The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-28

serenade by the interference of police
man. if
"A lady residing near Completion,
who has been suffering from long and
serious attack of pneumonia, and also
afflicted with the whooping-cough, was
recently shocked by lightning, since
which time she has been rapidly improv-
ing.
Florida, at the present day, is the
advance State. She courts capital from
all sections, and extends superior oppor-
tunities to investors DESTROYS of making
the State their future home and field for
commercial, agricultural and business
strife.-FlOrida Pathfinder.
The captain of Dutch bark was
lately fined 81 1000 by the collector of the
port of Pensacola for neglecting to report
the arrival of his vessel within the time
prescribed by law. He was ignorant of
the requirements of the United States
custom regulations and will take an APP
peal.
-Gadsden county has a colored wo-
man lO2 years old. Her sister, aged 50,
and her brother aged %, reside with her,
on the plantation of Messrs. I. L. Ward
e Co., four miles south of Quincy. The
two latter are hale and hearty, but the
oldest sister has been in feeble health for
several months.
The Coast Line Canal enterprise is
now said to be one of the assured things
in the near future. Mr. Disston and his
associates are interested in this project,
and it is proposed to complete the work
between MatanAas and Halifax rivers and
between Hillsborough and Indian rivers
by December next. NJ
The Tallahassee FLoRID1AN has not
reached us this week. We regret to lose
a number of this valuable journal as we
number it among our most readable ex-
changes. = GMf Coast Progress, 10TH
The FLoR1DIAN is sent regularly, and if it
fails to reach you, just charge it to our
excellent " mail 1acllltles
MIR. JAS w. Register, Of Hamilton
county, makes statement of his farming
operations on six acres of common pine
land, with homemade fertilizers. From
mixed farming he realized $6o5, from cot
ton alone $50, leaving profit Of 1855
in favor of varied crops. Milk and butter
are not included in this statement. IF
The boiler of the steamer Cassettes
exploded on Lake Harris last Wednesday.
The captain and pilot were. slightly in
iured and colored fireman received in
iuries from which he has since died. The
bow of the vessel was badly shattered,
and she rapidly filled with water and
sank to the surface of the lake. The
passengers and crew were rescued by
boats from the shore.
We will accept the proposition OF
Mr. J. II. Foster, and offer prize of $40
for the best essay on " Home Gardening .
the facts to be from the experience of the
author, to be sent in by the lst Of August
next, so as to be published in time fo1
next seasons work. The Sumter County
Agricultural Society is to award the pri
yes, and the essays to be sent to Col. L. q.
Lanier, President of the Society. FLorido
AgricuIturiSt.
-Apalachicola 2riJune AIr. o. +.
Allen brought to this Office last Tuesday
a silk cocoon raised by his wife. This is
the first that has been Matched, and gives
evidence of hardy growth and admira
bic vitality. Mrs. Allen purchased l,o0t
eggs some three months ago to try the
experiment of silk raising in this county
and is now so we'll satisfied with the ex
pertinent that she intends to engage in its
cultivation on still larger scale.
A correspondent Of the Sumtervillt
Times writes thus: eve want to set
people come into this county with plenty
Of muscle, brain and energy, and little
money to flavor the compound, and they
will be sure to succeed; but we see too
many coming in with little money an(
less brain, wanting to enter land and ST
back in the shade while Providence builds
them grove and makes them fortune
They must remember that Providence ha
large field to hoe, and these little neg
lected corners of ours will be overlooked
and forgotten"
Pensacola 1dcdnce- Gazette: w
fear we are being left behind in the matte
of public spirit. Milton evidently doe
not harbor any old Rip Van Winkles
GROWERS and monopoly howlers, for sh
has not only offered to present the r.
A. Railroad with depot grounds, but ais
land for the workshops and permission t
run through any street within her limits
Nor does she stop here. Her citizen
propose to furnish the lumber with Whic
to build the shops, etc. Actuated b
such enterprise and public spirit, gu
neighbor will yet be an important facto
when you come to count the cities i
West Florida.
AT meeting in Jacksonville, on 'th
22d, Mayor Dzialynski was unanimously
nominated for reelection as Mayor of tina
city. The following gentlemen were ais
unanimously nominated: Fer marshal