The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-01
STATE NEWS.

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Gadsden county
1t is said that Titusville is to have
another newspaper.
The Starke Telegraph is printed on
anew press and will soon be enlar ged
The Florida, published at Kissimmee,
will be illustrated with Florida scenes.
1t is said that the Manatee Nescs will
be revived, with Judge E. NJ. Graham as
editor.
MIR. ]. X. Beville, of Alachua county,
will harvest 5000 bushels of corn this
season.
The Adcdnce- Gazette tells the citi-
zens of Pensacola how to get $500
foundry.
The colored people of Jefferson
county manifest great interest in temper
ance matters.
Mr.. E. Higgins has been confirmed
Collector of Customs for the St. Johns
District of Florida.
DR.. G. Troup Maxwell recently lectured
before the Ocala Social Club on Home
and Home Influence"
Prof Cater edits column in the
Gainesville Bee devoted to the interests of
East Florida Seminary.
Mr.. L. G. Hull, a Bradford county
farmer, has a patch of corn that aver
ages five ears to the stalk.
Orange trees will be substituted for
the oak trees now being removed from
the courthouse square in Gainesville.
= Brooksville Crescent: "Hurrah for
Davidson! We will roll him up the big
gest majority he has ever had" Correct.
The Courier sums up Marianna's
wants thus: A bank, money-order Office,
a carriage and wagon shop, and brick
masOns -
The Jacksonville Union, of the 26th
ult., publishes second interesting inter-
view with General Loring on the Egyp-
tian question.
The projectors of the Micanopy and
Brooksville Railroad say they are meet
ing with much encouragement from n ORTIZ
ern capitalists
The Mayor of Pensacola has pub
lished the specifications for a street rail-
way in that city, to be completed by the
first of January next
Three hundred families of Swedes are
expected to arrive this month and settle
along the line of the Florida Southern
Railway in Putnam and Alachua counties.
The engineer corps of the Indian
river branch of the Tropical Railroad
are permanently locating the line, estab-
fishing the grades and putting in the
curves.
-Tavares Herald: "The LIE Conte
pear boom in Middle Florida almost
equals the orange craze in South Florida.
Leon county bears off the palm in its
growth"
The Gainesville Bee is authority for
the announcement that Gen. Josiah T.
Walls is candidate for the Republican
Congressional nomination in the Second
District.
There were As schools in Jefferson
county the past year-26 for whites and
30 for colored. The total number of
scholars enrolled was 2,25O-whites 7O5,
colored 1915.
-Lemuel Livingston, the colored youth
who has been appointed cadet in the Mil
itary Academy at West Point, from the
Second Florida District, was born in JEFF
ferson comfy.
The Madison Recorder says that
Messrs Drew & Buck are using a ma
chine for saving down trees. 1t is thu
first of the kind ever in use, and propeIs
itself through the woods.
In the Marion county Democratic
Convention, held at Ocala on the 9th,
Mr.. Geo. w. Wilson, editor of the Lacon,
and DIR. c. c. Harris, were nominated for
the Legislature by reclamation.
Bro. Douglass says the land boom
extends to the uttermost parts of the
State, even unto the county of Dade
where land hunters are sarching" for the
choice spots and driving down stakes.
"A correspondent of the Quincy
Herald writes: The news of the renom
ination of Col Davidson has been receiv.
ed here with joy, and he may confident
ly look for an increased vote from East
Gadsden."
The La Opportunidad is the name
of a new paper in Key West. The Dem.
ocrGt says its articles are written entirely
by contributors who sign their names,
and who are alone responsible, its admin.
istrator is simply business manager.
-Ocala L0con =" We notice the papers
throughout the State telling how few
persons have died in their towns during
the week, but we look in vain for a local
on the subject, the fact being that if our
physicians did not each own an orange
grove they would starve."
Monticello Constitution: Col. W. G.
Bird visited Jacksonville last week, and