The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-09-21
l. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE

Messrs. Ashmead Brothers are our
agents in Jacksonville, and authorized
to receive subscriptions and advertise
ments for this paper.
Prayermeeting Wednesday evening at
the school house.
See revised descriptive circular of De-
Land, Fla, In another column.
Sabbath-school next Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock, j. Y. Parce, superintend-
emit.
Other matrimonial engagements are
reported.s
One mango seed will produce half a
dozen plants or more.
Capt. J. B. Jordan will soon make an
addition to his house.
Mr.. G. P. Wilcox's family have re-
moved into their new house in town.
Mr.. Fl. C. Strack has honored us with
his presence for the Winter season.
Mr.. Tanner brought to our Office a
| six-foot cotton stalk, loaded with buds.
AS an advertising medium the FLORIDA
AGRCULTURIsT has not an equal in the
State.
Miss Mary Hinkle, sister of Mrs.
Fudger and Mrs. Hill, has arrived at
Pine Castle.
Get your building materials from
Messrs. Benedict & McConihe, Jacks
sonville.
Mrs. Parce and Mrs. Chambers have
gone to Port Orange for few weeks
for the sea air.
Judge Lowry has presel It'd us with
some very fine lemons grown at his
place near Beresford,
The Messrs. Ruby Brothers, of Lou
isville, KY, have been staying the past
two weeks at Mrs. End GERS.
We have a quantity OF interesting
correspondence On hand, which will ap-
pear as soon as space will allow.
Messrs. G. T. Jacobs and W. L.
Leadbetter, of Brockton, Mass have ar
! rived here to cake it their home.
The Rev. Mr.. Martin, Episcopal min
lister, will hold service in the school
house Oh Sunday morning next, at II 00.
Less cotton has been produced in Vo-
lusia county this year than for several
years past. Oranges are superseding
cotton.
Read the advertisement of Messrs.
MUMMY, Stockton u Knight, who have
lately purchased the stock uf Mr.. j s.
briggs.
| Mr.. A. M. Witherspoon presented us
with sample of syrup he has just been
making from the Chinese Amber Cane.
1t was very clear and sweet.
The DeLand school will open on the
first Monday in October, with Miss Adj
die Steadman, of Owego, N. Y, as
school>mistress. Tuition will be free.
There is no necessity to bring down
your furniture. the freight by railroad
is too high. Messrs. Mcneil & Zumalt,
OF this place can furnish ali you require.
The steamer Rosa, of the DeBary line,
again running on the river under COM
mand of that popular officer, Capt. Joe
Smith.
The Daily New York Banker and
Broker, the Philadelphia DAILY Record,
Savannah Neacs, and Jacksonville
Union will be found in our reading
room; also the Daily Louisville Conn.,
naercial.
Mr., Robert W. Sturdevant was mar
ried to Miss Katherine Bockee, at Or.
ange City, on the 18th instant. We
wish them, conformity, all the good
things of this life.
Those who applied first for tropical
seeds of course got the best assortment.
Those who now make application will
have t. take what are left, until fresh
assortment arrives.
If you wish to entics strangers to
settle among you, make liberal use of
white wash and paint. Nothing strikes
visitors so much as evidences of neat
ness about a place.
At a meeting held last Friday night,
the following school trustees were
elected for the ensuing year: Messrs. j /.
B. JORDAN, H. A. Tanner, j. Y. Parce,
A. III. Stockton and Geo. tearn.
The Southern Methodists are about
erecting church near Col. Broome's
residence, two miles from town, and the
Northern Methodists will erect hand
some church in this town Very soon.
Owing 10 the failure OF the Emu
merator of District No. Isl to
S epara tely Eeturn the pre-
cincts of which his district is composed,
the population Of Volusia county can,
not be given IN detail in the census re-