The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-28

The police of Pensacola have donned
their new uniforms.
The ladies of Mariana have organ
lied reading club.
On March goth there were SO vessels
in the port of Pensacola.
-Marianna's four hotels are said to
be doing good business.
The post-ofice at Simpson, Jefferson
county, has been discontinued.
The Apalachicola brass band have
received their new instruments.
Beef cattle are being shipped from
Jefferson county to Jacksonville.
The new Signal Station at Sanford
will begin operations next Saturday.
-Tomato-culture has proven failure
in the vicinity of Tampa this season.
"A hunting party from Monticello re-
Gently killed six deer in Taylor county.
The people of Jacksonville were last
week entertained with spiritualistic Sc
ances.
-Seventy-six nails were found in the
stomach of hog recently killed in Jackson
county.
The Transit Railroad depot, at Wal
do, has been destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Clay county scrip is at par, and
there is a cash balance Of 5000 in her
treasury.
"A company has been organized, and
all the stock taken, to build water works
at Palatka.
The soup-eaters of Pensacola are
lunching on soup made from 272-pound
green turtle.
The Cracker says that the machine
shops of the Transit Railroad will be To-
Gated at Waldo.
"A company is being organized to
build railroad from Sanford to some
point on Indian river.
The Florida Grand Lodge of Good
Templars (colored) will meet in Jackson
vile on the 10th of April.
Judge Whites LeConte pear trees, in
Gadsden county, are doing well, and a
number of them are bearing.
The Jacksonville Times informs the
public that Mr.. VIM. d. Hughes no longer
represents that paper in capacity.
Mr.. S. Y. Finley, of Green Cove
Springs, has been admitted to practice in
the Supreme Court of the United States
The matrimonial fever prevails at
Apalachicola Bro Johnston has thus
far escaped the meshes of this epidemic
The Florida Fire Company No. ,, of
Pensacola, on St. Patrick Day, presented
Miss Clara Chipley with beautiful gui-
tar.
AN artesian we'll at st. Augustine
throws a stream Of water, impregnated
with sulphur, twelve feet above the sur
face.
Charley FiIdes, of the Gainesville
Bee, has been trying his hand as a wealth
er prophet. He guesses well for new be-
pinnnr
There were only four criminal cases
on the docket for trial at the Spring Term
of the Circuit Court in Santa Rosa
county
The Office of the FTori7a, at Orlan-
do, came very near being destroyed by
fire few days ago. The little cigarette
did the work.
The beneficial effects of the present
license law is being made manifest by a
reduction in the number Of bar-rooms
throughout the State.
Pensacola is looming up as fish
mart. During one week blue-fsh, pom
PIANO, and snappers to the number of %,
$50 were received there
One of the great needs of Jackson
vile is an Opera House. The metropolis
of the "Land of Flowers ought to have
irst-class Opera House.
Judge Davidson, of Quincy, hal
about fourth of an acre in strawberries
He viii commence picking in few day
at the rate of 100 quarts per week.
Mr.. Phillip Pittman, one of the oldes
settlers of Gadsden county, died las
Thursday. The Herald says: "Surel,
our county has lost good citizen"
-Chas. F. Avery has a contract 70
supplying cross-ties for ten miles of tn
Palatka and Indian River Railway. II
is working 100 hands and wants more.
Our fellow-townsman, Mr.. G. II. Fo.
ter, is said to have the largest orang
grove in Manatee county. 1t contain
2,70o trees, most of which are bearing.
The courthouse at Eucheeanna, Wa
ton county, has been destroyed by FIRE
All the county records and the paper
and property of the Masonic Lodge wer
burned.
DIR. +. F. Fales, of New York, VIII
last Thursday cowhided man at the 81
James Hotel in Jacksonville, for rudenes
to Lady, is the "hero of the hour i
that city.
New postmasters in Middle Florida
]. NJ. earn, Centreville; c. A. Hall, Cal
rabelle; S. E. Cruise, Chattahoochee; G
L. Bevell, Sopchoppy; Z. l. Alexander
Madison.
The farmers in the vicinity of Camp
bellton, jackson county, are pIantin,