The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1883-04-14
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able ~ get TIt ~ ail II was cohler l,er,
than In sardis when We left, and | vivid
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lalmy aif and glowing sunshine I was I,
enjoy and then ! thought ~ Munchau
sen II cleared ~ beautifully The nex.
day, though Il WIS still very cool.
jacksonville II q great surprise ~ ihl
Traveller at l"asi, II WIS Ia IA. The lonl
ride through the country have d.
scribcd hal lowered onr expectation
Notwithstanding the glowing accounts w
had read about the town. On the rout,
We came over THE usual one). there WA
nothing 10 indicate IN approach ~ tn,
city until W. were In the midst of II
Suddenly Jacksonville !" IL called, an,
looking out to the right you see u rive
m wide ~ the Mississippi at Memphis
with splendid steamers coming in an,
going ont almost constantly, and sal
boats, with vcniuresome tourists Ia them
darling about here and there, up an,
down the stream. On the left you set
IN the near distance magnificent block
OF buildings, lovely residences half hid
den behind the rows Of great trees 10 h,
found on nearly every street. This I,
the best built city Of It's size | ever saw
There ARE blocks OF business houses here
that would put anything In Memphis &c
shame, although the place claims only
ten thousand actual inhabitants. Tho
residences are uniformly good--a major,
iiy OF them very handsome, and come Of
them really palatial. We passed one
yesterday, just completed, which must
have cost thirty or forty thousand dollars
Parndoxical as II may seem, Il was built
by a lawyer-he had got to be a railroad
president, however, before he was able
to build il. The business Of the town 4
done almost entirely upon one street.,
Bay street, upon which stands the hotel
we are in. From the timo you can see,
In the morning, IL seems that everybody
and everything movable Is In motion.
Looking from the balcony Of our hotel,
at almost any hour Of the day you car
see steamers and trains coming and going,
and tourists hurrying 10 and fro in hacks,
o%mnibusses and ON foot. The side walks
are crowded all day, aud up and down
the streets carriages, phgtons and almost
every style Of vehicle can be seen. The
majority of these are private carriages,
and in almost every instance the driver
IN IN livery, and sometimes a footman Il
added. The owners ARE mostly Northern
men who hnbitually spend their winter.
herr, though Johnny Rcb" Is learning
how to gather gear with many a wile,h
and there are southern men here who arc
becoming. or are already, very wealthy,
80 lar as the trade Of the town il con.
eerned, the native element IL anit,
abreast with the Northern. This is the
distributing and main supply point OF NIL
the country adjacent TO the 81. Johns
river, and the tnude IN large and well kept
up, I'm told, throughout the year. The
hotels are almost altogether in the hands
Of Northern men. There arc thirteen
regular hotels, the smallcs, OF which will
accommodate comfortably one hundred
guests, and the two largest (the Everett
and 81. Jainesl three and four hundred
respectively. The two last are the most
popular, aud are superb in all their ap-
p%ointmcnts; all, however, are said 10 bc
well kept and well paironizcd. "Our
brother in black" IN here "by a large
majority" You find him In every ID.
pacity AZ a servant and laborer. But that
is not all; yon find him on every corner
almost, dressed quite In the STYLE. ann.
porting his cane and smoking his cigar.
lie plays the roe OF the tourist with
wonderful and sometimes amusing ant.
ness, all unmindful, Il scems, ot the stern
fact, Expressed TO NJ by one OF the ser.
wants hcrc, that ''nigger have a hiyh
time hen In lie winter, but he rot to live
on catfish in dc summer, ali de- nme.n
The tmdc In shells, shell work, and Jew
clry made from alligator teeth, IN some
thing surprising. You find almost innu.
mcnablc stores and shops which contain
nothing else, and the variety anil taste
displayed IN the make up are infinite.
Much OF Il is very beautiful and very
many Of the shells have ON then,
the best work of excellent artists, repre-
seniing scenes in Florida, aud arr cspe.
cially high. Northern people buy very
this costly work. .
We leave here in the morning for
gainesville. II il said to be q hirh,
healthy plare, and especially adapted to
diseases Of the throat, etc. Every person
not living here. and some who do, with
whom have %conycrscd, advise me to r,t
away from the rivers and srashorc. /
am convinced they arr right, for the
country along herr h subject TO strong
winds and the Ultimate II very damn, vel
the average inhahitant will %stoutly insis,
II you will only stay long enough.
air here win heal any disease fcsI 4
frir to. | cclehmtel my advent into
Florida by having the hardest chill /
have hal In ten years. There l. nothing
mean about n Florida chill: II don't
come sneaking up your hack q little al a
time, like a Mississippi chill, but \ gath
RS YOU up In a bunch and shnk,s Won
lor oil you are worth tor about two hours
! went to dinner and nearly finished cat.
before frh any symptom ~ a chill.
yet by the time | got 10 my RON I cmuld
no more hold myself still than I could
have flown 10 the moon. hive only
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