The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-14


l,45l marriage licenses were issued in
Leon county during the past year, which
is mistake of 1905. Just drop the last
figure ~, and you will have the correct
number (l45).
Major NJ. R. Marks, one of Mr.. Diss-
toms agents, recently sold 10000 acres of
land to Messrs. Scott & Gushing, of Brad
ford, Pa, to be located in Marlborough
county. They have already selected 5000
acres and made thirty sales.
Mr.. c. T. Carroll, of Monticello, de-
sires regimental reports of the battle of
Jonesboro', Ga, of the LIST and Sd Florida
Infantry. Anyone who can furnish them
will confer a special favor by forwarding
them to him at their earliest convenience.
-Leesburg Adcdnce: "Mr. G. P.
Lowell of Orange Bend, has an orange
tree on his place that was budded two
years ago. The tree now stands fourteen
feet high, is twelve feet through the
branches, and has on it FIVE hundred and
sixty oranges"
Bro. Finley, of the Lake City Repor-
ter, we are pleased to observe, is having
large five-story dwelling erected near
town. We can't imagine what he wants
with so much house room unless he calcu-
lates on harvesting his wild oats soon
.&arke Telegraph.
Three citizens of Holmes county
were recently arrested upon a charge of
illicit distilling. They were taken before
I. S. Commissioner Wharton, at Pensa-
cola, waived examination, and gave bond
in the sum of $500 to appear at the next
term of the Z. S. Court.
Rev. j. P. DePass has been assigned
to the pastorate Of the NJ. E. Church,
South, at Gainesville, for the present
year.-Aldchua Adrocate. According to
the published list of appointments Rev.
S. L. Smith was assigned to the church in
Gainesville and Rev. ]. p DePass to Mic
anopy circuit.
MIR. r. c. Lanier, of Sumter county,
sent last November few pounds of the
white mari found on his premises, to
Professor Goodale, of Maine, who is con-
sidered high authority, to analyze, and he
now reports that the sample sent is the
richest simply calcareous mari that he
ever tested. 1t contains nine per cent. of
carbonate of lime Union.
Pine Level ADVERTISER: The first
court ever held in the county was in the
year 1858, presided over by Thomas F.
King, now residing in Alachua county !;
the Solicitor was the Hon. III. L. Mitchell,
now Judge of the Sixth Circuit the first
Sheriff of the county was Jas. d. Green,
and the first Clerk of the Circuit Court
was Rev. Edmond Lee At the first term
of the court there was neither civil nor
criminal case. Manatee village was then
the county seat.
-Palatka Herald: Where do all the
people go that pass up the river-none
can tell. Nearly every boat is full. Cots
are placed on the cabin floor at night to
accommodate them. They distribute, it
is supposed, at this and other points on
the river. If immigration continues as it
has done this Winter there is no telling
what the future may not open up in the
next five years. What pity that we old
Floridians could not have a new lease of
young life for the next quarter of a cen
fury.
A correspondent of the Jasper Times
writes as follows of river in Hamilton
county: A few hundred yards above
Lambs ferry in this county, stream,
known as Dead river, makes out from the
Alapaha, and after running three quarters
of a mi@ in south-easterly direction
sinks. The river, in itself, is natural
curiosity, with its many windings and
turnings, and its craggy, queer-shaped
rocks, but it is made more curious still by
its rocky bed being literally covered in
some places with genuine oyster-shells
minus the oysters. Now, the question
is, how came the oyster-shells there ?
Does not the fact of their being there go
to prove that 'Old Ocean once ebbed and
flowed here"
We clip the following from Sher-
man (Texas) paper: There arrived in
the city yesterday morning, Mrs. Ora
ham, with four small children, in condi-
tion to excite the sympathies of the most
heartless. Her story was briefly this :
With her husband and seven children she
started from Florida to Fl. Worth, three
months ago. A few nights afterwards
the husband was murdered and robbed.
In penniless condition she reached Mem
phis, where three of her children died
from the effects of exposure. Friends
helped her on her journey to this place,
where, as soon as her case was made
known, money was soon raised to buy a
ticket to Fl. Worth and seven or eight dol
lars in money given her. #.
The Putnam county Journal has
this to say on the stock question These in
terests are large, we know, in the estima-
ton of the owners of the stock, but they
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