Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1892-03-03
Tallapoosa to St. Augustine.

1dliapOOsA 10 OF. Aug Justine.
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla, Feb. 25th, 1892.
Mr. Editor As 1t has now been six
weeks since | wiote you last, and as
have changed quarters since then | will
write few more lines We left ITALIA.
pooss the morning of the eighth aud ar.
rived Al Atlanta about noon. We lay over
until the next morning, SO "a to take
daylight trip down through southern Geor-
gia and Florida. Our landlord said he
was most happy to have MS stop but the
most We would see would be notices of
sheriff sales" IL the afternoon we cruised
the city what we could aud also visited the
cspltol which is very fue. In the depart
ment Of the minerals the display was eX-
cellent- There Were minerals Of all Kinds
quartz rock rich with nuggets of gold
protruding. | concluded | must be no
miner a. venture 10 say | travelled one
hundred miles in and around HARRISON
county, one Of their mining counties, and
there was plenty of mines there one
the best could bring ont was iron pyriies.
We left Atlanta the next morning by the
East Tennessee at 8 80 two aud one half
hours late from Chattanooga II was
mostly cotton plantations to Macon. a
hundred miles, with now and then peach
farm. What corn stocks saw looked
small, noticed one farm looked very
green with something up about three inch
es aud think it must have been grain. a.
il Is out of the season in northern Georgia
for grass twelve months in the year We
stopped in Macon thirty minutes for lunch
| interviewed a resident there st the depot,
who said 1t was a large city Of thirty live
thousand. with three cotton mills several
yarn factories aud number 81 other in
dustric> too numerous To mention and that
times were dull He took the atmluistrs-
tion To do for IT, He >aIi that what sa-
wanted was capital aud thst money could
be loaned ont at one and one half per cent;
per month and the city was IN debt
knew that the isst census only gave them
Q
city wonld only tax logs It wouli D.. ali
4 right financially IN 4 short time . my.
I thought Franklin the worst place on
earth for dogs but Macon leads IT, Every
man has our aud some colored men have
three. We passed On shout fifteen miles
and our engine gave out right near Ocmul-
/ gee rlvrr. Here We were detained two
/ hours, II Wa warm and lovely and things
began 10 look green. Every body was out.
me picking magnolia leaves other, pal
metto >prigs | cut bamboo fishing pole.
I but alas, not one of the party had any
tscklings. How | wished nv friend Yves;
had been along a. he goes equipped daily.
I We would have caught something. If moth
/ Ing more than a small alligator Al last
We got started, stopping about every ten
miles A. way statious-now aud then at
lumber mill and then al turpentine still
/ The pine, were not SO large here a. tx
pected 70 see, but the place. were new 10
me, odd and interesting We arrived at
jacksonville at half past ten p Nj, sixteen
hours ride and about four hundred miles
jacksonville is lively city known to most
( northern people; Bay street is the principal
avenue. don't Ike jacksonville. il is so
different from our eastern cities. Instead
OF nice gardens, grass plots and orchards
In the outskirts, II was sand with few
/ orange trees and roses now aud then Two
/ days answered me here
! We took the steamer up the ST Johns TO
Green Cove Springs and from there on to
Pslaihs and stopped one night and took the
sights al! in. We left the next afternoon
( by raj! for this place, thirty miles distant
/ 81. Augustine is the town for beauty
I and curosi,ies. Such q contrast; the old
4 houses are two hundred and fifty years old
/ and then here Is the most magnificent
| hotel in America The narrow streets are
4 seven feet wide but there are broad avenues
/ with nice parks and fountains. with all
kinds OF flowers. Here are the old Turk
1 with his turban cap and then the New
4 York dude with his low cut white vest
I and cane; the old dug-out boat the nice
! new naphtha launch and so on: the old
I fort, the gates the Old slave market, the
north and south beach with its many
/ shells.
have not space to name one half |
/ have had an interview with a man born
here who las been all through the Indian
wars and knows it all. He is nnety-four
years old, one year older than my old
I friend Morrison. Franklin has got to take
I back seat again. 1t is lovely here and
am glad to smell salt water again and
/ think fellow can enjoy himself here. if
/ in any place in the South, providing he
has plenty of money and lots Of tongue
! As am endowed fairly with the latter
have got along finely. so far. but fear if
stay much longer | will have to draw ON
my friend Kent, the cashier
Truly yours,
/ ] p GoppoS