Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-20
FERNANDO. MISSISSIPPI.
6Osslp-The Beautifsl Promenades-eon-
Hers' Cotton PreSs-The Crops.


Occasional Correspondence Of APPEAL
HFRNANDo. Miss, August I've
don't know whether those who livC
in cities have as keen an appreciation
Of country airs and scenes as people
born and bred among them: but We
should think the principle OF contrast
would impart peculiar relish to the
taste for change; so that after swelter-
ing for weeks in pent-up brick and
mortar stores In town, the tired senses
would experience exquisite enjoyment
in ths sight OF green meadows, breezy
hills and wide, restful stretches Of the
free, unbOunded country
where smoke-lfke elOudings OF tender blue
Dapple thes slopes In snowy Spots
And Ewsstly change on a nearer view
To drifts OF feiTest forget-me-nots-
Or lounging at Lookout, or among
Blue Ridge peaks
Where rapid torrents, rejoicing run,
Lesping The clIfts In strength and pride
Like snoW-White ribbons IN wind and rain
Fluttering down the mountains side,
we fancy the ever-varying face of Ma
ture only more fascinating from
comparison with the stolid tedium of
city business thOrOughfares, just the
free and easy hunters life is enjoyed
with keener zest by these tired OF the
tame cOnventionalities of etiquette.
We can very well understand how
the young Earl of Aberdeen (not long
since the talk Of London clubs) should
have found his peerage, titles and
great revenues but 90 many. sllGC lies
binding him 20 sport, the turf and
kindred amusements Of the English
nobility, and that throwing these aside
as impediments to freedom of action,
he should have lost his aristOcratic
identity in the hardy exciting life Of
an lslarQnBleled sailor.
Leaving Memphis by the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee railroad, we reach
Hernando in an hour, and find an
uninviting vista of gullies, veining Of
from the depot; but strolling about
the quiet streets we see many elegant
residences, frOnted by attractive en-
closures of fruit and ornamental trees,
blOssoming shrubs and flowers. or
evenings the pavements are enlivened
by some of the loYeliest girIish prone
naders il has ever been our fortune to
see. There we meet a fair face, friDged
by tresses of that red auburn hue EN-
press Eugenie made popular; there
another with q veil of floating brown
hair waving to her waist; q third
(most beautiful Of alp with aureole
OF golden ringiets, crOWntng q face OF
the raTe3t combination of charms, a
lily and rose complexion, cherry lips
with pearls between, and eyes OF
laughing hazel; not unlike peerless
Flora McTver herself, in the bright
days when she fascinated Waverley,
and dreamed not Of bloody CullOden.
A sensation Of fernando Just now
Is the neWly-invented cotton press Of
Rev. G G. OOnnOr, a descendent OF
the noble 0'COnnOF, Of "Old Ireland"
BE Is a man Of vast learning and re-
markable mechanical genius, is In
charge OF the Baptist church in Her
nando (a wealthy and influential con-
gregatiOn), and has made the con-
struction Of this great labor-ssving
machine the employment Of his
leisure hours.
The great barbecue given by the
Radicals here last Saturday was re-
msrkable for the good order observed
by the five thousand negroes present.
Crops in DeSOto were never better.
There is corn enough made and large
surplus to spare. Cotton is unusually
promising. Just now we are needing
rain.
Our fernando Press is wide-aw8ke
to the importance of the coming elec
ton, and is stirring up white and
cOlOred in behRlfOf Conservatism. mr.
Elbert Oliver, q noble gentleman and
a graceful orator, is out for the Legis-
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