The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-04-18
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So az 1asAFtES OF THE tNEATHER.---For
theslnst tllress weeks the community have
ai,xlous!y waited the sC Clerk Of Tie w Veattl.
af.s for q supply Of the .,needfnl,, L e. water
bnt the rains rain clouds were dry--not drop!
descended @ - TO console the DUST .choken travel.
ler Or The anxious. planter. The Country suf.3
ferlng from the fncessant heat, the roads fairly
q dissolved into sand, and particles interming.
ing with ~ the air and water were inhaled and
imbibed rlt' by Discontinued manhood. Saturday
night last the wind blew rather afresh,' and
II turned, coldish--aeeting clouds obscured
the luminaries Of night at intervals, and tbs
old folks planned terribly of the ..moaning
OF the wind" Sunday morning dawned-
dark rolling clouds, at the winds fleetest rate,
brushed across the hemisphere, the sun shonc
not--the air had that listless property denot.
ing an impending storm, the streets were do.
serted--more than ordinarily SO; the cattle
mfoanedi and slowly seeked the shelter Of
their sheds, smoke was observed curling in
wreaths from every chimney mounting to-
wards the, now, overcast heavens, those ,ha,
ventured out do1ned the cloak and pronoun-
ced The weather cold---bitter indeed, for April,
and those lazily inclined to take advantage Of
the "Day of Rest crawled back 70 their
warm nests. What was going to happen |?
Every one remarked --some,hing wonderful
1t must be, and something wonderful il was.
1T skowEpl!! Yes, at one o'clock, remem-
Der the hour, on Sunday evening it commen.
ced showing at very rapid rate and the Storm
lasted TO night, covering the green carpet
which nature had already spread over The
EARTH with as ltwere white coverlid. All
The yestIges of spring were for while obli,-
era'ed' and the appearance presented by the
gardens and shrubbery in our town was beau
tfnl indeed. 1t was picture for the artist
q aco-minging OF winter and summer--,a com.
PIete freak of nature Only imagine rich
clusters of biushng roses inibedded in crust
OF snow, lilies enrobed in covering Of their
own color, the violet peeping forth from a
robe OF white, the honeysuckle clustering
with it and the jassamine and myrtle, tho tu-
lip and the lilac tipped with the fieecy fakes
s'NA'N saw" oaio eoseicu VIII SeT'taDIe snow.
We have not for long time seen anything
SO beautiful--so sublime, as the contrast oil
the white and green. What would our
Northern friends think to SEQ the snow first
shook from the early clustering pea pods be.
lore their delicious contents were subjected
the formula OF the cuisine, or the strawber-
RES disrobed from flcecy, icy covering be-
lore they were plunged into the cream and
sugur-for we have TO chronicle the simple fact
OF their arrival, perhaps the first of the sea.
son. What will our, Eve almost said Broth.
er) Parent editor OF the "Timcs'' saw when
we tell him we were dining with green peas,
strawberries for desert while glance through
the window made manifest the fruit and shade
trees tinted with white, roaring white oak
fire in the chimney, a combination perhaps
as unprecedented as astonishing. The change
Of the weather, however, will benefit us: the
dust has been laid and q slight moisture i'm
parted to Flora's rzing generation. No harm,
as we haye yet heard OF. hes resulted to the
growing crop from this sudden visitation,
though at one time the fleecy cloud was so
very thick and fell with such rapidty as to
induce belief that the natives were 10 be as.
tonished with slegh-r;de.
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