The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-27
Captains ] F. Tucker and R. G. Park.

hill make a patriotic appeal to the peo-
pie of Jefferson county for subscriptions to
aid in the erection of State Confederate
Monument. They will also receive con-
tributions fer the proposed home for Mrs.
Reid, for which lot has already been do
mated.
The american Register, Washington,
says: The charter for the ship channel
across Florida is in the hands of the most
vigorous and enterprising gentleman of
the South. 1t is hardly proper just now
to give details as to the plans and pur-
poses of the originators of this great enter
prise.
Waldo Cracker: We were this week
presented by DIR. Camp, of Campville,
with beet, which is undoubtedly the lar
gest that we have ever seen or heard of.
This mammoth vegetable measures %
inches in circumference, Is inches in
length, and weighs % pounds. 1t is solid
and of good flavor, and we challenge the
State to produce one equal in size, flavor
or solidity.
-Tavares Herald: From nearly every
portion of the State comes the cheering
intelligence of counties out of debt" of
"money in the treasury" and yet some
people are not happy because they can't
have change in the administration of
affairs. We never could see why, when
the people were in prosperous condition,
some of them who were virtually riding
in a new coach, wanted to swap it off for
an old rickety buggy.
Our advice to young men is to buy
land while it can be purchased at low
prices and devote the money which many
spend in riotous living to making improve
ments upon it. A few hundred dollars
thus invested will in few years with
care yield thousands. just think what a
vineyard or grove you can each have in
ten years from very small start in ready
cash if you will but devote little time
and money to it as you can spare them.
Lake City Reporter
What in the world is the matter
with the young men of Monticello and
Jefferson county? We have at least one
hundred manageable pretty girls in this
town, whom we believe are not averse to
wedlock, and yet a marriage is of rare oc-
currence. We shall favor the passage,
by the next Legislature, of an act impos-
ing heavy tax on all manageable sin
gle men, who are able to support wife
like our old friend-but we won't call
Names Constitution.
-Palatka Herald: The new county
safe, which arrived last week, is large and
handsome This makes the third one
that the Clerks Office will possess. The
new one, which is the largest, weighs g.
400 pounds, the next in size $500, and
the smallest 200, making total of 49,
100 pounds The records and other val
liable docum ents of the county will fill
all three The county clerk of this
county is very important position, but
to say that Mr.. Forward is in every re-
spect competent, would be informing our
readers Of well-known fact.
The grand jurors of Lafayette
county, in their presentment, say eve
must congratulate ourselves and our
citizens generally upon the great decrease
of crime in our county, it being our duty,
with the lights before us, to only find two
true bills against offenders at this term
of court; and we find as another evidence
of prosperity and cause of congratulation
the apparent decrease of immortality in
our county, and indulgence by our citizens
in intoxicating liquors, especially on pub
lie occasions, hoping that at no far distant
day to be able to say that drunkenness is
a stranger to our people,"
An exciting game OF base ball was
played at Madison last Tuesday, of which
correspondent of the Union says: This
was match game between the "Semi-
noles" and the Modocs," new club
just started in our city. The "Modoc :"
club was composed of heavy men, and
considering that they had never played
or even practiced, they did capitally. The
following comprise the " Modoc" club /:
Pitcher, Jack b. Brinson; catcher, DR..
w. A. Baker; LIST base, Major w. II.
Dial; I'd base, Capt. Henry Fcrnside !;
Sd base, J. b. Lipscomb, ST.; S. s., b. N.
Wadsworth; G. f., Judge Weight; L. F.,
J. B. Lipscomb, Jr.; r. f., Lemuel Barrett.
The Modocs were given six out, and
at the end of the third inning, when the
game was called the score stood II TO II
in favor Of the Modocs.'' On the third
inning the "Seminoles |" were white
washed. The average weight of the
Modes +" was 900 pounds.
Sanford Journal. "Mr Hoefer's large
black dog Mig is very fond of water.
Last Saturday evening the boys took him
down to the wharf and threw him off at
the outer end. He swan ashore, and while
| the boys took a plunge in the lake,
mig got to the shore, and, looking back,
saw them swimming around, and thought