The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-13

1.-The BarsOw Lsformaat = % heye IN
agricultural editor.
drew and Bnckiak nsw steamer, built
at Bafh, Maine, viii sOQD arrive 1t Fer
nandina..
The Transit Road is TO have two new
engines and three fine new passenger
coaches
-Gainesville has only two bar rooms.
Tallahassee has three, but we don't brag
over them.
"A generous citizen Of Barlow has
offered site for the courthouse and Jail
for Polk county.
The preliminary suvey of the L. O.,
r. B. & C. II. r r. has been completed
to Newnansville.
The sale of the Florida Central Rail
road has been again postponed until jan
uary 9th, 1892, at the instance of Mr..
Willard
The Constitution of last week takes
care to correct the rumor Of the Valdosta
Times, that the Monticello merchants had
started wagon train to the S. T. d w.
Railway.
Philip Walter, U. S. Clerk, will tele-
graph for the jefferson county delega-
ton " when they are wanted to answer
to the indictments found against them
last term.
Blind Tom is billed to be at Gaines
Vile on the 18th. Whether he comes to
Tallahassee and other good towns along
the ]. p & NJ. r. r., depends on what
his agent has been told about Middle Flor
ida.
The Right Honorable Lord George
Washington Witherspoon, of Monticello,
has resigned his position in the Pensacola
custom-house, and gone on to Washing
ton TO contest Col. Davidson's seat in
Congress.
The family of the Barlow L!tornadnts
editor and proprietor arrived from Ala
bama the other day, and took up quar-
tiers IN camp, on the homestead of this
enterprising pioneer, pending the erection
Of his dwelling.
An order granting permission to en-
ter suit on behalf of the late Receivers of
the J. p. & NJ. r. r. against w. Jeffreys,
defaulting agent at Lake City, was OBJ
tanned by Col. John A. Henderson in the
U. S. Court, r. r. case last week.
The Fernandina Express learns from
private letter that some of the Orange
Lake growers are shipping large quanti-
ties of oranges to New Orleans and are
obtaining good prices. An agent from
New Orleans buys them at the grove, and
ships by the car load.
The Monticello Constitution says:
Recent visitors to South Florida, who
went there with the intention of locating
if favOrably impressed, have returned
home with the determination to stick to
old Jefferson, as they could find no county
to equal it in agricultural wealth.
"A new post-ofice has been estab-
lished on the ST. Johns river in Putnam
county, between Orange Mills and Pa
latka, called Penn, and DIR. c. A. Cowgirl
has been appointed postmaster. 1t is
necessary, to avoid miscarriage of mail
matter, that the county Putnam) be
named in the address, as there is post
Office named Peru in HilIsborough county.
Says the Gainesville AdcOcdte: Com
p3ratively few Northern visitors have as
yet arrived in Gainesville. We have
heard it assigned as cause for their alb
sence the present season that the impress
sion prevails that rates of board are high
in Gainesville This we would assure
the public is mistake The rates at our
boarding houses are as reasonable as else
where in the State.
We were shown on Tuesday last,
says the Waldo Cracker, by DIR. Jackson,
of Bronson, a collection of very fine tube
roses from the fve-acre rose garden of
Mr.. c. b. Dibble, Of Rosewood. They
were of the variety known as the " Pearl"
and were certainly as fine as any we have
ever seen. They were on the way to the
Atlanta Exposition, and will add no little
to Florida's fine exhibit.
MIR. A. Haight, Manager of Coup's
Circus is in the city, and registered at
"The Duval." Mr.. Haight informed us
last night that the circus wonld exhibit
in this city on Monday, January I'd, and.
that bis advertising car would be here in
about ten days. The circus will visit
Tallahassee on the 29th inst, Monticello
on the SOth, Madison on the 2sth, and
Lake City on the Slst.- Union, Dec. sth.
MIR. Geo. b. Forester, of New York
City. the original proprietor of Forrester's
celebrated fertilizers, accompanied by
Mr.. Jerome L. Bergen, of Long Island,
arrived here on Wednesday of last week,
says the Sanford Journal, and remained
until Tuesday morning of this week.
Rev. l. Phelps showed them around all
that was possible during their short stay,
bat they both seemed we'll pleased with
their visit. Mr.. Forester would find
many to welcome him in this section of