The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-02-08

bition is concerned, ny not inviting Cne
Dspensarv, ia all true enough, and l
trust we may have it: and now that we
can do no better, let us all join hand anu
heart in striving to accomplish that great
result. L. IL. JARRETT.
Happenings In and Around Piedmont.
have heard old folks say that if the
fruit trees were covered with ice in the
winter that there would be plenty Of fruit
that year, Well, hope the saying will
come true, for we haven't had much fruit
in long time. remember when / was
a lad-it was the l1th of February, 1855
think-that they had some sort Of Ma
sonic demonstration at Honea Path--l
reckon it was when their Lodge was
dedicated. I was there, and it was a
cloudy day, and that night it set in to
raining slow, steady rain and it all froze
as fast as it fell and continued throughout
all the next day, and that night there was a
continual cracking and popping of the
timber. It was fearful slaughter of the
tim Der, almost running all of it. After
the ice melted away and it again became
safe to venture out (for it was dangerous
to undertake to traveD all of the read
hands and every man able to do anything
was warned out to clear out the 70 Ids, for
they wcre all com pletely blocked where
remem Der there was plenty of fruit that
year, so maybe we will have plenty Of
good fruit this year, which would be
great help to the people of the South,
where they have nearly all of their meat
to buy, for they can make apple dump
lings, peach pies, etc., in place of the
bacon and beans. So let us return to the
hog. like to think and ponder over the
good old times when we never saw
pound of bacon, lard, or flour in "store"
to sell, but if you chanced to have to buy
such produce you had to 60 to some far
mer's house to get it. l wish it was that
way now.
felt sorry for the old negro woman
who got caught in the steel trap, and l
reckon the man who set the trap feels bad
over it, but it mado me think 0fa story
heard once land it was fact, but / won't
call no names) of an old man in this
State. He had been missing his corn
from his crib for somo time, and conclud-
ed to trap the thief as tho man did who
caught the old negro woman. So ne
placed steeI-trap III his crib one night
near large crack, and on getting up next
morning be discovered his son at the crib
securely fastened in the trap. 1t seems
that his son was Of age and having to
feed his own horse he was appropriating
the corn from his fathers crib SO that he
could sell what he made. The old man
went and fed his horses but never let on
that he saw the young man, and when
breakfast was ready he came out in the
piazza and cleared up his throat pretty
big and said breakfast was ready as be
walked into the dining room. Theyoung
man could stand it no longer, so he hol
Tered out 'if somebody don't come here
and take this thing off my hand I'll
break it all to pieces" So they turned
him loose, and reckon he reformed.
see in the newspapers every week
something about reducing the acreage in
cotton and not make over six or seven
million bales and that we would get 121
to Is cents per pound for it next fall and
so on and so forth. Now, don't want
to be understood to be advocating an all
cotton business nor an all one thing OF
any sort, but let me warn the Southern
farmers that if they want to keep mo-
uopoly in the cotton trade of the world
that they will have to make enough of
the article 10 supply the trade, or else
they will find themselves left after few
years of short crops. Europe does not
sit with their hands in their pockets and
wait for everything they want from
America any longer than they can get it
cheaper and of better quality than they
can get elsewhere. 1 remember few
years ago reading an article in the Me
chamicdt NeWs, written by John w. Book
walter, in which he was warning the peo,,
pie of the United States that they had
better keep an eye on England, for soon
they would have counter monopoly in
wheat; that flour would go down to five
dollars per barrel, which was then sell
ing at FROM ten to fifteen dollars per bar
rel. So it did, and this is how it was
done: Englishmen did not want to pa3
so much for breadstuffs, which they had
to import, 80 they went to India and went
to raising wheat, and very soon the
demand for American wheat in England
was at an end, for they could produce it
cheaper in India than they could buy
from our people, and they will do the
same thing in cotton. So my opinion is,
that we had better try and keep up the
supply of cotton very near to the demand
of the whole world-and we can do it
here in the South and make all Of our
meat and bread and stock feed, too, if we
will try. say plant for eight million
bales and plant plenty of the cereals for
home use and little to spare to the
towns, then we can prosper-if we don't
have too much politics. am going to
bales and for corn enough to do me, also
potatoes, peas, &C., &C., and want
everybody else to do the same thing,
plant eight acres of cotton and ten acres
of corn to the mule or horse and it will
do it.
We had a mad dog through this settle
ment last week it was in Piedmont on
Tuesday night and killed several chick
ems and pig and bit some dogs, and
passed this way the next day, swapping
at everything in reach, but it was travel
ing so fast it was gone before anyone
could get gun to shoot it.
1t seems that "John" Of Alice, under
stood me to say that "Mr. Haskell was
better Democrat than Mr.. Irby or any of
his ring" when only said / thought so.
Now "John" don't understand me that I
take back back what 1 did say, for I
don't. / only said thought he was and
think SO yet. 1 take it this way: that
the more intellectual and intelligent
man is the better he is in whatever he
processes. So Haskell being far superior
in his intellectual capacities to Mr.. Irby,
Democrat he must be a better one.
There has been but little farm work
done around here yet, and it looks as if
it will be some time before there is any
thing done. Fall sown oats are damaged
to some extent, but can't tell just how
much yet.
hope the mass meeting to-day at the
Court House will settle the Evans Dis
pensary bill. The best way see to get
rid of it, is to not sign any petitions for q
dispenser. Then they could have none.
That would be prohibition equal to the
local option with CREST deal less trouble.
That is the way / intend to defeat it at
my house. will not sign anybodys
petition for dispenser.
SQUIRE FEwEL.