The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-05
STATE NEWS.


wildcat scalps.
Sweet potatoes shipped from Quincy
to Jacksonville bring good prices
-Scuppernong grapes are selling at
81 per bushel in Quincy.
"A Democratic club should be organ
lied IN every precinct in the State.
"A fire company, with So members,
was organized at Palatka last week.
All the prisoners in the Gadsden
county Jail made their escape on the 27th
nit.
Mr.. ]. b. Marshall, of Madison county.
declines to be candidate for the Assem-
bly,.
The water of the st. Augustine ar,e-
sian well IS to be analysed at cost of
SII2.5O.
"A large force will soon be at work
on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
Railroad.
The material has been purchased for
an Independent paper to be Published at
Madison
The Jacksonville Times will COM
mence the publication of weekly edition
at an early day.
Hon. VIM. Bryson, Judge of the
Third Judicial Circuit, died at his home.
near Live Oak, on the 10Th nit.
"A Tampa lady has kept the scale
insect out OF her orange grove for num-
Der of years by cultlvating gourds be-
tween the trees.
Mrs. L. NJ. Cheney, wife of f. Nj.
Oh ney, Esq, of Jacksonville, died in
Boston, on the Goth of August.
The Recorder says about 400 acres
in and around Madison will lie planted
in watermelons next season. One firm
alone expects to plant ITO acres.
Mr. NJ. w. Linton, of Madison county.
has been very successful with the cultiva-
ton of tobacco from Cuba seed this sea-
son.
Mr.. Jasper Gonzalez, Of Pensacola,
who was rgeant-at-Arms Of the Assem-
bly, at the last two sessions of the Leris-
lature, died on the Both ult.
-Lemuel w Livingston, the colored
applicant for admission to West Point.
from the Second District of Florida, was
rejected for inefficiency by the examining
board
The Barlow Informant, of Sept. Cd.
was devoted exclusively to matters per-
tanning to Polk county, aud large ex-
ira edition was printed for circulation
abroad.
-Palatka Urald: Democratic clubs
are being formed throughout the county.
Keep it up, and let us march from the
poles next November with the fac of
victory"
1t is said that 900 men are at work
on the Chattahoochee extension Of the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway,
and that track.laying is progressing.
Cedar Key JornM: Owe doubt if
there is a Statd in the Union more pros
porous than Democratic Florida. and vet
there are men who claim to be good Dem
ocratS always talking about the m;sman-
aOetnap4 ri o4Ya;,.
-BrOoksville Is ahead in the march of
Improvement. Every week sees new
buildings rise like magic, and there is no
cessation of the good work And Brooks
VILE reflects the prosperity going on in
every portion Of the county Broohsciue
Crescent
1t Is said that work will be common
ced within thirty days on new railroad
IRON Jacksonville to the beach, seven or
eight miles south of Mayport, where a
large hotel will be built, for the purpose
of affording another summer resort for
Floridians
The weekly Jacksonville Union will
soon be enlarged to an eight-page paper
ard otherwise materially improved. The
Weekly Union will he sent to campaign
subscribers three months for fifty cents.
Flrndlans cannot get a better paper. and
1t is genuinely Democratic.
The Union says the State authorities
and the Florida Central and Western
Railroad Company will offer rewards for
the arrest and conviction Of the persons
who removed the rail from the track near
Madison Sunday night and caused the
wreck of the train Monday morning.
Won't McKinnon lose much valuable
time in stumping this District against
Davidson ? We hate to see ambitious
young men spend their time and money
in such hopeless undertakings. Remem,
Der now, Colonel, We have given YOU
good and timely advice. -Narianna
Courier
One Leon county farmer claims to
have live acres of land planted in upland
white rice which will average seven feet
high, with heads foot in length. There
should be no mystery about this when it
as known that there is no better land any,
where Tor farming than that in Leon