Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-23
FLORIDA.
some OF the Advantages which Sum.
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Correspondence of the Union and American.
LEEsBURG, FLORIDA, July 10, 1878 =
As / have seen various letters from other
parts of this now rapidly improving State,
and as the outside word will ia &c Of the
whole BY what is written Of part, / have
concluded to give you IS correct an idea of
this vicinity, as / hope, as others have OF
their respective localities. In the frst place,
all correspondents are more or less prone to
color a tile deep, if writing to benefit their
sections, by dealing in too much exaggera-
ton of the good FEATURE, and not mention
ing any of the unpleasant features, or what
are more properly called drawbacks, and
hence, correspondent on Indian river, in
the extreme southern part of the peninsu-
lar, viii entertain bis readers by an epistle
full of fish, telling you of the thousand and
one kinds, and that every waite course,
lake and pond are but piles of them, cover
ed over with Just water enough TO keep
them from spiling, and wishes all bis friends
to come down to catch FISH, to eat fab and
barrel up fish to send North, and then,
perhaps, in the next hut is a correspondent
saying something 20 Northern journal
about few unpless Mt features that
sensitive nerves such as mar
rating with all the sang froid magma.
BILE his different alligator or shark stories Of
having heard that four men started home
across q small stream and sharks and alli-
gators went for them; one succeeded in get
ting out minus head and tells the tale;
and consequently the lands in the imme-
date Deighborhood are not entered; and the
imaginary sharks and the other unkno wn
monsters have full sway. And thon again, be
goes cunning. There are plenty Of deer,
and all kinds Of game, but the infamous
mosquitoes are so thick that he has to fire
a raD&om shot, and then before the mos
qEtOoes close up, be shoots through the
DOle and bags bis deer. One fellow lex
cuse the w0rd) declaring he had many q
time killed bis four OF FIVE mosquitoes with
= buck-ShCt by tbrO \ ing az iUs. The side of
his shanty. Pretty hard tales are they not,
and hard to be believed even of the Ind
River Country.
Though from what | said in the COM
mencement Of this letter, you bad right to
expect truthful narrative Cf this secsiOn at
beast, and not knowing anything Of the ex-
Greme South, viii not attempt to give you
anything more than v hal the few extracts
above would lead you to irfeT, save that it is
a country full of beauties and attractive fea-
EUre-tbe saying OF correspondents to the
contrary notwithstanding.
Well to get TO my purpose of letting
you, and through yen, The people
know something about our cOun-
ty Of Sumter. 1t is sn interior
county, situated nearly midway between
the Gulf aud Atlantic coast, aud within it S
borders are several beautiful lakes, naviga.
ted by boats running between points on
their banks and JacSsonV lie, st the mouth
of the ST. Johns river. Our climate is de-
1ightCul, enjoying as We do an almost CON-
slant breeze furnished by the gulf. Our
lands are various, either hammock, oak,
scrub or pine. Tie hammock contains the
wild orange groves, though the sweet groves
are planted both in hammock and on pine
lands, and are succeeding well in each, and
from the present prospect, the orange Gull
Cure will be success; and the young groves
started can be counted by the hundreds.
The pine land will compare very fsvorsbly
with the lands of the Gulf States, and cot.
ton is raised quite extensively, though most
all tbs farmers raise some CAFE and make
their own sugar and syrup; and am told
this Is an easy country to make 8 comforta-
BILE living n. have only been in the coun.
try few months, though can see the evi.
dencss of advancement on all sides-houses,
saw mills, cotton gins going up, lands
everything that bespeakS thrift
And the very best thing about our county
is tina 1t is 50 healthy lat the doctors are
either moving away or planting orange
groves, so as TO make both ENDS meet.
A. Fox.