Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-02-21

pArtly..iGnced 1t, butitA smail houS''
antld,lg' n well. When we saw him he
was planting btets. He wa. the
only man that said he did not feel
well. But he said he Thought 1t
might he that he had not rot
thawed thoroughly out yet. The
Georgia T. Alaba.n railroad will
reach Fitzgerald Wednesday, and
Mr.. Fitzgerald will I've here himself.
They are going 10 celebrate. Scott
and go out tt the Ocomalgee river
tomorrow TO see some clay and a
sugar. plantation.
FITZGERALD. Ga. Feb. 4th, 1886.
Just got in; it IL after dark.
Started out. to go down to- the
Ocmulgee river 1e miles. Went out
four miles from here to take
turpentine train, that carries
turpentine and lumber t" the river
to ship by boat to the coast. hut the
train did not run today, so we went
out in the country about eight miles.
Stopped at Mr.. Troops plantation
which ia four and One-hali miles from
here. but found he had gone to Sa-
wanna to sell his cotton. He has a
planta ZION OF 100 acres, with about
20 acres under CIVILIZATIONS; saw oats
three inches high sDwe'! "A days ago;
his men were still sowing and would
be for four weeks vet; they can get
two crops of oats In these parts.
H. had fine orchard Of peaches.
plums and pears, but the most
wonderful thing I saw was two
grape vines that covered Il grape
arbor Sc by y feet and hung down
all around from two to three fe''t.
They said it was n white, sweet
grape, but they did not know the
name; also said they made ten gal
Ions Of wine from these two vines
and let lots go to waste.
We found the ladies' Uf the house.
that is, mother and. daughter very
different from the people we met yes-
terday. The next man we talked
with was Jim Phelps, colored. Jim
is working Il piece of Mr.. Troops
land; had some very good Berkshire
hogs; among other things we saw a.
lot Of geese. Scott asked Jim what
they were worth. He said, "Keckon
dem geese wort bout SO cents" He
also said "Dem il lie NOSE useful
things round here. De fe1ders am
good, and day keep cotton patch
plumb clear ob grass" He said.
''Turn dem in de patch and day jns'
take Il row apiece and clean d hole
row betO day touch another. II dav
want u drink day goes and gets 1t
and 30 back to de row and COM
mencejus' where they lef' off," said
"that is a pretty hard yarn. jim"
He said, "FO' de Lord. boss. dat am
fac" Jim claims to he a primitive
Baptist.
The next place we stopped at was
that of VIM. Bradley. Mr.. Bradley
ia native born, 81 years old, and
served in the rebel army. He has
quite farm here. which he claimed
cost him IS per acre three Years ago.
Has d blacksmith and wagon shop;
splits out his spokes and fellows and
shaves them by hand; makes all out
Of " hat he calls fat pine. Can take
a welding hent, with knee Of burnt
tine knots. We staid with. him for
dinner. The dinner was middlink
good, only everything was swim
ming in pork fat. We got to looking
at his deeds. The man that is in
possession of the land keeps all the
deeds, and gives them to The one he
sells to. In some cases there il Il
large suck full of them. Scott asked
Mr.. Bradley who first settled in
Georgia. He said he did not know
zackly, but he hearn dat a man
name ChistofO Columbus scovered
dis island. None Of the family can
read, still it Is interesting to talk to
these people, and when you consider
their circumstance they are to be
pitied.