The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-09

Milton wants . fre company.
Mariana win have a fan fair.

Sanford puts in q claim for . paper
mill.
-Apalachicola will have . cigar fac
tory.
-Madison's greatest need is said to be
hotel.
Crime is on the decrease in Escambia
county.
Highway robbers infest East Jack
sonville.
Barlow wants q brick-maker and q
stone-mason.
-Apalachicolians are shipping some
fine potatoes.
Orlando puts in claim as the future
railroad centre
Farmers in Polk county are "laying
by" their corn.
New sweet potatoes are being dug in
Putnam county.
The Monticello new hotel enterprise
continues to boom.
The Key West sponge feet consists
of about so vessels.
Ripe peaches are making their ap-
pearance in Florida.
Madison has shipped $50 crates and
barrels of vegetables.
1t is said that Fernandina will have
a cotton-seed oil mill
Bro. Beggs, of the Madison Recorder,
has been eating ripe figs.
DIR. J. B. Wiginton, of Madison,
grows l4-pound cabbages.
Mr. w. L. Bond will build cot
tOn-seed oil mill at Bailey's Mills.
The Sumter County Fair Association
have cash surplus of about 5000.
Mr.. John Eagan was recently married
to Miss Mary Bedford, of Pensacola.
Bro. Johnston, of the Tribune, says
Apalachicola needs first-class bank.
Jacksonville claims to have shipped
about 29,OOO,OOO oranges this season.
Quarantine was established at a
number of Florida ports on the lst inst.
Nothing less than a 50O-room hotel
will please the editor of the Advdnce-
Gazette.
Sixty new houses are being built for
Judge DUNES colony in fernando
county.
The Tampa Progress, in emitting re-
Ggious news, says it was crowded out by
fish stories.
&C. G. Green, the August Flower man,
will erect block of brick buildings at
Gainesville.
"A large area is planted to rice in
Alachua county this year, and the crop is
looking fine.
Work on the Rowland's Bluff and
Live Oak Railroad is being pushed rap
idly forward.
The amount of pensions annually
paid to Floridians by the general govern
ment is s2O,s54.
The Sumterville Times promises
permanent situation to reliable and In
telligent printer.
"A letter for Miss Dolphin King, of
Monticello, is held for postage in the
Jacksonville Office.
Hon. F. A. Hendry is being brought
forward as a candidate for State Senator
in Monroe county.
The champion collard of Apalachi-
cola is owned by a colored man, and is
9 feet inches high.
Sumter county fruit and vegetable
shippers have been shamefully swindled
by Philadelphia firm.
Mr.. John E. Turnbull, of Drifton,
has 800 bushels of corn for sale. 1t was
raised by him last year.
The St. Augustine Press says the
Palatka and St. Augustine Railroad will
be completed early in the fall.
Mr.. McCumber, of Ocala, has shipped
$500 worth of strawberries from q two
acre patch, and is still shipping.
-Messrs. J. B. Wall and S. NJ. Spark
man, of Tampa, will establish an sO-acre
orange grove on Lake Thonotosassa.
Mr. r. W. Ellis, of Sumter county,
died last week from the effects of fish
bone lodged in bis throat about a year
ago.
The Lake City truck-growers pro-
pose to abandon the industry unless bet
ter transportation facilities can be Sc
cured.
The editor of the Tampa Progress is
not satisfied with his crop of cats, and
thinks this is about the season to plant
them.
The Key West Nesos is incensed at
the action of the Mayor in instructing the
police to poison dogs instead of impOund-
ing them.
The custom-house receipts at Pensa-
cola, for April, amounted to ee,597.41.
The value Ct exports for the same period
is t2s4,5e0.
The Jacksonville Union acknowl-
edges the receipt, from Mr.. Moore, Of the
Starke Telegraph, of turnip weighing