The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-01-31

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The Calf lee Conplux q Psnsaccla,
eonmsseed selling 10 On the 9Th.
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sod IL rrizse licenses IA jackson
county against 900 IN 1880.
The Fort Ogden Hoss says = good
pkykcisA IN work - ! lucrative prao-
tics By IQcssing e Fort Myera
-JasksSstia : Itatxsksss hsse Of
5ered Mr.. Willis, Of Gadsden county, tifty,
cents per pound for bis crop p kcbseco
The Key West DenOcras printed
500 extra copies of Gov. BloxkAmis IAtei
letter snnoupeing . reduction in taxa
ti&n0OIl 09nIgs ) % II
"A JOINT stock company has been
formed and the, money subscribed 10 es-
tabIish paper It Fort Dace, fernando
county. 10
The President has nominated George
B. Patterson, Of Key West, TO be United
States Attorney for the Southern District
Of Florida.
st Augustine is as free from crime
as any plsce inIAmerics. Both the city
and county Jail doors swing wide open;
lawyers growing poor and terms Of court
short Union -
"A gopher was found the other dayin.
fernando county by Mr.. L. B. Saunders.
on whose shell was engraved the year
1904 Mr.. S. inscribed 1882 thereon and
turned the old inhabitant loose. The
Crescent tells this story.
REV. Eugene Sheehy, the fearless
and ardent. defender OF the Land League,
who has been lectnring in this country
for the past two months, has come to
Florida for his health, and is now so
journing in Jacksonville.
-Apalaehicola Tribune: "Apalachi-
cola pays out s., 500 per day for labor.
This is at the rate of 81 per head for each
individual in the city. And we would
remind you, gentle reader, that this 81
500 is for manual labor alone"
The editor of the SumtervilIe Times
has been the recipient of oranges grown
from cutting of an old tree, which was
put cut three years ago, and this season
bore twenty-four oranges. They were
rather. small but deliciously sweet.
up to January 21st, 1855 men were
at work on the line of the Pensacola and
and Atlantic Railroad, between Pensacola
and the Chattahoochee river This looks
as though the company do not intend
that the work shall drag for want of force
to rush it along.
"A correspondent of the Union, writ
ing from Tampa under date of January
2sd, says: @After long delay and
much talk, the Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West Railroad Company have com
menced work at this place, and our peo-
pie cannot be blamed Tor feeling some
what elated over the prospects that seem
to be looming up in our near future"
Mariana is infested with a gang of
thieves who commit burglaries withoutap-
prehension. The success of their exploits
indicate the presence of cracksmen in
that place. One night last week they en-
tered q jewelry store in the centre of the
town, ruined valuable safe with chisels,
powder, DC, without efecting an en-
trance thereto, ransacked everything in
the building, and departed with such ar
ticles as they desired.
The grading on the p & l. r. r. r.
commenced Thursday morning at Buffalo
Bluff, four miles up the st. Johns from
Palatka, at which point the road >crosses
the river. Capt Ellis is the contractor
at this end of the river, and an agent is
now stationed At Jacksonville, sending
laborers mp as fast as he can The sur
Vey has been completed for twenty or
twenty-five miles from Palatka this way.
-OrGnge CITY Times, Jan. 81.
IS b Carter, the murderer of John
W. Griffin, in Orange county, is still at
large. The following is description of
the assassin: g S. B. Carter is a slender
man about thirty years old, above FIVE
feet and nine inches high with thin visage,
short brown hair, stOops in the shoulders,
walks IN shabling gait and drags his
heels in walking, eyes dark brown, blood
shot, complexion a0tid.g Al reward Of
one thousand doliafs, prompt payment, Ii
offered fOrthe delivery of Carter to Sheriff
Shine at Orlando.
Port Ogden Pod, Jan. Ie: "The
steam laanch Mamie has arrived from
Lake HickpOchee; they have cut canal
to within six hundred yards OF the lake,
Which b. ) fail d Two feet. From this
lale o 0keecbohse Is csIy three miles,
Gitk . tkieh distance the canal i ex-
Peeted 70 Be completed by February 10th,
vheB Capt r a Hepdry, Major Houeh,
editor II tie Posf, with the steam launch
Mamie, Capt C. W. Thompson, win leave
Fort Man g uP DE CsloosaEAtchee
EiveF, shSO1gk lke canal into Lake Okee-
shsbee. ~ - Ki.islnse riser 70 Lake