The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-14

Fort Ogden wants shoemaker.
The Florida land boom ID on the increase.
Fort Myers needs . physician and drug
store.
The citizens Of Kissimmee City wants post.
once.
"A new Masonic hail IL being built at Or
lAndo.
Key West spongers are returning with small
cargOes.
-Welaka wants irst-class shoe maker and a
saw.mill.
Forest fires are stiIl raging In many portions
Of the State
Mr.. Menges, of Fort Meade, killed six slli-
gators at one shot
The post-ofice at Salem, Taylor county, has
been discontinued
The lien business is gradually playing out
In Gadsden county.
There lie an opening for first-class livery
stable at Live Oak.
The town of Madison is out of debt with a
good cash balace on hand
Twelve and half feet is the depth of water
on the ST. Johns bar at high tide
Mr.. Caraway Smith, a promising young law
yer, died at Madison on the Sd inst.
Mr.. N. B. White, of Buffalo Bluff, has real
lied $210 from sixteen stands of bees
-Tenonia is the name of new post-ofice on
the Fernandina and Jacksonville Railroad.
Sheriff Cone, of Vousia county, owns the
the finest horse exhibited at the State Fair
1t is said that rust has attacked the straw
berry plants in the vicinity of Federal Point
An American eagle measuring five feet from
tip to tip, was killed near Mayport last week
The Banner claims that in few years Ocala
will be known as the orange city of the interior
Scrip to the amount of $1.sOs2e was re-
Gently cancelled and burned in Hamilton county
Pensacola has a cooperative insurance So
ciety known as the Catholic Knights of Amer
lea
For the week ending March 4th, the mayor
of Pensacola fined the evil-doers of that city
$780,
Work on the Live Oak, Tampa and Char
lotte Harbor Railroad is progressing satisfac-
toriy
The mayor of Pensacola assessed fines to
the amount of 81 ,259 during the month of Feb
ruary.
The editor of the Sumterville Times has re-
ceived roasting ear" 1t came from Fort
Myers.
Col. Wicker ielegraphs from New York that
a railroad to Key West is certainty in the near
future.
There is said to be great demand for COM
petent school teachers in Monroe and Manatee
counties.
Key West wants 10 bet she'll have a railroad
before Tampa. Be patient, and you'll both have
q railroad.
Mr.. Geo. w. Ford has been commissioned
postmaster at Baldwin and Ida L. Daniel at
Campbellton.
The postmaster of Pensacola issued 7S3
money orders during the past month represent
ing $10,S2O,SS
-Messrs. e. F. and D. N Cone have estab-
lished toll-bridge across the Suwannee river at
White Springs.
MIR. Addison, of Fort Ogden, has a contract
to deliver 5000 alligator hides to ST. Louis
firm by May list.
The City Council of Palaika have granted the
nght-of-way through the city to the Palalka and
Indian River Railroad.
AT late meeting of the County Commits
sioners of Putnam county, scrip to the amount
of $7S9.62 was cancelled.
Buildings are in demand at Apalachcola.
Every tenantable house is occupied, and the tide
of newcomers on the increase.
H. n.
completed and the Recorder says it is The finest
building of the kind in the State
The Reporter claims that the gardeners of
Lake City will ship more English peas this season
than all the balance OF the State
Mr.. d. L. Way has retired from the Sanford
Journal and that paper will hereafter be under
the management of Mr.. D. C. Osborn.
Mr.. ]. Ira Gore, editor of the Cedar Key
Journal has been reelected clerk of that city,
receiving 1875 votes to one against him.
= Mr.. Burr Crosby, of Tampa, recently cap
tured shark seven feet long. 1t weighed about
300 pounds and had seven rows of teeth.
"A Pensacola correspondent of the Milton
Nes0s says new houses are going up here all the
time, and are rented long before they are built
-Messrs. VIM. Fisher and John D. Brosna-
ham were last Tuesday admitted to practice in
the United States Circuit Court at Pensacola
The City Council of Pensacola propose to
reduce the salaries of city officials, police, &c.
and the police respectfully protest by petition.
The Starke girls are 90 pretty it is feared that
the race Of bachelors will SOON become extinct
What's to become of the nineteen widows on the
carpetf
Twenty miles Of the right-of-wsy Of the
Jacksonville and St. Augustine Railroad have
been cut and fourteen miles are ready for
the iron.
Bro Finley wants 6rst-class hotel built at
Lake City. Il would certainly be good invest
ment He also makes a strong plea for cotton
seed mill
The bunko men Of Jacksonville last week
robbed New York gentleman of $500. He
finally recovered all but $3.50, and the bunko
men escaped. g
The editor of the Tampa Progress has been
wrestling with ten-page letter. containing $50
questions about Florida Perhaps this accounts
for his illness.
Mr. Jerry Doyle, Of st. Augustine. shipped
in one day, from his garden, 500 cabbages. 8 bar
rels Of new Irish potatoes, $50 beets $40 onions,
and $40 carrota
Mr. H. Palmes, Tax Collector of Escambia
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