St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-03-16


when we awoke in New Jersey the
snow had all disappeared, and in
Washington the weather on Friday
was spring-like and delightful. We
met Mrs. Geo. May and Mrs. kittredge
at the capital and thought how fortu-
nate they were in the exchange of eli
mates Just at this time. When we
awOke Saturday morning III North Car
DINA it was to find the peach, plum
and cherry trees in blossom and bOu-
quets of wild-flowers offered at the
stations by poor colOred children.
Thirty-sIx hours behind us we had
left three feet of snow. and the mercu-
nv twenty degrees below zero! A lit
tie later in the day roses were seen in
bloom, the trees were budding and
occasionally green field was observed.
The ride through the Carolinas Is
extremely mOnOtonOus. 1t was new to
all the party and not wholly devoid of
interest. Every New Englander when
entering the south for the first time Is
struck with the pOverty-stricken look
of nearly everything that greets the
eve. Many of the houses we passed III
both the Carolinas are simply novels
with one room and no window; Il few
are cabins of little better grade and
perhaps two or more rooms with AS
many windows, but there are not many
houses along the entire line of the road
in these two states that poor mechanic
of Vermont would he content to Occu-
py however cheap the rent. Yet III all
these dwellings people are born, sub
sist and die. A more shiftless, igno-
rant, aimless class of people, both white
and black, it would be difficult to find
unless one went further southland
the impression given upon north
, erner the first time he sees them is one
that cannot be described on paper
The conclusion cannot he overcome
that there is a good deal of missionary
work vet to he done in America as wei
as in Africa and Asia.
The country through which the Coast
line railroad runs i'm these two states Is
even less interesting than the people
1t is fiat, and when not Swampy is gen
orally sandy and barren. An occasion
al corn field or cotton-tield is seen, and
> as one approaches Savannah rice-iield'
are not uncommon but the greater
part of the country is either swamp
or covered with scrub pine, scrub oak
scrub cattle and pigs, and scrub iuhab-
itants The wonder ut how cattle caI
= get living in such IA place is lost il
the greater concern for the people. A
Massachusetts man said to the write
y at Savannah that he did not think ;
j thousand acres of such land would pro
: duce milk enough for his family, an'
: his was IA small family at that.
L One industry in the Carolinas
should mention. In passing over thu
pine plains one notices the trunks o
the pine trees "bazed'' stripped o
: their bark on one side as high up as
udes from these wounds is converted
! into turpentine and rOsin. We passet
= through many of these turpentine "Or
chardsr and called to mind the deScrip
ton given in the old Biographies
which was to the effect that the princi
pal products of North Carolina wer
'pitch, tar and turpentine.' Thi
)" treatment of the pine kills the tree il
about three years.
Savannah is called one of the fines
cities in Georgia. There are not man.
things of historic interest, still it i
worth ones while to see it once. Tn
best thing we found there was sim
pie sermon by Rev. DIR. Arson of TIN
Presbyterian church from the text
Suffer the little children" etc. Tn
doctor has been pastor of this churcl
for nearly thirty years, and seems to b.
IA shepherd beloved.
The Confederate monument, Pulaski
monument, the monument erected t.
the memory of Gen. Green of Revolu
tiOnary fame, and one to Mr.. Gordon
first president of the Central railroad
are among the works of art, and are al
creditable in THEN line. The parks ar
numerous but very dilapidated, and il
| this resnpct they rpureSpnt the Who'll
city very well. c. NJ. ).