The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-05-24

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river last week.
Cedar Keys has private telegraph
line, with half dozen stations. Why
not telephone?
The Episcopal Church at Cedar Keys
was conscrated on Sunday, the 18th inst.
Rev. E. w. Meaney is in charge
Work is progressing at all points on
the new railroad between Palatka and
Gainesville. The track is laid some eight
or ten miles out from the river.
The " Signal-Advsrtlser," is to be the
name of paper to be shortly started at
Pine Level, Manatee county, by Messrs
John A. Howard and T. B. Reese, late of
Georgia.
"A new paper, the Monday Evening
Journal, has made its appearance at Pa
latka. 1t is published by the Putnam
County Journal Office, and promises to be
a daily next winter.
jacksonville "drummers" were thick
on our streets this week IL would be
we'll for the Jacksonville merchants to
patronize the papers of the upper st.
Johns country South Florida Times.
Cheering news comes from all Sec
tions of South Florida in regard to the
crops We hope that corn enough will
be made this year so that our farmers will
not have 10 draw from the West so heav-
Ily.-T'wpa Tribune.
"A nursery for young orange trees,
and fruit trees of every variety, is much
needed in this vicinity. We learn that a
gentleman on Lake Harris, had 10 pur-
chase young orange trees on the st. Johns
river, as none could be procured; they
had all been bought up and planted out
in groves, This is the best paying bust
ness we know of just now for some enter
prising man to enter.-Leesberg Advance.
MIR. Sneden, one of the projectors of
the Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Hall
fax r. r., was in town this week Mr.. S.
speaks very confidently in regard to the
construction of the road, and says that its
completion is only matter of time which
is not in the far future The depot site
has been selected with view to an outlet
for an extension south, which is the inev-
liable consumation of the roads,. Aat-
guStine Weekly
Helm & Co., of Manatee county,
have shipped seventy bushels of tomatoes
from one patch, which Melted them sc
per bushel. Raising vegetables don't
begin to pay like cotton at 8 cents pound,
you know.-Crops are looking we'll all
over the county, though in some sections
there is need of rain. The present indi-
cations are that there will be heavy
corn crop made.-Last week Mr.. J. J.
Hale, Treasurer of the county, paid the
last cent of the county's Indebtedness,
except a few late and unimportant war
rants, drawn for small sums. This is
another indication of our county's pros
-LDTOOhSOAtC OTSSCSTH.
Captain W. A. Shaw, of the Palace
Steamer Frederick deBary, handed us on
Saturday night, May eth. copy of the
Savannah Morning Ne,cs of that day
and date. This is quick time and evinces
one Of the advantages to be derived from
this new Waycross road.-Three or four
years ago young orange seedlings were
sold at low figure Now, they bring a
high price and the demand is greater than
the supply, owing to the lack of foresight
of nurserymen and others in not planting
more seed. We advise one and all to be-
ware Of this error in the future, for young
orange trees will always be in demand
Ptlatkd Herald
-Ocala will hereafter get its mail by
the Peninsular Railroad. BY this ar
rangement we will get the Jacksonville
Union and Savannah Ne,cs on the same
day of publication and the New York pa
pers probably in two days after they are
printed. Ocala will then feel the daily
throb of the great pulse of civilization
and We hope will be quickened into new
life and greater activity by the impulse
thus given 1.-THE people of Marion
county are as busy as the hot weather
will permit. The railroad is being pushed
briskly forward; depots are being built
farmers are actively engaged In their
crops the orange men are charging their
groves and real estate is constantly chang
ing hands. Our county is keeping abreast
with the times OcdLd Banner.
-Twenty-four German families ar
rived on the steamer Western Texas this
week; bound for Volusia county where
they propose to colonize. This is a move
in the right direction, and we hope to see
larger numbers focking into our favored
State. The statistics of Castle Garden
show that the immigration to the United
States is unprecedented, and we deem it
the duty of our Commissioner Of Lands
and immigration to endeavor to turn a
portion of the tide in this direction, par
ticularly the portion of the tide possessing
meana-The Palm Fibre, and Paper Pulp
Company have thus far shipped about a
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