Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1875-03-19
From Florida and the South
God giuht Eaata Gc

spending the winter at Jacksonville
Florida, and has written interesting let
tiers home to his paper We copy from
his last letter of March 6, the follow
ing;
SAD SIGHT.
A year ago, and for some time previ'
Gus, there was in Jacksonville, gentle
man Of superior culture, very popular
music teacher, connected with one OF
the most respectable and best known
families in Boston. He moved in the
best society when | was here last winter,
and his acquaintance was sought in the
highest social circles. The other day /
saw that same man mounted on miser-
able cracker cart, and toted off to the
county poor-house; and poor-house
here is none of your nice brick-and-mor-
tar, steam-hotel structures, such as are
found in New England, but the most FL
thy and revolving of all human abodes.
The drinking habits of southern society
proved too much for this man, and he
fell in so brief time, victim to the
rum traffic. | do not suppose that it
ever occurred to the good citizens OF
Jacksonville that they have any respon-
sibility for his ruin, by virtue of the toll
GRAFTON of this dreadful business in their
midst I.never heard one suggest that
it ought to be stopped and the very con
siderable sum realized for license fees
has operated, as it operates everywhere,
to blind their eyes to the iniquity of
liquor selling. They very naturally
come to feel that they cannot spare the
income from the license fees. | am
more than ever convinced that the whole
theory of municipal, state or national
income from taxes on the sales of liquors,
is child of the Devil. If men will sell
rum, let them take the whole response
bility. The state should never share it
with them.
A NANfELEss BLOODHOUND.
Taking up the Savannah Daily News
the other day, the leading conserva-
tive organ of that city, and the medi-
UNI through which all Georgia and Flor
ida get their daily Geographic news, |
came across a paragraph in which Bish-
op Haven - name revered by all North
ern Methodists, now bishop of the
Methodist Church, resident at Atlanta,
Ga, was spoken of as that mendacious
old bloodhound of Zion" As the Bish-
op was announced to preach at the Trim
ity Nj. E. Church in this city, last Sab
bath, | had curiosity to see how a
bloodhound looks and talks. The ser
mon was perhaps the best and most log
ical presentation Of the divinity of
Christ it was ever our fortune to hear.
In the evening he gave an address on
The Growth Of Professionalism m Mexi-
CO." There was not much of the blood
hound in either the sermon or the lee
ture. The head and front of the Bish-
ops offence is that he has a heart big
enough to embrace all mankind in its
sympathies. He is a good example of
the treatment a man is liable to in the
South, who is true to his convictions and
not afraid to rebuke sin wherever found.
This leads me to observe that it is not
the presence of the negro that these
people object to. 1t is only his presence
as an equal. If we'll dressed and re-
spectacle negro had presented himself
at the door of the car which brought us
TO jacksonville, he would doubtless have
been told there was a car ahead for his
kind. And miserable car it was too
No matter if he was even a member Of
Congress. Yet in that very car full
blooded negro woman accompanied q
family as nurse sat in the seat with diff
ferent members of the family, toted the
babe around, caressed it lovingly, and
went at will through the car. Nobody
seemed to think her presence at all re
pulsive, least of all the family whom
she served. The same feeling crops out
everywhere, a thousand times a day
sometimes, and the purest minded man
in the world, if he attempts to stem the
tide, becomes an object of aversion.
Another incident. Soon after the war
a Southern ID. d., the ablest Southern
clergyman to whose preaching I have
yet listened, saw in the degraded position
of these people field for Christian effort
He began to teach them to read, but tn,
opposition to the work on the part of hi
church was so great that he could no
stand the pressure, and gave over tn,
work. 1t was taken up by the presen
Presiding Elder of the NJ. E. Churcl
North in this district, to.whom this D.
remarked: If you can do this worl
and stand the opprobium attaching to it
your reward will be great in the king
dom of Heaven" He is doing it lik,
a brave and noble man; and his wife
God bless her, gives almost her entir,