The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-05-06
What Florida

wild country, that has been for
three hundred years, and IS isln-
habited-a land of shifting h2i
deep mud-a land of noble
rise in swamps and cQRsiSt
chains and shallow oI
twenty miles long miles
across, and only TN deep-ot
wide, sandy plains lth sol
ennnesOlInding PIN OF barren
that nothing casl . made toigrow up
on them, and vet with a soil so fertile
that % if you tickle it with hoe 1t will
laugh with an abundant harvest OF
sugar, cotton, rice and fruit-a land OF
oranges, lemons, pomegranateS, pine
aDples, figs and bananas, whose rivers
TEEN with fish, its forests with game,
and its very airEWith{fOwI where eve
rytbing will grow except wheat and
appIes; where eyelBthing can be found
except ice; yet where the people, with
a prodp &c soil mid climate and
bountf ng every table
Iuxlrx y ssrits, sweet pota-
foes ~ whefGS many men
possqASs ousand head of cattle
neve % milk in their lives
usin.z ytedl article when
used at all I;y effort tc
milk a es~s scare Sllel
to DEATH a s1fTghteIlFa a vwholt
neighborls the unheard-af1 phe-
nOmenon ~ Where cabbag grows on
the tops offtrees, and you may dig
bread out Of the gromed; why're, below
the frost line, the Ecast0r-oiiz zplant be
come, large tree of scVe4gal years
growth, aud Il pumplIin or beanSylll'
will tallC-aot from its trailing branchs
Cs, and thus spread and live year after
wear: where cattle do not know what
Z /, ,..,fFgsn whom Offprpfi S9
that the purchase of Il yoke of oxen Is
not considered tlid if the animal viii
not eat in a st1ble; and where i'll the
mild winter, when the land grass IS
dried up, and horses and cattle may be
seen wading and swimming in the a..s1sis
and streams, pIunging their head
under the surface to bite the
grasses and moss; where many
have holes in the bottom and u
ground communication, so that cneJ
will sometimes shrink away to a mere
cupful, leaving many square miles OF
surface uncovered, and then again I'LL
uD from below and spread out over their
| former area; where some of them have
outlets in the ocean far from shore
bursting up q perpetual spring OF fresh
water in the very midst of the brlny
! saltness of the sea where in times o.
/ low water, during Il long, exhaustive
] dry season, men have go - underground
/ in one of these subtefranean rivers
/ from lake to lake a distance of eigh
miles; where the ground Will some
| times sink and the cavity fill with wa
| ter, until tall trees, that had stood aDt
sunk upright, will have their topmOs
branches deeply covered; where river lyrr
will disappear i'll the earth and ris'
again, thus forming natural bridges
some of them mile in breadth; wher
/ instead of spring, summer, autumn
and winter, there are two seasons only
Eight months summer and fou
months warm weather; where the win
Ter is the dry season, and the summe
almost a daily rain; where in order t
take walk you first wade through
light sand ankle-deep, and then get in
to a mud-puddle, and some OF thes
mud-puddleS cover q whole county
where no clay is found fit for brick
making, and people build houses With
out chimneys; where agues Would pre-
vail if the people would take trouble t
shake; where a large orange tree viii
bear seven thousand rangeS-leaVes
buds, blossoms, half-grOwn and full
grown. fruit all at Once-and ever.
twenty-five feet square of sand vii
sustain such q tree; where in man.
parts cold weather is an impOssibilit
and perpetual verdure reignS; where tn
everglades are found, covering man.
large counties with water from one t
six feet deep, with a bottom mud-cOV
!, cred, vet underneath solid and firm
from which grasses grow up to the SUI
face, Il sea of green, and with island
} large and small scatterQ3 over the SUI
face, covered with Hve-oaks and dens
: vegetation; where alligatOTs, or gators
: / S.o1TaI i'm E'fOJ-iH.l
possess undOubtcd aboriginal rights {
citizenship, and mosquitoes pay col
! slant visits, and are intrusive and eve
, penetrating i'll their attention to Stral
: gers. All these and moro may be mt
with in FlOrida.-J. Il. Little, it Liz
pipcotcS Magazine.
: -SSS-
/ Bishop Clark once met female pa
ishOner on the street whom he had nC
= seen for several weeks. His cOrdi;
greeting was met by a frigid reserve O
= her part. He enqUired the cause. 81
D reDIied' Il have been sick for thrC
: weeks, ana you did not visit me once.
: Indeed - replied the bishop: q
4 am sorry to hear that. Were you sic
D enough to have Il physician?' "Ce
!, tainIy: he came every day" How di
5 he know you were sick?" / sent Fl
e him, sir" was her reply. True" +" an
: wered the Bishop; and if you ha
V sent for me, I would have come too
4 San Francisco judge, speaking
Il taking the testimony of a Chinamal
Q said he would take the testimony of
9 dog, if the dog could make him unde
1 stand. That reminds us of our talliI
}. testimony of a dog Oncess in a ca
t. where some apples had been stole
IL from q farmer We cOuldnlt SIT dow