Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-09-05
AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN DIXIE.
Another Letter From the Land Of Fruits,
Flowers ana Fish.


This place takes the cake for rail-
road and steamboat excursions to the
Atlantic Coast and other points of in
teIert. Every Sunday the steamboat
Gov. Stafford is crowded with passen-
gers to Mayport and Burnside, at the
mouth Of the st. Johns River, and on
the Atlantic Coast. There is also two
weekly excursions by railroad to Pablo
Beech, great summer resort for peo-
pie of this place and other points. On
last Sunday a special train of twenty
five cars-ten for colored and fifteen
for white people, pulled out of the de-
pot at st. Augustine "a distance of thirty
eight miles and it was crowded to its
utmost capacity. The object of the
excursionists was to see the parades of
portion of the State troops that are
encamped there and also to enjoy the
cool and refreshing ocean breezes that
are always prevailing on the coast.
The party were accompanied by three
companies of the Jacksonville State
guards. A person penned up in a hot
city during the week is more than anx.
ious to get out where they can enjoy
the pure, fresh breezes, even if they do
have to break Biblical commandments
to remember the Sabbath day and
keep it holy" In fact a large num-
Der of the residents here care no more
for morals or Christianity than China.
man does for riot. But the city has
many as good, honest, straightforward
and accomoding class as one will
find anywhere. We are enjoying (?)
an unusual spell of hot weather here
at this time. According to the weather
bureau the mercury on top of the Gov
ernment Building for the past twelve
days has ranged from ninety to ninety
SIX degrees. They say this breaks the
record for Florida. On account of the
ocean breezes the heat is not so op-
pressive here as it is in inland towns
where they do not enjoy these breezes.
There has during this unprecedent
period of hot weather been only one
case of prostration by heat reported.
am told that case of sunstroke was
meyer known here. The weather bu-
reau man, however, promises us a
gradual reduction of heat during the
next twelve days and after that a
rapid reduction, and it will only be a
short time until we will have pleasant
days and cool nights. A large num-
Der have left here during the past
month for mountain and seaside re-
treats, but every incoming train brings
in large numbers who have been spend
ing short seasons abroad and also many
visitors as well as parties seeking work.
After the 1st of September, the expira-
ton of the period that excavations are
not allowed here-a vast amount of
work will be done. A negro, the other
day, applied to the city engineer for a
permit to dig a couple of post holes on
his premises and he was respectfully
referred to the Health Department.
Thus you see the Board of health is
very rigid in regard to excavations,
in fact everything else that would have
a tendency to impair the health of
the city. The health of the place is re.
markably good considering the unus-
ual heat, which is greatly due to the
sanitary precautions of the City and
State Board of Health. l have seen
whole car loads of melons, oranges,
bananas and other fruits by the cart
load, hauled out and dumped on the
commons, If such a thing as an in
spector was to go around among the
fruit men and meat vendors of Jones
boro and condemn almost their whole
stock and pronounce it unwholesomc
and have the city carts haul it out and
dump it, dom I think there would be
a whole heart among the whole mum
ber left But they do that here, and
the owners can do nothing but grum
BILE and perhaps say few ''cuss' words
after the inspectors depart. A few
cases of dengue brake bone) fever il
reported and if there is such thing a,
case of Yellow Jack in the place it il
not and will not be reported SO strict art
the authorities in regard to reporting
anything of that nature, person 81
doing would be Immediately arrested
and promptly jailed. 1t would hav,
to become epidemic before it would b,
known to many outside of the medica
fraternity. Should an experienced
physician meet up with case of thi
kind he dare not report it, but mus
call upon the Board of Health and tel
them he has singular case on hanC
and has them go with him and exam
inc for themselves, and even then it il
not reported to the general public. Or
last Monday night one of the most ter
rife thunder storms ever known to tn,
Oldest inhabitants passed over the city
the elements seemed to be illuminated
almost constantly by the most vivi(
flashes of lightning l ever Witnessed
accompanied by peal after peal of ter
rife thunder one doesn't often hear il
lifetime. 1t was indeed a grand bu
solemn sight Three houses wer
struck by lightning in the city, an,
among the number a building belonI
, to the Standard Oil Co., which was en-
titely consumed, with its contents