The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-11-28
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Hrual,y Creek News.

Well, we'll, near three months have
elapsed since we last chronicled the
Brushy Crock news, and my! what chan
ges have taken place during that timo !!
Then we were perambulating around
under straw hat, living eight days to
the week, eating melons. visiting and
having ajolly time in general. People
fine crop prospects and anticipating at
least seven cents pound for cotton.
Then everything seemed to have an
upward tendency, big meetings were
going on, crops growing, religion un-
dergoing revival and debtors didn't
dodge a fellow-was going to do the
thing up right this fall! Merchants
bought heavily, farmers went deeper
into debt. No use to stand back-a new
era was dawning! Didn't you see it?
Such bountiful harvest to reap. Money
plenty, even if cotton goes as low as
seven cents! Everything in whirl.
Whoop! Good times already on the road
and the track clear. Could almost hear
'em laundering around the curve Agape
we view the above. It doesn't give the
faintest outline of the buoyancy,. the
business activity, the prosperity and the
of others) thought would inevitably
swoop down upon us. But now, oh.
now! She has collapsed! Our fond
dreams failed to materialize, everything
gone down in heap! The merchants,
save few old pioneers who stood the
storms of '73, are overloaded and playing
havoc with themselves and the people,
too. The farmers, lots of them, are head
over heels in debt, and some Of them
minus all hopes Of ever seeing the coast
clear again. Actually, if a man is heavily
in debt now he is experiencing short
sojourn in purgatory here on earth: In
other words, he is ''in it," and there is no
chance for him to get out. We are not
"croaking," just merely taking glance
at things as they are, and, as the boys say.
sit looks to US like they are IN a dickens
of a fix, too" There are lots of people
that can't pay out this fall, lots of them,
and in many instances the ones who have
accommodated them are in as bad six"
as they are. Where's the money? Who's
got it? We need it Don't care if it is
little cheaper grade, want it to trade on
The money we are using this fall Is TOO
high anyhow; it costs US twice as much as
that we mad last year, and we can't get
cost for it!
Collectors (the woods are full of them)
won't allow US cent more for 1t than
they did last year, but it cost US, as we
said above, twice as much as the money
we had in view when we contracted the
debts. Now, what's going to happen
next? We are Gin it' and must make
the best oft. What'l II we do? Weiustly
owe these debts and want to pay them If
we can. HOW'LL we do it? "Quit raising
40 much cotton" we hear some one say,
t'and 90 to raising corn and peas and
wheat and oats, etc., and live at homer
That's cool, isn't 1t? How IN the deuce
are we to pay debts with corn and peas
And then, who's going to let's have sup
plies on crop of peas, and them sixty
cents bushel and liable to all get eat up
by some good neighbours cows? Didn't
] tell YOU we were Sin it W If we were
out OF debt we could afford to listen to
that kind of rattle, but under the present
circumstances, brother, it's too thin.
Don't come now asking a fellow how he
got in debt and what tor; you know.
IF you don't you can guess-don't bother
him. he is n, 1t and that's enough. If he
stays here he's got to raise cotton, If he
don't get but three cents Tor it; It's all
that he can produce that's ready money,
and if he "turns up his heels' let us hope
that he has gone to place where it don't
grow. So mote it be
We are still "hands Off in politics.
"Let 'er rollp Never seen such q set OF
"komical kusses" in my lite as are at the
helm. Going to have lots of fun after
awhile or something else just as funny.
AS Pagan Martin says, "Watch !" The
Legislature will meet by and by, and