The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-10-10

--TAs pEloss report fifteen feet of water
On sAs g. Johns bar.
The municipal tax of Lake City is
One-half Of one per cent for 1882.
The Democrats Of Gadsden county
are making IN aggressive campaign.
1t is said that work will soon be
commenced on the Florida Ship Canal.
The first rail on the J jacksonville and
ST. Augustine Railroad was nailed down
on the I'd
Mr.. Geo. Kirk, of Marlborough county,
has gathered Al bushels of corn from half
acre lot
The commissioners of Gadsden county
have erased 40l names from the registra-
ton list.
Six hundred and ly-fve names have
been erased from the registration list of
Jefferson county.
The Jacksonville Weekly Union has
been enlarged and now appears rs an
sight-page paper
The money order department Of the
BroOksville POst-ofice was opened for
business last week.
The Constitution says the Monticello
and Georgia railroad enterprise is not
dead by any means.
Hon. J. W. Whidden Is again the
unanimous nominee Of the Manatee De
mocrsey for the Assembly
The Secretary Of the Sumter county
Fair Association, sdvertises for bids for
the erection Of fair buildings
The West Florida Fair, TO be held
At Mariana, will open on the l2th of De
eember and continue four days
Senator Chas w. Jones was last
Saturday evening the recipient Of ban
quet from the citizens Of Jacksonville
The Lake Eustis Semi R>6pical, ope
Of the neatest and best little papers in
Florida, has recently doubled lis size
-Messrs. w b. and J. NJ. Lamar. of
Monticello, will plant about fifty acres in
potatoes and watermelons next season.
Judge james Bell, Of Gainesville
pays cash for snakes, which he sends to
the Smithsonian Institute. at Washing
ton.
r II. Fries, Esq, who succeeded the
late Judge O'Brien as city editor Of the
Pensacola Commercial, is i'll with yellow
fever
Within the past two years lands IN
the vicinity Of Monticello have advanced
500 per cent and very little Is now offered
for sale
The Reporter claims that there are
$500 bearing orange trees in Columbia
county, which yield about 2,25O,oOO or
snges annually.
Capt S. Pasco and family returned
from the North last week, and the Captain
at once proceeded to join Col. Davidson
in his canvass of South Florida.
As An evidence of general prosperity
in Jefferson county the Constitution
states that there has not been a sheriff7s
sale in the county for many months.
Thirteen miles of the jacksonville.
Tampa and Key West Railroad have
been graded. One hundred hands are
employed and more are wanted.
Gainesville AdUocote:. The greatest
demand We have ever known for dwelling
houses has been made on owners and
agents here within the past few weeks
The Democrats of Nassau county
have made the following nominations
&C W. billiard for the Senate, and +. w
Higginbotham and w. F. Scott for the As
sembly
Jacksonville Union. Republican
mass-meetings are resolving that Hon
ID. L. McKinnon is the true Republican
candidate. We thought he was an " In
dependent"
On the Sd Capt F. \. Hendry, of
Font Myers, teIegraphed to Col Forbes,
Of jacksonville: "Dredge doing well
Will certainly lin Okeechobee within
six weeks"
The Leesburg Ne'cs, new Demo,
cratic Journal, made its appearance on
the 5th- 1t is a neatly printed, twenty
eight column paper, owned and edited by
Messrs- w. w. Aston and b. F. ColIey.
The Constitution announces that the
Democrats Of Jefferson will be in complete
harmony with the party throughout the
State, and certainly nominate full ticket
for the Assembly on the 2sth of the pres
ent month.
Tampa Guardian "We have posi-
tive information that gentleman from
Louisiana, and late of the West Indies,
has bought ten acres of land about six
miles from Tampa, which he has contrac
ted 10 have planted in mulberries for the
purpose Of raising silk worms"
Monticello Constitution: Mr.. 4. B.
Bailey, who runs four or FIVE large planta
tons in this county, has raised a sufficiency
Of corn TO supply all his places for 1855
and have q surplus of fully three thousand
bushelA This is evidence of excellent
judgment and good management"
Cedar Key Journal: Mr.. james
Carter, Of Old Town, has an orange tree