The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-07-11


MELON F. English has been confirmed
postmaster of Key West.
On the 3lst of May there were Isl
convicts in the State prison camp
John w. Adams, Jr, has been com.
mi!ssioned postmaster at st. Marks.
There is no yellow fever at Cedar
Key, nor at any other Florida port.
The Gadsden county fair will be held
at Quincy on the 2lst of November
MIR. John NJ TarbIe has been con-
firmed as Collector of Customs at Pensa-
cola.
The new hotel being built at Tavares
will be 276 by 296 feet and cover an en-
tire block.
Mr.. w. p. Henderson and family, of
Tampa, are spending the summer at
Gainesville, Ga.
The Sumter County Agricultural So
ciety will discuss the fence question ="
at their next meeting.
Mr. Geo. Cammack, of New York.
proposes to supply Pensacola with street
railways and gas works.
Col. J. NJ. Martin, of Marion county,
refuses to become a candidate for Con-
gress in the Second District.
Mr.. S. T. Walker retires from the
editorial chair of the Milton Nescs. He
is succeeded by Mr.. w. p Howell
The business of the United States
Land Office, at Gainesville, for the first
six months Of the present year, amounts
to $75s,OOO
The Key West Democrat is author
ity for the statement that Dade county
has never had a court to meet in it since
its organization years ago.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of Jacksonville propose to estab-
lish Temperance Coffee House or Re
freshmen Room in that city.
Mr.. c. b., Pendleton, editor of the
Key West Democrat, has recently pub
lished descriptive pamphlet of Monroe
county, containing a map of Florida
The depression in trade at Key West
accounted for by the Democrat from
the fact $4,000 are monthly expended by
the working classes in lotteries that exist
in that city.
We have received copy of the
Ley Enterprise, published at Bronson, by
Messrs. r. b. and Frank Mitchell. 1t is
a neat eight-page paper, and contains a
two-page supplement.
Hon. S. r. Mallory, of Pensacola,
was last week made the recipient of a
handsome silver tea set, bestowed by a
complimentary vote as the most popular
fireman of that CITY, lie is foreman of
the Germania Fire Company.
Key West Democrat: 1t is stated
as a positive fact, and we don't doubt it,
that sheep will lose their wool in the
second year that they are on this island.
No matter where thew are brought from
they will become as woolless as goats"
The books of Mr.. III. McPhaul, tax
Assessor of Gadsden caunty, shows an
assessment of $7O6,O2O. The County
Commissioners made an order levying the
following taxes: State, mills county,
4mills; building, mills; school, 8 mills.
Quincy Herald: " And now Mr.. Jno.
L. Wyatt waltzes to the front with an APP
pie that measures Is inches one way by
IL inches the other, raised in his orchard,
about 2 miles west of Quincy, and yet
some croakers say apples can't be raised
in this county"
Tampa Tribune: Several hundred
head of beeves are on the way for this
place from Thomasville, Georgia, Leon,
Suwannee, Levy, and fernando counties.
Some two or three thousand head will be
concentrated here in the next thirty
days.
-Palatka Herald If our farmers
could be induced to cultivate less land,
and fertilize more, they would double
their crops Five acres well cultivated
and well fertiIized will make more than
fifteen acres that is supposed to take care
of itself.
Tampa Progress: On tree now
growing in T. p Kennedy's yard we find
five crops of oranges. First is the orange
of the spring 1881, and then of the sum.
mer of last year. Then the crop of 1882,
and still later crop, and now the trees
are blooming again, making in all five
separate and distinct crops on the same
tree at the same time.
-Fernandina Mirror. Sir Edward
Reed has in contemplation the placing of
line of steamers between Milford Haven,
England, and Fernandina, to carry out
heavy freights and bring in immigrants.
A greater depth of water, however, is
needed to enable the class of deep-draught
ships suitable for the business to enter
and clear with full cargoes.
The Jacksonville Union, of the 5th,
says: Messrs. Coloney & Talbot yester-
day closed contract for $4,000 acres OF
land in Sumter county to colony from
Duluth, Mimi The land is on the route