A STITCH AT A TIME.
ABOUT ST. AUGUSTINE.
BY THE PANSIES.
THE way it came to be called St. Augustine was this: it used to be named Seloy on the river Dolphins. That was when it belonged to the Indians. The French people named the river, and they gave it that name because they saw a great many dolphins playing in the mouth of the river. After awhile the Spaniards came and took the town on the day which was sacred to their saint, Augustine, so they named both town and river San Augustin.
Rufus Hunter.
In the American Revolution Florida was the only colony which was loyal to the king. When they heard the news of the Declaration of Independence they burned John Hancock and Samuel Adams in effigy, calling them rebels. After that some of the “Liberty Boys,” as our soldiers were called, stole powder from the British brig Betsey, which lay at anchor at San Augustin and slipped away with it, to be used at Bunker Hill.
Harvey Dennison.