The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-14

-Oorh painting mas commenced In
Polk county.
Mariana will soon have Geographic
communication.
Live Oak recently shipped $50 otter
skins in one day.
Sanford is out of debt and has a cash
balance of 1856.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
Okeechobee Canal.
There is a scarcity of farm laborers
in Gadsden county.
Mariana wants her post-office made
a money order Office.
Florida tomatoes are retailing in Chi
cago at ten cents per quart.
Bro. Fildes, of the Monticello Consti-
tuition, has new job press.
Five frst-class pilot boats find en-
ployment in Pensacola harbor.
Quincy wants large hotel, cotton
seed mill, and wine manYfactory.
Palatka and Indian River Railroad.
Calhoun county bottom lands pro-
duce so bushels of corn to the acre.
The Treasurer of Duval county re-
ports *6,565.63 in the county treasury.
Corn, with fully-matured ears, can be
seen in many parts of fernando county
Prof J. Bailey Sullivan yesterday
opened business college in Jackson
vile.
1t is estimated that 1000 acres are
planted in tomatoes on the Manatee
river
San Mateo comes to the front with
sweet-pOtato weighing four and half
pounds.
"A school teacher at Eau Gallie be-
came Disguised, and shipped as mate on a
schooner.
A visitor at St. Augustine recently
found a pistareen on the beach, bearing
date 1924.
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$l2 per bushel-crate on his first shipment
of tomatoes.
A confidence man last week swndled
an unsuspecting citizen Of Bradford coun-
ty out OSLO.
The citizens of Gainesville are feast
ing on shad from the ST. Johns river, at
40 cents apiece.
The bonded indebtedness of Jefier-
son county was $95, 1852 at the beginning
of the present year.
One Of the contractors on the u. &
A. Railroad says he saw a drove of ten
deer in Walton county
The work of cutting ont the right-of-
way of the Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff
Railroad is progressing
MIR. Rogero, of Palatka, who recently
shipped some oranges to England, has re-
ceived an order for more.
The Tax Collector of Jefferson coun-
ty advertises the property of only six per-
sons for non-payment Of taxes.
Work progresses slowly on the Jack
sonville, Tampa and Key West Railroad,
owing to a scarcity Of laborers.
The annual meeting of the Florida
Fruit-Growers' Association will be held
in Jacksonville during Fair week.
"A passenger on one Of the Ocklawa-
ha river steamers reports that he saw one
hundred alligators in a single day.
All the shares 100000 of the Pensa-
cola Building and Loan Association have
been taken at their par value, 800.
During the year 1851 $23,G49 were
collected in Pensacola for licenses, an in
crease Of sl0,670 over the previous year.
"A caravan of immigrant wagons,
with about thirty persons, recently passed
through Mariana, bound for South Flor
ida.
-Suwannee county has not dollar in
scrip on the market This is another ev-
idence of prosperity under Democratic
rule
Work is progressing in the harbor at
Apalachicola, and, when completed, the
channel will be sixty feet wide and eleven
feet deep.
Live Oak wants a high school, The
Bulletin says such school would be lib
orally patronized and soon become pay
ing institution.
Barlow has building boom, and on
ly one carpenter in the town. Good work
men would doubtless find profitable en-
ployment there.
The st. Augustine Press says the
prospects for the completion of the Jack
sonville and st. Augustine Railroad by
next fall are good
An old negro woman, living alone in
Jackson county, was found, on the 9th
inst, kneeling before her fireplace dead,
with her clothes burned of.
The male pupils of the Ocala high
school will soon don cadet uniforms, and
the Principal, Mr.. Weller, has applied to
the Adjntant-General for rifles
The line of the Florida Tropical Rail-
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