The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-07-04

Franklin county is out of debt.

be published at Barlow.
The Fernandina jetties will be COM
pleted in about two weeks.
The new Masonic Hall at Orlando
was dedicated on the 24h ult.
Francis E. Witzell has been confirmed
collector of customs at st. Augustine.
Mrs. Reichert, of Jefferson county,
was killed by lightning on the 22d ult.
Seventy families will soon be added
to Judge DUNES colony, at Fort Dade.
The Sylvan Dell carries the United
States mail between Milton and Pensacola
The Philadelphia Item says Middle
Florida will ship 200, 900 melons this sea-
son.
The last two sections of the Pensa-
cola dry dock are now en- route for that
port.
Rev. N. A. Mason, of Alabama, pro-
poses to establish a high school at Fort
Dade.
AN extra edition of $4,000 copies of
the Sumter county pamphlet will be
printed.
Col. b. II. Thrasher, prominent law
yer of Gainesville, died suddenly on the
26th ult.
Track laying is progressing on the
Florida Southern in the direction Of New
Evansville
Mr.. Edward Jernigan, of Milton,
has colt one year. old that stands l34
hands high.
Three hundred and sixty thousand
pine-apples have been shipped from Key
West this season.
Some of the Florida editors are so
patriotic that they will not issue their
papers this week.
Mr.. T. Calhoun recently sold several
bales of Sea Island cotton in Madison, at
"a cents per pound.
"A Mr.. Morrow, of Titusville, has
shown the editor of the Star turnip
weighing 81 pounds.
Bro. Keep rejoices over the proba-
bility of the early establishment of a
Chinese laundry at Quincy.
Our former townsman, Mr.. A. Maige,
while fishing at the Apalachicola wharf,
caught 4S-pound drum fish.
1t is said that the Live Oak and SUI
wannee River Railroad will be completed
about the middle of August.
1t is estimrted that the cattle trade
with Havana is bringing about 800, 900
per month into South Florida.
Mr.. w. E. Howell has received the
prize offered by the editor of the Madi-
son Recorder for large watermelon.
Mr.. J. Z. Hart is building a grain
elevator at Jacksonville. It's capacity
will be something over 100000 bushels.
The editor of the Tampa Progress
has received a squash nearly four feet
long. 1t was raised by John T. Owens.
Mr. J. b. Browne has sold the Kew
West Nescs to Willis Menard & Co., who
will convert it into a Republican paper.
"A Mr. Eads, formerly of Cedar Key
who was last winter sentenced to a Mexi
penitentiary for five years, has recently
made his escape.
Mr.. VIM. Milton, of Mariana, a stu
dent at the Alabama Agricultural and
Mechanical College, was awarded the first
prize for defamation.
The Jacksonville Union claims tC
have received the "king" watermelon Of
the season. 1t was raised by Judge A
C. Whitner, and weighed 81 pounds.
There are two newspapers in Florida
owned and conducted by colored men
The Island City Neacs, at Key West, ant
the Journal Of Progress, at Pensacola.
Mr.. w. M. Girardeau, of Monticello
one day last week gathered 800 water
melons that averaged 40 pounds each
He sent the editor of the Constitution
melon weighing so pounds.
-CampviIIe is a new town in Alachu'
county, and its citizens are determined t.
have no bar-room, as every deed given t.
purchashers of lots contains a provision
prohibiting the sale of liquor.
The following were the successful
candidates at the municipal election hell
in Ocala last Wednesday: Mayor, S. F
Marshall; Clerk, Jno. Coolers; Marshal
w. E. Shoefin; Treasurer, E. Deloust.
The Madison Recorder says MI
Bond, of Greenville, has a pair of pc
black bears, about as large as an average
dog, which he caught while they wer
cubs. They are quite tame and are fe'
from bottle.
Milton Nesos: The Pensacola AM
Atlantic Railroad is going to work won
ders for the whole country it traversef
and the managers deserve great credit TO
the energy displayed by them in pushing
forward this great work.
-Messrs. Sumter Hamilton and c. N
Cirmens were travelling from Sumtervill
to Leesburg. When short distanc
from Sumterville tree fell across the bug
Ov aavareIv iniurinO the latter and se