The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-22

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ww srried s n Ne 81 ~ III.
-Work has been suspended % Pensa-
eOlas nsw ho.sl. and IL completion Is
doubtful.
RObdward, ED, IL Fsrnsn.
dina. hes been appointed Vice Consul for
Uruguay.
Portions of the Suwannee county
pamphlets are Published in thelsst Issue Of
the Live Oak BaEesin. Il win bea good
thing.
The jail at FernandinA was burned
on Thursday morning. Two prisoners who
were confined there we're rescued, and sue
ceeded in escaping.
-FeFnandinai is wrestling with the new
preblehs Of anime hundred dollar mayor,
the city council having recently increased
the salary Of that Official from 5000.
Col Coates-Kinney, distinguished
Ohio soldier and poet, is visiting Florida.
He is the author of that universal favor
tie little poem entitled Rain upon the
Roof"
The Leesburg Adcance denies the
report that there were was supper given
in that place TO celebrate the fact that
the grand jury found no bills against the
murderers Of young Dickson.
MI - L., ~r
law, DIR. L. L. Newsom, in Crescent City,
on November 9Th, iirs. Eliza b. Bryan,
of Mariana, Fla, in the seventy-ninth
year of her age RaIatk0 Herald.
"A well on the place of Col. T. C.
Lanier, in Sumter county, which had been
dug 80 feet deep, was left by the we'll
digger perfectly dry, one night, and next
morning was found to be over-fowing its
month.
Prof Withers, editor of the Madison
Recorder, cunningIy encourages his pupils
in the st. Johns Seminary, of which be is
principal, to write compositions on the
subject of "The Needed improvements in
Madison"
The Florida Cracker, of Waldo, is
going to send one hundred copies to the
Atlanta Exposition during It's continu-
ance. Every paper in the State ought to
be sent there, care of I'D. S. Place, Flor
ida Exhibit"
The Baltimore Packing Company
has had an agent looking at ApalachicOla
for a place to locate an oyster canning
establishment. They can find no finer
oysters on the, coast than those taken at
Apalachicola.
-Titusville Star: Tomato plants are
foot high now at Lake Eustis.-Tom
Parker with several other Seminoles from
Miami came in town this morning. "Un-
ga! wampum, me got um. You want
UNI! Whiskey me want um."
The Florida Town Improvement Com
pany, through their active agent, Mr.. c.
w. Lewis, are arranging to exhibit min
iature model of Amelia beach at Atlanta.
1t will be quite work of art, as the flow
ing and ebbing of the tide will be shown.
-Erpress.
Orlando Reporter: One of the
most experienced and successful agri
culturists of Orange county says that he
can make the lands of this section pay a
net interest of ten per cent on five hun
dred dollars per acre in the cultivation of
sugar cane.
Capt. T. II. Moore's new boat, the
Chattahoochie, !" is nearly completed, at
the celebrated establishment of James
Reese at Pittsburgh, Pa, and will be
brought down some time in December.
She is described as one of the finest ves-
sells ever brought into the river.
Cedar Key Journal: 1t is getting
40 now that it is almost impossible to get
fish to eat. The shippers cannot supply
the demand made upon them from other
places. Those who catch the fish sell to
the shippers and the fish eaters here have
TO 60 without This is hard but never
theless true.
Capt. Henderson informs us that two
live oak trees are now growing within
seven miles Of Pslatka, near the road from
Green Cove Springs, which measure re-
spectively 80 feet in circumference, and
third one of similar size, near the same
spot, has recently fallen. down Green
COUe Spring.
-Menticello Gonssitaion: A few
months ego quite number of our plant
ing friends contemplated move to South
Florida, under the impression that they
could improve their condition. Now, we
ere happy tOlearn. they have all aband-
osed sheh folly, and will cling to old JEFF.
fsfsdp. for Il iasthe best agricultural com.
tyin the State.
The new garrison consisting Of two
companies Of the 3rd ARTILLERY arrived
Tuesday evening and the companies Of
the STD IeEt for New 7 ork nett morning.
The new troops were accompanied by the
reeimental band. We were informed
that some nsmbers Of the band who were
ayerse to coming to Florida deserted IN
NeWa XOrk.Sk As.0sstiae BAss
judge Jesse 2. Bishop, Of Cleveland,
Ohio, brother of Hon. p. p. Bishop. Of
this STATE, died Il his home one day last