The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-12

quantities Of corn to sell.
The Pensacola Progress, edited and
published by colored man, has suspendedl
Mrs. Jos. R. Saunders, Of Waukee-
nah, died on the I'd inst, after long ill.,
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The Milton Nescs has suspended pub
location until the yellow fever scare Is
over sI q gsa.s 81 81
The shrilI voice of the Pensacola and
Atlantic Railroad whistle is heard at Ma
riannA
The County Commissioners Of DuvaI
offer 800 for an accepted plan for q new
courthouse
The Jacksonville Union will soon
print several thousand extra copies of a
trade edition.
The Palatka Herald has doubled its
subscription in Putnam county within the
past few weeks.
-Duval county has a cash balance on
hand OFFS 1921, besides II, 900 or 81 900
of building fund.
The New Jewish Synagogue at Jack
sonville was dedicated with appropriate
services last Friday.
Rev. ii. 5. Cassidy, Judge of the
Sumter County Court, died at Sumterville
on the 3lst OF August.
DR. Lucius II. Potter proposes to
have street railway in operation at Lake
City within six months.
On the 9th of October the citizens of
Palatka will vote on the question of pur-
chasing q, 900 fire engine.
The Mystic base ball club of Jack
sonville last Tuesday defeated the Ocala
club by score Of Is To in seven innings
"A Fort Dade young man gets so
much music out of his banjo, that the
chickens dance whenever he begins to
play.
The taxable property of Orange
county is assessed at s., 300, 900, being a
gain of more than 100000 over last
year
Bro. Johnston, of the ApalachicOla
Tribune, announces that he will " strad-
die" the political fence during the pres
ent campaign.
The register of the Strathmore Hotel,
on Fernandina beach, shows that 1850
guests have registered there during the
present season.
The Key West Ne,cs says the cigar,
sponge, and fish trade is booming, but
the wreckers are still living in blissful
hope of the future.
A party of immigrants from Illinois
six ladies and four gentlemen-passed
through Lake City last Tuesday bound
for Nolusia county.
The Democrats of Suwannee county.
on the I'd inst, nominated Major John C..
Gallaher for the Senate and Capt r. F.
Allison and Mr. Andrew j. Mcleod for the
Assembly.
Live Oak Bulletin: In Suwannee
the county tax proper has been reduced
from TO mills, and the building tax
from to mills. This makes a-reduc-
ton of one and one half mills in the
county.
Sam. Turner and Frank Lastinger,
two cOlOred men arrested for the murder
of Mr.. Nef and wife in VOlusia county,
have been LODGED in Jail to await the &C
ton of the grand jury at the fall term of
the Circuit Court
The MicanOpy Gazette furnishes this /:
" For sale-a irst-class piano-the prop
erty of a lady abont to travel with rose
wood case and carved legs" That lady
will doubtless find it very unpleasant
travelling with carved legs.
The Adcance- Gazette saws the
steamer Mobile left Milton on Thursday
last for Chattahoochee, where she will be
used as depot and wharf boat, and also
as ferry boat, until the Pensacola &
Atlantic completes its bridges.
Mariana Courier: " Mr.. EImore, a
delegate TO the county Democratic Con-
ventiOn from Underwood, who is sixty
five years of age, walked twenty miles to
the Convention. Three cheers for FL
more and for Underwood. 1t is pluck
and determination that wins"
Fort Dade Messenger: "Our friend,
}. b Thrasher, sent US a sweet potato last
week which, for size, is ahead of any we
have seen yet. 1t measured 234 inches
in circumference one way and 20 inches
the other, and weighed FIVE pounds and
six ounces. Who can beat this 90
Jacksonville Union: at ia really
amusing tOesee how McKinnon's organ
squirms and twists because the regular
Republican Convention failed to endorse
its candidate. 1t tries to make the me-
groes believe that they were, in the nomi-
nation of Skinner, sold out to the Demo
crats"
-DeLand AgricUltsrist GAS an idea
of the building that has been going on
here for the past year, we will mention
that no less than sixty-6ve houses have
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