The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-01-25
STATE NEWS.

Maitland Is To have Episcopal Church
Tampa Is rejoicing in new Irish potatoes,
lettuce and cucumbeIs.
An old negro recently died in Milton leaving
an estate OF over 81, 900. mostly in cash.
Marion county is 10 have mill TOR the
manufacture of orange boxes and vegetable
crates.
There is a premium of $25 offered by the
managers of the State for the best collection OF
live fish from the Gulf
Two handsome new coaches have been put
ON the mail stage line between Gainesville and
Tampa. The time is 48 hours.
"A young black bear, weighing about 80
pounds, was killed one day last week near the
residence OF NJ. B. Floyd, three or four miles
from Quincy.
Mr. Walter 8. Russell is now the editor and
proprietor Of the Ocala Republican. We do mol
learn from its columns what political complex
ion it will bear.
The Key West Democrat is now large
eight page, seven column, paper. and makes a
bigger show than even its expansive rival, the
Key Of the Gulf Success 10 both.
General o. E. Babcock, Grants confidential
agent in the great St. Louis whiskey ring frauds,
and better known as Sylph," is in Florida Wis
iting his orange grove in Orange county.
F. G. Limburg, who came to Florida with
General Sauiord's Swedish colony, about five
years since, has just sold bis five acre grove,
which began bearing last year, for $500.
z ..f, In. 81 I,o
late conflagration. The AdOance has re-es'ab
lisllcd It's job Office, and The burnt district is
being cleared of debris, preparatory to rebuild
ing.
The Department at Washington has decided
that tue steamboat now building Al Waldo, to
navigate Lake Santa Fee, will not come within
the jurisdiction OF the U. 8. Steamboat Laws;
and, consequently no Inspection will be re-
quired.
This hourishing little town, says the Gaines
vile Sun and Bee, continues TO improve rapidly.
We notice several new buildings lately erect' d
there Among them a neat little Episcopal
Church is quite ornament 10 this preIiy little
village. Waldo people are energetic, enerpris.
ing and thrifty, and If Gainesville don't awake
palm.
| The Cedar Key Journal says: :" We see in
he teleglaphic dispatches that Geo P. Fowler
is nominal ed for Collector OF Gust ms Tor the
District OF St. Marks Ii is useless Tor us to make
any comment ON the nomination. The nominee
is Republican and appointed by Republican
President. Perhaps ii MIR. Hayes had good ad-
ko oh
a man to Office. Colonel Currie the late col
ector, was acceptable to the community, and
so tar We know, discharged his duty proper j."
"A dispatch from Pensacola, January 10Th,
says: The steamer Admiral, of the Pensacola
steamship line. sailed hence last night with the
| first consignment of the fast mail for Havana.
The mail and passengers leaving New Orleans
or Montgomery by rail On ,turday morning Gil
sail from Pensacola the same evening, and reach
Havana ON Monday. Leaving Nashville or At
lania ON Friday, or New York on Thursday, the
mail will reach Havanah ON Monday night, via
| Pensacola. This is the fastest mail communica
| ton ever before established with Cuba"
| "A correspondent of the Union claims that
there has never been time before in nearly II
| quarter of century that We have lived in Flor
ida, when there has been a heavy frost oil
freeze, that it did not injure the trees and dam
| age the fruit more in Orange than in Duval
| And the reason is apparent. 1t is unfortunately
just enough warmer in Orange county To KEEP
| The sap moving more or less in the trees, al
winter And when the cold comes it hurts fal
more there than in Duval, al here the trees ar.
cooler and the circulation dormant during the
| winter"
| On Monday last, says the Key West Key
one of our smackmen, named Amos johnson,
resident OF this city, was taken seriously i'll
which soon developed bydrnphobia in its wors
| form, and died on Wednesday evening at 10 p NJ.
| leaving a beloved wife and three children Il
mourn their loss Mr.. johnson was attended y
| Drs. Harris and Sweeling, to whom they devote,
| their utmost skill and attention without avail
| II seems difficult 10 determine The Cause of Iii.
| disease unless it enapaled from a dog bite some
| 81 years since, or nom the bite of a red snapper
al a later date.
4 1t is said tina, the recent cold spell in Florida
| has heen the seyerest since 1879. In that year
says the Tampa Tribune according to the met, :
rnlogical records published in the Surgeon Gel.-
erals report in 1850 the mercury was down Ia
| 11'degrees Fahrenheit at Mount Vernon arsenal
| (ndw known as Chttlallonchrc) 25 degrees fab
renheit at Tampa. 90 degrees fahrenheit al III
Fort Myers, and 80 degrees Fahrenheit al For
Dallis, ON The Miami. While it was as cold n
the hate freeze al Chaltahoochee as in 1857.
lacked about degrees of being as cold in Tampa
With the exception oil banana leaves, troplca