The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-19

socceSeiui attemPS MADE Oy the burglars
TO open the iron safe
This branch of industry is reviving.
The steamship Ellie knight, schrs. Sarah
Hall, Alice Vane and Asa Eldridge are
engaged in shipping cattle to Cuba. The
expectation numbers 5000 head or more
nOnthly.-Rey cfthe Gn!f.
Round trip tickets from Cincinnati
TO Havana via Pensacola are now sold by
the Louisville & Nashville railroad for
the moderate sum of $500, and Judging
from appearances, it will prove, even at
this low figure, a paying enterprise.-Psn-
sacoEa Adrance
The Episcopalians of this city are
making arrangements for the erection of
six thousand dollar church on their lots
on Centre street. The church will be an
ornament TO that portion of the town, and
We hope to see rapid progress in its cree
tion.-Ftrn0ndiRd Express
Hon. ]. Willis Menard, expect and
first negro Congressman, desired rec
ommendation by the State Republican
Executive Committee to the present ad-
ministration as fit subject for Minister to
San Domingo. The committee sat down
on him.-hey West Democrat
On Saturday last, about o'clock in
the afternoon, Mr.. Ben Hazel was shot
1rI f1~eaptIx- lilIo1 ON rho rod botu-aop
Lake Butler and Palestine The party
who did the shooting was concealed in
thick bunch of palmetto and gallberry
bushes near the road-Narke telegraph.
A bale of cured pine-straw was ship
ped from this depot to Chicago few days
since, for which two cents per pound was
paid. 1t is to be used in the manufacture
Of wrapping paper Ii the experiment
proves successful it will open new field
Of industry to piny woodsmen. .Tay'ks
Telegraph.
Mr. Alexander Bowen, says the Quin-
CIV Herald, an old citizen Of Gadsden
county, died on the Cd inst. He was
greatly respected, and his funeral was
attended by some three hundred friends
and relatives Another old citizen, Mr.
Jordan Nickers. while making Mr. Bow
ems coffin, fell by paralytie stroke and
las since died.
TO prove that our truck farmers along
the Transit road are good grit 10 the
backbone, We will state that since the late
cold snap they have given orders for over
two hundred pounds of cucumber seed
zloHe. Our northern friends will under
stand from this fact that Notwithstanding
the repeated cold waves the g world do
move" down here-.Narhe 7tIgralh.
The surveying party of the Jackson
Vile and st. Augustine Railroad are ex-
pected 10 complete the survey Of the road,
and arrive at St. Augustine next Friday.
AS all Of the capital for building this road
has been subscribed, we are informed that
bids for grading and furnishing ties will
be advertised for in about ten DAYS, and
the work of building the road pushed to
ompletion.- MON.
On the morning of the 2d inst, from
Cape Sable, the schooner-boat Nautilus,
owned by Messrs Howard 4 Kennedy,
was stolen. The boat was boarded while
al anchor and sailed out in daylight
in plain view of the owners That being
the only vessel at the Cape they were I'M
able to pursue her. She sailed south
toward the reef and is thought TO have
sailed eastward.--Kfy Of tie GUY:
The Green Coce Spring publishes the
call made by the Sanford Journal, at the
suggestion of ." an enterprising and prom
inent citizen of the St Johns river coun-
try" for an immigration convention to be
held in East Florida, because of the APP
pointment of Hon. a. A. Robinson, of
Manatee. as Commissioner of the Bureau
ofImmigration, rice Mr. French, resigned,
and suggests that the proposed cOnyen-
ton be held at Palatka instead of San
ford
"A very old cOlored man named Abram
Brumitt, died Yesterday from old age
He claimed to be hundred years old,
and has been quite feeble for some time :;
but has been kindly cared for by his son,
Henry Brumitt, who has proved dutiful
child TO him. Uncle Abram, before the
war, belonged to the Gavin heirs, of Wa
kulla county, and We presume was one
Of the hundred slaves which Secretary
Crawford fell heir to short time before
the MISUNDERSTANDING
Last Sunday, for the first time in this
city for a number of years, all the bar
rooms and stores were closed. One or
two persons were arrested for violating
the Mayors order prohibiting the open
ing Of stores on Sunday, and were taken
before the Mayor, yesterday, and fined S.
and costs The Mayor announced his de-
termination to have all stores, barrooms
and shops closed in future on Sunday, and
all persons who violated the ordinance in
this respect would be punished to the full
est extent Of the Union.
Notwithstanding the varied attempts
of disinterested parties to thwart the pro-