The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-21

heart of Bro Fildes with q supply Of cabbage,
onions, pears and beets, grown on bis farm near
Monticello III
Five miles of iron have been laid ON the rail-
road between Rallstown and Garfield, on Hall
fax river, and an engine will be on the track by
the first Of April
AT the recent term Of the Circuit Court in
St AagestAe b01Bdictments were found by the
graad' jarys and only one criminal and three
civil cases were tried. N
"A young doctor recently visited Welaka
prospecting for place to establish drug store
but he found the people looking so healthy and
happy he left in disgust.
Lake City Reporter: On Wednesday night
Prof Withers, of Madison, received the rite of
imprnmpiu baptism in Lake DeSoto We have
not been able to obtain the names of those off,
eiaiipg. IffN
The, editor of The South Florida Times has
received turnip measuring thirty inches in cir
conference and weighing nine pounds 1t was
grown on the high rolling pine lands of Volusa
county
Monticello COnstituti0R Our farmers seem
to have taken one course in the school of expert
ence, judging from the very large oat crop, now
very promising, and the large corn crop now be-
ing planted
The Scientific american thinks that petro-
leum has reached its limit, unless new fields are
discovered. Whereupon Bro. Pratt remarks
Well, we shall have to fall back upon our alliga-
tor oil or use electricity.
The Methodist Sunday school at Apalachi-
cola is one of the largest and most flourishng in
the State. II has 1876 scholars, sixteen officers
and teachers, a Bible-class containing twenty
young men, and is in charge of lady superin-
tendent.
1t was rumored that a ballroom wa 10 be
established at Barlow, whereupon the editor of
the Informant suggets that the commissioners
levy county tax on this privilege of about the
sum OF every mans capital in the county, and
collect strictly in advance.
Six different kinds of fruits may be seen
blooming, bearing and rpening on shaddock
tree, on the farm of Hon. H. T. Likes, at Spring
Hill. On this tree he has grated sweet Or
growing nicely and bearing.
1t is estimated that if all the cattle In the
State could be sold for $50 head they would
not pay for the property destroyed by the forest
fires of the present season. As the woods are
burnt for the benefit of the cattle, we think it is
about time to stop this foley wv
-Apopka Citizen: We are pleased to learn
that work on the South Florida Railroad s about
to be resumed, and that il wiz be prosecuted
with great vigor. We say to our people, one
and all, stand up to the South Florida Railroad,
for this road is standing up TO you.
Mr.. G. II. Williams, contractor on the Flor
ida Southern Railway, at Ocala, advertIses for
1000 hands. 1T is said this company viii build
two roads from OcaIa One will traverse the
rich hammocks south of that place, and the other
will be built direct to Leesburg, and thence to
Orlando
"A jacksonville TINES man visited Baldwin
one day last week. When he stepped upon the
platform at the depot he was beseiged by the
bunko gang" who are a curse TO that village,
and invited to play a " little game" He pre-
sented his card, when they quietly cut his ac-
qriaintance.
Key West Democrat: A report. prevalent
in town. 10 the effect that Capt Taylor, well
known in our midst, was captured on the Next
Can coast, in the act of stealing guano from
some of the islands, and was. together with his
crew, sentenced TO be hung, is contradcted by re-
liable authority.
The Barlow Informant rejoices over the
prospect that within another year three churches
are likely TO be completed and then three bells,
on each Sabbath, will ring ont the call for this
people to come and worship the Lord as they
should-decently and in order Speed the glori-
Gus contamination, say we"
Barlow Ihtorman:: Some of our oldest
settlers are getting disguised with the boom
business" and recount the good old days of
Lang Syne," when they could have. venison
steaks for breakfast roast Wild turkey for dinner,
and trout for supper; and their eyes seem to swim
little when they think how much the new
conner and his "ysller dorg" have changed
things.
Go slow on vegetable lard, Otherwise known
as coiton-seed oil A whole family in Georgia
was poisoned the other day by eating biscuit
with this stuff shorenln'. '-AdOance- Gazette
We have something better on The ST. Johns river
lard made from the fat q allieaid; you can't
tell the difference And, efdfslcak, the tail of
young alligator is grcsteF luxury than the
frogs Of Paris. PalatkS Henn -
Tampa Progress: Ben Richards had an or
ange tree that commenced 10 die. Hedid every
thing he could for it, but all to no purpose, and
die it would. So.he got a new tree and planted
right by the side Of the dying one, and grated
some Of the dying trees roots in the root of the
live one. Strange to say the sickly tree COM
menced to improve right away and is now all
0. K, and is growing right along.
Quincy Herald: Mr. NJ D. Lewis, of Rock
Bluff Liberty county, has crop of oats, planted
November first, last year. four and five feet high,
and beautifully headed out. He was in town ON
last Thursday, and showed us a specimen He
says it is Western oat, and was planted in
North Alabama. by man who gave him a
match box full of the seed He calls II ~'the poor
mans oats" as it ripens so early and grows 90
rapidly.
Jacksonville UuDn Whenever fellow;is
tried for larceny in the Seventh Circuit and at
tempts to screen his guilt by saying it was his
wife's fault and not his. IS John jenkins recently
did At Enterprise. Siste-At.erney sSt 6air
Abrams picks up the Holy Bible Rbd sdAs to
the jury the third chapter of Genesis, and they
all rise up Immediately and pronounce the pris-
oner guilty. Better not 90 into ths. caupty TO
steal If they don't want to be convicted
AT Apalachicola. on the 18th inst, Mr. John
Engle. Passenger on the steamer Chattahoo-
chez, was shot and instantly killed by one Geo.
Irving. a dispatch 70 the Union says: "Engle
y a. . - :.