The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-07

ID lase yea< Was eo.D7keel. ~ which Ievenus
tax q 41Dzesoss ~ peid % Dc tavenseat
In jacksonville ee,70o cigarssis wese mnds. 81
1o02soin Key Wed
The premium offered At the State Fair 81
the besl country paper was mol awarded e there
was no composition. The Barlow Easwnssk
sent by mail. and received in damaged cnndi-
ton. was the only paper received.
The Express ssys hat no city In The State Of
Florida ever enjoyed the prospects, Of develop
nent now elisyed By Fernandina. We are more
hopeful Of i,s future now than ever before. and
believe We have good reasons to be 90.
The Informant says not pound Of ham, .
dozen Of eggs, peck Of Irish potatoes. nor
quart Of beans or peas can be had in Barlow. II
q citizen Of that burg wants gallon Of syrup or
bushel Of potatoes. he HES away 70 the country
and hunts them up
We learn that Mr.. r. A. Wilder, Of Starke
proposes TO establish paper at Bronson, the
county site of Levy county. Bronson Is -four
ishing town, and we hope Mr.. Wilder's enter
prise viii be appreciated and sustained by the
good people of Levy.
Captain "A Hsndry informs he ky West
Democrat that the work on the Okeechobee
Canal continues satisfactory. and that over 400
yards have already been cut There Is no doubt
of the success of this great undertaking which
win drain 50 many million acres q rich bottDm
land.
The county site question seems to be devel-
oping an unpleasantness in Sumter county.
The SumterviIle Times says As our people re-
ceived no invitation to visit the Leesburg Fair,
they did not feel disposed to push themselves
into the private affairs Of the citizens OF that
generous and social burg"
-PaiMka Herald: We were informed few
days since, by party from South Florida, that
Mr.. Disston, who recently purchased four mil
lion acres of land from the State, found great
many old settlers on his lands many of whom
had valuable places. In each and every instance
of this kind Mr. Disston sold to them al $1a5
per acre.
-Apalachicola Tribune, 23d ult: Last Friday
there left our wharf for up The river two of The
finest steamers of their size in the South-the
new steamer Chattahoochee and the Rebecca
Everingham. No other river in Florida can
boast Of Two such splendid passenger steamers,
so elegantly appointed and equipped as these
two beautiful boats.
Colonel Gore, of the Cedar Key Journal,
has been making fun Of Jacksonville's bob-iail
racers at the State Fair. Bro. Douglass thus re-
taliates When the editor of the Journal was
young man, and used to visit Jacksonville and
take one of its fair daughters out riding, he inva
riably got bob-tail nag or a mule. Hence his
knowledge of Jacksonville horses.
The EIkhart Qnd) Democrat, of recent
date says: Mr.. Walter Calvert yesterday re-
ceived a box of fresh, ripe tomatoes from his
friend E. II. Stillman, of Key West Florida.
They arrived in good condition, as fresh as
though just taken from the garden where they
grew in The Land of Flowers" This proves
that the tomato can be successfully shipped.
The Apalachicola Tribune says the good
work of deepening the channel between the pres
ent West Pass anchorage ground for shipping
and our city wharves is progressing rapidly
The lump or ridge formed across the channel
of late years is now being cut through to the
width of so feet and depth of 10 TO 10 feet, and
the mud and sand is carried off in barges and de-
posted on the westward flats, and will serve as
future breakwater or barrier 10 prevent the
| filling up of the channel again.
Colonel Cotton na~is, OF Marion county,
on the 18th ult., in the 10th year of his age.
! He was a native of Screven county, Georgia.
| but had resided in Marion county since a child.
| A gallant soldier of the Indian war of 1885. and
of the Confederacy. He was imprsoDea = me
fort at ST. Augustine three mor''s after the close
\ of the war by the Federal officials. He had for
some years before his death prepared himself
with his burial suit, and when the time came he
had his lamp we'll trimmed and burning to meet
the bridegroom TO enter the marriage feast
| Union.
-Putnam county Journal: Florida furnishes
but one-fourteenth of all the oranges consumed
| in the United States. There is but one Florida,
| and the area of orange producing territory is
limited. The United States is rapidly growing
in wealth and population. A few years will
double the consumption of the golden fruit in
our land, and twenty eight times as many as are
now raised will be needed to meet the home de-
mand. This done we can enter the markets of
the world and offer superior fruit, which will
soon create a greater foreign demand than the
demand for home consumption. There seems
oot htuC oonBCS vi OvCfuOlDS lnc orange UuSl-
ness
Mariana Courier Late Tuesday evening,
the 21st ult-, Mr.. w. r. TAYLOR, OF Calhoun
county, was found dead at log camp on the
Chipola river, not very FAR from his home. On
the previous day Mr.. Taylor alone had gone TO
this camp with an OK team. From the fact that
several Of his ribs were broken and that be was
very badly bruised, it il thought that his oxen
ran away and that the heavy log cart ran over
him producing the above result Mr. Taylor
was esteemed very highly in the community in
which be lived. and bis sudden and unfortunate
death is a source of deep sorrow 10 his relatives
and many friends.
The Daily Adrdne>- Gazette, Of The 26ih ult,
says The cIearances from Pensacola for the week
consisted Of twenty-five vessels, which took as
cargoes, In the aggyegaie, eeO,S32 cubic feet Of
bewn timber equal to g. 1913 1884 feet broad meas
urel 1886 cubic feet of sawn timber equal 10
J694, 512 feet broad measurel 1O048 pieces of
boards and planks, and 2.013,i5 feet Of lumber,
which, when taken into consideration, will be
found TO be no Insignificant weeks work. The
total value Of these shipments amounted TO &97,-
808. Pensacola can certainly make some boast
of her shipments Of lumber and timber, as will
be acknowledged after The foregoing figures are
examined. The collections for the past week at
the custom house amounted to e1yO72.03
Mrs. Huling has submitted 10 the citizens of
DeIAnd plan for providing homes for North