The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13

There are too many people in this
State who sit with folded hands and be
moan the fate that keeps capital, enter
prise and prosperity away from them
and yet when the means for securing
these blessings are within their reach
they fail to avail themselves of them
AdUdnce- Gazette
The railroad outlook is Frightening
in Polk county. The Informant says
tive expect one or two roads in the near
future, and at least four in the next three
years. Shall Barlow be sustained, and
made the centreing point, or will she be
cheated by inaction? The committees
that are to meet to-day have to answer
the question"
The town council of Micanopy know
how to deal with public nuisances. At a
late meeting of the council it was " ordered
that the old Stoughton dwelling, which
has been an eye-sore and nuisance so long
to the people of Micanopy, be torn down
within thirty days" This action evinces
a public spirit and pride worthy of emu.
lation by other councils.
- Jacksonville Union: GA new and
important industry is being built up on
Lake .Jessup The fine beds of mari
which have been discovered along the
south shore of the lake are being utilized,
with fish from the lake, in the manufac-
ture of fertilizer. A company has been
organized and buildings erected on Bird
Island, in the lake, mile and half from
the mainland"
Enterprise Ne,cs, "Work on the
Seville and Halifax Railroad is rapidly pro-
crossing. One hundred and twenty-five
men are at present employed grading on
the road. Six miles of the right of way
are cleared and three of it graded. The
other three miles will be graded within
two weeks. This road in all probability
will have the first rails laid on it of any
railway in Volusia county"
Barlow Informant: 1--WE saw this
week in town an intelligent Georgian,
who has just located homestead in the
lake region, and he was buying garden
seed, onion sets, Irish potatoes for seed,
and he is going to plant every month, as
an experiment, until he learns the nature
of the soil and climatic effects on the pro-
ducts of the field and garden. We will
wager years subscription that he sue
ceeds."
1t is stated that the signal officer at
Punta Rassa is desperately in love with
a Seminole maiden. The Key West
Democrat says: "She will not consent
to marry him unless he joins her tribe,
and since he has heard this avowal he is
gradually loosing taste for civilized dress,
and unless something happens soon Uncle
Sam will lose good officer and the Sem
mole nation will gain heap big Chief,
not to speak of a great big tom cat, the
present companion of the gentleman in
his trouble"
"A correspondent of the Mariana
Courier, writing from Eucheeanna. says:
" The plan suggested some months since
of moving out little town out to the rail-
road is now beginning to take definite
shape. The place selected is beautiful
plateau of pine land with plenty of oaks
interspersed to give variety, on high
ridge five miles north of the present town,
with springs of pure water breaking out
on both the north and south sides of it.,
famed by delightful Gulf breezes in the
summer, and as healthy as the noun
tains"
-Tavares Herald: "For the past six
months the work of digging the canal to
connect Lakes Eustis and Dora has been
prosecuted by St. Clair Abrams and Sum-
merlin, near Tavares. At distance of
over four feet below the old level of Lake
Dora mound was discovered. The
first excavations revealed the existence of
a clearly defined wall lying in line ex-
tending towards the south west from
where it was first struck. This wall was
composed of dark brown sandstone,
very much crumbled in places, but more
distinct, more clearly defined, and the
stone more solid as the digging increased
in depth. The wall was evidently the cas-
tern side of an ancient house or fortifca-
ton, as the slope of the outer wall was to
the west. About light feet from the slope
of the eastern wall mound of sand was
struck, imbedded in the muck formation
above and around it. This sand mound
was dug into only few inches, as the
depth of the water demanded but a slight
increased depth of the channel at that
point, but enough was discovered to war
rant the belief that here, on the north
western shore of Lake Dora, is submerged
city, or town, or fortifcation older by
centuries than anything yet discovered in
this protion of Florida Small, curiousIy
shaped blocks of sandstone, some of them
showing traces of fire, pieces of pottery,
and utensils made of notified flint were
thrown out by the men while working
waist deep in water"