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The daily gazette., 1881-09-01
A HOE MONTH.
The Temperature for August ~
Compared with Previous Years.

The Temperature for August ~
Compared with Previous Years.
The month Of August OF the present
year has been hotter than any August
that has preceded IL for six years past,
with the single exception Of 1877.
A table OF temperatures tor the first
thirty days Of the month shows the mean
temperature to have BEEN 74.8 degrees.
This, of course, does not include the
temperature yesterday which will not
materially alter the figures. The hottest
day OF the month was the 18th ultimo,
when the Thermometer registered 90 de-
grees at the United States Signal Ser
vice office.
Tho coolest day was the 18th ultimo,
when the thermometer did not 20 above
81 degrees, falling as low As 80 degrees
at one time during the day, which Was
the lowest point reached during the
month. On twenty-four days out Of the
thirty, the temperature ranged above 80
deerees, while on seven days IL Was above
30 degrees. The highest moan tempera-
ture, taking the day through, was on the
9Th ult. the average heat being S4.2 de-
grees. The rainfall only amounted TO
l.1S inches.
As compared with last year these fig
ures are in excess, the hottest day In
August, 1880, being but 90 degrees,
while the coolest was Sc degrees. Tue
average for the month waa 72.S degrees,
while the rainfall was 5.09 iuches. Au-
gust, 1877, the mean temperature was
75.6 degrees, wiile the Centennial Al.
UiIat ypaa IA dQUr6aa
The quantity Of rain which fell dur
ing the month this year has been smaller
on only two previous years Of tho peri
iod-namely, 1877, when it was only
66 Of an iucb; AID In 1876, when 1t was
w Of an incn. In August, 1870, the
rainfall was 7.l8 inches, while the ave-
rage for the fire preceding years, exclud
ing 1881, was 1854 inches.
The mean temperature for the I've pre-
ceding years was 1871 degrees. 1t will
be seen that, while the past moDih
had been hotter and drier than the aver
age OF the five Augusts which preceded
It, IL has not been IS hot or as dry 10 In
some of the years mentioned.
The daily gazette., 1881-09-01

CHICAGO, has taken the initiative in
the matter of underground telegraph
wires, AID has sec date In 1882 when
all telegraph wires must be removed
from poles and houses aud communica-
tior established beneath the City of the
Lakes. This is = move IN the right d.
rection.
The stock market sympathizes with
the recovery OF the President and begins
to "boom" again. 1t went down when
the Presidenl went down; but, strange
to say, had the President ''g me up' the
market would have gone down lower.
This Is one OF the mysteries Of slang and
speculation.
The daily gazette., 1881-09-01
Il "A < XDoCkSS
KIDNEY PANACEA.

NEAR WHAT Is SAID,
ut has made me u new man.
abr. HaydOck's Panacea has increasei
my weight fifteen pounds"
my wife would net be without 1t tol
aEy money."
.our little boy Is much better. 7 enclose
one dollar for another hoJtle."
Il nnd IL as easy TO take as milk"
I'VE have suid thirteen bottles tnis
week, and shall want two dozen next
1rder."
-. my morning agony is gone-thanks
II nnd IL splendid appetizer"
ANY invalid or sufferer AFFLICTED with
any Kidney disorder VINO will write me
as TO their complaint, will be treated
humanely and kinuly. IL is my most
earnest desire 10 Investigate all f,rma OF
diabetes, aud give relief NJ ALI times. II
YOU are TOO puor 10 purchase. write me
anyway, and your case will have imme-
ulaLe attention.
CAUTION.
Observe that the signature Of Alien
Hnydock is across ths mouth Of each
bottle
PriUe--one dollar for large. and my
- HAYDoCK q co.,
no29-eod&wly. ~ PiaL IT.. N. X.
The daily gazette., 1881-09-01
Indulgent Parents

Who allow their children to eat heartily
of bI Iah.se asoned TODD, rich pies, cake,
Sc, will have to use Hop Bitters to pre-
vent indi gsst,on, sieepless ntRbts, sick.
ness, pain, and perhaps death. No fami-
" " safe without them In the house.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-23
MARCH %.

you the facts wanted, as it gives
much valuable information to those
who contemplate moving to this
State. The Banner, our county
paper will also give yon valuable in.
formation.
You can inform your friends that I
am perfectly willing 10 answer as
many questions as they care to ask
provided 5 cents is enclosed to nav
actual expenses to answer.
When | think of a country ike
ours where one can enjoy all. The
blessings of comparative good health.
and OF business like orange and
lemon culture, in which the Interest
Will, in few years, far exceed the
amount OF capital invested, cal ex.
claim with no small degree of enthu.
siam: | am thankful l have home
IN the Land OF Fruits and Flowers"
In conclusion would say, we wish
all persons to come and look for
themselves, and form their own con.
illusions, therefore come down and
see US and we will show you a beau.
tiful lake, and give you a practical
demonstration of the pleasure of or.
ange culture, both pecuniary and
otherwise.
Last weeks issue of the Times
would have informed Mr.. Porter
that the morning of the 23d of Jan.
uary greeted the citizens of mauy
portions of AlabA ana with another
SIX 10 eight inch snow, making at
least twelve inches within month,
something unprecedented, at least in
The memory otthe oldest inhabltant."
Ed. Times
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Fruit Growers Association.

The following are some OF the
questions the committee appointed
bv the Fruit Growers Association
are expected TO answer:
l. What was the temperature OF
the weather on the morning OF De-
cember 3Oth, 1880, in your location =?
2. WHAT'S the age and size,as near
as possible to tell, OF all the trees re-
ferred TO as being more or less in
jured by the freeze?
3. How are they located as to
morning or evening shade, or forest
or water projections?
4. How located as to high, low,
fiat or rolling, pine or hammock
lands?
5. AT what time during the year
were they fertilized or cultivated, or
either?
6. What variety OF oranges, or
other fruit?
7. Are the trees budded or seed
lings? Ii budded, with what variety
and on what stock? How long
budded What height from the
ground was bud inserted =?
8. What was the character of the
weather following the freeze?
8. What was the treatment OF the
fruit and trees alter the cold wave?
10. How have the trees been
trained, high or low tops? TO what
extent were the trunks of the trees
protected by their own boughs and
foliage?
IL. To what extent is the orange
planted in your section OF the State
y, What proportion Of the crop
had been shipped before the freeze
Is. Let the same details be OBJ
served as closely as possible IN Civ
ing the statistics of damages, ETC., to
the lemon, lime, citron, and other
fruit and vegetables.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-03-23
III. A. DeLand. ESD.

We were all much pleased to see
Mr.. DeLand, the founder OF this
town, arrive last week. He was &C.
companied by his two children, and
a party of gentleman and ladies. 1t
is three years since MIR. DeLand visi.
ted us and he is much pleased to see
the improvements that have taken
place in that time. lie has been a
generous benetactor to the town
heretofore, and we are informed it Is
his intention to push forward other
improvements to make the place at
tractiye as winter residence to
those who wish to escape the rigors
of the Northern winters. Mr.. De-
Land is wholesouled, generous,
gentleman who is worthy of possess.
ing wealth that he knows how to use
with judgment and discretion in ac-
compllshing good works Mr. Ee-
Land will remain with us fcl come
weeks TO gl'e start TO The O4W 'u:-
provements that he contemplates.
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compared with it, There is, as !
have said before, beautiful views,
charming lakes and crystalline
springs, and there is a great Geal OF
pretty scenery in the hammocks and
everglades; but l seriously doubt
after all, "if Florida possesses many
OF those climatic conditions and
virtues OF Southern California that
have been the medium in many cases
of perpetuation of life. A recent
writer in the New York Journal OF
Medicine states that FLORIDA, which
has been Wanted as sanitarlum Tor
invalids, shows a greater ratio OF
mortality from phthisis to-day than
Minnesota. Florida is, perhaps, to-
day, more frequented by lnvallds
than any of our southern places OF
resort. The exceeding fatality OF
consumption TO families who tor gen
erations have resided in the State, as
well as untavorable effects, as rule,
observed upon patients who visit
that State in declining health, is we'll
known. We are not surprised that
such is the case, after having care
fully analysed the climate, Tor there
is little that can be said in Its favor,
and great deal which must be said
against it. 1t is difficult to under
stand the reason why the profession
in this country still persist in sending
their patients to Florida That i'm
provement should take place is
against reason and experience alike.
1t we accept a sandy soil, it does not
possess single element which is
now regarded as favorable tor the
palliation or cure OF phthisis. In
Florida everything uniteS to repose !;
an irresistible feeling OF tanguor seizes
a person; ones energies are para
I lyzed, and exercise is consequently
neglected"
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Agr,cu1tura1 Societies.

NOrwalk. Fruit and Vine Club.-Col.
R5bt. Bard pres; DR.. Geo. Rogers. sec.
New Smyrna Agricultural and Fruit
Growers Society.-Dr. J. N. Hawks. pres,
N. b. Rolfe, vice-pres.; Mrs. X. M. Rolte'
sec. and treas.
Orange Ridge Agricultural and lmml-
grotion Societv.-Dr. B. B. Bennett, press
-Iohn Ca.,nou sec: j. Y. Parce, cor; sec;
DeLand, vulusla Co Weekly p'eetAhg'
Orange Park Fruit and Vegetable Grow
ers' sociation.-OrlandN Knapp, Pres;
+ =. Sabin, Vice~Pres.; o.. + Campbell
Cor. Sec; Rev, o. Taylor, Sec. and Treas,
Correspondence III vited.
Florida Fruit Growers Assoclation.-C.
C0drington, pres; D. 8. Place, V1ce-pres.:
D. II. Elliot Sec; w. H Ashmead, as,nt
sec: C. A. Choate, cor. Sec; q; w: DAVIS
treas. Executive Committee, n. z: Petit.
d. SAWYER, +. l.. Dancy and A. l. Bldwel'
Lake George Fruit Growers Assocla-
tion.-Judge A. b. Bartlett, pres, George
TO wn; W. w. Hawks, E. Kirby, Mrs: f.
A. Manville, vice-pres'ts.; A. I'll. Manvllle'
Sec, Lake George; r.. o: Hammond, cor
sec Fort Gates; George III. Thorn, treas,
Georgetown. Monthly meetings every
second Saturday of each month,
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A Florida Letter.


Chas N. Porter, Of South Lake Weir, Fla, in We
tampkG, (AtG.J Times.
Your interesting letter of the 14th
inst. has just been received, and as |
have an hour Of leisure time l will
answer it.
With orange trees in blossom in
my grove and the sun shining brightly
outside with the thermometer at 70
above zero, it is exceedingly difficult
TO realize that there is anything like
cold weather in existence. Yet every
STATE reports unusually severe
weather, and even here it has been
colder than at any time since | have
lived in the State, during the last six
years. However, in the vicinity OF
our lake, the damage to our orange
and lemon groves were exceedingly
slight, so as to be scarcely worth
mention at all. This may be ac.
counted tor from the fact that it is
much warmer in the vicinity Of large
bodies OF water, like our lake, than
it is a few miles distant.
The usual range Of our thermome-
ter i'll winter is from 81 to 80 degrees
above zero, and III summer from 60
to 90 above. During the months of
June, July and August, when one
would naturally expect the warmest
weather we have our 'rainy season."
which cools the air and produces Il
very rapid growth OF all kind OF veg
citation.
The standard price, in this part of
the State tor oranges and Lemons is
II cents each on the trees, and there
are parties here who MAKE a business
OF buying all they can get at this
price, when they ship them to the
northern markets and realize tair
profit. Owing to the superiority OF
our Florida oranges they sell for a
much higher price ill the markets
North than the imported oranges
have no land to offer you aud we
have no real estate agents in our
community, though there is a general
disposition upon the part OF our cit
liens to divide up their homesteads
with actual settlers.
Lake Weir has a population Of
about 500. We have good, pure wa.
ter TO drink. have not found insects
to be much more troublesome here
than in other Southern States. |
have seer. more snakes in the State OF
Kentucky in a single half day than |
have ever seen here in a year.
We have a number OF schools and
churches in the c0Gnty
Ocaa is our County seat; il is
flourishiug town OF about 1000 Lopn-
latiou.
The FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST,
published a. DeLand, Fla., will give
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LOCAL INTELLIG ENCE.

ID1n2erSd6itjS est VorG V3rtasS.
Messrs. Ashmead Brothers are our
agents in Jacksonville, and authorized
to receive subscriptions and advertise
ments for this paper.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at
the school house.
See revised descriptive circular of De-
Lana, Fla, in another column.
SABBATH School next Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock, j. Y. Parce, superintend-
ent.
Archie Monroe is erecting a new
home in town.
There are groves in this County
nearly fifty years old.
Most OF the seeding groves set out
four and tive years ago are in bloom.
Mr.. L. A. Reineking leaves for st.
Paul, Thursday via New Orleans.
MIR. I. 4. G. Brinly has purchased
forty acres OF land from George Amos.
Think of this pine lsnd producing
strawberries, sixteen of which will
weigh pound.
Mr.. Mock, of Louisville, Kentucky.
has purchased the Kivett place. on
which there is bearing grove.
Mr.. James, boot and shoe maker
from Louisville, Kentucky, has pur-
chased lot and is putting up store.
Mir. Cheney, of Detroit, Michigan,
has purchased five acres of land from
DIR. Foorhis, agent for J. w. Howery.
Messrs. Waits, Hopkins, and others.
have purchased the Dunlawton planta-
ton. at Port Orange, from the Hon.
Charles Dougherty, 1000 acres.
Mr.. E. K. Ropes has sold the 200
acres be advertised in Orange county,
to Mr.. j. r. Tanner OF Atlanta, Ga.
The Rev. Mr.. Holeman, Episcopal
Clergyman, will preach at this place on
Sunday morning next at half past ten
o'clock.
Mr., W. H. Wood, of Utica, New
York, has purchased five ac1es from
Ben Cook which Mr.. Cook has engaged
to SET out in grove.
We do not remember ever to have
seen the orange trees more beautiful
than they are now. The fragrance of
the blossoms fill the air.
Mr. and Mrs. Edsell and son, Of New
jersey, have been spending a few DAYS
with Mrs. Vandergriff, of Lake Leila,
to whom they are related.
Hugh S. Spear, Mrs. j, D. Hayden,
francisco Hayden, Dot Hayden, Julius
ID. Haydn, Of Kenosha, Wisconsin
Rave arrived and are stopping at DeLand
Grove House
The est Johns Club'' Of Qrsrca
City, will give public rehersal Q; the
Drama, Better Than GolG," Or Sri.
day evening, March 25th, for the bene.
fit OF the Union Library Association.
Mr.. L. Delano, Jr., of Spring Gar
den, presented us with some stTawber.
ries grown on his pine land. without
any special iertili2ing ore Of which
measured five and Cue half inches r.
circumference and weighed oue lace.
The concert on Tuesday night was at.
tended by delighted audience Of orr
citizens and visiting iriepus The ex.
cellent program was iutloGaasd bv
set OF waitz3s arranged gor COMET and
organ. Juvenile singing. as a rule is
not particularly interesting, but onr
chorus OF Misses and boys sang the
numbers allotted to them, with such a
precision Of tone and distinctness of
pronunciation as made il delight to
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Why Not Come South a?

We CLIP the following from the
Louisville Commercial:
"This is the heading of an article
in the Chattanooga Times in com
menting on letter written by a lady
in Minnesota to a friend in Chatta-
nooga describing The terrors of win
ter in the North west, and how the
people burned up fences and even
agricultural implements to keep from
freezing.
"The same paper publishes an ex-
tract from a letter written by.a gen
tleman connected with the manage
ment OF the Dubuque and Sioux City
railway he wrote from Elkport, a
station Oh that line, in the latter
part of February:
"'Some trains have been snow.
bound tor weeks, and are abandoned
to walt for thaw. Settlers are in
pitiable condition. They are out OF
coal wood cannot be had the min
ers won't work on account Of the
cold. They are burning barns, de-
serted houses, railroad trestles, and
agricultural Implements
Here also is picture of what the
same writer saw in that region during
on of the terrific storms OF this cruel
winter. We give it without abridge
ment:
"'He had started out from Nc
Gregor, the Missssippiriver terminus
OF his road, with four engines and
snow pillow. AS they went driving
through the drifts he saw a strange
object pitched high up by the plow,
and lodged on one OF the banGs at
the side OF the road. He stopped,
investigated. and touna it was the
body OF a man who had been TO town,
become intoxicated, was caught by
the blizzard ana frozen to dea,h.
"'When within a couple OF miles
OF the station, being in the lookout OF
the plOw, he saw shanty little dis
lance from the tract, nearly covered
with snow. One OF his engineers
that moment whistled down brakes
and brought the train to stop. The
engineer explained that his wite's
mother lived in the little house, aud
with them was his little darling,
girl baby of three years, his only
child. The men debarked from the
train, struggled with the snow for an
hour or more and finally reached the
front door. They instinctively drew
back, but the gentleman who des-
cribes the scene opened the door,
though dreading the sight he feared
would meet mis- eyes.
awe let the writer describe what
obey saw;
" Before us lay, on one side Of the
stove, the old lazy in neat attire, her
form as cold as the stove aud her lace
indicating peaceful rest. BY her side
lay the old gentleman, in al attitude
which indicated that his last con-
sciouS moments had been spent on
his knees. Ga the other side of the
stove lay, in the icy grip of death,
my engineers little darling. She
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THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.

was a beautiful baby, even in death
The rough train crew entered. The
father knelt. We all followed his ex-
ample. He prayed: Gods will, not
mine, be done There was not a
dry eve in the group"
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information Wanted.
Florida Agricultu'ist:

EditOq' Of Tie FloTadd AgflcNltU77St:
Will you tell us in your r4pcr II
The statements marked on tbs IN
closed slip are correct Ys.' ~.
publish them if you see fit, and reply
to them, and il the writer is incorrect
in any of his statements please let us
know. There ave several families
mere intending to remove u Califor-
MIA or Florida soon, buV net able as
vet TO decide. We want to know
abou: the drawbacks, as well as the
advantages, and think it only fair
that you should let some OF the disa'
greeable features of life III Florida be
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Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-09-29
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Tennyson has just passed his I'D
birthday.
-Longfellow has in his time declined
three embassies.
Robert Bonner pays his horse doc
tor salary more than double that paid
any college professor.
The portrait of Ex-Governor Leland
Stanford. of California. which was re-
Gently painted by MISSIONER, cost 3d.
900 francs. and measures about ten by
thirteen inches.
Congressman Robert Vance, of
North Carolina, has beautiful home
on the French Broad River, near Ashe-
vile. Here Mr.. Vance every night
holds patriarchal service, reading the
Bible and leading in family prayer.
Mrs. Hathaway, of Wisconsin, who
read fine paper on Schopenhauer at
the Concord school, is a young German
woman. whose husband is prairie
farmer and poet. and has just published
a volume of verse entitled: 1.-The League
of the Iroquois.
There was q concert at Bergen.
Norway. lately in aid OF the Ole Bull
memorial. A full house, great enthusi-
asm and Mrs. Ole Ball and family
present. Miss Emma Thursby. the star
of the occasion. Ten thousand dollars
were put in the fund.
Annie Louise Cary seems to have
really left the stage with the intention
of never returning to it. When she
first said so. it was thought that an in
crease of pay would change her mind.
or that she aimed at some incidental
advertising, but she steadfastly refuses
to make an engagement for next season
on any terms.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-09-29
HUMOROUS.

=. What we want now is water"
eNclaims u Cincinnati editor. thus Civ
ing to the world for the first time the
news that Cincinnati people sometimes
mix their drinks. Chicago Tribune.
When Methuselah was only 800
years old his father told him that if he
didn't stop smoking vile cigarettes he
would die in early manhood. He didn't
stop. and he only lived a few hundred
years after that. But boys will be BOYS.
-NorriStoUn Herald.
-"Wind in Nebraskar' said the
dusty traveller. as he ran the prougs of
his fork into the free lunch; ..well.
should say the wind did blow in Ne
braska. have sat by the roadside
many a day watching it blow tenpenny
nails out of the fences"
Il dotted. TN free to confess, on her hair.
II was wondrously long and so charmingiy
fair:
And So when one evening we walked on the
pier,
whispered the tenderest words in her ear
Then strong wind uprosc, and she blushcd
rosy red
As it blew all that beautiful hair of her head:
She was bald rs an egg, and blest that hard
For disclosing the fact by the shimmering
seas.
-pdEch
A native of Flint River Township
went limping and grooming TO the office
of the new doctor with the blue and
gold sign and the Latin diploma and
the new buggy and the chestnut horse
with blaze face. ut the rheumatic.
doe" groaned the patient. my whole
back is Jest gone with it; I'm one broad
ache from the back of my neck clean
down TO the hips. I'm a suiferin' tor
ments unspeakable." Let me see
your tongue" said the new doctor.
All. YES. see. see; that will do;
take this prescription, get. it filed and
use rs directed. -Four dollars" BY
hokey,' said The afflicted one. Is he
hobbled away, "Ef amt the luckiest
man in Flint River. Four dollars for
lookin' at my tongue. An | was jest
on the bare point of askin' bin to look
at my whole back" And he breathed
hard as he thought by what a narrow
escape he had saved his farm.-B,v-
ling,on HdDkeye.