The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-16
STATE News.


Neither of the Fernandina papers of
last week, has word about the opening
of the Beach Hotel
Hamilton county has organized q
Farmers Club and immigration Society,
with j. H. Ancrum, President and w. r.
Jackson, Secretary.
"A correspondent of tile Barlow In
fornaGht gives description of GA Trip
to Middle Florida" in which it appears
he traversed the Peninsula as far north
as Gainesville
james Long, probably the oldest in
habitant of this Island, died at Old Town
this week. He was a slave on the Island
when it was the plantation of Mr.. Fer
nandez. His age is supposed to have
been nearly 9O.-Fsrmandi,a Express.
Out of the thirty or forty Italians
that were brought to Sanford some 6
months ago, the three that were here
left yesterday morning This is the last
of the lot, and the parties that had them
in charge are not sorry-Santord Jour
nal
The Jacksonville agent of the Immi-
grafton Bureau makes his reports to the
Fernandina Mirror, instead of the Com
missioner's Office at Tallahassee. We
find in the last issue of that excellent
paper, his report for July, showing the
number of letters received to be 95e; an
swered, ZIG; pamphlets distributed, $685.
"A new railroad from a point near
Chattahoochee, Florida, through Troy,
across the NJ. and Z. railroad between
Union Springs and Montgomery, and
on to Guntersville, on the Tennessee
river, is the latest in railroad circles.
Declaration for corporation has been filed.
Gen. John B. Gordon is at the head of it.
--E,yduLa Times.
MIR. VIM. Van Fleet, President of
the J. T. & X. W. Railway came on the
Cochran Saturday from Jacksonville, and
Immediately arranged to send teams &c.
to enable them to put another corps of
engineers into the survey of the road
commencing at Jacksonville and coming
this way to meet the party under Col.
Carter. He reports everything promis-
ing for an earlier commencement of the
work. Mr.. Van Fleet left again Sunday
to return to Jacksonville Tampa Pro-
gresS.
Gen. J. J. Dickson is now in Ocala
and may possibly make it his future
home. The loss of his son at Leesburg,
and the manner of his death, has COM
pletely Frustrated him and he is looking
extremely feeble. In behalf of our COM
munity we express profound sympathy
for him in his sad bereavement
Geo. w. Wilson, of the Ordnqe Lake
Florididn has been stopping at the Ocala
House since Monday. He says the Ocala
Semi Weekly LdcOn will be in full blast
about the goth of this month OcaLa
banner
Capt. Horn tells us that Mr. Roberts
has an orange tree only four years old
this spring that has 80 oranges on it; and
Scicily lemon trees bearing only two
years. This is on Horr's Key near Cape
Romano 1t looks as if we are just find
ing out the surprising fertility of the soil
of our multitudinous isles-Though the
DeDsOcrdt has not been running twelve
months, yet its circulation exceeds that
Of any other journal published on the
Gulf coast and we believe in South Flor
ida; exceeding that of the SanIand 7Fi-
Time by several quires.-Key West Dem
Ocrdt
The railroad building boom through
out Florida and the Southwest is creating
grand demand for labor. There is COM
plant from some parts of Florida that too
many men are leaving Florida, in view of
the home requirements for muscle-se-
duced by offer of full wages and free pass
ages, supplemented by the desire to travel
and "see some new thing" which is in
born with large proportion of the human
family, especially the 'scursion' constit-
uent thereof, whose compilations can chal-
enge the sun of any cline to do it's worst
anu bhCJ WOu GdIl.-L SJtSUCOtU NTQZELL6.
Geo. M. Barbour was in town on
Monday last. He states that his publish
ers have decided to increase the first edi-
ton of his book from twenty thousand
copies to fifty thousand. This indicates
that they believe they have struck good
thing, and is fattering to Mr.. Barbour.
One of the greatest needs of this por-
ton of Florida is good and reliable labor
err. Nearly all branches of industry are
suffering from the lack of efficient labor
ers. A hundred good men who would be
willing to work six days in week, could
find employment at once Orlando Re
porter.
MIR. Barker, of Polk county, raised q
watermelon this year which tipped the
beam at 574 pouuds.--We are repeatedly
asked by correspondents as to the amount
Of oranges shipped from this port last
season. At the end of the season we
Published the number IS taken from the
shipping books of the Tampa S. s. Co.,