St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-30

IN town until evening, when the col
ored churches were opened.
Did the reader ever attend cOlOred
prayer-meeting If not he has one
thing yet left to interest and astonish
him; that is if he gets the genuine ar
ticle. 1t does not vary much in Vir-
ginia, Georgia, Missouri or Florida.
The simplicity, fervOr, and devotional
character of this people show cOnspic-
uOusly in their social meetings. Their
songs are largely walls and lamenta-
tons, with an occasional shout of trl-
umph for deliverance. Their most in
teresting exercises are those where the
leader seems to extempOrize brief
sentence or chant, and then the entire
audience come in on the chorus. The
voices of the colored people are very
strong and piercing, and some are quite
musical. They all sing with the spir
it, at least. This particular Sabbath
evening service was closed with what
they term the "holy shout"-the leader
breaking out into a brief strain, and
then the audience rising and taking up
the refrain, meanwhile all assembling
in the open floor of their church, grasp
ing each others hands, and keeping
time with hands, head and feet, until in
a minutes they were all jumping up and
few down and hOoting and yelling with
great energy. This lasted until the
participants were exhausted. NOtwith
standing the strange and noisy method
this people have of worship, there is a
sincerity and pathos which sometimes
touches hearts of people much more
enlightened.
On tuesday we babe adieu to pleas
ant Orange Park and sailed up this
majestic river twenty miles farther to
Green Cove spring. This is evidently
one of the choice spots on this river. Ii
is situated in the arc of a large cove
Aside from the beauty of its location
there is remarkable spring very neal
the principal hotels where great vol
charging brook large enough to run q
small saw mill. Or, to he more eXplic-
it, the spring is said to discharge three
thousand gallons of water per minute
from large assure i'll a rock plainly
visible twenty-five feet below the sur
face. The water is clear as crystal
temperature 75 degrees, highly medic
inal, being impregnated with sulphur
magnesia, etc, and people flock to il
and drink, and carry the water away
in bottles, pitchers and pals, as they
do at Saratoga.
A few feet below the spring are the
swimming baths, fitted up for both la
dies and gentlemen, where any one cal
take IA plunge in "a tank twenty or thir-
ty feet long and twelve feet wide for the
sum of fifty cents.
But the best thing about Green Cove
is the walk along the river bank to tn,
Magnolia Hotel, two miles down the
river. If your correspondent wal
twenty-five years younger he nigh
write three or four stick fuls about thii
truly charming and romantic walk, bu
the facts being as they are, he vii
cOnfne himself to IA few lines of plaiI
prose. The path winds in and on
among magnificent oaks, magnOlias
Expresses and bay trees, although on,
is never out of sight of the river for I
single moment. There is nothing lik,
it anywhere but in the far south and i
is hard to describe it to those who have
never seen the peculiarities of semi
tropical trees and foliage.
The Magnolia Hotel is the finest
house in Florida. 1t is owned by Mr.
Crufts of Boston, and this is its first sea
son. Its capacity is 300 guests, witt
room for one hundred more in the six
cottages adjacent which it controls
On Tuesday we found there Mr.. anC
wick, Boston. Jay Gould of New York
was also endeavOring to get little RESI-
on its broad piazzas; and one would
hardly guess him the shrewd financiel
and millionaire that he is by anything
in his appearance.
From Green Cove to Palatka is for
ty-fve miles, still up this same broaC
river, although the stream sensibly
narrows during the last few miles anC
is not wider perhaps than East rive
between New York and Brooklyn. Pa
latka is a prominent point on the riv
er, second only to Jacksonville. A
this place we took a narrow gauge rail
road directly west into the central par
of Florida, passing around Orang'
Lake, thence south to Ocala. Thi
brought us through what are said to b,
the richest and largest orange grove
= of Florida, if not of the world. TIL,
!, celebrated Harris and Bishop groves
are on the southern shore of Orang'
Lake. Mr.. Harris income from hi
grove this year was 500, 900. That is
this is the sum which is said to hav,
been his income. 1t Is no doubt a mag
nificent grove and yields a great in
cOme-so much it is safe to assert.
1t was the pleasure and good forum,
of our party to fall in with Mr.. DAME
Green on the train from Palatka. Mr.
Green is from Berlin Falls, n. H.
where he has large interest in real es
tate and business. Some five or sil
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