Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-28
LETTER FROM TALLAHASSEE.
Promising CTOps-The Confederate
MOnument-Meetin of the Ameri-
can Bible AssOciaIiOn-The Florida
Liquor Law-SpOts Knocked out
of ''TOIu, Rock and RYe''-A Dull
Sensnn.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA, April 25.-Crops, al
though a little backward, are looking finely
after the influence of the two balmy weeks of
sunshine just past. Cotton is up, and the corn
which had begun to look sickly yellow from
the cold winds, is now coming out in rich
dark green, and some of the planters Of an
imaginative turn of mind declare that they
can actually see it grow. Truck stuff is being
flooded into market, and every available empty
barrel has been secured in which to ship the
Irish potato crop. We have been faring
sumptuously for some time on Strawberries
and early vegetables, and have now turned in
on dewberry dumplings, The average young
modern Zulu is waiting in anxious expectancy
for watermelons to ripen.
The Confederate monument, after having re-
mained in the warehouse for some time. has at
last been brought up and erected in the Capitol
grounds bY the liberality of our live public
spirited townsmaD, Mr.. A s. Minis. It's beau
urul piece OF marble, standing IN glltterng
SplendoF seventeen and halr Feet hlgh and
reflects great credit on the Ladies Memorial
Association who purchased 1t. 1t will be de6i-
Gated tomorrow afternoon at o'clock and
that being Decoration day, the citizens will
turn out in force and scatter flowers on the sol
derS' graves sing anthems and listen to ad-
dresses from some Of our most prominent men
in memorial of the brave departed heroes.
The Rev. Mr. Lyon, Superintendent of the
American Bible Association, is here, and a
meeting was held at the Methodist Church last
night in which he gave the congregation some
very pointed facts to Illustrate how many
families there are in our midst who are desti-
tute of bible. Addresses were also made by
the pastor. Rev. (. L. I. Blake; Rev. Henry
Raymond, of the Presbyterian Church, and
Rev. j c. Porter, of the Baptist Church. The
latter two had notified their congregations in
the morning that they would hold no services
at night so as to give them opportunity to
take part in and contribute for the purpose of
having colporteur appointed to distribute
bibles among the poorer class of our commu-
nifty. A collection was taken up, but / have
been unable to learn the amount.
Our last Legislature passeda bill forbidding
druggists to sell any compound of which alco
hOl is a part. unless they obtain a regular
whisky lie nse, which, under the new law
amounts to total of S625 a year. This knock
ed the spots out of the sale of ''Tolu Rock and
Rye" but the proprietors, Messrs. Lawrence
& Martin, of Chicago, don't seem to like this.
and Mr. Lawrence, of the firm, is now in our
city, and has employed a lawyer to fight it in
the courts, and it is thought that they will sue
ceed in having it ''SquaShed."
Business dull. streets bare, and merchants
''blue, but the street urchins with their fish
ing poles or buckets of dewberries are smiling
and happy and your correspondent not want
ing to occupy too much of your valuable
space, will stop his gossip. Disco.