The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-04-27

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The Tampa zFi5sme chronicles III
the nPsning Of sOl pound wsternelon
5000 young dhaA were pat into th'
heAd waters Of The Wi&lacoochee las
year.
"A few nights since, near Madison
one negro man stabbed another to dealt
IN elf defence.
-Chicken cholera is raging in many
places and proving very fatal to thu
feathered EpedA
1t Is said that more cotton il being
planted in Nassau county this year than
Al any time for ten past
"A vessel drawing ls& feet of water
recently went TO SEA from Cedar Key
through the cutoff over the middle
grOand
Mr.. Jefferson Richardson, of Hockey
Greek, Jasper county, died Last March
from the effects of burn received twenty
yean ago.
The Jasper Spirit Of the 7Emea Of
April cath, observes that huckle-bery
Pies will soon be in order" Lord, Miss
Mag, been in order up here more'n two
mOnths
A company has been organized I'M
der the name of "The Orange County
Central Telegraph Company to put up
wires from APopka city via ZelIwood to
Lake Eustis.
Last week, during the session of the
eircait court in Madison, Mack Hendrix,
the negro who killed Mr.. Solomon Wood
field near that place some weeks ago, was
tried and found guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Two Cubans fought duel in the
suburbs Of Jacksonville last Wednesday
morning in which one of them was killed.
The man killed was white, the survivor
Is black. He has been bound over to
await the next term of the circuit court.
The Starke Telegraph says: "Our
Northern winter visitors and sportsmen
have almost exterminated the alligator
race, and our pigs now traverse the fats
and buckleberry patches with impunity.' ~
"A correspondent of the Jasper Times
SAYS: The first planting Of cotton, over
the entire eastern portion of Hamilton,
and nearly all of Columbia county failed
10 sPrOut, and now the farmers cannot get
seed 10 plant again. We have never
heard such cry for cotton seed before in
our lives"
The big bone on the beach is the
puzzle that troubles us now (only one
sample Of the " Is terrors having found
Hs)- The bone is Is feet long and one
foot thick. o, it is marvellous. We ex
E'ect 10 hear it spoken Of in the ST. John's
papers as the leg of coast mosquito
Onange City Ne,es.
An alligator four feet long caught
the telegraph operator at St Augustine
by the leg the other night as he was 60
ing home, and held on to him until z
young physician come to the rescue il
answer 10 cries of "snakes pat least
this is what the Press says, and we never
doubt an alligator story.
The grand and petit jurors and wit
nesses at the recent spring term of thu
circuit court in Bradford county wer'
paid of In cash. The Starke TELEGRAPH
observes that this il, the Legitimate fruit
Of honest government and an evidence
81 the healthy condition of our Stat
and county finances.
While the steamer Plant was com
ing into the wharf at Palatka few day
since, says the Herald, her Waterman
clarence Amazine, native of Ports
mNuth, n. H., fell overheard and wa
drONned. After falling he rose once
threw up bis hands and sank for the las
time 1t is supposed that the whee
struck him The body has not beer
found.
The Live Oak Bulletin says, from
the reports from the country, we are cor
WINGED that the peach crop of Suzanne
county viii be total failure. The tree
doomed early, and put on heavy GRO
81 fruit, but from some cause or other tn
little peaches have all dropped off," Tn
crop IN Bradford county is said also to b
failure and there seems to be but it'll
prospect for q yield of this fruit any
where in the State this year.