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Dr, Caryer, in His Wonderful Feats with the Riiie. The Champion Shot of the World. See 4th Page. 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. ASTHMA CAN BE CURED Read the following certificates and try Dr. P. R. Holt’s Asthma specific and suffer no longer: Smyrna, Ga.. Sept. 15,1878. DR. HOLT.—Dear Sir Your Astbira specific relieved my wife in a few hourB. 8eveii months afterwards ehe had another attack. It relieved her again in six hours, and she has not had a spell lince, (nearly 2 years). She bad been snhject to it for 13 years, a paroxysm lasting from 3 to 5 weeks, had tried a number o( Physicians and almost everything that was recoir mended, bnt found very little benefit from either. I have recommended to it a number of persons and never knew it to fail in a single instance, when Liven according to directions. From my experience with the rtmedy I believe it will cure any case of Asthma. Y< m s, REV. A. G. DEMPSEY. Atlanta, Ga„ Oct. 12, 1878. DR. P. R. HCLT,—Dear Sir:—Two years ago my wife had a severe attack of Asthma. A few doses of your asthma specific relieved her and she has not had an attack since. Yours, JOHN CRAWFORD. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 1st, 1878. DR. P. R. HOLT,—Dear Sir:—Yonr asthma specific relieved me in 24 hours of a severe attack of Hay Fever. Yours truly, JOHN KEELY. E^“DR. P. R. 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For sale by F. A. BE A Lit, 180 Broad street, Augusta. Ga., and Druggists generally. It havinglbeen ^widely advertised.under thefcaptioBfcof ‘‘America Ahead in Spool Cotton,” that the Jury on Cotton textiles, yarns, and threads, at the Paris Exposition, dt creed a Grid Medal and Grand Puze to the Willimantic Linen Company for “S|.ooI Cotton especially adapted for use on Sewing Machines,” over all the great thread manufactures of the world, we owe it as a duty to the public and to Messrs. J. & P. Coats to annonnee that aNo Grand Prizes were decreed at Paris for Spool Cotton. % We are advised by cable of the following awards: J & P COATS, GOLD MEDAL Williamantic Linen Company, and we claim for the winners of the First Prize that, as they have established in Rhode Island the Largest Spool Cotton Mills in the United States, where their Spool Cotton is manufactured through every process from the raw cotton to the finished spool, AMERICA, as iepre- Rented by Messrs. 3. & P. COATS, is Btill ahead in Spool Cotton. AUCHINCLOSS BROS., nov9-2m Sole Agent* ii/New York for 3, k P. COATS. GHI n Any worker can make $12 per day a UULU home. Costly outfit free. Address, TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. S3 l«OU> PLATED WATCHES. Cheapest [In the known world. Sample Watch free to '■Agent*. Address, A. Copltxx A Co., Chicagq THE GEORGIA RAILROAD. GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY, ) Superintendent’s Office, y Augusta, Ga., July 13, 1878. J COMMENCING SUNDAY, 14th inst. Trains will leave ATLANTA ae follows : t9 30 a. m.—Augusta, Athens, Macon, Washington, and Way Stations, Charleston, Savannah, Pork Royal, Columbia, Wilmington, Norfolk, Richmond, Washington, Baltimore, Phila delphia, New York, and the East via Coast Line. No connection for Macon, or Washington Georgia, on Sundays. 5 00 p. m.—Covington Accommodation. 6 00 p. m.—Augusts and Way Stations on Main Line. Charleston, Savannah, Columbia, Charlotte, Danville, Richmond, Lynchburg, Washing ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York aud the East, via Virginia Midland, or Pied mont Air-Line. Arrives at Atlanta from Augusta and intermediate stations, 530 a. m., 2 00 p. m.. from Covington, 7 50 a. m. tDaily— Other Trains Daily Except Sundays. SUPERB, IMPROVED SLEEPERS ON NIGHT TRAINS S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent, E. R. DORSEY, Gen, Pass. Agent,