The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-07-16

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-a banner for tie campaign.
-Mr. Solomon Godwyn, of Fl Meade,
an old citizen Of Polk county, died Last
week.
The wood-burning question is assum-
ing considerable prominence in South
| Florida.
-Apopka, Manatee, Orange City and
Titusville have been made noney-order
Offices by the Post-Ofice Department. :
The crop of oranges of Orange county
promises to be much larger than was an
ticipated, as the season has been most IA
vorable.
Reports from up the river state that
there are millions Of blind mosquitoes
there, and that they are terribly annoying
to everbody.-Sss and Ress
i. K. Roberts steamer Admiral, of
the New York and Havana Fast Mail
Line" has been libelled at Cedar Key for
debt by the builders, the Jackson & Sharp
Company, of Wilmington, Delaware.
Mr. George Gillet, one of Hernandez
best citizens, died on the 26th ult. He
had been sick for some time, but was
thought to be improving up to short
time before his death.
Henry Stokes, colored, convicted of
the murder of Lovely Gibson in March
last, will be hung by the Sheriff of Or
ange county at the county Jail, on the 23d
of this month. The Reporter prints the
death-warrant in full
j. Willis Menard, colored, Exon
gresham, ETC., has published volume
of poems. The Key West Key Of the
Gulf says of it.: eve have examined
the work and have no hesitation in pro-
nouncing it an excellent one. Some of
the sentiments contained therein are of a
superior order"
The Suwannee river will soon have
three steamers running on 1.-THE Eva,
owned by Miller & Henderson, and now
advertised for weekly trips from Cedar
Key to New Troy; the Erie, now under
going repairs at Cedar Key, and the Rob
ert M. Chafer, building at Cedar Key by
Captain w. B. McIlvaine.
The population of st. Augustine, &C.
cording to the recent census, is, in round
numbers, 1900. In 1870 it was l7l7, show
ing an increase of eOO,or over 80 per cent.
The population of St. Johns county will
approximate 4,7OO 1t is probable that the
city has lost about fifty of its population,
from the fact that quite that number left
here before the first of June, and could
not under the census laws be enumerated.
Land spectators cannot keep up ex-
orbitant prices in land without damaging
their own interests and that of their own
community. The moderate prices of land
in the West increase immigration. The
higher prices of land here and on the ST.
Johns river keep back improvements, and
will, until the leveling time comes. Many
man is now land poor, and will remain
so just as long as he prides himself upon
his view of his broad acres until his golden
opportunity passes away forever.-Lees-
burg AdUGnce.
The Breeze says that it is estimated
by those who are in position to know
that the entire population of Jacksonville,
as per the recent census, will not exceed
seven thousand FIVE hundred, including
the new territory, but excluding the sub
urbs. The estimate is fixed at seven
thousand. 1t has always been believed
that there were at least eleven thousand
inhabitants in the city, but it seems that
the census will show that this general be-
lief exceeds the actual population at least
four thousand.
From the minutes of the tenth annual
session of the West Florida Baptist Asso-
citation, which are now being printed at
this Office in pamphlet form, we ascertain
that it is the intention of that denomina-
ton to commence at an early day the
erection of a Normal and Theological
Seminary, the object being the education
of ministers. Pensacola has been selected
as the site for its construction. The col
ored people are deserving of great praise
for laboring thus in the advancement of
their race.-Pensdcola AdvGnce.
Orange county wants a guava jelly
mandatory. The Reporter says that
thousands of bushels of guavas will
spoil on the ground this year, and for
succeeding years until some provision is
made for utilizing them on large scale.
They win not bear shipment like oranges
and lemons, and must be worked up at
home or permitted to spoil If some man
would pat up an ice factory here, and add
to the manufacture and sale of ice the
putting up of sour oranges and guavas,
he would meet with degree of encour-
agement aud success which would make
him happy" SSsf
| GENERAL NEWS.