The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-21
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tiraif far ne SKINNER.
Aiiss May billings Who spent E
Wia'er wills her sister, Mrs. Geo.
M' Nusri, i,fl f"r her Dayton, Ohio.
home fsw a. Miss Billings is - north
Gu iiefy ~ rare beauty and male
many fris5.ds during her stay n re
who Vii long FOR her return in the
fhi.
ne vent Of III" season was the u
'cr'ai"nttut ut the residence of Mr..
aiid Mrs. j. =. M.tftr t on Euclid
avenue On "Wednesday evening.
Several paf.ie of Anthony are tax
III. advantage Of The Plant Systems
cheap rates an,. fast freight schedule
and hauling their vegetables to this
place.
We gladly furnish your correspon-
dent at Fellowship with express rates
on beans. This place to Boston is 90
cents per basket; to New York is 81
cents, and to Philadelphia is rs cents,
While much cheaper rate has been
established to Chicago, Cincinnati,
81. Louis and other western points.
We would beg Content" 10 stop
singing 20 us praises of his sweet
hearts, we don't want her. She is not
the only pebble on the beach" If
she has gone back on you please re-
member that we may be having heart
aches of our own and may need all
oar sadness for home consumption.
Listening to the soul signs of Others
Is too much like getting married by
proxy-staie, flat aud Improbable.
'Contenr' says, for matter of in
formation, he win state nearly every
one around Spar owns mot rents)
hammock land, AS matter of farther
information we will state that six of
their farmers are renting forty-one
acres of corn land at Sugar Hammock
and paying S. per acre for same.
Our article in reply to &c. w. H."
OF Eureka, should have read four acres
Of hammock. We gathered ninety-six
bushels of corn in August; was again
planted in cukes in September, from
which we realized Sl04; again planted
in December in lettuce, which we re-
allied 1856; again planted in February
IN beans, from which we shipped more
than 500 baskets and realized more
than $500, and again planted the past
week in corn.
We are informed the Free Press
prints a full column article from Sparr
in feeble attempt to criticise Farm
err" Is that not entirely too much
sorrow TO unbottle during the summer
season? He knows little of truth. and
less OF literature, and I'll give Sl00 TO
any clarity he may name if he'll
make oath that he has read the Bible
and Shakespeare through, or will read
twenty lines of Homer or Virgil or
Goethe or Moliere in the original.
doubt if he knows whether Longfel-
low was an American poet or He
brew prophet.
We beg to correct Content" in ref
erence to Sugar Hammock containing
only 300 acres. There are 600 acres in
cultivation, besides 400 acres of wood
land, and the entire tract contains be-
tween 4,000 and 5000 acres This was
an old Spanish grant 10 the govern
ment, was purchased from the govern
nent by General Clynch and purchased
from the Clynch estate by Edwin
Martin. At his death it passed to his
sons, the late Maj. Abram Martin
and Col. j. NJ. Martin, of Ocala, when
il was cleared. The owners had sew
eral hundred negroes, who cleared the
entire tract, hence it never became
necessary for them to suffer ''bach-
aches at "log-rolling."
We have never seen the article from
Spar to the Free Press, but have sub
subscribed for same, and expect to
make the fur fly. We have been in
formed that they denounee Farmer"
as an anarchist because he voted for
the democratic hero, William J. Bry-
an. There is an old saying that one
might as we'll have the game as the
name. If We are indeed anarchists, is
il not well for those who continue to
insult Us 10 remember that we number
some $500, 900, are mostly native-Dorn
Americans, and all white men? Now,
If we be on anarchy bent, why should
we hesitate to raise the red flag? In
four and twenty hours we could dec
crate the telegraph poles with the car
eass of every impudent correspondent
and wind jammer who has presumed
TO thus Insult US. Those who accuse
us of being anarchists are fully cogni-
zant that they are uttering malicious
falsehood. They do it not for political
effect, for the campaign is over, but
simply because they are so constituted
that they would rather lie than tell
the truth.
Thanks to "Content' for correctness
of article in reference to passing
cabin. one frame house and a saw-mill
at railroad crossing, and upon inquiry,
was Uniformed that was Lowell"
Yts, yes; a year or so ago that repre-
scented the hustling Lowell of today,
but. alas! we have grown as II 10y
magic. and during the past twelve
months there have been erected elev-
en- coy homes aud we now boast OF
school second to none in Marion
county. four large mercantile houses,
Two saw mills, Que line kiln, barrel
factory. a veneer manufacturing COM
many. making all kinds of vegetable
baskets, packages. and different enter
prsies furnishing employment for more
than a hundred laborers from other
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