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


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We have heard 81 lie sxiistsnoe q ysllow
feverin Key West vas thOugh ne news.
papers We 80 BY the Denocras shas
the physicians disagreed - % the oass
being yellow fever which i said 70 have
aPpesred there recently Mr.. Rose, Supt.
Of Dredge, of the A q g. C. C. B o.
L Co., who has been here for some time
past informs usthat his Co, have decided
TO build the first dredge boat at this
place and have contracted with Mr.. Dill
bingham 70 build the huh Immediately.
An timber and supplies are ordered and
active work win begin on Monday next
The machinery viii arrive from New Or
lean in . short time The boats are 70
be on the improved " Elevator plan Of
sufficient capacity TO cut one and half
miles per month They are to be of the
latest and most improved pattern, and
ready for business in about two months.
The question of draining lake Okeecho-
bee will soon be finally settled in the
Affirmative Mr.. Rose says there is no
doubt of the success of the undertaking
as the plan has been successful in Louis
lana under much greater difficulties. =
Cedar Key Journal
The cigar factories do not seem to
be working with their old time regularity
and success When the factories were
first started here they manufactured Gu
ban tobacco altogether and Key West
cigar brought as good price as real
Havana in the Northern markets Instead
of trying to keep up the reputation thus
gained, some of the manufacturers worked
up domestic tobacco and profting by the
high reputation which Key West had OBJ
tanned, tried to palm them off as made
from imported tobacco; for time money
was made by these means, but the repu-
tation of Key West cigars was daily be-
ing lowered; it is true that some facto-
ries never worked domestics at all, still
they were very much injured. The pres
ent apathy and dullness can be traced to
this. Some remedy must be sought and
found to put Key West cigars upon their
old time footing, or the day is near when
Key West as great cigar manufacturing
city will belong to the dead past. Most
of our factories are now waiting for the
new crop of Havana tobacco; and they
all agree in saying unless this crop gives
new impetus and new demand for Key
West cigars many of the manufactures
Will close after this season altogether
Cannot our wide awake and .enterpfising
manufacturers devise some means by
which the manufacture Of spurious Hava-
mas to be palmed off as imported goods, be
stopped and also to prevent other minor
tricks which have injured the trade in
Key West cigars? Most of the manufac-
turers see that something in this direction
is necessary; will they be the ones to
take hold Of the matter by united effort
do something to help their own pockets
and save the trade and manufacturer of
Key West cigars George Ambrose,
whose sickness caused so much dispute
among the doctors, died Saturday morn
ing, after a lingering sickness of ten days.
His death did not end the dispute, neither
did post norton satisfy the physicians (;
they as bitterly denounce each other as
before. Out of this mass of conflicting
evidence we cannot say whether it was
yellow fever or not. If it was, it was
surely most singular in its visitation for
it comes alone; no other case up to the
hour of going to press reported and it has
been seven days since his death and sew
enteen since he was taken. This Summer
has been unusually healthy and this case
has been the only one approaching yellow
fever in any of its symptoms. We con-
slider the disagreement among our physi-
clans most unfortunate for them, lessen
ing the confidence Of the people in their
skill and knowledge of diseases. Key
West Uen0crat, Sept. Bird.