The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-06

Cedar Key will enforce the Sunday
law.
The Tampa Progress has entered its
second year.
The oat crop of Gadsden county was
never better. s
Eggs are selling at 20 cents dozen
in Gainesville.
"A SOO-pound Jew fish has been killed
at Sarasota bay.
"A new Methodist church is being
built at DeLand.
The public schools of Duval county
closed yesterday.
Physicians report the health of JEFF
ferson county good.
"A telephone exchange is to be es-
tablished at Gainesville.
Ripe grapes are making their ap-
pearance in Jacksonville.
The Transit Railroad has received a
number of new freight cars.
-Yellow-legged spring chickens sell
for 40 cents apiece at Tampa.
-Raccoons are destroying the water
melon crop in Orange county.
The line of the Pensacola and At
lantic Railroad is 1872 miles long.
DIR. Nicholson, of Gadsden county,
has Irish potatoes seven inches long.
Mr.. John Mcleod, of Medulla, Polk
county, exhibits 3s-pound watermelon.
One hundred and fifty men are en-
ployed on the Seville and Daytona Rail
road.
Messrs w. L. Dekle and B. F. Alder
man are inaugurating building boom at
Mariana
There were sixty-six real estate
transfer in Alachua county during the
month of May.
Hon. Chas. r. Dougherty is booked
for an Grafton at 4th of July celebration
at Port Orange.
Mr.. John Manning, of Clay county,
expects to pick 5000 oranges from one
tree next winter.
The Journal advocates a grand cele-
bration at Palatka on the 4th of July.
Let's all celebrate.
The editor of the Apopka Citizen
looks upon twenty orange groves from
his Office window.
The shipment of vegetables from the
port of Jacksonville, during May, amount
ed to 1886 crates
Forty bales of wool were recently
sold at Completion, Jackson county, at
% cents per pound.
"A large number of emigrants from
Minnesota recently passed through At
lanta on their way to Florida.
1t is claimed that the population of
Palatka has increased 500 in the past
year, and is now estimated at $1,000
Fish dealers from Atlanta, Macon
and Savannah have arranged for regular
shipments of fish and oysters from Cedar
Key.
Mr.. A. L. Woodward, agent of the
Transit Railroad at Callahan, has been
temporarily relieved on account of his
health
Gen. VIM. Baya, of Jacksonville, has
been reappointed Brigadier General of
the 4th Brigade, lst Division, Florida
militia.
The Enterprise Nescs will be enlarged
about the first of next month, after which
time it will be known as the Enterprise
Herald
"A preliminary survey is being made
for the proposed canal from the head of
Old Tampa bay via Lake Butler to An
clote river.
The Tampa Tribune claims that
HillsbOrough county is entitled to 10
delegates instead of 9 in the Congressional
Convention.
The track of the p. & A. Railroad
is being put down at the rate of mile
per day from Chattahoochee in the direc-
ton of Mariana.
-Sanford's population is double what
it was one year ago, and seventy-four
houses have been built there during the
past twelve months.
One hundred and sixty acres of land
and 1890 have been subscribed towards
the building. of Bay View College, in
Hillsborough county.
The oath of May was Queen Victo-
ria's Sad birthday, and business houses in
Key West were decorated with flags in
honor of the occasion.
AIRS. Hewlett, wife of the engineer
killed in the collision at the White House,
has received g., 5sO.ss on life insurance
policy held by her husband.
The Key West Nescs says: The
Tampa Guardian, a Republican paper,
refers to the Independent colored voter
as the Democratic hired Niger"
There is large quantity of last
years corn for sale in Jefferson county.
The Consultation says Mr.. John E. Turn
bull can supply any amount desired.
Pensacola Adcdnce- Gazette: "Every
Independent seems to be running on an
independent schedule, independent of
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