The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-30

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River Railway will be completed. In
thirty days, provided there are no mis-
haps, the iron will have been laid and
Leesburg will have sprung into new life
and energy"
Jacksonville Union: " The vegetable
business has created land boom in Leon
county. Fast Florida's boom commenced
the same way ten years ago. Cultivate
and ship early vegetables if you want to
go booming along with this fast age.
Cotton will hold you back"
Key West Democrat We were
shown this week specimen of glass
manufactured at Pascagoula, by some en-
terprising individuals, who state that il
can be furnished much cheaper than the
people are accustomed to pay for it now.
Success should attend the introduction OF
such an enterprise in our State.
Monticello Constitution By the
explosion of kerosene lamp in the mail
car Monday morning the newspaper mail
for Bailey's Mills was totally destroyed.
Osgood, the mail agent at the time of the
accident, reports having a narrow escape
from a complete destruction of the whole
car. No other mail was injured.
Mr. C. d. Willard, Viee-President
and General Manager of Sir Edward
Reeds Railroad lines, sends the following
telegram TO the editor of the Informant
You may say to the meeting that we feel
an interest in your section, and if liberal
inducements are made to us in land and
labor, we will extend our line to Barlow.
Col. John T. Walker and Col. A. w.
Cockrell, attorneys of Jacksonville, are
recipients of handsome gold-headed canes,
with appropriate Inscriptions, from the
citizens of Madison county whom they SO
ably and successfully defended in the
United States Court, where they were
arraigned upon charge of violating the
election laws.
DR.. Higgins was holding forth at
Monticello last week On Wednesday
$3.50 disappeared from his trunk, and the
next day he had his Italian musician ar
raigned before Justice r. B. Whitfield on
a charge of stealing the missing money.
The court deemed it proper to hold them
for trial, and, failing to give the required
bond, they were committed to Jail.
The Palatka Herald says Mrs. John
Grooms has blue jay that has acquired
the mack of whistling all the slang notes
generally INDUCED in by small boys. He
also cackles like hen, whistles up
the dogs, mimicks a cat and several other
things. His favorite whistlei is cover the
fence is our boys" He never fails to
give this to every small boy who passes.
There are 100 Israelites in Florida.
The Union locates them as follows
Jacksonville, 100; Mariana, 30; Talla-
hassee, 80; Madison, 10; Lake City, 20
Gainesville, 80; Key West, so; Polk
county, IS; Milton, 4; Leesburg, 10;
Pensacola, 60; Quincy, IS; Monticello,
rs; Live Oak, 6; Fernandina, Is; Ocala,
40; Orange county, 40; Micanopy, IL
Palatka, Is.
-Palatka Herald: awe have or
dered type and material for our new out
fit The paper will be put in new dress,
new type. and new press. We are 60
ing to enlarge to a seven column
enough for the present. Our new head
and machinery has arrived. The Palatka
Herald will be the new name, and will
satisfy large number of our friends who
have commended that the change should be
made.
Lake City Reporter, May 10th: Mr..
Jno. V. Brown brought to our Office this
morning piece of the petri6ed jaw-bone
of either crockodile or an alligator, with
teeth in it, which was found in the we'll
of Walker Parnel, near White Springs,
at the depth of fifty-two feet. The sau-
rian lived probably thousands of years
ago, yet one of the teeth, about three
inches in length, is as perfect as though
belonging to an animal lately killed.
Mr. Frank E. Saxon, of Brooksville
offers lot to any one who will built a
hotel containing not less than 90 room g.
He also proposes to donate halfacre lot
to any congregation that will erect a
church thereon, and similar lot for the
erection OF high school building, or an
acre lot for high school and military
academy. If every city, town and village
in the State had one such public-spirited
citizen as Mr.. Saxon, what a genuine
boom they would soon inaugurate all over
Florida.
-Brooksville Crescent: "Wm. Hutto
one of the oldest citizens Of fernando
and a good farmer too, tells us he clipped
seven and one-half pounds of wool from
one two year old sheep last week. Bob
Mcintosh reports a seven-pound clip from
a sheep not quite two years old, and mum
bers of others boast of very creditable
clips. When it is taken into considers
ton that the sheep yielding this wool run
the woods without any care or attention