The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-11-29
know whether he is living now or not
But why do you ask p
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much gratifed.
Every survivor Of the Eighth Geor
gia who was in the first battle o.
Manassas will feel interested in this
for the Fourth Alabama fought right
beside them in the pine thickets, ane
scores of both regiments foremost
fighting, fell among those pines. Bill
Beasley was there and he kept or
being in the front until disabled in
the Wilderness.
How many Of such heroes Captain
Leathers has in CHARGE. / know not
but rumber of the old veterans met
at Captain George Norton's one night
and those walls heard many yarn
Captain Norton came from Rome tc
Louisville as soon as the war was ovel
and soon found friends and kept them
He has made good name and slew
fortune and uses beth with becoming
dignity. A slow made fortune will
stick to man, but big pile of money
will make-a-sool of anybody on short
Acquaintance.
Captain Norton has a numerous
family--a lovely wife and children
and everything around and about is Sc
affectionate and home-like that | an
obliged to speak of it, for it is a mode.
family. I say "homelike" because
one day the captain hired an old-fash.
ioned darky to sod the front yard with
blue grass. The third day he found
that the old darky had left the front
and was putting down some sod in the
back yard.
"Uncle jake" said he, "what in
the world are you doing around here.
I never told you to sod the back yard
Now, do you just stop it. There il
not enough sod for both.
Old Jake leaned on his hoe and
said: "Mistis sont me round here
she say must sod dis, and I sod it: .
"Well, that's all right" said the
Captain ; Ego on and sod it, but don't
dig up any more ground. just SOD
that you've got dug up until l gel
some more grass.
After he left the old man talked te
himself. ''Mistis say sod all round
here. Master come along and say
quit. What must de old niger do {
Mistis mighty purity and steps round
like gal. l hain't been here but two
days, but dat's long enuf to ind out
dat she is bossin' dis house. [ is
gwine to keep on soddin round here
until mistis stops me, dat's what | is
gwine to do" The cook, heard him
and told the Captain.and the Captain
told me.
1t is so home-like that enjoyed it.
Politics seems to have subsidec
somewhat. / dident circulate much
up in Ohio. We have boy living up
there in charge of some water-works
and I kept very secluded. Idident care
q cent about McKinley's $4,000 ma,
iority, but / did not care about the
old dead line coming to life again.
Notja Northern State is now Demo
cratic and not a Southern one Is
Republican. That old historic line Of
Mason and Dixon is still the line OF
discord. The fact is if more Northern
people don't move down here and more
Southern people move up there We had
Just as we'll establish the line for good
and be two nations. We used to fuss
about runaway niggers, but that is all
settled and we will give them yankees
just as many negroes as they want
Lord help us alk l wish the niggers
did love them well enough to divide
Well keep the old ones and let oul
Northern brethren have the new set
Then maybe we would all have peace.
I saw mixed school in Ohio-about
FIVE hundred whites to fifty negro
children. They poured out Of the big
school building at recess and went tc
playing, not all together, but separate.
They have to study together and sci
together in the schoolrooms, but
human nature asserts itself just al
soon as they get out. The negro chill
dren flock together, both from choice
and necessity. Theory is one thing
and fact another. BILL ARP.