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TIIK COMMONWEALTH, Scotland Neck, N.C. r Scotland Keck, - - - N. & An uncompromising Democratvp Jour nal. Published every Thursday morning. HE EAT Advertising Itnte s J. B. NEA L, Manager, 1 inch 1 week, 1 "1 month, S1.C0. Subscription Kates; THE COM JHO W WEALTH. rrpTj Contracts for any space or time may be made at the office of The Common wealth. Transient advertisements must be aid for in advance. 1 Copy 1 Year. I 6 Months, $2.00. $1.00. E. E. HILLIARD, Editor, -the land we love." Terms . $2 00 per ye?r in Anvance. OlT SCOTLAND NECK, N. C.f THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1883. NO. 44. DARBYS PROPHYLACTIC FLUID. A Household Article for Universal Family Use. For Scarlet and Eradicates H iMuinieru. sau- fiT AT?T A gfvation, Ulcerated SlUXLiJ&i&, sore Throat, SniaU iSSSa Fx Measles, ami all Contagions Iis-ases. rersons waiting oa the Sick should use it freeiv. Scarlet Fever has never been kivwn to spread where the Fluid w as ued Yel'ow Fever has been cured with it aitel black vomit had taken place. The wor cases of Diphtheria yield to it. FeveredandSiclvl'cr- j S3IAIX-POX sons refreshed and and Bed Sores prevent- PITTIXO of SmaU ed bv bathin. With . Fox PKKVEXTED I A member of my fam ily w.;s taken with Sr.i.-.'i-pox. I used the Fluid : the patient was ' n t delirious, was not pitted, and was about the house again in three i weeks, and no others . had it. J. V. Park j INSON, Philadelphia. Darbys Fluid. 1 m pure Air made harmless and purifud. F' r Sore Throat it is a sure cure. C-.intagion destroyed. For Frosted Feet, Chilblains, Piles, Chafing. --tfc. Itheusnaii.-f'Xrured. Soft AVliiis4aiplo?- ious secured by its use. Ship Fever prevented. To purify the lireath, Cleanse the Teeth, t can't be surpassed. Catarrh relieved and cured. Krvsinelas cured. BurnsreUevedinstantly. ! The physicians here Scars prevented. use Darbvs Fluid very Dysentery cuved. successfully in the treat Wounds healed rapidly. ment cf Diphtheria. Scurvy cured. A. Stollen-werck, An Antidote for Amnnl . Greensboro, Ala. or Vegetable Poisons, ; . Suns, etc. i Tetter dried up. i used the Fluid during ' Cholera prevented. . -r present affliction with 5-leers punned and Scarlet Fever with de- ; healed, died advantage. It is i In cases of Death it ,.-.-.m Wm. F. Sand-1 the corpse it nsnMSrin e ro me sick- i wiU ur.D, Eyrie, Ala. prevent any unpleas ant smell. The eminent Phv : sician, J.MARIO.V SIMS, M. D., New 1 York, savs: "I am convinced Pre f. Darbys : Prophylactic Fluid is a i valuable disinfectant." I Scarlet Fsver Cured. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 1 testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof. Darbys Prophylactic Fluid. As a disinfectant and ce-ergent it is both theoretically and practically superior to any preparation with which I am ac quainted. N. T. Llftox, Prof. Chemistry. Darbys Fluid is Recommended by Hon. Alexander H. Stehipks, of Georgia; Rev. Chas. F. Deems, D.D., Church of the Strangers, N. Y. : Jos. LeConte, Columbia, Prof.,University,S.C. Rev. A. J. Battle, Prof., Mercer University; Rev. Geo. F. Pierce, Bishop M. E. Church. IXDISPEXSABU2 TO EVERY HOME. Perfectly harmless. Used internally or externally for Man or Beast. The Fluid has been thoroughly tested, and we have abundant evidence that it has done everything here claimed. For fuller information get of your Druggist a pamphlet or send to the proprietors, J. II. ZEIUIN & CO., Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA GENERAL DIRECTORY. SCOTL.13i .ECK. Mayor W. II. Shields. Crmmissioners Noah man, R. M. Johnson, Birss. M. Tloft- K. Allsbrook. Meet first Tuesday m each month at 4 o'clock, P M. Chief of Police R. J. White. Assistant Policemen C. W. Dunn. W. E. Whitmore. C Speed. Sol. Alexander. Treasurer R M Johnson. Clerk K. Allsbrook. CHURCHES: Baptist J. D. Ilufham, D. D., Pastor. Services every Sunday at 11 o'clock. A. M.. and at 7, P. M. Also on Saturday before the first Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night. Sunday School on Sabbath morn ing. Primitive Baptist Eld. Andrew Moore. Pastor Services every third Saturday and Sunday morning. Methodist Rev. C. W. Byrd, Pastor. Pf-rvi,pa nt 3 rvVlfb- P AT tr tYa cunnil and fourth Sundays! Sunday School on Sabbath morning." Episcopal Rev. II. G. Hilton, Rector. Services every first, second and third Sundays at 10J o'clock, A. M. Sunday School every Sabbath morninsr. Meeting of Bible class on Thursday night at the residence of Mr. P. E. Smith. Baptist (colored.) George Norwood, Pastor. Services every second Sunday at 11 o'clock, A. M.. and 7, P. M. Sun day School on Sabbath morning. o COOTY. Court Clerk and Superior Probate Judge John I. Gregory, nferior Court-Geo. T. Simmons. Register of Deeds J. M. Grizzard. Solicitor A. J. Burton. Sheriff R. J. Lewis. Coroner J II Jenkins. Treasurer E. I). Browning. Co. Supt. Pub. Instruction D C Clark. Keeper of the Poor House John Ponton. Commissioners Chairman, Aaion Pres cott, Sterling Johnson, Dr. W. R. Wood, John A. Mortieet, and m! Whitehead. Superior Court Every third Monday in March and September. Inferior Court Every third Monday in February, May.August and November. Judge of Iuferior Court T. N. Hill. JUST THE PAPER THE PEOPLE WANT ! ED. OLDHAM'S WESTERN SENTINEL,! (Established 1852.) Should be Read at Every Fireside in Western North Carolina. Full of News, Fun. General Information and Something to Interest Everybody SEND 50 CENTS AND TRY IT THREE MONTHS! WINSTON, N. C. NOTICE. WE have one hundred town lots for sale in this town. Some of them are very desirable. This is . a rapidly growing town, and persons wishing to secure good places for residences and bus iness stands, and to make good invest ments, will do well to call on us. KITCHI & DUNN. July 5th, 1882. . v 1 diphtheria j i Prevented. TO JULY. The poets love thee none too much, J uly ! At least I judge so from their seldom singing About thee as the months, in turn, go by Some inspiration to their harps "each bringing. know not but thy skies are all too hazy. And veil sweet Nature from their sub tle ken. . Or, it may be, thy fervors make them lazy, And steep each pulse of thought m sleep again ! I'm sure of this, that April, May, and June And, quite as much, the golden-haired September, With various charms set all the bards a tune In madrigals too many to remember. And poets, wed to melancholy moods, Who for the mirth of June are far too sober, But vent their ectasies on "naked woods" Pour deep libations to the brown Oc tober. The silvery locks of Winter lend their charms To all the months when merry sleigh bells tinkle, And drear December dies in loving arms Of bards, who on his bier pale tiow'iets sprinkle. Yet thou. Jul, hast wonderous wealth of bloom. That decks the glen and glorifies the meadow. . Kindling to ciimson Hanie the bosky gloom And staining purple every fiying shad ow. Sweet cherry-gems upon thy bosom gleam, In ruby light, or tinct with lucent am ber, And luscious berries, fit to drown in cream And tempt the queen of beauty in her chamber ! Thine is the fragrance of the new-mown-hay. Than subtlest breath of chemic oders sweeter. And crowning common gifts in God's sweet way. To make his daily bounties the com pleter. Thou bi ingest, in thy large and lusty lap. The early grain, and treasures of the garden. And thy fierce heats distil the sacred sap. T-hat hence to August pears and plums will harden. Why do the poets slight hee, then, Jul? Thou knowest not, 1 trow, and little carest. With blazing wheels thy chariot rushes by, Most fervid, thou, .of months, though not the fairest ! I would I were a bard of skill and fame That some poetic iustice I might ren der : But humble verse, linked with my hum bler name, Will shrink and wither in thy heedless splendor. Thou wilt not breathe for us in airs like June's, Nor deign to dally with her dainty roses. Our quivering fans but fret thy torrid noons, And sleep grows restless when thy smile reposes. Yet all thy fervors we may well allow In which our fruits and golden grain are ripened. For these, all laurels twined about thy brow, O bounteous month, were but a scanty stipend. My praises faint beneath thy generous smile, And thought and ink run dry in glance so tropic : I'll seek some friendly covert for a while And there complete my lay or change my topic ! William C. Richards. MOORISH WOMEN. The Foors, unlike the Oihellos of our childish fancy, are simply Arabs who live in towas and have intermar ried with other races. They have the same straight features, oval faces, and clear, brown skins, only a good deal fairer than the normal Arab. But their dress is different. They wear a turban, or piece of white mus lin wound round a little red shashea, or skull-cap, a jacket of brightcolored cloth, and two waistcoats, richly em broidered, full trousers, bare legs, and large, loose shoes. The dress of their women out of doors is the liaik of their Arab 6isters : but in doors they wear a gauze chemise, with short i .jr... X. f 'mil' i i ii ... - - yellow bubovches, or slippers. Their beautiful black hair is simply knot ted behind the head, while a little velvet shusJiea, richly embroidered,is placed coquettishly on one side. A kind of vest of the same material is sometimes added to define the shape ; and all have beautiful jewels, fine pearls, emeralds or saphires, reteh edly set and often pierced through the middle or strung on pack thread ; but still genuine precious stones. No Arab will wear a false stone, and for that reason they prefer that they should not match, as they always suspect the regularity of our English jewels. As to their position with re gard to the other sx, it is no better than that of the Arabs. They are ut tcrly uneducated, and the ric'a and those of high rank never leave their own houses. We went to see one of mem, tne rrmeess , who uact a little girl of five, who was fiancee to a little boy -cousin of six, the most sulky impersonation I ever saw of a small Moor. This lady told ns that formerly she had been allowed by her husband to go on the terrace of her house, but that now it had been glaz ed over. She had never seen any of iier own r lations since she was a little ch'hl, and never went bovond those four walls. If the parents are poor, the advent of a girl is looked upon as a positive misfortune by both Arabs and Moors. When a boy comes into the world, the wife is presented with a beautiful circular brooch to fasten her haik ; but blows and a curse are her only reward for produc ing one of t.e other &ex. Madame Luce and the Sisters of Charity are striving to raise these poor little things from this miserable position, and, by teaching them needlework and embroidery, to enoble them to get situations in better-class houses. One of these children was a servant in the princess's household which I have just mentioned, and a more faultlessly beautiful face I never saw, with soft, almond-shaped eyes and the most winning smile. But, alas ! for her, poor child, should her master cast his eyes upon her beauty! Lady Herbert's "Algeria." "THE BLIND BOY- "The Blind Boy" is a poem by 'Thomas Enon Hake, published in England, with others, under the title of "Pars bles and Tales," which the Athe.nrjtiim comments upon as fol lows : We have in this case a poem which, by combining deep and syra pathetic truth of ide with faithful and minute exposition, especially deserves to live. The tale is equally simple and affecting. The blind boy lias a loving sister, who identifies herself with all his wants and inter ests. She Is especially his minister in bringing before him those scenes of natural beauty which he is unable otherwise to enjoy : "She tells him how the mountains swell, How rocks and forests touch the skies. He tells her how the shadows dwell In purple dimness on his eyes, hose tremulous orbs the while he lifts, As round his smile their spirit drifts. "More close around his heart to wind, She shuts her eyes in childish glee 'To share,' she said, 'his peace of mind. To sit beneath his shadow-tree.' So, half in play, the sister tries To find his soul within her eyes. "His hand in hers, she walks along And leads him to the river's brink. She stays to hear the water's song, Closing her ej-e.s with him to tliink. His ear more watchful than her own, Caught up the oceaii-'s distant moan. " 'The river's flow is bright and clear,' The blind boy said, 'and, were it dark, We should no less its music hear; Sings jiot at eventide the lark ? Still when the ripples pause, they fade Upon my spirit like a shade.' " The whole of this is very touching in all that relates to the pure affec tion described, while the study of blindness is not only accurate, but subtle, There, moreover, is" a touch of tender truth beyound the reach of art in the notion of the sister shut ting her eyes that she may syrapa thetically realize the privation ot the brother. An ardent love of Nature, human and external, and a conscien tious desire to present the traits of both, run through this pathetic idyl. The three stanzas that follow are re markable even amid much that is ex- cellent "A while he pauses ; as he stops, ller little hand the sister moves, And pebbles on the water drops, As it runs up the sandy grooves, Or to her ear a shell applies, With parted lips and dreaming eyes. " "That noise !' said he, with lifted hand 'The sea-gull's scream and Happing wings. Before the wind it flies to land, - And omens of a tempest brings' She tells him how the sea-bird pale Whirls wildly on the coming gale. " 'And is the sea alone '; Even now I hear the faint mutterings.' ''Tis the waves.' 'It seems a murmur sweeping low, And hurrying through the distant caves I hear again that smothered tone As if the sea were not alone.' " THE PUNISHMENT OF SPECULATORS McGeoch, now called the "Lard King," has been committing all forms of speculative wickednesss about lard. He has been selling lard for future delivery which he neither owned nor. ever expected to own, and has been aided in doing so by his past success in similar oper ations concerning pork. He has forced the price of lard up beyond prcedent, and" beyound human en durance, causing a fever of specula tive activity in produce through the West, and drawing olf money from the more legitimate business of bull ing railroad stocks in Wall street. In fact, a better example of the ab solutely wicked speculator, we, proba bly, shall not see for a long time. And yet, it would have been almost if not absolutely, impossible for the law to get at him. Supposing he hart been indicted lor dealing in futures against the statute, it would have taken several months to procure necessary evidence. The other deal ers in futures would not have testified against him. if they could haye helped it, because those who dealt with him expected, if let alone, to make money out of him, and it would probably have been next to impossible to prove his transactions out of his books. The trial, if it ever came on, would have lasted from three to six months, and would prob ably have taken place before a jury, composed, in part, of persons unable to write or unacquainted with anjT arithmetic beyond addition, in part of drunkards, and in part of keepers of "bucket shops," and after six weeks' Speaking from the iawyers on botn sides would have ended in a disagreement, and the triumph of the Lard King, whicli would have been celebrated by the speculators in oceans of sweet champagne. Now, see what has happened to the bad men by .the simple process of letting them run their ring. See how dealers in futures, and all other wicked speculators, are caught in their own snare, or hoisted with their own petard. Peter McGeoch, the chief speculator, has been fined $1, 050,000, and the fine has been paid, and it has -ruined him for the mo ment, for this is what is meant by the news that this amount of his money has been "sunk in the deal." Daniel Wells, Jr., the Lard Viceroy, or Vizier, has been, in like manner, fined 750.000. Besides this, these two leading offenders have "failed for" $1,600,000 between them, or, in other words, have been the means, without any expense to the State, of inflicting fines to that amount on their confederates. J. M. Ball has also been fined 100.000; Ellis & Lightner, $60,000 ; Ilolley & Allen $50,000 ; Tabor & Wilson, $40,000 ; M. B. Crafts & Co., $30,000, and smaller men about $50,000 more. All the lawyers 'and courts ia the United States could not, in ten years, have recovered half this amount from the offenders, or if they had recovered it, would have absorb it in fees and costs. Now, the pen alty has been inflicted without law yers, without a trial, without dis credit to public justice, by the offen ders themselves. Peter McGeoch, too, probably feels differently aout the Lard Crown from what he ever did before, and is, perhaps, a little sick of "futures" and puts and calls."' Moreover, the dangers of the specu lator's career have been brought be f ore the youth of the country with a clearness and complc teness which no trial could have accomplished. The lesson may be put into one column of a newspaper, without any opening address, or testimony, or summing up. or charge, or "prayers" to the judge. Evening Post. A CAUSE OF BOILER EXPLOSIONS. According to M. Treves, some oc casionally mysterious explosions of steam boilers, when apparently in good structural and working order, may be thus explained : Supposing that work is to be suspended, either for the night or for any long inter val, after a stated hour, and that a boiler is commonly driven under a pressure of 80 or 90 pounds of steam. Some -ime before the hour of c'osing, the storker leaves his fire slack, filled np the boiler and left off with, perhaps, 50 pounds on the gauge. Next morning, or after the interval, he finds the pressure gauge standing at 20 or 30 pounds, with a good supply of water. Con sequently, in order to save the heat stored in the boiler, he begins to fire up, without thinking of the danger which may lurk in the water that has been boiling all night, 'i he storker never thinks of putting in more wa ter, because the gauge is al! right, and thus prepares the essential pre liminaries of a ' mysterious" explo sion. The water that has been standing above the boiling point for hours has lost its power of ebullition, because the air which it formerty contained has long been driven off; and in this dead condition it is capable of ab sorbing heat, without the power of de livering it up in the form of steam. The water thus becomes superheated, and at the'moment of any mechan ical agitation such as the opening of the steam valve, or the introduc tion of fresh water it may instan taneously flash into steam with ex plosive force. It has been abundant ly proved that, apart from gross de fects of construction, condition or management, superheating of the water has, of late years, been the only intelligible cause of the greater number of boiler explosions. The remedy for this danger is for tunately simple, and resides in the employment of any effective means for preventing the "sleep" of water in boilers by keeping "up a constant ebullition. A good device for this purpose is to prolong the water feed pipe by a T ; the horizontal branch being about 6 inches above the bottom of the boiler. The under pprt of this tube is to be provided with open conical nipples ranged along the whole length of the pipe, which will extend from end to end of the boiler. Be fore firing up, therefore, the storker should force air through the feed pipe, so fitted until a pressure gauge on the pump shows a higher reading than one quiescent steam gauge. The nipples are then full of air, and ready to act as the generating cen ters of ebullition, whereupon the fire may be pushed as briskly as desired without risk of explosion. This sug gestion emanates from M. M. Donny and Gernez, and is recommended by M. Treves as an economical embodi ment of a universally accepted theor j Scie n t ifc A merican. CHARACTER OF OUR PUBLIC MEN. We have no desire to speak evil of the rulers of our people. We would gladly draw the veil over the person al character and private life of many of the servants of the nution. But a high sense of duty' constrains the friends of truth and purity to de nounce public sins of public ni?n.The nation has a right to exact blameless lives of her servants. She lias inter ests at. stake, which forbid the tolera tion open sins in her representatives. The example of wickedness in high places demoralizes the whole commu nity As water flows down fioin high er levels, vice among public men per vades the whole people. The nation is the guardian of public morals, and God will judge and punish the nation which, through its trusted servants, depraves its people. So momentous is this "rear iterat. thnt it. is one of f i i , i fn the first thm.s whuM, demano atten tion in the constitution of govern- ment ; and that instruinenr. is fatally defective as a fundamental law which does no' provide for a suitable moral and religious character in those who are elevated to office in the nation. Some recent facts give timeliness to these reflections. We have already commented on the murder, by Cong ressman Thompson, of Kentucky, of the man who had been reuorted to him as having criminal relations with his wife. Thin deed he committed without giving either his wife or the murdered man an opportunity to prove their innocence. Almost the only evidence on which he acted was the word of a woman of dishonored name, whom his own father refuses to believe, declaring his faith in the in nocence of the wife and taking her to his home. Yet this man has been de clared innocent of crime, and two representative law-makers aided in securing his acquittal. One of these is D. W. Vooruees, United States Senator from Indiana, and the other J. C. S. Blackburn, a fellow-Congressman from Kentucky. Mr. Voorhees scouted the suggestion of criminality, and exclaimed : "Tins is the first time the State of Kentucky has dishonor ed itself by such a prosecution." What can be expected from such ex amples and such pleadings from men in such station, but that crime will run riot among the people, and that rnvate grudges and resentments will everywhere be appeased by blood ? Recently a sparring match, in other words, a prize fight, was witnessed in Madison Square Garden in New York. Nothing distinguished the scene from the ordinary brutal and bloody contest of the ring, except that the combatants wore soft gloves which prevented serious injury from a blow, and brought the exhibition within the limits of the law. Yet the character and sympathies of the crowd that filled the vast building was revealed by an audible murmur of disapproval when the police officers present felt the gloves to see that they were really soft. With a great assembly of scoundrels of high and low degree, gamblers, thieves, and liquor men, gathered from New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, there was gathered a great number of politi cians. Conspicuous among them was the stately form of Roscoe Conkling, who, as soon as his presence was per ceived, was accommodated with an unprovised seat on the top of a bar rel. 'Mr. Conkling, it is true, is not now in office ; but it is not long since the political destinies of New York, and to a large extent, of the nation, seemed to lie subject to his dictation. Concerning all which we have only to say : These public men resorted to that scene either because their ownt,taste were gratified by what they saw and their associations, or in or der to curry favor with ''the baser sort" for their own advancement. In either case they are unfitf to hold any office in a Christian republic. Chris tian Statesman. DORSET'S PRIVATE LETTERS. A Lot of Political Correspondence to be Given to the Public. Was iixgtox, June 22. During the recent Star Route trials and be fore, it was stated that ex-senator Dorsey would print certain docu ments and letters in his possession relative to the Garfield Presidential election and the formation of the Garfield Cabinet. This correspond ence is alleged to be of a sensational character. A good deal of this sen sation has been heavily discounted. It is known here, however, that Dor sev is now being negotiated with by a New York paper, and that all the writings relative to the celebrated Garfield Conkling compact will be Dioduced in the columns of the jour- j na, tlllt published the I)orsy letter & Dorsey has held these papers sacred until now, when he feels that he owes nothing to the party that has reward ed him with disgrace. Ex-senator after he has dam- I 1(11 f V lil'J AfSV'-' uv.i -.. - i ,r.,l il.P Rpnnbliean nartv as much; as possible by disclosing some secret j asked' him how much he made out of history, to transfer himself, troop it- "Weil," he s .id, "sometimes and linage, to the Democracy and ! nineteen, :nd sometimes fifteen nush help them "in the next Presidential j els an acre." He only ask 2 an acre camnai-M.. He ha an idea that he j for that land.AV- Orh Prby. j w ft be able to control a'lurgf e'" i following.- by preaching to thnt his ' ' ' Uervic-es in the Garfield mut-st. and; I h- Independent. 1 ver-in o !'- j Late ,okMI ..Ilt in d,ad umL iu j ft)r oufe- fraUfU was the the New Hampshire Legislature. !resuit of a conspiracy an .ma tfe! Ti.eiv ;m Republican mcidr "i dead President's enemies. Ihii.M- r in- f - nt rolled by the uan- phia Times. A BRAVE ACT. How Four Confederate Soldiers Cap tured a Steamer. Col. R. W. Wharton, of this coun ty, relates the following incident of the late war, which he savs he has never seen in print, but which is worthy to be perpetuated : A few days after the battle of Ben. tonsville. the 67th North Carolina troops were ordered down on the Tar and Neuse rivers hy Gen. Bragg for the purpose -of operating on the Federal lines between Newberne and Kinston. The resiment encamned at the north foot of Greenville bridge, and a number of companies, including Company A., commanded by Capt. Tolson, of Craven, were immediately ordered to the territory between the Neuse and Tar river. About the 10th of April, 1865, four men, belonging to Company A., who were on picket duty near Sticet's Ferry on the Neuse river, saw a steamer coming up the river with two barges in tow. The men opened tire on the steamer, which was im mediately rua-to the opposite shore and grounded, and everybody de serted, i he side of the river where tlie steamer grounded was swampy, and she was some distance from the shore, but every one on board jumped into the water and took to the swamp. The four pickets swam across the river, boarded the steamer and captured her papers and flag, which they afterwards delivered to Col. Wharton, commanding the regi ment, at Greenville. Hearing a Federal gunboat steam ing up the river, they set fire to the steamer and two barges, containing large quantities of provisions, and swam to the opposite side. The names of the four men were, Alonzo Hill, Geo. Hill, Robf Stilley, and Cox, all of Co. A., 67th North Caro lina troops. Washington N. C. Ga zette. NOT PLEASED WITH FLORIDA. Extract from a private letter writ ten by an old citizen of New Or leans : Zellwood, Orange Co., Fla., ) May 18th, 1883. $ After a six weeks trial of Florida lite I wish to say a few words. I have written to no one since I left. The fact is, I have not enough of life left in me to do or say anything. I stop, ped five da3rs in Jacksonville. That is a pretty live place ; composed alto aether of hotels, shops and -boarding houses ; and as it is the gate to the Peninsula, there is quite a crowd in and out. The way there is up the St. John and down the Kissimmee to the Caloosahachee. On that route they branch off right and left all the way. This neck of woods is 130 miles south of Jacksonville. 1 went across the State from Cedar Keys to the Atlantic, and I have been around here in a radius of 20 mile3, and don't think I ever struck such a poor country. Ponchatoula and Coving ton are rich neighborhoods in com parison. The natural productions of the land are pine trees, wire-grass, and gophers a heap of it too poor for that they call scruth. You are. scarcely ever out of sight of a lake. They are t f all sizes, from one acre to a thousand. In the vicinity of these lakes you will find the settlers living in small log or board houses. Each one ha an orange grove, or the nucleus of one, and nothing dse. No milk, no vegetables not even whis key. Tiiev ;ret a little bacou and flour from a store in the settlement, and with this tin y mike out to live. Some tew have ciuv-ki ns. but they are too weak to crow. If they were to scratch their legs otf in the sand they would never find n bug. In all my travels I have never .-een a tobacco plant. Near here is an old native, who cult i vated, a hammock what they call i their rich lands on wnicu ne nas a 1.. . . corn crop now about a foot, high. I j iiate.s ot a- m .enmc caucus '" J.
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