The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-21

Appletons will publish for her about
September next her interesting novel, "A
Beggar at the Gate" This work will
doubtless obi ain large sales in Florida,
where the Oh arming young authoress is
so we'll know n.-FssnGndina Express
Mr.. Jno. g. Reardon, we understand,
has sold his place on Orange Avenue for
the snug little sum of $4,000. 1t is nice
place, and fronts on what will soon be
beautiful aven ne. The price paid, though
considered big by many, is only be-
ginning of the prices that will be obtained
for choice spots in the vicinity of Ocala.
The piece contains ten acres.-Mr. Walker
Whitney, of Micanopy brother Of Mr..
J. A. Whitney of the Fernandina Mirror,
and Capt. Whitney of the steamer Alpha,
died in Micahopy last week.-Capt. Bill
Kendrick will hereafter make Ocala his
headquarters, and promises to give this
county boom, the size of which will be
almost beyond computation Ocala Ban
ner.
"A correspondent of the Leesburg
AdUance says: 81 planted one halfacre
in string beans last December from which
Melted $40, but if the beans are not
marketed before the first of May, there is
no money to be made, with our long
transportation to contend with. The
bean crop, with the exception of gather
ing, can be made with less fertilizing and
labor than any other. In good beans a
hand can pick six crates day, and they
sold in New York and Philadelphia for
$500 per ate in March. The cost of
transportation from any point on Lake
Astatula to New York and Philadelphia
is IS cents per crate. My beans were
planted on high hammock land and had
100 pounds of cotton-seed meal to the
halfacre."
We want to hear from the Ocala
Banner man, and if he can't get that
"three miles" finished, let him meet us
in Gainesville ON the Goth prox., and we
will give him ride, all7roil, to Palatka.
Putnam County Jeurndk-That three
miles" has been completed and the road
is now three miles " on its way to Tampa.
We will, however, be in Gainesville on
the goth pr OK, anyway, and only regret
that the Palatka road was not completed
in time to h ave given the citizens living
on the St. ] ohns the opportunity of quick
transit via Fernandina for early vegeta-
bles. Its completion will be feeder for
our line, and we are watching its progress
with interest t. Palatka needs quick tran.
sit, and the noise they are making over
their road Though only -gauge)
is pardonable.- Ocala Banner
The wo rk already done on the chan.
mel has inc reased the depth of water Sc
as to enable the Lizzie Henderson and
Cochran to come up to the wharves at
much lower tides than formerly. 1t will
take great deal more work, however, to
put the channel in the condition it ought
to be.-Killing alligators for their hides
has become an established business, which
is being ca rried on quite extensively in
some of these South Florida counties. Al
the head of this new business in this Sec
ton stands Mr.. Philip Dzialynski, brother
of the Mayor of Jacksonville, with bis
headquarters at Fl. Meade, in Polk county
Mr.. Dzialynski has the contract, we learn
to supply FIVE thousand gator hides to
some leather firm in Paris, and expects
to deliver that number in August next
Some of the saurians already killed meas
ured as much as fifteen feet in length. In
the Miakka lakes these monsters abound.
The rulings of the Gainesville land.
Office, in regard to the homestead matter,
have been set aside by the Commissioners
of Lands at Wash ington, and homestead
ers are all right Tampa Tribune
Upwards of thirty colored men con-
gregated at Drifton on Tuesday, and ex-
pected to secure transportation on Wed
nesday morning to East Florida, where
they are to work on one of the railroads
IN course of construction.-We are aa.
vlsed by Judge Christie that insanity is
greatly on the increase in this county,
especially among the negroes. Applica-
tion is requently made to him for relief
under the impression that the law was
passed by the last Legislature authorizing
County Judges to grant permits to the
Insane AS lum.-On last Thursday the
western portion of our town felt the effects
of young hurricane. 1t Frustrated fences
and trees on the lots of Capt. S. Pasco
Drs. Taylor and Palmer, and Mrs. Ware
and then passing over town struck the
plantation of the johnson Brothers and
demolished some fencing. The damage
was slight, but furnished some evidence
of what W ould be the terrors of full
grown, well-developed hurricane.-Mon-
ticeNo Co,sstitwtion.
"A bill in equity has been filed by A.
D. Johnston Jr., the owner of Silver
Springs to enjoin Birch Gibson and others
from fishing in the waters thereof cover
ing compliments land. Silver Spring il
navigable stream and the defendants
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