Litchfield enquirer., 1877-02-08


 voices are now ahushsd, as the weather has turned over new leaf-which it does about every day. G. c. R.
 ONoRo, FLORIDA
 Jan. 22d, 1877.
 Mir. ED1ToR.-The tri-weekly nails, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are ea- gerly expected, and we date from these eventful days. Letters from kindred and friends have a greater value when SO dis tant. The Enquirer is welcome as a fa- miliar face, and all the papers and peri odicals are links with the buster world we seem to have left for a season. We gath CT about the evening lamp and quickly open our treasures. Silence reigns un- til the first reading over, ,the friendly mes sages are given and the home news dis cussed. The tales of ice and snow recall winters passed away; bright happy morn ings with rare pictures on the pane-ice- clad boughs flashing their jewels to the sun; thick mittens, boots and sleds, mu- sic of sieighbells on moonlit nights-and the exhilarations of youth and zero wealth CT. But some are sorrow-laden; winters that have heaped their snows above new graves-scarred our hearts, and desola- ted our homes! Tenderly turning these pages of Memory filled with dear faces and scenes that will not.be forgotten; we k~ kha oh onl fov from the dead. As I write, Mr. B. IS talk ing his sunset row upon the lake, the Ia- dies accompanying him bare-headed and in summer dress. For fortnight the thermometer has indicated 800 and more at midday. Mornings and evenings fine, and soft fresh wind tempering the heat delightfully."-. Wild blue and white violets and blackberry vines are blooming, orange buds beginning to open, roses are bud ding and the yellow jessamine perfumes the air. An occasouaI roDIu uuaru the spring choir is not yet in tune.
 This season not is disclosing want and misery in the higher attitudes only. The poor here are objects of pity and needing humane action. Ignorant of all laws of health, living in malarial districts, un-- washed, sinewless. ill-fed, lacking milk and wholesome bread the bounty of many humble northern homes; they develop slow. levers and all the ailments of a re- stricted mental and bodily existence. Nor are they the only sufferers; better born and educated men and women by force of circumstances are depressed and afflicted in similar ways. Victims of dyspepsia and ague are not cheerful CO., temporaries, and one must be oblivious to suffering to see all this without an im- pulse to help. Among other things thus suggested is the importance of thorough understanding of the science of cookery one of woman's inalienable rights and du- ties. The tallow. faced children with fad ed hair. dragging themselves about, limp and spiritless, are melancholy satire-up- on the ruddy flesh. and blood sprites whose antics have established "Helen's Babies" as veritable facts.
 A convention of the Conservative Dem ocratic party of Orange Co.,, met at Or lando, Jan. 18th. Forty-seven delegates. representative men @, were present. Their business was to select and re- commend men for the various off, fees, leaving to the Governor the choice of Circuit Judge. I have since interviewed one of these delegates, an unletsered man, Virginian by birth." as we comfortingly assures the questioner, adding. II want no boy when I cum here" first with the army during the Indian war, and two years later to make his home in the wilderness of Southern Florida. He is one of the most indepen- dent men here, has cattle and hogs rang 1 ing through the weeds, a- bearing orange grove, pole house, 9 large family. and that sometimes admirable quality-Con- 1 tentment. He rode beside the buggy and to my question "What did you do at Orlando?' replied, q can't hardly tell, but pears like most every man wants an ofice;" again qne.ied what he aspired to or what was profiered him. Visibly amused, he lurched about in the saddle shifted the tobacco in his mouth. leered at me and declared, .I don't want no off, l fee. wouldn't take none!' exclaimed ''you are an exceptional man!" with deep CT meaning than he suspected. We drop ped to social topics then, remarking upon 8 fine house recently built by one of the resident merchants. "Yes-he's made his money of the people, chargin big prices, ; said my comrade, and again, "A great many down here's a going to starve on orange trees, they cant eat 'em and they've nothing else yet" A brief and practical comment upon the enigmatical question Chow do they live?" when all their capital is pnt into a clearing and grove which at best requires ten years from the seed to yield anything.
 A few days since, a man and negro. with tao yoke of oxen drawing three barrels of syrup, came 10 Sanford from Snwannee. distance of eighty miles, having been five days on the way camping at night as the custom here Is. They found DO sale. for their syrup, and came on to Mellonyille, I fear with no better success. He said the land was better than this. and although within about ! thirty miles of the Gulf coast there was f a ~ y ..z