Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-02-16
wALHALA SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY FEBRUARY I6 1882

slave you shipped many Of your fist?"
"Yes, indeed. Altogether, have sold
| over 5000, at twenty dollars per hundred.
! | have sent them into five Suites already,
| and havc orders constantly on hand. Now,
to duy, have hundred ready
to send to Mr.. D. Peacock at EIlar.
vile, Ga. If you would like to sec list
of the ponds have stocked, hero they are,
noarly fifty 10 ALL"
| Tukiug the list found it contained the
following gentlemen, who had bought from
twenty five to five hundred young carp to
stock their ponds: DR.. William II. Durham,
Athens, Ga; s. a. Gray, Waynesboro,
Ga; William Nj. Simpson, Washington
Ca; Colonel l.. w. Walker, Suspension,
Alabama; =. H. Coleman, Union Springs,
Alabama; James NJ. Spurlu, Spalding
county, Ga; II. B. Pluuket, Atlanta, Ga;
G. w. Rugsdale, Dallus, Ca; II. l.. Shar-
man, Thomaston, Ga; j. w. Wood,
Grcenvilc, s. g.; Colonel II. G. Ewart,
| llcudersonvillc, N. G.; d. H. and w. S.
Glenn, Westminster, S. G.. DR.. r. r..
Thompson, Cedartown, Ga; II. 9. Mark
sley, Grccnyile, S. 9; II. jesse, Wash
ington, Ga; II. summcrous, Warsaw, Ga;
| William Williams, Villa Riea, Ga; j. Nj.
Ilamrick, CarroIton, Ga; A. CnsHer,
Orange City. Fla George O. Cope, Savau
Lah, Ga; William Bell, Spa!ding county,
Ca; l.. b. Cline, GrceavIle, S. g; w. 4.
Mcdaniel, Greeuvilc, S. c.; j. j. Nicely,
~,ewmsu, Ga; j. b. Ficklin, Washington,
! Ga; q. b. Lamican, Grccnvillc, S. c.;
Hon S. y. Towns, Mayor, GrccnvIlc, S. c.;
j. NJ. Palmer, Oconcc, Ga; j. II. Lindcy,
Powder Springs, Ga; George Hush, BeuI
crTurd, Ella; Hoo. }. II. Henderson, La.
Grange, Ga; j.. Nj. Cobb, Toccoa, Ga !;
d. Peacock, Ellarvile Ga; Il. Il Lawhon,
Atlantu, Ga; Andrew FIeschcr, Titusvillc,
Fla; Mrs. d. hcCrany, LaGrange, Fla.
| make tho list thus explicit and full Just
10 shcw the entire scope OF Mr.. Wright's
work. 81 am never without orders for
my fish, continued Mr.. Wright, 'aud
lately have lad pressing demand for
breeders But just at thiS season catching
the old ones is a hard task; might call it
an impossible onc for they simply cannot
be caught. In warmer weather | would
have 10 difficulty bagging them with net
or even hauling them ashore with a hook. -
IL have heard that carp will not bite at
hook, is that truc?'
"Trac! No, not ono word of IT, 1 have
| jcrkcd out number from this very pond,
but it takes strong hook and stout limo
TO do it. The carp is Que of the gamcst
| fish that swims the waters, aud ten pound
fellow would be about aS much as ono man
would want to pull against 1t was all
could do to get u five FOUNDER ashore not
long ago, aud | had to lose several big
hooks and two or three heavy lines before
the JOB was accomplished Pull? Why u
Spanish mackcrc is considered tho gamest
of all fish, but I'd match ono of my carp
against any mackcrcl that ever tackled the
merry New Euslandcr's muscle. Last
summer some young men went oct TO Mr..
Mils's pond, near Griffin, ard one Of them
had Gue eight dollar fishing rod snapped
in twain by carp about twelve iuches
long. lie was gotten entirely ont of the
water, but jcrkcd SO terribly that three feet
of the rod went back into the pond with
him.
"Whon anybody iutimatcs that carp
oaunot be cuught with hook Just send
them to mo, will you? They won't bite
anything in auch weather as this, but when
tho days get warmer como down and IN let
| you have pull"
"Now, if you'll come this way, I'll
show you how | catch the littlo fellows
ship"
Walking around on the opposite side of
the pond from where we stood, noticed
Mr.. Wright stop suddenly and fcol along
the planked edge of the water for a string.
1t was gono, but calling boy to bring q
rake, he proceeded to fish up an old fash j..
ioncd turtle basket, suoh as tho negroes
havo used on our Southern creeks for
generations past in which to cntioo the
shell backs with picoo Of rabbit leg or
chicken.
| "You don't catch carp in that do you?"
| | asked when he brought tho basket to the
surface.
"Ycs, l do, and it's tho best thing
have ever found You sec, sink it to the
bottom and that's where tho carp all stay
this kind of weather. No matter what
kind of weather you place them in, they
lose al! sense of everything but gravity,
und fok at once to the bottom. OF course
| mean in cold weather. Put them in a
tin can and down they 60 first thing. don't
know whether have any at this haul, but
will sec in moment. Yes, here are few,
anyhow. I'll send theso to my Ellarvilo
customer, MIR. Peacock, unless you want
few to send to the Constitution"
Counting them out he found there were
just forty six, all told, but of course, oil
little fellows, varying from four to elk
inches in length. The first spawning arc
getting rather shy now and arc hard to
cotch. However, one of tho second, or
June spawning, was in tho basket, pretty
| e a..