The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13
STATE NRWs.


Green Cove Spring.
"A revival is in progress at the M. f.
Church in Pensacola.
The Gainesville advocate has en-.
tered upon its second year.
-Sumterville has postmistress and
wants money order Office.
The Sumter county courthouse case
has been indefinitely postponed.
-Laborers are wanted on the Jackson
vile and St. Augustine Railroad.
Mr.. j. w. Howell has been confirmed
collector of customs at Fernandina.
The Banner says Marion county and
Ocala are both unburdened with debt.
Mr.. A. Seaman, of DeLand, has a
COW that gives FIVE gallons of milk per
day.
Fifty immigrants recently passed
through Midway, Ala, bound for Key
West
Some people are of the opinion that
gold has been discovered in Putnam
county.
Pensacola is receiving new sweet po-
tatoes, eggs, and vegetables from South
Florida
"A citizen of Santa Rosa county has
realized SO pounds of wool from four ma
tive sheep.
Large quantities of wool are being
sold in West Florida towns at % cents
per pound.
The Madison county Jail contains
but one prisoner, and he halls from
another county.
Florida is represented by twenty pu-
pills at the South Georgia Agricultural
College in Townsville.
The plans for new courthouse for
Duval county have been submitted to the
County Commissioners.
The name of Mr.. Geo. p. Ahern, of
Florida, appears in the list of graduates
at West Point this year.
Nassau county has only about s. 900
worth of bonds outstanding, and they are
held at premium of 10 per cent.
The colored Methodists of West
Florida are making efforts to establish
high school for the benefit of their race.
The directors of the Jackson county
Fair Association propose to have the
grandest fair ever held in the county this
fall.
Rev. F. Pasco, of Monticello, is cor
responding editor of the Florida Depart
ment of the Wesleyan Christian -Advo-
cate.
Mr. VIM. Nickels, of Mariana, has
produced tomato weighing pound and
half and measuring Is inches in circum-
ference
Palma Sofa, Manatee county, last
week had her population increased by
the arrival of forty immigrants from Ar
kansas.
"A letter for Mrs. Nancy Warer, Mon
ticello, Fla, is held for postage at Jack
sonville.
Mr. Thomas Puleston, of Monticello,
is shipping cantaloupes, and Mr.. w. NJ.
Girardeau will begin to ship watermelons
this week.
We have not received the Madison
Recorder this week. Why is this thus,
Bro. Beggs?
Work on the jetties, at the mouth of
the st. Johns river, is progressing very
satisfactorily.
We occasionally receive a copy of
the Jacksonville Daily Times, and would
be pleased to have it as regular ex-
change.
DR.. J. V. Harris, of Key West, has
raised fine crop of Irish potatoes this
season, which he disposed of in that city
at 50 per barrel
Gainesville advocate: Prof. Z. p.
Cater, Mr.. E. p. Axtell and Rev. Z. w.
Meany have been reelected to their re-
spective positions in the East Florida
Seminary.
The typographical force of the Ma
rianna Courier, headed by editor Vaughan,
turned out last week to hunt up negro
who sold or ate thirty-pound water
melon he was instructed to deliver at that
Office.
"A small party of Germans came on
Mondays steamer e., route for Fl. Dade,
where they expect to settle on the lands
which Judge Dunno has set apart for
the German Colony.-TdmpG Tribune,
June /.
The shrimp being caught in Cumber-
land Sound are of the largest. The Err
press does not give the exact size, but we
suppose they are nearly as large as the Mid
die Florida beets and turnips. Micdnopy
Gazette.
Key West Democrat claims that
Capt Richard Roberts has produced the
largest pineapple ever raised in Florida.
Its circumference is % inches, its length
IL inches, and its weight pounds and
three quarters.