Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-01-10

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K alahans. It's glory has departed
The place was burned durit 6 thu
} "late unpleasantness, and the ruin
: were taken to Clifton Forge, on
, the smartest and wcalthiest cities
between that and Huntington /
is a G. & O. railroad town. pass
ed through that one Sunday, abou
noon, and man had been captured
that morning for burning the place
He had been setting fires in the
place for two years; was caught
setting the last one of three fires
the evening before. lie started
three fires in less than half an hour.
A year before that, he started fire
that burned man TO death. That
man would have laid Clifton Forge
in ashes in another year,
From Clifton Forge | came to
Lammose; then to Longdale Fur
mace. an iron and coal town; crossed
North mountains; went to Colyer
Town, sixteen miles west Of Lex.
ington; went south, down Buffalo
river, to York river, then down
York river to GLASGOW, II Virginia
boom town, which was being sold
ont at auction cash sheriil's sale
Property costing over $4,000 to
build was bid in for $3.50; lower
priced houses in proportion. a
nicer house, and newer, than the
one you lived in at Greeley, was
Observation-Disclosures, lot, stable and
out.buildings, all new-for $40.
GLASGOW is at Balcony Falls, where
York and James rivers come to-
gether, just west of Blue Ridge
mountain
From there | went down the APP
pomattox river to Farmville. Here
the Appomattox is about like the
Little Potawatomie at Greeley.
From there down to Petersburg, all
the land is grown up IN pine.
Where Lee surrendered at Apo
mattox Court Heuse is a dense for
est. rode eight miles through
solid woods before came TO Apo
mattox Station, where the court
house is. That place is like Good
rich, Linn county, Kansas. From
Lexington to Petersburg there Is
not M rood a town as Greeley. All
court houses are in the country,
and dead holes they are, too. Dis
putanta is about like Goodrich,
Land in Edward county can be
bought for from s to So au acre
A 30S acre farm near Blackstone,
about 40 miles from Petersburg, on
the Norfolk e. Western railroad, Is
Tor sale; price, 81, 600; has large
two-story frame house, with brick
basement, an Office, two tobacco
curing barns. The house could not
be built for So, 500 1t is III a pref
ty country-as good AS any III
Oklahoma. The best land is Il dark
red soil, which raises everything
The reason these lands are for sale
is, the owners won't work, and
they have no money to hire help
and negro won't work without
the cash every Saturday night. The
owners grow poorer each year, as
taxes have to be paid, and a piece
is sold each year to keep up current
expenses. A white man is net
wanted to work; besides, in set
Ting, black will allow you to
cheat him out of his money after
you pay him. They first pay him,
then sell him something for his,
money
Oh, but some of these men do
like Northern man who has been
soldierl They have the same
love for Northern soldier that a
soldier has for a snake. When all
old "vet" goes down town, they
watch him like hawk watches a
mouse, and if any preteXt can be
made, the local authorities will pull
him, lock him up and fine him for
all the cash he has, then lock aim
up until his pass is run out few