The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-05

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The county canvass in Gadsden il
ting hot and lively.
The San and Press at last publishes
re Chicago Platform
z NJ Cheney and John P. Varnum
ere 70 practice Law in partnership at Jack
1nFiIle-
Colonel J. p Scott, an old citizen of
t'Adsden county, died last week of ty-
hoid PneumoniA
DIR. G. Troup Maxwell addressed the
: acksouyiIle Hancock and Bloxham Club
n Thursday evening last
The date trees of our city are full of
AZ Scarcely tree grows that equals
j N beauty.-Ksy West Democrat.
Why do not the Republican papers
the State print some of the speeches
sde by the Republican canvassersP
r. W. Davis, ESQ.,, prominent at
rney Of Gainesville, is to remove to
: -cksOnville to practice his profession.
-AlAehua county is to vote at the No
mber election on the question of funding
1 p county debt BY the issue Of bonds.
-OftEenty through passengers arrived
3 jacksonville one day last week, four
n we're from the West, and came by
Eufauls Line.
Our old friend, r. Don Mcleod, of
J .lahassee, is now the local reporter for
1 FLORIDIAE Don Yields ready pen
] NE wish him great success. Live
X BuHezin.
-Witherspoon, tie colored candidate
fr Congress in the First District, has
giyen up the contest with Davidson and
oome over to this district to help out Bis
lee-- Gaf,.esriHe Bee.
We understand that colored Demo-
er-t al Newnansville,, in this county, was
a~szulted and shot by Republicans one
4 y last week We have not learned the
Tlrticulsrs.-G Gainesville Bee.
Now is the time for those who in
1 d cultivsting vegetables for the North
markets to prepare home fertilizers.
shall have something to say in refer
e 70 this matter probably next week.
= Monticello Constitution.
The recent census of Jefferson county
US that We have total population of
l26- Divide this by five the gener-
3 accepted ratio-and we should have
; oting population of 1925; and strange
I lay, there are already on the registra-
1 n books about $500 names, and the
nber increasing daily. - Monticello
Z .1laifHtiOn.
Mr.. W A Lovell's hammock grove,
3 HaEkinsyille, in this county, yielded
IN 1873 A., 0OO:oranges in 1879 142,-
= and this year it will probably pro-
q ee 3OO,O 900 or more. We mention this
q q criterion Of the wonderful increase of
j. one crop in this county in the three
seasons, including that of leeO.-DeLand
AgricHltuisf.
Fifty French and Italian laborers ar
!. riTed AZ Fernandina on the steamer Dallas
+ week 10 work on the new Fernandina
3 Jacksonville Railroad. Two cargoes
r -teel rails are now in port at Fernan-
. = and two carloads of rails have al
: y been distributed on the line. Work
b begun on the new line, and it is under
{ 1tract to be finished by December lst.
-SOrfhern florists and seedsmen should
{ 1erstand that their catalogues issued in
: spring are of no benefit to the people
+ The South Ourplanting season begins
I -e IN October and lasts to March, and
I hey wish 70 get any benefit from cata-
} yaes or advertising it should be done
2 r Roses, especially, should be planted
l. The fall 10 make good roots before our
umers eommence.-DeLand Agricttltts-
-
We acknowledge the receipt from
D ior Albert J. Russell, the efficient SUI
rintendent Of Public Schools of Duval
{ uuty, ola copy in neat pamphlet form,
o his annual report From it we learn
> 4 the total number of pupils enrolled
s The years 1890 were 1921, of which
= we're cOlored, and ga white. The
, col census shows q total of children
youths between the ages of and 81
J III. IN Duval county, of 5.Sls.
-After the great gale that destroyed
s. MARKS several years ago, an item
Esnt the rounds of the newspapers that
re great cyclone in West Florida, de-
E-0yed 20 gin houses" After awhile it
p=sed mp TO the northeast corner of
Lime, and was copied into the North
4 ~, . Temperance sheet then printed at
CaribOu, ArOOstOOk county, with the re-
D-rk added: Bully for the cyclones !;
H-v tbey 60 on in the good work of Tenn
? znosl" The writer evidently supposed
tiaat . Clubhouse was . place where gin
- manufactured or sold Orange City
? "a
The telephone makes the same error
p The DSzfOn in calling the next Jackson
y e fair the Second Annual State Fair"
Il The fair there last winter was State
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