Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-09-18
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|, DEAR ADVERTISER: Let me give you
some brif iottings by the way:
|: Sept. 7-Had good time in worship
with mypeople in Miami Mo-, to-day.
I think Ihave banner Church and Sun!
day School; the former numbering about
24O, and he latter somewhat moro than
this, witil8 teachers. leave them in
the work. and with wife and child take
train Mt $40 P. NJ, for our native South
Carolina, where we hope to spend a
month with the friends Of our youth.
We travel 1875 miles to st. Louis III the
night, buiI can tell you about crops i'll
Missouri. Wheat crop heavy and pa, ing
the larme about 81 20 per bnshel. Ny
recent estimate upon Saline County will
provo to IL considerably below the marf
The yield will be more than Il million
bushels, aid the farmer will realize more
than dollar per bushel. The Corn crop
in this Stae Is estimated to be one-fourth
short. TIE central portion Of tho State
will yield IN average crop. however, and
You can lIly amy amount of it now at
thirty cent per brshel.
Sept. S-We cross Southern Illinois
and SouthlWcstern Indiana in the day
time. From East St. Lonis, for 81 scw
miles wo ayssn nssing hills, rod and rug
ged. wiifsssse the bluffs against the
Mississippi httom. Now, for several
hours, we ar, running over beautiful
prairie in tigh state OF cultivation.
Crops of wheatand corn good. This l'nd
though good is not so rich as is much of
Missouri. 1t lns a pale appearance. and
is so sticky as to break in ciods. The
roller is freely,sed after breaking, Much
of our route across Illinois. and all the
latter portion OF it, is among red hillSi in
Il country poor and undevclopcd. Fine
grazing. Beef cattle now selling us low
as II cts. per pound This description Of
latter portion OF Illinois route, will APP
ply to what we esaw Of Indiana. which we
left at Evansville, where wc took boat
for IL miles to Henderson, Ky. Wcpass-
ed over good land and saw fine crops
here for considerable distance, until dark
ness OF the night shut us in, and we har"
nothing more 10 record until we leave
Nashville, Tenn, on the morning Of
Sept. 9.-oak logs at the s,lw-mills; not
Il stick of pine aswe see yet. 0, hurrah!
Here is cotton. Cotton still comes uAaer
our eye in abundance from Nashville, as
we move southwark. Here is corn with
the fodder stripped, the firstwe have seen
for two years. Outhose hills west OF us
is where Joe Johnson's boys fought, Tut
under another leader. We rue the day,
but tho Lords will be done. lie rules
ever in the battle. Murfreesboro-hat
rocks and some good land. Poor crops.
Here the writer remembers passing
through one of The severcst battles Of tho
war, when he had furlough in his
pocket. He, not willing to have his meh
pass through an important engagement
without him, had FASTENED back before
his leave of absence had expired. God
was his shield, and therefore he suffered
no harm. Still much cotton, III some OF
which notice much grass. We have
passed Tullahoma and here grasshop-
pers literally fill the air, as they beat
hasty retreat from the rumbling, storm
ing, snorting iron horse. Now we pass
mountains, tunnels, cuts-all rock. There
is rock enough in these mountains, if
you had pounded, to build respecta-
BILE world. G
Sept. l0.--Crops inNorth Georgia poor,
and three or four weeks too late. Corn
here is not as fully ripe as i'll Central
and cotton here Is not Us iullly
.matured as tina. we saw in Tennessee
yesterday. As;we begin to reach the re-
gion. of the long straw Pine we begin to
notice rust on the cotton. Augusta pre-
sents quite familiar appearance, and
seems to be improving, but in this latter
item falls far short of western cities. Our
people in Missouri are accustomed to the
thought that we occupy the centre of the
United States, ifnot OF the universe; md
are ever conscious ofagraud human cur
rent moving westward, to build cities
and people States, :.,..,f
Now here we are resting with friends
of former years, at Graniteville, within
q few P miles Of where we were born. One
thousand miles miles, from home in seventy
hours, fil & .,,.,,..,
Very truly, yours, ...1 :,
L1.gs E. w. HORNE:
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