Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-07
BETHEL BREEZES.

Unsatisfactory Weather-The Sick List
Raising Horses-Farm Work-Living at
Home-wants the Chain Gang Month
About-Mr. Barron Is Appreciated
Heavy Hogs.
Correspondence Of the Yorkville Enquirer.
FOREST HILL, February 5.-The rain
that fell Sunday only served to make the
ground too wet to plow, and ,retard the
farmers in their oats and clover sowing.
The weather is warm, and notwithstand-
ing the sunshines brightly and the birds
are singing in the trees, it does not afford
MS the pleasure, or make US feel buoyant
like the cold frosty weather we ought nat
urally to have at this time of the year
would do.
Almost every one you meet is complain
ing. One has the sore throat, another the
rheumatism. This one is nearly dead
with cold and that one has the tooth
ache, and all the rest have the measles.
DR.. Bigger Is down with measles. Billy
Campbell is still very ill. Mr.. ]. J. Bran
don's and Mr.. Ed Whites families, I learn,
are getting along very well with the
measles now. Mr.. Cullenders people,
I understand, are also improving. Miss
Minnie Ferguson is better, but Is still con-
fined to her room. Most all of Mr.. B. G.
Warren's family are down with measles.
Miss Lizzie Quinn is also victim Of the
prevailing epidemic. Mr.. James Miller's
children have the measles. One Of them,
he thought Sunday, had taken pneumo-
MIA also. Mr.. Louthian is happy. All Of
his family, including his good Lady, have
recovered; and are now fsttening at q
rate that will soon make amends for any
flesh that the measles deprived them of.
Mr.. Louthian has gone into the colt
business. He bought very pretty one
few days ago and speaks Of investing in
another. Mr.. Louthian is a native of
Virginia and knows what he is about.
In two years he can have a span
of nice young horses trained to suit
him, at much less expense than if he
were to buv them from horse dealer.
The farmers have done but little as yet
in the way of getting ready for another
crop. The Bethel farmer, though, never
gets left, and as soon as the weather
permits he will come with all four feet
up. He has plenty of hog and hominy in
store for another year, and enough spare
cash left from his cotton to buy tobacco.
He cuts his own wood and kindles his
fires with rich pine. George Riddles
mill grinds his wheat into as good flour
as can he made in the United Suites or, If
he wants the old fashioned burr mill
flour, be can have it ground at Davis's,
Plaxico's or Mrs. Simril's mills, or 60
across to "Governor" L. X. Armstrong,
all of whom will give him a frst-rate
article. With plenty at home to eat and
plenty of the best to chew and smoke to
be had at Perry Ferguson's and Sam
Glenn's stores, with socks and stockings
knit at home, and bolts Of cloth and
blankets made at the factory from home
raised wool with the dispensary on the
south, and the North Carolina line on the
north, the Bethel farmer just can't be
"freezed" out. Cleveland may hobnob
with Rothschild, and Carlisle may sell
another S100,0OO,0OO of bonds to fill the
greedy pockets of the gold bugs at the
expense of the working people; but they
won't have any more effect on the Bethel
farmer, so long as he continues to raise
what he eats and wears at home, than the
stroke of lightning had on old man Bales.
One thing we do want is better roads,
and it is the sentiment of good many
prominent persons that have talked with
that the commissioners should send the