The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-09

Jacksonville is to have q wholesale
boot and shoe store.
The ice machine in Jacksonville
turns ont six or seven tons per day.
Mr.. John A. Mcdonald, formerly of
Orange county. in this State, is writing
for the Florida NeaO Yorker.
The Central Florida papers are
having discussion regarding the virtues
and dement's of the Hon. d. l.. Yulee.
=. The Ocala Banner makes up slate
for the next State government, consist
ing of newspaper men.
=. The game law was repealed by the
last Legislature, and game can be killed
any month of the year.
"A number of new orange groves are
being started in Orange county. Other
enterprises are also on the t0pis which
will help to enrich the county.
Col. Place informs us that the Santa
Fe canal is now cut to within about
tour hundred feet OF the lake, and that
about twelve days steady work would
finish the cut to the lake.-Gaiaesvilte
Sun.
The Lake City Reporter informs us
that there is brisk demand for real
estate in Columbia county, chiefly
among their own citizens, who are invest
ing largely.
.Ledwith's block, in Jacksonville,
has been damaged by fire. Another fire
destroyed the wharf and storehouses of
the New York Steamship Company, and
lot of cotton awaiting shipment.
Gainesville has had a greater num-
Der of visitors this Winter than ever
hofora Who,, a n n G. n II Rail
road is built, the hotel accommodations
will need to be doubled to accommodate
all the visitors who will come.-Gaiaes-
uille SUM-
..Messrs. Smith & Clifford have three
hundred apple plants, of the straw
berry variety, planted two years since,
OF which over 250 are now in bloom and
fruit. They were not protected during
the Winter South Florida Journal.
Maj. M. r. Marks informs US that
Mr.. Sinclair has purchased the Doyle's
mill property, two miles this side of
Orlando, and will at once commence the
construction of a starch factory there.
This is big thing for Orange county,
and an eagles plume in the cap of the
new town of Becker. Farmers, plant
cassava, and you will find ready and
profitable sale for all you can raise
Sanford Journal.
"A good quantity of sugsr and syrup
is produced in Western Florida. The
Pensacola Gazette says: The schooner
Adora, Morris, brought down from
Holmes Valley, on Thursday last, six
teen barrels of syrup manufactured in
that section. A portion of it was ship
ped to Mobile and the remainder dis
posed of in Pensacola. The syrup is of
good quality, and large quantity of
the same sort is made in Holmes Valley.
The Adora brought down thirty-two
barrels the trip before this one.
ON Monday last Masters Oswell
Robinson and Jessie Lynton, two little
boys aged between eight and ten years.
concluded to have boat ride on Lake
Isabella. After reaching the middle of
the lake, owing to the want of skill in
the management of boat, it capsized.
The former mantully struck for the
shore, which he reachedin an exhausted
condition; the latter not being so expert
in swimming, chung to the upturned
boat. Master Johnnie Davidson, a lad
of eight summers, seeing the accident,
jumped into another boat near him and
heroically pulled to the rescue of little
Jessie aud saved him from drowning
by his manly and timely aid. All homer
Johnnie for his thoughtfulness and
courage.-LGke City Reporter.