The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-27

Blue Spring, on the Withlacoochee
river, is becoming q favorite resort for
pie-nicers and bathing parties
The Apopka Citizen is to be conduct
ed hereafter As a strictly neutral paper
so far as politics are concerned.
The Monticello Consultation says
that the Hon. Dennis Eagan, of Madison,
has resigned his position as State Senator
from that county.
We are informed that the prospect
for good crops, both corn and cotton, is
excellent This is good news for every
body.-.&arke Telegraph .
William Ramsay, the sneak-thief who
stole Captain Fishers trunk last week,
was licensed preacher His license was
dated eight days before his arrest.-Fer-
saGRdind Express"
"A false alarm Of fire sounded by the
Chief for practice on Thursday in Jack
sOnyille, incensed the fremen and made
the be-foOled citizens growl when the
facts became known.
We desire to extend our congratula-
tons TO our friend Gore of the JourudI
He has had born unto him a son, thus
proving that the Patriot man was mis-
taken in his insinuations. - .Sdrke 1ete-
graph
The %poem " from Mr.. -- was,
We regret, misplaced by the compositor.
We regret this, as it should have received
attention last week.-Ldke City Reporter.
Never mind. The above paragraph will
doubtless be the means of flooding your
Office with "poems."
The country editors throughout the
state are making agonizing appeals to
ofice-seekers to advertise their wants at
8 apiece. Let them rock on Brothers!
They will come to time after awhile.
They are coy and bashful now, but about
September there will be hardly room in
your columns for anything but announce
ments"
The Florida Mirror, published at
Fernandina, is one Of the most enterprls-
ing and neatly printed exchanges that
comes TO our Office. They need not be
ashamed Of it.-SO,tth Florida Journal.
That is Just what We have been thinking
Tor long time Mr. Burnside knows how
10 get up good, readable paper. He is
an old hand at il.
Mr.. ]. +. Walker has on exhibition
4 specimen of brick burned in a kiln a
few miles from the city. They are hard
and firm and will answer every practical
purpose Of the Philadelphia pressed
brick We are glad that clay in sufficient
quantities that warrant the establishment
Of = brick-yard near town, has been found.
GGinesriLe Bee.
Mr. w. ii. Nettles, the man who
created a disturbance at the Methodist
Church two weeks ago, and who has since
been held on the charge of being an es-
esPed murderer, from Selma, Ala, left for
that place on Thursday last in charge of
Mr. J. 4. Ellerman, who, on a requisition
from the Governor of Alabama, will de-
liver him TO the authorities of the State.
Until his arrest, Nettles has passed here
under the assumed name of Reynolds
Feg1san,lina Fl7oress.
S. g. Ingham who lives on an island
IN Lake Tahopekaliga, was in Orlando on
Tuesday last, bringing with him some Of
the products Of his island home He
thinks be has struck the richest spot in
tins rieh State of Florida, and his faith
IN the fertility Of his island would seem
70 he well founded if we can judge by
some Of the fruit he left in the Reporter
Office. Among others was an onion meas.
Hring four and one-half inches at its
smallest and FIVE and one-fourth ir~hes
m its largest diameter. 1t was almost
glObulsr and weighed fifteen ounces
orlando Reporter.
"A curious looking vehicle was seen
coming down the railroad from towards
EllaEille the other day. As it approach
Cd II attracted the attention of everybody
IN town, and before it fully stopped, quite
. crowd had collected to look at it, and
various and many were the remarks made
by the curious crowd. 1t was a railroad
TelOeipede, mounted and engineered by
Mr. Johnson, from Drew & Bucks new
mill We had often read of them in the
newspapers. but this is the first one we
had ever had the pleasure of seeing. II
was quite curiosity and pronounced q
q good thing by the spectators. Several
q our citizens INDUCED in a ride and
seemed TO enjoy it immensely.-Live Gal
B1Hsftn.
The mortality record of Jacksonville
Tor the 6rst six months of 1880 appears in
the C8iOa Of the 10th. The total deaths
were JOG; whites, So; colored, SO; resi-
dents, 60; nOn-residents, 81; males, IS
females, Al; adults, IS; children, Al The
Union says: Estimating the population
Al 10000, (the recent census shows it viii
mot excead that \ We have the total death