The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-07-18
STATE NEWS.
Milton needs a building boom.


Mariana
-Ocala has shipped 2,S40 crates of
vegetables this season.
The Brooksville Crescent will soon be
printed on a new power press.
The name of the post-office at Bailey's
Mills, Florida, has been changed toll lloyd.
Col. f. n. Wicker has been nomina-
ted for collector of customs at Key West.
"A ladies' organization in Apalachi-
cola is appropriately named the Merry
Makers"
Judge H. L. Mitchell and wife, of
Tampa, are spending the summer in North
Carolina
1t is claimed that Sumter county was
never in more prosperous condition than
at present.
-Titusville needs more saw-mills to
supply the demand for lumber for build
ing purposes.
-Messrs. Kohn, Furchgott & Benedict,
OF Jacksonville, advertise for six young
lady clerks.
Five miles of the track of the i. e A.
Railroad are completed from Chattahoo-
chez westward.
Mr. ;. Pellicere, of ST. Johns county,
has an orange tree Al feet high, and con-
tanning 5000 oranges.
Mr.. c. f. Duckworth, of Hamilton
county, has a tomato vine that measures 81
feet and inches across.
"A letter is held for prstage, at the
Jacksonville post-office, addressed to Miss
Mary Nichols, Monticello, Fla.
MIR. Edwin Higgins. of Jacksonville,
has been nominated collector of customs
for the st. Johns district of Florida.
Mr.. Arthur Marcum, of Columbia
county, has two acres of sugar cane, which
he says will yield 5000 pounds of sugar.
The contract for building the new
courthouse for Sumter county will be
awarded on the first Monday in August.
The treasurer of Hillsborough county
reports s2,476.s4 on hand for school pur-
poses and *2,o2s.57 for county purposes
The health of Mr.. John A. Whitney
of the Fernandina Express, has been i'm
proved since his arrival at Philadelphia.
Quincy Herald: A wagon with par
ties from Jacksonville, and going to Pensa-
cola, passed through town during the
week
"A Quincy merchant has manufactured
$50 gallons of blackberry wine this sea
son, from which he expects to realize 100
per cent.
Mr.. VIM. r. Mills, of Fort Dade, of
fers two acres upon which to erect High
School building at that place, and two
acres for church Site
The sum of $4,000 has been raised
for the East Florida Seminary builings at
Gainesville. 1t is proposed to expend
$4,000 in new buildings
-Four Lodges of Odd Fellows at Kew
West have united in building new hall.
1t will be two stories high. thirty feet by
sixty, and cost s. 900.
The Tavares Herald says that from
present appearances the orange product of
this region will be very much larger than
that OF any previous year
Bro. Johnston, of the Apalachicola
Tribune, advises "the young lady who
went to sleep in the Methodist church last
Sunday not to snore so loud"
We learn that Jefferson county
gentleman has received very satisfactory
returns from a carload of watermelons
shipped to Jacksonville last week.
The people of Jackson county will
hold grand mass-meeting at Mariana,
on the 25th of July, for the purpose of
organizing an immigration society.
Eighteen months ago carp four inches
long were put in a pond near Ocala.
They are now over two feet in length and
many of them weigh eight and ten pounds.
"A colored woman in Hillsborouch
county, known as Granny" Summerall,
is IL years old. Her oldest child is liv-
ing at the age of 90 and her youngest at
r.
The Lower Suwannee Spring, in Ham
ilton county, has been purchased by
Messrs. Scoville & Culpepper, of the Kim
ball House, Atlanta, who will build
large hotel there.
The river and harbor bill, which pas
sed the Senate on the 18th, appropriates
$4,000 for Pensacola harbor. This in
crease from $25, OoO) was secured on mo.
tiOn Of Senator Jones.
Mr.. S. b. Wilson, of Madison county.
reports that he found in nest on his place
a chicken with four feet, four wings, two
back-bones, two necks and one head. 1t
was dead in the shell.
Last Thursday little Monticello ne
gro lay down near the railroad track and
went to sleep with one foot on the rail-
Pretty soon the train came along and
mashed it so that amputation was neces