Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 24, 1893, Page 16

16 THE SWEDES IN NEBRASKA | History of the Numerons Settlements in Baunders County. THE REWARDS OF ENERGY AND THRIFT Pronecr ity Privations of Lite 4 Prosp Poverty ana Succoeded by Desery —Early Settlers and Their Homesteads, ur now 111 be har place i > a Americ s of artic onencss In the ana g Swedis ' the present time but n And {ust 10w 18 the opportune cause in a fow years b ne rathered to their cternal and the information here preserved, tha 10 the f Tue Ovana Bee, would be irrecoverably lost While 1 tionality that task, no slight If T record what hos bee hard worl, deprivations and economy by Swedish pioncer farmer, the sume is cqually true cf tho German, Irish, Bohemian Seotch and other nationahities, I have gather lents of th © seric s and i of this be inter reading value with tim moment, be pio stat tin, 1ce these carly rs will b clf to one na best qualified to intended to others. achieved thre have confined alone, becausc igh First Settlement of the County. In March, 1857, I, Warbritton took up a claim on scetion 4, township 13, range 43 J tambaugh and John Augho on section 8, ame township and r; and the three built the two first sod houses in Saunaers county The first settlers near the vicinity of Wahoo were Tho Bissell n 1864 and Moscs Stock trustworthy authority says than twenty people lived in 1850. Tho county was organ Th first Swed who had settlec present site of 1866 and 15 como vs far was one Wall on Sand Creek, near the Colon, some time between This Wall and family had s Nebraska City with a lot of Mormon emigrants, but the ted and mado the settlement aforementioned. They resided in this county until about ten years ago, when thiey sold out and went to Salt Lake City In the y Forsamling, Kristinnstad | low Joh Be ', trom Horjo n, Sweden, the with her Martin, and her family stopped in m, N. B., found A horticul se Hill, o suburb came Mr. Peter- worlk with the noted turist, Mr. Peterson of Chicagzo, and soon son's trusted foreman. Mr. N. B. Berggren was a_young man of vim and enerey. He had heard of the oppor- tunities of the great west for young men, In 1866 he went on a tour of investigation, and his trip extended as_far west as Burt county, whers already a Swedish settlement had been started. He I'pleased with the land 1 said rounty, but hearing that the state capital was to be moved south of the Platte his business to nis mind the advant ) arer the eapital of th fore crossed the Platte and beheld beautiful praivies of Saunders county. At thet time there were no settlers in the in- terior of the county excey Stocking, before mention ite ¢f Lincoln the only s tation were two sod hou The followir returned to Nebrusk: curd a wagon and tean in conjunction wi two gentlemen who were £oing to stake out o mail route to the new state capital, Axes and spades were taken aloug and when Wahoo creck was reached halt a day was occupicd in bridging the same, On October 12, 1807, Mr. Berggren on scction 82, township 15, 2 8, the same time filed for fourtcen othe tlers, among whom were: [ Ouo’ Hucklander, A. L. B Soudberg, Erie Finwali, Frank Poterson, John Job Nelson March b, 1868, M rest of th > made their filings five months before, settled on their respective homesteads, nd from them dates the flour- 1shing Swedish settlements of cour; Letters were sent to r therich and prc in they « session of, and the grard op- portunities it offered to sccure a home, It brought forth results, th filed nd at set- ristenson, cn, Jonas Plumbgren, 1son and Nels N. B. Be and the The Swedeburg Settlement, Tn the spring of 187 the same prov gren hails from, settled around churchies are now were the following Jonsson, I'ruls Person, John trickson, John and Nels Gibson, Jons and Mons Mortinson, Nels Eliason, Hans Han- won, Hans Hokanson and A. G, Quick. In the'full of the same year this settiement ro- ceived a further reinforcement of about 100 milies. 1t is impossible to secure the numes of all, but at the organization of the shurch on the 20th da of April, 1870, we find the following names of members not already enumerated: Sam Peterson, (now Koping), Martin Jeppson, Carl Carlson, Bengy i Ok wenson, Sumuel Peterson, (Linkoping), Olof Olson, A. G. Olson, Peter Olson, P, [ Anderson, . J. Goranson, C. J. Larson, Swen Swons. won, A. 1. Wallin, Andrew Eliason, Hokun 0Ison and Truls Holcauson, almo Settlen rrived, direct f » of Sweden that Mr, T thirty families, allof wher la hom wedceburg gnus it acson, the Malmo grain and stock ngs the houor of being the first Bwedish settler in that part of the county, i hals from Kristianstad 1 Bweden, and emigrated in 1808, arriving i Omaha in the month of May, 1865, He came and settled on bis homestéad in Saunders county in the spring of 1569, He did not re wain ‘alone for wore than about t when Mr. Andrew Blomboerg Owaha with a colony of Swe the historic Dalearlia, noted for br: men and handsome women, and located the on the beautiful and productive prairic sur rounding the present Malmo. "The following 15 u list of those uround Malmo in the y y J. Bredetberg Hellsing, G. Bruco, A. Rosenberg, J. Nelson, J. Larson, Jungstrom, Bengt Olson and ' his three € and John and Alfred Ander. 1 John Feostrum, 1., | 0. Nelson, . Nelson, I, Pehirson, Per Erickson, I. H M. Erickson, i Hokanson, N, Eliason and Olof Boostrom The three Bruces above mentioned are direct descendants from the noted Scot tish cnieftain, Bruce, the 1 having tled from Scotland 10 escape with their lives from the tyranny of the British govern ment and settled in Sweden, but now tra planted and taken firm and permanent root n the soil of the great republic, The Estiua Setilement, Tu the year 180 also from direct from who settled and 1870: 1, Ising, P, lsing, A ily the county was invaded by a Swedish immigration from another quarter. A Baptist colony scttled seven miles north from the present site of Mead, uod was called the Istina settlement, from the postoftice by that name. These colonists came mafoly from Minnesots and Moline, 1il, ana were from the northern part of Bweden. Among them we have collected e following names: Audrew, John A., and Gullick Wicklund, P. O. Hjeltman, A." Ek quist, L. E. Lund, Louis Anderson, I. Olson (F'ranzen), and in' 1870 came C, K. Uppman from Brooklyn, N. Y, The Mead Settlement. The settlement made by N, B. Berggren aud his company in 1868 can be popularly classed as belonging to the Mead settlement, sud they tunited and organized the first Swedlsh church organization in the county on the 15th day of Jauuary, 1870, as will pe wore fully shown in another ariicle, Afmug the early settiers (1860-70) of this dcltcmcnlu‘a; be mentioned Swen Heden: -~ | he | the fe | from his \na Nykoping, and GustMonten ame the 10th P. Henning ved _in ¢ and in N r, 1870, he camo ted his wi n the homestead, while returncd to Om; fir Alimen, Andrew Hallner, Pehr Huldt, J. Gibson, A. Larson and son also arrived in 1869, Memphis Settiement, In the soring of 10 ! on section 6,township 13, from the present station of Memphis hout means, ses of land, well improved and well d and outof debt the same time Larson and F in answer to my letter information relative to his exp early settler, he writes as ca in Larson Low d his f 1869, ange 0, three miles He ame Peter Thulin arlin aski r for 1S an th 1808 to care ave a wife wcres of th setiled 1860 spring of ren. Today 1 ind own (40 o sun shir 1 in the of te of Ashl cighty acres and. wo years | 56 1 to haul the water two miles, water in win [ drank warm ed jce in the old the same from 10 10nt, from 2 cents to 1 to§8 per 100 grassh and been out, wnd still 1 “hold stead. It would take £40,000 to buy of all my I erty t children a good ed o iter and - one Wesleyan university, and 1old purp 5 o bushel from have been caten up by chintz bu 1 have drowned out and dried u rt the ol vers cs. iiled on am I have now g of those who laid large and flourishir Suunders cof the names and records the foundation of the Swoedish settlements of ha y deserving of notice have escaped my attention will no doubt be true, but I have done the best that could be aone under the ci stances and the time devoted to the subject In the next two articles w of the privations and expe through by these early pic have succceded as farmes, mer chamcs, professional men and the churches they have built, y havo founded, in short, the v have made in material, moral advancement 1c Jouss - 1110N AL, be given some i>nces passc how they iants, me- poliuicians; the schools 18 EDUC During tho last month Yale has £100,000 to be added to her endowment fund The idea of a consolid the Uni versity of New York with college has come to ht The will of Dr. Barre, Mass., has £5,000 to Havva permanent fund for cal acpartment. It is claimed for Miss Dorotha wncisco novonly that sheis the tho degree of “doctor of . but_ that she can sharpen herown lead pencils when she de- sires to engage iu a computation Therc is a decrease in the aumber of stu- dents in the liberal bray at Johns Hop- kins this year. There are 500 students now at the uni OF these thi 2 duate students students of medicine and 178 unde and specials, ived n of ia Billi of bequeathed the sum of niversity, to be kept asa scholarship in'the medi- Lucius P, Klumpke Garland of New York ha rvard in the for which and has univer ranged a form of fou he will pay the _exnensc dy given to the Harvard ) worth of rare Prof. George H. Palmer of Harva ty and Mrs. Alice I'reeman Palmer, will move after Christnas into ' the Dr. A. P. Peabody lived for so in the college mbridge. Peabody, hters, are building a new house for themselves. “Though ex-Governor Brown of Georgi in il heaith and unable to participate in active affairs of any kind, the city council of Atlanta_has clected him' a member of the Board of kducation, and bis name is to be on the rolls as long as he lives, This is in recogzuition of his efforts in behalf of public schools in that city. A recent visitor to Washington has been cnor Don Puul Groussac of Buenos Ayres. He is president of the national library of that city and commissioner of education for Argentino Kepublic. He is also con- nected with La Nacion, one of the most im- portant papers of the repabl Senor Groussac is studying this country and will travel extensi here before returning. co and has visited 5. just offered a great igton-on-the-Hudson to the and Potted Plant associa- tion. will be dotted with a num- ber of framo buildings, in which children are to be lodged and fed during the su months. These will be ready June will be flower beds asobject lessons, 1 out by experienced gardene ch ild who is brought there will be plot of zround and taught t it. The cxceutive_committee of the We Reserve university has appointed Mrs, Mary Noyes Colvin professorof romance languages in the College for Women. Mrs, Colvin was \duated=from Holyol studyi v tered Zurich, bestowed upon her the ae summa cum laude, she havir Woman 1o r the institution. Dr. Alexander Martin, vico president of Depauw university, is dead. He had held tho chair of menta Iscicnce at Depauw university sis 5. in that time he de veloped into one of the foremost expound of Methodism in Indiana, being prominentiy mentioned for bishop at the two last eci- menical conferences, He took Ins seat as president of the colieg 6 and held it Ul 18N voluntarily resigned to let He was born Mount and after 155, that university been the fi ive the doctor’s degree from ‘enczuela has 2,100,000 estunt missionry. non Farear will put upin St. Margarev's chuyeh, London, of which he is rector, a memorial to the late Dr. Phillips Brooks ‘Today, in India, there aro twenty-eight Protestant theological seminaries with 500 students undergoing training for Christian servic Ono of Futher in St. Stephen's cnurch, ko ger, has remounced the Koman ( chureh and embraced Protestantism, Marie Jamet, tho peasant girl who founded the Order of Little Sisters of the P’oor, died veceutly in Brittany at the age of 74 order has now 20 A Lawbertyille , pastor, wno re cently compared those of his flock who play progressive euchre in_their own homes to i ofessional gamblers, finds the membership people and one ‘atholic ng The Chinese Young Men fon in San Fraucisco has recently sent )00 to Canton, Chin; s & contribution Chinese of & rancisco for the ation of their countrymen. Among the honorary diplomas recently given by the St. Andrew's university of Iid- luburgh is one awarded to Rabbl Albert Loewa, the first instance of this distinction aving been bestowed by o British univer: sity on an Israelite rabbi. Bishop William Croswell Doane will cele- ato the twenty-first anniversary of his ecration at Albany in Februavy next. A ter house is to be built at the Ca- thedral of All Saints in Albany as 4 memno- risl of the vishop's consecration, A recent roligious census of Scotland dis closed the fact that out of a total population 0 the various denominations have 003,130 in church communion—786 per 1,000 of the population. The followiug is the di- vision of the above named total, viz tablished church (Presbyterian), 1,146, 'reo church (Presbyterian), 771,031 s Christian asso- church, 233,010 a bis statemen ‘churchless,” —_——— Dobbins, Jr.—Whut you readin’? Domino, Jr.—Daredevil Dan; or, the Dan gerous Dago." Dobbins, Jr.—1s he any use. (o romino, Jr.—Well, s-a-y | |1t's out of sight. ft takes ninety-elght chapters ter kill 'im, an he comcs near gittin' soaked fer keeps wpst every chapter! tholic chureh, 852,747, t leaves 1,062,511 Scotsmen but today is the owner | M. | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: UNDAY,' DECEMBER 24, _1893-SINTEE PAGES. CHRISTMAS EVE, Tenny The time draws near, the birth of Christ; The moon 1 hid; the night fs still The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist Four vol f four hamlets round, From far and near, on mead and moor, Swell out and fail, ‘as 1t a door Were shut between me and the sound: Each volce four changes on the wind, That now dilate, and now decrease Peace and good will, good will and yeace, Peace and good will to all mankind Rise, happy morn; rise, holy morn Draw forth the eheerful day from night; O Father, tonch the ea alight The light thit shone when Hope was born THE émfi WITCIES, A long time ago, 1 cannot say many years, lived out on the Military road Just this side of 1 mysterious old wor how ther gton, o Her abodo was 4 rude what her name was or whe 1y pretended to knovw. was always the An 1 but came nobe She Witch She was a scrawny, shrunken sort of thing, with her buck and a g cyes were small and with og and s hut she called Overland wrinkled enormous hump on o beak of &1 sunken, and overhung amat of grizzlea brows, which gave her an extromely repulsive look. Her hair was thin ay, and always streamed loc ath a turban of dirty red “There was no telling how il the old-time emigrants who passed over the Oregon trail met her theve, awd after Omaha own to quite urishing scttlement and farm b began to dovthe prairie about the lovely valley where Irvington now stands she was suill there. She looked no older or prettier as the years rolled on, and no one could even ss how she lived Her sole companions were an old Ulack cat, with cyes of a reddish hue, and an enormous prairie owl, said to bea demon in disg C, Surprising ns had many visitors. day, but never at dared call at b shades of “night an A nosc and g om ben flunnc old sho was, had ¢ secm, this old h came alm Nobody had ever g hovel after the scttled down, id ve- lated farm d hurry by the as if they feared some appalling harm would hap- pen them One dark, stormy night, however, the old witch was startled by a loud knocking at the door. Slic was notonly surprised but angry, because the disturbance came 1n the mast ations for supper. The black ore the oper hed v back of the old woman's chair, Whomsoever you may be, £o away; this is no tume for \ining visitors; you can- not come in here. And the hag stirred the kettlo she was boiling some sort gopher flesh, herbs and lea But the banging repeated, and i the OverlandWitch fully across the floor door, she opened 1t suftici She could just make out the appearance of the intruder, She was o woman and dressed garments blacker than the night itself. What seek you here, woman ¢ hissed witeh vieiously. A bit to sup and shelter from the storm lost my way and eannot proceed fur- vivdly on the in which of mixture of ckety door was vicious 1mprecation arose, hobbled spite- unbolting the to peek out. at matters not to me, begone.” +Oh, good dame, you will 1ot deny me tand protection ona night like Won't I, though?” and the old slums and boits the door, then I voice 15 a high piteh, she shr Begone now, lest I let my bird ana cat would make short work of such as witch ting her ho! you miserable hag and jurer,” came back fuintly, but vindictiv “you'do no reck whom 3t is you have pulsed from your wretched ‘hovel, 1 ‘I'he same mother bore us, rtis blacker than yours!” 'y juncture & huge boulder come tumbling down the sod _chimney, and into the witch's kettle of soup splashed 1t all over the room, scalding the cat und making her yowl horridiy and at the samno time burning the fuce and arms of the Jand to her screams and wing the owl flapped s and added his dis: on- ror am but Was not t! horrible seene? But to make it worse cven, the black sky opened in a quick, ficree glance of lightning, displaying tremendous clouds, tumbling and rollng over the prairic. A growl of thunder succeeded. Then ¢ auother lare, redder, fiercer, and a peal was launched that' fairly split the old witch's ear. 1t was an awful storm, the like of whi the old hag had never known befor lightzing kindled an almost station: inthe tumultuous clouds and therd wiss a continuous and appalling roll of thunder. All this the Overland Witeh beheld,in such s she hudgne ittle cubby hole The rain streamed the awful roaring ame a down in rivers, while 0 told that the wind had spread its pinions and the wholo outside world glared in fiercest erimson. The witch, the cat and the owl fairly howled with rage and fear. but suddenly the old woman scized her ouken staff, threw open the door and sprang out into the awful storm, intending to admiinister dive punish- ment upon the being who had wrought all this frightful turmoil, She aimed o wicked thought was the evil onc whizzed through the bl force of her own exertion heavily to the ground she lay insensible until the cat, which, by purring and licking her wrinkled face, brought her back to consclousness. Phe stars were pecping forth from flying fragments of cloads, and the storm was rum- bling ind muttering off in th The old hag was sureshe heard a shriek of cldriteh laughter us she arose and hobvled into her hut, where she found everything in disorder. ‘I'ho fire was out, the keitle smashed and the floor strewn with littor. Sho was ina fury and heaped the most unioly imp: tions upon her sister cye and the reyenge upon But how? She did noteven know that she had 4 si; let alone where she lived, Yeu there was pothing boyond the cunning of the Overland Witch, and stroking the wot- tled back of the owl she said something in a sort of gibberish in his ear, picked him up and tossed him out nto the open air. With o lugubrious hoot the bird spread his wings, aud, noiseless as the thistle down, sailed away in'the wake of the storm. Then the old witeh mounted the cat, stuck a hair piu into his ribs, and with his fur bristling out like the quills of & porcupine, he sprau away so swiftly that she kept beueath the soaring owl. At last the bird reached his destination It was a ramshackle, tumble-down tencment that stood on the outskirts of Owa ome of Tom Murray's very n the spot whore the new public library is now being built, which was thea nothing buta vast hole, a st and rugged hill losming up where the court house stands T'his all the Overland Witch desired to know just then. So calling the owl, and taking the cat up in her arms—turn being fair play—she hobbled down to wan's livery stable, which stood on the si of the Jate Boya’s opera house, and hil the hostler to drive her aud her vets home. Once more in her own hut the old witeh began 10 eudgel her cunning brain to devise ways and means of getting even with her sister. She spent days and nights at this work, went through all sorts of demonical incantations, drank magic broth of toad's ers’ fat, and made whole meals of the stingers of bumble bees uud the wings of 1 beetles Finally by the aid of these and the wise counselling of the black grimalkin and the owl, she arrived at the ouly plan of aepriv- ing her sister of her unearthly powers, which she was couvinced must be even greater than ek own This was to pluck out her eye winkers, which were to be burned at midnight, ju ere the dawn of Christmas, in & fire out of goat's milk, stones and piece iron. After weeks of weary waiting she at made up her mind o see how the plun would work. S0 she weut down to the Pappio, on blow at what she but her staff only 'k air, and by the the old witeh fell upon her face, where whose banks evom which | and ‘spread night, will r | withered face to this ANy grows & raro if made into o proper emulsion thigkly over the face for one ora to the oldest and Lithe appearances of youth and gathering n quentity of this marvelous plant, sho made Wik decoction and subjected hersclf to the neoessary treatment, The next morning on lookimg into the mirror she was flattered on beholding a beaming, innocent face. with checks full of blooming chrysan themums and oyes sparkling with all roguishness of inmecent childhood Tho old witch was excessively jubilant and sho made speed in ¢ ing her plans, which wero to arey torself as a common farm and at night, just before Christ mas, proceed to the tencment house of her ister in the hollow near Omaha, Secreted in hor coat she carried & purse of shin plasters, and a_ bottle of subtle oplite, which sl pounded from the roots of tho rag w ind bark of th ry, which vory much rescmbled a vottle of K cabinet luger icked falterngly ¢ 1. Hor sistor wder and flerce looking, with 1 to burn holes ineverything stened upon the witch 1 her piercing serutiny with becon 2 fortitude, und on being asked i a snan pish voice the naturc of her errand, she said bush fuily My good woman, they tell mo that you are the lover's friend, and I sorcly need your aid, and if you will give 1t me Iwill pay thee well “You spenk like can 1 do to helo yo “1want a love p herb, half t the 2 manly boy. Now what wder. 1 love sweet Milly Miller, who lives in the Biuffs, but fain would believe she does not look with favor upon my suit. You can make her return my holy passion?” Ave, casily, coy youth; but palm my reward, and though you be a hun- dred fold moi gr than you are. Milly will adore youmadly. But it wiil cost you two dollars and fifty cents, And fifty cents CAY this love knownst only to me, ve it away I'he country bumpkin demurred no longe but producing five fifty-cent shinplast deposited them in the tall woman's hand In turn she went to o cupboard and reaching up among a lot of dusty bottles took down one containing a dingy looking liquor, tub this bottle, you need not uncork it. your sweetheart's ears, and no power Arth can win her irom thec Oh, good dume, how can I thank enovgh, and 1 w1l not leave until you arink with me to the health of my fair Milly. [ have a bottle of rare wild grape wine here, which was sent to my father from leed Oak, Towa.” Indee tall woman produced oblet Into this the old witeh po powerful opiate and woman. She took it and ace in my potion and is a 1 cannov over s youth,” rod half of the nanded v to the tall had just touched her lips he rim of the g when the huge can which sat on the mantle piece, splut ered and went out “Ho! ho! traitor, ingr thy fute “The o1t Overland Witeh turned to flee But the tall woman caught her to te, do you know fully, when to her wild delight the suddenly assumea her natur: ating had destroyed rag weed emulsion. The knocked her down, and taking two clothes pins astened one on each all around the roow with he ging her upstaivs to the s flinging her out of the wine She fell on a pile of would have been killed, neavy liver pad and that s She ~ arose sorely to began to hobble up Farnam street, but her from the stretching they ha she attracted the attention of a lot of boys who were out late and they hooted jeered and pelted her with brick bats and mud until she reached the shelter of her own hovel way out on the Milits Farmers coming into town ( morning were dumbfounded to discover that the old hut of the Overland Witcn was gone, and huat as hard as you may, oven today, you cunnot find a’ single vestige of th wretched b on who can tell you what be the old witch or her tall dark sister who did live in the hol- low at Omaha. SANDY GRISWOLD, i A PRELUDE. Thomas Bailey Aldrich i Scribner's, In vouth, beside the lonely se Voices ahd visions cams to me. oman th finally drag- ath story and brick and he wore a ved her life. her feev and the hill toward ore so long Titani Were niy f: her furtive broods niliars in the woods. y flower that broke in flame, Soue b t-uruculated whisper came. In cvery wind I felt {h Of some celestial messen Later, annd the city's din And 10il and wealth, and want and sin, They followed me £ o strect to street, I'he dreams tha de my boyheod sweet! As in the silence-haunted glen, o, wid tho crowded ways of nien; Strango 1i rant faney led. Strange watehers sat beside my bed 11 fort + hid 1o shafts for me In th y. al compt Now o by And on by distantly the accents rin frequent th cding w ne the visions fly, 5 i, Moy Mo Full dark shall be the s in store, e 1o more. } PALATE. Over (00,000 cattle nually slaughtered to make béef extract for soup. The worla puts on its victual: $3,000,000 worth of black pepper. The hog packers of this country last year Jalled and packea 20,912,000 hogs. “The Americun breath is annually scented with 15,000,000 bushels of onions. One district of Tennessee exports annually over 10,000 quarts of blackberries, I'he world’s sugar plantations every year 6,000,000 tons of sugar, ew Jersey sends to York ten carloads of France and Italy chestnuts for home use and export Over 12,000,000 bushels of buckwheat were every year produce New In Ttaly last year 10,000 tons of cheese were devoured, with 16,000 tous of coffee. One firm of oyster packers at Baltimore claims a o 000 cans o day, The A sweet tooth is annually sat- istled with 20,000/tons of maple suzar “The people of this country annually con- sume each 102 ounees of tea and coffec, Switzerland semds to France cver 000 tons of mikk and 13,000 of cheese, Paris i 1500 perfumed its breath with 6,000 tons of onions and 700 tons of garlic, The Germans collectively refresh them- selves with 83,000 tous of very year, Cuanadian hens: lay every year 152,000,000 oggs, to be made duto omelets aud egyno The American peoplc last year drank the decoction from 0,060,000 pounds of coffee. Iestaurant soup is partly flavored in this country with 22,080,000 bushels of carrots Kussia raises 1,260 pounds of grain and fifty-one pounds of meat to each inhabitant There 10,000 pounds of red suappers sent from Llorida to New York every year. 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