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 VOL. V. FERNANDINA, FLA., SATURDAY JULY 28 1883. NO. 35. 1 ..


 STATE SEWS. proved patent also pile-drivers and outfit RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
 ; On
 Madison had
 reaching desire
 we great chosen set has made a failure of it. Now
 for wharf and bridge building. The railroad I
 Jefferson.In but no time, to investigate the splendid improvements comes Mr. Wong Chin Foo, who challenges.
 wharf at the foot of Polk street will be a IMPRESSIONS TAKEN OF THE COUNTRY AND
 to inquiries the that Captain Inglis is making ; Kearney to a public discussion on the Chi
 response numerous '"
 large and substantial one and the work is PEOPLE ON A TRIP FROM THE ISLAND
 ,
 Monticello Constitution publishes the follow- but the buildings to be seen from the depot nese question. Kearney declined insolently.. i !
 CITY TO MIDDLE FLORIDA.To .
 being pushed ahead under the supervision of
 information relating to Jefferson county: were massive and substantial enough look- This fired the blood of the editor of the- 1
 ing Mr. Austin, of Thomas county, Georgia. The the Editor of the Mirror :
 to
 ing the i idea that
 Jefferson county contains a population of convey they were the Chinese American, and he forthwith wrote p
 16,000 souls, has a variety of soil, and most work by the Plant Investment Co., to com- We know that it is against received tradi- outgrowth of a substantial prosperity. All what will be construed into a challenge to- '
 plete the South Florida Railroad, in each tions to from the sea-board honor to the tireless
 that has
 move to the interior
 of it is exceedingly productive, even with- energy over- fight. An acquaintance of mine saw him
 out the employment of fertilizers. We have and all of its departments, is being rushed during the summer months, when come a host of obstacles, and wakened a yesterday, and he tells me that the little-

 large quantities of land, improved and un- onward, and the road will be through to the sun is kissing the earth with its most sentient vitality into this beautiful but afore- fellow is prepared to take any step in the

 improved, represented by small farms and Sanford by the time promised,-and we hopein ardent beams, but tired nature cried out for time backward little town. The truck farmers defence of the fair name and fame of his '

 large plantations, that can be purchased" at time to bring visitors up the St. John's, rest from the monotonous routine of a busy seem to be unusually successful with their .. celestial home. If the police do not inter- ....... ( '
I from 50 cents to $20 per acre; ano"informa-! across to Tampa and the Gulf coast, the life, and the peaceful: tranquillity of a plan- melon crop this year, and thousands were fere there may be a dead editor, for KearJ
 coming winter.-Tampa Guardian. tation home offered more attractions than being shipped the day of arrival. At 1
 tion in reference to these lands can be had our ney, they say, can shoot.
 by addressing Messrs. Lamar fe Christie, real T. T. & G. R. R.-A letter from Vic -President we had fortitude to resist i so making up our this point kind friends were waiting to greet. The ambitious editor is a dapper little fellow 

 estate agents, Monticello, Fla. Cotton, corn, Page says that the Thomasville, Tal- minds to endure the noise, smoke and dust us, and further us on the few remaining I who is as clever as he is hard working.He i E i

 oats, rice, sugar cane and potatoes are the lahassee & Gulf Railroad Company will of railroad travel, with what philosophy we miles of our journey. So just as- is backed in his present enterprise by '

 chief products. We also produce vegetablesof break dirt near Tallahassee on the 1st of could muster, we embarked our journey.At The sultry summer day is done one of the great Chinese companies. He has-
 August. In the absence of all other infor- first concluded that And the western hills have hid the.sun "
;I 1 all kinds and melons for shipment to the we we were decid- an excellent knowledge of English and i
i Northern and Western markets, and truck mation we must conclude that this will be edly singular in our preference for rural we begin our drive,.and welcome gratefullythe French, but he writes them better than he-

 farming will soon be one of our principal the commencement of work to be prosecuted pleasures: for we had/the whole car to our- cooling breezes that spring up at the can speak them. In addition to the work c + '

 industries. The orange, peach, pear, plum, continuously to the completion of the .road. selves, but after awhile there began to be gentle twilight hour. Onward we go, be- for his own paper, he does a great deal for 1.
 Floridian.. accessions, first at one' station then at an- bind a pair of spirited horses, and drink in the morning The Sun
 grape fig, berries of various kinds, the pecan papers. encourageshim
 nut, etc., are produced in this county, as is THE ROWLAND'S BLUFF RAILROAD.Mr. J.W. other, until we had sufficient material for the beauty of the night lulled and rested by very much, and several afternoon pa- +

 also the banana and lemon to a limited Robertson, representing the contractorson character study to break in upon the ryth- its hush and stillness. pers also print a great deal of his matter.

 extent. Our forests represent a great vari- the Rowland's Bluff Railroad, was in the mic sound and movement of the train, that '"The moon is in her summer glow," Dennis Kearney would be grieved to learn '
 sometimes affect one as did the "pink trip; and shines on ns with radiant fidelity, un- that the Celestials
 ety of timber-the pine, oak, hickory, bay city last Saturday and Monday, engaging I are gaining quite a foot-
 and magnolia predominating. Our lands hands for his employers, and while here our slip and the blue trip slip,"of Mark Twain's til we reach our journey's end, just tired : hold in Metropolitan newspaper offices. la
 frantic hero. We noticed enough to appreciate the poetic inspirationof ,
 will produce from one-fourth to one bale of reporter gathered as much news as possible representativesfrom one afternoon newspaper office a young Jap-
 cotton to the acre; from eight to fifty bush- from him in relation to the railroad with every class of society, from the devo- the old Indian chief, whose exclamation, anese is employed. He is one of the partyof

 els of corn ; from seventy-five to three hun- which he is connected. Mr. R. says that the tee of fashionable pleasure, and the gentle, 'Alabama 1" (here we rest), proved the students sent over here some years aga. s

 dred bushels of potatoes, and other producein reports that the company are simply working tired mother, in search of health for herself christening ceremony of our sister State ; by the Japanese Government. He has beenat ilr

 like proportion. The yield is dependentupon on the road,to form a kind of headquarters and little ones at long-famed Suwanee, and so here we rest" indeed, enjoying the various colleges, and latterly has devoted-
 hands whose waters have, indeed, proved a" dolce far niente of these long warm days, too considerable
 the quality of land and the mode of forgathering and then removingthem magical attention to agriculture. r '
 cultivation. The water is pure, cool and to South Florida, is untrue. The work draught" to many toilers in the fetters indolent in fact to chat further of these don't know whether acting on orders from-

 healthful, and ice is not a necessity, and this side of Rowland's Bluff has been done of disease, to those who bore the indelible pleasures which we enjoy so keenly. home, he is now devoting himself to jour-

 seldom resorted to even in the summer. by contract, while that in the South is done impress of a life of '''hard, uncompromisinglabor. Obeying the Golden Rule, which would nalism. At all events, however, he is studying ;

 The health of the county is generally goodat by the company. The first work this side But watching these last with their suggest that the endurance of others be con- the whole inside workings of a news-

 all seasons of the year. We never have of the Bluff was however started in January simple homely ways and their beautiful, sidered as well, as our own, we forbear further paper office. During most of the day he

 diseases of an epidemic character, and our bv the company's hands transferred from the earnest faces, which revealed their kindly comment on the life and scenes that go works in the composing room where every ,.
 -
 fevers are generally u of a mild u form. We Climax extension, but they did not remain hearts, we could not but regret that the pol- to make such a pleasant change for us. E. aid is rendered him to learn the noble art ,

I have one line of railway through the county, there long,as they were needed again on the ishing process was usually a hardening one July 17, 1888. of type-setting. In the afternoons and

 from east to west, and a branch road of four former work, and when they had finishedwere the producing the rose dolor!, artificial, and NEW YORK. evenings he does light reporting. He reads ; x,

 miles leading to the most beautiful and desi- transferred to South Florida. The that the possibilities of unreserved friend- the'papers carefully, and occasionally tries ;

 rable town in the State-Monticello. Thereis present contractors. Col.! D. S. Cowan and R. ship are limited by a rare passage betweenthe THE TELEGRAPHERS' STRIKE-DENNIS KEARNEY his hand at editorial notes, some of which E: '

 also a prospect for the construction of a E. Lloyd, are both North Carolinians, and Scylla and the Charybdis of two ex AND A CHINESE EDITOR-THE LOWER are printed. He is a quiet, little gentle- '' "

 railroad from this town northward, to con- !have been at work' but about six weeks. tremes-the repulsion of uncultured mind END OF CONEY ISLAND. manly young fellow, who makes friends r= : ;

 nect with the grand system of railway in They have the contract for the grading and and manners on the one hand, and the To the Editor of the Mirror: wherever he goes. It is probable that upon ..

 Georgia. Monticello, the county-site, is a cross-tieing of the road, and together employ counter repulsion of insincerity and indifference NEW YORK, July 21, 1883. his return home he will start an AngloJapanese : V

 town of 1,500 inhabitants,embowered in a : about GOO hands, and want as many more as I on the other., There is every probability at present that paper.

 magnificent grove of oaks and orange trees, they can get. The grading on Saturday There were a few discontented spirits belonging the threatened telegraphers' strike will be -It looks very much as if the lower end of '" ..' ., I

 with seven churches, two academies for night lacked about one and a quarter milesof to an original party of thirty-five averted. The Western Union Company is Coney Island is fast drifting into that state ''
 whites and blacks telegraph office reaching the Santa Fe river. returning from South Florida to their homes in
 a money There is a ready to make concessions, and if the oper- which Norton's Point, the extreme end
 order office, a magnificent town hall, thirtyor flint rock cut, however, several miles the in Mississippi, whose faith was too dim to ators are well advised they will not stick up of the island, was a few years ago. That ti
 more stores, cotton warehouses, boarding other side, a quarter of a mile long and nine see, beyond its present undeveloped resources for their pound of flesh. The main trouble used to be the resort for ruffians and the-

 houses, newspaper office, livery stables, lawyers feet deep, that will require time to blast out. the bright promise of this fruitful after all is the question of women's work lawless of all kinds. Swindlers and sharp-

 and doctors in abundance,good society, The rails on this side of Rowland's Bluff are land. There was an inevitable bride and and As usual in movement ers have held undisputed sway,and woe be- '. ,
 or
 and no ''dead beats." Our wants are many, 30 foot steel bars and have been laid a distance groom along also, the centre of general in- pay. every tide the unfortunate victim who dared to is
 there
 in any difficulty is a woman at the
 but will be content with a new hotel, bank- of nine miles from that place. The terest. It is said that better than all things object when he was robbed. Norton and ,
 bottom. The French statesman who uttered r
 ing house, tailoring establishment, a man- bridge over the Santa Fe river is ready, anda else is love." and that the memorable Cherches la femmeseekthe Murray then got the place, and they determined t
 tua-maker, a boot and shoemaker, and one large force of hands are at work this side. Love in life's extremity to make it respectable. They knew t
 Mr. Robertson states that the location is Can lend an hour of cheering." woman, never uttered a truer aphor-
 or two thousand industrious, sober and en- that remonstrances and policemen were use-
 ism. A member Broth-
 terprising citizens, who will aid us in givinga made only a few miles this side of the river, We could but indulge the reflection that Telegraphers' less with ruffians. They, therefore, engageI ,'1''IA i
 I erhood told me that one of the vice-presi-
 boom" to the town and county ; and to but the impression among the workmen, it was well for this couple they evidently bruisers of their own to maintain order. If + r' *:
 all of whom we will extend a cordial wel- and the spirit manifested by the company is possessed this best gift, as fortune had been : dents of the association is a young lady operator a gang of rowdies came in from New York, 4'fJlW
 who earns $80 a month. She is a
 come, and make no inquiry as to their poli- that Gainesville is their objective point.- very niggardly in her further equipmentfor determined on making Rome howl, their .
 clever and
 bright good-looking full
 Gainesville Bee. person, Y
 tics, religion or former condition in life. bouncers went to work on them, beat then.
 of energy and push, and, of course, like
 Leon. Life's chequered scene of joy and sorrow." unmercifully, and threw them into the sea., ,i
 AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.SHALL every woman, given to plotting and schem-
 Messrs. E. W. Clark and H. W. Rugg some As we near the "hill country" of the They never bothered with any of the smalt '
 ing. She is said to be the prime lever in the "
 time ago purchased a staunch little steam THE GOVERNMENT CONTROL THE: WIRES? middle section of our 'bedutiful State, with present movement. She has been agitatingin fry. They picked out the big sharks. As a ,

 yacht from parties at the North. She was I There are three parties concerned in the its oak groves, waving corn, and the fami- a quiet way for months, and since the result in less than a month Norton's Point t 14 t?

 built for special service at a Northern sum- pending contest between the telegraph com- liar sight of the cotton fields in full lemon- present trouble first began has aroused her was an orderly place. The Manhattan Beach

 mer resort, and no painsor money was sparedin panies and their employees, the general pub- I colored bloom, our heart burns with something fellow-operators to the necessary degree of and the Brighton Beach companies then

 her construction. Her length is 25 feet, 8 lic having quite as large an interest in the of the same feeling that animates the enthusiasm. Whatever advantages the telegraphers bought land on the upper end of the island f

 feet beam, and draws 2 feet of water, and result as either of the others. Neither the Switzer's bosom as he gazes at his beloved gain will be traced directly backto made Coney Island fashionable, under '
 will officers of the the the softer tender that in which Norton's Point so.that at ,
 comfortably accommodate twenty-five companies nor executive Alps, or yet feeling her efforts. There is but little likelihoodthat languished
 passengers. The yacht arrived on Sunday committee of the Brotherhood of Telegra- its exile yearned for "Home, Sweet Home." the company will consent to pay women present it is practically dead, and yet the

 morning's train, and her owners will have phers seem disposed to give proper consider- Everything is so abundantly blessed by the same wages as men. Should they beach here is better than at any other part. !
 her the ation to the rights of the in nature and it that man's of the island.
 floating on limpid waters of Lake public the mat- seems now energy; do so however, it will not do the general
 Jackson in a few days. They will constructa ter,and both appear to treat it as exclusivelytheir and industry were about to unbind the body of female operators any good, as the Last year the pool rooms began to open at j ,

 number of wharves at convenient pointson own affair. This is a mistake. The shackles and chains of poverty forged by company will then gradually discard them Brighton Beach. This was the beginningof

 the lake, and run their nice little craft business of telegraphing is carried on under the war. The crops are unprecedentcdly and employ men only. Of course the very the decline. When last year the police {

 for the accommodation of the public, giving charters from the State, and it has such an fine; cotton particularly so, corn having I superior women will not be affected, but of New Y ork made their raids against the-

 special attention to the wants of fishing par- intimate connection with the material inter- been somewhat injured by the drouth of the large class of average merit will find pool sellers, and then drove them from j.#
 ties and excursions for ests of the people that it might and and unless Hunter's Point to Coney i
 pleasure. Lake Jackson properly spring early summer, the itself pushed to the wall, thanks to the unwise they migrated
 is one of the largest and most attractive enough be put under the direction of public caterpillar should come, as a result of the exertions of its friends.It Island. West Brighton is now filled with

 lakes in Leon county, is only a few miles authority so far as to make regularity of service frequent rains of the present month, I has often puzzled students of social life i them. Of course the gamblers followed. ,a t

 northof Tallahassee, and we believe the"new secure. Any difficulty in its private think there need be little anxiety felt by the to discover how it is that workmen in their Faro dens and similarplaces abound. Con L ?

 departure"* of Messrs. Clark and Rugg will management with which shall interfere seriously farmer as to the result of his year's labors. fight against capital generally throw their fidence men are making their headquarters, ,r. '*'
 the
 be duly appreciated and their enterprise receive loss convenience to the business of the community public or occasion will- We procured some very fine peaches from common sense to the winds, and allow here. Of course this state of affairs cannot r.

 a liberal patronage. The beautiful give new force to the demand for Govern- Cclumbia county, where peaches grow finest themselves to be carried clean off their feet last. The island is bound to be ruined as a !

 clear-water lakes of Middle Florida are ment control of the entire business. It be- with least care in Florida. Figs of every by a few agitators, who, with little to lose, resort for respectable people. At present-

 naturally attractive, but safe and rapid trans- sentatives hooves both of the the companies and the repre- possible variety abound in profusion every- have a great deal to gain. The lock-out of the police are in league with the criminals;.
 organization of
 portation, on staunch and comfortable boats, recognize to the fullest extent the operatorsto rights where in Madison without the least atten- the cigar-makers is a case in point. Twen- They not only will not arrest them, but FP

 will lend a new charm to our numerous and interests of the people in their contest. tion, further than planting the tree; and we. ty-six men in one factory struck because they are actually steerers"for them. West
 lakes and be the of The question of hours of labor and of at is much like Louis- i
 means drawing more wages constantly regale our appetite on fifty-pound their employer refused to discharge a larger. Brighton present very
 visitors to the lake and hill country of the they is one must which settle, under between present themselves circumstances but, watermelons, the sweetest we ever ate. It body of men in the factory who belonged to i ville. If you want to go to a gambling

 Middle.-Floridian. they have no right to adopt measures; of is a little late for cantaloupes and musk- another Union than theirs, and hence in house all you have to do is to ask the near

 Madison. coercion which shall involve widespread melons, though they have been plentiful.In their eyes were nothing but "scabs.'' The est policeman to direct you. I understand 1 d ','

 Mr. L. W. Dallas, of Madison county, has *embarrassment* A general and strike loss to of the telegraph community. comparing the present methods of the manufacturers seeing in this an unheard-of that legislative interference will eventuallybe

 deposited in this office a sample of tobacconow ators or of railroad workers ought to oper-be a farmer with those of a few years ago, we attempt to dictate what they should do, decided resorted to.

 growing on his place, and in the cultivation legal impossibility, and it is likely to be notice a striking improvement. Still, with- to take the bull by the horns, and anticipate Mr. Clemens, "Mark Twain," who is turn-
 of which he has been made so if any rash action should be taken out wishing to criticise, and making allow- strike
 engaged for a general by ordering a gen- ing out a book or something of the kind atbis j
 now. The public cannot afford to have this
 several years. It is as fine a specimen as business at the mercy of a contest over ance for the hampering want of ready eral lock-out. Thus it is that at present, on farm near Elmira. N. Y., takes delightin iF

 was ever seen in this county, and is knownas wages and hours of labor between employers money, a neater style of regulating and con- account of the arrogant obstinacy of twen- showing his visitors a grove wherein last ,. ;
 i the Orinoco," and the seed was procured and employed, as if it were their exclusive serving the household interest would pro- ty-six men, seven thousand hands are with- year, by chopping wood, he cured himself ,
 from the Agricultural department of the affair. Some means must be providedfor duce wonderful results in home comfort, out employment, and hundreds of families of thirteen different and distinct diseases."
 such
 settling controversies with a
 Government at Washington. Mr. Dallas regard to the just claims of both sides proper, and and consequently, in home happiness.The will suffer serious want unless their beads Dr. Brown-Sequard has discovered t t
 has been quite successful in the cultivationof without disturbing the business of those who orange trees in Madison county were come to their senses shortly.The a new
 tobacco, and no doubt finds it more profit- ara not directly concerned in the controversies. so severely injured by the freeze of two duelling mania is spreading. The anaesthetic, which destroys sensibility, but
 In the absence of such means duly leaves the patient capable of working and
 able than cotton.-Madison Recorder. provided and of legislation to prevent telegraph years ago it was thought they were all killed latest victim is our distinguished foreign attending to ordinary duties. When the
 -- strikes, these people should proceed outright, but we notice that even in the journalist, Mr. Wong Chin Foo, the editorof
 RAILROAD NOTES. with extreme caution, and remember that most exposed positions that, where the dead the Chinese American. Dennis Kearney, flesh is cut no pain is felt.

 the public is likely to be controlled by its wood has been trimmed away the new the Sand Lots Orator, has been in town fora The steamship Nacoochee, of the Ocean ,
 self-interest and not to brook
 THE PLANT INVESTMENT Co. has received at with patienceany
 effort to paralyze the facilities for com- growth has been so luxuriant that one few days trying to agitate, but unfortunately Steamship Line, which arrived in New York ,,
 this place a considerable lot of switch stands mercial inter-communication as a means of scarcely realizes! they could have been hurtat for his own pretensions he has made this week, carried a cargo of 70,000 water- '
 and plates for side tracks of the latest im- coercion in a private quarrel.-N. Y: Times. all, and they have begun to bear again. but little progress, and even in his own melons from Savannab.ILr .

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