Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1883-08-04
FLORIDA.
Notes from Lake Weir.

NOBeS MFOhEA Luke NNehEs
Our warmest day, $50.
The ice factory at Orlando has in
creased its capacity to ten tons per
day.
The second crop of water melons is
on hand. A car load shipped north
early in the season will net about
$500.
Early vegetables for the northern
market can be raised in young groves
at little cost above the cultivation OF
the grove.
The past season TURNKEY and Bro.
shipped forty-five crates of squash and
one hundred and ten crates of toma-
toes.
Laborers receive one dollar per day,
or seventeen dollars per month and
| board.
Among the "hands" cooking is done
in skillet or old-fashioned Dutch
oven over a fire of Goals.
A good creed: ave favor revenue
REFORM" eve endorse the tariff plank
in the Ohio Democratic platform"
Mr.. A. C. Layne, of Fairview, KY,
is visiting the lake. Yesterday he
landed two six pound trout and sew
eral smaller ones. The day before he
took in seven, and to-day with three
others twenty-five fine trout in fifteen
minutes time.
In replying to correspondent from
northern Kentucky, who asked, "How
many souls are there in Ocala ?" The
Banner-Lacon's man says, "That's
hard question. Ii we allow one soul
to each inhabitant there are about
1900; but we are not prepared to say
that every fellow has a soul. For in
stance, that merchant who wants us to
give him $40 worth of advertising and
$40 worth of puffs for $3.50"
Gen. Gordon's Florida railroad is
being pushed north from Tampa. The
choppers on the right of way of the
Florida Southern have reached the
lake. Ocala thinks the ship canal will
pass through the northern part of
Marion county.
The fish-fry on Lemon Island, given
by Mr.. Eph. Carney on last Tuesday,
was a success. About sixty persons of
all ages were present 1t was warm
row of two and one-half miles to the
island. There everything was ar
ranged for the comfort of the guests,
ice water in abundance and water
melons in great numbers. These were
large and sweet. w. H. TURNKEY and
few of his friends did Justice to
these. Harvey Turnkey is the cham
pion consumer of water melons on
the lake, but on that occasion he was
so assiduous in his attention to the
ladies that he was contented with
three of medium size. Messrs. Eph.
Carney and Ed. TURNKEY added to
their reputation as knights of the
scullion by the excellent manner in
which they fried the fish. Bachelor
Harlam's light bread would rival
Lyon or Ely's, and there were sew
eral lOaves that might have been taken
for Harlam's. 1t was day to be re-
membered. In our settlement every
body is friendly.
The first settlers OF Florida, like the
Indians, are being crowded out by the
advance of civilization. There are but
few original crackers to be seen in
our section. Occasionally a rickety
cart, drawn by lean, raw-boned nag,
astride of which is a long, gaunt, I'M
shaved, uncombed, weird looking |
specimen of the genus homo may be
seen. On the Oclawaha and the |
WithlachoOche you may find the
cracker in his glory. There dwellings
are frequently low, unchinked log
houses, without doors or windows
only openings-sand floors, no wells,
no out houses. Our noble Dutch an
cestors of eastern New York covered
their floors with sand; here the crack
er, repudiating planks, removes the
wire grass and has as fine a floor as
the ancient Dons of Albany.
To give your readers some idea of
the native Floridian, not the civilized
emigrant who came into the State in
the last few years, but the simon pure
whose ancestors, like those of
the wind splitting swine, have never
been discovered. I make an extract
from Barbour's Florida. In speaking
Of his journey to BrOoksville he says:
we saw four women seated on a
ALLEN tree close by the roadside, all
we're of precisely the same size, with I
he same features, eyes and hair, and
| vacant, stupid stare; each wore a
,alicO dress of plainest, scantiest pos
ible make, quite clean Ga surprising
act), and large, plain cotton sun-bon
lets; each wore cheap, bright-hued
cotton handkerchief around her neck,
nd they were all barefooted, carrying
heir low, thick soled shoes in their
lands. The dress and kerchief APP
'eared to be their only garments-no +
underwear whatever. Our driver {
topped and chatted with this strange @
quartette, and we learned !
hat they were a mother and three 3
which was the climax of
urprIse to us, for the four faces all
ppeared of the same age. They were
DING to dance at a crackers, some
fteen miles further on, and: had al