The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-04-25

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gustine.
"A fall fair is suggested In Columbia
county.
A Methodist Church is being built 81
Orlando.
The LeConte pear Hourishes in Put
nam county.
"A railroad from Quincy to Thomas
vile is wanted. u
The ladies of Apopka City hold
weekly prayer meetings.
Milton is described as cone of the
incest towns in Florida"
The tide of prospectors continues to
flow into Sumter.county.
Work is to be resumed on the Epis-
copal church at Fernandina.
All the stations (sixteen) on the p. &
A. Railroad have been named.
Mr. w. H. Mason will bottle beer
and soda-water in Jacksonville.
"A large force is at work on the Mica
nopy and Brooksville Railroad.
The new Catholic Convent at Fer
nandina will soon be completed.
Colonel st. Clair Abrams new town,
Tavares, is to have newspaper.
Quincy will have q baby-carriage
parade on the first day of May.
"A Sumter county farmer has neat
and substantial lime tree hedge fence.
"Daddy Ace" colored man aged 100
years, died at Bailey's Mills on the 10th.
"A Masonic Loan and Building Asso-
citation has been organized in Fernandina.
The new City Council of Jackson
vile have increased number of official
salaries.
"A handsome new Baptist church was
recently dedicated at DeLand. 1t cost
about $4,000.
DIR. Brennan, of Illinois, will settle a
colony of Pennsylvania Germans in St.
Johns county.
Seven or eight thousand dollars have
been subscribed towards building hotel
at Monticello.
AN East Florida man wants all the
snakes in the State-40,oOo. Let him
have them, quick
One hundred and fifty acres of land
have been donated towards the projected
college at Bay View.
Mr. Linton w. Stubs, of Louisiana,
was recently married to Miss Josephine
S. Budd, of Monticello.
-Fernandina receives twenty-five car
loads of lumber per day from the mills
on the Transit Railroad.
The machinery for the new palmetto
pulp factory, at Fernandina, is being put
in position for early use.
Major T. B. Simkins, of Monticello,
sold twenty-seven barrels of Irish potatoes
from three-fourths of an acre.
Loud swearing has become so CON-
mon on the streets of Gainesville that
Bro. Myers cries out, " stop it,
WIN. II. Hunt, who figured in Flor
ida politics during the reconstruction
days, recently died in New York.
"A new Methodist church will be
built at Starke. Mr.. S. J. Temple donates
the lot and portion of the lumber.
The Apopka Citizen advocates the
nomination of Hon. j. Wofford Tucker
for Congress in the Second District.
Columbia county has "a schools, no
school scrip, and the treasurer of the
school fund reports 81, TOAST on hand.
ST. Augustine is getting SO dull that
even dog fight will soon be considered
an important event So says the Weekly.
"A Brevard county farmer has real
lied As barrels Of syrup from patch Of
cane that has not been replanted for seven
years.
Settlers on the Disston lands have
only till the Slst of May in which to pur-
chase their homesteads at State land
prices.
Buildings are in demand at DeLand
New houses are readily rented at rates
that pay from Is to 25 per cent. on in
vestments.
1t is estimated that an additional ex-
penditure of $500 on the Volusia bar
will give plenty of water for permanent
navigation.
-Messrs. w. q w. s. Walker, of Jack
sonville, are announced as the publishers
Of the Florida Real Estate Bulletin, an
eight-page monthly.
Prof. G. L. Peck, of Bradford county,
is preparing an article on the resources of
his county for the State pamphlet to be
printed at an early day.
There is . scramble among the
faithful 40 to who shall have the
honor of carrying the keys of the St.
Augustine custom house
Maj. NJ. r. Marks, of Orange county,
proposes to remove to Clear Water Har-
Dor, where he will establish himself % On
agent of the Disston company.
The metropolis of Florida makea