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Sketches of Travel in
Florida.
By Nettie Loveless Kiernlif.
JACKSONVILLE.
Jacksonville, on the St Johns, is sixty miles
east of Lake City. The intervening country is
fine land with a luxuriant undergrowth of beau
tiful feathery ferns and clusters of the green star
shaped palmetto. Gov. Drew, with whom our
party had the honor of making this trip, showed
ns some paper made of the palmetto plant. It
is very thick though semi-transparent, is quite
tough, and is in demand for bank bills, etc. Gov.
Drew is a gentleman of great nobility ot manner,
and when, in bidding us adieu, he lifted his hat
from his loyal head, on whioh the silver hair
was shining, I felt great reverance and esteem
for him as a gentleman and an officer, who chose
and dared to be manly, and to do right in all
things. He feels a deep interest in the future
of Florida and will exert himself to develop all
her wonderful capacities.
The splendid orange orchards and lovely vil
las in the subrubs of Jacksonville, the well-kept
vineyards and luxuriant flower and vegetable
gardens, impress the mind forcibly and prepare
one for the wealth and,refined tastes to be met
with in the city.
Jacksonville is a beautiful city of 14000 inhab
itants and is prosperous and gay, with plenty of
Yankee vim and ingenuity to insure its progress.
BCENEBT ON THE ST. JOHN'S RIVER.
We were much impressed by the first scene
that greeted our eyes on the great and wonder
ful St Johns. Myriads of sail-boats were skim
ming about on the broad, shining river; at the
decks lay brigs, ships, gaily painted yachts,
Bteamers, etc. Passengers, officers, sailors and
waiters hurried about the wharf in the greatest
oonfusion, while news, fruit and confectionary
venders were busy plying their livelihood.
Our party took passage on the Water-Lily for
Patalka, a point seventy-five miles above Jack
sonville. The river between these two cities is
from three to seven miles in width—above Pa
talka it is said to be fourteen miles across. The
water is very placid and of a peouliar brownish,
or coflee color. It averages only abont ten feet
in depth-
The Indian name for the St Johns was We-
laka, meaning river of lakes.
There are many handsome residences and or
namental boat-houses built along the shores,
that are very interesting from their romantic sit
uations. The shores are, generally speaking,
very flat and low, but wherever they are a little
rolling they are carefully planted in orange trees
which adds an air of cultivation to the wild
scenery, as they are nicely formed and planted
in rows equidistant apart.
Several pretty towns are built between Jack
sonville and Patalka, right from the water’s edge.
Toedi is a railroad station on the St. Johns, and
the trains make connection with the steamers.
The road runs out to St Augustine, the old and
far-famed city. I learn that the old historical
buildings and ruins (around which cluster so
many traditions and heart histories) are contin
ually being torn away and replaced by elegant
modern edifices. Thus, in a few years, will
entirely disappear the St. Augustine of other
days.
As our pretty white and green painted steam
er, looking a veritable water-lily, ploughed it*
way along through the beautiful river, we long
ed for the poetic genius and fervor of Byron to
appropriately sing the praise of the Land of
Flowers.
PATALKA.
Patalka is a lovely town of 1600 inhabitants,
location is a little undulating, and this to
il with its pretty residences, tropical gar-
eto., renders it very attractive. Many of
the side walks are planted with orange trees,
and we gazed admiringly at the golden fruit
that clustered among their green,Bhining leaves.
Bananas, limes, pine-apples, and many other
tropical fruits grow here in the greatest abun
dance.
The most fashionable promenade of the little
city is a plank walk leading through the ham
mock, a grove of ancient, moss-draped live oaks,
and on to the brink of the river.
After rest and refreshment had been taken,
onr party went for a walk in the early twilight
along this promenade, bnt pansed with delight
to fully enjoy the scene presented.
The sunset still flushed the sky and a thou
sand rosy reflections flashed up from the danc
ing waters of the dark river that washed upon the
silver sand at our feet. A young girl in raiment
pure as the lily’s bloom, passed us with elastic
tread, and loosing the dainty little boat that was
moored near by, stepped into it and taking the
oars pulled out gracefully and fearlessly into
the stream. To our right, beautiful houses stood
embowered in gorgeoas floral ornamentations;
on our lett was the pretty St. John’s Church,
from which a sweetly solemn anthem, sung in a
tender, worshipful voice, floated by us on the
evening breeze out over the shining water.
Answers to Correspondents.
Letters containing Questions tor Correspond
ence Column must be addressed to Mrs. Bryan,
also notes for Farm and Household, and Lite
rary Contributions.
| tFRED, of Richmond: Who wrote the poem so
often quoted, beginning,
I cannot tell what it meaneth,
That I am so sad to-day ?
It was written by Heinrich Heine the great Ger
man poet and is called the “Lorelei,” referring to
the superstition of the fair and cruel river-syren,
which is among the many legends of the Rhine.
Heine is said to have written it on the bed, he call
ed his “mattress grave,” and upon which he lay
for eight; years of intense suffering that he bore
sometimes with sublime patience, sometimes giv
ing vent to bitter blasphemy, or to the grotesque
cvntcal mockery that in his poetry as well as his
prose alternates with delicate fancies and thoughts
of exquisite beauty. For Heine was a strange, con
tradictory compound of earnest emotion, grotesque
frivolity, wit that was often insolence and bitter
ness that was often blasphemy. It is said of him
that “in this child of the Jew the spirit of his perse
cuted race, houned through so many centuries,
found utterance for Its sorrow, Its yearning, its
agony, its implacable spite.” Yet he dearly loved
his wife, the simple, ignorant, yet loving "Non-
nette,” and he was so devoted to his mother that
his greatest care as he lay on his “mattress grave”
was to conceal his suffering from her. Heine was
born in Dusselldorf in 1800 and died at the age of
fllty-six.
Vivian of Franklin asks: What Is Cleopatra’s j
Needle? How do you pronounce the names of the
two actresses, Janauschek and Eytjnge? What
would you advise me to read duringthe long win
ter evenings? . ...
Cleopatra’s Needle is a granite obelisk, which,
until lately, has stood from time immemorial in the
Nile region of Egypt. It now stands in London on
the bank of the Thames, having been presented
by Egypt to the British Government. Great ex.
pense attended its being towed across the ocean.
An especial floating case was built for it, and a large
vessel employed to tow it. It was lost in a storm,
recovered off the coast of Spain and large salvage
claimed by that Government. The matter was
Anally adjusted. The names of the two actresses
mentioned are pronounced as if written Ettinge,
with accent on last syllable), and Yonashek. You
would And the series of admirable essays on “Eng
lish Literature.” by Professor Browne, & Johnston,
excellent reading. Of the modern novels*
McDonald and Mrs. Edwards, are the best I think
“Her. Dearest Foe,” by Mrs. Alexander, and “Ought
We to visit Her ?” are two good novels. Of the
magazines, I like AppleCp’s Monthly and Scribner’s
best. We have two excellent Southern and Western
Monthlies—the Gulf Citizen, published at Mobile,
and the Western, both of the purest taste, and the
latter the most classical periodical we know of in
this country. The Happy Home and Ladies Pearl,
both Southern journ.i Is, are good fireide reading of
a lighter character.
Reader, at Brier Creek, N. C., asks : Is Moore's
Business College, of Atlanta, a reliable institution,
and is Gaskell’s Compendium what it professes to
be ora humbug?
Moore's Business College is a sterling and thorough
institution ; the‘‘Compendium” is no humbug by
any means.
Claba wishes to know, Who is your contributor
Stephen Brent? He or she writes nicely.
Musn’ttell you Clara, it is against the rules to
raise the masks of our contributors. He or she
does write nicely, and next week we begin a con
tinued story from his—or her pen that will prove
interesting reading. It is called Jean’s Christmas
in the City.
Mvers—Thomas County: Is there any such
thing as a white black berry? Well to say that
there is, is just like asserting there are white' black
birds, (which some naturalists aver to be a fact), but
there is certainly a berry exactly like the black in
looks, taste,mannerofgrowth,and vine—in all but
color, which,in the case of this particular berry is a
pearly white. We have two very flourishing vines
in our orchard, and last Summer they bore quite
abundantly.
That St. Louis Belle.
A St. Louis telegram to the Chicago Times, says:
-St. Louis has enjoyed a society sensation of no
mean magnitude the past week. Ladies repres
enting the first circles were in one of their period
ical flutters over a grand, charitable entertain
ment, the principal feature of which was the pro
duction of ‘The Mistletoe Bough.' These ladies
had shown great ingenuity in interesting the
public through the newspapers in their perform
ance, and on the day before the opening brought
into use their brightest stratagem. The society
reporter of a morning paper was sent for, and was
given to understand that a local beauty, Miss
Nellie Hazeltine, who was to sustain the principal
role, that of the bride in ‘The Mistletoe Bougn,’
had become the betrothed of Samuel J. Tilden, and
he might announce it if he pleased. The deceived
reporter did announce it in good faith, with no
end of fine adjectives, and, what is more, he gave
away the item to the agent of the Associated
Press, and it was sent forth to vex the soul of the
old gentleman at Grammercy Park. The morning
that the item appeared an intimation was conveyed
to the society reporter of an evening paper that
Miss Hazeltine wished to see him, and he hurried
off to the West End and found an interview already
in shape. Miss Hazeltine not only denied the
engagement, but said she had never met Mr.
Tilden, and then artfully introduced a magnificent
puff for ‘The Mistletoe Bough’ performance, and
told of the part she was to take in the presenta
tion of the drama. The stratagem of the ladies
worked successfully, save that none of them had
taken in to account the possibility of the society
item being telegraphed, or of it going beyond St.
Louis readers. The denial, however, came very
promptly next day from New York, and said
that ‘Mr. Tilden was not acquainted with any such
lady.’ The society reporter who had spread the
news abroad was naturally indignant, and in self-
defense let out the source of his information,
thereby revealing the ruse of the aristocratic
ladies to the whole community.
An enterprising young lady, Annie Johns of
Indiana, requested her young lover to wait a
year, ‘and then I’ll have money enough for
both.’ She then married a rich old man and
poisoned him, but the poison didn’t work; and
the two hearts that beat as one still remain sep
arated.
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REV. A. G. DEMPSEY.
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JOHN CRAWFORD.
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