The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-15
STATE NEWS.

"A palmetto factory is being erected
at Sanford.
The Gainesville Advocate will soon
be enlarged.
Clay county wants new court house
and a new Jail.
Levy county will raise enough corn
for home demand
The Jacksonville Union is enjoying
subscription boom.
The young folks of Leesburg indulge
in huckleberry picnics.
The citizens of Bronson propose to
incorporate their town.
Highway robbers and burglars are
again operating in Jacksonville.
The Madison Royal Arch Chapter
No. was recognized on the 18th.
Eight families from the far West
are en- route to fernando county
1t is said that the Transit Railroad
will build machine shops at Waldo.
Levy county expects to be out of
debt at the close of the present year.
The Orlando Reporter has received a
new power press and will be enlarged.
The popular Strathmore Hotel, on
the Fernandina beach, is to be enlarged
The people of Apopka City are tax
ing steps to have their town Incorporated.
"A colony of Pennsylvanians have To-
Gated near Fort Ogden, Manatee county.
The Florida says "red-hOt" Re
publican paper is soon to be established
at Orlando.
A naval court-martial will meet at
the Pensacola navy-yard on the LIST of
September.
Cabbage, shipped from New York to
Key West, retail in the latter city at 30
cents head.
1t is reported that Duke de Castellu-
cia has sold the Dummett orange grove
for 100000.
Mr. S. b. Walls, of St. Augustine,
during the fig season, preserved sixty
bushels per day.
The first station east of the Choctaw-
hatchee river, on the =. Il A. Railroad.
is named Bloxham.
Parties from Illinois have recently
purchased twenty-one pieces of land near
Bronson, Levy county.
1t Is estimated that over 900, 600
orange trees will come into bearing in
Orange county this year
-Messrs. Simkins and NAYS are build
ing cotton warehouse, I2O by 90 feet.
near the depot at Monticello
Brother Fildes says it is rumored
that two gentlemen of Jefferson county
have recently inherited 100000.
The steamers Big Sunfower and
Fanny Dugan, to run on the St Johns
river, have arrived at Jacksonville
1t is said that the Strathmore nOteI,
on the Fernandina beach, cannot accom-
modate those applying for rooms.
On the Pensacola end of the Pensa-
cola and Atlantic Railroad trains are run
ming over continuous line of forty
miles.
- According to the st. Augustine
Weekly cats, dogs, roosters, and noisy
loafers make night hideous in the " An
cient City"
"A saw-fsh weighing 500 pounds was
recently harpooned near Apalachicola 1t
was fourteen feet six inches long, and had
saw forty-one inches in length.
The Independents of Madison county
have nominated F. w. Pope for the Sen
ate, and J. n. Stripping, T. A. Hall and
A b. Osgood for the Assembly.
"A party of French scientists have OBJ
tanned permission to occupy Fort Marco,
at ST Augustine, for the purpose of max
ing observations of the transit OF Venus.
-Palatka merchants amuse themselves
during the dull days catching rats with a
hook and line They bait the hook with
cheese and " fish them up through holes
in the sidewalks.
Brother Pratt gives the bashful young
men of Palatka this timely advice /:
Time is passing. Better get some good
girl to stand by your side in the conflict
Of life. You will never be much account
until you get wife"
Mr.. John Milton, of Jackson county,
Florida, furnished the first bale of new
cotton received at Columbus, Georgia.
this season. 1t weighed 500 pounds, was
classed as middling, and sold on the 9TH
for l2s cents per pound.
Monticello Constitution 1--WE have
recently received, per grape vine dis
patch, very favorable news in reference
to the Monticello and Dixie Railroad.
We are inclined to the belief that it will
be built at an early day"
Orlando Reporter: "The building
boom has struck Sanford as badly as it
has Orlando! All over the town are new
buildings or houses half built, and the
citizens are as enthusiastic as a lot of