The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-07-25
STATE NEWS.
-Starke needs more houses.
Lake City wants a lanyard.


An artesian well is being bored at
Palatka
Capt T. w. Shine will build hotel
at Orlando.
The LeConte pear does well in Su-
wannee county.
The Sanford and Indian River Rail
road is being graded.
-Apalachicola wants peaches, water
melons and big hotel.
The young city of Kissimmee is to
have an Episcopal Church.
Work progresses finely on the ST.
Johns and Halifax Railroad.
Alligator pears bring 90 cents a
dozen, at auction, in Key West.
Pretty babies are numerous in Mad
ison and baby show is proposed.
Thirty one buildings are under con-
tract at Tavares, SAYS the Herald
Mr. w. w. Dewhurst has been con-
frmed postmaster at St. Augustine.
The valuation of taxable property in
Santa Rosa county is steadily increasing.
The Journal says Putnam county
fair must be held at Palatka next winter.
The corner stone of Sullivan's Opera
House was laid at Pensacola on the 10Th.
1t is said that $4,000 men are now
employed in railroad construction in Flor
ida
In Key West Irish potatoes retail at
ten cents per pound and sweet potatoes
at FIVE cents.
There are ffty-seven weekly papers
published in Florida, two semi-weeklies
and two dailies.
Col. T. 5. Coogler, of Brooksville,
has orange trees upon which there are
three crops growing.
Mr. Gloesiner, of Sanford, has had a
cancer taken from his lip, which was pro-
duced by smoking
The Live Oak Bulletins choice for
Congress in the Second District is Col
onel John F. White
"A Calhoun county correspondent OF
the Apalachicola Tribune wants two coun-
ties made of Calhoun.
1t is said there will be another line
of steamers on the Apalachicola river by
the first of September.
The Republicans Of Pensacola recon-
mend Mr.. John Eagan's appointment as
postmaster of that city.
Mayor Dzialynski and family, of
Jacksonville, will spend the summer in
the mountains of North Carolina.
General Finley will remain in w ash
lngtOn until Congress adjOurns, looking
after the interests of his constituents.
The Pensacola Building and Loan
Association is one of the established and
prosperous institutions of that city.
Maj. j. n. Whitner, an old and re-
spected citizen of Orange county, died at
inst
"A well-digger in Gadsden county
struck a bed of oyster shells and found a
Jug handle twenty-five feet below the sur
face.
The family of Judge J. NJ. Baker, OF
Jacksonville, are spending the summer at
Asheville, n c., where he will join them
soon.
Bro. Keep urges upon the people OF
Gadsden county the Importance of pre-
pairing something to exhibit at THEN
county fair next fall.
Tampa Tribune, July 18th: The
Surveyors ofthe Tropical Railroad finished
up their work to-day at Black Water, and
have been ordered to report at Ocala."
Miss Patia Mills, living one mile east
of Live Oak, last week presented Bro
McAlpin with some fine apples. She hal
a number of trees bearing well this sea
son.
The Gazette says Micanopy wants
shoemaker, baker, a barber, a tinne
and mailer, halter and tailor, ant
everything and everybody that wants t.
come.
= Mr.. H. p Kennedy, editor of tn
Tampa Progress, is spending the summe
at Atlanta. During his absence Mr.. c. +
Harrison will have editorial oversight o
that paper.
MIR. g. L. Lawrence, commission mel
chant of New York, has purchased A
acres of land from Col. Bird, of Mont
cello. He will plant it in watermelon
next season.
The taxpayers of Orange county viii
pay taxes according to the following lev
les for the current year: For general rev
enue, mills; building fund, 2 mills
school tax, 3 mills.
The Florida, heretofore published a
Orlando, by Mr.. g. U. BrysoD, has bee
removed to Kissimmee, enlarged to
seven column journal. and is now one @
the neatest papers in Florida.
If any one has the idea that facilitie
for steam travel, &C., are lacking in Ger