The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-07

before. | am sure If l had ever seen
it the impression would never have
been erased from my mind. I have
seen good deal of mountain scenery
in Viaginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania
and Tennessee, but none of it i'm
pressed me as Stone Mountain. /
On reaching Atlanta we went direct
to 236 Ellis street, tie residence of my
nephew, Duane A. Russell, where we
had been invited to make our home,
and our sojourn there with our klns-
folk was indeed pleasant one, the /
people and the weather seemed to have
conspired to make us happy. Il
Atlanta is big city, but perhaps 1t
is the most awkwardly laid of OF any
CITY I ever visited, Charleston not ex-
cepted. Even Peachtree, the main
thoroughfare, is puzzle to any stran--
ger, and defy any one not acquainted
with the place to know just WREN ne
is on it and when be is eff, unless be
ascertains his whereabouts and takes
his stand or sits down. 1t twists anal
bends and splits open, and now you
are on it and now you are somewhere
else.
We went on the Exposition grounds
Wednesday and Thursday, and while
we do not claim to have seen al that
was on exhibition, we think we look
in about as much as any other two
pairs of eyes could have done in the
same length Of time. Were | TO under,
take to specify all-even if l could
recollect it, your paper woul not hold
it, nor would your readers endure 1t.
I will venture only comparative few.
Our own South Carolina exhibit is no
insignificant affair, indeed it Is second
to very few in minerals, fruits, veg.
tables, phosphate rock, granite ano
field crops. l felt little pride Gf tina
is the word) when l looked through 1t.
The California exhibit Of fruits and
vegetables, melons, ETC., is q marvel,
and so neatly put up IN jars and cans,
plainly Labelled. Just imagine onions
(wb1te silverskins) as large as the
crown of mans hat, pears about the
size of your head. peaches that will
weigh perhaps pound or mere, water.
melons weighing about one hundred
pounds. squashes and pumpkins weigh
iue far up in the scale Lear the two
hundred pound mark, and YOU have
>oue idea Of the grand scale upon
which the California fruits and vege-
| tables are grown.
Louisiana, Florida and other States
have also fine exhibits Of these and
o.her articles. The display in the
mineral and forestry building from
numbers of States is wonderful, the
house itself, built of logs of different
kinds Of trees and upon large scale:
is unique in lis grandeur and magnlt-
cenee. There you see wood of almost
every conceivable variety, in blocks,
logs, and saved into slabs, in the
rough and dressed; also pertritied
| woods that are indescribably beautiful ,
sawed off blocks, showing the grain !;
| minerals Of every variety, from mug
gets of gold as large as a mans list to
huge bouiders Of granite and coal.
| Machinery hall is also a curiosity.
Immense steana engines and electric
| dynamos are in motion, driving count
kRs}I lfss maehIneS, n4A}I, constantly turning out
almost anything in the line of metals
| ond fabrics.
The Southern Railway Company has
remarkable display Of minerals,
stones and woods in its building, which
have been collected along the line cf its
! roads. There I saw a frame made Of
| four pieces of wood sawed from logs
hauled to the mill from some battle
fields of the late war. In the cen,r
! of each piece of wood is lead bullet,
which IN saving up the logs was
found. The wood is nicely dressed
| and jointed aud the balls still imbed-
| ded, having been sawed through and
| dressed with the wood.
In the government building are
some rare relies. There we eaw The
saddle upon which Ge4. Winfield Scott
| rode into the City of Mexico in 1916.
There also we saw two brass cannon
captured in the Revolutionary war,
ana two old flint and steel muskets
used in the same war, and kettle
drum. Of course we saw the Won
derful exhibit of fishes, which was the
observed of all observers. The Plant
railroad system also has large and
varied exhibit of plants, fruits, birds,
animals and minerals. We went
through their coal mine BY the light of
lanterns.
In the old Confederate relic building
we cav jeff Davis cradle. the we'd
ding dress of a daughter Of Jno. G.
Calhoun, Beast Buffers famous and
brutal order iu regard to the women
Of New Orleans, and scores Of other
things of interest 10 one who took
part in the late uupleasantness.
! cannot venture to describe the
mechanics and fine arts display; it is
beyond my ability. One thing of
great interest 10 nv wife was a section
Of natural forest from Pennsylvania,
representing a rocky bill surrounded
by a swamp; in the swamp and upon
the rocks and perched upon toe natural
forest trees are numerous ducks; owls,
hawks, crows. woodpeckers, eagles, |
wild turkeys and various other birds
Of large and small feather, and ami |
mails erom the little ground squirrel, !
cat squirrel and rabbit on up to the |
po ~cupine, the deer, the fierce panther,
holding down a fine buck with one |
paw, while his fierce and wicked eyes
glare at you as if he would spring
upon you, while the blood oozes from
the ieer's throat where be has lacerat-
Ell it with his horrid teeth, and from
his lair in cavern amongst the rocks
All ugly black bear peeps slyly out,
his chance 10 seize some
urwary and helpless animal for his
rev. Several rattlesnakes lie coiled
xt s:.ie foot Of the hill. These ale all
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