The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-05-10
STATE NEWS.

Monticello on the 4th inst.
Miss Marian, daughter of DR.. J. V.
Harris of Key West, died in that city on
the Goth ult., aged 10 years
The Steamer Lucy p Miller, Of the
Tampa Steamship Company, is plying be-
tween Pensacola and Cedar Key.
Mr. Butler Mays, of Alabama, and
Miss Maggie Simkins, of Monticello, were
married at the latter place on the 27th
ult.
The work on the LIST Division of the
F. S. r. r., H. a. Varnum, Superinten-
dent is being rapidly pushed forward to
completion, the thirteenth mile having
been completed Saturday night Palatka
HerdM
We learn that there is some talk of a
company being organized to cut canal
from the Ocklocknee river to Lake Jack
son, thence to Lake Lafayette and then
TO the Gulf, taking in the ST. Augustine
branch on the way.-&. augustine Press.
We have it on good authority that
party of engineers will proceed at an early
date to emamine the crossings of the St.
Mary's river and marshes with the view
Of locating a continuation of the Fernan-
dina and Jacksonville Railroad toward
Brunswick. Georgia Union
Mr.. F. b. Taylor, of this county, is
cultivating the onion for shipment to the
northern markets. He is of the opinion
that it is the safest and can be made the
most successful truck crop in this section.
His onions were not damaged in the least
by the cold.--HonticeUo Constitution.
We notice in the Florida Ne,cs that
tie Economist, now published at Talla-
hassee, will shortly be removed to Jack
sonville and will be conducted as usual,
10y Mr.. {. J. Bernreuter. This is move
in the right direction. Tallahassee is no
place for it.-hey Vest Hey.
Mr. J. 3. Roberts, one of Escambia' S
promenent citizens, has been spending
several DAYS in Pensacola. He gives a
doleful account of the damage to his or
ange groves by the severe winter, having
lost six or seven hundred trees-killed
out-right-some of them in bearing for
the past twenty-five years.
A convict named Lewis Contrellas,
from Key West, has escaped from the
prison camps of the East Florida Rail
way Company Contrellas is five feet
seven inches high; hair, black; color,
black; occupation, laborer; moustache
and chin beard when he left. He speaks
Spanish, and can hardly make himself
understood in English. Monticello Con
sfitldiOn.
There is less litigation in Jefferson
than any county in the State of Florida,
and there has not been sheriff's sale at
this place in six or seven months. This
must be taken as evidence that our peo-
pie are entirely free of debt The Clerk
Of the Court is kept busy recording mer-
chants liens, but we presume they are all
promptly settled in the cotton season.
Under these circumstances it is mystery
how the lawyers keep body and soul to-
gether-MonticeNo Constitution.
The officers engineering and controll-
ing the Florida Southern Railroad are all,
We believe, Boston men. These gentle
men by their demeanor and affability, have
not only inspired confidence but the hear
ty good will of all our people. 1t is re-
freshing to mingle with enterprising men
Of this class. The iron bond is stimulus.
no doubt, but the bond of sincere frind-
ship is more graceful and permanent
Our railroad friends will always find a
generous hospitality in whatever section
they may move, whether it be on the
Gulf or on the broad St. Johns. - dLotka
Herald
"A recent private letter from CITY
Point, Indian river, says: awe are pros
porous and settling mp as we have never
done before, and our gardeners are ship
ping tomatoes by the different boats in
large quantities. The yield is from so to
100 crates per week per acre. Other veg
etables are also shipped, but as yet we
are only commencing, as our transporta-
ton has been too bad, and is still but
the promise of a railroad connection
with the st. Johns, either at Enterprise
or Palatka, stimulates US in the business
of early vegetables. The cold wave you
had on the second reached us on the third.
but showed only on banana leaves and
hickory buds. Tomatoes and potatoes
in the open air were not hurt; corn in
places was only slightly nipped.
-Madison's new courthouse is well on
the way towards completion. 1t is so by
60 feet in size, twostories, and built en-
tirely of brick, with fat tin roof and
heavy patent metallic corniee. There are
four rooms for county Offices below, (be-
sides . wide hall,) each II by % feet 10
size and with ceiling IA feet high, with
floors laid in cement and brick partitions.
The court room and two jury rooms oc-
cupy the upper floor. The total cost will
be between $1,000 and &c, 1000, and there
will be used in it altogether over $4,000