The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-23

The Peninsula Railroad is graded to
Leesburg.
"A oOo-pound bear was recently killed
near Key West
"A number of handsome residences
are being built at Monticello.
AN Illinois gentleman wants to take
stock in q hotel in Monticello
Funds are being raised to build
Baptist Church at SumtervilIe.
Mr.. A. B. Gartrell is announced as
publisher of the Ocala Banner.
The Indian river people are gathering
their annual crop of turtle eggs.
Five thousand sheep may be seen in
enc herd in Hillsborough county.
For 10 peaches lately sent North,
Mr.. Lipsey, of Archer, received 80.
-Leesburg wants good hook and
ladder company and bucket brigade.
Fifteen counties are represented by
students at the East Florida Seminary
The Strathmore Hotel, on the Fer
nandina beach, has opened for the season.
The truckmen of Jefferson county
have realized handsome profits this sea-
son.
The Monticello Constitution will be
sold to any man who has the cash to pay
for it
columbia county has new Jail and
the Reporter says it is the "best Jail in
the State"
-Messrs. Doig & Baldwin have their
new foundry in successful operation at
Gainesville
The grand jurors of Franklin county
recommend the building of courthouse
at Apalachicola
The Clay County Commissioners are
making an effort to stop the slaughter of
deer in that county.
Mr.. NJ. L. Bond, of Station No. 2,
will have his cotton-seed mill ready for
business in the fall.
MIR. NJ. L. Penniman, prominent
citizen of jacksonville, died suddenly Of
heart disease on the 10th.
The colored people of Apalachicola,
according to the Tribune, are building
more houses than the whites.
Mr.. J. n. Savage, of Madison county,
has a rattoon cotton stalk on which "a
blooms and bolls may be seen.
Judge J. F. Mcdonnell, of Shell Pond,
Levy county, has had his mill destroyed
by fire twice in seven months.
The first carload of pine-apples from
Key West arrived at Chicago on the 18th,
and were readily sold at $40 per hundred.
We see it stated that the bridge
being built by the P. & &. Railroad
across Escambia bay will be two miles
long.
Mr.. A. F. Warren, of Pensacola, who
has been troubled with corns, is wearing
a pair of mullet-hide shoes, of his own
manufacture.
Mr.. Z. B. Bailey, of Jefferson county,
has 300 acres of oats, which are being cut
by two reapers at the rate of 25 or 80
acres day.
1t is said that Messrs. Lipsey &
Christie, of Archer, received IS cents
apiece for a crate of peaches recently
shipped North.
The Milton Neacs says town with
out map is like business conducted
without system, and calls for map of
that promising town.
The Adcdnce- Gazette, of May l4th,
was a " boomer" If Pensacola doesn't
boom, and continue to boom, it will not
be Bro. Marschalk's fault.
The editor of the Titusville Star, way
down on Indian river, has received L.
pound cabbage from Mr.. VIM. Hendry,
who has more just like it,
-Ex-Gov. Drew, Capt. D. E. Maxwell
and Mr.. Geo. r. Fairbanks are mentioned
among those who will soon build hand
some residences at Fernandina
BRO. GLADDEN., of the Waldo Cracker,
offers a years subscription for the first
watermelon received. We hope some
good man will soon gladden. his heart
The Monticello Constitution says it
is moderate estimate to say that twenty
thousand LeConte pear trees will be set
out next season within five miles of this
town."
Brother McAlpin, acting upon the
supposition that widower and widow
of Live Oak will soon join fortunes, ad-
vises "the boys" to gather up their cold
tin pans"
Mr.. Hamilton Disston and Mr..
Kreamer are having two schooner loads
of cocoanuts brought from Central Amer
lea. They will be planted on Calloosa-
hatchie river.
BRO. Shecut, of the Times, is deter
mined to have bell for the Sumterville
church. He says eve must have one,
and a good one, too" and proposes to
give 425 to the bell fund.
The Key West Democrat says the
Episcopal Sabbath School in that city has
over $50 scholars and As teachers, and
that the first charge Methodist Church
Sunday School has as many more.
Miss Agnes Leonard, of Monticello,
who recently graduated with high honors
at st. Joseph's Academy, st. Augustine,
raa 100000 O,,oo- of Me-