The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-27

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DIR. J. L. Perry has been elected
Mayor Of Waldo.
Mr.. Thoe. p. Jones, Of Jefferson coun-
y. died on Monday the 18th inst
The Florida Conference meets in
Monticello on the 18th of January.
-9anges are selling on the streets Of
PAlatka for one and half cents apiece.
-Cucumbers shipped from Tampa two
weeks ago brought $40. per crate in New
York.
The Egmont Hotel at Fernandina
was opened on the 10th inst, by Mr..
Kittelle of New York.
The Florida Southern Railway is now
running FIVE engines and forty cars be-
tween PaIatka and Gainesville.
The gazette of the 18th inst. COM
plains that through the neglect of the
Mayor the recent settlement of the city
debt of Pensacola may fall through.
The Waldo Cracker has been shown
an orange twig which grew nine perfect
oranges, all united. Not leaf grew on
the twig, and no two oranges grew apart,
bat were all combined.
The Ocala city marshal undertook to
arrest drunken negro the other day,
and was quietly disarmed by the latter,
who cOOlly pOcketed the marshal's little
pistol and walked away.
The expense incurred by the late
term of Jefferson Circuit Court, says the
Constitution, for jurors and witnesses,
amounts to the nice little sum of 81 $685.
30. For jurors $35O.lO, and for witness
es $7I5.IO.
The contractors of the Florida South
ern Railroad stole march on the town
council of Palatka, and while the Ordi-
nance providing for the right of way
through the streets was pending, worked
their hands all one night to get the track
down.
- The two factions of Republicans in
Pensacola had grand row over the NOM
inations for city officers one evening last
week. Custom-house clerks and colored
policemen mixed indiscriminstely, for
awhile, but quiet was at last restored. No
arrests.
Mr.. Joseph H Roulhac, young man
of our town, who emigrated to Fort Worth,
Texas SEINE two years ago was married
last Wednesday to Miss Margaret Holla-
way, the only daughter of one of the oldest
and best established merchants in that
city-MdridnnG Courier.
Tampa Tribune; 1t is rumored that
Mr.. Yulee has begun proceedings to enjoin
the Florida Southern r. r. Co. from build
ing their road south of Ocala. Such a
step is decidedly against public policy,
whatever may be its legal status, and
therefore we earnestly hope that it will
fail.
Mr.. +. P. Roberts made the first
shipments of tomatoes this season. When
they reach New York they will doubtless
surprise the average Yankee, not only by
their size Zone weighing a pound and
three quarters) but the fact of their being
grown in open air in id-winter.-Key
West Democrat, Dec. Eth.
Quincy Herald: Mr.. George w.
Shelter, near Concord, raised from one
acre of land this year, enough sugar cane
to make Is barrels whisky of syrup
and 1000 seed cane. Now if our soil
will do that sort of thing don't blame
1t, and and emigrate, but stay at home,
be economical, industrious, and intelIi-
gent.
Brother Prevatt of the Orange City
Times, says: "The finest syrup made IN
Florida comes from Indian River" We
agree with him there, also pronounce him
to be good Judge TtusUiue Star.
Neither of these misguided editors has
ever visited Middle Florida at sugar
boiling time" or they would not talk so
fOolishly.
The St. Augustine Press tells of an
educated swarm of bees owned by citi.
zen of that place who has taught these
little creatures to become veritable circus
in themselves. They walk the slack wire
with the ease of one accustomed TO it,
They perform feats of ground and lofty
tumbling on the wire and in various other
ways, which must be seen to be under
stood.
DIR. Geo. Casper announces in the
last Issue of his paper, the Mdn0tee COM
ty Nescs, that he intends to commence suit
against the u. S. Government for damages
caused by the delay of valuable informa
tion through our damnable mail changes
and We predict many more just such suits
No other government would impose such
things upon her people. but here al things
are possible"
The steamer Alpha, says the Ocais
LacOn, the boat that has stood us in sucl
good stead for the last three years, hal
been sold to the Florida Southern Rail
way Company. She will undergo thor
ough repairs and be used for conveying
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