The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-11-03
NEWS AND VIEWS
OF THE STATE PRESS.

w. F. Mundee, of the Seaboard
road, was on the Favorite on initial
trip last Saturday and he was telling
stories to a parry of interested listen
ers. He said: "a drummer was do.
ing the county about Gainesville lie
had negro boy to drive the livery
equipment. One night they started
from Gainesville to go to pla some
miles distant. The drummer met
some congenial companions at Gaines
vile, and when he departed he car
ried red liquor both inside and out
side of himself. The driver had also
been imbibing. The night was dark
very dark and chilly. They were
hardly out of the city limits until
they both fell asleep. They occa-
sionally woke up and the drummer
would say to the driver: We'll, are
We almost there Almost, boss the
darkey would reply. See that house
over there-well that's the place
This thing kept up for some hours.
The horse was not urged in its travels
and took its own time. The day was
the o'iver came into hazy realiza-
ton that they were still living, and
then for the first time they saw that
they had been driving around the
Gainesville half-mile race track for
eight long hours. st. Petersburg
Independent.
Last Friday and Saturday an i'm
mense quantity of fish was caught of
the South Bridge. Everybody who
was out came home with big string
of fish and it is estimated that thou
sand pounds of fine fish were caught
from that bridge Friday afternoon
with hook and lines. Daytona is
truly sportsman's paradise.-Day-
iona Gazette.
Capt. Walden was interviewed by n
Gazette-News representative, between
this place and Titusville, and attempt
ed TO tell the story of the wreck while
looking after the welfare of the men
under his charge. OF the twenty-four
on the train not one but what
showed evidence of the terrible strug-
gle with sea and wind. When asked
where they were bound, Capt.
Walden said: Back to Long Key"
He was asked if the men intended to
resume work Immediately and he re-
piled, They certainly do; they will
stick to me and l will stick IL the
work on the extension. "-Daytona
Gazette.
Fifteen or twenty miles north OF
Charlotte Harbor, in the valley of the
Miakki, several miles above the
water, and two miles from the river
bank, surrounded by palmetto and
pine, with none of the luxuriant
growth of oak and other deciduous
trees that are usual on the inland
water courses of Florida, there
gushes forth a basin-three hundred
feet in diameter and from a depth of
more than one hundred and fifty feet.
stream of water as salty as the
Gulf of Mexico, and of that same
beautiful hue that so distinguishes
the water of the gulf from that of the
Atlantic ocean. Sixteen feet above
the highest of tides it flows out in a
constant stream forming a little
river some twenty feet wide and two
feet deep, which rushes over its
pebbly bed of mari rock resembling
the rapids of some mountain stream.
So clear and limpid is the water of
the spring that the darting fish can
be recognized fifty feet below the sur
face, lodging the lazy gator" who
Tolls about enjoying the quiet secur-
ity of its depth and it's secluded 10
cation. Legend has it that the In.
dams, and, from their information,
the soldiers of Uncle Sam sent to sub
jugate them, considered it's waters of
great curative value in cases Of skin
diseases of all kinds, and tales are
told of wonderful cures effected. The
construction of the Charlotte Kar-
Dor and Northern railroad. through
this section will soon make 1t accessi-
BILE and some day it may become the
site of n great sanitarium.-DeSoto
News.