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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1883)
ü. \ >-------- .------------------ „ _ _. ~~— --------------------;---------- suit: tw’o by confession and im mersion, also one reclaimed at a previous meeting. There is no or ganization of the Church of Christ at this point. The Methodists have an organization which embraces the larger part of this community, some of w hich know’ but little of the teaching as was presented by Bro. Callison. An interest is l>eing manifested by many and a research ing of the Scriptures to see if this teaching lx» so. Bro. Callison is comparatively young in the minis try» yet his deductions are con clusive, pointed and well guarded by such authority as cannot be successfully gain-sayed. He is laboring here with no hope of re muneration, other than the upbuild ing of the Master’s cause. May the Lord bless his labors at this and other points to w hich he may be called. Your brother, J. W. P arks . B ♦ ■ *11 ■<■ -■ Letter from Florida. 4 » C ity P oint , F lorida , Nov. 27. 1882. Dear Brother: Now shall I tell you something of Florida ? I w as not very favor ably impressed with it until I got to Indian river. The portion of it over which the R. R. passed in com ing to Jacksonville was low’ sw’ampy, and unproductive, covered with scrub palmetto, pines and water oaks. J ack son vi lie is a rather pretty, but much smaller place thad 1 ex pected to see, now improving rap idly. The St. John’s river runs through a fiat country also, most of the land on its banks looks to me to be useless for man or beast, grow’n up with a tall coarse grass, six to twelve feet high resembling cane cottage palmetto. Oaks and pines are the principal growth. The oaks and other trees except the pal mettos are thickly covered with a long, greenish, grey moss, giving them the appearance of being heav ily draped. One alniost imagines them claxl in mourning over the, desolate country on which they grow. A few fertile spots occasion ally greet the eye, with a few orange groves on its lianka. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe Jives about 15 miles south of Jacksonville on -the S t. J ohn s, inbuilding-lw houxa • she had a large tree left standing near enough to her house that the veranda extends all around it. She left it perhap» to shelter Uncle Toms Cabin from the scorching rays of the southern sun. She has a very CtikísTiAÑ ÜfcftÁtt). t fine grove, not more so than many cover the water in an almost solid as the most attractive iJ' every way others, yet quite celebrated l»ecause body. They are fine for food many of any part of the South. Nature of its illustrious owner, who is not varieties of them ; quails are also has endowed it with superior claims. admired by southern people, It; abundant, wild turkeys and deer Where that is the case R. R’s. will w’ill not lie until the present gener are shot not far from this place, soon be built that will penetrate, ation with the feeling to a great de with, an occasional bear; squirrels and render it as easy of access as it gree which is unsettled into the also, are plentiful, so you see one has been difficult. A canal is being rising generation have passed aw ay, need not want for meatf and quite cut through from the A’tlantic on that the better feeling existing to a variety, although not the same the north to Irulia.n river, the outlet ward the Norths will cease to exist. kinds they have in other sections of on the south is to l>e dredged, which The treatment received from the the country. Butter is brought here will open a direct communication north during the late dreadful war, now in tubs, made north, and is from Jacksonville and all the north- has produce«! a feeling (which al very little if any higher in price empbrtions 1 »y way of this riversouth. though measurably suppressed) of than in Cincinnati. Milk they do The largest vessels can come through hatred as intense as w hen the wrar not have, in jpany places, except then, giving all this country direct first closed. To return to the St. condensed milk, which they try to transportation for their fruits and Johns river. The water looks very persuade themselves takes the place vegetables with every foreign mar impure, being the color of weak of genuine milk, but I am not ket in the world as well as home coffee, cause«l from the great quan credulous on the subject, therefore markets. A projected railroad from tities of vegetation which fall into dispense with it altogether. Tropi Palatka, it is fhmly believed, will it an«l decay. Aligators abound in cal fruits attain to a high degree of be built in two years. When these great numbers. They w ere a subject perfection. Orange groves are the two things are done, this country of great curiosity and interest to wealth of the state. Lemons, limes, will become very densely populated. passengers on the boat, as well as bananas, citrons, pine apples and Land has now reached enormous disgusting turtles, very large are to various other fruits are cultivated prices. It is impossible to conjecture he-'T T i’"« f ew y ears. »I be seen in large quantities. Fish are Tiere“Th"great quantities. A innumerable, birds of every species w’ho has a good grove, is a man of am spending the winter with an in countless flocks. For miles there the most complete ease I ever saw’. old friend. She w’as an orphan girl is little to disturb them except the It requires very little work to keep my mother partly raised, lived in passing of the boats. The country up a grove and as they never fail it the family a number of j’ears as one does not seem inhabited at all. is a certain income as well as a very of us. She is now’ wealthy, has a Really the St. Johns is a succession remunerative crop. Some years lovely home, l»eautiful situation, of lakes, connected by narrow, and they yield more than others, but house on a high piece of ground very crooked streams, which in always enough to make it profitable. with gradual descent to the l»each ; many places are nearly wide enough Vegetables grow finely in this por commanding a l>eautiful view of to permit the passage of the boats tion of the state, but in many sec-- the river for miles. She has a fine which frequently scrape the shore. tions will not grow’ at all, others grove and a great many l»eautiful A man may stand on one end of the but poorly. Red peppers grow’, year flowers, in full bloom. Her winter l»oat and pluck grass or moss, an after year, one bush sometimes garden is just coming on. They other on the opposite end may do covering twenty yards, its branches are planting vegetables here all the same thing from the shore on continuing to spread until it be winter, their summer suns are too the other side the river. This may comes a hedge almost of itself, and hot for vegetables to do well, like seem rather increditeble, it is not 12 or 14 feet even higher. Some they do in winter, raise some kinds anything but simple truth. I w’as bushes yield four or five bushels but this is really the season for not impressed favorably wdth tlie | ripe peppers at ft single picking. gardening- Sugarcane grows w’ell healthfulness of Florida, until I got It looks like the cayenne we raise, here, year after year for a quite a to Indian river, and I am free to and is very strong. Butter beans succession of years, finally it runs say, I am simply charmed with this ! l>ear also from year to year. How out, and has to lx* be renewed. The section. Bring an arm of the sea, strange these things appear, even finest syrups are made here of any it is like being on the sea Israeli. when I see them. But w hy not the portion of the South. I expect This salt water is transparently same wise Providence which causes now to return to Kentucky in the clear, and has a beautiful bottom of a thing in a certain latitude to pro spring, unless something unforeseen white san«l an«l shells, the country duce for a short season, in another prevents. My greatest objection to is high enough to make it both degree of latitude, cause it to yield this country is the absence of lieautiful an«l healthy. The most its fruits indefinitely He can, and church privileges, which is a very deliciously flavored fish, fine* size does. The climate added to other de serious drawback. In this as w’ell an«l very abundant are caught in sirable features, is the most attractive as in schools, there is in the last this Lagnue. Nothing to do, but to feature. Certainly nothing can ex few’ years a decided improvement, go out in a row )»oat and throw in ceed the delightful and health giv as there is a Methodist church, the cast net, and in a very short ingatmosphere of Indian river. One which has preaching twice per time catch a great quantity. Mullet never ¡’tires of inhaling its mild and month close enough here to attend. is considered best, bass sheel head strengthening breath as it • were Sunday-sohool every Sunday and and various other kinds are very Heretofore this section has been very good schools within a few fine. Oyster l>ars are very numer rather inacce> >le consequently not miles of each other; one above, ous, an«l oysters are one of the chief so much know’ll as-many other por another below us onthis fiver., No ' articles of food ih winter. Ducks tions. Now it is rapidly becoming 1 one here has ever heard one of our 1 often present the appearance of a settled up with a vejy desirable brethren in this portion of Florida. 1 succession of rafts, some times as far class of people, and is destined to F annie M àbtin , as the eye can reach they seem to become by far the wealthiest, as well