The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-01-17
,Sauire Fewel Discusses Marriages,
Politics, Schools. etc.


Married, on December oath, 1893 by
Rev. G. L. Stewart, at his own residence,
MIR. Joe Bryant and Miss Sue Paris /;
also, by the same, on January 1th' 1894,
Mr.. Tbos Fortune and MISS A'lce wat,
son, daughter of MIR. w. N. Watson, all
of Anderson County; also, on Thursday,
the 1lth inst, at Welford, Spartanourg
County, by Rev. j. Thos. Pate, Mr.. r e.
Davenport, of Piedmont, >. y, ana MISS
Belle Dean, Of Welford, g. 9. we wish
for these newly married people calm
and peaceful as we'll as successful voyage
over the ocean of married life.
so Won see. Messrs. Editors, that the
financial crisis has been passed over and q
better day is now dawning, for the young
folks could not be marrying 80 fast If We
we're not coming out from under the
financial crash. I can see daylight be-
Ginning to shine over the horizon OF trade,
and I predict that before we celebrate an.
other Christmas this country will be
booming in one Of the most prosperous
eras of her history; that is the United
States as 8 whole-not South Carolina in'
observation-disclosures We will share some
of the prosperity, but not to the extent "e
would have done had we not been 80 over
whelmed with burdens in our State
affairs. High taxes and lack of conf,
dence in our State Government abroad
wiIl keep us down for a while, but tell
vou old proud Carolina won't stay under
Iono. She never did, and she has been in
nearlv "a hopeless condition before and
came out alright. say nearly, for don't
think We were ever in quite 80 helpless
condition, taking into consideration the
division in the white people of the State,
for we we're meyer 30 divided before. and
;t,s all against our own success now II we
stay divided. "a house divided against
itself cannot stand" A question or two
would like for some ''reformer" to an
swer. One is this: My taxes were 81 par
cent. higher this-year than last. Now,
what I want to know is this: what was
done with that extra 27 per cent? I don't
hear of any public work being done. !
don't think anything was done toward
completing the State House. and don't
think they are making any appropriations
for the Canal at Columbia. The old
'sring" used to appropriate seventy
thousand dollars year for the compile
ton of the Capitol at Columbia, and ten
thousand or more for the Canal, and our
taxes were rot near 80 high then as now.
So would like for some of the reform"
party to rise and explain matters little,
for II have to pay for anything l want
to know what it is and of what benefit 1t
is to me.
see in the newspapers that the true
REFORM" or the "elect" as you might say,
are going to hold another March or July
Convention, or whatever time they can
agree on. Now, as for myself don't ever
expect to vote in another primary under
the same or similar conditions as the last
one we had. I will vote straight at the
regular election for whoever I please, II I
vote at all, but will not go into another
such mess of caucus and ring rule again,
and I am not alone In this by good deal.
I think the old-fashion. before-the-war
custom the best-that is, let any person,
who wants to, run for Office, and if ma
jority vote for him, why declare him
elected if not, let him stay at home like
ne used to do.
lam mighty old-fashion In some of my
notions, and there are q great many of
our old. fashioned customs that havn't
been improved on to any very great ex.
tent, School teaching for one has not
been bettered, the method has been
changed but not for the better. When I
Was q boy-when such men as Hugh
CAN'T, Robinson Cobb, Saunders Smith,
Holbert Armstrong and Reuben Brock
taught school, we had to be at the school
house by SUN up at this time of year and
remain til sundown, with only an hour at
noon for "play time, }" which we generally
occupied In playing town cat" or "bull
pen," or marbles" or "base," and nu-
merous other amusements. Then when
ohi!d-a new b gipner started to school
the first thing he or she were taught was
the alphabet--the A B C's as We used to
call them. don't know why they said
Cs any more than they said A or B for
there is but one G in the alphabet, but 1t
was always understood to moan The alpha
bet when we said A 3 C's. But as was
going on to say, the first day for child at
school was taken up in trying to master
the alphabet, and the next and the next,
or on until they learned them. but now
the first thing they try to learn them Ia to
read. And l know OF children who have
gone to school year and have never been
taught the A B Ga and don't know them.
We had a very quiet Christmas-no
drinking or serious accidents In this i'm.
mediate neighborhood, but the Dlspensary
can't claim any credit 70 it, for it is pro-
verbal with this section-wear used to it.
Several of our neighbors have been
quite sick with la grippe, but believe the
most Of them have got able to be out
again.
Duncan Browning, son of Mr.. George
Browning, has been quite sick with pneu-
monin Sor the last week, but Is, we are
glad to say, con nvalescing.
We are eager to get to sowing oats. but
the weather seems to be against US. ad-
wise all to SOW plenty of oats. They make
cheaper horse feed than corn, and are bet.
ter.
The Legislature copied some Of my
road law, but not enough, for, in addition
to the So poll tax, they should have given
the Road Commissioners power to levy an
additional tax on real and personal prop
erty TO work the roads, but I think the
whole thing will be a farce any way.
SOUIRE FEwRI,