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ABBEVILLE, S, C.
SUPPLEMENT.
BILL ARP.
Bill Gives a Chapter on Music.
Atlanta ConstitutionMusic
is tho only employment that is
innocent, refining and that cannot be indulged
in to excess. It stands bj* itself
as the peculiar gift of God. It is the only |
art that is alike common to angels and to
men. It has a wonderful compass and
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variety, ana yet irom iuo gruuuca t tV/ lug
simplest it is all pleasingand all inuocent.
Every other pleasure can bo carried to
dissipation, but not music. }
The highest order of music is that which
wo never hear, but only read about and
wonder. It is called the music of the
spheres?the grand symphony that is
made by the planets and other heavenly
. bodies coursing around the sun, and
which Milton says is only heard by God
and the angels. I don't suppose that such
creatures as wo are, nfllicted and limited
with original sin, could boar that kind of
music. The child that is charmed with a
lullaBy or soothed to sleep with, "Hush,
my dear. Lie still and slumber," would
- - TTatirlol
he Jngnieneu at au uiaiunu nuui
But musical taste is progressive like every
other good thing. Tho time was when
I thought "Billy in tho low grounds" and
"Bonaparte crossing tho Rhine" perfectly
splendid, but I don't now. I have advanced
to a higher grade. By degreos
the children have educated me, and as
they climb up 1 climb aliitle, too. Time
was when I thought "Kathleen Mavoureen"
the sweetest song, and my wife,
whom I was courting, the sweetest singer
in tho world. But I don't now?that is,
I mean tho song. There aro sweeter
songs. I don't wish to bo misunderstood
oinrrflv Xo doubt her voice has
the same alluring, ensnaring, angelic elysian
sweetness it had forty years ago, more
or less, but the fault is in me, for when a
man has been once allured and ensnared
and is getting old and deaf he. loses some
of his gushing appreciation. Nevertheless,
when her oldest daughter touches
the ivory keys and sings Longfellow's
beautiful hymn of
"Daylight is done and tho darkness
Falls from tho wings'of night,"
my appreciation seems to come back ancl
it makes me calm and serene.
Thero is nothing in all nature that so
proves tho goodness of God to his creatures
as in giving to them the love of music
and the faculty to make it. It is the
cheapest and most universal pleasure.
Much of it costs nothing, for wo hear it in
tho winds and waves, tho trees, the waterfalls,
and from the birds ftud insects.
It is of many kinds, irom me peamigauthom
that swells tho noto of praiso in
"Westminster Abbey down to the plantation
harmonics of tho old time darkies
around the corn pile, Between these extremes
we have tho music of tho drama,
the concert, the nursery and the drawing
room.
I was having these thoughts because
Mrs. Arp and the children were practicing
somo Church music in the parlor,
preparing for Sunday. Somo of the family
bolongto tho choir, and it is a good
thing to belong to. Choirs have their little
musical fusses sometimes and get in
* " ? 1 ? t- ?4. ? /vl Ann I 4- In A f?AA/l
1110 pouis J UUl, HUVBriUBicso, ii> 13 a gvuw.
place to raise children, it makes them go
to Church and to Sunday School, and goearly,
and if they are facing the congregation
they have to keep awake and beliavo
dccently, and they do <lieir best to
look pretty and sing sweetly. I used to
belong to the choir, and it was there Mrs.
Arp saw mo and ever and anon heard the
sweet strains of rnv melodious tenor
voice. But alas! that voice nas cnangea
to a bas3 at ono end and a falsetto at the
other, and "there's a melancholy crack in
my laugh."
Young man, young woman, if you
have any gifts for music you had better
join the Church choir, but if you havn't,
don't.
Sacred music is very much varied according
to denominations. Tho Roman
Catholic Church is the oldest and richest
and has the most passionate Jmusic and
tho finest organs, and embraces a rendering
of such intense words as are found in
the "Agnus Dei" and Gloria in Excelsis,
and the litany and chants of the old masters.
The Protestant Church has rejected
the dramatic style and confined its music
to hymns and psalms of sober temper,
and in the main has done away with the
fuguo and galloping style of one part
chasing another through the vocal harmonies.
I remember wlion it was the
fashion in fashionable choirs to givo one
part several feot tho start in tho race and
tho others would start later and overtake
it before they all got to the end of the line.
Thero is a hymn beginning, "I lovo to
steal awhilo away," and the tenor would
start out with "I love to steal" and
then the alto would prance up with "I
lovo to steal," and then the bass confessed
tho unfortunate frailty, "I love to steal,"
and hurried on for fear the first man
would steal it all before he got ther9.
Sacred music is of very ancient origin.
Indeed, it is older than the Church or the
temple, for we find that Moses sang a
song when ho had crossed tin Red sea,
and he said, "I will sing a song unto the
Lord, for ho is my strength and my salvation,"
and when he had finished his
song Miriam took it up, and she and her
maidens sane and mado music on the
timbrols. King David sang all through
his psalms, and Isaiah not only sang, but
wanted overything to sing, for ho says:
"Sing, oh ye heavens, for the Lord hath
dono it. Break forth into singing, oh yo
mountains, and every tree, for the Lord
liath redeemed Israel." !
I was looking over this book that v
arc now using in our Church, a now at
beautiful book containing 1200 hymns ai
a tune with written music to every hym
Here are 3(50 authors of all Christian d
nominations. Of these, sixty-one ft
women, seventy are English Episcop
lians, twenty are Scotch Presbyterian
ten are English Presbyterians, and onl
eight are American Presbyterians. Eig!
are Methodists, ten are Baptists, fourte<
aro Congregationalists, and five a
Roman Catholics. The rest are Dissen
ers, Lutherans, Unitarians, Moravian
Quakers and Independents. Only fift;
four aro Americans. Leaving out Isa;
Watts and diaries Wesloy most of the:
hymns wero composed bj English Epi
copalians. Isaac Watts was the found'
of liymnology. Ono ^undred and twei
ty-six of his hymns aro in this book. I
has been dead 112 years, -but we aro stl
singing:
"Welcome Sweet Day of Rest," "IIo
Beauteous Aro Their Feet," "When
Can Read My Title Clear/' "Bef<5re J
liovah's Awful Throne," "Am I a Soldi
of the Cross ?" and many more of h
composing.
He was a very small man with a vei
large soul. He was only five feet hig
anil weighed less than a hundred poun<
and nover married. His hymns are sur
ill over the Christian world. Our gram
parents and parents, ourselves and 01
children have all treasured them and hi
come familiar with them.
1 Charles Wesley,' a Methodist, has thl
ty-six hymns in this book?most of thei
inspired from his intonse, absorbing loi
of the Saviour?such as "Blow ye tl
trumpet, blow," and "Jesus, lover of m
soul." He was a brother of John Wesle;
the foundor of Methodism, who came l
Georgia with him in 1735.
Rev. John Newton has twenty hymi
in this collection. What a strange, even
ful life was his. Soized and impresse
for a seaman on board a man^of wj
when he was only nineteen years of agedeserted?was
caught and flogged and d>
crmled?deserted again and hired himse
o W
to a slave-trading vessel, Four years a
torwards be went back to England an
married Mary Catlett, the girl be hj
loved for years. He tben equipped a si:
ver of bis own, and shipped negroes froi
Africa to the West Indies and made
fortune. In a few years he became dii
gusted.with the business, and studu
Mathematics, Latin, Greek and Hebre
without a teacher. About that time Wes
ley and Whitfield began their great r
ligious uprising, nnd ho was converte
and joined them and went to preachin;
When eighty years old be preached thr<
times a week, and when urged to stop c
account of his feeblo health, be replied
"What! Shall tho old African negi
trader and blasphemer stop while he ca
speak ??No !" No wonder that the gro
change inspired him to writo those beat
ful hymns: "Amazing Grace! Ho
Sweet tho Sound," "One There is Abcn
All Others," "Glorious Things of Th<
Are Spoken," "Saviour, Visit Thy Plai
tation."
And next comes Cowper?the amiabl
lovable, miserable Cowper?whose li
was spent in alternating between hoj
and despair, and was sent sevoral timi
to the insane asylum. In his luc:
intervals of hope he composed sue
hymns as .
"Sometimes a Light Surprises,"
"There is a Fountain Filled wil
Blood,"
"Oh, for a Closer Walk With God," ar
many others.
James Montgomery, a Moravian, hi
twenty-three hymns in this book. H
early life was full of trouble. He wi
indicted, tried and imprisoned for writir
- ? ii? 41.? a?.
I a UilllfclU UU HIV mil U1 tuu Maoiuct kjuv.
after his release bo wrote an account
tho riot at Sheffield, and was again in
prisonod. Tho press had but little fre
dom. iu those days, but his gentle, earnc
Christian character finally won for hi:
tho regard of his enemies, and ho w;
granted a pension by the crown. The
are no hymns in this book or any hoc
sweeter than his.' Such, for instance, i
"Oh, whore shall rest be found!
"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire," ar
' People of tho living God," etc.
Addison, too, that stately, polished wi
ter of essays, found time and inclinatic
to pay poetic tribute to his maker. The:
is no poetry more majestic than tl
hymns beginning, "When all thy raercie
oh! my God," and "The spacious firm
nent on High." And next we have II
ber, tho gifted bishop of Calcutta, tl
Christian gAitleman who never knew
want, but, nevertheless, spent his life :
charity and missionary work. H
world renowned hymn would have in
mortalized him if he had written nothii
else.
"From- Greenland's Icy Mountain:
still stands as the chief of all missionai
hymns. Ho wrote others of ex.juisi
beauty, such as "Brightest and Best
tho Sons of the Morning," and "By Co
Siloam's Shady Rill."
Then there arc many o^her compose
who did not write much, but wrote e:
cecding well. Thero is?
"How Firm a Foundation," by Goorj
Keith; "t'omo Ye Disconsolate," I
Thomas Moore, the poet laureate of Eii|
land; "Awake My Soul," by Modlej
"Come Thou Fount of Every Blossing
by Robert Robinson.
Rev. Augustus Toplady' has sever
beautiful hymns, but none comparo wil
his "Rock of Ages Cleft for Me." S
William Gladstone, the great premier
England, was so much impressed wil
this hymn that he has translated it in
Latin and othor languages. Of a lafc
date we find "Nearer My God to Thee
by Mrs. Adams, an English lady.
The oldest hymn in this book wi
written by Thomas Stornholn, iu 15J
Ho was groom to Henry VIII. The no;
oldest is well worth rcmembranco, for
was written in 1690 by Thomas Ken, ar
has but one vorse, and that verso is sur
1 oftcncr than any other verso in the worl
re Its first lino is "Praise God from whojn
id all blessings flow." If Thomas Ken is
id in the heavenly choir, (and wo believe he
n. is,) what serene comfort does his translae
ted soul enjoy as it listens every Sabbath
re to his own doxology ns it goes up from a
a- million voices and swells heavenward
s, from thousands of organs all over Chrisly
tendom.
lit Then we have hymns from Richard
;n Baxter, who was Chaplain to Charles II,
*?AO?O4A/1 nciMwnntiAn Af P ? /% m _
ID ouu jl ooiotcu tuu uaut^abivu vi v?viut
well.
s, And bore wo hare hymns from Mrs.
y- Charles, tho gifted authoress of the
ac Schonberg Cotta Stories, and from Wilse
liam Cullen Bryant, our own po.et lanros
ate, and Francis S. Key, tho author of the
or ''Star Spangled Banner," and from Mrs.
[i- Sigourney and John Dryden, another
le poet laureate of England, and Henry Kirk
[II White, who died in his twenty-first year,
but left on his monument "The Star of
w Bethlehem." Here, too, is the litany by
I Sir Robert Grant. And here are many
e- hymns from Dr. Mulilenberg, who
er wrote, "I would not live alway."
is And now iet me pause to remember
that all these men and women are dead,
y Some havo been dead 300 years, some 200,
;h and very many 100, and some for less,
Is but all arc doad. But poetry outlives
ig prose, and a song ou tlivos a sermon. It
i- is a comforting fact that most all of the
ir famous poets havo been Christian men
e. and women and havo given to the
Church some of their sweetest and holiest
r_ thoughts in song.
m Dr. Oliver W. Holmes and John G.
ro Whitford are represented in this collec..
linn.
ltJ
y But hymns without music lose half
their beauty. They are like birds witliout
wings?they cannot fly heavenward.
And now if the choir and the congrega,8
tion will enter into the spirit of these
beautiful hymns and sing them with pure
1(j religious foeljng It will be acceptable
lr praise. A song without inspiration is
_ music, but it is not praise. Professional
B. choirs who 9ing for pay seem to be sing
If ing for men and not for God. Such singf.
ing is liko tHo funerals that have hired
1(j mourners. When tho tune fits the sentil(j
mout of tho hymn, like it was all one
creation of genius, it greatly enhances the
m beauty of both. The coronation hymn
a would not be half so popular if the coros_
nation music wore not set to it. And
!(j this is one reason why the oratories of the
w grand old masters, such as Handel and
Mozart, havo never been excelled. They
composed botn tno sentiment ana me
B" song. Bill Arp.
id P. S.?If anybody knows anything of
g. Simeon W. Hill, of Cobb's Legion of
10 Cavalry, who was captured at Gettysbu rg
and sent to Point Lookout, please address
'n W. T. Cowan, Due West, S. C.
I: _
ro Facts in a NotsbelL
m
at To the Editor of the News and Courier:
lm A good deal of interest is being developed
w in the growing of the Texas thin-shell
,c pecan, which promises greater results
30 financially than can be obtained by the
- raising of oranges, walnuts, almonds,
prunes or olives.
0 The long life of tho pecan is largely in
j-q its favor, because, unlike most orchard
)0 productions, one planting will last for
Ba generations, bearing oven for six hundred
id years.
One secret of its long life is its tap root,
which will go down to the depth of thirty
feet or more, if required, for moisture,
.jj feeding upon soils unreached by ordinary
surface-rootod trees. While many
l(j trees are perishing for want of moisture,
tho pecan is green and thrifty, making
M delightful shade, which can bo trained
j8 into wide-spreading trees if desired.
w The wild trees coramenco.bearing at
six years old, at eight years will begin to
,n pay, anfl at the ago of ten years will yield
0j. from 150 to 200 pounds per tree; at fifteen
. will yield from 10 to 13. bushels, somef
i mna mnrn rinHivnfmn imnrnv^Q tlinm
st its earlier bearing, increased size,.thinner
m shells and larger products?a fact not
aa universally known. Unlike most trees'
r0 planted from the seod, at least 90 per
cent of the product of the pecan will be
ag like the seed planted?possibly 100 per
cent.
1(j Being of the hickory family the pecan
can bo grown where the hickory can, but
.j_ it is reasonable to suppose that in tho
m northern part of the United States nature
re would provide a thicker husk for cover10
ing tho nut. Tho pecan neither trans,8
plants, grafts nor buds well, so the only
a. safe way is to plant the root where tho
Q_ tree is to stand.
ie There is no need of giving up tho
a ground wholly to the growth of the pern
can, because the ground can be used by
is growing peaches, Irish potatoes, tomai
toes, beans, peas or strawberries. Plantig
ing 35 by 35 for the pecan, peach trees
can be planted every 171 leet, giving 36
i" pecan trees per acre and 85 peach trees,
ry between which in rows can be grown the
te smaller products. When the pecan trees
of come into bearing the peach trees will
ol have served their time and can bo removed.
rs To utilizo lands which lie along the
ic- stream* and ovorflow so as to render
them of no value for ploughed crops, the
;e pecan can be planted among tho standing
>y trees 35 by 35 feet apart.
g- Persons may plant out 50 to 100 acres in
j; pecans and farm the land until the trees
come into bearing, when they will receive
a larger income from tho pecans?
al ten times as great as from any farm crop,
th acre lor acre.
ir Having no enemies, hardy, thrifty,
of easily grown, they pay better profits on
Ih tho investment than anything else
to known, banking, real estate, bonds or
Br stocks not excepted. At only ono cent
per pound, the hard shell pecans are
worth twenty-five cents per pound in the
as markets, thev will earn ten times as
y. much as cotton will at ten cents per.
st pound. Ton acres in pecans will earn
it more clear profit than five hundred acres
id will in cotton at ton cents per pound,
ig Fifty acres in 'pecans will earn more
d, net profit when ten years old than a bank
with a capital of 5300,000 earning 10 pe:
cent. At fifteen years will earn mor<
I than a hank with ?000,000 earning 10 pe;
cent., counting the pecans at ten cent:
per pound.
Somo may doubt these figures, bu
thoy can be abundantly verified, show
ing that hero is an industry which ii
worth millions to the United States, an<
can bo carried on by any ono owninj
land at littlo cost, risk, care or trouble
If doubted, write to the undersigned
who will give further information i
wanted. IIeiujkrt Pcst.
Fort Worth, Texas.
Overproduction or Cotton.
Southern planters in the cotton beltar
greatly troubled over the low prieo a
which their staplo is sold, and are dili
gently considering plans by which the:
hope to leach and maintain higher prices
Tho fact is there is too much cotton
that is, its production lias increased to i
point beyond tho demand for cottoi
imnrilfc
j ow~
Tho acrcagc planted in cotton has in
crcased from 8,000,000 acres before th
I war to 19,000,000 acres last year, and to ;
still larger planting this year. Th
American product has increased 282 po
cent, sincc the warj while tho cotton con
sumption of the world hns only increase!
117 per cent. In 1871 tho average incom
from an acre of cotton was ?3o.42; las
year it was only 31Q.11. Tho averag
price per pound has fallen from twelv
and a half cents in the decade from 188
to 1890 to nine cents, which is all that i
offered now. It-is evident that price
must decline if this overproduction con
tinues, and the increasing competition o
Indian and Egyptian cotton in th
English market contributes very mate
rially to the same result.
The cotton-growers of the South wil
show their wisdom at this juncture ty
giving no heed to the remedies and vis
ionary schemes which tho cranks wh<
believe in tho paternal duties and func
tions of the State are sure* to propose
Nothing will be gained by giving to th
State, in any shape, tho control either o
tho production or of tho marketing of th
crop. These are things with which th
State has no business to meddle.
Tho only way in which the evil can b
cured is by reducing production to th
limit of tho demand. This will rais
prices and make them steady. A case o
, over-production is annlagous to the cas<
of a merchant who lays in a stock o
goods far in excess of the demand fo
them and thcnjias to soil them belov
cost in order to realize something. Botl
methods lead to bankruptcy.
The wise policy for tho Southern far
mer to pursue is to vary his crop?to re
strict his production of cotton and t
increase his growth of qorn and othe
cereals. He should, iu every case, raisi
his own bread and moat. In every sec
tion of the country diversified agncui
ture is the most prosperous; and the lov
price of cotton this year will do som
good if it leads to a greater variety o
crops in tho "cotton States.? Washingto,
Post.
Rye and Its Uses.
This crop can be used to good advantage
for four purposes. It can be growl
for the grain and straw, the same a
wheat, oata and barley, and considerioj
the risk and the yields, it is fully a
profitable as wheat. In many localitie
there is less risk of failure of the cro]
than there is with the wheat. Close ti
suitable market the straw is ot mor
value than that of either oats or wheat
For soiling, rye is one of the bes
crops that can be sown. It starts ti
grow very early in the spring and wil
usually be ready to cut off earlier thai
anything else. Id many casea this wil
be found to be quite an advantage.
Eye is one of tbebeBt crops tbat cai
be sown for late fall, winter or earl;
spring pasturage. When sown for (hi
purpose, as a rule, it should be sowi
early, preparing the noil in good tiltl
so that a good, vigorous, thrifty growtl
I can be made in the fall before cold
| freezing weather sets in. In this wa;
it can be made to furnish a considerable
quantity of feed during the winte
I when the weather will permit the stocl
to run out.
I Breeding stock of all kinds can bi
benefitted if they have a patch of rji
upon which they can be turned during
the winter and early spring.
A good rye patch is of special valui
to the brood sows and growing pigs dur
ing the winter. So far as it is possible
growing pigs should have green food
and they will keep healthier and thrivi
better if this is supplied. During thi
winter the rye will furnish this men
economically than anything else. A
supply of green food early in the sprinj
enables the breeding stock to suppl;
their offspring with more milk, and thii
will secure a better growth.
For soiling rye is one of the best crop
that can be used. It can be sown in tb<
summer or early fall after the cropi
have matured, and will make a sufficien
growth to be ploughed under in th<
spring in time to plant corn. It wil
grow in thin land. It makes its growtl
when, to a great extent, the land is idle
aud if ploughed under in good season ii
a valuable fertilizer. For building uj
land that has been cropped down, rye if
one of the best crop9 that can be grown
There are few farms but where rye can b<
made profitable either for manuring, soil
ing or pasturing.?^ .Louis Republic.
? The railway commission of Florldj
has been abolishel
r . All Sorts of Parng 4g|
r ?A Portland, Ore., C ... o
3 died recently left property valued at over
$200,000.
' ? It ia hard for people to enjoy leli
gion 'ery much who beep both hands in
3 their pockets.
v ? There is h clergyman in New Mex
ico who goes by the name of Rev. Iono,
cent Wolf.
f ? "Woman feels where man thinks."
Yes, and that's what makes the man prematurely
bald.
? The man with a cork leg, a glass
eye, false teeth aod a borrowed reputa0
tion is a man of parts.
? A Ion of tomatoes as they come
from the field, it is estimated, will fill
* from 400 to 540 cans.
? Perteze Zrnchzszkowskelowski is a
a cabinet-maker of Buffalo, N. Y. He
1 occasionally uses bis name for a saw.
? She?"I don't suppose you are fond
- of kissing babies?" He?"Not unless
0 tbey are girl babies about 18 years old."
a ? Delaware has a very singular pbe0
nomenon at Wilmington in tbe shape of
a citizen 54 years old who is cutting hin
1 third set of teeth.
a
0 ? "My mamma's got whiter teeth than
t your mamma," said Allle "She'd
e oughter have. She changes 'em oftener,"
e retorted Maudie.
0 ? The difference between realism and
3 idealism is just the difference between, a
* girl's opinion of her lover and theyoung
,f manJfcmrelf.
e ?Tne French still fight an average of
>. 4,000 duels a year, but as tbey are mostly
bloodless affairs the subject is not a
1 painful one to dwell on.
y ? In the 6,000,000 letters that reached
" iVk A f^na/1 1 flffot- offl AA loaf Wrtfl? MfAa
bUO UCAU IVUWl UUiW JOOU JOOl IUOIO TV oo
0 money amounting to $28,642 and checks
( and notes of the value of $1,471,871.
g ? "I was kicked by a horse when I
f was little and knocked senseless," said *
o Chappie. "How soon do you expect to
o recover?" asked the cynical Maud.
? Artificial eyes are supplied to all the
0 wodd from Thuringia, Germany. Near0
ly all the grown inhabitants of some of
f the villages are eogaged in their manue
facture.
,f .? Bilkins?"After all the country is
? the place. How different from the city !
v. No dust, no noises, no everlasting grind
u of business." Jinkins?"Yaas; but
above all, no duns."
? The life insurance compar ies of the
~ United States pay one million five handred
thousand dollars per year toward
0 supporting the physicians who make
* their medical examinations. . ^
? "My dear Julia," said one pretty
f girl to another, "can you make up your
e mind to marry that odious Mr Snuff?"
f "Why, my dear Mary," replied Julia, "I
n believe I could take him on a pinch."
? Mr. Frederick K. Ridge, of Cambridge,
Mass, has within the last three
years given to charitable, religious and
municipal institutions more than $3,000,
1 000. He inherited his money.
* . ? It is said that P. D. |Armour, i f
^ Chicago, is the largest individual com8
mercial operator in the world. His
3 transactions last year reached the enor^
mous aggregate of $03,000,000.
3 ? A colony of 200 or 300 monkeys ;s
0 reported to exist in the everglade3 of
'' Florida. They are supposed to owe their
' origin to the wreck of a vessel upon the
0 coast, having on board monkeys which
escaped into the foreBt.
1 ? The little daughter of a leading
* physician in a certain coanlry town,
i .i . r 11 1
. presented me ionowmg as uer unit
3 school ensay: "There was a little girl,
^ and she was very sick ; they sent for my
papa, and she died very quick."
1 ? The president's salary is paid to him
1 in monthly installments of $4,166 67.
9L
The warrant is brought to the White
' House by a special messenger from the
^ treasury dppnrtment, and after the president
has endorsed it as he would an ordir
nary draft, his private secefary deposits it
at the Columbia bank. When the president
is out of town the draft is mailed to
a
him. The same method is pursued in
3 paying the justices of the supreme court.
' ? Mr. J. H. Bates, of Acwarth, Ga.,
has what one might call a curiosity. It
e is pumpkins that will weigh not less than
one hundred and twenty-five pounds.
' Mr. Bate# has five hills of the mammoth
' Tours pumpkin, so named from having
3 originated near Tours, France, where
B they are largely grown, both for table
9 and cattle use. It grows to an immense
L size, even with ordinary culture. In an
^ agricultural report it is related that
7 a single specimen reached the enor-?
5 mous weight of 320 pounds, and that the
product of one via* amounted to nearly
3 nine hundred pounds. The flesh is of a
9 beautiful salmon color, solid nearly all
3 the way through with very few seed.
Mr. Bates is undoubtedly the champion
| pumpkin raiser of Georgia.
i Sad End of n PIcuic.
' Batesbubg, September Z.?k~ acci'
dent to a picnic party to day fj/m Leea>
ville at Quattlebaum's Mill resulted in
9 the drowning of Miss Alice Smith.
A young man and three young ladies
' went out in the pond in a batejui and from
some cause it was overturn^. Two of
' the young ladies and the young man, by
heroic efforts of others, were 8*ved. No
blame is attached to anyone. The young
lady was highly connected and great grief
1 prevails in the community over the sad
death.
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