The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-06-01


-Abear weighing four hundred pounds
ras killed near APopkA City recently.
-An Hour in Fsiryland I" is shortly
10 be represented in O1lando by local
talent
Mack Hendricks, the murderer of Mr.
Woodkeld, exPizted his crime on the gal
lows, NJ Madison, last Friday, in the pres
enoe Of two thousand SPECTATOR
Mn Julia AtEeroth sent us branch
from one Of her coffee trees on Manztee
nFer. lAst week, on which were both
grown berries and howeEA-Tapspd Tfi
EE1<.
-T1npa Tribune: Elias Lewis, iV-
ing On the Alfalfa, says that in digging a
vel recently, he found an alligator tooth
a. the depth Of over forty feet embedded
in The clsy."
The Adrdnce says that the popula-
ton Of Pensaoola Is gradually on the In
crease, and that new houses and stores
are continually spdnging mp, and business
of every kind extending.
The Tampa Tribune says two col
Ored men recently caught Jew fish sew
erzl miles up the Alfalfa which weighed
40 POuDdA- The head being weighed
tipped the beam at 50 pounds
The Pensacola AdrGnce says: A" The
work Of grading is now progressing at
AOrrissey'a, near Sand Hill post-ofice, on
the Selma and Gulf Railroad, and the
calculation Is that the track for the first
thirty miles will soon be put down"
An aged colored woman on the Ma
va Reserve was accidentally burned to
death recently. g Her condition when
fond" says the Adrance, "is described
zs perfectly frightful, the ear rings, even
having been melted and out of shape"
The st Augustine) ST. Johns Weekly
says: II Is said that the old Gibbs man
sion, which is uninf abited, on the bay is
haunted, for 1.-the fairy forms are often
seen fitting in the moonlight, while
dusky shadows hang mysteriously around,
and vanish when pursuit is made"
Gus Pottsdamer, of Lake City, lately
sentenced to the Penitentiary. has been
grsEted new trial By Chief-Justice Ran
dali and admitted TO bail in the sum Of
FIVE thousand dollars-the bail bond being
signed by nearly all the IsraeIites in Jack
sOnTllle- Pottsdamer is now represented
by Messrs Walker & Hartridge.-Sua
and PreSs
Mr.. Sullivan Caro-, a pilot on the bar,
reports having seen recently on the Gulf
q genuine sperm whale From the de-
srnpfion given Of this denizen Of the
deep, be or she must have been a perfect
monster, the whales length being reck-
Oned al about seventy or eighty feet
OF late several Of this species have been
sen IN close proximity to our port, and
ODe Or two have even ventured into the
hzrbor- PSaSaeoL1 Adrance.
The Mariana Courier Of the 9th
tit szrs- Information reached US on
Monday morning, of the rapid rise Of the
Cbzttzboochee nver 1t was asserted
that On Saturday night it rose eighteen
feet, inundatiDg all the low lands, and
completely destroying the crops, which
we're IN fine growing condition. 1t is a
ssrlOus loss 70 many Of those cultivating
1Eer bottoms, and the only resort is to
plant again in corn, after the water re-
oedes.o
Here Il q pretty good sized onion
narrative from the Orlando Reporter:: "W.
IL Holden brought into our Office this
week some Bermuda onions weighing
over two pounds each. But he don't
want anything said about them, as he il
confident when his crop of onions is
npened that he will have some larger
than grown By him last year-two pounds
ten ounces. He beat all the onion grow.
en- IN the State last year, and is confident
Of growing three pound onion thie
year.
Last Tuesday three colored mer
visited China Point with hooks and lines
and the success they met with surpassef
anything on record. This locality hal
long been known as good ground fol
fishing purposes, but the fact of the thres
men catching more than three hundred
trout IN one afternoon is a matter of much
surprise. One Of the party caught two
hundred, another one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fEe, and the third man was satisfied
20 leave with fifteen. These fish were al
fine specimens of that species. PsnsGcoh
AdUdDce
An idea of the improvements steadi
ly going on throughout the State may b,
gathered from the fact that our exchanges
are teeming with items like the following
from the Orlando Reporter of May tn,
2Oth: The engineer corps of the Soutl
Florida railroad completed the surve,
into town on the west side to-day, ant
VIII commence the survey by Osceola On
the east tomorrow. The grading is com
plete within sight of Maitland town hall