The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-03-22
STATE NEWS.

INST
An orange tree one year old and an
other five years old, near Lake Panasof-
kee, are in full bloom.
Mr.. Peter Gonzalez, an aged citizen
and native of Pensacola, died in that city
on the 18th inst, in his list year.
The winter travel to Florida has been
larger this year than ever before, and
visitors are still coming at the rate of one
TO two hundred per day.
The eighth annual regatta of the St.
Augustine Yacht Club, came off With ap-
propriate ceremonies and some brilliant
regattas, on the 10th inst
The steam saw-milI of State Senator
McClenny, at Maxwell, on the Transit
Road, was destroyed by fire on the 18th
inst, together with a large quantity of
lumber
Andrew Fell, one of the murderers
Of J. ii. Whitaker, at Monticello, was
convicted at the recent term of the JEFF
ferson Circuit Court, of murder in the
FIRST degree.
Mr.. John White, one of the oldest
and most highly respected citizens of
Jefferson county, died at the residence
Of Mr.. 5. C. BOtt, in Monticello, last
Thursday morning.
Miss Alice, daughter of F. r. Fildes,
Esq, editor of the Monticello Constitu-
ton, was married on Thursday night last,
10 Mr. w. u. Lawshe, one of the best
young men of Atlanta, Ga.
John Williams, a negro, charged with
the murder, in September last, of Mr.
James McJunkins, of Gadsden county, was
recently arrested in Decatur county, Ca,
aud brought to Quincy for trial.
The Leesburg Adrdnce is one of the
neatest and newsiest of our State ex-
changes. 1t is doing good work in build
ing up the material interests of its Sec
ton, and is ably supported by it's constit-
uents.
The Gazette, of the 18th inst, gives
a statement showing that the custom re-
eeipts of Pensacola for February were
SI5,44O.s7, being about g., 900 more than
the receipts at New Orleans for the same
month
The Cooley Combination" the
atrieal troup, which visited Tallahassee
early in the winter, visited Tampa re-
Gently, where they performed in the Bap-
tist Church, and carried off the key
thereof with them.
p. T. Barnum, the Great American
Snowman, Henry G. Parker, of the Bos-
ton Gazette, ex-Governors Tolbert and
Rice, of Massachusetts, and the family of
DR. T. Dewitt Talmage, the famous
preacher, are travelling in Florida.
We learn from the Palatka Herald
that Colonel Fl. L. Hart, accompanied by
three other gentlemen, while out riding
one day last week, was thrown out of the
carriage and severely injured. One of
his companions, Colonel Baxter, was also
badly bruised.
This is the way the Brooksville Ores
cent man does it: "The Japonica is one
Of the most beautiful of Florida's flowers,
and one of three of the most beautiful of
Brooksville's ladies has our thanks for
sending us specimen, the bearer couldn't
tell us which"
"A movement is on foot to put small
steamer on "Paine's Prairie" which is
really large inland lake in Alachua
county, but was formerly a veritable
prairie, the drainage of which was
checked few years since by the stopping
mp Of a subterranean outlet,
The Brooksville Crescent thinks the
members of the late Legislature were a
bilious set, having introduced about 500
bills; praying body, having prayed
Congress for millions of post-ofices and
post routes, and an amending lot, as they
amended the local option law to death.
-Messrs Drew & Buck, of Ellaville,
are having a new, light draft steamship
built at Bath, Me-, says the Jacksonville
Union, for special services in their i'm
mense lumber trade. She is to be about
two hundred feet long and supplied with
very powerful machinery, and will be
fitted up to carry lumber.
On Wednesday night the steamer ST.
Johns brought nearly seventy tons of
spikes, bolts and fsh-bar plates, for the
Paiatka and Gainesville Railroad. Cap
tain Vogel sighted coming over the St.
Johns bar large three-masted schooner
that is supposed to be ladened with the
rails for the road.-PaIatka Herald, 18Th.
Captain r. w. Davis, who, several
noRths, since, removed from Gainesville
TO Jacksonville, has located at Green
Cove Springs and has been appointed
Judge for Clay county. We recommend
him to the citizens of his new home, and
wish him great prosperity wherever he
may cast his lot GdiaesviUe Sun and
Be-. - 80
Northern visitors will have fine op-
portunity to see the most beautiful portion
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