The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1876-03-22
Southern Travels.

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River, are two stores, PAGES and DIR.
Seymour's. The former sells Dry
Goods, Groceries, and all the Decessa-
ries of life, except sp. tronlenti, which,
together with tobacco and Indian Riv-
er curiosities, is sold at DR.. Seymour's.
The DR.. is a northern man, and Den
tist, aud picks up number of odd
pennies, at odd hours, by practicing
dentistry for those inhabitants who
have gained money, but lost teeth, in
the struggles incident to Florida life.
II is strange, but true, that you will
scarcely meet native of Florida, out
side the larger towns, with good teeth.
IF some d. ID. S. could get contract
of filling with gold the unsound teeth
of that people, he could snap his fin
gers at hard times aud orange groves,
and live like Boss Tweed. The rea-
son they give for this unscundness, is
the use of syrups, oranges &C., from
babyhOod to age.
We we're speaking of the stores Of
Sand Point. About three hundred
yards back from the river, on the road
through the settlement, Mrs. Wolf an
invalid lady, keeps the wolf from the
door by selling dry goods, groceries,
tobacco, and oranges. Mr.. Harvey
keeps the hotel, which is about mile
from the landing; his table and beds
are good, and his charges reasonable
The rest of the population consists of
farmers, hackmen and boatmen. These
latter are always insulted if north
ern man brings his own beat. 1t is
said that the boatmen play "seven out"
to see who shall have the privilege Of
"going for" northerners. Their first
figures are $4.00 per day. They can
be brought down, however, by little
persuasion, to $3.50 or even $500 per
day, with boat. In this arrangement,
each party furnishes their own grub,
and the-guide cooks. A good guide is
good thing, but bad guide is de-
lusion and snare. Mr.. Arnold, of
Sand Point, bears a good reputation
as guide and boatman on Indian
River.
On Tuesday, the 10th ult., Robert
Paget, Of Boston, Jas. Farrell, of AL
bany, N, Y. and ourself, loaded our
luggage in boat we had hired the
day before Of Pace, the store Keeper.
just before we were ready to start,
jim. Russell, the famous, in that same
inebriated condition, came into the
store, to buy the boat, and SO prevent
us from starting, because we refused
to pay tribute to the boatmen of Sand
Point. And Pace would have sold
tho boat, then and there, notwithstand-
ing the fact that we had hired il the
day previous, if Jim could have raised
the required amout of currency! Hard
times proved blessing in disguise on
this occasion, and we lost no time in
getting under way.
Before starting, however, we took
in Maj. Magruder, who lives twenty
five miles below Sand Point, and a
barrel of flour for him. The "Maiah"
is land shark of the first water, and
is bound to 'locate" every Northern
er who sets foot in Sand Point. He
amused us all the way to his home by
pointing out various tracts of land
which he had for sale, in every one Of
which there was a mine of wealth. II
the "Majah" were located in the North
he would be a life insurance agent
one of the kind that Max. Adler
writes about.
We started with a fair wind, and
passed Titusville about noon. Here
we saw our first "turtle crall," which
consists simply of an enclosure made
of stats or boards driven close togeth-
er in the water, in which turtles are
put when they are caught, until they
are wanted for the table. This "crall"
contained two turtles, perhaps fourteen
inches in width and eighteen in length.
Instead of the fore legs, are a pair OF
clippers, resembling the picked wing
of chicken. These were used as