The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-07-12

hundred yards distant from the boat
qaietiy read g new Pap, apparently
seeingas Y alRs tbdha the roqpday sun
WA ahiaia ! 50 3. s6kinass, of the
New York Electric Lighting Company,
was on the boat for the purpose of seeing
that the lights worked properly, and to
instruct those who are in future to have
them q charge. The ai9htlis pronounced
by river me to bs-<hA greAseA invention
ever known. - Quincy Herald.
At MAJOR J. B. Rawb' headqrzrters
IN Fort Brooke we saw an autiqaat4d
curiosity the other afternoon in the shape
of small $ wivel cannon which had been
picked up recently on reef near Tortu-
gas in ten feet water. This gun is abont
three feet long, with bore of about an
inch and a hall. 1t was pretty well in
crusted With acora5 growth # flbm one
to three inches in thickness, showing that
it had been a long, long time since it
found resting place in the Gulf 1t may
be relic of the buccaneers or of some
of the hardy adventurers of the long ago
who sought the new world for conquest
or plumber. The Major had also pre-
served porcupine fish whose skin was
studded with sharp spines of from one to
two inches long This curious fish is
short, thick and broad, and this specimen
when caught must have weighed 8 or 8
pounds.-7f m,pa Tribune.
Mr.. d. S. Place, of Waldo, agent of
the Bureau OF Immigration. gave our
citizens little talk Wednesday night.
We were promised the Secretary's report
of the meeting, but he was suddenly
called away on business. The report is
good enough to keepaHd will appear next
week-Our esteemed friend, Mr.. John F..
Dunn, was married at Lake Weir last
Sunday to Miss Alice Eagleton, and the
happle couple left ON one of the ockla-
waha river boats for an extensive tour.
They are nj w in New York, and will
visit Saratoga Niagara Falls, the White
Mountains, etc, before their return. We
hope the rarest blessings and sweetest
pleasures will be theirs.-The village OF
Leesburg was disturbed by a shooting
affray one day this week, in which ]. J.
Dickinson, Jr., was shot three or four
times with pistol in the hands of Mr..
Bitch, and it is thought the wounds he
received may prove fatal. The reports
that reach Va say that Mr.. Dickinson was
the aggressor; but before narrating the
particulars as told us, we will wait the
AdoGmce's version of the affray.-OcalO
Banner.
If there are any idle carpenters in
the world we would like few of them to
emigrate to Sumter county. The carpen.
tiers here nov areinsuficient to carry on
the building to be done. We have two
! contractors in Leesburg, and both have
work enough for the next twelve months
without taking further orders, and that
with full set Of hands each. With
thribble the number of hands we now
have there would bethribLle the amount
Of building Oar exchanges will do us q
favor by copying this item and giving il
a good cireulation.-Th first subscriber
in Sumter county to the Confederate
monument at Tallahassee was soldier
who wore the blue.-There is no doubt
but that the Peninsular Railway will soor
be completed to Lake Panasoffkee. Il
will pass through one of the most protinc
tive sections of our county, where corn
cotton, oranges and vegetables grow pro
lifcally. We congratulate our citizeni
that the iron horse will soon place then
in quick transit with the great cities o
the Union where their products can b.
proftably marketed.-Leesbarg Advance
The car shops of the Florida South
ern Railway, in this place, for the FRS
Division have been finished Dimension
of buildings sox3O feet. The rnachin,
shop is also up, and the construction O
the round house aud turn-table will b,
commenced. immediatelH Seven box and
4 twenty fiaktcars are no. heins built il
these shoBs, which will 49, 3 carrying
capacity Of &C, 900 ponnds - aly as mucl
again as that Of the broad gauge. Thu
border for fifty additisnalcars isnow1cut
and iron for the. same ID being turned Iou
by the Tredigsrs Werks2at .Richmond
Va, and will arrive here about the latte
part OF July or the first of August A
number Of passenger, express and boz
cars will reach here at the same time
The iron on this ROAD hks been laid dis
lance of t wenty-eight miles, and the train
are running daily. The following are tn,
stations along the line. with distance
from Psiatka to sGaipesylleJ yizJ II
Francis, B miles {; to MscWiHiairis, l:
miles; to Blue Pond, II miles; to John
son, % miles; to McMeekin, 26 miles
to Yates Crossing, 80 miles; to Mag
nesia Springs, S5 miles to Perry, 81
miles; to Tarver, As miles; to Gaines
| vile, so pilea PelgkEq HeraAZ
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