The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-14


from fishing expedition on st. Marks river
They were very successful having caught one
hundred and ffty fine fish in one day.
While some of our citizens have fine vege-
table gardens, others are just preparing TO plant.
This seems strange in climate where vegetables
can be grown every month in the year; but,
strange as II is 1t is nevertheless a fact
MIR. Jas. N. Harding has established saw
mill al the railroad crossing, on the Ocklockonee
river, about eight miles west of this city. The
first order he fills will be one for 10000 feet Of
lumber for the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
| Company.
BY private letter from DR.. Wilcox to Mr.
| j. B. Collins we learn that the Doctor has dis
covered two more teeth belonging to his masto-
don, measuring five by six inches. He says the
teeth weigh about ten pounds, and are as beau.
tful as they are curious.
Mayor Nash disposed of his first case on
Monday of last week. A colored woman ap-
peared before his honor upon a charge of dis
turbing the peace of that quiet precinct known
as Augustine Hollow" For this unwomanly
conduct she was fined s. and cost
The last number of Frank Leslie's Wustra-
ted Weekly devotes page to illustrations of ex-
hibits at the late State Fair, among which ap-
pears the floral exhibit from Tallahassee The
illustrations are good as far as they go, but the
one representing our floral display lacks a good
deal of doing it justice.
We print elsewhere beautiful poem, emit
lied Little jim" Our foreman, Mr. G. ].
Bernreuter, has an interesting little daughter
Matte, only three and half years old, who, by
the assistance of her mother, has mem0rized this
touchingly sympathetic poem, and recites it with
precision and effect equal to one of more ma
ture years.
We continue to hear complaints of the ma
licious despoiling of graves in the City Cemetery
by pilfering and destroying flowers placed
thereon. 1t is said TO be the work of a colored
boy, who seems to make specially of certain
graves. There should be no hardness in this
matter Let him be promptly arrested and sum
marily dealt with.
"A colored girl, giving her name as Sally
Simmons appeared at the store of Messrs Byrd
& Coles, on Monroe street, Yesterday afternoon
with an order for goods, purportng 10 have come
from Mr.. Geo. p. Raney. They at once sus-
pected that all was not right, and while Mr. Byrd
went to the Capitol to see Mr. Raney, the girl
disappeared and was seen no more.
WIN. ]. Gum, the young colored man to
whom we referred few weeks ago in connec
ton with the Medical College at Nashville,
Tenn, has returned to his home in this city. He
stood second in the graduating class, has re-
ceived his diploma as a regular physician and
surgeon, and is the first one of his race in Flor
ida 10 win this honorable distinction.
Capt. c. A. Bryan, on West Jefferson street,
has strange but beautiful anomaly in his flower
garden. A large rose bloomed on one of his
bushes, and when the leaves began TO fall from
it, four small but complete roses appeared in the
centre, and now on the end of the stem where
the large rose grew may be seen four fully de-
veloped roses not larger than gold dollar.
Some very valuable watch dogs, and some
not priced for their worth as good yard dogs,
but AS household pets, have recently been poi
soned in this city. We would advise those who
have suffered from this pernicious work to be on
their guard. A charge or two of " blue whist
ers" might prove beneficial to suspicious char
acters lurking around your premises at night.
An old lady in our neighborhood fell and
spraincd her arm, which forced her 10 lay aside
knitting, but friend recommended Coussens'
Lightning Liniment, the most effectual cure for
Sprains Bruises, Rheumatism, etc, which en-
abed her to resume her knitting at a cost of only
so cents. Whites Cream White Vermifuge, the
best Worm Killer W. A. Rawls' sole agent TAI
Quite a number of our people are expert
mcnting with Russian White oats this season.
Mr. Geo H. Meginnss has a fine patch growing
on McCarty street. in front of the New Hotel.
Judge Gwynn, just south of the city, is giving
them fair test, having sOwn them in the same
field with other OATS. He says they are very
promising, and he is highly pleased with them
so far
Work is progressing finely al the cigar fac
tory of Mr. Wilt, on Jefferson street. Mr.. Ell
mendorf, of New York, who was in the city last
week, examined his tobacco and sampled his
cigars, and was surprised to learn that the to-
bacco was grown in Florida He promptly of
fered to become agent for the sale of Tallahassee
cigars in New York, and will shortly receive a
consignment.
Rev. Benz johnson (colored) drove into the
city on the 9th inst 10 oficiate at of the col
ored churches, leaving his animal hitched TO a
rack col0red lad named Wash Richardson
borrowed his turn out without permission
and drove around pretty lively for a while. On
Monday he was brought before Squire West, but
the good parson refused TO prosecute him. and
he was released upon payment of costs, about
$3.50.
PROGRESS Little boy has been swearing
and mamma, TO punish him, washes thoroughly
the inside of his mouth with soapsuds "to," as
she explains to him, clean away all the
naughty words" A few days later, while pass
ing the bathroom, she sees The youngster with
his face one mass of suds and his mouth 80 full
that she barely understands his spluttering ex.
carnations, "Getting them all out, mamma
Swore five times yesterday
John Bradford, son of Col. John r. Brad
ford of this county, who left Tallahassee few
weeks ago for Cedar Key, had no trouble in &C.
curing situation there He went to work in g
saw-mill on Saturday morning after his arrival
labored hard all day and far into the night and
was rewarded on Monday morning by promo
ton to easier position We congratulate him
on his good luck, and hope he will some day
own and operate the largest saw-mill in Florida
- The American (Philadelphia) is making
progress with its sketches of Living American
Authors" 1t publishes March 4th) an interest