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IRELAND.
The Railroad-Ride- from London
derry to Port rush—
Lough Foyle.
Jaunting-Cars and Their Jehus—The
Enins of the Castle of
Duuluce.
The Giants’ Causeway—A Host Extra
ordinary Geological Curiosity—
Fin HcCoul.
The Bay of Portcoon—Dnnkerry Cave-
Landlord and Peasant —Moun-
tainous Taxes.
gprcial Corrftvondtncz 0/ The Tribute.
Portbusb, Ireland. July 75.—Among the
justly celebrated spots to be visited in ibe North
of Ireland is the Giant’s Causeway, on the
northern coast of County Antrim, and the ruins
of the famous Castle of Dunlucc in the neigh
borhood. The knowledge of these ancient and
historic localities, and the tales and legends
concerning them, form some of ray earliest
recollections, and to this day dwell in m3’im
agination with great power and vividness. The
misfortune of the tourist visiting the Causeway
with his mind wrought up by preconceived
notions of grandeur, becomes apparent on
reaching the locality and beholding the sight.
The Giant’s Causeway is not grand, in the full
acceptation of the word, but very curious.
While one may be disappointed in one particu
lar, one may be vastly interested in the other. As
a natural and scientific 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 since, I left
Londonderry by rail for Portrush, a small town
on the coast six miles from the Causeway,
much frequented by the natives as a kind of
summer-resort, and the point from which
tourists proceed by van to their destination.
FROM DERRT TO COLERAINE
tbe railroad winds along the picturesque shores
of Lough Foyle, one of tbe finest sheets of
water io Ireland. The ride is exhilarating and
refreshing In the extreme. Xow and then tbe
train rushes along the shore almost within
reach of tbe lapping waters of the Lough, then
dashes inland among the hawthorn hedges,
grates of elm and sycamore trees, clustering
shrubs, well-kept Jairus, and growing fields of
grain. Old mansion houses, almost bidden
from view by climbing vines and lichca-coverrd
roofs, resting in glossy bowers of emerald
green foliage, with the white walls of cottiers
now and then peeping out from the
hedges, added to the chain of the
beautiful landscape. The distant mountains
on the farther side of the bay*, with their high
lops veiled by a blue, transparent mist, gave a
diversity and grandenr to the view. The dancing
waters of the bay, shimmering in the midday
sun, the white, shadowy sails of the fishing
craft, like vanishing phantoms of the deep, the
distant view* of villages along the hither shore,
• the far-distant waters of the ' broad Atlantic,
\ Just discernible oil Jnlshowcn Head, on a day
like this, when all nature seemed to smile, were
sights which till the heart with gladness and
cause one to give thanks £u/ the beautiful
-world.
The son is up, the sky is dear.
The waves are dancing fust and bright:
Blue isles and snowy mountains wear
The purple noon's transparent light.
Al Coleraine the tourist changes cars for Port
rush, and the train on the main line rushes on
through a roost, picturesque and beautiful
wudut to Belfast, 300 miles distant.
Coleraine is a pretty town of some
0,000 inhabitants, situated on tbe Kiver Bauu,
and aiK»ut Jour miles and a half from the orrean.
It is. an ancient place, and as early as A. D, i>4o
St. Carbreus, a disciple of St. Fim’au of Ciunaid.
was Bishop of Coleraine. The population is
sustained by its linen-factories, which have long
l»cen celebrated, and by its salmon fisheries on
the Baun. The surrounding country is also fer
tile and productive. In the town are some old
houses having tbe appearance of having heen
built in the seventeenth century. At .Mount
ssaodell, one mile south of the town, on the
right bank of the Baun, there are the remains
of a large Danish fort, —a grim memorial of the
time when the Irish coast was overrun by the
bold navigators of the northern waters,* who
ravaged tbe country and harassed
THE ANCIENT IRISH KINGS.
A ride of some fifteen minutes brines the
traveler to Bortrush, a busy little seaport town
containing some 3,(XX) or 4,000 inhabitants, sit
uated within the shelter of a line headland,
from which the distant coast of Scotland is visi
ble on a bright day like this. It has several pood
hotels, and the sea-coast is fine. Bathing in the
sea and driving on the lieacii are the favorite
amusements.
From Lids point, the journey to the Causeway
is made iu a van. or jaunting-ear, over the
smoothest of Irish turnpikes. There is no lack
of facilities for makinp the trip, for upon
alighting from the railway coach one is sur
rounded by a dozen or more of the drivers of
vehicles of various sizes and descriptions, all
bearing: a family resemblance to that national
gig, the Irish jaunting-car, which is the parent
of all the ugly progeny. Here the voluble
tongue of the ancient Celt displays its persua
sive eloquence greatly to the confusion of the
unpracUcttl traveler, each driver havinp a car
riage and horses, if I am to believe his unctuous
words»a little better than the turnout driven bv
The Viceregal Governor of the island. There is
great competition in prices and the bidding for
passengers is as spirited as a lively laorninp at
Sampson <!c Co.’s auctions in Chicago,but Baddy
always adroitly manages never to do business
at a losing figure, and the tourist is never after
wards conscience-stricken on account of not
having sufficiently paid for the services ren
dered. Indeed, the steady hemorrhage of
gratuitous sixpences and shillings from one’s
l»ocket threatens due with financial extinction
at no distant future. Therefore, the wise trav
eler makes haste while in these regions.
The drive from Portrush to the Causeway is
u delightful journey, the rocky headlands and
the broad, lonesome ocean being on the one
hand, and beetling hills upoa the other. There
are
MANT OBJECTS OF INTEREST
on the way, which were duly pointed out hv the
loquacious Jehu who sat upon the box,'who
charged bis passengers a sixpence cadi for
nls historical narrations. Among these were
Napoleon’s nose, the lion’s paw, the priests’
well, the maiden’s areh, etc., all of which have
heir legends.
Bv far the most interesting object in this
region of country, in rav estimation, is the ruins
of the noble Castle ot Dunluce. file turreted
walls of tilts ancient structure, as massive and
as strong as when first erected, stiil stand upon
the rude, overshadowing cliffs, defving time,
i llle elements, and the destructive band of man
A more itiaceessihle and defensible spot eouid
Kiarcely have been selected, and in the age in
which it was built it must have been as nearly
impregnable as human skill aud labor could
make any place. The site of the castle is upon
a jutting cliff overhanging the sea, which has
thundered against its granite base for unknown
centuries, it is connected with the main land
by a narrow neck of rock. On every side but
this its walls rise precipitously hundreus
of feet above the liowltng sea and
the ragged, gaping chasm below.
As one approaches me spot, a small hill con
ceals it ii om view' until one is very near at hand,
wuen, suddenly, theoici ruin bursts upon his
sight as if arising out of iho sea, ins naked
chimneys and rugged walls giving the castle a
niournlul appearance. Here the rolemu crow,
resting on its moulerin? pinnacles, that seem
liaiunng over the white surf far below, as it
breaks with dealenitur roar asoinst these
natural bulwarks, the screamingscu fowl wheel
whid h wm?n- tbe ? rabo r ; the mounlful north
wind whistling through the rifted casements-
J h n”Tn“-t' i'cllow sunlight of thealtcrnoon
resting on its western walls; and the ion"
shadows of the tail towers failing across the
wruitils ' jf departed inmates of
stature, combine to produce an ira
qnSem express? 6 S ° Ul ™*sareinade
caiue^tQ 00 at,tn^ tke building; of this
■ i*r CHIEFTAIN’ NAMED SI’KEOWJi,
to defend himself against the Danes and
Cruthneans of ancient Caledonia, as well as to
protect Himself and his vassals from the sud
den attacks Ins tumultuous and amressive
neighbors. By polling up the drawbridge' all
access to the castle was rendered impossible,
and the brave defender might laugh at his bes
siegers in safety. On the south side of the
drawbridge were to be seen, until quite recent
ly, 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 dwell
ings near at hand, and the rains of an ancient
chapel, now overgowu with iw, roofless and
desolate, may be seen. At a little distance to
the east is a small elevation called gallows-hill,
on which were executed those who had commit
ted offenses against tile reigning chieftain
thought to be worthy of death. • •. r
The clangor of the brazen trumpet which once
reverberated along these cold, projecting shores
to arouse the clansmen from their distant
haunts, and the manly voices that filled them,
are now mute. The hands that reared these
granite blocks and defended them with valor
are now as lifeless as the stones that crumble
over his tomb, his very name almost forgot, and
his resting place unknown. All is silent save
the ceaseless voice of the ocean and the sound
of-Hollis’ harp through the tenontlcss ruins.
The haughty chieftains who once held wassail
here have long since passed away, leaving noth
ing to indicate their greatness ’ but tradition.
Their descendants have become aliens to the
soil of their glorious ancestors and the humble
vassals of foreign Kings. The heirs of the
noble Irish chieftains, the McKeowns, the Me
tjuellaus, and De Comrcys, if any exist,
live in turf huts - thatched with straw,
and wrest a precarious existence from
the laud which once shook beneath the
tread of their illustrious progenitors, by
raising mangcJ-wm/.el and cabbage, Such is
Irish succession under English rule. During
the reign of Elizabeth, some lime about 15S0,
COL. M’DONALP. a SCOTCHMAN,
with a considerable forceof HiglUauders, arrived
on the coast to assist Tyrconnell against tlie
clans of O’Xcill. A peace iiaving been estab
lished between the chieftains of these powerful
clans, McDonald became the guest of McQuellan,
whom he assisted in subduing some of hjs war
like neighbors. McDonald afterwards married
McQucllan’s daughter, and with characteristic
Scotch thrift managed to inherit all the old
chicttuin’s lands, and to this day the descend
ants of that marriage, the McDonnells, ot An
trim, inherit the estates and the titles of their
noble ancestor, while tlie descendants of
the two sous of old McQuellan are
mere pensioners on the soil of their fathers.
Sir Waiter Scott visited tnis ruin in 15514, an
account of which is contained in his memoirs.
A brisk drive of three miles brought our party
to the Ilian‘s’ Causeway, The most extraordinary
geological curiosii v in Ireland, and probably in
the world. The district is annually visited by
thousands ot tourists, who come to behold the
wonders of which they have long heard. Tlie
1 Causeway is composed of basaltic rocks m per
pendicular columns, some having hvc and some
six sides, and separated bv lissures, so small that
in some cases a knife-blade could not be forced
between them. The exposed ends of these
pillars form the Causeway. These columns are
composed of about, one-half flinty earth, one
quarter iron, and oue-quurter clav and lime. It
is believed that they are of Plutonic origin*
formed by a fusion of the ingredients into
one mass, which in cooling has cracked
or crystallized into these "regular forms.
Some * patient and leisurely tourist has discov
ered that there are 40,000 of these crystallized
columns, all neatly cut and polished, and locat
ed with as much compactness and precision us
if they had been placed there by the hand of au
artisan, flow far these colomiades run into the
sea has not yet been ascertained. The fact
that on the Scottish coast directlv opposite, on
the Island of Stoffa, a somewhat similar forma
tion exists, has given rise to numerous legends
concerning the origin of the Causeway.
One of these is.to tlie effect that
THE O'IAAT PIN* it’COCL, 4
the champion of Ireland,-at one lime dwelt on
tins sea-broken coast- A certain Caledonian
giant, who dwelt on the opposite coast, mad/}
himself eery offensive by ins Jottd boasts and
insolent bearing. He sent word to Fin that,
were it not for the fact that he would get wet,
lie would wade over tiie channel and give
him such a thumping as he never
received before. Fin, being nowise
content to put up with this challenge from his
brawny neighbor, applied to the King for per*
mission to act, and'was permitted bv his Irish
Majesty to construct a causeway which would
allow the .swaggering scut to' walk over the
channel dry-shod. After the bridge had been
completed without the slightest regard for the
interests ot navigation, the Caledonian giant,
walked over, and the contest which-followed re*
suited in the victory of Fin over his adversary.
Fin. however, with true Hibernian maguaniaii*
ty, not oniv spared the life of his adversarv, Put
invited him to remain In Ireland. This the
Caledonian was only too glad to do, as he found
hut poor picking in his own barren hills.aml the
green, fertile Jlelds of Ireland were very inviting.
The two coinhalants ever afterwards lived in
peace and amity. After their death the Cause
n ay, being no longer wanted, sank into the sea,
leaving only a portion at eilucr end visible. ;
At present the place is infested with guides, i
boatmen, peddlers of views, and geological speci
mens, who plague and pester the tourist at
every step, scarcely leaving him a moment to
K*)k about him. If thiscrowd of vermin could
be exterminated, a Visit to the place would be
fsir more pleasant and profitable. During my
brief stay of two or three hours, 1 fervently
longed lor the revivification of old Fin .McCoui, ‘
who is long since dead aud tunica to stone, that
he might revisit this spot and make a breakfast
off the whole lot of these trooping human ver
min.
Id order to obtain
A VJUW OF THE HEADLAND,
and in order to visit the coves in the vicinity, it
is necessary to bin* boalinen to take one out
upon the sea. Mvselfand companions aecord
iupiy entered one of the numerous skills to be
had here for this purpose, and were rowed
around, the headland. For mv own part, instead
ol beinp overwhelmed with the grandeur of the
scene, I was overwhelmed with seasickness,
i though between my periods ot retchinp i pot a
| tine view ot the nipped, precipitous cliffs which
| rise here in proa I majesty.
Boricoou Cave, about half a mile 'vest of the
; Caiif-eway, is a lofty and imposing excavation
, noted for its echo, which is peneraily exhibited
by the discharge of u pistol, the pJaviup of a
musical instrument, or the shouts of' the boat
men. Tnis cave is about 300 feet in length, and
may be approached cither by land or sea, Con
tiguous to the cave is the Bay of Bortcoon.
tormed by a wbyudyke, consisting of seven
wails, separated troni the precipice by some
convulsion of nature. In the centre of the bar
is an insulated pointed basulilc rock, which, in
roush weather, T hreatens the skiff of the visitor
with destruction. ©
Mot lar westward from this is
PI. NKEKUV CAVE,
only accessible Jn.m the ocean. The vanned
roof rises to the height- of sixty feet, and its
width is twcniy-tix leet. Its length has not yet
been ascertained, as It contracts into a narrow,
irrepular hssure which no boat can pcucirate
and beyond which the hollow voice of the
ocean may be heard as it breaks apainst
the rocky coast. The entrance Is through
a hiph, regularly-formed arch composed of jet
black rock. The roof of the cave is covered
witli preen coujWne, produemp a beautiful
effects .lust above the suriace of the water is
a zone of beaulilul marine plants. Jn this cave
the water rises anti recedes with a regular swell
corresponding with the successive breaking of
the sea upon the coast. Alter one penetrates
into the winding cavern beyond a point where
the ocean and sky are not visible, this sweßiri"
oi tin; nlack waters, swinging the boat up
wards the roof by an unseen force, produces a
very stirring emotion, ami one might be appre
hensive of beinp crushed ami suffocated in this
dismal vault were he not assured by the boat
men that there is no danger, and the lurtber
fact that no lives have ever been known lobe
lost, there.
Ihere are many Ollier objects of interest which
enp«o the traveler’s attention, most of them
of minor importance, such as the Giant’s Loom
the Giant’s Greran, the Giant’s Amphitheatre’
the Giant’s ell, etc. The causeway is diviilcil
into three tongues, called the Little, the .Mid
dle, and the Grand Causeways, all of which have
their peculiar int erest. Probably the most com
mon emotion entertained liy the ordinary visitor
l‘> elasstc spot is tllat of disappohitnienL
A supcrlieial examination ol the curiosities of
tlie place is soon made, and. unless one is a
scientist who desires to examine the rocky
formation with the minuteness of a scholar, a
lour ot a couple of hours enables him to exam
ine tlie entire topography of the locality. There
is a hotel here of whoae accommodations and
<•onveulem.es accounts are conlhcliiig, where
travelers who desire to make au extended ob
servation of the caves and rocks here may lind
shelter. Concernin': the charges at this cara
vansary there is but. one tale, and that is that
the bills presented are of a sutliclent magnitude
to cast a pensive gioom over the spirits of the
tourist for a week thereafter.
Kotuming to Fortrusb 1 had an oonortunitv
of examining
TOK FACE OF THE COCXTRT,
and bad a superficial observation of its produc
tions. Here, as everywhere in Ireland, the
ground available for tilling is divided by
hedges and stone walls into small parallelo'-
Erams, each containing two or three acres of
land. In these fields I saw potatoes, oats, and
barley growing, with now and then a field
containin': cabbages and turnips. The demesnes
of the gentry usually embrace the most fertile
and productive portion of the country, while
tuc hillsides, and morasses, ami mount
aintops are lelt to the peasantry. “ Here I hev
raise their sheep, pigs, and fowls, and their veg
etables. The soil is naturally very poor in some
of these localities, and the cultivator is obliged
to resort to artificial means to stimulate iis
productiveness. Guano and manufactured fer
tfilters are used in great quantities bv the farm
ers here, though thev claim that the use of
euano only dives them a temporary benefit the
ultimate result being to impoverish tlie’laml
and to render it less productive than before.
On this coast seaweed ismueh used as a manure.
This is collected by the peasants from the
beach, and earned by them on their backs with
hjeat labor to their sterile mountain-slooes.
Xhcy frequently irade into cce sea to tacir
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necks to obtain this fertilizing grass. Former
ly-this manure was free to those who took upon
themselves the labor of collecting it. It is not
generally so now.
' * TUB LANDLORD CLAIMS
, one-third of the benefit of the weeds collected
on the shores of the demense. Having risked
his health lu the icy waters of the ocean to col
lect the seaweed, and having carried it in bags
upon his shoulders for mites up steep
mountain-slopes, one would naturally con
clude that the poor peasant bad rightfully
earned the entire benefit of his efforts; but
such is not tbc case by any means. Not only
lias be to divide tne product of his toll with the
landlord, but having by dint of industry and
persevcrcnce reclaimed his little bolding from
the unproductive bog, or the sterile hillside,
aud made it to smile with the result of his
labor, along comes the landlord, who, discover
ing new evidences of prosperity on the part of
his tenant, aud who, seeing that the rocky soil
of a hill, or a marshy bog, has been rendered
really productive by the sweat of the peasant’s
brow, hastily returns home and notifies bis vas
sal that he has doubled or quadrupled his rent.
Instances of this character, I am informed, are
not infrequent, iu fact, there is scarcely a
holding iu. Ireland that the rent of it is not
double or treble what it was formerly, and this
increased value Ills in no instance been made
by the landlord, but by
THE TOILING, I'OVEUTX-PINCHED PEASANT
living upou two pints of meal porridge per day.
with a few watery turnips, and potatoes, and
cabbage'added. Thus, it will be seen, instead
.of there being a premium placed upon his
industry, there is no inducement whatever
held out to 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 cottier lives, al
ways without, any exception as far as 1 have
observed, in the most squalid poverty. He
comes into the world amidst wretchedness and
tilth, and, after a long life of hardships and
privation, during which he has struggled man
fully to maintain within his toil-scarred body
the breath of life, and during wiiieh he 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 in the gloom of his
black cabin, covered with rugs, which are them
selves the evidences of his bard lot, and his
toil-bent body is finally laid to rest under the
green turf his own sweat has helped to dress
and nourish. And who shall say, at the great
day when the trump shall sound summoning
the hosts of the earth before the Throne, that
the humble servant to whom was given but one
talent which he improved shall not rise re
splendent in the glory of that morn, while the
unprofitable servant *lO whom were gm-‘ a feu
talents shall go down to darkness and everlast
ing despair!
The land under mv eyes for miles in every di
rection belongs to the vast estates of
THE PRESENT EARL OP ANTRIM,
who, no doubt, is a pleasant gentleman, who
enjoys a comfortable existence yielded to him
by these well-cultivated acres. ” Certainly he
has naught to complain of so far a* the distribu
tion of this world’s favors are concerned, and if
he lives so as to merit a similar reward iu the
next, he will be more fortunate than a majority*
of his fellow-landlords.
Tbe country here in the North is rolling and
undulating, now and then rising to huge peaks.
Underneath the soil is a limestone formation,
which yields a quality of cement which is widely
celebrated. Aside from the "entry the inhabi
tants appear to be very poor, living upon the
bare necessities of life. The fisheries on the
coast afford employment toa considerable num
ber of people. Salmon of an excellent quality
are taken in large numbers, this beingu staple
article of diet here. Ojtters are also found in
considerable quantities, but these are imme
diately shipped to Emrlaud, the natives consid
ering themselves too poor to use them. An
oyster stew such as one might obtain m
Chicago for 25 cents costs here about SI. The
fisheries as well as the oyster-beds arc owned
and controlled by English companies with
patents from the Crown. Such a thin" as
riparian rights seems noLUo be known here. A
mau cannot throw a hoorf or drag a net m the
waters of a river flowing through bis own de
mesnes without a license without incurring
grave penalties. lam surprised that the air
people breathe here is not owned bv some
British company with a patent from the 'Queen,
•allowing them to impose a tax upon all who
breath it, and subjecting those who neglect or
refuse to do so to fine and imprisonment. I
never before found such mountainous taxes as
exist here, and 1 only wonder that there is any
industry at all, and that the country is not en
tirely depopulated. ' F. E. N.
*A BIG SPECULATOR.
Monmouth 111 Angus the U— W S Crosby
aud ComfKimj—Sm: i take my pea In hand to
rite you and to let you no I want to spekulate
on the Boar of traid i think the crops will bee
better next year than that wich thay arc now
can you send me rekoraend tiiat you air rasoon
sylablc i have 500 dollars left to me bv the deth*
of my unkle Daniel which is on my mothers sid
and i want to sell intu futurity if i send vou 500
dollars can you give me a demand not and good
sekurity i see your hsmbil when i was into iowa
this spring Chicago papers say Armoor is rasin
gosts there with the wcat market if a corner
should be put up short oii the market have you
mine in your onis to mix red winter and spring:
to deliver into the corner if i pet stuck wat is
your opinion in regard to a factory to eolore
spring weat into red wimer there is pood water
power nerc here and a Smll pasel of tramps to
work cheap i shall spekulate irotn 500 to 5,000
bushclls mak or braik no muu no fun vauder
billt goold some others hav maid rnunnyspek
ulatin why cant x be another of the samewot is
your commission or had you rather hav half the
prutits some do this also you beinp rite tliar vou
no of cors how the markit is goin & you can.
turn and return my muny and mak us both a
fort in by postthar is muny maid and i must and
will hav sura of the sum anser soon as yon revive
this letter your friend Solomon Bioweli.
Monmoth Warren County Ills
THEY LITTLE THOUGHT.
They little thought, when lightly breathed
.My Ups lb)- name so cherished.
That ev’ry brilliant hope that wreathed
Wuh thine had darkly perished.
With placid brow and smiling eye.
Thy treasured name was spoken;
From my wrung heart not one faint sigh
betrayed that heart was broken.
They bade me sing a song of old
That olt I’ve sung to thee;
But my heart’s response was faint and cold
To ils low, sweet minstrelsy.
Like music breathing from a shrine
Whose deiiy bath lied.
Love's wailing echoes lilted the heart
When hope jay cold ami dead.
But 1 touched my lute, and a happy strain
From its trembling strings awoke.
Ami pride, that erst hud dormant lain,
In tone and accent spoke.
A votary in mud Pleasure’s train,
1 vainly would forget;
But Memory, like wo’s sad refrain.
Thrills my lone spirit yet.
As thougn a subtle spell had thralled
My weary heart and bruin,
Auu Night, with ail its radiant gloom,
Bend* o’er my path again.
A Southern grave its flowery breast
Heaves to the leaning stars.
While my worn soul, with broken wing*
Beats’gainst Life’s prison-bars. ° ’
Anon the eve is Hooded with
Soft hues from Paradise,
And eyes whose glory dimmed the star*
Lean ’tween me and the skies.
I cannot choose to look away;
From out the radiant past
This picture Jives within my soul.
The brightest and the last.
It comes before me as the light
May flash across the eyes
Of dying sinners, pure and bright
From far-ofl Paradise:
Ami iow my wailing spirit sinks
Before the magic power
That adds sad Memory’s galling links
To bind me from this hour.
1 love thee yet! The dust lies deep
Above thy sunny brow.
And yearning heart and clinging b&nda
Mar meet no more below. '
Tlie fairy visions of the oust.
All warmth, and joy, and light.
Are shadowed by Death’s dark eclipse—
Hb all-destroying blight. r
Maggie A. Cotne.
JULY.
Too jealous Sky leans o’er thee, faithfal
{Jins-’ tlnuds seem spread upon the
No Wind comes irom the level seas to stir
The heavy languor which the long hours fills.
ThC bmnch;‘ anS h “ vlly from ma " y “ bending
The fields that lie abroad are parched and -ere ■
And all the flower-faces shrink away ’
f'rem thy hot passionate kiss, o Sky too near’
'' c retl hke hopeless prisoners confined:
From oar unhappy hearts our lips complain-
And all the sultry day we can but pray;
O for the night, a breath of air, and rain!
July 10, IBTS. Lulu dL Tf.
A Nice Little Fish-Story.
The sweetest little fish-story of the season is
told by Frank Abbott, of Burliagt*> \ la. At
Clear -Late dwells a little girl who takes a ride
every day In a- small skiff drawn by two pick
erel. Thev ore regularly harnessed, and by
means of lines she is enabled to guide them in
any direction. The fish are about three feet in
length, weigh between seven and eight pounds
each, and are very powerful. . When the girl
has tired of riding "she drives the pickerel to a
boat-house, where they are unharnessed, taken
into a commodious glass aquarium mode ex
pressly for them, and fed. When she goes to
the tank to harness them fora ride, the pickerel
jump almost into her arms, so glad, apparently,
are they to see her. The young miss has been
offered SI,OOO for her team.
CURRENT GOSSIP.
THE.CRUSHED POET.
I\'ew Fork Graphic.
Softly, gently, o’er me stealing,
Horne noon the cvening-breeze,
I hear a plaintive, mournful murmur—
* ‘Straii’ber-e-c-csc! n
(He changes his position restlessly.)
From afar a sweet voice calls me,
Over rivers, mountains, seas,
Laden with the soulful lay of—
‘‘Strawoer-e-e-eae!”
(He glares wildly around. )
Ah! what vision glides before me?
O fairy form J O graceful ease I
O lovely face! O sweet voice moaning—
* * Struwbcr-e-e-csc! ”
(A hopeless gloom settles on his young brow.)
Love! in summer-weather,
When we sat beneath the trees,
Hid 3'ou tremftie when I murmured—
‘ * Strawbcr-e-e-esc! ”
(Hie eye becomes glazed and fixed.)
Lost to me art thou, sweet vision!
.Hut, when death shall bring release,
W e will meet in other spheres aa—
“Strawber-c-e-e-e-e-ese! ”
(Becomes a raving maniac.}
CHATTER BST ELI PERKINS,
Saratoga Correspondence Cincinnati Enquirer.
The successor of Jobu Morrissey in the great
Saratoga gambling-house, or, as Salratogiaus
call it. the Ciub-House, is his old partner, Air.
Charles Reed. Reed is a strong, vigorous man,
in the prime of life, and before twenty years
roll around he will be as notorious a? Morrissey
or John Chamberlain. Heed is rich, owns one
of the handsomest residences in Saratoga, with
a grand yard fall of statuary, rockeries, fern
eries, and fountains. • From his front piazza the
rich gambler can look upon life-sized fae-similes
of the Dying Gladiator, Praxiteles’ Faun, and
other masterpieces from the Vatican.
In Reed’s gambling-rooms are three roulette
tables, a faro-bank, a bunko-table, and a diec
tablc. The building is beautifully carpeted and
furnished. August Belmont and William L.
Traverse arc said to be stockholders in the Club-
House, cr gambling-saloon, and they are also
stockholders in the Saratoga racc-track.
The heavy players at Saratoga are generally
the men who have won the largest bets at the
races during the day. Of course, such million
aires as Pierre, George, and Louis Lorillard
play whenever they choose to. The other night
one of these brothers, who spends anuuallv
£200,000 on his race-horses, won £2.000 at faro,
but lost it again ten minutes afterward at the
game of rou«ette. it was Louis Lorillard \rho
took to Europe in his private yacht the famous
Mrs. Blackford, wfio Influenced a son of the
Grand Duke Michael of Russia to steal his
mother’s diamonds. Mrs. Blackford afterward
joined Cora Pearl and the once beautiful but
bad Mrs. John Beecher. Mrs. Beecher, you
know, is the lady who shot one of our aristo
cratic young New Yorkers, named Lloyd Phas
ing. Lloyd Fluents married Mrs. Blackford
in London after Louis Lorillard got through
with her. At least. I saw the London newspa
per in which was the marriage notice of the
Phomix-Blaekford nuptials. Louis Lorillard,
Lloyd Phoenix, and Johnny Ilecksher—who had
to light a duel with Willie Gray for scandal
izing his wife (a daughter of William L. Trav
erse) —I sav these three gentlemen are consid
ered the blue-bloods of New York. Thev axe
the most popular members of the swell Union
Club.
Manv rich New Yorkers, more careful of their
reputations than the Lorillards, spend their
evenings with Belmont, Traverse, and other
aristocratic New Yorkers, plaving poker in a
private room over the general gambling-rooms.
Still another class of rich men, who really des
pise the name ot gambler, lose and win at poker
thousands of dollars daily, in the more retired
private clubhouses connected with the great
hotels. There you will see such men as Com
modore Garrison. Henry Waterson and Gen.
Scheuck would join this crowd it tnev were
here.
Last of all conic the good old church mem
bers respectable Presidents of railroads .and
Presidents of Young Men’s Christian Associa
tions, who play whist openly on the balconies,
but piny ir, for fuu. Among this class we geuer
alJy see Robert Cutting, Vacant chairs are re
served in this circle this year for W. S, Grocs
bcelc and Reuben JL Sprimrcr, “both of whom
areas goud whist-players, 5 ’ Commodore Van
derbilt used to say, “as evercume to Saratoga.”
Wc miss Mrs. Hicks in Saratoga this sum
mer. During ail the hot weather in New* York
Mrs. Lord nec Hicks has remained shut up in
her Fourteenth street house. Occasionally she
has ventured on a carriage ride to the park, bat
she has never appeared on horseback. Former
ly Mrs. Hicks was one ot the most consnicuous
arrivals at Saratoga and Newport. She never
traveled without her three horses, groom, foot
man, ami maid servant. One of her own ser
vants always waited on her at the public table.
Mrs. Hicks, however, never was a social success
in New York, ami now she is completely ob
scured. A little thing kills a person socially in
New York.
When Mrs. Senator Swan passed through
New York on her bridal trip Mrs. Kicks sent her
a mugmliccut bouquet, from this .Mrs. Swan
judged that Mrs. Hicks would be glad to re
ceive a call from the bride, and so she called at
the Hicks mansion, No. 10 West Fourteenth
sircet/to see her.* Mrs. Kicks, however, de
clined to sec Mrs. Swan. She sent down word
that sue had had so much trouble and had
changed so much that she begged to be excused
the pain ot seeing any or her bid friends.
Mrs. JliekSj the Lortl boys sav, really received
from their father about $500,000, which she
spent in three years in Europe. Lord Hough
ton, who introduced Joaquin Miller to London
society, was dazzled bv Mrs. Hicks’ magnifi
cence, and actually offered himself to her, pro
vided she could guarantee a certain sum of
money every year to spend. This Mrs. Hicks
could not do until she could see Mr. Lord, over
whom she had supreme control. To get the
guarantee of a certain specified amount from
Mr. Lord she returned to New York, expecting
to go back to England in three weeks. But on
her arrival here the Lord hoys began to make a
public scandal of her relations with their father,
lu a few days it began to be so unpleasant for
her. ami, indeed, her position was so dangerous,
that she determined to marry the old man at
once, and thus sanctify the $500,0U0 steal.
Old Mr. Lord is now bed-riadeu. Three ser
vants arc able to put him in a carriage. lie
cannot live jive years, and may die at any time.
Boor Mrs. Kicks! She bus gone the way of all
the unfortunate. She eau never show her face
in social circles in New York again.
Once I attended a party at Mrs. Kicks’ house
when the walls of the parlor were one bank of
roses. Among the roses were nestled, in in
visible cages, dozens of canary and mocking
birds, (tch. Schcnek and Gen. I)ix were devoted
to her that night, and around tier were gathered
many of the most distinguished people ol the
city, fchc is changed uow, but eveu in her sor
row her old friends like Gov. Swan cauuot for
get her.
Always to be seen in the pentlcraen’s smox
mjr-roorn of Mrs. Hicks’ residence was a large
imifj eorcnng- almost an entire side of the room.
It was labeled “ Hieksville, Ohio.-” It save the
.1 i . r tll f iac » the Mrs. Hicks owned a
w bole town.lnu, and it made financially-minded
lorcrs lay awake nights. it was a gorgeous
resular real-estate bonanza. Old lovers
like Ucn. I*;-c surveyed it with admiration, and
ibcn went straight home and sent the beautiful
widow a big bouquet and a box of bon-bons.
i-asl winter on my lecture route I chanced to
ride through the same Hieksville. It is situated
i-outh of loleuo, and consists of a stern-wheel
station and a few one-horse cottages. I looked
in ram for Hicks street, Hicks Park, and Hiclts
fcj” fa s t ’ * almost looked in rain for
ilicksville. And this was the miserable town
f-V r T, thor u “ks si V e - " llich made the hearts
miio!! - D anU f onl Eoaffhton palpitate like
"o.r '5 p 5 s ’ antl "’ lllcll made (Jen. Schenek
si 0 h and pass out” on four aces at poker.
HOT -WEATHER IN INDIA.
Jlombnu Gactlle, June 21,
The hot weather throughout India this year
has been described on all sides as of exceptional
severity. In Calcutta the heat has been extra
ordinary even for that part of the country - , and
there have been numerous cases of heat apo
plexy reported. In tire northwest provinces the
heat has been almost unprecedented. We
hear of the thermometer registering as much
as ISO degrees In the shade, and of deaths
taking place even among the natives m conse
queuce. Regarding the South of India, we find
taat the heat lias been no less remarkable there
than it nas been in other parts of the country.
The other day one of the 3fadraS‘ newspapers
reported that the air was so hot that a cheroot
could almost be lighted at it. In Bombay we
have had our share of hot weather. The mon
soon has at last broken, but before it did the hor
rors of the situation were wonderful. There are
two kinds of heat in India, and each bos its ad
mirers. There is the moist heat of the sca
bordering districts, and the dry iicat of up
country. Sojourners in the interior say, when
they come down to Bombay, that the heavy
moisture in the air is more sickening than even
the hot winds of the Dcccau. With khus-kfiiu
tatties you can reduce the temperature indoors
up-country, but the moistened atmosphere of
Bombay will admit of no such palliation. It
hangs ’over, you everywhere like a 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, Jiver complaints, and prickly heat.
The monsoon, which generally breaks about
the Dth of June, held oft with a persistency
which was phenomenal, and the heat day after
day was tremendous. There were at least two
nights when sleep was next to impossible. The
air was perfectly still. Not a leaf fluttered.
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 lor something worse to
come. A grand, crashing, destructive thunder
storm would not have been disgraced by a pre
lude of such portentous stillness. But the
tbuuder-storm, which would have been welcome,
never burst, and the dense heat continued.
First, the wearied victim turned upon his 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
get up and walk about, or throw himself ex
hausted Into a cane chair in the veranda or the
oocn air, and wait patiently for daybreak. The
hourbcforc the sun rose was better than any oth
er part of the weary twenty-four hours. Tiiesun
might have brought a breeze with him, but he
rode red and angry through hot gray mists, the
monarch of stilliiess and inalterable heat. It
was not until early in theforenoon that a breeze
sprung up, and the eagerness with which it was
welcomed was the most eloquent testimony to
the severity of the airless period of infernal
torture which had just been passed through.
It was splendid weather for apoplexy, and gasp
ing thin men who had stout, short-necked, full
blooded friends, and knew that they would be
gasping, too, entertained many a gloomy spec
ulation upon the probable ellects of such'dread
ful weather. Under such circumstances as
these it can readily be imagined how welcome
the monsoon has been in Bombay this year. It
simply came up with a short-lived gale about
midnight one night last week, and, after splut
tering about mildly for Stveral days, giving no
good regular downpour, it burst forth on Friday
afternoon with a hurricane and rained for twelve
hours at a stretch. On Saturday it was dis
tinguished by one or two violent gusts that did
a considerable amount of damage. Windows
w ere torn oil, buggies were all but blown over,
and the waves in tue harbor were tossed to an
extraordinary bight.
UTS MELONS,
Detroit Free J'ress.
A policeman yesterday discovered a negro and
a big watermelon in dose company in an alley
off Fort street, and refusing the tempting slice
held out to him, he said:
“You stole that melon on the market!”
“Dars whar’ yeroff de tow-path, boss—way
off one side,” was the calm reply.
“Did you buy it? Come along and point out
the man you bougnt it from,”
“No, I didn’t buy de melon, boss—l traded
fur it.”
“ What did you trade?”
“Now, boss, what’s de use? Heah I is, heah
am de melon, an’ we am jes’ eatin’ each odder
uplikcatornady.”
“What did you trade?” persisted the officer.
“ Wall, if i mus’ tell, deu I mns’. I traded a.
mule an’ a wagin’ fur dis melon.”
“ I don't believe it.”
“I sheeted you wouldn’t boss, kase vou doan’
realize like I do how cheap mules au’ wagins
hez become, au’ how de price of melons hez
scooted up.”
“ You’ll iiave to come along,” said the officer.
“Now, boss!”
Theofficcr stepped fonvard and discovered two
more melons behind a box. De turned for an
explanation, and the negro said;
“De man frew in dese odder two melons kase
I frew In a halter’long wid de mule! De price
of halters am way down, boss, —wav down whar
even de poorest kin have halter soiio free times
a day!”
A MISER’S GREAT CHARITY”.
Richmond, Va., Aug. 7.—'The Miller Manual-
Labor School building, near Meebum’s Liver
Depot, in Albemarle County, was dedicated to
day. There was a large crowd uresent, includ
ing visitors from Richmond, Charlottesville, and
Staunton. Addresses were delivered by Gov.
Holliday and Dr. Luifner, Superintendent of
Public Education in Virginia. Prof. Vardlc,
late of Emory and iicnry College, is the Su
perintendent. It is believed that this institu
tion will do much to encourage practical edu
cation all over the State. Samuel Miller,
of Lynchburg, who, at his death seven
or eight years ago, was probabiv the
richest man in Virginia, left the" bulk
of his lortune to found this school. It is on a
tract of laud near where he was born. He was
an excccdlnly nenurious man. He had a will
orepared before the War, and designed by it to
make his intents so clear as to save the courts
and lawyers all trouble. But such changes in
his estate and affairs were wrought by the War
that the courts were necessarily called upon to
construe it. Then nat iral children came in to
claim a big share of their father’s estate. Thcv
euforced a compromise, and got a big slice of
the fortune. The lawyers were paid for their
services the largest fees ever known in Virginia.
With the remainder of Miller’s estate the school
building was erected. The endowment consists
of £S3U,(KK) in Virginia bonds, which mav or may
not be repudiated.
QUIPS.
Seasonable request—“ Driak to me only with
thine ice!”
To the victors belong about one-sixteenth of
the spoils. I’ll take the other fifteen.— Beacons-
Jtdd, in Detroit Free Dress.
At Dijon, France, at the late popular festival,
there was upon the programme “ a donkey race
by gentlemen of the city.”
Why can T t America get up a weather of her
own instead of depending in this abject way on
Forriaheatf— Philade'phla Bulletin.
There isn't as much fuss made over the in
auguration of a boy’s Urst pants pocket as there
is over the laving of a corner-stone, but there
arc more things put lu it.
Servant (to Irish laborer): “Here’s some
beer, Vat, if vou care to have it; but I’m afraid
it’s Quite dead.” Vat: “Oeh, dead, is it 1
Shure, thin, darlint, it’s I’m the boy to bury
Professor of Gymnastics: “And after each
performance, gentlemen, you should always put
your right |auci to your lips, and draw it awav
smilin’, as if you was pulling a ’air out of yer
mouth! Like this’ere!” (Shows them how.)
— Punch.
We met a farmer, a day or two ago, who was
so hard pushed that he was on his wav to pawn
his hoe. We told him we were'sorry to see his
case so hopeless. “Hopeless!” he ’exclaimed
“far from it! You know the old motto, ‘Hoe
pawn, nope ever.’ Ytmien Gazette
Australia beats England at the wickets;
Captain Bogarous outsboota Cholmondelcy Pen
noil;
kee crew we’ve seen at Henley lick its
pciimr fours. Old Ensiand'a growing
senile!* ° »
•Please humor the pronunciation to the rhyme
— Punch.
A Yank
Comp
•‘lsh ter Scheneral around,” asked an excited
Israelite as the United States troops passed
through Siatku in pursuit of the fleeing Ban
nocks. Well, my man,” said Howard, rcinji]'-
in Ms horse, “what is it? Sneak quick.” “I
am a room man, Scheneral. Dem cursed red
skins, dey murder my boy Shacob aoout life
miles from here, und stlicai a dozen pair of
pants lie was peddlin’. New pants, so helluD
me kradous.—right out of my store.” “‘Sorry
for your loss, my man, hut haven’t time to talk
about it now. If wc catch up with these
demons, we’ll stoo their deviltries for good and
ail.” “Yes, I know, Scheneral, 1 know,”
eagerly whispered the bereaved ready-made
merchant, hanging desperately to the officer's
stirrup. “Dot’s all right; hut yen' you come
up mit doze Indians vot got doze new’pants on,
for kradous sake, Scheneral, tole the soldiers to
shoot high! ’’—Ann Francisco Post.
Chtpaao Commercial Artvertixer.
A fast waiking-stick—A burri-cane.
The modern Shylock usurer-ly takes great
interest in liis shavings.
We may joke when we please, if we are al
ways careful to please when we joke.
What is the difference between a man !n a ’bus
and one in a mission? une rides in a stage, and
the other strides in a rage. •
Old Mr. Mr. Hennessey was reading about the
monument erected to the memorv of Jonathan
Walker, the man with the brande’d hand, and he
wondered if anybody would ever erect a monu
ment in remembrance of his brandied nose.
Never lose yourself in church, if vou have
auythingweighiuj; on your mind. A man in a
neighboring city, who had last paid the milli
ner ? fcarfull bill for his better hairs new and
elaborately decorated bead-gear, dropped into a
doze in his new, aud when the minister crave oat
to be sung that hymn of com
mencing:
What is the thing of greatest price
The whole creation round?
the drowsy man, forgetting where he was and
supposing the question was propounded to him
personally, electrified the congregation by very
audibly ejaculating, “My wife’s new bonnet!”
REAL ESTATE.
Business Bull, but Holders Firm—Loans,
Sales, Ktc.
In times of depression, especially such as the
city has passed through since 1373, it tries the
courage and the endurance of property-owners
severely to hold on to it. Taxes, like death, are
inevitable, ana they have been piled up to such
an extent that almost any expedient is, with too
many, adopted to escape them. And 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 though it may become almost value-
less for the payment of debts, a very few years
□ot only make it available, but any considerable
amount of it, near great and growing cities,
makes Its owner rich and independent. It may
be worth while to note, perhaps to repeat, some
of the reasons fur such a result.
Although hard times may for a while stop
and then for a ten or a dozen years retard the
growth of our leading cities, the natural in
crease of population aud the renewal of busi
ness sure to come make a demand for real
estate and largely enhance its value. The peo
ple of Chicago have seen such an increase in
prices and revival of business several times in
the history 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 young men who
everv five years marry and take their places in
society ana in the business circles of the city.
Large numbers of young men and women who
are, say, 20 to-day, 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 a modest out com
fortable residence. The demand for homes
from this source is in the aggregate 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 deliberately
scan the 700.000 square miles between Lake
Michigan anil the Kockv Mountains with the
knowledge that all this vast country—enough
tp form fourteen States as large as Ohio—and
their vast wealth and the trade of their tens of
millions of people must all concentrate in Chi
cago, can no longer doubt for a moment that
the price of real property in Chicago must in a
very few years again be told in figures now* con
sidered extravagant if not fabulous. Let our
people, therefore, possess their souls in
patience, bold ou if they can, and they will be
sure of their reward.
This Is what they believe and precisely what
all who can are doing. A few sales, of course,
are made from week to week, but holders, os a
rule, are firm and entirely willing to wait for
bettor times and better prices.
LOAN' MAUKET.
Business was in about the same condition as
it has been for months past, but characterized
with a little additional dullness when compared
with the transactions of the past six weeks.
Payments continue to improve, which shows
that the borrowing class is growing smaller in
number, and is accumulating a surplus.
There must be an excess of mouev
, over living expenses iu the hands of
the people at the present time. It will need
some patience on the part of real estate dealers
before this excess finds its wa\* into their pock
ets in exchange for lots. Confidence has bccu
badly shaken by the collapse of real estate spec
ulators and of their kindred enterprises, savings
banks, and insurance companies. Government
bonds are absorbing the surplus of the earnings
of the people, and it is probable* that this con
dition of affairs will continue some time longer.
The following were the prindoal transac
tions:
Five blocks in South Englewood, SIO,OOO, five
years at 7 per cent.
Lot on Lake street, between Dearborn and
Clark streets, north front, 20xlS0 feet, SIO,OOO,
four years at S per cent. f
An undivided X or OS 4-10x169 0-10 feet, south
east corner of Lake and State streets, SB,OOO,
five years at S per cent.
Lot on Ellis avenue, south of Brook street,
west front, lOOxISO feet, to secure teu notes of
SI,OOO each, payable annually, interest 4 per
cent.
COMPARATIVE statement week entino auo. 10.
XSTtJ.
Instruments'
So. \ C'siderat'n'l So.: C'sUleraVn.
84$ ISO. 152 :
Trust-deeds
Mortgages..
23i
107 : 3 IS I, SOT,
24,745
Aggregate,
Releases
STATEMENT FUOM ACO. 1 TOAUC. 10.
COMPARATIV
1878.
Instruments
Ac. | C'sidtnif'n
124 $ 221.103 ;i 155 $ 026,442
28; 45,784 I 101 45,258
Trust-deeds
Mortgages..
152 $ 206,590|| 195;$ 671,800
170' fj 200]
Aggregate
Releases.
SALES OF THE WEEK.
There was amoderate.numberof transactions,
the transfers beimr more in number ami larger
in amount than usual. The following were the
principal sales:
L. D. Craig sold to T. Menard lot on Tfaomp
kins street, between Folk and Taylor, west front,
20x1*35 4-10 feet, improved, for £4,500.
L. Z. Loiter bought the lot and building on
Washington street, SO feet west of State,
north front,4oxss feet, for $50,500, —assumingiu
addition some back taxes, etc.
Samuel W. Fordyee sold to W. D. Allen lot
on Huron street, between North Clark and Dear
born, north front, 20 1-2x90 feet, with building*
No. 240, for $7,000.
Lot on Ellis avenue, 200 feet south of Brootc
street, west front. lUOxISO feet, sold for SII,OOO.
Lot on North avenue, northwest corner of
Fleetwood street, south front, 00x125 feet, with
other outside property, sold for $15,500.
Catherine Walsh sold to AViiHam Hudson lot
on Illinois street, 174 feet cast of North Wells,
north front, 357-10x100 feet, with improvements,
for SO,OOO.
George A. Wheeler sold to Annie S. Beach
lot on Hubbard street, 134 <l-10 feet west of Hal
sted, nortn front, 58x30 feet, improved, for
$7,500.
The northwest corner of Cass and Chestnut
streets, comprising fiOxSO feet, including budd
ings. sold for $21,000.
Albert Douglas, of Chiliieotbc, 0., sold eight
lots on the southwest corner of Centre and Bia
sed streets: also 100x170 feet on the southwest
corner of Wisconsin and Franklin streets, for
813,000.
Four blocks in Maywood sold for $20,000; six
lots at Park Ridge’ $900; six lots at Rogers’
Park SI,OOO, and various lots in all the suburbs
were disposed of at fair prices.
Judge T. C. Whiteside sold the Laßerge prop
erty, bu West Madison street, 100 leet west of
Halstcd, with the furniture and fixtures, lor
Annie M, and Gilbert Laßerge to Elizabeth L.
Nix. Consideration, §20,500. The building and
fixtures, exclusive of ground, cost §40,000.
William W. Perkins has sold to C. D. Brain
anl the N. GO acres of the W. % of the S. E. %
of Sec, 30, Township 39, Kangel3 for §33,700.
SATURDAY’S TRANSFERS.
The following instruments Mere filed for
record Saturday, Aug. 10:
CITT I’ROPKUTV.
West Kinzic st, 141 ft c of Sheridan nv,
Bf, 125x100 ft, daied July 00. 1875 S 3,200
Thirty-fifth st, n w cor of Bloom st, a f,
24x125 ft. dated June 4 575
North Market st, 75 ft s of Whitney st,
w f, 25x100 ft, dated July 23 2,275
East Huron si, hot North Clark and Dear
born sts, n f. 20*;Xi)0 ft. (with building
No. 240), dated July 30. (John For
dyce to Samuel W. Fordyccj
Hubbs gt, 227 7-10 ft s of Thirty-third st.
c f, 25 3-10x125 ft, dated Jan. 11
West Taylor st, 75 ft eof Lytle st, s f,
25x125 ft, dated Aug. O
West Twelfth si, 100 ftwof Throopst,
e f, 20x110 ft (with building No. 311),
dated AUg*. 10.. 3,000
Milwaukee av, fcC?i ft n w of Cornelia st,
n e f. 27 ft to Cornelia st, improved,
dated Ansr. 10._ (Christoph SchulU and
wife to Henry nirae.'i) o, 650
30UTU OP CITY LIMITS WITIU.V A RADIUS OP SEVEN
MILKS OP THE COUjrr-UOUSB.
State st, near Fifty-fourth st, e f, 25x100
ft. (with other property), dated Autr.
10 .. 1,800
SUMMARY FOR TUB WEEK.
The following is the total amount of city and
suburban transfers within a radios of seven
miles of the Court-House filed for record daring
the weeiccnoin" Saturday, Aug. 10: Citv sales,
52; consideration, $179,397. North of dty
limits, sales, 2; consideration, 51,375. South of
city limits, sales, 1U; consideration, $10,257.
West of city limits, sales, l* mimm.
l«?:m Total n; tota1 ’ «»«555
A Hlghly-Favorod Section of That c,.
To the Editor „} The Tribune. ’
Ltmona, KDlsboro Co., Fla. ‘-Tba* D]
farther south than any portion of Texif!,!?
five decrees south of San Die<-o Cal ..i,
south of Xew Orleans.
ago, was so nearly directly oyer head at
that a broad-brimmed Spanish sombrero coyeS
a. man tvtth sbaac as completely as an nmbrell,
.he bnrnipn; pl am 3 at Fort Yuma liefivede»re„
north of Limona, and there the mercury lam?
raer has often marked 110=. There have bee!
deaths from sunstroke at Sew Orleans !!1
at all places between there and St. Paul’
Louis. Louisville, Cincinnati, number
by the hundreds: and Chicajo, on the bank! ,
the cold ‘nnsailed sea,> has felt the
heat, and men and horses have succumbed tn
the rays of the sun. The mercury in oueZZ
positors room has marked U 0 detr. at raidnW.r
How fearful! Sweat pours down in stream,-
all kinds of cool drinks are devised, and™!
trivances to live hydayor sleep byofahf bZ
all in vain. From tho Gulf to the Great
and from the Rocky -Mountains, a heated stmb
sphere has passed, and burned as it went”
“Then, what must have been been the h,.,
at Limona?” ***
“It must have been crustin':! CouDs-ds.
soleil must have urostratcd all men ana VaT
mats. The mercury boiled; the lakes and bav,
seethed and steamed. The fish were cooks,?
and the oysters baked.” woKed,
There, that will do for one guess. Tm*» »
are in the South, but not so hot as yon snoJoS
Latitude and beat are not synonymous, Henf*
boro County is not a ba'rren, naked «n,f
like the deserts of -Meiico7 or those S
he around the Gulf of California.
fails here, and the earth is sreen with ve"et,
tion. Evaporation cools the atmosphere r and
the looser summer-msThts and the shorter sum
mer-days mve ess heat to the eroand than iS"
ther north. Sleep is always refreshing and ti.
reinviaoratcd man begins his morain S -wo“k
with strength renewed. Damp atmosohere nr Z
motes perspiration, and we know how to doth,
ourselves for the greatest comfort, fleresml
den changes iu temperature do not reauin* a
person to wear thick flannels and ant
blankets and overcoats. Our houses aresha/W
with the freest circulation of the air* and h
them we And comfort. Sunstrokes are thins*
to read of* not things to feel or see. One neSJ
was known in Hillsboro Count)*, and never wW
be unless other than natural causes shall nra.
duce it. The pure, soft water from the ifejli
in Limona, of the annual temperature of this *
place, may be drank at ail seasons without
shocking the svstem, as do tn« cold waters and
ice-fountains of the North. Thirst Is assnaeed
and nature satisfied, and the svstem left in tie
best possible condition for healthful action.
The air, too, is charged with the breathoflifo
andhcaitu. bo, while we say that the heat of
the sun does not burn us by duv, we can ilso
say we arc less sick than anv other people. Oar
hot, not unendurable, summer cools snyto a
warm, autumn-like winter, and that becomes
summer again, with no sudden changes, the
mercury slowly! runs from maximum to mini
mum, like long gentle waves; tbebfehestSs
the lowest neither extreme lasting
many hours,—the mean being at 72 0 . *
u Why does Southern Florida have inch i
climate!”
The climate of South Florida is due in part to
causes without. The great whirl of winds
which circle around the point of greatest cold,
sweep along the eastern side of the range of
mountains separating our Alaska paicnase
from the northern British possessions, and,
turning eastward near the head of the
Mississippi, give the great degree of cold
iu their track daring winter. To this
source all the cold winds north of
the twenty-ninth parallel may be traced. From
the same source come the u northers ” of Texas,
destroying all semi-tropical plants. In sum
mer. the great Atlantic whirl, enlarged and ex
tended, beats back the colder north winds; and,
as these winds reach the .Northwestern States
after passing over the treeless plains towards
the Rocky Mountains, they come down as from
an immense furnace, robbed of the vital inflo
| ence, as the red-hot stove robs the air in a
I dose room. If by chance the hot
winds of summer reach us, they are
cooled and revivified by passing over the Gulf.
So, too, the cold winds of winter are warmed
bv a similar passage, and fall here with an al
most summer-warmth. The terrible cyclones
of the North, rising in the heated plains, never
conic so far south: and those of the West Indies
pass to the south and east. Thunder-showers
come here, hut bring no hail; and thiis there are
no such sudden changes of temperature as 3)
deg. in an hour. Almost insular in position, in
the belt of variable winds, all winds reach os
from ocean-waters, and showers are poured on
us in abundance, but soon give place to clear
skits and gently-fanning breezes. Limona, on
drv, roiling lauds, from fifty to 100 feet above
sea-level, covered naturally with tall pines, into
whose soil the showers are almost immediately
swallowed, is free from miasmatic influence
and must always have a healthy people,and,
when known, become densely populated.
Men will flee hitherward from heat, from cold, j
from sickness, and in search of comfort and j
pleasure. Its. soil and climate are admirably
adapted to the growth of all the semi-tropical |
fruits, and give an abundant yield to those ;
plants requiring such a sol! and climate.
How about the yellow-fever!
The yellow-lever has been at Tampa, and a
few people have died from its effects. Bat It
never goes to the high, dry land away from the
ocean-waters, nor into the pine-woods. Behan
contact with its contagion, the residents of the
city subject to its influence, forewarned, can
reach the country, and thus escape. Better
knowledge of the means of curing the patients •
has greatly diminished the death-rate In all |
places not otherwise unhcalthtul. In that re- |
spcct Hillsboro Couutv stands pre-eminent |
overall counies in the Southern States, to*
deed, there is more danger of sunstroke in aov
city of the Northern Slates, and more difficulty
in escaping the effects of the heat of the snn.
More deaths have occurred this summer from
that cause than at any time from yellow-fever
in Florida. Men in the North do not leave
their homes, nor even cease their labors, be*
cause sunstroke may fall on them. Its attacks
arc like fate; but yellow-fever may be _
avoided by care and* prudence. The w*
tient recovering from ycliow-fcver, unless hi*
constitution has been destroyed by the use of
Improper medicines, is none the worse for bar
ing suffered from the disease, and henceforth
has immunity from its attack. How is it with
the sufferer from sunstroke! He never recov
ers, but, on the contrary, is more sensitive to
the effects of heat. The gauntlet of yellow
fever mav be run; the heat of the sun follow*
a man even Into his house, and seeks him oat
while at work in bis shop. In one
case, personal contact with infection is
necessary; the other originates In the
svstem. * The one destrovsafterdays; the other
kills almost instantlj*. The one is like the bite
of a serpent; during the fermentation, remedit*
may be applied. How* often is the other lU®
the blow ot the Dolt from Heaven I The blow
is both unfclt and unseen, and yet it Is as fatal
as the severance ot the spinal column at the
base of the brain. We of Limona may dread
and shun it, but do not fear that yellow-fever
will come nearer to us than the wash of tb®
tidal waves. And we know it U as easily
antined against as the small-pox. .
Limona, as a sanitary resort, only needs (level*
oping to become famous. The damp, warm*
very equable atmosphere is the best
agent lor rheumatism and asthma; to wbwu
add our highly ozonized air lor the breath ot
the asthmatic and pulmoniac, and the dm*
possible condition is reached to heal the djs*
cased lungs, or to alleviate paroxysms of
breathing organs. Hence, to this place mu**
eventually resort those suffering from sica
diseases. * The rooms and accommodations alone
are needed to make it so now. With water from
the pipe driven into the soil, and raised byw
pump, purer than falls from the sides of gr»mw
mountains, and of a temperature not
ant for bathing purposes, no better location*
can be found for the establishment of the water
cure. ' . # *
Under the well-shingled roof, supported
posts, without inclosed sides, the smooth a<*> ♦
at all seasons, would invite the trippings ot wj
jnerrv dance, in an atmosphere oppressed on y
with'the perfume of flowers- Shady .*
and cool bowers of trees and vines would wy
to those delighting in such retreats pleasures
not elsewere obtainable. _
To compare the sunsets of Hillsboro County*
or the atmosphere, to Italy, is but to lower it*
and it should only be clad in the plain Daol l r
Floridian as its highest encomium. As no
olace is similarly located as to currents '"■J•
and sea-surroundings, so its description cann
be improved by comparison. ,
Its productions are as unique as its at _ ;
To write of these for the readers of THBlßja*.
uxb may employ our pencil as we may find u®®*
j, G-
1577.
100‘S 170,525
; lOj 26, :w>o
, 128$ 190,885
ncj
1877.
Ac. I C'siderai'n,
6,500
1,250
Rubini Brown (wno has just sung his
barcarole, his only sone)—-“ How d’ye
Cbatterleigb * I suppose you have just ccoej -
Mrs. ChattcrleUrh--“ Oh, dear, no! I v ® ;>
sitting here for the Jast hour, listening to•* '-
lovely music. Idohuoe you are going
us that exquisite barcarole of yours.
FLORIDA.