The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-04-18
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-Tampa has telephone.
Cotton il blooming ct Eau GaIlie.
Newcomers live in tents ut Tampa.
Calhoun county has new court
house
The jacksonville Union win soon be
enlarged.
Evening lawn parties are fashionable
in Jacksonville.
The Pensacola Commercial appears
Is semi-weekly.
There is good opening for brick
maker at Leesburg.
Hon. Hugh A. Corley viii make
Ocala his headquarters.
=" Grecian Bend" is the name of Q
town In Sumter county.
Tampa shippers are realizing $3.50
per crate on cucumbers.
The three saw-mills at Apalachicola
are running on full time.
"A large wolf has been killed near
Freeport, in West Florida.
instruments have been ordered for
the Brooksville brass band
The Roman Catholics of Pensacola
will build new brick church.
Sumter county has lake with the
euphonious title of Sarah Jane"
Major John Webb has been reap
pointed hsrbor master at Pensacola.
The saw and the hammer furnishes
the music of the hour in Brooksville.
General John Varnum was elected
Mayor of Gainesville last Thursday.
MIR. Richard Thackery, of Pensacola,
has fallen heir to $25, 900 in New Jersey.
Colonel B. F. Wardlaw, of Madison,
had 10000 rails destroyed by fire last
week.
One contractor on the Leesburg and
Indian River Railroad is working 200
hands.
Contractors on the J., T. q K. w.
Railroad have to go to New Orleans for
hands.
The first number of the Fort Dade
Messenger will appear during the present
month.
Only two criminal cases were tried at
the recent term of the Circuit Court held
at Tampa.
Senator Jones has donated a number
of valuable books to the public library OF
Pensacola
Monticello needs a big hotel, and
Colonel Fildes seems determined that she
shall have it.
-Hillsborough county has cash bal
ance of $2,26l.5l above all outstanding
Indebtedness.
Mr.. Henry Varnum has commenced
the publication of the semi-weekly ALert
at Gainesville.
Mr.. James E. Lipscomb, one of the
most promising young men of Tampa,
died last week.
"A letter for Miss Maria Henson, Con-
cord, Fla, is held for postage at the Jack
sonville post-ofice.
Miss Sue NJ Beville, of Sumterville,
caught a trout in the Paltlakaha, that
netted l23 pounds.
The Pensacola Loan and Building
Association is one of the prosperous insti.
tutions of that city.
The grand jury of Taylor county
found no indictments at the spring term
of the Circuit Court.
Captain Bill Kendrick will make his
headquarters at Sumterville as the agent
of Sir Edward Reed.
"A firm in Tampa proposes to donate
an acre of land to parties who will build
a first-class hotel thereon.
"A colored boy named Johnson, about
IA years old, living near Quincy, was last
week killed by lightning.
The Palatka Journal furnishes as
much good, newsy reading matter as any
paper of its size in Florida.
Bro. Fildes, of the Gainesville Bee,
has received new outfit, and will soon
double the size of his paper.
Captain d. P. Smith has been ap-
pointed tax assessor for Duval county,
vice Mr.. A. ]. Prevatt, resigned.
The Mariana Courier claims that
Jackson county has the best set of
County Commissioners in Florida"
Mr. C. Fl. Spencer, of Fort Orange,
has been appointed Superintendent of the
Seventh Life Saving District in Florida.
Hon. c. w. Jones has been appointed
member of the board of visitors to the
annual examination of the Naval Acad-
envy.
1t is said that the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railroad will be extended
to Chattahoochee by the LIST of August
next.
The editor of the Sumterville Times
has trout and mullet for breakfast, dimes
on shoat, and eats fox squirrel for supper,
all donated
The State Medical Association meets
at Pensacola to-day, and the Mississippi
Valley Sanitary Council will convene
there tomorrow.
Captain Peters, of Enterprise, and q
Mr.. Faulkner, on Indian river, will estab.
lish carrier-pigeon express between those