The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-29

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We ars plAass = see that tils IAnd
Jury Of DssaI ceanly have br0aeht ID
several ibdipsnensz against ths gamblsrs
who have ftequented Jacksonville. We
hope they VII alsO Iook afssr those ~
lons &c Bala as skal toNl 4 thslr
county, and that the whole nest .of yipers
may be brpkeu up To which We say
Amenl
Cedar Key J0swnaI November 10 !:
Mr.. J. IL Willis, an old and re-
spected citizen Of this county, residing
| Ia the annexed q Marion county alp,
died on Monday last, lhe l4sh. n. VIII
lis was fair type of the better and mors
intelligent class Of oar farming pepala-
ton. He vas consistent member Of the
Baptist Church, and for. honesty and fair
dealings his life has been conspicuous.
Before the war, at one time be held the
Offices of Tax Collector and Assessor for
Marion county, discharging the duties of
both with rare credit For the years
1879 and 1880 he was Tax Assessor FOR
this county.
Gainesville Bee: A hickory tree,
near the Santa Fe river, above the N Natural
Bridge in this county, measure thirty feet
in circumference at the base.-An agent
for the Charleston cotton seed oil factory
has been in Gainesville the past week
buying cotton seed. Whenever the ar
rangement can be made, the cake, after
the oil has been expressed, is exchanged
for the seed. We would be pleased to
know that our farmers would accept the
cake in preference to money; but the
trouble is that the farmers have control
over very small per centage of the cot
ton seed. + They have passed into the
hands of the ginners, who prefer the cash.
-Madibos Recorder: Mr.. Fontaine
Cone who died on the 4th inst, was na-
tive of Raleigh, North Carolina, near
which city he was born March 18th, 1905
more than seventy-eight years ago. He
was citizen of the Territory of Florida,
and assisted in building the first house
that was built in Tallahassee. He became
. citizen Of Madison county nearly fifty
years ago, and, after the expulsion of the
Seminoles, was employed to survey nearly
all the public roads now travelled. In
losing Judge McGehee and Mr.. Cone, the
county hat probably lost its oldest citi-
zens-meI who haveleft such :. footprints
on the sands of time as will ever be re-
garded as having been made by honest,
God-feariIg men and law-abiding citizens.
Leesburg AdCance, 10th !: The coun
ty records and court house furniture and
fixtures were conveyed to Sumterville,
the new county site, on Thursday. Grad
ing on the Florida Southern Railway has
been completed as far as Ocala. The
work from there, southwark, has been
commenced, and will be pushed forward
rapidly 1--WE are informed that Sol.
Smith, of the Transit Road, with large
force of hands, is clearing the right of
way south of Whitesville to Wildwood /;
]. c. Jonss,with force Is clearing from
Wildwood to Sumterville, while Mr.. La
nieF is on the way from Sumterville to
Wildwood. Capt. j. w. Bushnell, chief
engineer in charge, will reach Leesbnrg
with branch survey this week, and trains
will reach Whitesville, nine miles north
/ of Wildwood next week. Immense busi-
ness is reported doing at wildwood.
Tampa Tribune: Captains J. I. Les
ley and E. Lipscomb, incorporators Of
the Tropical r r leave for Ocala to-day
to have aconference with ID. L. Yulee in
regard I'd transferring charter Goa
young man by the name of Theodore
Chaplain, claiming TO be from Beaufort
county, SPuth CaroIins, arrived here on
the 9Th, inst. on the steamer from Cedar
Keys. On landing hqmade inquiries for
David Nix who was q citizen Of this
county, but has been dead nearly two
years. He was directed, hoMever, how
TO find Oh residence Of Mr.. Nix's widow,
which It appears, he did. He found en-
ployment with Mr.. Thomas J. Trowell
and vas PIT 70 blowing. On the morn
ing 81 The l6sh Is left bis horSe ID slle
/ plOw and disappsared, and was BOT zen
/ any mOre until his BODY vas f0ufYd III j