The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-11-30

SacA6OuflAc ID boiAiuB oOOut having
horse railroad.
Tampa has shipped this season, up
70 the 18th inst. l7O,9 300 oranges.
Orange county is to select county
officers on the 18th of December.
The Mariana young folks had a
BlOxham Ball few days ago.
The Hamilton county Times wants
copies of its issue of October 18th.
Mr.. George Hill killed large bear
Al Maitland last week, with duck shot.
The crop of oranges in Jefferson is
quite large; prices, 81 to 81 per hundred.
Mrs. Perry, a sister-in-law of Mr..
Garfield, is spending the winter in Jack
sOnville.
The construction of a telegraph line
from jacksonville to the bar has been
commenced.
Mr.. Lawrence Tuten, of Tallahassee,
was married last week to Miss Blount, of
Hamilton county.
Two handsome new passenger coaches
have been added to the rolling stock of
the Transit Road.
-Gadsden county will hold an election
for the selection of county officers on the
18th Of December.
The Monticello Constitution COM
plains that the price of oysters in that
place is fifty cents quart.
General Lorlng will shortly deliver,
by special request, one of his inimitable
lectures on Egypt in Jacksonville.
The Union says eighty bushels of
rice TO the acre have been raised within
two miles of Jacksonville this year.
The Fernandina Express has special
correspondent in Europe, whose last let
ter, from Rome, is very interesting.
Captain Philip Thomas, an old citizen
81 Fernandina, and brother of Mrs. o.
T. Thackara, died in that city last week.
The prices of land are advancing in
Marion county. Fifty dollars per acre is
not an uncommon price for hammock
land.
-Sixty-fve Gadsden county negroes,
and large number from Leon, have gone
20 work on the new railroads in East
Florida
Mr.. a X. Allison, of the Quincy
Star, has been urged to become candi-
date for sheriff of Gadsden county, but
has declined.
Mr.. Rawlins, of Hamilton county,
has a peach tree which has born three
crops Of fruit this year, and is now bloom
ing for fourth
Jacksonville is agitated over the
building Of the City ofsSanford, small,
new stern-wheel steamer for the upper St.
Johns river trade.
The L. S. Deputy Marshall who made
the recent arrests at Madison was named
James Shalley, and was not Mr. Thomas
Shalley, of Palatka.
An incensed citizen of Tampa gives
public notice through the Tribune of his
intention TO shoot the next town cow
that breaks into his premises.
Hon. p. z. Bishop has opened his
opened his orange packing-house at Fer
nandina, and is marketing the crop from
his large grove on Orange Lake.
One man who voted "against con-
TeBtion" here thought he was voting to
prevent the holding of any more political
conventions in the State Gainesville
Sun
S. g. Gage was arrested in Pensa-
cola last week on a charge of having in
terfered with U. S. supervisor in the
discharge Of his duties on election day,
and was bound over.
-Cap-pe-tum-nee-lox-au Hicks is back
IN Florida again, and his admirers in
Jacksonville have invited him to address
the citizens of the State" which he has
kindly consented to do.
"A Mr.. Vail, from Elgin, Ills, who is
connected with the Elgin watch factory,
has settled in Tampa, and is erecting
machinery for the manufacture of parts
Of watches, for which he has contracts.
"A new steamer, the Rebeccs Ever
ingham, has been launched at Columbus,
Ga, to run on the Chattahoochee and
Apalaehicola rivers. She is said to be
the finest steamer ever built in the South.
Master r. L. Munroe, son of Mr..
VIM Munroe, left yesterday for Nash
vile, Tenn, to attend, he being success
ful competitor for a scholarship, four
years course in the Peabody Institute
Quincy Star.
Sumter county needs new Jail.
The Leesburg Ad0dnce is working a
boom for it. The sole prisoner confined
there removes a log, and roams about
town every night, returning TO his quar-
tiers before morning.
Owing to the illness of Judge Cooke,
who was too i'll TO get here this week, the
November term of court, which was to
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