The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-22
STATE NEWS.


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"A Davidson club is proposed at Ma
rianna.
-Scuppernong grapes are abundant in
Jackson county.
-Brevard county's new courthouse is
nearing completion.
"A white owl is among the recent Gu
riosities of Gainesville.
"A library association was organized
at Madison last Wednesday.
All the Mariana ministers have
joined the summer exodus.
One vessel took 15O, 900 cross ties
from Apalachicola last week.
The Oeala post-office has been sup
piled with new iron lOck-boxes.
The citizens of Mariana pay a city
tax of only one-half of one per cent.
MIR. Z. L. Ware, and old citizen of
Key West, died suddenly on the 18th.
Only one death in Jacksonville last
week-a colored infant eight days old.
"A general reduction in freight rates
on the Chattahoochee river is announced
Brother Moore, of the Starke TEE
graph, has gone into the real estate bust
ness.
The Starke Telegraph has been en-
larged to seven columns, and has a hand
some new head.
Mr.. George E. Dennis has been COM
missioned postmaster at Lloyd's, Florida,
formerly Bailey's Mills
Pensacola will have lOO-mile walk
ing match on the 10th and goth for $3.50
and the championship of the State.
MIR. Cicero Langley contemplates
erecting commodious hotel at st. An
drews, on the coast of West Florida
The steamer City of Jacksonville,
now being built at Wilmington, Del, will
be launched about the LIST Of September
"A number of business houses are be-
ing erected in Mariana, and the Courier
says more dwellings are needed in that
city.
One year ago to-day the first dirt was
thrown on the Pensacola and Atlantic
Railroad, and in a few months it will be
completed
The sponge business promises to be
good at Key West this season. In sin
gle day last week $4,000 were paid out
for this commodity.
The DeLand Agriculturist says Mr..
VIM. Hulst bubded Peen-to peach on a
common peach stock month ago, and it
now has blossoms on it.
The Thoronateeska, new steamer
for the Peoples Line on the Chattahoochee
river, was successfully launched at Colum-
bus, Georgia, on the 18th.
The Orlando Reporter, one of the
neatest papers in Florida, comes to hand
enlarged this week This is the second
enlargement in few months.
The contract for building portion
of the p. & A. Railroad shops, at Pensa-
cola, has been awarded to Mr. A. Y.
Clubs Other shops will be erected next
season.
The Herald, successor to the Ne,cS,
is a neat twenty-four column paper, edited
and published by Messrs. Thos. c. and
Allan Dawson, at Enterprise, Volusia
county
1t is said that the Commissioners of
Vousia county offer reward $500 for the
apprehension of the murderers of Mr..
and Mrs. Neff. To this amount the town
council of DeLand add 800
The Adcocdte says the Katy dds
are denuding orange trees of leaves and
young shoots in some localities about
Gainesville. Whether or not this will be
particularly damaging to the trees re-
mains to be seen.
-Weare compelled to note the fact
that the Independent movement is gain
ing ground.-.&. augustine Press. On
or about the 9Th of November the Press
will be compelled" to admit that the
Independents have more ground ?" than
they desire, and it will all be above them,
too.
Quincy HerdId:" A number of young
men who have been prospecting in South
and East Florida have returned and are
perfectly satisfied that Old Gadsden is
better than any other county they have
seen. Just what We told them before
they started"
Mr.. Wash. Gingles, living on East
Hill, in the suburbs of Pensacola, has de-
posted in this Office one of the products
of his agricultural experiments, pump
kin weighing ninety three pounds and
measuring five feet in circumference
Commercial
"A Palatka special of the 18th, to the
Jacksonville Times, says: "a derrick at
the railroad shops of the Florida Southern
Railway fell to-day, killing L. bingham
and Charles Thompson, of Fernandina, al