The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-30

Rensacol4 = 70 have j colored Han
Cook and Bloxham club.
RutAam coanty scrip il worth eighty
cents PalaskA scrip at par.
mi. Frank Winseoff, apromihent mef-
chant and ;citissn ef Archer, died on
Wednesday Of last week.
The headanArssn Of the Gulf Light
house district HAYS been removed nom
Key West 70 New Orleans.
MIR. l. A. Barnes d making money
OF of his orange nursery In the past
weekshe has sold $50 trees At fty cents
each. - HaiNesvi1s 6As
-Mr. f. P. Foster, postmaster at San
ford, having been displaced, q meeting of
citizens was held on the l4th instant to
protest against his removal.
We regret to learn from the Quincy
Herald that It's editor has been ILL., He
promises . speedy recovery and some
good, solid work during the campaign.
IF you would enjoy having fresh po-
tatoes this fall, plant in the next ten days,
and if the season isifsvorable you VII not
be disappointed. Milton Standard. 24th.
We learn that the titles to the Mel
lonyille property remain in dispute, the
Supreme Court having reversed the decis-
ion rendered by the Circuit Court some
time since.
Judge r. B. Van Valkenburgh will
leave by the next trip of the steamer City
Point for New York, and from there he
will visit England, Ireland and Scotland.
San and Ress.
Work is progressing slowly on the
Peninsular railroad. The piling for the
trestle across the eastern arm of Orange
Lake is being put in, and some heavy
grading is being done south of the lake.
Major w. /. Turner, of Braidentown,
planted forty acres of the old Schofeld
plantation on the north bank of Manatee
river, in corn, and, as we learn, he ex-
poets to gather over thousand bushels.
Tampa Tribune.
The other day young gentleman
was bathing in the surf south of Mayport,
when his foot was seized by a voracious
shark. He pulled and so did the shark
But the bitten reached terra trina with a
mangled foot and the shark lost tit-bit.
= Union.
The grading Of the Way cross road is
making Roadway fast. About one and
one-half miles is graded and ready for the
iron. About two hundred hands are now
at work, and the force is increasing as
fast as laborers can be procured. Sun
and Press.
old settlers are predicting an unu-
sually cold winter next winter. There is
probability that we may have frost or
two, but from present indications it is
difficult to understand what the old set
tiers base their predictions upon Dr.
Iasdo Reporter.
Mrs. General J. J. Dickson was
quite sisejlKa at the hotel the latter part of
last week, but is now improving. General
Dickson was sick at the same time, but
is now up-Lees6urg Advance. Better
come back and spend the summer in Mid
die Florida, General
Captain Adams received dispatch
from Boston, yesterday announcing the
death of Mrs. M. E. Hart, wife of Colo
mel H. L. Hart, of this place. The re-
mains of the deceased are looked for on
the arrival of the City Point next Thurs
day.-PdIatka Herald, oath
New buildings throughout this entire
county continue to be erected; go in any
direction, and new clearings and new
houses will meet the eye. The mills are
are now running day and night to supply
the demand for lumber, and every carpen-
ter in this section has more work than he
can do.-Leesb,rg AdvGsce.
Mr.. ]. d. Spang, who has for some
time past been engaged in collecting nat
ural Florida curiosities, now advertises
for one thousand young alligators. He
also wants full-grown specimen, not to
measure less than twelve feet. Snakes
and all other kinds of pretty varmints :"
may be disposed of to him. Union.
Barnes, Varnum, Porter, Lewey and
Walls, who are leaders of the anti Dennis
movement of the Republican party in this
county, have the advantage of the Dennis
party in intelligence, responsibility and
the representation Of capital, but the
Dennis party have the advantage in
shrewdness and in their concentration up
on one leader Gainesville San.
The engineers completed the survey
of the Fernandina railroad yesterday.
The line runs to the river at Messrs. Chase
4 Thompson's shipyard and, as the sur
vey stands, cuts their ways in two The
company have already purchased and paid
for some of the property in the city along
the line Of the road, and have bought and
paid for the refusal Of all they want. This
looks little like business Breeze, 24th.
Our people can hardly realize that