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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA, 8AT UR) AY HORNING, SEPTEMBER *4. 1887.
^TTERSj^
r WfcepEDPLE
St. James City, Florida.
The Bay—The Gulf—The Sea Shells—
The Game and the Cocoanuts.
Dear Sunnt South: Some time ago I prom
ised to give you some points on the region be
low Charlotte Harbor. This is the most im
portant place between Trabue and Key West,
being on the south end of Pine Island and
fronting on the beautiful San Carlos Bay.
Looking from my window to the south-east,
the blue billows of the Gulf greet my eye; a
little to the right stands a tall column of iron,
on the extreme point of Sanibel Island, from
whose summit nightly gleams the beacon that
guides the mariner safely in. To the east I
sight the mouth of the largest river in south
Florida—the Caloosahatchee, with Punta
Kassa at its mouth. To the west is Pine
Island Smud, while to the north extends
twenty miles of land from one to three miles
wide, all redolent with the odor of the pine
and the sweet perfume of the blossoming bay.
Here we have game, fish and oysters in
boundless profusion, and no one need starve
who is not too lazy to gather the bouaties of
nature.
St James City is another instance of rapid
growth and wholesome development. Founded
by a Boston company of capitalists about
eighteen months ago, it now comprises over
forty houses, a very large general store, drug
store' barber-shop, boat-shop, a confectionary
store, blacksmith-shop, a $6,000 boarding
house and a $10,000 hotel, and an elegant bil
liard parlor lor ladies and gents, and a church
and school.
The streets are wide, and are being
covered with shells from the beach—
which is only three miles away. Most
of the streets are lined with the
cabbage palmetto; but one street is planted
with the beautiful mimosa for the distance of
a mile, and another with India-rubber trees
for the same distance.
The avowed purpose for the foundation of
this place, was to engage in cocoanut culture.
Over 8,000 have been planted already* and are
doing well. They daily look for a school er
that brings ibem 40,TXM) more nuts. Jf this
proves a success, ‘ there’s millions in it,’' but
should the nut business fail they have made a
most glorious success in establishing the best
winter resoit in South Florida. They have a
large body of land and offer it and city lots at
reasonable rates and on terms to suit purchas
er, for a fair rate of interest.
Tiie difference in taste and general appear
ance of the buildings is the first thing one no
tices on arrival here. There are no rough
shanties, or unfinished or unpainted houses.
It bids fair to be an important place, as the
Okeec'uoobee Land drainage company have
now open an all wa f er route from here to Kis
simmee and in another year will afford water
communication between here and the Atlantic,
thereby saving an appreciable distance of out
side navigation for light draught vessels. San
ibel Island is two miles away, and on its fine
beach are found the most rare and beautiful
shells known to Florida; and best of all (while
wonderful to relate,) there are but few mos
quitos, there or here, this year. Now, if you
want to escape the rigors of sleet and ice this
winter, come to the S. W. coast. We will
feed you on tomatoes, strawberries, etc., fresh
from, the garden. True, these can be had in
th6 Northern part of the state—but. they would
be fresh—from the tin can. Here is the
sportsman’s paradise, the fisherman’s haven,
the idler’s rest, the workingman's opportunity,
the poor man’s chance.
I will tell you something of Punta Kassa
and Ft. Myers in my next.
Crack ek.
St. James City, Sep. 1887.
Plant City, Florida.
“Sunny South” —Temperance —Tri
umphs—Resulting Educational
and Religious Progress.
Dear Sumnt South: Every moment of my
time for several months has been occupied in
battling for "God, borne and native land,”
either by lecturing or writing on tbe present
all-important issue. 1 see that the cause of
religion, temperance and education occupies
the foremost place in the synagogue of your
cheery Sussr columns, and this is euflicient to
recommend ary paper to the favorable notice
and liberal patronage of an enlightened public.
Yet the spirit of progression has brought these
blessed and Heaven-approved principles to the
from, and to day they are like huge boulders
torn by the earthquake from their mountain
bed, and rushing down the steep declivities of
time, gathering new force and velocity a, they
go. And the voice of propriety—as well as
that of safety—would be to adopt the cry of
the “Tocainj” and proclaim, “Get ye from
under the crumbling hilis while the car of re
form is rushing past.”
The newspaper or journa 1 in this age of
moral reform, that attempts to effer resistance
to the onward march, is like trying to follow a
pound of feathers before a cyclone. In this
enlightened age great thoughts, great impul
ses and great aims cannot be restrained. What!
stop the impulses of humanity, and prevent
the prohibition of the whisky traiic! A good
and great idea never stops, a glorious human
impulse must move onward, crusbingly con-
queringly, to tbe accomplishment of its mis
sion. Immortality speaks out in the birth tf
every noble and generous thought. The heart
of this mighty nation has caught the impulse
of freedom from the tyranny of rum, and no
power can turn the tide back. Seven counties
in this State bavo followed in succession on
the "Local Option” quest ion—all giving large
majorities against whisky shops. This, of
course, is giving the cause greater breadth attd
strength, and showing that every great move
ment, if it be based in the kindly affections of
the heart, and has love for its element, must
prosper, and go on its winning way through op
posing difficulties to its triumphant and con
summated conquests. From those counties
that have cast off the whisky yoke, comes re
ports that already signs of religious, moral,
educational and financial progression has set
in, as a kind of a precursory light which is to
herald the effulgent brightness of the full-
orbed glory of the temperance cause.
Well, a little on other matters, aud we come
to "Omega.”
For several months past business has been
somewhat stagnant and monetary matters ex
tremely stringent; bat now the business out
look is brightening up and everybody getting
out of the gloomy mood. The present indica
tions are that summer will soon have to give
place to the beautiful and exquisitely enjoyable
fidl weather, for which this part of the State is
so pre-eminent. The orange crop is promising,
and the yield will be mnch larger than wan at
first expected. The truck fanners are putting
in for a large vegetable crop, which is very re
munerative in this section.
On the 12th inst there is to be a grand union
pic-nic at College Hill, Tampa, for the colored
people, where their educational interests and
the erection of a colored college will be dis
cussed. Your humble scribe is booked to de
liver the educational address, which will be a
little novel to him, but he will do his best, as
we believe the time has come that the people of
the South should take hold of the education of
the colored race, and that it is pre-emiuently
oar daty.
The citizens of Seffner, in connection with
the South Florida Railroad Company, are mak
ing preparations to have a notable camp meet
ing at the beautiful pic-nic grounds at Seffner,
some time in October, where we expect to have
the famous evangelists, Revs. Sam Jones, Sam
Small and J. B. Culpeper.
E. S. Tvneb.
Sept 10, 1887.
Anthony, Florida.
Marion County—Some Astonishing,
Encouraging Pacts—The Climate
and Productiveness.
Ehitor Sunny South: I see that a corres
pondent, L R. II, from Southern California,
gives your readers some figures of the prices of
property there that he may well suppose will
be regarded as fabulous, without the explana
tion he gives, as follows: “More than 100,000
tickets have been sold by the excursion man
agers jn the East to persons intending to visit
this section.’' He gays: "1 know of land selling
every day at from $1000 to $3000 per acre.
Last week as much as $3 000,000 worth of land
changed hands in Los Angeles alone. Lots in
small towns sell as high as $100 per front foot,
whilst in Los Angeles and San Diego they sell
for from $000 to $800 per front foot.”
Florida and California are frequently spoken
of as rivals, at d doubtless many land ownera
and speculators here would like to see prices
in this State rival the above; but not so with
the writer and many others in thiB immediate
sect inn of the orange belt. In many parts of
peninsular Florida a boom has sent up prices to
figures that we regard as unreasonable.
In Middle Florida as good lands as we can
boast in Marion county go a-begging at from
$3 to $3 per acre. We think our pine lands
cheap at from $10 to $25 per acre. Two rea
sons will explain tbe difference; namely: this
section is peculiarly suited to the orange, and
also adapte I to vegetable culture. From the
earliest settlement of South Florida this region
has been regarded as a farming country.
Planters formerly raised long-staple cotton
profitably, and provisions in abundance; and
now, with the exception of the few far-sighted
persons who began orange culture previous to
the advent of railroads, we have to make our
living by cultivating the soil.
That this is a good orange section will ap
pear when l state that in this county were
found the largest groves of the native wild
orange, and that now there are to be teen the
most extensive and profitable groves of the
sweet orange in this State. In 1S8-4 Marion
county shipped 143 055 boxes, about one-fourth
the orange crop of the State. The same year
we shipped <14.238 crates of vegetables.
Though a large county, and with such a vast
area of good lands, we only raised 3 248 bales
of long-staple cotton; 187,255 bushels of com,
and 33 070 gallons syrup. This county con
tains about one million acres, but bas only
fifty thousand acres in cultivation, and that,
loo, when we have less area covered bv lakes
than any other county in the Slate. In that
year—1884—there were given in for taxation
10,731) head of cattle, and 9,054 head of sheep
and goats.
As to climate, a few figures taken from re
ports of army surgeons stationed at Ft. King,
now Ocala, will give a showing unsurpassed
by any portion of the United Stales. Mean
annual temperature 70 dtgrees, mean winter
temperature 58.41 degrees, and for five months
beginning w th November, (10 55 degrees.
Whilst on tbe Northern lakes tbe annual ratio
of fair days is 117 degrees, on the coast of
Florida it is 250, and at Ft. King, now Ocala,
it is 309.
According to Vivenat’s classification, an at
mosphere with a per centage of humidity be
tween 50 and 70 degrees is moderately dry.
The coast country is much more humid than
it is here in the interior; yet at Jacksonville,
on the St. Johns, near the Atlantic Ocean, the
humidity is only 08 per cent. The mean an
nual rainfall here is 40 inches. Of this 2100
of all in three montliB of summer, and for five
months, beginning with November, it is only
0 21 inches
Although our summers are long, they are
not oppressive, and the consequence is we
never have any mad-dogs or sunstroke. So
many thousands desire to get away from the
rigors of a Northern climate that it is only a
mat ter of time when this inviting region will be
densely settled. Why there is ,now so much
good laud here awaiting settlement is that the
property owners, relying upon the many natu
ral advantages of this region, have never adver
tised it. Immigration passes by because peo
ple have never heard of this region, which 1
regard aH unsurpassed for health, good water,
society and fertiliiy of soil within tbe orange
belt < irdinary crops, such as corn and oats,
have been unusually good tbe past season; and
although tbe orange crop will not be a lull one,
yet Marion county will still lead ill the quan
tity and quality of fruit shipped from the State.
As to profitableness of orange culture, I will
state that a young man, without capital, start d
a grove about four miles off on hammock land
in 1877. He paid out for hired help, up to
1884 (when his grove became profitable), the
sum of $142 85, and $35 for trees. Tbe fruit
from about eight acres of bearing trees last
season netted him, on th'e trees, $1,100. A
Mr. Newton Knoblock, ,near Marlin Station,
realized from seventy-one sweet seedling trees,
covering about an acre of hammock lat d, the
handsome sum of $800.28. These trees were
planted in 1870 in bis yard.
A gentleman near here avers that lie cleared
over $200 upon an acre of ordinary pine land;
and another, on five acres of hammock lard
planted in tomatoes, made $800. We have this
solid advantage here, that, should orange and
vegetable culture ever cease to be profitable,
we can hope to live at ordinary farming, which
cannot be said of a large portion of the Florida
peninsula.
The writer has lived in Florida since 1850,
and as a traveling minister has had opportu
nity to see every section of the State, lie lias
no lands in this section for sale, but writes be
cause he has built him a little cottage in the
new town of Anthony and settled down here
in his old age, and would like to see the sur
rounding region better settled up with the right
sort of families—those who will improve the
excellent lands now lying vacai t and help build
up such interests as schools and churches.
Anthony has a good reputation for the intelli
gence and enterprise of her citizens. Tnere
are two church buildings under construction,
and a neat, two-story school building. < >ur
graded school is unsurpassed in the country.
R. M. Tilings.
Anthony, Fla., Sept., 1887.
St. Landry, Louisana.
Its Pleasant Situation and Surround
ings.
Eihtok Sunnt South: Many have been
my rambles sit ce April, ar.d my observations
regarding tbe characteristics, both of Upper
and Lower Louisiana, were rather close. So
different indeed are the manners and customs
of these two parts that one would hardly im
agine their people inhabitants of the same
State. Northern Louisiana is bustling, hence
quite Nortbernlike, hut Southern Louisiana, in
which is situated Western St. Landry—the
Empire Parish—bas quite a demure appear
ance which greatly deceives a stranger—es
pecially when casually viewing its capital,
Opelousas. But very soon, upon observation,
one perceives that air of quiet is all sham, for
tbe town is quite a cotton, rice, and even sugar
market, besides handling various otherproduc-
tions. In fact Opelousas can vie with any
town of the Slate in regard to commercial fa
cilities. Commercially and socially she holds
her own in competing with her sister towns in
the Southern part of the State.
St. Landry still eDjoys her former prestige
socially. Tbe refined Creole of yore is still in
the ascendant. The beautiful language of the
French is kept up in all its purity where it is
taught. English, however, receives proper at
tention in her educational institutions.
Politically this parish, like many others, has
been under the yoke of rings from which
(thanks to tbe efforts of men of integrity) the
people will soon be released—anl may their
victims recruit from their oppressions, for
with the prospect of the much honored old
veteran, General Nicholls, for Governor, bet
ter days will certainly dawn for this beautiful
and' otherwise thriving portion of La .belle
Louisiane. V iolet.
Louisiana’s First New Molasses.
Eighteen barrels of new Louisiana molasses,
the first of the season, were received in New
Orleans on the 12th, from St. John Baptist
parish and classed choice. It was sold at 00c.
per gallon. This is the earliest receipt of mo
lasses ever known. Seven hogsheads of sugar
were made from tbe run producing tbe mo
lasses above mentioned, which was to follow
in a few day s.
Our Portrait Gallery.
PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES
OF DISTINGUISHES MEN
AND WOMEN.
Edwin H. Fitter.
The first Philadelphia mayor to serve under
the Bullitt bill, which created so much political
excitement, was Edwin H. Fitler, who was
elected in 1887. Edwin H Fitler was borp on
the 2d of December, 1825, at the old Fitler
homestead at Second and Otter streets, where
his parents, William and Eliza Fitler, had re
sided for many years. He received an aca
demic education and decided to adopt the law,
together with conveyancing, as a profession.
With this purpose in view he entered the office
of Charles K. Lex, afterward city solicitor. He
was for some time io the office of bis brother,
Alfred Fitler. Daring this peril d of his life be
acquired much practical information, which
has since been of great benefit to him. As he
himself has said, he learned enough of law to
EDWIN II. FITLElt.
know when and how to keep out of its en
tanglements. But his tastes and inclinations
were almost entirely toward mechanical and
industrial pursuits, and he finally concluded to
abandon his legal studies for more congenial
associations. In 184tl he entered the ccrdage
manufacturing establishment of George J.
Weaver, which at that time was situated in the
outskirts of Philadelphia. Two y< ars later he
became associated with Mr. Weaver in the con
duct of the business. In 1850 Mr. Fitler
bought out his partner, and after that a num
ber of partnership changes occurred at various
times until the formation of the firm nf Edwin
II F’itler & Co. was established. Ever since
1850, however, Mr. Fitler has been the actual
as well as the nominal head of the firm—the
business operations of the establishment, under
his vigorous arid efficient direction expanding
year by year until at the present lime there is
no other manufactory whicn produces the
amount of goods as docs the firm of E. H. Fit-
lcr & Co. In 1880 the establishment was re
moved to Bridesburg, in the Northeastern por
tion of the city, about fifteen acres being re
quired to accommodate the plant. Besides his
great cordage industry, Mr. Fitler is identified
with other enterprises of wide scope and im
portance. He is a director in the North Penn
sylvania Railroad Co., the Northern Liberties
Bank, Northern Liberties Gas Company and
the Arch Street Theatre Company. He is also
President of the Cordage Association of the
United States, as well as a director of the Fid-
win Forrest Home. Although Mr. Fitler is es-
Bernard J. McGrann w* delegate from Lan
caster county to the Deilprotjc National Con
vention in Cincinnati with nominated Gen.
Hancock for the PresIdfV- He has never
before accepted office frouhis party, but has
ever bee a active in its bellf-
Capt W. 8 Hart.
Capt. William B. Hart, who appears to be
quite certain of securing to coming nomina
tion for State Treasurer ofPe 11 nsVJ v ania, w;is
born in Montgomery catffl < >B March 15th,
1842. He received the conuon school educa
tion, which is the ru e and n >t the exception
of the majority of America youths, and at the
age of fourteen years was laced on a farm to
work, where he remained ntil he was seven
teen, when he was apprent' d for four years
to acquire the proficienerynecessary in the
brick-laying trade. But hfore his time had
expired the war began, antbe enlisted in the
year of 1801 as a private in ;ompany F, Fifth
Pennsylvania Volunteers fo three years. He
served with becoming galldPT * n the South
and the West, participating n all the battles
in which his command ws engaged. His
good qualities and soldierly hearing attracted
the attention of General Hairanft, who recom
mended him in a highly filtering manner to
CAPT. W. B. L\UT.
Hon E M Stanton, Sect etsy of War, for ap
pointment as Assistant Ar'ttant-fiencral of
Volunteers, with the rank If captain. Upon
this recommendation, and ».er p .ssing a cred
itable examination, he wa immediately ap
pointed and served with G»eral Iiartranft’s
permanent command until te close of the war,
being mustered out of sense as a volunteer
officer under War IDpartmnt orders, dited
September 10 h. 18(15. It February, 1807,
Capt. Hart received an appmtment to a clerk
ship in the Pennsylvania Site Treasury De
partment, and was subseuently promoted
from this position to the isponRible position
of cashier, in 1871, sncceedig the Hon. Thomas
Nicholson, whose confidece and friendthip
Capt. Hart enjojed until tfc end of his prede
cessor’s life. Capt. Han retained in the State
Treasury until it passedunder Democratic
control by the election of F'yes in 1877. Capt.
Hart was made the Repalican candidate for
State Treasurer in that y»r by a unanimous
vote of the Convention, hi place on tlie ticket
being secured by Guvernr Hartranft’s influ
ence. N yes was elected i the chagrin of the
Republican pa-ty, by a plrality of otdy 2 827
votes. For several years past Captain Hart
has served as secretary > the Huntingdon
Penitentiary Commission.
G. Brown Gbode.
Prof. G. Brown Goode wo has juit receiv
ed from the President ther:pointment of Com
missioner of Fish and I-’isbries, has been for
a number of years assiatttt Secretary of the
ALEXANDER MARROY ENI-BEY.
sentially a business man and the active head of
a vast industrial enterprise, he is nevertheless
equally as active in his attention to public af
fairs. He has for years maintained a very high
position in the councils of the Republican par
ty, whose principles he espouses, and there is
no ntan in Philadelphia whose name is more
widely known than is that of Edwin II. Fitler.
In every sphere and from every point of view
Mr. Fitler is undeniably a public-spirited citi
zen of wide influence in the community.
A dispatch to the New Orleans Picayune
from Meridian, MisB., says that farmers from
the drought-stricken regions of Illinois are
proposing to transport their bogs to Mississip
pi, where corn can be found to feed them.
"Fortunately,” says the Picayune, "the corn
crop in middle Mississippi is very large and
can be profitably utilized in feeding the Illi
nois porkers, but it will be a new thing in the
commercial history of the American hog to
fatten him on Sonthern corn. We await with
interest the next move in the panorama of
Southern development.”
Alexander Marroy Eni-Boy.
Alexarder Marroy eni-Bey, Envoy Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the
Ottoman Empire to the United States, was
born in Constantinople, Turkey, in October
1852. He received his prima'y education in
Constantinople, but when quite a youth he was
sent to the schools of Paris. In the University
of that city he graduated in law, taking the
degree of L. D in 1871. The new Minister is a
Christian and belongs to one of the noblest
Greek families of Turkey. < >n his return to
Constantinople he entered the Foreign Oflice,
and for two years he was one of the private
Secretaries of the present reigning Saltan.
Afterwards he was appointed Secretary of the
Legation to tbe Embassies of Servia, Kouma-
nia, England and Spain, from the latter post
he was gazetted Envoy and Minister of the
Sultan to Washington, 1). C. lie is a man
below the medium height, straight ard com
pactly built, with a large head. He is well liked
Prescott, Arkansas.
Thrift and Prosperity — Prohibition
Successful.
Editor Sunnv South : Prescott is the coun
ty site of Nevada county, and, though not an
old town, is "making a good start in the
world.” There are here a number of stores
and three hotels, all doing a good business, and
seven churches—five white and two colored.
The religious element is quite strong.
Dur merchants are in very good spirits, al
though the drought is upon us, which will re
duce the crop below expectations. Cotton is
opening rapidly and the farmers are kept pretty
busy picking.
Prohibition reigns supreme here, and we
neither hear of nor see the evil effects of dram
shops as we did before prohibition was put in
force.
The ladies of the different denominations
here have been giving some very entertaining
church festivals for the benefit of their
churches, from which they have realized hand
somely. On the ICth inst the ladies of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church will give a
grand supper, which will be held at the Court
House, for the purpose of raising funds to re
pair their church.
Tbe Prescott free school will begin on the
12th inst., with Prof. Crofford as Principal.
He will be assisted by several of our most com
petent lady teachers.
I am doing my best te get one of the Sunnv
South premiums, and I almost feel as if I had
it now. Respectfully, N. D.
Interesting; Incident at Essen.
The German papers continue to publish nu
merous anecdotes of the la'e Herr Krupp. The
Vienna Kxtrablatt gives the following interest
ing incident which marked the visit of the Em
peror William to the Essen Works: The em
peror displayed great interest in the working
of the steam hammer, and Ilcrr Krupp took
the opportunity of speaking in high praise of
the workman who had sptcial charge of it
"Ackermann has a sure eye," he said, “and
can stop the falling hammer at any moment.
A hand might be placed on the anvil without
fear, and he would s'op the hammer within a
hair’s-breadth of it.” "Let us try it;” said
the emperor, “but not with a human hand—
try my watch,” and he laid it a splendid spec
imen of work richly set with brilliants, on tbe
anvil. Down came the immense mass of steel,
aud Ackermann, with his hand on the lever,
stopped it, just the sixth of an inch from tbe
watch. When lie went to hand it back, the
emperor replied kindly, “No, Ackermann,
keep the watch in memory of an interesting
moment." The workman, embarrassed, stood
with outstretched band, not knowing what to
do. Krupp came forward and took tbe watch,
saying, “I’ll keep it for you if you are afraid to
take it from his majesty.” A few minutes
later they again passed tbe spot, and Krupp
said, "Now, you can take tbe emperor's pres
ent from my band," and handed Ackermann
the watch wrapped up in a thousand-mark
note.
G. BROWN G»ODE.
BERNARD J. McGRANN.
for his skillful diplomacy, scholarly attain
ments, elegant courtesy and gentlemanly qual
ities.
Bernard J. McGrann.
At the Democratic State Convention held at
Allentown, Pa., on the 31st of August, 1887,
Mr. Bernard J. Grann, of Manheim township,
Lancaster county, was nominated for State
Treasurer. He is the son of the late Richard
McGrann, one of the pioneer railroad contrac
tors of the country, who was a man known for
his independence and force of character. Mr.
Bernard J. McGrann was born where he now
resides on Julb 14, 1837, and is therefore in
his fifty-first year. He was a student of Lan
caster public schools, and of the famous Mount
Saint Mary’s College of Emmitsburg, Md.
On January 3, 1872, he was married to Mrs.
Mary, widow of the late William F. Kelly,
and daughter of Philip Doughtrty, of Harris
burg. He is reported as one of the wealthiest
men in Lancaster connty, and is the chief
owner of the private banking house of Reed,
McGrann & Co. He is also a railroad con
tractor. In 1870 he built the Cilawiisa ex
tension railroad to Williamsport, and in 1878
he built seventy miles of the Fittsbnrg & Lake
Erie road in the western part of tbe State. Mr.
Smithsonian Institution, 'rof. Goode is about
ihiity six years old, havingbeen born in New
Albany, Ind., in 1851. He re ceived his early
academic and scientific traning at the Wes
leyan University, at M ddleown, Conn. After
taking his degree he becaue attached to the
Smithsonian Institution it Washington, di
recting his attention mew particularly to
Ichthyology. Appreciatinsnot alone his inde
fatigable industry, but als< bis scientific ac
quirements, Prof. Baird at once availed him
self of his services for the work of the Fish
Commission. The posit io: of Commissioner
of Fish and Fisheries is on; requiring on the
part of tbe incumbent a '.Torough scientific
knowledge of fish, such acquirements to be di
rected towards the sole eml of increasing the
supply of fish in American raters. It brings
without additional respotisibililies an in
crease of labor and responsibilities. When the
Berlin Exhibition of Fish snd Fisheries was
held Prof. Goode had the American depart
ment under his charge, and he acquitted him
self so well as to receive tbe Inchest praise
from Germany. At the London Exhibition of
Fisheries in 1883, he represented the States as
Commissioner there, and his ability was so
conspicuous as to receive commendation from
so distinguished a source »s Prof. Huxley.
Having served so long and honorable appren
ticeship, the preisent Commissioner will carry
out successfully tbe work originated by his
distinguished predecessor, Spencer Fullerton
Baird.
Special fer the Sunnv South ]
Novelty Nuggets.
Polonaises sharply outline the long waist,
and have all the fulness far below the hips.
Fanciful wool fabrics with velvet stripes,
soutache woven designs and velvet plaits are
de riguer for street service.
Plain lower skirts are full mounted on gored
foundations, giving effect of a full gathered
round skirt.
Plain stuffs are combined with Pompadour
flower aud garland designs in natural colors,
sunken into velvet pile.
The beautiful new ribbed Jersey underwear,
whereof the enterprising Miss Bates, of Bos
ton, is tbe originator, is a boon to women. It
is exquisite in fit, and deliciously comfortable
in feeling, and puts to shame all the bargy
spe.'imei.s of the past, which were a "terror”
g to say t be (east. ,
Large (lowered velvet stripes on satin and
wool grounds, form a notable textile triumph
of to-day. Hose leaf and lily designs form the
lovely stripes and separate velvet figures show
moons, pastilles, diamonds, blocks and al
monds.
A noticeable feature of the elegant new cos
tumes at Lord & Taylor’s is the elaborateness
of basque trimmings. Many of them are
draped full from the shoulders down, whether
the fabric be pliable silk or heavy cloth fabric.
Even where there is a vest or plastron, the
surplice effect is employed.
l’epppd silks and plain and striped moires
wili be combined wiih velvet or made up in
their entirety.
Coat sleeves, easy in fit, have simple cuffs
and are used on dresses of thick material.
Ladies who are prone to perspiration in winter
—and who is not in heated rooms, at “crush
es” and "swell" occasions, find tbe Canfield
Seamless Dress Shields a delightful desidera
tum.
Lower skirts of silk or moise are bordered
with velvets, or have pleats the length of the
skirt wherever it appears beneath the draper
ies. Foot pleatings if at all used on heavy
skirts must not be visible.
Many shoes and boots for ladies have cloth
tops matching costumes, and fixings of French
kid and patent leather.
F’or the principal parts of suits made of two
materials, tawny tans, wood and bronze are the
preferred shades, as they combine w*l] with
most light colors.
The Double Ve waist for boys and girls both
big and little, is the best thing of its kind, and
is sold at Ridley’s where any and everything
useful and beautiful may be procured.
A late fancy in hat trimming is to place, on
the top of the crown, a large, long-looped bow
of ribbon, the loops falling downward in front.
New braided jackets have long waist-coats,
overlapping turned-back fronts, backs moulding
the figure like a glove, and high collars.
The (Southall Sanitary towels whereof the
Canfield Rubber Co., make a specialty, are in
especial benefaction to ladies at home, abroad
or in transitu.
Crepe lisse—so beautiful itself as to render
many of its weaves an beautiful,is as fashionable
as ever for neck-wear.
Fine, all wool black serges are selling for 40
cents per yard, and they are splendid for la-
tigne suits.
New raglans are longer all around and ful
ler in front, and will have their share of fash
ionable favor.
A diversity c f tastes in details is particularly
noticeable this Fall; hats, bonnets, frocks and
wraps being chosen to suit personal caprice.
Ladies who keep pet dogs may now provide
them with water proof covers having hoods
extending over the heads. There are also trav
eling dusters with breast-pockets tor doggie’s
ticketl
The new colored felt hats are picturesque
and pretty to a degree; and the variety of
colors is so large that all complexions may be
suited.
Sali.ik J. Battkt.
JACOB T. CHILDS.
Jacob T. Childs.
Colonel Jacob T. Childs, United States Min-
ister to Siam, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
Jan. 19, 1832. At the age of five years he re
moved with his parents to Richmond, Va.,
where he attended the common schools and
was subsequently apprenticed in the office of
the Richmond Whig. At the outbreak of the
civil war, although surrounded by sympathiz
ers with the Sooth, he enlisted on the side of
the Union, and was commissioned a Major, in
Col. Robert Stewart’s regiment. He became
Adjutant of the Twenty-Fifth Missouri Regi
ment, and subsequently Colonel, but shortly
afterwards resigned his commission. He has
been an active Democrat, attending every im
portant convention of his party as a delegate.
He has been twice elected Mayor of Richmond,
Va., is President of the Missouri Press Asso
ciation, and is widely respected by members
of his profession.
The gross earnings on sixty-seven railroads
during the half year showed an increase of 15
per cent., while the net earnings of the same
roads for the same period showed an increase
of 24 per cent. The gain was well distributed,
too, for only eight roads showed decreases in
their net retime for the eame period.
A New and Beautiful Flower.
The Columbia, S. C., Register says, Mr. P.
B. McCoy has at his home on Taylor street,
near Main, a most carious and beautiful flower
which blooms only at night. It has a blossom
somewhat like a lily, a very fragrant odor, and
in nowise resembles the night-blooming ce re
us, except in preferring the night to the day
lor the opening of its flowers.
When Ben’s master died they told him he
bad gone to heaven. Ben shook his head.
“1 afraid massa do go there."
"But why, Ben?"
“Coe when massa go forth, or go a journey
to the spring, be talk about it a long time and
get ready. I never hear him talk about going
to heaven; never see him get ready to go there.
—Monthly Messenger.
Miss J. O. Vincent, for many years, in the
past, a popular and much admired actress, and
socially held in high estimation, died and was
buried in Boston on the <lth. So often had she
been seen on the Museum stage, that all were
desirous of paying tribute to her memory by
attending the funeral service, and not another
person could have been crowded into St. Paul’s
church.
Cold Nugget.
I’. R S., Dahlonega, Ga.: Can you tell me
the largest gold nugget ever found?
The big nugget, “Welcome Stranger,”
weighed 2 208 ounces, or 180 pounds. It could
be coined into currency at the rate of 1,800
sovereigns to 401bs. weight. We think it
was found in Austral a, and valntd at $40,000
as a curiosity. It was pure, or nearly so. A
big nugget was found in California a number
of years ago, but we do not remember its value.
Button-Hole Worker.
M. E. M. In your paper give me the ad
dress of some firm that t-ell or make button
hole workers.
Call up'n some sewing machine agent to get
you one or write to the Smith & Egge M’f’g
Co., No. 10 E. l lth Rtreet, New York, or to
Moore Bros. M’f’g Co., 105 Lake street, Chi
cago, 111 , or to the Acme Button-Hole At
tachment Co., 74, 6.h Ave., near 14th str et,
New York. All are said to be good, and you
have yonr choice.
The Queen’s Anniversary.
Doubt, L“xington, Ga.: In t lie celebration
of Queen Yic'oria’s anniversary, could tbe
20th of June, 1887, be called her 50.h anniver
sary ?.
Not as we understand it. As the Queen as
cended the throne .rune 20th, 1837, it will be
just 50 years on the 20th of June, 1887, and
then it can be said she celebrated her 50th
year. But on the 20 h of June 1880, she en
tered on the 50th year as Queen, she is now in
tbe 51st year of her reign, and on the 20.h of
June 1887, she began her 51st year.
Point of Etiquette.
Lucy Lake, New Orleans, La : “Say, I have
tickets for an entertainment, and would like
to have one of my gentleman friends to accom
pany me. Should I iuclose in my note the
tickets to my friend or keep them?
Request your gentleman friend to meet you
at your home at the proper hour, ar.d when
you arrive at the theatre or place of entertain
ment, hand him the tickets. Give him to un
derstand when you start, if you feel so dis
posed, that you have tickets, and desired his
company. He will understand it.
The Author.
H. J., Sante Fe, N*>w Mexico: Kindly in
form me who the author is of the following:
“I have seen a curious clilld
Applying to his ear the convolutions of a smootb-
llpned shell.
To which lu sIKoce hushed.
His very soul hsrexed lute: t'y
And soon hfs conntenauee b ightened wffb j ty,
For murmurtngs from w thin were heard,
Sonorous ca ences. whereDy, ro his belief,
Die monitor expressed mysterious union with Us
native sea.
Even > nch a shell the unlvrrie Itself it—
U do the ear of Faith and <P th
Imparl authentic ridmes or Invis’blethings, etc ”
Get the works of Wordsworth, and read
“The Excursion,” Book iv. You will find it
near the close of the book, some two or three
hundred lines from the end ”
19th or 20th Century.
Tom, Bill, Hal, flartersville, Ga.: Kettle for
tts a vexed question. Will tbe year ]!H)0 be tbe
beginning of the ofith century, or the end of
the Iff-h century ?
We have answered that, question before, we
think, but as it is not difficult to answer, we
would say that it is tlie end of the 10.h cen
tury. For example—1801, was the beginning
of the 10th century; why do we say the 10-h
century, and nor, the lHih century, for we are
using the figures 1801 or 1880? Simply from
the fact that we must have 1000 somewhere,
and it comes in at the end. So of course the
]0tb century ends with 1000, and the 20th cen
tury begins with 1!H)1. A child begins its first
year from the day of its birth, and should it
die on the day of its birth just one year, it
would be just one year old and nothing more.
But should it livo one day over, it would begin
its second year. See the point?
Religious Libraries.
Church Woman, St. Louis, Mo: Can you
give me, by denominations, the size of the dif
ferent libraries?
We have seen the statement something as
follows: Presbyterian, 14 libraries with 203,-
OOOborks; Catholic, 18, with 180,000 books;
Congregational, 10, with 118,080 books; Bap
tist, 14, with 105,000 books; Episcopal, 12,
with 80,000 books; Lutheran, 13, with 52,000
books; Reformed Dutch, 1, with 37,000 books;
Methodist, 0, with 28,000 books. Yet, with all
of those thousands of books on theology, faith,
creed, belief, etc , we have the whole of Chris
tianity in a few lines, and unsurpassed in its
simp’icity. Hear Christ: “Blessed are the
pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed
are the merciful, for they shall o Jain mercy.
Blessed are the peace makers, for they shall be
called the children of God.” The sermon on
the mount is enough to point us the way to
Heaven and to God; and had Christ said noth
ing more, He would have left to us an unerring
road to Heaven, while we would have had
peace on earth and the smiles of God eternally
;n Heaven. Think for a moment of our Savior
standing amid a half million of books written
by sectarians to tell what Christ intended to
teach, when our bl -ssed Siviour could tell all
He intended to teach, clearly, within a half col
umn of the Sunnv South and have no: one am
biguous word or doubtful sentence. The sim-
plicity of truth, when truth is honestly sought.
Celestials.
R. II. G., Gainesville, Ga : We find in the
public prints of the present day the Chinese
spoken of as the Cele. tials. The problem has
been submitted to our Literati for the where
fores, but at the present writing, as newspaper
men would say, the public mind is not satis
fied. The problem is not solved, notwithstand
ing the clearest cerebral organs have been un
mercifully cudgeled for the answer; bat tbe
response cometh not. Now, Mr. Editor, are
we asking too much when we solicit your re
ply through the Quiz Column of the next
Sunnt South?
We answer: Because the first emperors
were all celestial deities, accordirg to the Chi
nese notion, as Pnon-Ku means "highest eter
nity;” Tien-Hoang, “emperor of heaven;" Ti-
Hoang, "emperor of earth," and other empe
rors ri juicing in high-sounding titles, embrac
ing a period of 300,000 years previous to To
hi, whose reign is placed B. C., 2053-2838.
You see at once that the Chineee go far, very
far, beyond anything mentioned in the Bible.
Six thousand years, or even ten thousand, was
only a short period in their calculations. If
the records of China bad not been destroyed
by the edict of a fool sort of an emperor, who
had more pride and ambition than sense, mnch
more would be known of Chinese history. The
Chinese are very far from being illiterate, for
some are very bright scholars. Read some
good history of them and you will be inter
ested in them as a remarkable and very pecu
liar people. Confucius, their great teacher, re
jected everything relating to heaven and hell,
or a God or a future state; but taught only of
the relations of this life. He had no theories
as to a future life, and did not bather hie brain
on that point. His teachings are wonderful
for their common sense and good government.
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Sunnt South $2, but we furnish them both
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No subscription for less than a years will he
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All complaints in regard to other papers must
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That is, a person cannot order one copy of the
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States, and the figures opposite each include
that publication and the Sunnv South both
for oue year
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CUMBERLAND ISLAND,
The Gem of the Atlantic,
O FFERS MORE ATTRACTIONS THAN ANY
seaside reseri in tbe nouib. To me Uuduess man,
whose mind and brain need resr, and to tbe Inva
lid, dyspeptic, asthmatic and nervous sufferers tbere
Is no place like Cumberland with its bracing salt
air. surf bribing, boating, fishing, shooting and out
door sports. We have here
THE FINEST BEACH IN THE WORLD
350 teet In width and extending to old Dunglness 22
nines, lined with beautiful shells of every descrip
tion, and forming tbe handsomest drive on tbe Amer
ican coast. Tbe batblng in tbe surf bere Is delicious
and Invigorating and the gently sloping beach
makes It peiteetlv sale even for little children.
THE HUNTING AND FISHING
Are unsurpassed. Every variety of salt water Osh
abounds i ere, as well as every species of game from
tbe deer, black bear and pelican down to tbe rice
bird and sand pipers, and tbe visitor can find royal
sport with rod or gun every day In tbe year.
THE HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Are now ample. In addition to the former bntldtnga
and cottages, tbe proprietors Have erected s large
and handsome two story building with It to IB large
rooms, and a double eolonade on nil aides, and
a dintnr hall 40x«0 teet, with a seating capacity tor
300 y nests.
RAILROAD AND BOAT CONNECTIONS.
Visitors can reach here via Brunswick and Savan.
nan. Close connection Is mane at Brunswick dally
with tb' s'-nneb and flrsbclass steamer “Otty of
Brunswick.”
Amp.e conveyances with good driven meet the
boat dally at the landing. ^ ^
bail boats. Ashing boats and racing boats always
a* the hotel wharf.
0-Rates of board, only $2 per day or $10 per week.
For further Information address
W. H. BUNKLRY. Pronrtetor,
Bnnkley F. O., Cumberland Island, Qa.
June, 1887. tf
Old Pictures Copied and Enlarged
Agents wanted In every town and aonnty la tta
South. Send lor terms and circulars. If yon can-
not take an agency get our retail prices, and sand
plot ares dlreetto us, they will be dons promptly and
In best style. Address SOUTHERN COPYING CO.,
No. s Marietta street. Atlanta. Ga 282-tf