The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-13

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Jacksonville mourns because the cen
sus xAs taken in June instead of January,
when It could have rung in all the winter
visitors - population"
Oranges of this years growth are
being offered for sale in Gainesville at SO
cents dozen They are, }" says the Bee,
"gsneraIy well matured and of delightful
favor
The talented young editor and pro-
prietor of the Madison Recorder, Mr. E.
Beggs, offers that paper for sale, as he is
DESTROYS of finishing his education before
II IL too late.
An alleged negro murderer named
Sylvester, charged with the murder of
officer Jerry Lynch in Mobile, in May,
Is72, was arrested at Pensacola and taken
70 Mobile recently.
A preliminary survey has been made
By the Savannah, Florida and Western
Railroad Company, of line for the pro-
posed railroad from Live Oak to the head
Of navigation al Rowlands' Bluff
The County Assessor, Mr.. Richard
son informs us that the assessment of
Holusia county will be increased by $780,
600 this year. That shows how we are
Progressing.-De Land Agricalturist
Mr. ". b. Hull has an orange tree
which Is just putting out new blossoms
There are now 200 or 800 blooms and
buds on the tree. These will give him
late spring crop next spring Orange
Co'sEty Reporter.
We regret to learn the serious illness
Of Rev Mr.. Gilbert, the Episcopal minis
Ter al this place. For the past three
weeks he has lost his eyesight and within
the past four days has been dangerously
l--M0ridnnd Courier.
The telegraph fire alarm system Is
nov in full blast in Jacksonville Street
alarm boxes have been put up, and the
facilities for giving notice of fires are
perfect, while the new water-works rem
der their eKtinguishment rapid and GER
tain.
The Ferdandina Express says that
the entire line of railroad between Fer
nzndins and Gainesville presents an APP
Pe2rsnce Of prosperity and improvement.
Farmers have done well, and as a natural
consequence the merchants are doing a
large business.
We learn that one o. F., leading
tireenbacker, has come out in favor of
BloIham, and when asked why he did,
said: When / was sick no one but
Bloxham would give me butter-milk."
Hunsh for Bloxham.-C Concord cores
T'O'sde'at Quincy Star.
Mr.. E. W. Gillen, of Jacksonville, has
received a dispatch from S. B. Mawer, of
New York, asking what day he "can
have collected a hundred bulls for bull
fighting, to pick out the bravest and if
you have two separated pens to try each of
them. Say price, and if you know the
amount Of expense to bring them here I"
The peach crop is total failure. Men
who have lived in this locality since the
first settlement say they never knew such
an occurrence before. Last winter was a
remarkably mild one, still the cold in No
Fember may have injured the bloom buds,
as II came suddenly and after long sea-
son Of warm weather-Ldke Cty Re
S,0gfer.
The Junior editor of the Lake City
RsDOrfeT gets off the following during the
absence Of his chief: "Our editor has an
nOunced his intention of soon resuming
his title Of Ever Present he will begin
20 Peregrinate about the 18th. At Gaines
vile he was asked from where he was a
delegate? He replied, promptly, From
the State at large"
w. 9. Coleman, General Travelling
Agent Of the Transit Railroad, returned
yesterday morning from the South Flor.
ida Gulf coast The new steam mail SER
vice to Crystal river, Homosassa, Bay
Port and Clear Water Harbor went into
effect on Monday. The steamer Eva, OF
the Tampa Steamship Company, made the
round trip in fifty hours. The steamer
was received at every port with demon.
STATIONS Of joy.-Sn and Press, July 9.
Isaac Matthews, a colored man resi-
ding on New River, has a very fine cotton
crop Of thirty-6ve acres, six acres of which
he planted in February. From the SIX
acres planted in February he has already
picked considerable lot of cotton, and
to-day viii offer for sale in our market
the frst bale Of the season. We learn
that Messrs. Alvarez & Gaskins have
already made a bid on the first lot
Starks Telegraph, July 3.
-Guavas will be abundant this year az
the bushes were not damaged in the
slightest degree by frost last winter. This
fruit, and better than which none other
exists Inthe country, will supply the place
Offhe peach in South Florida. Itisexcelleni