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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1880-07-28
Real Estate.
ORANGE PARK,
Containing 1000 Arres,)

ON THE
ST. JOHN - RIV Il n,
Il Miles south of Jacksonville,
TTNHE LARGEST three year old town in
Florida. The reason this place has settled
so fast is that VIC only one hour from
the metropolitan market of Florida for all our
products. Then for Northern shipment steam
erS land mt this wharf many times daily, We
have Il firSt-claSS hotel two stores, two daily
mails, three churches, Sunday school, public
and select schools, 1irst-class steam gTist mill
and cotton gin, fruit and vegetable packing
house, etc.
IL u tt 10 - Al DON.
This beautiful location on the highest banks
of the st. Johns river is settling up very fast
with the very best class of Northern people,
1t would pay you to come and see their vege-
table gardens and strawberry beds and their
young orange groves, Zone party has shipped
LOO quarts of strawberries up to May 1st).
Settle near Il sure market and don't be hum
plugged about
"BELOW THE FROST LINE"
There is no such thing in Florida. Write for
copy of Key West Key, Jan Sth, 1873 which will
explode that humbug set forth by land
agents of some of the interior counties of this
State.
Orange Park is all that is claimed for it in
every particular. Write for paper, etc., to
w. C. BENEDICT.
(Sole Proprietary
ORANGE PARA,
If. Clay County, Florida.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-11-06
How to be WeatherwiSe,

/ John A. Tice, the weather prophet of
ST. Louis. gives the following directions
to those who aspire to be weatherwise:
everybody is interested in the wealth
er so each one should qualify himself to
read the sky, and to interpret the mean-
ing of the winds, sky and clouds.
An intensely blue and serene sky indi-
Gates heavy rains and severe storms in
from twelve to forty-eight hours. \
gray, hazy sky indicates continuous dry
and generally hot weather.
\ southeast wind indicates the exls-
tence of low barometer, if not a storm
center in the northwest. The aspect of
the sky and clouds will tell whether it
means mischief or not. An almost i'm
mediate cessation of rain may be expect
ed as soon as the northwest winds set in
1t matters not what the aspects of the
sky are when the west winds set in: fair
weather will ensue from it, and continue
from three to four days. The passage of
/ - WI III NVhtlS iloiii liV tIl Soulll-
eastward of our locality is partial ex-
ception only so far that it clears off more
tlrdily.
There are really but two primary kline S
! of clouds, namely Cd that float at Il great
height above the earth $ surface. and CO
those that float low. Those that float
high. say from six to nine miles. are of Il
Il iibrous and gauzy structure; they are
hence called cirrus, that is hair or tuft
clouds. The clouds that form in the
lower strata of the atmosphere. say from
one to three miles above the earth, are il
regular in structure. and of more or less
nobular form. They are called the cum
illus, that is, the heap or pile cloud.
While the cirrus remains nebular in
structure and indistinctly defined against
the sky no rain need be expected. Under
the low barometer. however they devel-
opc by accretion. become smooth and
compact in structure and much enlarged
in volume. They now sink lower and be
come sharply defined against the blue
sky. Rain may be now expected espec-
tally if they unite with the cumuus form
ing the nimbuluS or rain-cloud. If the
cirrus, instead of forming the nimbus.
reaScends. it disSipa ties. and no rain need
he expected until it lowers again, which
generally is in twenty-four hours.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-11-06
An Interesting Statement.

The following statement will doubtless
be interesting to those of our readers who
are now watching the fluctuations of the
wheat market. During the ten years
past, wheat has sold in Chicago as fol
lows:
In November, 1869, wheat sold at 81
cents: in the following July at S1.3l.
In August, 1870, wheat sold at IS cents:
in the following February at S1.S2.
In August, 1871. wheat sold at 90 cents:
in the following May at SLIGO.
In November. 1872, wheat sold at 81 90:
in the following MAY at $l.34.
In September, 1873 wheat sold at 50
cents: in the following April at SIPS.
In November, 1874, wheat sold at 81
cents: in the followin. July at SIPS.
In May, 1915. wheat sold at 80 cents:
in the following July at s1.2S.
In July, 1876, wheat sold at So cents:
in the following April at $l.iG.
In August. 1877. wheat sold at l.0l :;
in the following May at Sill
In October. 1878, wheat sold at : : cents
i'll the following October at 81 %
In August, 1879. wheat sold at 81 cents:
in the following December at s1.:33
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-11-06

Malt Bitters " are a Brain, Nerve,
and Blood food, peculiarly adapted to, and
warmly recommended by orr druggists and
physicians for General Debility, Mental and
Physical Exhaustion, Hysteria, Nervous
ness, Sleepleuess, Emaciation, and Dropsy.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-11-06
Dental Notice!

TRUTH and justice demand lower
a prices for Dental Work, as well as other things
l have therefore made another reduction in the
prices OF all Dental Operations in accordance with
the times
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
A Plug of Tobacco.

One day last month when trade was
dull grocery clerk procured piece of
sole leather from a shoemaker, painted
it black and laid it aside for future use.
Within few days an old chap from back
in the country came in and inquired for
a plug of chewing tobacco. The piece
of sole leather was tied up, paid for, and
the purchaser started for home. At the
end of the sixth day he returned, look
ing downcast and detected, and, walk
ing into the store, he inquired for the
clerk
"'Member that terbacker got here
the other day"
Yes, sir.
"Well, was that new brandt"
"Yes.''
Regular plug terbacker was it o.
eyes"
"Well, then, it's me. It's right here
in my jaws, % sadly replied the old man.
" [ knowed [ was getten purity old, but
[ was allus handy on bitin' plug. I
never seed plug afore this one that I
couldn't tear to pieces at chaw. / sot
my teeth on this one and bit and pulled
and twisted like dog at root, and I've
kept biting and pulling for six days, and
thar she am now, the same as the day
you sold her to me.
"Seems to be good plug, remarked
the clerk, as he smelt of the counter
felt.
"She's all right it's me that's fail
ing" exclaimed the old man. "Pass me
out some fine cut and I'll go home and
deed the farm to the boys and getready
for the grave myself. fort Worth
(Iec.) AdU0nce.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
The First Man a Black Man.

The primitive preadamite man, &C
cording to Prof. Winchell, lived in q
country lying between the present Afri-
can and Asiatic continents, and thence
he dispersed himself over the earth.
He was essentially a black man, as dis
tinguished from the white man not an
African negro, but of dark leathern skin,
like the native Australian races. The
native Australian is inferior in structure
and intelligence to the African negro
he falls as far below the negro as the
negro below the white man, and is more
nearly related to the primitive man than
any other race. The black races now in
existence are the Hottentots, the ne
groes, the Australians and the Papuans,
the latter of whom are dark-skinned and
almost black, occupying New Guinea
and some smaller islands north of Aus
tralia.
Primitive man also gave birth to the
brown races. These are now found in
the islands Of the Pacific, and of them
the Sandwich islanders are specimens.
They crossed to the American continent
and their descendants are the Indians of
North and South America, from Green
land to Patagonia, and, on the Asiatic
continent the Chinese, the japanese,
the Tartars, the Turks, the Malays, the
Burmese. etc.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
Col. ScOtt's Successor as President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Thirty years ago George B. Roberts,
then sitting at his desk in surveyors
office, and serving the Pennsylvania
railroad as a rodman, is reported to
have said that he had rather be Presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company than of the United States. In
little more than month he will attain
his ambition, for his succession is al
most absolutely certain. He has been
close beside Col. Scott for many years.
He first entered the service of the COM
panty, five months later than Col. Scott,
as rodman in the engineer corps. Dur
ing the summer following his accession
to the road, in March, 1851, he became
assistant engineer in charge of the
division on the summit that included
the great tunnel. In 1852, in the fall
he left the Pennsylvania to become as
sistant engineer of the Philadelphia and
Erie, and, during the years that fol
lowed, he was actively employed in
building railroads. He was an engineer
ON the North Pennsylvania, which was
opened in 1866, and on the Northwest
ern. On the Allentown, the Mahony
and Broad Mountain, and the West
Jersey he was Chief Engineer, and
filled that office when they were com.
pleted. In 1862, on May %, he was
called to the position of assistant to the
President of the Pennsylvania railroad
on account of his engineering skill ano
ability as an administrative officer
Seven years later, on May 3, 1869, he
was made Fourth Vice President, anc
March &c, 1878, Second Vice President
When Col. Scott was elected President
June 3, 1874, Mr.. Roberts succeeded
him as First Vice President, and, during
Col. SCOTS absence in Europe for ;
year and half, he was acting Presi
dent. He has for many years occupied
a prominent position insthe boards o
roads controlled by the Pennsylvania
and, as has been stated above, has al
ready succeeded Col. Scott in most 0
the Western boards. Philadelphia
North american.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21

which is a subject of just professional
pride, is to leave copy or two on the
walls OF the police department itself.
This accounts for about three-fourths
OF the impression. The remainder ID
left (still on the generous free-list prin-
clple which marks the whole conduct of
the enterprise with the proprietors of
tea shops and other popular establish
ments, much against their will. The
staff, needing refreshment after its la
bors, will enter some wretched refresh
ment-house in low quarter, and, after
drinking his glass of tea seasoned with
lemon, and toying meanwhile with any
regular journal that may be lying on the
table, will slip few copies into a corner,
where they are likely to be found by the
next customer, and Immediately steal
out with all dispatch into the shelter of
the night. Midnight witnesses its re-
turn to the Office, where it puts the
broken "pi" into its place of conceal
ment, and has dreams of revolutionary
murders, arson and general misrule on
It's hard bed of type.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
"reminiscences of Early Railroading

Mr.. j. IL. Jackman III recent letter
shows that, IN the matter OF speed, loco
motive engines of to-day are not greatly
superior to those Of earlier times. He
SAYS "In 1910 Ross Winans, OF Baltl-
more, built a locomotive for the Boston
and Worcester railroad. It had a seven
foot driving wheel, and was intended for
very high speed. It had steel springs
to support the weight, and was fitted
with many new devices. [ was sent to
Baltimore to look after the construction
and delivery of this locomotive, and also
to study the matter of coal-burning,
which was new thing on roads In New
England at that time. ran the engine
for about six weeks, and should have
run her longer but from the fact of her
driving wheels breaking. They were
made entirely of cast iron, with chilled
faces. These broken drivers were re-
placed with imported wrought-iron
wheels, the first Of the kind ever import
ed. The locomotive was named the
Carroll of Carrollton. It's speed, under
favorable circumstances, was one mile IN
sixty seconds, the fastest [ ever ran it !;
Vic u WtIo 11OU ttCCI1uUC1y AOUC1A3 11tpN
ing enough to do to attend the machine,
and those with me were too much f1us-
tered with the excitement to accurately
note anything. [ have travelled many
thousand miles on locomotives since
that day in order to test speed and,
while [ have seen some high speed
made, still [ have never seen the loco
motive that could lay right down to it
and outrun the Carroll of Carrollton.
In those days we had no power brakes,
and to run at such high rates of speed
sometimes became dangerous, I re-
member one instance in the night time
of rounding a curve at about sixty miles
an hour, when a danger signal met my
view; shut off steam and whistled
down brakes, but they did not seem to
check me. [ whistled again Still the
speed kept up. I gave the third signal
for brakes, and then reversed my en-
CINE, saying to her: DO your duty,
my beauty, or in twenty seconds it is
good-by to railroading.' We came to a
stand-still eighty rods from train on
the main track, having run one mile and
a quarter from the place where first
discovered the red LIGHT. /"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
The "ROiI BengOl Tagger. ,,

These are Little Johnny's observa-
lions on the "Roil Bengol Tagger." as
communicated to the San Francisco Ar
gO9oGut.:
One time there was a man who had
a tagger, and the tagger it was sho,
and the man he luke the money for to
get in. The man he had big paper
nalld onto the tagger's den, and the
paper it said, the paper did: The Roll
BengOl Tagger, sometimes called the
Monnerk of the Jungle. Hands of. No
Techin the Tagger ? The monnerk of
the Jungle it was always layin down
with its nose tween it's poz, and the foxes
Wlch had paid for to get in they was mad
cos it wudent wock, and rore like dissent
thunder. But the sho man he said:
That's oil rite when I git the new cage
done, but this is the same cage which
the ollie Teller broke out of in Oregon,
time he ct up the seventeen men and
their families. Then the foxes they
would Of stand back and took in wispers
while the tagger slep. But one day a
Teller wlch was drunk he tuke to punch
in the tagger with the masthead of his
umbreller, wich stampeded the oddience
wild, and the wimmin foxes they stud
onto chairs and hollered like it was
mouse, but the drunk chap he KEEP job
bin the monnerk of the jungle crewel.
Pretty sumo the monnerk it bellered Offie
and riggled, but the teller KEEP a pokin
like he was fireman to steam engin.
Bimeby the monnerk it jumped onto its
hine feets and shucked itself out Of its
skin and rolled up it's sleefs and spit on
to its hands and spoke up and sed: Il
bedam if [ cant jest whollip the pea
green stuffin out O the gum-dasted ga
loot wich has ben proddin this ere
tagger !! And the oddience thay was
CtOnicb 20
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
Mark Twain as a German Scholar

went often to look at the collection
of curiosities in Heidelberg Castle, and
one day surprised the keeper of it with
my German. I spoke entirely in that
language. He was greatly interested,
and, after I had talked awhile, he said
my German was very rare, possibly a
unique" and wanted to add it to his
museum. If he had known what it cost
me to acquire my art he would also have
known that it would break any collector
to buy it. Surely there is not another
language that is so slipshod and system
less, and SO slippery and Elusive to the
grasp. One is washed about in it, hither
and thither, in the most helpless way,
and, when at last he thinks he has cap
trlred a rule which offers firm ground to
take a rest on amid the general rage and
turmoil of the parts of speech, he turns
over a page and reads, "Let the pupil
make careful note of the following ex-
ceptions." He runs his eye down and
finds there are more exceptions to the
rule than instances of it. So overheard
he goes again to hunt for another Ararat
and to find another quicksand. German
books are easy enough to read when you
hold them before the looking glass or
stand on your head-so as to reverse the
constructiOn-but [ think that to learn
to read and understand German news
paper is thing which must always re-
main an impossibility to any foreigner.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21

Do we not fail to accord to our nights
their true value? We are ever giving
to our days the credit and blame of all
we do and nisdo, forgetting those silent,
glimmering hours when plans-and
sometimes plots-ace laid; when resolu-
tons are formed or changed; when
Heaven, and sometimes Heavens enc
mics are invoked; when anger and evil
thoughts are recalled, and sometimes
hate to infame and tester; when prob
lens are solved, riddles guessed, and
things made apparent in the day, which
day refused to reveal. Our nights are
the keys of the days. They explain
them. They are also the days correct
ors. Nights leisure untangles the mis-
takes of days haste. We should not
attempt to compromise our past in the
phrase Gin those nights we should
1ather say lin those days and nights. =
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
Trapped in His own Coffin.

A retired Paris tradesman, advanced
in years, took it into his head to buy a
coffin. Once in his lodging, he thought
he would try how one felt in it. He got
in and lay down, but, being old and
stiff, he could not get out again. There
he lay for several days, when his hall
porter, weary at not having seen him,
knocked at his door. Hearing groans,
the porter broke open the door, and
found the state of things described. He
broke the sides of the coffin and released
the old man. With the aid of wine and
beef tea he was restored to health.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21

serious abuses under Republican adj
mlnlstration, which the Republicans
could not defend and found it difficult
to explain. The campaign this year will
follow Republican administration
which has been singularly free from Off
c1al scandals, which has made far more
progress in Civil-Service reform than
any OF its predecessors, and which has
commended itself to the average public
sentiment by its respectable conserva-
tive management of national affairs and
the triumph of the resumption policy.
-Four years ago Mr.. Tilden came be-
fore the country distinctively as re-
form candidate, and his previous career
as Governor of New York gave a strong
color to his claim this year it will not
be possible for him to put forward any
such pretense In the face of the cipher
dispatches and attempted bribery of
Electors, and no other candidate whom
the Democrats can select can assume
the same character that Tilden carried
in 1876.
-Four years ago the currency ssue was
conspicuous, and the Democratic had the
sympathy and support of that large class
of voters who were in favor of repeating
the Resumption law and flooding the
country with irredeemable scrip in order
to relieve their pressing necessities.
This year there is an abundant supply of
money-gold, silver, greenbacks, and
bank notes-of uniform value. The
soft-money Republicans have deserted
tho GIRO rro co1O 4boxr 1x,o1.o e. -.
and returned to their own party, and
there is no faction of Greenbackers OF
Fiatists whom the Democrats can hope
to conciliate that will do them any good.
Finally, four years ago the country
was in the very worst stage of the
hard times-the most dangerous of all
conditions for the party III power. There
was general feeling that change OF
party might IL some unexplained way
bring relief to the universal financial de-
preston, and that in any case matters
could not be more aggravated. All this
was peculiarly favorable to the Demo-
cratic pretensions in 1876, and undoubt-
edly swelled the vote which Mr.. Tilden
received enormously. This year, how
ever, the business sentiment of the
country is satisfied with things as they
are, and breads a change. Money is
plenty, speculation is active, prices are
booming, wages are good, the factories
are running on full time, railroad build
ing exceeds all precedent, merchants
are busy, the mining, transportation,
agricultural and industrial interests are
all thriving-and the proffer of a change
in parties, which is all the Democrats
can hold out to the country, is the very
worst promise they could possibly
make.
Altogether, the Democratic managers
will be put to their wits end first to
settle their own family troubles, and
then, if they succeed in doing that, to
convince the American people that there
is any sufficient reason for experiment.
ing with their doubtful capacity for gov
erning the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
A Brave Baby.

A woman who lives in Ashville, Ala,
writes to the AEgis of that place Of the
miraculous rescue of her little 3-year-old
boy from drowning. The child fell
down a well, the depth OF which was
thirty feet. The mother saw him go
down. She says: son reaching the
well was just in time to see him rise
to the top of the water. was alone,
save three other little children whom I
sent for help. had, amid all the an
guish of my soul, presence of mind
enough to let the bucket down and tell
him to take hold OF it, which he did
After some minutes he let loose from
weakness. sank again, except his little
head. lowered the bucket lower, tell
ing to take hold of the rope. He ran
his hand through ring tied on for the
purpose of sinking the bucket, and
caught the bail, and there he held on for
one and a-half hours, begging me all
the time in his baby talk to come down
aud help him out [ would say, Hold
on, Bobbie' I WILL he would reply.
At length lady came to my assistance,
and we took rope and made moose on
the end of it, and, letting it down, told
him what to do. He put his foot through
the moose and drew it up around his
knee. | asked him if he could hold on.
He said he could hold on to the bucket:
Daw me out He holding the bucket,
the rope around his leg, telling him
not to let go, we drew him up until /
could reach his little shivering hands.
Thus | saved my little baby from drown
ing. Safe to my breast clasped his
little shivering body, and praised God
for His mercies.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21

got on we'll until they got. to the word
vehicle. They found cart, wagon,
carriage, buggy, wheelbarrow. After
grave consideration they came to the
conclusion that the doctor meant the
patient should ride out, and while in the
vehicle he should take the pill. He fol-
lowed the advice to the letter, and in a
few weeks the fresh air and exercise Sc
cured the advantage which otherwise
might not have come.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-21
Country Social Life.

Country folks are in general 50 fully
occupied with affairs that they have no
time to discover how lonesome they
really are. So far as this is concerned
we think it is a misfortune. We are too
busy. We work too hard. We take few
or no holidays. We read and think too
little, and do not spend sufficient time
in social culture. There is no reason
why those who pillow the soil or "whOse
talk is of bullock should not experience
the refnements which are the result of
formal social life. In business, at bar
gains, in pursuit of dollars, no man is
seen at his best. He is thorney, spiney,
with his back up as a porcupine might
be at his business. Let one dOff his
working clothes and enter room full of
nelghbOrs- men, women, young men
and maidens-and he is man of another
kind He naturally falls into the ways Of
an intuitive kindness. which is really
the truest politeness; the doing to his
companion what he should do to MIN.
He "lets himself out to please, and,
after an evening spent in social con-
verse, he retires with many rough cor
ners and asperities toned down. For a
few days the influence remains. It
would be permanent if it could be re-
inforced now and then, and the good re-
suits would be most agreeable and use
full. There is no difficulty in bringing
these good influences to bear. Two or
three persons with energy and some
magnetism about them can put them in
motion with ease Now is the time to
begin the effort. -RuraL NeaO Yorker.