The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-04-04

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Gainesville has boom in the moss
business
"A township map of West Florida is
+fStarke has prosperous Temperance
society.
Cedar Key is shipping railroad ties
to Mexico.
Bro. Myers wants a lumber yard at
Gsinesyille.
Seven new buildings are being erected
in Monticello.
Crop prospects are very hattering in
Jackson county.
The railroad bridge at Milton will
soon be completed.
All the towns on the line of the P. &
A. Railroad are booming.
"A boom is anticipated in the matri-
monial market at Mariana.
MIR. R. Z. DAILY proposes to establish
an Art School at Pensacola.
-Gadsden county Circuit Court COM
menees at Quincy next Monday.
Evidences of improvement are visi-
bic in every portion of Mariana.
The business of Mariana is said to
be fifty per cent. better than last year.
Funds necessary to build an Episco-
pal church at Orlando have been secured.
Large numbers of immigrants are
settling in Sumter and fernando coun-
ties.
The orange crop in the vicinity of
Tampa promises to be larger than last
year
Pensacola is to have new weekly
paper. Mr.. A. w. Johnston will be the
editor.
The Mayor of Pensacola discharges
policemen who imbibe too much cred
Ticker"
"A mail route has been established
from South Lake Weir via Lady Lake to
Leesburg.
The first drum-fsh taken at ST. Au-
gustine this season tipped the beam at
IS pounds.
-Post-ofices discontinued: Mt. Pleas
ant, Gadsden county, and Ochesee, Jack
son county.
AN effort is being made to secure
daily made service between Quincy and
cambridge.
Major M. R. Marks, of Orlando, has
obtained patent for foundation blocks
for buildings
Mrs. C. A. Hogan, Of Sumterville,
recently killed monster rattlesnake in
her front yard.
Mr.. VIM. Hooks, of Sumter county,
recently killed wild turkey that weighed
IS pounds net.
The city of Pensacola has issued
1920 in new bonds, representing $685.
900 of old bonds.
Over 700 transfers of real estate have
been made in Volusia county during the
past twelve months.
The River and Harbor bill contains
an appropriation of $4,000 for dredging
the channel at Tampa.
The Banner says Ocala is happy.
"Two trains, over two different roads,
come and go every day."
The grading for connecting the J. P.
& NJ. and the p. & A. roads, at Chatta-
hoochee, has been completed.
Sumter county market gardeners are
shipping large quantities of tomatoes, Gu
cumbers, squashes, and beans.
The receipts at the Pensacola GUS
tom-house, for the week ending on the
25th of March, were a. ,4s3.4O.
"A military company has been organ
lied at Ocala with 3S members. Mr..
John Cordero was elected captain.
The citizens of Micanopy have de-
termined to build a railroad from that
place to connect with the. Transit road.
The Informant thinks that capital
invested in glucose and starch factory
at Barlow would yield han dsome profits
Pensacola will be satisfied with moth
ing less than an appropriation of $4,000
for the improvement of her bar and har-
bor
The survey of the Key West harbor
has been completed, and work will be
commenced on the northwest channel at
once.
The citizens of Apslachicola have
sent Mr.. w. T. Orman to Washington to
look after the interests of their bar and
channel.
The Second Annual Fair of the Home,
Farm and Grove Society, Of Clear Water
Harbor, will be held at that place next
Saturday.
The ladies of Jasper show their ap-
probation of good editor by feeding
Bro Ancrum, of the Times, on new pota-
toes and pea-soup.
IS. B. Carter, who some weeks ago
murdered Mr.. John W. Griffin, in Orange
county, has been captured and lodged in
the Jail of that county.
The revival at the Methodist church
In Madison was closed on Sunday even.
ing, March 20. There were twenty-seven
accessions to the church.
AT the Spring term Of the Circuit
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