The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

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larged.
Gainesville has colored military
company.
The Banner says Ocala must have an
artesian well.
-Fernandina needs more wharf 40
COmmodationa
Live Oak viii have an artesian well.
if 5000 viii secure it.
-Titusville is the terminus of twelve
different railroads-on paper.
"A 0o-pound sturgeon has been caught
out of the Hillsborough river.
The cadets of the East Florida Semi
nary have received their rifles.
The new steamer Emlen was last
week launched at Apalachicola.
Nelson F. English has been nomina-
ted for postmaster at Key West.
The editor of the Pensacola journal
Of R-ogress is temperance lecturer.
Cotton is ten inches high in Liberty
county, with fully developed squares.
-Micanopy has successful and pros
porous mutual fire insurance company.
"A Hillsborough county man has a
sweet potato weighing nineteen pounds
The Alachua county Sunday-school
convention meets at Waldo on the 10th.
Mr.. John w. Howell has been re-
appointed Collector of Customs at Fer
nandina
The Quincy merchants close their
stores at 6 O'Clock every evening, except
Saturday.
The President has nominated Mr..
George ]. Arrow for postmaster at
Gainesville.
The peach crop is very backward in
jackson county and grapes promise
large yield.
"A shoemaker is wanted at TitusvilIe.
They don't go bare-foOted down there in
the summer.
The Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
Company are building their machine shops
at Pensacola.
The Tribune claims that Apalachicola
"has the brightest prospects of any city
in the State"
Orange trees are looking well in the
vicinity of Apalachicola and promise an
abundant yield.
Two new steamers will be built at
Columbus this summer to ply on the
Apalachicola river.
On the night of the oath of April the
post-Ofice at Micanopy was robbed of
$4,000. No arrests.
Mr. ]. J. Barrow, of Madison, showed
the editor of the Recorder a cotton bloom
on the oath of April.
-Messrs Miller & Henderson's new
steamer, Alabama. is the largest vessel
ever landed at Tampa.
AT the recent election in Live Oak
majority was given in favor of an Gd
v0Loruna tax for that CITY,
Mr.. c. B. Glover, of Monticello, was
married to Miss Sarah E. McCants, of the
same place, on the goth ult.
Master Robert Davidson, of Quincy,
has been feeding Bro. Keep on beets
weighing ga and ST pounds.
The expenses of the Spring Term of
the Circuit Court of Gadsden county was
$247.05 for jurors and witnesses.
Major W. II. Dial, of Madison, is
shipping corn raised on his farm, to South
Florida. He will ship 500 bushels.
Iron for the Live Oak and Rowland's
Bluff Railroad is arriving at Live Oak at
the rate of tour and five carloads day.
Mr.. L. S. Perkins has joined the cdr
torial staff of the Florida, handsome,
newsy little weekly published at Orlando.
w. c. Maloney, Jr., Collector of
Revenue of Monroe county, has settled
with the Comptroller for the taxes of
1881.
The two cigar factories of Pensacola
turn out about 800 cigars daily. One
manufacturer ships 10000 cigars to Gin
cinnati annually.
The people of Sumter county have
petitioned the County Commissions to
order an election for the purpose of loca-
ting the county site.
DR.. N. D. Phillips, of Gainesville,
has been commissioned by the Governor
surgeon of the East Florida State Militia,
with the rank Of major.
CAPTAIN Fraser who rocontlv Our.
chased the. railroad hotel at Live Oak,
will enlarge it by building brick addi-
ton fronting the depot.
The tonnage dues collected at Pensa.
cola are greater than at any port from
Maryland to Texas, including both New
Orleans and Baltimore.
Key West Democrat: Reports from
the sponging grounds are to the effect
that large quantities of the article will be
brought to market shortly.
The Milton Ne,cs claims that Santa
Rosa is one of the banner wool counties
of the State. The annual production is
from 90, 1000 to 10000 pounds.
The Informant says the ladies Of
Barlow are becoming experts in the hand
ling Of the rifle, and Drs. Carver and 30.
gardus had better look to their lanrels.
Brother Keep, of the Quincy Herald,