The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1893-05-03
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COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Piedmont Chronicles.

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.
Piedmont Chronicles.
l heard an old soldier remark the other
day ct Seneca that it would be 23 years on
Saturday, 2Y:h of April, since he got home
from the war, and that reminds me that I
got home on that day, too-foot-sore and
tired tired Of travelling and tired of war.
had travelled the greater part OF foul or
five hundred miles on foot, with only an
Indian for companion, and with what
little meat, bread and milk we could beg
along the road was our chance for living,
as we had no money.
don't see how our predecessors divided
up and arranged time so nice, but it was
done some how, tor you see any certain
day of the week will come on the same
day of the month every twenty. eight
years at least. Take the 4th of March
Inauguration day of the President of the
United States-c0mes on Sunday every
twenty. eight years. so does February
have five Sundays every twenty eight
years, except when crossing a century
year that is not a leap year, which will be
the case in the year 1900. The last time
February had FIVE Sundays was in 1880,
and the next one will be 1920 They will
occur then regularly every twenty eight
years for the next two hundred years, or
had that in view when they made the di-
visions of time into seconds, minutes,
hours, days, weeks, months and years as
We now use it or not, but it all works out
mighty nice, anyhow
What a contrast between this time and
things and what We had and what We were
doing twenty eight years ago. got home
on Saturday evening, April 29th. Mon.
day, May 1st, the passenger trains were
burned on the q. q G. R r. near William.
ston, aud at Broyles' Crossing, on the An
derson branch, as it was then called. The
whole country was in an uproar-yankees
IN every direction, plunderiIg, robbing
and stealing horses and demOralizing the
country generally. With the negroes as
guides and allies, they made o pretty
clean sweep Of everything portable of
much value, and now they don't like US
reckon because We didn't have more for
them to take. wish we had have had
enough to satisfy them. if it would have
done any good towards keeping their
mouths shut low. reckon if their old
war dead. heads who are now living off the
govern ment eyer die, we will have peace,
for 1t il not the true soldiers of the North
the men who faced the battle-who are
always harping about the South and our
disloyalty but the dead heads, who lay
back in bomb proof positions, they are the
ones who want the bayonet at the polls,
and so on aud 80 forth.
These things occur to me every year
about this time, and I don't feel right un-
til tell somebody what think about It..
I don't wish anybody would die but 1t
does look like the roll Of pensioners would
decrease instead of increase by the thou
sands as they are now doing. Our old SOL
diers will soon all be gone. In fifteen
years moro they will all be over sixty
years old; even the sixteen -year-old boys
who went out last will be close to sixty,
and yet there is nearly as many pension.
ers on the roll on the other side now draw
ing penslons-nearly as many as We had
in our army from beginning to end-and
they are Boosting of having whipped us
back in, the Union and don't want us,
or don't reckon they do, or they would
quit fussing 30 much about US.
With the spring.like weather we are
now having, vegetation is putting on new
life, and everything looks more promising
than it did week ago. Really l was get
ting uneasy for my cotton, which was then
up nearly to stand, but it has so far stood
the storm, and am glad to say looks very
promising just now. 1 think that If my
cotton can get through without being kill
ed by frost it will be pretty well acclima-
ted, so that my seed will be more valuable
by another year, it having been planted
(some of it) in March.
Wheat and oats are looking we'll young
corn is being worked over and looks well.
So are the gardens-what I have seen of
them are looking very well, but I havn't
seen any but our own; and, too, that
looks like self-praise, or something to that
effect, as Mr.. Nye would put 1t.
We had a growing little rain here on
Wednesday evening Of last week, but the
wind blows 30 much it is soon gone.
The busy time is now upon the farmer,
and he has no time to stop and talk poll
tics or discuss the eleven hour law, for
crab grass is coming, and that fast, too,
and he has to make every minute count,
or he WILL feel it next fail when the harvest
comes.
". f. Lees fine mares both dropped
colts last week, and the boys are happy.
A few fine pigs would find ready sale
in this neighborhood just now.
Spring chickens are being Matched by
the hundred around Piedmont Some
have them nearly large enough to fry, but
ours are not quite 80 forward
The poultry and dairy business and
truck farming is very profitable around
these factories, and help the farmer more
than all the legislation the reform move
ment has done yet or Is likely to do. #
we had factory.--a cotton factory, l
mean-on every good water power in this
State, and our Legislature would let them
alone, we would in few years have the
most prosperous farmers of any country
on the face Of the earth, tor we would
have ready market right at home for all
the produce we could raise, and at good
prices for cash the year reund.
That's what it takes to make farming
community prosperous-to have some
body with the money right at your door
to buy his surplus; it's not the rich
lands of the West, for any farmer here
can make more than he can gather-that
is if he works, and for farming to pay
YOU must have somebody close to home
to huy your surplus for cash the whole
wear. and that is what these two factories
near here-Piedmont and Pelaer-are
doing for wide scope of country around
them. But still great many of these
farmers don't see it that way, and don't
appreciate the advantages which they
have over non-manufaoturing commune
ties.
Miss Ida Lee made flying visit to
her uncle's, John H. Balentine, near
Central, in Pickens County, last week,
and had quito an enjoyable trip.
bear that the County Commissioner
was around last week appointing over
seers and looking after the roads gener-
ally. I reckon he was hunting for that
hole in the road near Rich Jones If
Governor Tillman can't run the railroads
maybe he can the public highways.
SQUIRE FEwEL.
P. S.-Ploughing cotton and corn and
burning off the new grounds is the order
of the day now. 5. E:
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