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

thing passed off in quiet and satisfactory
manner. The exercises were conducted
by Rev. DIR. Carter, of Tallahassee; as
sisted by Rev. Mr.. Meany, of Gainesville;
then followed the ceremonies by Madison
Lodge No. IL, +. & A. NJ, presided over
by Past Master r. NJ. Witherspoon.
Then came the addresses by Revs Meany,
Tyner and Carter DIR. Carter directed
his remarks particularly to his Masonic
brethren i'm beautiful manner. The au-
dience was dismissed with the benediction
by DIR. Carter"
Green Cove Spring: Fourteen lots
have been sold during the past week in
the northern suberb of Green Cove Spring
alone. As lots in this part of our town
are not sold except TO actual settlers, on
contract to build on them within one
year from date oil sale, it would seem that
work is still accommodating for our mills
and mechanics. No danger of their hav-
ing a rest for year to come at least. !"
Pensacola Adcdnce- Gazette: "We
insist that 'on the hill, in the west end,
on the estate of a gentleman who lives
like prince in a palace, and whose gar
den is very Eden, and from the obser-
vatory of whose mansion is prospect
that Naples cannot excel, we have seen
a LeCOnte pear tree which proclaims to
the world that Pensacola and its adj
jacent country is and ever will be the
preferable place for making fortunes by
cultivating that delicious fruit"
The Union says the Florida Coast
Line Canal Company is building dredge
boat at st. Augustine. 1t will be ready
to be launched next week. The machin-
cry to fit it up is now in transitu, and it
is expected to be ready for work by Octo-
Der Ist The first work will be to cut
from the Matanzas to the Halifax through
Smiths creek and a narrow neck of land
about three miles. This will open up
communication between ST. Augustine and
all the towns on the Halifax river A
cut then of half mile through the Haul
over will make connection with Indian
river, which will give steamboat route
of about 24O miles, which it is the inten-
ton of the company to have in operation
before the first of January.
Col. Gore, of the Cedar Key Journal,
on the LIST inst. wrote the Union as fol
lowing: "The dengue fever which we
have been enjoying for fortnight has
about run its course, and no deaths have
resulted from it. Black and white have
had this fever, the strong and delicate,
yet there are no fatalities. At this wri-
ting there are few if any cases existing OH
the island. You may imagine whether or
not this fever is severe, when tell you a
large number never went to bed for it,
but attended to their usual avocations.
Every community ought to protect itself
against the introduction of disease, and to
that end we have been striving. AS to
yellow fever, from the vigilant manner in
which our board of health and health officer
are looking out for us, we do not apprehend
any danger from that. am satisfied this
dengue fever was brought from Tampa"
-l5rooksvillc Crescent: "The cultiva-
ton Of cassava has not received in this
county that attention that it demands.
1t is one of the best starch-producing
plants raised in this country, is easily
cultivated and does not require rich land
to make the yield profitable. It will
yield more to the acre than almost any
other crop, the sweet potato not excepted
All the roots are used, the stalks alone
being saved for seed. What is needed
to make it a splendid money crop is
starch factory in the neighborhoods were
1t is raised. Mr.. A. s. Mann proposes
to form a company with some Northern
friends, purchase the necessary machinery
and apparatus, and establish cassava
starch factory in fernando county He
intends next year to plant FIVE hundred
acres in cassava to supply this factory
with the root"
Madison Recorder. :" Captain John
l.. lnglis is having extensive and costly
improvements made to his fine milling es-
Enlistment at the depot. Near the rail
road track the Captain is building a com
modious warehouse l5Ox3O in dimensions,
in which cotton seed, etc, will be stored.
Adjoining the Clubhouse packing house
to contain a cotton-screw is being built
to be covered and sided with iron and the
floor to be of concrete. To the fire-proof
Clubhouse an addition is being made of
brick, 80 feet in length and two stories
high, in which fine machinery to screen
and clean cotton seed will be placed.
For the Clubhouse an entire set of new
English gins, of the kind which took the
premium at the Atlanta Exposition, has
been purchased. In this building one
CIark's cotton-cleaner will ais, be placed.
Two new elevators to convey cotton from
the warehouse to the Clubhouse are now
in course of constructions AS we men,
toned sometime since the warehouse has