The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-08

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Be red fsr oscapsncy b lhe 18th inst.
There i y b grand ban to wind
up q d NOs1aa Fit s zfari1nns.
Rsx & d. Waller, 81. hss been
elepfaa Principal of Ocnla's new High
School. sas
The QaineY H~aid says Gen. Dick
ison ID soon to remove his family 70 South
Florida.
ltdtA o. A. Apple viii shortly take
charge 81 the Episcopsi Church ii Apa-
lachicoIa.
The Mariana people are wrestling
with the question Of the incorporation of
thai akfng village #Es
s7As EO,a2 Tlblished ii New York,
speaks of exs Governor Drew as g formerly
a xeltkhoEn Journalist"
- Rehearsal of the marriage cere-
mony is now a favorite pastime among
the young folks of Quincy.
"A Mr.. Oliver 7. Hartzell, Of Adams
county, Pa, died Of fever near Medulla,
Polk county, on the 18th ult
Glen. W. h. -Sebring, Of Bronson, is
getting up material for an article on Levy
in the new Immigration pamphlet.
Tho Steamer f. S. Lewis, of the Santa
Fe Canal Co., will soon begin making
regular trips between Waldo and points
on that lake.
The ApaIachicola Tribune says there
is danger of the obstruction of Crooked
River by the numerous wharves being
built at Rio Carrabelle.
The Pensacola Gazette is talking of
another railroad for that enterprising city,
the Pensacola and Selma railroad, which
is to be finished at an early day.
The Madison Recorder of a recent
date publishes a very affecting obituary
of mortgaged mule, contributed by one
of the bereaved relatives of the deceased.
The Ocala LGcon advertises for
brains. Its daily edition during the late
term of the Circuit Court was probably
too heavy strain on its usual stock of
that article.
Pine Level SignM:-Capt. +. A.
Hendry has chartered the Steamer Ma
mic and hired six men he intends cut
ting channel in Lake Hichpochee. He
is working in the interest of the Disston
Company.
=" Majah" Marks, the great Orange
county land man has returned home. but
nothing is known about the colony of 400
families he was to bring with him, or how
much of that four hundred million acres of
ldnu ne sOiu Wnle absent.
The greatest grade on the Transit
Railroad, says the Fernandina Express,
is twenty feet to the mile. On the F. &
J. Road, twenty-seven, and on the PENN
sular Road forty-6ve. We understand
the Florida Southern has grades as high
as eighty-fve feet to the mile.
The Pensacola Advaace states that
Father Ryan, the poet-priest," has been
granted permission by Bishop Quinlan to
reside at Biloxi, Miss, relieved of all
parOchial work. The weak condition of
his health, and his wish to. command the
leisure to finish an important work that
he is writing, are the causes of Father
Ryan's retirement from the active life in
which he has been engaged for the past
twenty years.
Mr.. James Vanlandingham, says the
Waldo Cracker, . few days ago brought
in his last load of cotton for shipment.
He and his little son made FIVE heavy
bales Of sea island cotton, besides plenty
Of corn, oats and potatoes, and raises his
own meat. You ought to have seen him
when he left for home, crack his whip
over those fine fat horses and fetch a
halo. Van is 9 good farmer, and will
give va a welcome smile.
Captain w. II. Cone, of Benton,
says the Lake City Reporter, knows how
TO make sweet potatoes. In planting
them he throws four fuTrows together and
plants the vine in the ridge. Whenever
the ridges become grassy he draws the
grass down or weeds the bed, never draw
ing any dirt 70 The potato. BY this work
the ridge becomes much hattened, but
the potatoes grow better and yield better
than wbep the beds or ridges are drawn
mp or worksa. as the custom generally is.
The Captains method saves labor and
increases the crop yield.
The Palatka Journal does not agree
wHb De k~timsts 81 Col D. II. Elliot, Of
1askssnf ilIes tbss the yield Of oranges in
FiesIds tl'iS year win be only Al, 600, 900,
and says: The Colonel shoots wide Of
mark His data for estimating the yield
is not reliable. There will be shipped
from the State this year not less than
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