The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-05-07
For the Farmer and Mechanic.
From Orange County TO Orange
State.

Tallahassee is in Leon county, an
Leon county. ali Tallahasseans Will tel
Won. is the garden spot of the State, tn
South. nay, even perhaps the Universe
We'll, for my own part. / have n,
quarrel with the sturdy loyalty tia
gives all honor TO its own birthplace
Next to ones own mother comes tn,
mother State; and he is but poor il
heart and spirit who does not honor hi
mother, and his mother land.
And while ! am too good a Tar Hee
to admit the superiority Of any place
under the sun to dear sold Short Grass
still / can see that Leon county j:
worthy of all her children's love ant
pride. For twenty miles east and nortl
of Tallahassee is 10 be found one Of thu
most attractive agricultural sections il
the State. or even the South. The
lands are red clay with Just enough
sand to make them Easy of culture aBC
to prevent baking. Everything grow:
there. corn. cotton, sugar cane, oats
rye, rice, tobacco. peas, sweet potatoes
all the grasses, fruits, vegetables, anc
flowers. 1t is a fine stock raising coun'
try. being well erased and watered
Full of fresh water lakes that 90 abound
in fine fish and wild fowl. Indeed il
seems the very paradise of huntsmen-
40 quail to each gun is the average, tho
with good dogs, which are rare, of course
better results would be had.
Jack snipe are abundant in some
places. and duck shooting is capital
sport. Wood ducks are plentiful and
the sport begins about the middle Of
September. The winter ducks, mallard
seal, %spoonbill, gay shovellers, blue
bills, and black duck, come in great
numbers, and stay till February. But
the perfection of sport is fouudi in shoot
ing the blue bill. commonly called bull
necks. or black heads.
1t was my very good fortune to find
quarters on Monroe street, with Mrs,
Hopkins, a daughter of one of North
Cardinals former magnates, Gov.
Branch-and to 20 there is to 90. not
to a boarding house, but to a Southern
lady's home. where lavish hospitality is
showed, and the people treated as
guests, not as boarders. | have had
two years experience in boarding houses
in New York and Washington and
have tried several down South. aud in
my opinion Mrs. Hopkins far surpasses
all others ! was ever in, and those who
are not satisfied there must have a de-
monical possession, or IN absolute IT,
norance of what is really comfortable.
One of Tallahassee's places of inter-
est is the Episcopal cemetery where lies
buried Prince Charles, Louis, Napoleon
Bonaparte, Achilie Murat, son of Mar
shall Murat and Caroline Bonaparte.
Queen of Naples. Strangely enough.
the day | visited Prince Achilles grave
was the 18th OF April, the anniversary
of his death in lS47, at the age of A..
\ marble shaft commentaries his
name. and 1.-THE immortal love of his
devoted wife," Catharine Scott, nee
Beyeridge, l believe, but | am not quite
sure of her maiden name only she was
the daughter of a Virginia gentleman,
and a widow when a Prince wooed and
won her.
She lies buried beside him, having
died in 1867, twenty years after him-a
lonely, childless IN 1t was odd
that the only three graves | stopped at
to read the names of the silent ~sleepers.
held people who had died years before
on that very day-April 18th; and the
very first grave | came to. and the first
name | read, was Of a namesake of my
REORGANIZATION Col. Alfred Moore
Calling. The world is so small a place
after all! You cannot ever get far
enough to lose your immediate person.
atty.
Tallahassee people are some OF the
very ~pleasantest to be found anywhere.
and Maryland, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Tennessee and Ken
lucky all have representatives among
them, so Southerners from all these
States must feel at home from so many
old neighbors of their fathers or grand
fathers being round them. Truly it is a
lovely town. and the drives are beauti-
full. One specially | remember-a drive
to Lake Jackson and another even
more pleasant in its sequel, a drive to
Waverly, a lovely live oak grove, where
reside the S~chraders. new corners to
Florida, who bring with them as SOU
venirs of the fatherland a Waterloo
medal, and officers plumed chapeau,
won and worn by their grandfather.
Capt. Won Schrader, who. under
Blucher, helped to rescue the British
Lion, ard destroy the Imperial Eagles.
and it was with a descendent of this
hero of Waterloo that | stood by Prince
Murat's grave-the conqueror and the
conquered. 1t seemed to me very
strange.
But my letter grows to unreasonable
dirnensions-so adleu. NV next shall
be from St. Augustine, that quaint old
city by the sea. r.. G..