The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-20

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apiece in Key West, and chickens I'll. .
dOalas . -
Nd ChaSles e Ifon Of Pesacola
was killed near Laredo, Texas, on the 7th
inst, BY an unknown assassin.
The Democratic City Ticket of Pensa-
cola 81 ) good one, headed BY J. J. Mo
Guire for Mayor, and has every prospect Of
anccess.
The S. F. & w. Railway has put .
nice ladies' car on their Florida Branch,
and the Savannah connection il not quite
80 bad now as it was
The last number of the TitusvilIe
Star comes to US greatly enlarged and i'm
proved. II is now handsome 6-column
paper and deserves success.
MIR. Cheyes has an orange tree in his
yard which is only three years old, and
has this year borne 500 oranges. How
high is that p. Waldo Cracker.
The Pensacola Gazette is now pub
lished in the morning, and on Sundays
and Thursdays, instead of Tuesdays and
Fridays as heretofore. It is capital pa
per. -
-Seyen swagons have meandered
through town this week, on their way to
fernando county. If the tide continues
to flow in that direction. fernando will
soon be the most thickly populated coun-
ty in our State. - OcGlG Locon Dec. 10.
The Madison Recorder says: Gov.
Drew, the great saw-mill and lumberman
of the South, has made arrangements to
erect two new saw-mills on the line ofthe
Florida Southern Railroad, and another
on the ST. Johns river in Putnam county.
Two post-ofices have already been es-
tablished on the line of the Florida South
ern Railway, viz: McMeekin and John
son. Another one, to be located at Blue
Pond, called Inter-Larkin, will also be es-
talished in a very short time.-PdIdtk0
Herald
Several of our citizens, says the Quin-
cy Herald, who have been recently pros
pecting in South FloIida, and in other
places, have retained, and say that sold
Gadsden beats the world" and are per-
fectlY content to remain at home, and ad-
wise all their friends to do the same.
"A gentleman and his family arrived
here on Wednesday last, from Marion coun-
ty Florida, and propose making Hamilton
their home. He says land in that coun-
try is getting too high for poor men. Come
on friends, you can find homes in Hamilton,
cheap and good lands.-Jdsper Times,
Dec. 10Th.
The Lake City Reporter has just
found out that the Guilmette French
Kidney and LiyersP Pad man was hum
bug, and exposes him. He tried to take
in the FLoRIDIAN, but we didn't like the
cut of his jjib, and required payment in
advance, which frightened him off, as we
eSpeckdd it would.
Orlando is gaining little unenviabIe
nOtOriety as resort for gamblers. We
are not needing any development in that
direction, and the Reporter is opposed to
any practices which will give to our town
such a.reputation as Baldwin acquired
last Winter. A good time to check the
evil is jnst now, before it gets too strong.
Reporter.
The editor of the Brooksville Ores
cent has been luxuriating in ripe tomatoes.
That paper also says: For q night or
two the present week, Brooksville has had
the appearance of an immigrants Mecca.
On every road leading into town were
wagons and tents in camp, belonging to
new corners looking at the country. Her
nando is evidently increasing in popular
ity.
The florida Pathfinder, published
in New York City, says, editorially: st
is our purpose to advance the interests of
the entire State, and not of any locality !"
and yet there is not line, save I3-line
extract from the Madison Recorder, in the
number from which the above extract is
taken, which even hints at the existence
Of such sections of the State as Middle or
West Florida.
The newspapers of Florida are doing
their duty in bringing into notice the va
rious advantages ofthe State. Atpresent
she is well advertised, and the prospects
that more capital win be invested in lands
in this State this year than ever before
Each investment is q help, and real estate
bears tie burdens Of government: the
more land owned the better for all
Lake City Reporter.
Putnam county does q good deal of
blowing through her. excellent newspa-
PEP, Which Is not: only pardonable bat
ptaissws{thF. etStiais5 carefully COM
pfied, whicb they give to the world with
q besrty glow of satisfaction, show that
the county produces I 1000. 900 of oranges,
Marion county blows less, but it outnum-
bers that yield by large majority. Two
of her guHtu broduie ss.nanY oranges
as is produced in the whole of Putnam
county@ 0cdsd Bdnner.
Cedar Key Journal. Dec. srd Mrs.
Porter Jackson, relict Of the lamented
sheriff Mr. Porter Jackson, committed
suicide near Bronson, on Monday night.