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YOL. LI1. NO. 41. UNION. SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY^ OCTOBER mT 19027 ?l.()0 A YKAR ~~
FIRST RAILROAD
IN THE COUNTRY.
Description of Old South C3rolina
Lino.
In Case of Favorable Winds Sails
' W~re Used to Assist lingincs. A
Kegro Who Was Killed on Track
Was Called "Live Stock" in
Complaint.
To those Augu-tans who are so
fortunate 09 not to coir.c under the
head of ''Stay-at-Homes," at.d art
ablo every summer to pack their
g it)8 and take the train for some one
of the numerous resorts of the fc'outh
nt.d North, a brief history of the fir*t
railroad to enter their fiir c'.ty may
be interesting, says tho Augusta
Herald. As tlift < 11m .r^rr t.Mi.i'ni
lolls h z;1y back in his seat in the
elegant Tollman of to lay ami caroleasly
glances oVer his time t*b!e. I o
rarely gives a thought to the time
when i s figures meant days instead
of hours. Such, however, was once
the caec. As the rate of speed has
quickened hours and miuutcs have
been gradually clipped from schedules,
until now, what was once a
twenty-four hour run is gono over in
hardly more than an hour. In th^se
earlier dnys the Loaches skirting
Charleston harbor wtro probab'y not
adorned by the many pretty figures
of Augusta girls thjt may be seen
there now.
Augusta sports of the '30's wouYi
have had to spend about eight days
of their week's holiday on the train
if tbey had then taken in the Is'o of
Palms. About tho 3 ear of 1830 the
first steam railway in the South was
nni>ni<il fnr Ir.fflc liotn-otn fl.
V|,VUvv. IV* ?* ????v i/uwii VI u vuui :VT3tVJII
and Hamburg, S. C. The r^oad
from Charlett>n as far as Aiken,
followed closely an old Indian trail,
and occupied the same bed over
which the Southern trains run today,
op The company did business under the
title of "The South Carolina Railway
and Canal Company." When
the road was fir t proposed the
scheme met with tho widest protest
from citizens all over the country.
Farmers all along tho propos'd route
made long trips on horseback to
Charleston to enter their protest,
many cf them contending that the
enormous weight of the locomotives
running over the country at the tor
rible speed of eight mi'es an hour,
would endanger tho life of every
roan and animal so unfortunate as to
l.vo near the track. For a time the
pritnative railroad magnet? stood almost
convinced that, even if the road
was built, it would soon bo in a state
of bankruptcy, occasioned by Lur.dreds
of damage suits brought on by
the slaughter of l:vc stock.
However, in spite of the objection
of half the State, the infant roal began
to crawl slowlv out from Char
Jeston, in the direction of Augusta.
>> The road was built above ground, the
rai's being laid upon a irtstle work
acme four feet high. Soon after the
completion, however, it was fnrtid
necessary to come down to earth, the
passage of trains being frequently
inteifered with by the road tumbling
down. The track was almost entirely
straight, and, when it was found
necessary to construct a curve, it was
made as long as possible. Short
I. curves were declared impossible, the
| engineers declaring that the train
would certainly leave the track,
ahculd an attcmt bo made to round
a carve at fall speed (eight miles an
hoar.) Some contended that the
road might be so constructed that it
. would be unnecessary to slow up.
# Much argument ensued, and it was
finally decided to lay tho inner rail
of the curve somewhat low er than the
oater one. A trial was first made,
, and, at this trial the first accident to
_ -?i *?i- _i?
pdoecu^ci uii iuu ruau tuun
A circular (rack was bui't in a vrcant
lit in Charleston, the inner rail
being lower than tlio outer. A ctr
was placed upon it, and a team of
negro men engaged to push it around
at top speed. The inevitable small
^ boj was present, and when the car
W* started, a little darkey was seated in
?tate on top of tho car. The speed
daickened as each negro tried to outGo
bis neighbor, and tho car began
to rook, finally jumping tho track.
j The little darkey landed some twenty
/ feet away with a broken leg.
Jt Everyone has soen pictures of the
Sk first locomotive used in America.
Tho "S. C. R. W. & C. Co." irai?jp*
ported two engines of this pattern
?ro:n L'ng'and, and their engineers
camo along in charge. They were
Joseph Ilndden aud Thoodore llv
worth. The last named was the
father of Mr. Theodore S. Raworth,
present secretary of the Sibley Manufacturing
Company. These men
were the first to run engines over the
first railroad in the South. This
description of the early method*
shows thcui to have been primitive
in the extreme.
The first cars were equipped with
sails. This sounds in newspaper
talk, like a "pipe dream," but it is a
fjic'. The o* j-ct of the sails was to
help the engine in caso a favorable
t-r't'ZT shouM spring up from behind.
After making several trips along the
line, it was found necessary to have
a headlight ot somo kind. After a
deal of thought and consideration,
the superintendent provided a flit
car with a dirt flojr. This was
coupled on in front tf the engine, and
piled wi'li lightwood knots. Just
before the train was ready to pull out,
these were set on fire, and a negro
was employed to keep the fire going.
One can wcil imagine the inconvenience
to tho engineer. It took a
v?ry ftw minutes for him to bo thorougl
1 j smoked.
The authoiities of the new enterprise
were at first very timid about
increasing speed. Ivght milts was
considered fast enough, cs tho lives
of the passengers had to he consid-j
ered. At a meeting of the directors
of the road, some time after it had
been in opera ion, it was proposed
that an increase of speed be attempted.
The proposition, however, met with
l.ttle encouragement. The more progressive
member* then rose and deliver!
d an argument in favor of his
proposal. lie believed that ten
miles an hour could he ohtninpif and
if more improved machinery could bo
purchased, even twelve miles an hour
could be reached. Not noticing the
astonished looks of the assembly, the
speaker argued od, and ended his
speech with the amazing assertion
that fifteen miles an hour would
some day be possible.
After the meeting there was serious
t ilk among the directors of sending
their friend to an asylum for the in sane,
at the heavy responsibility of
helping direct the road had evidently
unbalanced his mind. One of tho
most unique occurrances in the early
Littory of the railroad was the first
siitagiinst it to rrc.'vcr damages.
In theso days there were no section
hands to keep the road clear of grisa,
and as the interval between trains
was two or three days in length, the
track wns generally so over grown
with weeds that it was indistinguishable
at any distance. One day a
luckless negro?as hundreds of his
kiu have done tiuce?lay down upon
tho track to sleep. Probably he
thought thft train bail nn?aprl tlio
thy before. AlaP, for him, it was
some fifteen miles away, and fast
bearing down upon him. The grass
was thick and tall, and in less than
two hours the engine had passed over
the fated slave before the engineer
knew he was on the track.
llis owner, a farmer, living near,
probably one of those who had so
vigorously protested against the build
ing of the road, immediately began
tuit Lr the killing of his live stock.
Damages were never recovered, howover,
thejudge ruling that the slave's
death came from no fuult of the engineer,
as the gra83 along the road
was too tall for anyone to be seen
who might bo sleep:ng upon the track.
As stated before, the present road
between Charleston and Aiken, lies
upon the old route, but in the year
1852 that portion of the road be*
tweon AII trust A anil Ailfnn nua an.
tirely rebuilt and the route changed
Up to 1852 the deep cut which runs
through Aiken did not exist. The
trains ran from Charleston straight
into Aiken, and there encountered
one of ihe greatest difficulties of the
long trip. The grade from Aiken
to the valUy below was too short and
steep for even a modern engine to attempt.
But the engineering corps of
this pioneer railroad had never yet
been balked, and this difficulty went
down before their ingenuity as all
others had done bifore. A stationary
engine was placed ut tho top of the
grade, and with the aid of a cable
trains were drawn up and sent down
the steep incline with the loss of very
little time.
In the year 1852 excavations were
begun on the cut that now runs
through Aiken. The old roadbed
bttween Augusta an<l that city v?s>
corn up and the 'racks l.?i?l nearer in
co the hill on the present bed.
It is hard to reabzj tint the road
was seven yoarsin reaching Augusta.
Begun in 1829, it was four years before
the road was in operation between
Ilnojbu.g and Charleston. Humhurg
then far out-classed Auguita as
t city, and it was not thought worth
while si tiding tho road ncro-s the
i-iver. Three years later, however,
in 1830, trains began to run direct
ft out Augusta to the sea.
The enterprise proved a success
from the opening day, and has been
ic constant oporation-ever since. At
the end of the civil war the road was
I<Tc almost in ruin financially as well
19 materially. It went into a receiv
r's hands and was bought by a new
company. Alter lh-tt time, until
recently bought by the Souh?.rn, it
was operated uider too name by
which many people e*ill remember
it, **Tho South Carolina lliilrotd "
LETTER FROM COLORADO.
Onr Correspondent Continues His
Intrreatln* Texas fitter.
Times Travels Fast.
ALONG THE PUBLIC HIGHWAY.
[Union Ttmes Special Correspondent ] 1
dkxvek, Co'o. J
Editor Union Times: (
Dear Sir:?Your interesting ptper ,
seems to have no trouble in finding (
its way out here "f la?o. I was very
agreeablo surprised last Monday ,
night to find The Times of the ,
Friday previous waiting for me. I' (
had usually been Wednesday before (
the paper got here, though once be (
fore it had reached mc on Tuesday ,
but never before had it mad i such ,
speed as to rea:h us on Monday ,
i'hat is almost as quick as I could |
make the trip myself. !
I read with iuterest the various
l-.A I* - * *
miers irotn contributors at <litt-srent
points in tho county and hope they
may continue their good work, but
am very sorry that our worthy friend*
T. II. Gore and 1). 15. have quit
giring us the interesting new* of
their little berg*. I hope some one
will give us tho news every week
from these points, for tin y are of
vast interest to rae and I trust would
be for the host of Tines readers.
Well I will try to tell a little of
the country of Texas around the capital,
and to begin with will state that
it is the most peculiar in many respects
that I have ever seen. In
leaving the city of Austin going east
along tho public highway the road
runs along the north side of the C >1>
orado river, though the river is some
distance from the main rood which is
called the Dunlap and Webberville
road, In fact you can hardly see
where the river is except at a few
points until you get very noir Webberville
which is about 20 miles fr> in
Austin, there the town is budt on
the bancs of the river, though the (
banks of the river at this point are
much higher than tho land out at the
foot hills two or more Rules away and
the river has been all over the town
and washed away many houses
several miles away from town. Cut
to start at the city of Austin and
traverse this country road twenty
miles is one continual panarama of
pisturerque view which tho observer
could never forget, not beciuse of
their grandeur, hideouaness or mag
nificence but the varied contms'a
which are ever changing at such a
rapid rate even if jou aro only driving
at the rate of six or eight miles an
t_ rm . ? *
nour. . x ne scenes cnango so last
that you begin to wonder what you
will next see. The first thing that
claimed my whole attention after
reading the peculiar signs which I
have alrendy spoken of, was a very
large cattle pen or more accurately
speaking a very large collection of
cattle pens jnst outside of the city on
the lefc of the road on the side of a
rather long steep hill. These pens
will accomodate thousands of cattle
and in the fall and winter they are
well filled, but in March there were
very few being fed there. The cattle
are brought from all over southern
Texas to be fattened there, as
this is the best farming locality in
southwest Texas and feed is usually
cry cheap here in the fall of the
year. All this hill where the pens
are is covered with the mosquito
trees or as we Carolina people would
call it bush, but if you never saw ono
of these trees I had better try to
describe one. They are usually
about ten feet high and two to six
inches in diameter, have a very
?OJ_h bark, long thorns and at a distance
res.eml le a will w tree of that
<-izc with not more t ion half as mmy
Iraves as a willow o*" Carolina would
have. Those Texas penplo say they
make a nice shade. Well they do
make some shade an 1 as they nro
the on'y kind of trees they have in
many parts of Texas I tries* they
ire very nice. The shado is just
il-ont as denee as the shade would
he from a fly net or a wire screen.
Well, next wo came to the great
oil tank, built of sheet iron, owned by
the Houston and Texas Central
Kailwsy. It is much larger than
O"" ?
in ordinary house and is usjd to
storo the crude Beaumont o;l for use
of the passenger cnginss on said
roa 1.
Then we cross wh\t Texas people
call a creek. We would ca'l it a
gully. I never saw any water in it
while there though it is said to be
impassible fur hours at a time but
s'ill they have no bridge over it.
Then we came to the famous hog
ranch, or in other words it is ExGovernor
Hogg's ostrich farm. The
farm coti-is's of about fity acres all
on the tight of the road, also the
stables and ncgn houses are on the
same side of the road but the residence
of the G >vernor is on , the right
of the road noil.d right in among
some live oaks and built in the side
of the great bluff which seems to
guard the Cdoral) river all along
its course though at this point as well
us many others the river is near four
rmlea distant. This fimous os'rich
r inch was once well stocked with
ostrich, deer and many rare varieties
of animals as well as with shrubs and
:rees, but the-e is only ono ostrich
uow living and the Johnson grass
^as injured the firm very much and
the p'aca has deteriorated materially.
Before we reach tho Governor's
placo and for two or three miles
L* i_ - * "
tanner ea?u, all on the right, is a
vast fertile bottom for miles and
miles while oa tho left is a very high
rocky bluff, in fact the road is made
away up in the side of the bluff so as
to save tho level land for farming.
This bluff is covered wi'h white looking
recks resembling tho old nigger
head rocks of old Bogansville township
in every way except in color.
Then there is a lot of mosquite brush
also live oak and mirads of cacti or
v hat wc would call pricklypear though
ihe leaves are two or three times as
large as the prickly pears we have in
South Carolina.
* Then we come to an old German
place built if possible s*ill closer to
the bluff than the Governor's house.
Ilcrc the live oaks are much larger
also more numerous than any other
place that I saw.
Sonus of thoss oaks were more than
two*feet in diameter. The bui'dings
were all painted aud looked fine, but
thc.hill was so steep that tho rear of
the houso was down in the ground,
while the front was- ten feet off the
ground. These live oaks were covered
with the Southern moss, though
it was very short, only a few feet
long at best, and much of it in small
bunches, giving the trees the appearance
of black sheep in the spring
when they begin to shod, Lut the
most attractive feature of the old
German's llomo was a real spring
running out of the bluff higher up
than where the house was built.
Th? nlil mnn Knilf liima.lf ? ?
... V4MH Uiuncii a UU^
pen just below the spring and all the
water ran into the pen and into a
hog wallow, and very seldom any ran
out as the hogs drank it as fist as it
camo in. Thr spring was only fifty
yards abovo the road but the wa'cr
never reached the laitc*. Then we
climbed a long and steep hill got up
among the brush on both sides and
entirely out of sight of the river or
bottom land, and for miles there are
only little patches of firms with
plenty of houses, for many of the
people who own or rent the bottom
l&na livo upon top of the hill as they
are much safer from disease as well
as from the floods that often come
down this river: but they can't grow
anything very well on these sandy or
rocky hills oxcept a little early cane,
grapes and some fruits, though they
value the peons', s'eenest and rockiest
of this land at fifty dollars per
acre; by the wholesale, at that, they
have their churches, school houses
and grave yards all on the hills except
one I saw at Dunlap, it was
built on the bank of a creek and waa
called Dickvr'a Drjneh chircK A t'? I
?evernl niiles|>.-f ?h's high toad w |
igai i go down hill up liill umi down I
iill ii.1 finallyjwe gee in bight of tlx
great bottom land once more, bu
still the road is Lung upon the sid?
d thi-i bluff until we reach what u-" <!
r?? be Ilornsby's p st office, but tlx
Itural lloute Mail Service has nh-i|.
ndicd it as well as Duulap and Weh
berville, though the II. S. has n
mail box at (aeh ?f the?o ?* <
where letters] can be lU'iiled, bu
everybody who received mail from
any of these offices are obliged thave
a private box at some point on
this main road in order to git theii
mail delivered, otherwise their mail
will be carried back to Austin and
held f ?r their demand. Fioir.
llorr.sby's tho road takes across I
sandy, rather level country and so u.
we arc out of sight ? f the bott'in j
gain, but the houses arc closer t<g
ther until one would think the; 1
wetc coining to a eiry. but we an
only getting near Durilap. Ar this j
place we are more than a mile f.- u ,
the river but the water has been al i
over that little town several tiu's 1
during tho s'ay of sotnc of the citi
zens who are still there. Dunlsp ionly
a very small place having otn !
geueral merchandise st-.re, a el urcl
and a blacksmith shop, but this n
one of the most densely populated
sections that I have ever seen, tlii? (
is the edge of the great bottom knowr >
as Iluuter'a ]>end. Hunter's llei.d .
takes its name like most of the o'hei ,
numerous Urge Bet.ds that aie fou .d i
all along tho Colorado river, tin 1
origin <f which was from the pioneers
of that section of country. Th's ?
Uend takes i s name from Will D
Hunter, who owns most if iho laud '
lor about three mile* alon-i tl ? livor
besides considerable land on the hig;
p airie south of his b atoms. II** i
a native of old South Carolina, hav ;
ing been teired in Laurens coun*y.
and came to this place more than ,
forty years ago. Speaking < f these
bends in ibis river, many of the n ar< i
very near as crooked as a lmr-e shoe.
The road from Dunlap to Webber
ville is mostly through the bottom*- ,
and is very muddy when wet. hu
they have hauled rocks for pu t of it
lately. You sec all this road I hav*
been speaking of so far was lite rally
covered with rocks about the si/, s ci i
a goose epg, the county had to hau1
some of them for four miles and
they make the roads so rough by the
time you rnle ten miles you are so
badly shook up you can't tell whethei
von nr? nf. mt mi* u*n>Lrir?.? T .1,1
J ~ - ? " ' " ?- " VJU.U
like to tell you something about the
people of Hunters Bend.
With best wishes for The Times
and all of its readers, I rem tin you'
friend, W. G. Bailey.
[All right, W. G. Let us hive
all about the people of Ilun'er's Bend
or any other old bend yon may have
run aero.s. Just le;'er ro'.l and
spread yours'. If, you aro doing fine
it is virtually a con inuation of our
Texas Trip, and the p:op'e were still 1
calling for more wl en ye laiddmn J
our pen.?Ed.]
our^a?tuc~lette
]
The Price of Seed Makes the Cotton {
Crop More Valuable. A Newspaper
From the Cherokee
Nation. News Items and
Comments.
I
ROTTEN BAGGING AND TIES.
'Fair tresses, man'a impeii.il race
ersnares,
Aud beauty draws us wi.h a single (
bar."
But the beaming gloiy cf her tresses
more so than a single hair.
Did any of you ever try to wet a mud- i
mole?
I 8a w something ab >ut the strict, game (
laws of the Indian Territory and the
s'rict enforcement of same, and I b lieve |
all over the west all laws aie enf.ucMl
better than they are iu this "mo e civilized?"
country. Now I will wii o an ,
"advauce copy" and say I am almost
sure tin game laws of th s State will bo j
violated to some extent tliis very fall,
and then I caun>t be accused of writing .
about it, because somebody is violatiug '
the law. The law should he euforced
or observed and give everybody an equal
chance.
When crows and j \y 1 irds go together
and samp'e corn and do various oilier
things, I do not know which you will j
say is keeping the "bad comp iny."
I have never found out yet why every '
animal I ever saw ca i w?lx ovt-r Ibis
old earth, over sinouth or rough and
rarely ever stumble4and fall but a horse
or mule, which will tonple o^er on
smooth ground and nearly break your
neck.
1 am having a bad cold or rat her worse
cold. I wrestled all Saturday night, Sunday
and Sunday night, and I lo not
>
< : ?i* whc'i throw, lue or tho . d.t I
>'.h wider boto ii m >-?t; of t'ii ti i 'I'll
.here h nothhg Ike ?lie I.e-p kicking
and never I oiler on nigh, Jbut 1 ha 1 more
than enough.
Ti.oih vv.ii an nM otw ;irm in in litvrn
**;? ii il.iy. 4 h. f11 opening re/ irs and
knives. Ii- ?o-?k Ins a-itt early in lbs
miming ami k'-p*. (o Ins work sterlily
inii; la'e. aii'l s nue sty it was ain ising
m see li ?-v lis cxiiv) get along with hi*
vork wit'i only on" Imii '. IT*? was
ii ikjn/ a-i holiest liv'.ng if thojobdil
S 'em snuil.
I believe I will bet 23 ce tsthal you
esia'i send a negro in a leu h-t.* held lo
'urn a team and wagon bit. I hat
he will l ck the wheel under the lied or
'oad aiid nearlv b ea'< lbe tongue or
thiow the bed off. The world i.s scarcely
iig enough. The heavier the load the
sb >iter thev tirn.
I saw a little negro climb a horse. He
n h'I humane, made a spring, then
his legs opened out like a piir of sum ?rs
ihmm'iu lor a j in :in?l wlia'i ' t'-'v c mv?
hack elamiied the horse's lee, then one
foot went out to the bridle reins, and
then such a scrambling uutil ho went np.
You see he was going to Lake a lide and
liis * IT-?rLs was crowned with success.
The cotton here presents a ragged appearance.
The old rot.ton biggiag sent
jut by the cotton fsctoiies it r i oil,
ragged a d rotten that it will scarcely
day on the cotton until it is taken from
lie gin, and ties are rotton a id brittle.
I do not see what prevents a great l'*sa
a that Vre packing.
Thi> is good weather for plowing 1ai.iI
"or prai i and it ran be done with ease,
o nparalively. I.ast s ason the rei ifall
mis mi light and land kept so diy that
Vowing could not l?e done well and oats
Mine 11 a bal s'and and p?or growth,
jjns: <1 .c it. y l think to warm winter killtig.
We had a good rain here on the 30th
v'pt , alout .AO inch. It was good on
'.?t! crops and rendering land better for
I iwiit. a1 (1 it did l ot iijme open icton
around this place, but there was a
itorm tli.ee or four miles west of here,
ir.d ope.i c Hon was bad y blown out
md iii'iad. a portion of locks banging
ib >ut on tl.e stalks, as if rattle bad Iwea
nil ii.ig o" 1". Dr. lhl'ea told lite that
reel wvie blown do.vn in Irs comninn*
ty, and c?'ton was scattered alt over the
le d- and b aten in the dirt, an 1 1 have
.? id of some bouses, further on, bring
liiropfed. We ha 1 m iro rail Sunday.
i e. ort r-nd uvm the b iliof that it is
so cus'ontarv to have an 4'?qiiuootl*l
r?le," tliil if it, is behind lio.e or sid*rtv.ke.l,
at. the tline of the? <i imox, thai
it is so o to come, even if i> is not, until
he days are t he l<-wrest or eh <r'est. of
die year. Might as well call every
jvindv lain the i (puiioctiaS ga'e, f<?r w?
1 > not kuo v whicti ore is miei ded for
,he list one tor the equinox. If it is
ih;iged 'o cone*, the storm of Mindstv
nz.i.iiiMi .w mu*v mon nig. .JJCU and
"51st of An<USt, lSTl, was the createst
H ,11.1 ,fi i-.tl e.tles we ever lvtd hii.I inula
up for dolinq lencles.
There used to be ;i deal of tn'k ab nit
farmer., selling cotton seed < ff ??f the
fanin when tney ought to have been
11r>e?1 for m moie Cotton seed is a good
manure and use.1 with acid \ hosplr.te
iIhv give (XCedei.t i? suits, but nt and
over twenty cents per bushel, there is
too much money in them form mure
is that would be fxpensive. Fa:mem
need to look for a tli *aper manure, rotation
of crops, pt a vines, t'c., will t,\
aud the haul run farmer when the aee?l
are prepared for market at a good price
can put that little chance in bis pocket.
Field peas are richer foj manure than
seed but th j fanners won't use them.
The co" ton crop ?eetn<; t? ba more valuable
to the f.uum-r since there is a sale
for see l, and tlut ; t a fair price, as I
*ee it, the last, two ve.irs. Seeds are
br'nging a good pre i now, hut to view
t,'?d dilluvt.ea of i. -r/in between the
r.t'v 8- i*d and the manufactured produot,
Lhe piice may b) t.'K> low, really not
whit they are worth; but few of us, if
my, do net know th ltd iff rer.ee. Anyw
iv farmers are now getting a good
price and this will help them go a good
ways on towards getting even. If they
could only hold their cotton until it rises,
which mmy believes it will.
It is a g >ol tiling to s 11 things when
you c in well spare it, but there are many
people who will sell almost everything
olT the farm if they are offered 8 good
price; and is thus a victim to speculators.
Mere is wh??re negro s have often lost
heavily, l i the fall ihoy generally sell
corn, peas, hozs, c nvs, and f.idder when
it is cheap, and the next summer buy
the same kind of products back at. alia
M doub'e th? price they sold at. They
are, willing dupes this way, but I do not
hdieye th<*y ou-'bt to Iks encouraged in
this too far. Unfortunately alio desire
to have cash money to tpend light now,
and the ease with whiedi some things
can In) got on credit-, often works to the
hurt of both white and colored. Some
things they are obliged to have on credit
o" stop bu iness.
I do not. know whether one would call
it a "curi?" or not, but l)r. P. P. Butler
gave mo a copy of a paper that ta a
sorL of a euriositv to mv knowtwtm
Tlra paper is the Cherokee Advocate,
published at Table quah. Cherokee Ration,
I. T, by Mr. G. O. Butler, a
nephew of the docfor. One half is
printed in the Cherokee language. It
is worse than Greek and I do inotknow
hut it is worse than Hebrew. It la a
g eat big huckleberry over my little bit
el n persimmon. Then you ought to
see some of the strange ways of putting
tilings in tire English print. In the advertisements
of 'Sti ays" etc. Tire.) t m
districts, such as Going Snake District
ai.d various other things that ap,reals to
one not used to such, as a curioe ty, anJl
that is why I am going to Die it away an
a sort of souvenir. Dr. Butler has my
thanks for same. IIky Dknvkb,