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Show .MTSTERIODS MCSIC. STJUM3E, UELOD10HS SOCJfpS IROM A KUNMIiO STREAM. It was late one evening la September, Sep-tember, 1875, that 1 first heard the mysterious music of Fascagoula, writes a contributor to the TXipular Science ilonthty. An old fisherman railed me from the- house where I then was to come down on the river bank and "hear tlib spirits tinging under the water." Full of. eager curiosity, I readily obeyed the summons, sum-mons, and if what I heard cannot be properly called music, it was cer-taluly cer-taluly myttcricus. From out of the waters of the river, aprrircntly some forty feet from Its shelving bank, rose a roaring, murmuring sound, which gradually increased in strength and volume until it had readied ib height, hen it as slowly descended. It never advanced or receded,, but seemed always in the tame spot, and though I remained there some time, It never ceased, but continued to rise and fall in the manner that I have indicated above. The reaJer may obtain a better idea of the music If he will place his ear against a telegraph pole, the Utnberof which, acting as asounding-bnard for wires that are played upon by the wind, gives forth a strange, tremulous sound that is an exact counterpart of the "music of Fascagoula" with this difference, ho weTer,that whereas where-as the music of the wires Is very wavering and tremulous, that of the water rifts and -falls with a steady swell. |