The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-16


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Crop prospects are good throughout
the State.
The price of Brevard county scrip is
advancing.
"A hook and ladder company is
wanted at Tampa
Peaches are being shipped from Clay
county to Chicago.
Mr.. w. F. Burts, of Tampa, is can
ming guavas for market.
The premium list for the fall fair at
Quincy is being prepared:
The cigar factory at Waldo gives
employment to % persons.
Pensacola seeks notoriety as "the
winter city of the future
Key West is shipping large quanti-
ties of excellent pine-apples.
The Nescs says Key West "was
never healthier than at present"
Mr.. John E. Tyler will furnish Pen
sacola with business directory.
The Herald says brick-making would
be profitable business at Palatka.
Work on the jetties at the St. Johns
bar is progressing very satisfactorily.
BRO. Vaughn, of the Courier, wants
more white-washing done in Mariana
Sixty Key West vessels and over
700 men are engaged in the sponge bust
ness.
The Grand Lodge knights of Honor
will meet at Fernandina on the 9th of
June.
The Grand Division of the Sons of
Temperance was in session at Starke last
week. ~
1t is reported that Mr.. King, late de-
faulting postmaster at Milton, has been
pardoned.
Col. II. T. Baya will place two new
steamers on his line between Jacksonville
and Palatka.
Mr.. Stephen A. Williams, son of Mr..
D. Williams, of Monticello, recently died
in Savannah.
Forty hands will find employment
in cigar factory to be established at
Gainesville.
The Barlow Informant says the ac
cessions to Polk county's population are
really marvellous.
The steamer Alabama takes 1000
head of cattle from Punta Rassa to Ha-
vana every week.
Five miles of the Green Cove Spring
and Melrose Railroad will be ready for
use early in June.
Col Dutton, of Gainesville, offers the
use of the old grounds for the holding of
fall fair in Alachua
Pensacola, during the month of April,
shipped about 100000 superficial feet
of lumber and timber.
Mrs. J. W. Funk, of Lake City, who
is engaged in silk culture, has lately added
10000 eggs to her stock.
About thirty buildings are in course
of construction at Cedar Key, twenty of
which are business hours.
AT citizens meeting, lately held in
Barlow, resolution to incorporate the
town was unanimously adopted.
Two quarts of beans, planted in Co.
lumbia county, yielded ten bushels, or at
the rate of 400 bushels to the acre.
"A spring has been discovered in
Hamilton county, the water of which is
impregnated with iron and copperas.
The Titusville Star is two-year-old,
and has fair prospects of becoming one
of the fixtures of that thriving burg.
Col. Drane talks of putting large
force at work on the south end of the
Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad.
Mr.. R. G. Blocker and Miss Sallie
Lott, of Gadsden county, were married
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Miss Maggie Merritt, of Mariana,
bore off the first honor at the recent COM
mencement Of the Columbus Female Col
lege.
Mr.. D. F. Sullivan has presented the
Germania Fire Company, of Pensacola,
with handsome silk banner costing
1925.
Mr.. VIM. G. P. Lord has associated
himself with Mr.. Codrington in the pub
LEGATION of the Florida Agriculturist, at
DeLand.
Mrs. E. R. Ives, of Lake City, ownes
an orange grove, and has large cork tree,
tea-plants yielding finely and bearing
black-pepper vine.
Sixty acres is the size of a water
melon patch in Jefferson county, owned
by Mr.. w. M. Girardeau. He will soon
commence shipping.
Col McWilliams, of Fernandina, i'm.
ports Italian laborers from New York to
work in his brick-yard. Cause unrelia-
bleness of colored laborers.
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