but the owner Of
the bull got his pay all the same, and to
my mind it is all wrong and would stop
it if could. A railroad company may
be just as careful as human foresight can
be, but if man is killed the juries &c
for them to the tune of five or ten thous.
and dollars. Just let wreck be heard
Of and an Atlanta lawyer will take the
frat train to the spot and hunt round fol
a fee like a buzzard sails round for car.
cass. wonder how mean it is possible
for man to get and still hold up his head
and pretend he is a gentleman.
80 BILL ARP.