Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 11, 1878, Page 12

¢ the far-distant waters of the “broad Atfantic, ~ just diseernible off Inishowen Head, on a day it -world. “fHE CHICAGO TRIBUNE; SUNDAY. AUGUST 11, 1878—SIXTEEN PAGES. 12 ) - niecks toobtain this fertilizing grass. IRELAND. "“The Railroad-Ride from London® derry to Portrush--- Lough Foyle. Jannting-Cars and Their Jehus—The Ruins of the Castle of Dunluce. The Giants® Canseway---A Most Extra- ordinary Geological Curiosity— Fin McCounl. The Bay of Portcoon—Dunkerry Cave— Landlord and Peasant—Moun- tainous Taxes. Sprcial Correspondence’ of The Tribune. Portnoss, [reland, July J5.—Among the justiy celebrated spots to be visited in the North of Ireland is the Gisnt’s Causeway, on the northern coast of County Antrim, and the ruins ‘of tbe famous Castle of Dunluce in the neigh- borhiood. The knowledze of these ancient and historic localities, and the tales and lezends concerping them, form some of my earliest recollections, and to this day dwell in my im- agination with great power and vividoess. The misfortune of the tourist visiting the Causeway with his mind wrought up by preconceived motions of grandeur, becomes apparcaot om reaching the Jocality and beholding the sizht. The Giant’s Causeway is not grand, in the full acceptation of the word, but very curious. While one may be disuppointed in one particu- 1ar, one mav be vastlyinterested inthe other. As 2 natural and sdientitic curiosity it is probably unsurpassed in the world, and the place is well ‘worth visiting by all who come within its reach. On a beautiful morning, not long sinee, 1 left Londounderry by rai! for Portruzh, a small town oo the coast six miles from the Causeway, much frequented by the natives a5 a kind of summer-resort, and the point from which tourists proceed by van to their destination. FROM DERRY TO COLERAINE the railroad winds along the picturesque shores of Lough Foyle, one of the finest sheets of water in Ireland. ‘The ride is exhilarating and refreshing in the extreme. Now and then tie train rushes along the shore almost within reach of the lapping waters of the Lough, then dashes juland among the hawthorn hedges, zroves of elm aud sycamore frees, clusteriug shrubs, weli-kept Jawus, and growing fields of grain. Old mausion houses, almost hidden {rom view by climbing vines avd lichen-covered roofs, resting in glossy bowers of emerald- green foliage, with the white walls of cottiers now aud then peepiver out from the hedges, added to the chain of the besutiful landscape. The distant mountains onthe farther side of the bay, with their hizh ops veiled by a hlue, transparent mist, Zave a aiversity and grandenr totheview. The daneing waters of the bay, shimmering in the widday sun, the white, shadowy sails of the fishug- craft, like vanishing phantoms of the deep, the distant view of villuges alony the hither shore, when all nature scemed to smile, were 6l the beart with gludness and causc ovne to give thanks fol the beautiful ‘The sun is up, the sky is clear, “hc waves are dancing fast und bright: Bluc isles and snowy mountains wear The parple noon's transparent lght. At Coleraine the tourist chanes cars for Port- rush, and the trun on the wain line rushes on throuzh a most, picturesque and beautiful counury to . Belfast, 100 wiles distant. Coleraive is 3 preity town of _some 6,000 inhabitants. situated on the River Baun, and about Jour wiles and a half from the o 1t is an uncient place, and as early as A. 1. 550 St. Carbreus, a disviple of St. Finian of Ciunaid, was Bishon_ of Colersine. The popuiation is sustained by its linen-factories. which have long been celebrated, and by 1ts sslmon the Baun. The surrounding country 3 tle and productive. In the town ar2 some oid Llwnses having the appearance of baving heen built in the seventeenth century. Sandell, one mile south of the to right bunk of the Baun, there are the rewains of a lsrge Dunish fort,—a erim memorial of the time when the Ifish coast was overrun by ihe bold navigators of the northern waters, who ravaged the country and harassed TOE ANCIENT IRISH GS.. A ride of some fifteen minutcs brings the traveler to Portrush, 2 busy little_scaport town contaiuing some 3,060 or 4,000 inhabitants, sit- uated within the shelter of a_fine beadland, Trom which the distant coast of Scotlund is visi- ble on a brigit day Jike this. 1t has several good | hotels, and the sea-coast i3 fine. Bathing in the | sea and driving on the heach are the favorite ! 1 amusements. From tuis point, the journcy to the Causewav | is made in a_van. or jauuting-car, over the smoothest of Irish turnpikes. There is no lack of facilities for making the trip, for upon alighting from the railway coach ome is sur- rounded by a dozen or mare of the drivers of vebicles of various sizes and descriptions, all hearing a family resembiance to that unational gig, the Irish jaunting-car, which is the parent -of all the uply vrogeny. Mere the vVolubic tonzue of the ancient Ceit displays its sua- eive eloguence greatly to the confusion of the unpracticed traveler, cach driver having 2 car- risge and horses, if I am to believe his un words.a little better than the turnout, d; by e Viceregal Governor of the island. There is great competition in prices, and the bidding for passengers if as spirited as a lively morning ai Sampson & Co.’s auctions in Chicazo,but Paddy always adroitly manages never to do business at 2 losing figurc, and the vourist is never after. wards conscience-stricken on _sccount of not ntly paid for the serviees ren- Indecd, the stesdy hemorrhage of gratuitous sixpences and shillings from one's pocket threatens one with financial extinetion 3t no distaut future. Therefore, the w cler makes haste while in these rerion The drive from Portrush to the Causeway is # delizheful journey, the roeky headlands and the broad, lunesome ocean ne on the one band, and bectling hills upon the other. There are MANY ORIECTS OF INTEREST on the way, whichwere duly pointed out by the Joquacious Jehu who sat upon the box, who charged his passengers a sixpenee each for bis listorical nurrations. Among these were Napoleou's nose, the lion's paw, the priests’ well, the maiden’s arcly, cte., all of which have beir legends. By far the most interestine object in this region of conntry, in my estination, is the ruins of the nobie Castle of Dunluce. The turreted walls of this ancient structure, as massive and as strong as wheu fitst. erected, stiit stand upon the rude, overshadowing cliffs, Gefving time, tue clements, and the destructive hand of man, A more fuaceessible and defensible spot could scarcely have been selected, aud in the age iu which it was built it must have been as nearly impregnable us humar. skill aud labor could muke any place. The site of the castie is upon a juttiug cliff overbauging the sea, which has 1hunderea against its erauite base for unknown centuries. I3 is connected with the main land by a narrow neck of rock. On every side but 1bis s walls rise precipitously” hundreas of feet above the howling sea snd ihe razeed, Zaping chasm below. As one approuches tne spot, & small hill con- ceals it from View until oue s very near at haud, when. suddenly, the oid ruin bursts upon his sight 25if arising outof tho sea, its naked chimneys ana rurwed walls giving the castle a the east 15 a-small clevation called eallows-hili, on which were executed those who had commit- ted offénses apaiust the reigming chieftain thought to be worthy of death. - - The clauger of the brazen trumpet which once reverberated slong these cold, Drojecting shores 10 arouse the clansmen from their distaut liauuts, and the manly voices that filled them, are now mute, “Tne hands thac reared these granite blocks and- defended them with valor are now as lifeless as-the stoues that crumble over his tomb, his very name almost forgot, and his resting place unknown. All 1s silent save the ceaseless voice of the ocean aund the sound of 2Eolus’ barp throush the tenantless rulns. “The baughty chieltains who once held wassail bere bave long since passed away, leaving noth- ing to indicate - the reatne ut tradition. Their descendants have become aliens to the soil of their glorious ancestors and the humble vassals of - foreign Kinws, The heirs of the noble Irish chieftains, the McKeowns, the Me- Quell and De Courceys, if any exist, Jive o turf huts - thatched with straw, and wrest a precarious existence iron the land which once shook beneath the tread of their illustrious progenifors, by ruising mangel-warzel and cabbage. Such is Irish succession under English rale. During the reign of Elizabetn, somé time about 1530, COL. M'DONALD, A SCOTCAIMAN, with aconsidersble forceof Hiznlauders, arrived ‘on the cuast to sasist ‘tyrconnell against the claps of O’Neill. A peace having ‘been estab- lished between the chieftains of these powerful clavs, McDonald became the guest of McQuellan, whow he assisted in_subduing some of his war- like neighbors. McDonsld afterwirds married MeQuellaw’s davehter, and with characteristic Seoteh thrift manazed to inberit all the old chiettain’s lands, and to this day the descend- auts of that marriyee, the McDonnells, of An- trim, inberit the cstates and the titles of their woble sncestor, while the. descendants of the two sons of old McQuelian . are were pensioners on the soil of thelr fathers. Sir Waiter Scott visited this ruin in 1814, an account of which is contained in his memoirs. drive of three mifes bronsitour party uts' Causeway, The most extraordinary geolowical curiosuy in Ireland, sud probably in the world. 'The district is annually visited by thousands os tourists, who come to behold the wonders of which they have long heard. The Causeway is composed of basaltic rocks 1 per- cutar columug, sore ing five and some x sides, and separatea by fissures, so small that in some cases a knife-blade could not be toreed between i The exposed ends of these pillars form ihe Causeway. These columns are composed of sbout. oue-haif flinty earth, one- quarter iron, and one-quarter clay and lime. 1t is believed that they are of Plutovic origin, formed by a fusion of the ngredicnts into one mass, which in cooling Las ecracked ized into these regular forais, Some ~patient aud leisurely tourist has disco cred that there are 40,000 of these cry: columns, all neatly cut and ed with as wmuch compactuess and precision as if they had been plaved there by the fiand of an artisan. Mow far these colonuades run into the sex has not yet been ascertained. The fact that on the ish coast di v opposite, on the Island ot Stoffa, a somewhat similar forma- £s. has wiven rise to numerous legends tion concerning the origiu of the Causceway. Ouc of these is to the effeet that THE GIANT FIN 3U'COUL, the champion of Ircland, at one time dwelt on this sea-broken ecoast. A certain Caledonisn wiant, who dweit on the opposite coast, mads bimself very oiTeusive by hiis Joud boasts aod jusolent bearing. He sentword to Fin that, were it not for the fact that he would get wet, he would wade over the channel and wive him such a thumping as he never received before. Fm, Dbeing nowise coutent to put up with this challenge from his brawny peizhbor, applicd ta the King for per- mission to act, and was bermicted by his Lrish M auseway which would wering Scot to walk aver the channel dry-shod. After the bridge had been d without the slightest regard for the of navigation, the Caledonian giant walked over, and the contest which followed re- sulted in the victory of Fin over his advey v. Fin. however, with true Hibernian magen: 1y, not only spared the life of his advers; juvited him to remain in Ireland. +, but s e ledonian was only oo glad to do, as be found hut poor picking in his owa barren hills, aud the green, fertile ficlds of Irelaud were very inviting. The two combatants _ever afterwards lived in peace and umif After their death the Cause- beinz no lunzer wanted. sauk futo the portion at eituer end visible, t the p ufested with guides, e, pe S, and geological spe mens, who plarue und pester the tourist at ing hia moment to erowd of vermin could visit to the vlace would be tand profitable. Duing my I fervently crery sten, s Iuok ubout b fur wore brief stay of twoor three hours, longzed ior the revivification of old F who is loug sine i rurnea to stone, that he might revisit this epot_and make a breskfast ofl the whole lut of these trovping human ver- win. In order to abtain A viz and in onler to F THE HEADLAND, the coves in the vicinity, it is uecessary to bire huatmen to take one - out upon the s faud companions secord- ingly eniercd one of the numerous skiffs to be had” lere for this purpose, snd were rowed around the headiand. For my own part, instead ol being overwhelwed with tke erandeur of the was overwhelmed with scasickness, ugh between my periods of retching I wot 4 cof the ruizeed, precipitous «liffs which rise here in grest o v, . Porreoon Cave, adout ialf 2 wile west of the lofty and imoosing._excavation uoted for ite echo, which is weneraily Uy the discharge of 4 pistol, the plavivg of a musical mstrament, or the shouts of the boat- wmen, This cave is about 300 fect in length, and may be approached either by land or sea. Con- oS 10 the cave the” Bay of Porteoon, tormed by a whyndyke, consisting of evarated from the precipice by some convulsion of nature. u the centre of the bay is an insulated pointed basaltic ruck, which, in rough weather, threazens the skifl of the visitor with destriuction. ° Not fur westward from this is DUNKEREY CAVE, ible from the o 10 the heiebt of cth fi1s not yet w L0 2 BUITOW, 60 hoat eun peveirate, he hotluw voi ce of the as it hr against throuch s 1. The entrance is the rocky co: a high, rezulariy-formed arch composed of Jei- black rock. The ool of the cave 15 covered with green con producng a beautiful effect. ust aho of the a zone of heautitul maring plants. - Jn tins cave the water ri and recedes with a regu); corresponding with the successive bre the sea upon the After one pen into the winding Cy the ovean re, pre- iz crustied and <ufToeated fy sha smal vault were be not assured by the boat- men that there is o danger, aud the furtber fact that no lives have ever been known to be lost there. There are many othier objects of interest, which enuzre the traveler’s attention of minor importance, such the Giant’s Orvzan, the G the Giant’s Well, ete. The causew into three tongnes, colled the Little, the Mid- dic, and the Grind Cau all of whichhave Probubly the wost com- ned by the ordi i 10on euotion eate 10 this classic spot s tht of Gisapor A superfici2l examination of the curiosities of the vlace s soon made, and. unles scientisy who de. formation with the of wecholar, a Tour of 3 couple of hours enables him to e ine the cutire topography of the locality, is 3 botel here of whose sceon i ; iicting, where u extended ob- d rocks here may find : ning the cha vansury thore s bot. one tale, and that is thnt the Lills presented are of a sutficient magnitude Iourutul appearance. Here the folemn crow, Testng onits moidering pinnacies, that seem Lanring over the white’ surf far below, as it breaks * with deatesing roar azainst 1hese natural bulwarks, the screaming sea fowl wheols ing through the air above; the mournfut north Wwind whistling through Lbe rifted casements; the lonesome, yellow sunlight of the aiternoun resting on its'western walls; and the long shadows of the tail towers falling across the iawps like the wraiths of departed inmates of girntic stature, combiue to produce an fm- pression upon the soul which words are inade- quate to express. Tradition las attributed the bufiding of this csstle to " AN IRIER CHIZFTAIN NAMED NW'KEOWN, 1o defend bimself amainst the Dag:? and Cruthneans of ancieut Caledonis, as well as to protect himself and bis vassals from the sud- den atfacks ¢ his tumultuous and agrrecsive neighbors. By pullivg up the drawbridee all access to the castle was rendered impossible, and the brave defender might laugh at his be. siegers in safety. On the south side of the drawbridge were to be secn, until quite recent- Iy, the remains of an old barrack, where the fol. lowers of the lord of the castle were accom- modated. There are the walls of other awell- ings near at band, and the raios of sn ancient chapel, now orvergown with ivr, roofless and may be seen. Ata liitle distance 10 10 cast a peusive wloom over the spirits of the tourist for a wevk thercafter, Returning to Portrush I had an opvortunity of examininge ' - K THE PACE OF THE COUNTRY, aud had a superticial observation of its produc- tons. Jlere, as everywhere in Ircland, the zround available for tillmg is divided by hedges and stoue walls futo small parailelo. graws, each containing two or three acres of land. 1o these ficlds § saw potatoes, outs, and barley rowing, with wow and then a field containing cabbaves and turnips. The demesnes ol the gertry usually embrace the most fertile and productive Jportion of tbe country, while the hullsides, and morasses, und rusged mount. ain tops are lett to the peasantry. Here they Taise their steen. pizs, and fowls, and their veg- ctables. The soil is naturally very poorin some of these localities, and the cuitivator is oblized to resort to artiticial means to stimulste irs productiveness. Guano and manufzctured fer- tilizers are used in #reat quantities by the far ers here, though they claim that the use of 2uano only gives them a temporary benefit, the ultimate result being to impoverish the land and to render it less productive than before. On this coast seaweed isinuch used as a mapure, Tais is collected Ly the peassnts from the beach, aud carried by them on their backs with great labor to -their sterile mountain-slopes. They frequeutly wade into ttie sea to tneir SeCoul, * Former- ly-this manure was free to thosewho taok upon L{\emsdvcs the labor of collecting it. - It 15 not geperally go now. r o THE LANDLORD CLATMS .one-third of. the benefic of the weeds collected on the shores of the'demense. ~Having risked his bealth fu the icy waters of. the ocean to col- Ject the seaweed, and having carried 1t in baes upon his shoulders for miles up stecp mountain-glopes, one would paturally con- clude that the poor peasant had rightfully earned the entire benefit of his efforts; but suct is not the case by any means. Not only has be to divide tne proauct of: his toll with the landlord, but having by dint of industry and perseverence reclaimed his little bolding from the unproductive bog, or the sterile hillside, and made it to smile with the result of his labor, slouwr comes the landlord, who, discover- idences of prosperity on the part of is tenant, and who, seeing that the rocky soil of a hill, or 2 warshy bor, has been rendered really productive by the sweat of the peasant’s brow, bastily returns home and rotities his vas- sal that he las doubied or quadrupled. his rent. Iustances of this character, I awm informed, are Dot infrequent. lu fact, there is scarcely a loldiug in. Ireland that the rent of it is not double or treble what it was formerly, and this increased value has in no instance been made by the landlord, but by THE TOILING, YOVELTY- Tiving upun Lwo piuts of with a few watery turn cabbage’ added. Thus. it will be seen, fustead .of there being a premium placed upon his industry, there is no. inducement whatever beld oat vo him to improve his condition. Whatever advantage he may gain by incessant toil and industry is immediately ¥ wrested from him by the grasping landlord in the shape of additional rents. It is for this rea- son, probably, that the poor cotticr lives, al- ways without any exception as far as 1 have observed, in the most squalid poverty. He comes into the world amidst wreteheauess and dith, dng, after a Jous life of hardships acd privation, during which be has struweled man- to maintain withim his_toil-scarred body the breath of life, aud during which be has worked with untiring- energy to maintain the wife he loves, and to supply the wee toddling children at his side with scarcely adequate food, he at last lies down to die iu the stoom of his Dlack cabin, coverea with s, wiiich are then selves the evidences of his bard lot, and his toil-hent. body is linally faid to rest under the &reen turf hig own sweat hus belped to dress aud nourish. ‘And who shall suy, at the great day when the trump shall sound summoning the hosts of the earth before the Tbrone, that the humble servant to whom was given but one. taleut which he improved sball not rise re- splendent in the glory of that morn, while the uuprofitabie servant 10 whom were wiven ten talents shall go down to darkness and everlast- ing despair? ‘The Jand under wy syes for miles in every di- rection belongs 1o the vast estates of THE PRESENT EARL OF ANTRIY, who, no doubt, is a pleasunt gentleman, who enjoys a comiortable existence yielded to him Ly toese well-cultivated acres. ~ Certainly he has nauzht to complain of 50 taras the distribu- tion of this worid’s favars are concerned. and if he lives 50 as to werit a similar reward in the next, he will be more fortunate than 2 majority of his felfow-landlords. The country here in the North is rollivg and undulating, now and then rising to huxe peaks. Underneath the soil is a limestone formation, wiich viclds a quahity of cement whicls js widely celebrated. Aside from the gentry the inhabi- tants appear to be very poor, living upon the bare necessities of life. ‘T'he tisheries on the coast afford employment toa considerable num- ver of peopie. Salmon of an excelient quality are taken in large numbers, this being a staple article of diet here. sters are also found in consideruble quautities, but these are imme- distelv shipped to England, the natives consid- ering themselves 100 poor to use them. An oyster stew such as owve wight obtain Ch 0 for 25 cents costs here ubout 81 The fisheries as well as the oyster-beds are owned and controlled by English compunies with patents from the Crown. Such a thing as riparian rights seems notito be known here. A man cannot tarow a hool or drag a net 1 the l waters of a river flowing throagn bis own ae- mesnes without a license without fucurring grave penalties. Iam surprised that the air people breathe here is not owned by some Iritish company with a patent from the Queen, allowing them to impose a tax upon all who breath ft. and subjecting those who neglect or retuse to do so to fine and imprisonment. 1 never before found such wountainous taxes as exist here, and L only wonder that there is any industry at all, and that vhe vountry is xfi)n en- B tirely depopulated. - B s . A BIG SPECULATOR, Moxnoutn Il Augus the 11— S Crosty and Comypxany—3IR: i take wy pen in band to rite you and to let you no I want to spekulate on the Boar of traid i think the crops will bee better uext year than that wich thay are now can you send me rekomend that you air raspon sylable i have 500 dollars left 1o me by the deth | of my unkle Daniel which is on my motiers sid and i want to intu futurity if 1send you 500 you give me a demand not and rood ur haubil when i was into jowa ne Chicago papers say Armoor is rasin 2osts there with the weat market if a corner should be put up short on the market have you rume in your oifis to mix red winter and spring to deliver iuto the corner if i gt stuck wat is your opinion in regard to a [factory to colore spring weat. into red winter there i5 zood water power nere here aud a hull pasel of tramps to work cheap i shall spekulate irom 500 to 5,000 bushells mak or braik no muv no fun vander- billt oold & sume others hav maid munny spek- ulatin why cant i be another of the same wot is your cominission or hud you rather hav balf the prolits soute do this also you being rite thar vou 1o of cors how the m s woin & you can.| tarn and return oy muny and mak us’ both a fortin by zostthar is wuny waid and | must and will hav sum of the sam anser soon as you recive this letter your fricud SoLOMON BIDWELL onmoth Warren County Ills ——T—— . THEY LITTLE THOUGHT. ‘They Jittle thought, when lightly breathed ¥ lips thy nume £o cherished. brifliant ke that wreathed thine bad darkiy perish With piacid brow and smiding Thy treasured name was Ny F1om my wrung heart ot one (aint sigh Betruyed that heart whs brokea. They bade me sinz a song of old I'hAt oIt I'ye sung to they But my heart's r To its lo Like music breatiiug Whose deity huth e, Love's wanliniz Whicn hope ed the hear vold and dead. But | tonched my Inte, snd u happy strain From 118 trembling strimes awoke, And pride, that erst had In tone and accent spok A votary in mud Pleasure 1 vuuly would fory But Mewory, like wo's sad refrain, Thrills my loue spint yet, A8 thousn a subtle spelt had thralled My weary heart and briin, I it radiant gloom, path again. Sauthern wrave ite flowery breas. tleaves to the leantuy siars, While my worn woul, with broken wings, Beats "gunst Life’s prison-bars. with Anon the eve is flnoded with Soft hin Ly n radiant past i picture Jives within my sout, e brightest and the last. 1t comes hefore me an May be ligbt ves i dinners. pur From far-off Parad And fow my wailing kp Lefore the magic power That adds sad Memory's zalling links "To bind me from this hour, 1love thee yet! The dust lies decp Above thy xunny brow, Aud yearning heartand clinging hands Ma¥ ueet no more below, The fairy visions of the past, All warmth, and joy, and Jight, Are shudowed by Deati's aark eclipse— His all-destroying blight. Macoie A. Corye, Juey. Too close lh_e jeslous Sky leans o'er toee, faithful arth; The lh‘:;fk‘ dark clouds seem spread upon the 55 o wind comes irom the level seas to stir The Leavy lanzuor which the long hours gils, The leves hang heavily from " T s v;g . y many a bendiog ¢ fieldx hat lie abroad are pacch ; And ail the fower- faces shrime away 0 ¢F Frem thy hot, passionate kiss, O SKy too near! We feel like hopeless prisoners confined: ¥rom our unhanps hearts our lips complain; And ail the sultry day we can but pray: © for the night, & breath of air, and rain! JuLy 16, 1875 Loy M. W, A Niee Little Fish-Story. The sweetest little fish-story of the se: told vy Frank Abbott, of Burlingte y, :al&ig | anydirection. Clear Lake awells a little_girl who takes a ride every day in-a. small - skiff drawn by tWo pick- erel.. They are: regularly harnessed, and by meaus of lines she is cnabled to guide them in The fish are about three feét in leneth, weizh between scven and eirht pounds each, 8od are very powerful. . When the girl has tired of riding she drives the pickerel to a boat-house, ihere they are unharnessed, taken into & commodious glass agusrium made ex- pressly for them, and fed. When she goes to the tank to haroess them for a ride, the pickerel Jjump almost into her arms, so glad, apparently, are théy to see her. The yount Iniss has been offgred §1,000 for her team. CURRENT GOSSIP. THE CRUSHED POET. New York Gravhic. Softly, gently, o’er me stealing, Tiorne npon the uvening-hreeze, T hear a plaintive, mournfui murmar— *‘Strawbes-c-c-ese!” (He changes his position restleesly.) From afar a sweet voice calls me, Over rivers, mountaius, seas, Laden with the souiful lay of— **Strawber-e-e-cae! (He glares witdly around. ) Ah! what vision glides before me? O fairy form !0 graceful case! O lovely face! O swwect voice moaning— ** Strawber- ere!™ (A hopeless #loom settles on his young brow.) An. my Love! in summer-weather, When we sat beneutn the trees, Did you tremsle when I mnurmured— *Steawber-g-e-ese (His eye becomes glazed and fixed. ) Lost to me art thou, sweet vision! But, when death shall bring release, We will meet in other spheres 25— Strawher-g-e-e-c-e-ese! " (Becotmes & raving maniuc, ) CHATTER BY XLI PERKINS, Saratoga Corressondence Cincinnati Enquirer. The successor of John Morrissey ir: the great Saratoga gambling-house, or, as Saratogians call it, the Club-House, Is his old partner, Mr. Charles Reed. Reed is a strong, vigorous man, in the vrime of life, and before tiwenty years roll around ke will be as notorious as Morrissey or John Chamberlain. Reed s rich, owns one of the handsomest residences in Saratoza, with a graud yard full of statuary, rockeries, fern- eries, and fountains. From his front piazza the rich gambier cau look upon life-sized fac-similes of the Dyine Gladiator, Praxiteles’ Faun, and other masterpicees from the Vatican. In Reed’s mambling-rooms are three roulette tables, a furo-bank, a bunko-table, and a dice- table. The building is beautifully carpeted and furnished. August Belmont and Wiltiam L. "Traverse arc said to be stockholders inthe Club- Iiouse, cr cambling-saloon, and they are also stockholders in the Saratoxa race-track. ‘Lhe heavy players at Saratoza are generally the men who have won the larzest bets at the races during the d: Uf course, such million- aires as Pierre, Georze, and Louls Lorillard play wheuever they choose to. The other nigit one of these brothers, who speuds annualiy ,000 on Iifs race-horses, won 32,000 at faro, but lost it azain ten mioutes afterward at the game of roulette. It waus Louis Lorillard who took to Europe in his private yacht the famous Mrs. Biacktord, who inffuenced a son of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia tosteal his mother’s diamonds. Mrs. Blackford afterward Joined Cora Pearl and the once beautiful but bad Mrs. John Beecher. Mrs. Beocher, you know, is the lady who shot oneof our aristo- cratic voung New Yorkers, nsmed Lloyd Phe- nix. Llovd Phenix married Mrs. Blackford in London after Louis Lorillard got through with her. At least, saw the London newspa- per in which was the arriage notice of the Louis Lorillard, Lioyd Pha:nix. and Johnny Hecksher—who had ight a duel with Willie for scandal- ing his wife (a daughter of William L. Trav- erse)—I suy these threg gentlemen are cousid- ered the blue-bloods of N e Thev are v York. mxu most popular members of the swell Union lub. Manv rich New Yotkers, more careful of their repatations tban the Lorillards, spend their evenings with Belmont, Traverse, and other aristocratic New Yorkers, playmg poker fna private room over the wencral sambling-rooms. Still another class of rich men, who really des- Dise the name ot aambler, loss and win at polcer thousands of dollars anily, in the more retired private club-houses connected with the great hotels. There vou will see_such men as Com- mudore Garrison. Heury Waterson and Ge: IScneuck would join this crowd if they we here. Last of all come the good old church mem- respectable Presidents of raliroads .and Presidents of Youne Mew's Christian Associa- tious, who vlay_ whist opealy on the balconies, but pla; nong this class we zeuer- ¥ lovert Cutting. Vacauot chairs are re- ed in this circle this vear for W, 8. Groes- und Reuben R. Springer, *both of whom are as zood whist-plavers,” Commodore Van- derbilt used to say e to Saratoga.” Wemiss Mrs. Micks in Saratoga this sum- mer. During all the hot weather in New York Mrs. Lord nee Hicks has remained shut up in her Fourteenth street house. Oceastonally she lis veutured on a carrfage ride to the park, but shie has never appeared on horseback. Former- Mrs. Hieks was one of the tnost conspicuous t Saratoza and Newport. -She never veled without her three horses, groom. foot- 0, and maid servant. One of Ler owa ser- aut’s alw ted on her at the public table. icks, however, vever w social success in New York, and now she is completely ob- scured. A little thing kilis a person socially in New York. % N When Mrs. Senator Swan passed through New York on her bridal trip Mrs. Hicks sent ner a mugnilicent bouquet. rom this Mrs. Swan judged that Mrs. Hi would be lad to re- ceive a call from Lhe bride, and so she called ut the Hicks mansion, No.10 W Fourtecnth streetoto see her.” Mrs, Hicks, however, de- clined to see Mrs. Swan, She seot down word that she badbad so much trouble and had changed so much that she begged to be excused the pain of secing any or her old [riends. Mrs. Hicks, the Lord boys suy from their E spent in three years in Europe. ton, who introdiced Joaquin Mil was dazzled by Mrs. Hick magnifi- nee, and actually offered himself. to her, pro- vided she could guarantee a certsin sum of money every vear to speud. This Mrs. Hicks vould 10t do until she could see Mr. Lord, over whom she had supreme control. To set the zuarantee of 4 certain_specilied_amount from Mr. Lord she_returncd to New York, expecting to go back to Engiand in three weeks. But on her arrival here the Lord boys bezan to make a 2 public scandal uf her relations with their father. In u few days it hegan to be so unpleasant for Ler, and, fudeed, her position was so dangerous, that she determined to warry the old man at ouce, and thus sanctify the $500,000 steal. Old Mr. Lord is now bed-riaden. Three ser- vants are able to put him in a_carriage. Te cannot live five years, and may die at any time. Poor Mrs. Hicks!" She has gone the wav of all thé unfortunate. She can never show her face in sociat circles in New York ase Ouce I attendea a party at~ Mzs. Hicks’ house when the walls of :he purlor were one banié of roses. Antung the ruses were nestied, in in- visible cazes, dozens of canary and mocking birds, Gen. Schenck and Gen. Dix were devoted 16 lier that night, and around fer were matherod maoy of the most distinzuished people of the city. She s changed now, but cven in her sor- row rI’ml" otd friends like Gov. Swan cannot for- get her. . Alwaysto be seenn the gentlemen’s smoik- inz-room of Mra. Hicks' residence was a large wap covering almost an entire side of the raom., It was labeled * Hicksville, Ohio,” 1t gave the beholder thé idea that the Mrs. Hicks owned a whole township, aud ft made inancially-minaed Jovers lav awaice nights. [twas o Horgeous plu regular real-estate bonanza. Old lovers like Gen. Dix surveyed it with admiration, and then weut straighe home and sent the beautiful witlow a big bouguet and a hox of bou-bons. . Last winter on'my lecture route I chanced to ride throush the same Hicksville. It is situated south of Toledo, and consists of o stern-wheel station and a few one-horse cottages. I looked in vain for Hicks street, Hicks Park, ana Hicks place. In fact, I almost looked in ' vain for Hicksville. And this was the miserable town siie, or rather ticks site. which made the hearts of Gen. Dix and Lord Hoashton palpitate like mill-uoppers, and which made Gen. Schenek sigh and *“pass out on four aces at Doker. HOT WEATHER IN INDIA. Ziombay Gazette, Juns 24, The hot weather throughout India this year bas been described on all sides a3 of exeeptional severity. In Calcutta the heat has been extra- ordinary even for that part of the country; and there liave been numerous cases of heat apo- plexy reported. In the northwest provinces the heat has been almost unprecedented. We hear of the thermometer registeriny as much 85 120 degrees in the shade, and of deaths taking place even amony the natives i conse- aquence. Regarding the South of India, we find taat the heat has been no less remarkable there than it has been in other partsof the country. The other day ope of the Madras newspapers Teported that the air was so hot that a cheroot conld almost be lighted at it. In Bombay we bave had our share of hot weather. The mon- s500n has at last broken, but before it did the hor- rors of the sitnation were wonder(ul. ‘Thereare two kinds of heat in India, and each has its ad- mirers. There is the moist heat of the sea- bordering districts, and tue dry heat of up- country. Sojourners in the jnterior say, when they come down to Bombay, that the heavy moisture in the air is more sickening than even the hot winds of the Decean. - With khus-khus tatties vou can reduce the temperature indoors up-country. but the moistened atmosphere of Bombay will admit of .no such pallistion. It hangs over: you everywhere like o steaming blanket. Go where you will, do what you will, there is no escape from it and its immediate at- tendants, inordinate perspiration, collapsed en- ergies, liver complaints, and prickly heat. ‘T'hhc monsoon, which generally breaks about the 9th of June, held off with a persistency which was phenomenal, aud the heat day after day was tremendous. ‘there were at least two nizhts when sleep was next to impossible. The air was perfectly still. Not a leaf flurtered. The faintest zephyr wafted from the sea would have been a Godsend, but it came not. The awful hot stillness seemed the prelude to some supernatural catastrophe. It conveyed a mys- terious sense of waiting for_something worse to come. A grand, crashiug, destruetive thunder- storm would not have been disgraced by a pre- lude of such portentous stillness. But the thunder-storm, which would have beenwelcome, never burst, and the dense heat continued. First, the wearied victim turned uon bis couch, restlessly trying to woo sleep to come to him; then he burst into a profuse perspiration, and after vainly turning over and over he had to t up aud walk about, or throw himself ex- Egnst.ed into a canc chair in the veranda or the open air, and wait patiently for daybreak. The hourbefore the sun rose wis betterthan any oth- cr part of the weary twenty-four hours. Thesun might have broughit a breeze with him, but he rode red and anery through hot gray mists, the monarch of stillness and insufferable heat. It was not until early in the forenoon that a breeze sprung up, and the eagerness with which it was welcomed Wwas the most._cloquent testimony to the severity of the airless period of infernal torture which had just been passed tbrough. It was splendid weather for apoplexy, and gasp- ing thin men who had stout, short-necked, full- blooded friends, and koew that they would be Zasping, too, entertained many a gloomy spec- ulation upon the probable effects of such dread- ful weather. Under such circumstances as these it can readily be imagined how welcome the monsoon has been in Bombay tois year. It simply came up with a short-lived gale avout midnight ove night last week, and, after splut- tering about mildly for geveral davs, giviug no good regzular downpour, it burst forth on Friday alternoon with a hurricane and rained for twelve hours at a stretch. On Saturday it was dis- tinguished by one or two violent wusts_that did a considerable amount of damage. Windows were torn ofl, buewies were all but blown oyer, and the waves in tue harbor were tossed to an extraordinary hight. HIS MELONS. Detyuit Free Iress. A policeman yesterday discovered a negroand a big waternelon in close company in an alley off Fort street, and refusiug the tempting slice held out to him, he said: “You stole that melou on the market!” Dars whar' yer off de tow-path, boss—way off onc side,” was the calm reply. *Did you buy it? Come along and point out the man vou bougnt it from.”? + No, I aidu’s buy de melon, boss—I traded fur it.”" “What did you trade?” *Now, boss, what's de use? Heah I s, heah am de melon, an’ we am jes' eatin’ each odder up like » tornady . “What did you trade?” persisted the officer. “Wall, if L mus’ tefl, den I mus’. I tradeda mule an’ a wagin’ fur dis melon.” I don’t believe it.”” )i “I spected vou wouldn't boss, kase you doan’ realize like 1 do how cheap mules an’ wagins hez become, an’ how de price of melous hez scooted up.” *You'll have to come along,” said the officer. “ Now, boss ! Theoflicer stepped forward and discovered two more mclons bebind a box. He turned for an cxplauation, and the negro said : ‘*De man frew in dese odder two melons kase Ifrew ina halter long wid demule! De price of halters am way down, hoss,—way down whar even de poorest kin have halter soup free times aday!” 5 A MISER’S GREAT CHARITY. Ricuyoxo, Va., Aug. 7.—The Miller Manual- Labor School building, near Mechum’s River Depot, in Albemarle County, was dedicated to- day. There a3 a large crowd present, -includ- ing visitors from Richmond, Charlottesville, and Staunton. Addresses were delivered by Gov. Holliday and Dr. Ruffner, Superintendent of Public Education in Virginia. Prof. Vardle, late of Emory and Henry Colleze, is the Su- perintcodent. It is believed that this institu- tion wiil do much to encourage practical cdun- cation all over the State. Samuel Miller, of Lynchburg, who, at his death scven or eirht years ago, was probabiy the richest man in Virginia, lefc the bulk of his fortune to found this school. s on a tract of luvd near where he was born. Ile was an exceedinly penurious may. He had a will vrepared before the War, and desigued by it to take his intents so elear as to save the courts and lawyers all tronble. But such chanwes in his estate and affairs were wrought by the War that the courts were necessarily called upon to coustrue {t. Then naciral children came in to ciaim a big share of their father’s estate. They cnforced 3 compromise, und got a biz slice of the fortune. ‘The lawyers were paid for their services ihe largest fees ever known in Virginia, With the remainder of Miller’s estate the school building was erected. The endowment consists of 3850,000 1u Virginia bonds, which may or may not be repudiated. QUIPs. Seasonable request—* Drink to me only with thine ice!" . To the victors belong about one-sixtcenth of the spoils. I'll take the other fifteen.—Beacons- Jield, in Detroit Frce Press. At Dijon, France, at the late vopular festival, there was upon the orogramme “ a donkey race by gentlemen of the city. Why can’t America get np o weather of her own instead of depending in this abject. way on Forrinheat!{—Ihilade’phia Dulletin. There isu’t as much fuss made over the in- auguration of a boy’s tirst pants pocket as there is over the layving of a corner-stone, but there are more things put in it. Servant (to Irish luborer): “Here's some beer, Lat, if vou care to have it; but I'm afraid it's quitc dead.” Pat: “Och, dead, is it! ah,x,m, thin, datlint, it's 'm the boy to bury it. Professor of Gymnastics: “And after each performance, gentlemen, you should al: ¥'Ss put your right ’and to your Lips, and _draw it away smilin’, us if you was vulling a "air out of yer mouth! Like this ere!” (Shows them hov.) —Punch. We met a farmer, a day or two ago, who was s0 hiard pushed that he was on’ his way to pawn his hoe. " We told i we were sorry to see his case 50 hopeless. “ Hopele be exclaimed, “far from it! You know the old motto, * Hoe paswn, hope ever.’ P— Youkers Gazette, Australla beats England at the wickets: Captain Boguraus outshoots Cholmoudeley Pen- nell; A Yankce crew we've seen at Henley lick its Competing fours. Oid Enzland's growing senile* *Please humor the pronunciation to the rhyme. —DPuuch. *¢Ish ter Scheneral around,” asked an excited Israclite as the United States troops passed' through Siatku in pursuit of the ficeing Bao- nocks. # Well, my man,” said Howard, reining 1 his horse, “what is it? Speak quick.”” %I am a rooin man, Scheneral. Dem cursed red- skins, dey murder my bov Shacob npout fife miles from here, und stheal a dozen pair of pants he was peddlin’. New pants, so hellup e kracious,—right out of my store.” *Sorry for your loss, my man, but haven’t time to talk about it now.” If we catch up with these demons, we'll stop their deviltries for good and aill.” “Yes, I know, Scheneral, 1~ know." eagerly whispered the bereaved' ready-made merchant, banging desperately to the oflicer’s stirrup. “Dot’s all right; but ven you come up mit doze Indians vot wot doze new pants on, for kracious sake, Scheneral, tole the soldiers to shoot high! "—San Francisco Post. Chizaan Commercial Adcertiser. A fast walking-stick—A burri-cane. The modern Shylock usarer-ly takes great interest in his shavings. 7 o We may joke when we please, if we are al- ways carcful to please when we joke. What is the difference between a manina ‘bus and one in a passion?. Une rides in a stage, and the other strides In a rage. ¢ Old Mr, Mr. Hennessey wasreading about the monumeit erected to the memory of Junathan Walker, the man with the branded hand, and he wondered if anybody would ever erect a monu- meut in remembrance of his brandied nose. Never lose yourself in church, if you have anything weighing on your mind. A man io & ueighboring city, who had just paid the milli- ner g fearfull bill for his better half's new and claborately decorated head-gear, Gropoed into a doze in his pew, aud when the minister rave ont - to be sung that hymu of Montgomery’s com- ‘mencing: ‘hat 18 the thing of greatest price The whole creation round? the drowsy man, forgettine where he was and supposing the question was propounded to him persopally, sleetrified the congregation by very audibly ejaculating, * My wife’s new bonnet!?? P e —— REAL ESTATE. bat Holders Firm—Loans, Sales, Ete. TIn times of depression, especially such as the city has passed through since 1873, 1t trics the courage and the endurance of property-owners severely to hold on to it. Taxes, like death, are inevitable, ana they have been plied up to such an extent that almost any expedient is, with too niany, adopted to escape them. An¢ yet, it should be remembered that, with a few excep- tions, the great fortunes of the country are made in real estate. However much prices may shrink, and thongh it may become almost value- Tess for thepayment of debts, a very few years Dot only make it available, but any considerable amount of it, near great and growing cities, males its owner rich and independent. It may be worth while to note, perhaps to repeat, some of the reasons for such a result. Although hard times may for a while stop and then fora ten or adozen years retard the growth of our leading citics, the natural in- crease of population and the rencwal of busi- ness sure to come make a demand for real estate and largely enhance its value. The peo- ple of Chicago have scen such an inerease in prices and revival of business scveral times in the Listory of the city. This has been due to the large immigration we have received from Europe, from the Atlantic seaboard, and from the towns and cities all around us. Another source of demand for real estate property comes from the immense number of younz men who every five years marry and take their places fn society ana in the business circles of the city. Larze numbers of young men and women who are, say, 20 today, in five years will be married, and want homes for themselves. Their own energy, with the assistance, perhaps, of parents and friends, will secure for them at first 1 modest put com- fortable residence. The demand for homes from this source is in the ageregate much larger than most people imagine. Any one who will take a trip to the Missouri River, and then with a map before him will deliverately scau the 700,000 square miles between Lake Michigan and the Rocky Mountaius with the knowledge that ali this'vast country—enough tp form fourteen States as Jarze as Ohio—and their vast wealth and the trade of their tens of willions of people must all concentrate in Chi- cago, can no longer doubt fora moment that the price of real property in Chicazo must 1n a very few vears again be told in figures now con- sidered extravagent if not fabulous. Letour people, therefore, possess their souls in paticnee, hold ou if they can, and ibey will be sure of their reward. i This is what they beliese and precisely what all who can aredoing. A few sales, of course, are made from week to week, but holders, as 1 rule, are firm und entirely willing to - wait for better times and better price: 1 Business was in about the same conuition as it has been for months past, but characterized with 4 little additional dullness when compared with the trapsactions of the past six weeks. Payments continue ‘to improve, which shows that the borrowing class is growing smaller in Business Dull, number, and is accumulating a sarplus, Thece must be an excess of money | over livinz expenses in the _hands of the people at the present time. It will need some patience on the part of rezl estate dealers before this excess finds its way into their pock- cts in exchange for lots. . Confidence has becu badty shuken by the collapse of real estate spec- ulators and of their kindred coterprises, savines banks, and_insurance companics. Government bonds are absorbing the surplus of the earninzs of the people, and it is probable that this cou- dition of affairs will continue some time longe The following were the vrincival transac- tions: Five blocks in South Englewood, $10,000, five years at 7 per cent. Lot on Lake street. between Dearborn and Clark streets, north iront, 20x180 fect, $10,000, four yes S per cenz. H Anundivided }£ or (3 4-10x169 5-10 feet, south- east corner of Lake aud State streets, $8,000, five years at 8 per cent. Lot on Elis avenue, south of Brook strect, west front. 100x180 feet, to secure ten notes of $1,000 each, payable snnually, interest 4 per cent. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT WEEK ENDING AvG. 10, 1375, Trust-deeds] Mortgages.. 3 Aggregate..| 107 ; e i Releases .| 1 f 116 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FROM AUG. 1 TO AUG. 10. ! Instruments Trust-deeds| 124§ Mortgages.. S Aggregate.. Releases SALES OF THE WEER. There was amoderate number of transactions, the transfers being more in number and lareer in amount than usi The following were the principal sales: L. D. Craiz sold to T. Menard lot on Thomp- Kins strect, between Polk and Taylor, west front, 20x125 4-10 feet, improved, for ). L. Z. Leiter bought the lut and building on Washington street, 80 feet west of State, north frout,40x55 feet, for $30,50,—assumingin addition some bazk taxes, ete. Samuel W. Fordyee sold _to W, D. Allen lot on Huron street, between North Clark and Dear- born, north front, 20 1-2x80 feet, with building No. 840, for 37, Lot on Ellis avenue, 200 feet south of Brook street, west front, 100x180 feet, sold for $11,000. Lot on North aveaue, northwest corner of Fleetwood street, south iront, 60x125 feet, with other outside property, sold for §15,500. Catbierine Walsh sold to Witiiam Hudgson lot on Illinois street, 174 feet east of North Wells, north front, 857-10x100 feet, with improvements, for $6,600. George A. Wheeler sold to Annie 8. Beach lot on Hubbard street, 134 3-10 feet west of Hal- sted, north front, 55x30 feet, improved, for & 7.500. The mnorthwest corner of Cass and Chestnut strects. comprising 69x80 feet, including build- ings, sold for 000, 1as, of Chiliicotbe, O., sold eizht. uthwest corner of Centre and Bis- 50 100x170 feet on the southwest nsin and Franklin streets, for ood sold for $20.000; six lots at Parik Ridge $900; six lots at Rogers’ Park 31,000, and various Iats in all the suburbs were disposed of at fair price: Judge T. C. Whiteside sold the LaBerge prop- erty, on West Madison strect, 100 feet ‘west of Halsted, with furniture znd fixtures, for Aunie M. ana Gilbert LaBeree to Elizabeth L. Nix. Consideration, The building and fistures, exclusive of zround, cost $40,0¢0. William W, Perkics has sold to C. D. Brain- ard the N. 60 ncres of the W. 3¢ of the 8. E. 3 of Sec. 30, Township 39, Kaned 13 for $33,700. SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS. The followwyr instruments were filed for record Saturday, Aug. 107 CITY PROPERTY. 123x100 11, dated July 30, 18 th st, 0w cor of liloom 24x125 ft, dated June £ North Murket st, 75 1t = x100 1, dated July ast iluron 1, bet North Clarlcand § born st#, n f. 2012300 ft. (with bailding b . dated July 30. (John For- dyce'to Samuel W, Fordsce. .... . Hubbs &t, 2277-101t of Thirty-third e f, 25'5-10x125 1t, dated Jan. 11. 409 West Taylarst, 7518 eof Lytle st, 51, = 55125 ft, dated Aug. 9........ 21,250 West Tevelfih st, 100 ftw of ‘Throop st, & f, 20x116 ft (with building No. 311), dated Auz. 10 5 3,000 Milwaukee av, ¥6 ne f.27 1t Cornelia st. improved. dated Ang. 10. (Christoph Schultz and wife 10 Henry Mimes) SULES OF THE COULT- r. State st, near Fifty-fourth st, ¢ f, 25x ft. (with other property), dated A 1 SUMMARY. FOR THE WEEK. The following is the total amount of city and suburban_transfers witalo a radiué of eeven miles of the Court-House filed for vecord during the week ending Satunlay, Aug. 10: Ciiy sales, 52; consideration, §179,297. North of city limits, sales, 2; consideration, $1,375. South of city lmits, sales, 165 cunsideration, $10,257. West of clty Iimits, sales, 1; considerayy.. 900 “Toral sales, 71 oyt Sonsideraton L les, 71; total consideration, FLORIDA. A Highly-Favored Section of That State, To the Editor of The Tribune, Livoxa, Killsboro Co., Fla.—Tpg: lnn_her south than any portion o}’?&iu:; ive degrees soutn of San Dicgo, Col,, gy s south of New Orleans. The sun, oge mon;x; 220, Was so nearly directly over head at noo that a broad-brimmed Spanish sombrero covered a man with shaceas completety as an umnrel‘l = The burning plains at Fort Yama le five de"re:; Borth of Limona, and there the mereury iy e mer has often marked 110°. There bave pooy deaths from sunstroke at New Orleans, :\m: at all places between there and St Paut oo Louis. Lauisrille, Cincunati, number tuet sy by the hundreds: and Chicago, on the banks of the cold ‘unsalted sea,’ has feit the blagy, heat, and men and horses haye succumbed :z the rays of the sun. The mereury in oue con: positors’ room has marked 110 deg. at midoigly, Hoyw fearful! Sweat pours down in streams; all kinds of ool drinks are devised, and coy’ trivances to live by day or sleep by nixht; bt all in vain. From the Gulf to the Greay I i and from the Rocky Mountafus, a heated um(:‘ ;p?«;r‘: has passed, and burned s it wept.» * Then, what must bave been by at Limona?? S “It must bave been crushing! soleil must have orostrated all men C::é”fi: mnli; d’l’he mereury boiled; the lakes and bays set i s) L k¢ m;i_ltlexc :x"!:‘ E:_:ugfiid;:rhc fish were cooked, ere, that will do for on are in the South, bat not so her. f:’;'anrsrf;‘ g i sand, Latitude and beat are not S¥NODymons, boro County i not a barren, naked like tbe deserts of “Mexico.' or those tha lie around the Gulf of California. Raip falls bere, and the earth is green With vegets. tion. Evaporation cools the atmosgheres gog the longer summer-nizhts and the shorter s mer-days «ive less heat to the ground thay far- ther north. Sleep is always Telreshing, and the reinvigorated man begins his morning-work with strength renewed. " Damp atmosphere pro. motes perspiration, and we know how to clothe ourselves for the greatest comfort. Here sud- den changes iu temperature do not Tequire 3 rson Lo wear thick flannels ang cary lankets and overcoats. Our houses 2re shaj with the freest circulation of the air; aod g them we find comfort. Sunstrokes are thiney to read of, not thinzs to feel or see. Ope never was known in Hillsboro Conaty, and never wil] be unless other than uatural causes shall duce ft. The pure, soft water from the Welly in Limona, of the anoual temperature of this * place, may be drank at nil seasons withoat shockiug the svstem, 83 do_the cold ‘Waters and ice-fountains of the Norch. Thirst is sssuage] and pature satisfied, and the system left In the best possible condition for healthful aczion. ‘The air, too, is charged with the breathof i and healtn. So, while we say that the heatof the sun does not burn us by duy, we candlsy say we are less sick than any other hot, not unendurable, snmmer cools arayty 3 warm, autumn-like winter, and that besomes summer again, with no sudden chages, the mercury slowly} runs from maximum to migi- mum, like lonz gentle waves: thehighest %3, the lowest 253, —neither extreme lasting many hours,—the mean deing at 29, [ ‘“ Why does Southern Florids have such s imate of South Florida is due inpart to causes without. 1 of winds 3 ‘The great whirl which circle around the point of greatest eold, sweep along the eastern side of the range of mouatains separating our Alaska from the northern British possessions, sad, turning _eastward near the head of the Mississippi, give the great degree of cald in their track durine winter. To this source all the cold winds morth of the twenty-ninth parallel may be traced. From the same source come the * northers ™ of Texss, destroyinz all semi-tropical plants. In sum- mer, the wreat Atlantic whirl, enlarzed and ex- tended, beats back the colder north winds; and, a5 these winds reach the Northwestern States after passing. over the trecless plains towards the Rocky Mountains, they come down as from an immense furnace, robbed of the vital inflo- eoce, as the red-hot stove robs the airin a dose room. by chamce the hot winds of summer reach us, they are cooled and revivitied by passing oser the” Gulf. So, too, the cold winds of winter are warmed bv a similar passage, and fail here with an ul- most sznuner-warmth. The terrible cyclones of the North, risini in the heated plains, never come so far soutl: and thoseof the West Indies pass to the south and east. Thunder-showers come here, but bring no hail; and thus there are no such sudden changes of temperature as 2 deg. in an hour. Atmost Insular in position, in the belt of variable winds, all winds reach vs from ocean-waters, and showers are poared on us in abundance, but soon give placeto cleer skies and gently-fanoing breezes. Limona, on dry, rolling Jands, froin fifty to 100 feet above sea-level, covered naturally with, talt pines, into whose coil the showers are almost immediately swallowed, is free from miasmatic fufigeacr, and must always have a healthy people, and, when kuown, become densely poj Jfen will flee hithervard from heat, from coid, from sickness, and in search of comfort and vleasure. Its soil and ciimate ere admirably adapted to thé growth of all the semi-tropical fruits. and give an abundant yield to those plants requiring such a svil and climate. How about thie yellow-fever? The yellow-fever bus been at Tamps,and & few people have died from its effects, But it never goes to the hich, dry land away from the ocean-waters, nor into the pine-woods. Belure contact with its contarriun, the residents of the ity subject to its influence, forewarned, cn reach the country, and thus escape. Better knowledze of the means of curing the patients has greatly diminished the deatl-rate fo all places not otherwise unhealthtul. In thatre speet Hillsboro Counuty stands pre-emineat overall couniesin the Southern States, In- deed, there is more danger of sunstroke fo a7 city of the Northern -States, and more ilifficulty in escaplng the effcets of the heat of the sum More deaths have occurred this summer from that cause than at any time from yellow-ferer in Florda. Men in the North do not lesve their homes, nor even cease their labors, be- cause sunstroke may fall on them. Itsattacks are like fate; but yellow-fever may be avoided by care aund prodence. The D3 tient recovering from yellow-fever, nniess Mi constitution has been destroyed by the useof improver mediciues, is none the worse for Mv‘; ing suffered from the disease, and hencefort has immunity from its uttack. How is it with the sufferer frum sunstroke! He never recor- ers, but, ou the contrary, is more sensftive to the cffeets of heat. The gauntlet of yellow fever may be run; the heat of the sun follows a man cven into his house, and secks him 01t while at work in his shop. In ome case, personal contact with infection B necessary; the otber orizinates in f system. ~ ‘The one destroysafter days; the other Kills almost instantly. The one is like the bite of aserpent: dunne the fermentation, reniedies may be appis How often is the other lli—d the blow of the bolt from Heaven! The bl 'al' is both unfeit and unseen, and yet it is 43 “ne as the severarce ot the spmal “column at U base of the brain. We of Limona may and shun it, but do not fear that yelluw-le\‘;: will come nearer to us than the wash of 8 tidal waves. And we know it i5 as easily quis antined against as the small-pox. 1 Limona, as a sanitary resort, only needsdevel oping to become famous, The damp, ward, very equable atmosphere is the best el agent for rheumatism and astbma; to . add our bighly ozanized air for the bresth & the asthmatic and pulmoniac, and the Des? pussible coudition js reached to heal thie & eased lungs, or to alleviate paroxysms of e Ureathing organs. Hence, to this place mIss eventually resort those suffering from Jl“ diseases. The roomsand accomodatlons alo are needed to make it so now. Witliwater froF the pipe driven into_the soil, and_raised b’nlu pump, purer than fails from the sides n!zflms_ mountains. and of a temperature oot UDPLETE ant for bathing purposes. no better lut;t;l P can be found for theestablishment of the cure. Gnder the well-shingled roof, s\lppom posts, without inclosed sides, the smooth 468 at all seasons, would invite the trippinas o oly Jnerry dance, in an atmosphere oppressed o0 with “the perfume of fowers. Shady By B‘""' and cool bowers of trees und vines woul to those delizhting 1);:] such retreats pleasured not elsewere obtainable. ‘To compare the sunscts of fillsboro Cun:": or the atmosphere, to Italy, is but 10 Ioweefi' and It should only be clad in_the plain nam! Floridian as its hizhest encomium. As no\:md.i olace is similarly located & to currents of and sca-surronndings, :Bo its deseriprion cao! be improved by comparison. Tts productions are s unique as its climate- To write of these for the reacers of ’1:‘11,; oA UNE may employ our pencfluw? mGa.va"_ ol —_———ee . S 08 Rubini Brown (who has just sung his far0 £ barcarole, his only song)—+ How d’se do gl;!; Chatterleizh! I sappose you have just 0 e Mrs. Chatterleigh—'* Ob, dear, noi T uw e sitting here for the Jast hour, listeniog ot Iovely music. 1do hiooe you sre going to Si5; us that exquisite barcarole of yours: | E