The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-09-20

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hons Ne b vpald save e2pOoo snnusIly
70 this county, which goes ont never 70
return Il i crop which requires two
years 70 realize from 1t iirss, but when
c1ee tie business i started h goes on
regularly .-Ldke Csty Reporey.
The type, press, &c. of the Oeasa
RepisblicGs, whs sold under the Sheriff =
hammer last monday, and was knocked
down for as. Mr.. w. s. McGrath was
the bidder. The material was Afterwards
sold to Messrsl Wilson & Walter for 500
The survey Of the Tropical Peninsular
Railroad has been completed to Lake Pan
asoHkee and the engineering corps have
taken two weeks vacation. About the
first of October they will begin opera
tons again and push the survey on south,
taking straight shoot for Barlow, thence
to Tampa-The engineering corps of the
South Florida Railroad company reached
OcAla yesterday running a preliminary
survey of the route and will locate the
permanent line in short time 1t is al
ready located rs far as Hickson's landing
on Orange La ke. The road, as far as it
has been built, is thoroughly equipped,
nicely differed and is a great favorite.
Ocala may well congratulate itself upon
having one road already established,
second one on the way with early pros
poets of completion, and boat communica-
ton with competitive freight and passen-
| ger rates Oc4LG Banner, 9th
| "A tolerably good view can now be
obtained of part of our town from the
passing trains at the depot The town
council has had new street opened di-
rect to the depot, at considerable expense,
which will tie carefully kept up. A
plank walk wi u be built and our worthy
Mayor informs US that as soon as practi-
cable row of oaks will be set out. Our
town council deserve a great deal of
credit for carrying out this work.-Yes-
terday morning about o'clock, Mr.. S.
NJ. Hankins, our worthy Sheriff, was
walked up by t he roaring of fire. He i'm
mediately spran g from his bed and found
that the north end of his kitchen was on
fire. The win q was blowing directly TO-
wards the hou Sc which he was living in.
Having so little assistance, and there be-
ing but little water on the place, he was
powerless to prevent terrible confagra-
ton. He had in course of erection, nearly
completed an excellent two story resi-
dence, which was " thin short distance
Of the other buildings. This being SO
dry the flames swept through, and it
burnt like finder. All the houses on the
place were consumed in a short time
Nothing was saved except small amount
of furniture, and very little wearing APP
parrel. Mr.. Hawkins was burnt little
but not very bad though. This is &C.
we're loss to him, as it is the second time he
has been burnt out without any insurance.
Mr.. II. says that at ii o'clock, hearing
his dog bark, he went out but did not see
any one. A little later, his mare Weighed,
as If some one familiar was near, and he
again went out but saw no one and went
back to bed not to awake till he heard the
roaring of the flames. The house seems
to have been set on fire from the outside.
The stove is in the south part of the
kitchen. 1t is supposed to be the work
Of an incendiary, who has not yet been
arrested.-Mdlisoa Recorder, 10th.
The orange crop, so far as we have
been able to ascertain, in the county is
fair one and the fruit Of superior size
and color. There are less cracked
oranges than usual. The groves look IN
usually we'll and thrifty. 1t has been
good season, generally speaking for or
ange culture. The young groves are all
looking thrifty and vigorous. The fight
with the insects has been pretty success
ful.-Our readers will remember what
w. Fl. Pillow said few weeks since in
the Journal about his shipments of straw
berries last season, and the liberal returns
! realized We understand that Mr. p has
completed his arrangements for shipping
fully as promptly as last season and for
better distribu of his shipments,
and, therefore, larger prices for berries.
But his experience last year was sufficient
to demonstrate that strawberries raised
anywhere on the st. Johns can be made
one of the m ost profitable crops in the
fruit line, and that they should be Guilt
waited extensively. The prices received
+ for berries grown on the river were about
the average, netting more than go cents
per quart. A large increase in the pro-
duct may be looked for this season, as
well as good prices. We hear that nearly
everybody had sold out their stock of
! plants, as evidence that the area Of plant
ing will be greatly increased Railroad
litigation has broken out afresh in Flor
ida. It is all about the same old road,
the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
road, the same old parties mainly and
about the same old troubles. Frank r..
Sherwin against almost everybody in the