The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-20

--kissimmee City must have q news
paper.
-Apalachicola needs a steam fire
engine.
June apples are good in Gadsden
county.
"A 5OO-pound turtle was recently cap
tured near Tampa.
-Tavares has a saw-mill run by a 100
horse power engine.
The orange crop of Marion county
will be immense this year.
Col. McWilliams has made success
in burning brick near Fernandina
The grading of the Leesburg and
Indian River Railroad is completed.
Fine specimens of wheat have been
grown in Putnam county this season.
Mr.. l. w. Warner, of Tampa, has
this season raised an eight pound sweet
potato.
The cambridge and Chattahoochee
Railroad will be graded by Georgia con-
vict laborers.
Track laying on the Florida Southern
is progressing between Gainesville and
Newnansville.
An Episcopal Church will be built
at Lake Eustis on ground donated by Mr.
L. G. Prescott.
-Palatka's Fourth of July Committee
has raised several hundred dollars for a
grand celebration.
The Tampa Steamship Company has
purchased new steamer, which will soon
appear on their line.
Mr.. J. d. Vann, of TitusviIle, has pre-
sented the editor of the Star with an onion
weighing p pounds.
The large number of tea plants set
out by Commissioner LeDuc at Enter
prise are doing finely.
We learn that rich deposit of silver
ore has been discovered near Apopka
City, in orange county.
MIR. d. c. Fink, who formerly edited
the Cotton States at Gainesville, is now
prosperous farmer at Micanopy.
The frame work Of PaIatkas grand
opera house is up. The main hall will be
Al by IA feet and will seat 500 persons.
Miss Archie Yonge, of Pensacola,
has been awarded medals for music and
Colloquial French, at the Atlanta Female
Institute.
Work is progressing on the immense
new buildings of Messrs. Kohn, Furchgott
& Benedict, and Benedict & McConihe,
in Jacksonville.
The Tampa Tribune says unimproved
land on the western side Of the county
was sold at public outcry in Tampa, on
Monday, for $50 per acre.
One of the two new steamers for the
DE Barry line, on the ST. Johns river, is
being built by Messrs. Drew, Hazeltine
IL Livingston, of Jacksonville.
The John Hopkins University, of Bal
timore, has conferred the degree of Bach
elor of Arts upon Prof w. B. Clarkson,
of the Duval High School, Jacksonville
The steamers Chattahoochee and
Everingham will be tied up for the sum-
mer. The Caddo Bell will take the place
of the former and the Wylly that of the
latter
"A staff correspondent of the Union,
writing of the beach at Fernandina, says:
"But Amelia stands without a rival
beautiful, healthful and safe-the Queen
of Atlantic beaches"
The Journal says there is as much
travel through Cedar Key as there was in
January. Then it was tourists and in
valids, now it is home seekers and land
locaters. Let 'em come.
The Jacksonville Union was last
week the recipient of lot of fine apples
and ripe orange (from an October
bloom) grown by Mr.. Andrew Callahan,
OF Melrose, Clay county
Marion county is on a gold and sill
yer basis for the first time in thirty years.
The report of the treasurer shows that
there is balance of $666.76 in U. S. cur
rency in the county treasury.
Mr.. Martin Palmer, son of DIR. T. M.
Palmer, of Monticello, has been appointed
assistant engineer of the Macon and
Brunswick division of the East Tennes-
see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad.
"A Moseley Hall correspondent of the
Madison Recorder says there is much ex-
element over natural curiosity ownedby
Mr.. Ed. E. Willard; it is hog with six
b feet perfectly formed. The hog is not at
all clumsy and is in fine condition.
Tampa Tribune, "Mr w. B. Hender-
son has purchased the remaining 90 acres
of the w. J. Campbell tract of land, on
the hill north of Tampa, where he pur-
poses building an elegant residence, sur
rounded with all varieties of tropical and
semi-tropical trees and fruits"
Quincy Herald: "Several years ago
the steamer Alice sunk near Ricoe's Bluff
on the Apalachicola river, with 600 bar