The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-01-17

It's eth volume. @
Orlando nov has teIegraphic COM
munication with the outside world.
-PensacoIa's new city bonds are be-
ing signed and msde ready for delivery.
The survey OF the PaIatka and In
dian River Railway has been commenced. |
j. S. Denham, Esq, was elected
Mayor of Monticello at the recent cleo
ton.
-Track-laying on the p. d A. r. K
is going on at four different points along
the line
The location of the entire line of the
Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad has been
completed.
Prof. Charles James White, of St
Augustine, died at his home in that city
on Sunday, the LIST inst
"A gentleman named Powell, a
Northerner, suffering from ill-health,
drowned himself at Titusville recently.
The Key West Democrat states that
1000 worth of sponge was sold on one
of its wharves last week in single day.
The Manatee Netcs says: We hear
of 1000 or more acres of land planted in
tomatoes on the Manatee river this year.
On Friday the 9th inst. Mr.. Chas.
W. Griffin, of Eastman, Georgia, was
killed at Orlando by man named A. b.
Carter
Cedar Key Journal, 7th: Married.
December 25th, Mr.. A. K. Demere of
Black Point, to Miss Mamie A. Is. Aston
of Tallahassee
The engine for the pile-driver has ar
rived at Chattahoochee, and the work of
of trestle-building for the p. 81 a. cross
ing will proceed at once.
The Cedar Key Journal, with the
new year, and the beginning of its Sth
volume, puts on new dress and looks.
fresh, bright and attractive.
Governor Bloxham has issued proc
lamation, offering $3.50 for the arrest of
Vernon Sapp, for the murder of Mrs
Jameson, in Bradford county about six
weeks ago.
-Atelegram in the Union of Wednesday
announces that the Pensacola Gazette news
paper and the AdUance have consolidated,
and will publish daily called the Id
vGrace- Gazette.
Major Russell is working hard in the
interest of the State Fair, to begin at
Jacksonville on the 9th of February, and
it will doubtless be good one a fine
programme for races has been prepared.
Says the Lake City Reporter: Sew
eral parties with ample means will put up
two or three mammoth saw mills between
Lake City and the Alachua line as soon
as the Florida Southern connects us with
Gainesville.
"A colony of Italians under the escort
of Enrico Pannato, of the Florida South
ern Railway, composed of Luizi Eula,
Mrs. Angela Eula, Emilio Collino, two
children and Jiacomo Markno, S, arrived
in Gainesville last week
"A Mr.. Harris of indianapolis, Ind,
recently visited his brother at Citra, and
his little boy, about eight years old, while
alone got his neck and face wound up in
a towel revolving on a roller and slIs-
pended from the wall, and was strangled
to death before he was discovered.
The ApaIachicola Tribune states that
iron for the extension of the s., +. IL w,
Railway from cambridge Ga, to Chatta-
hOochee, has been purchased and that
well informed men are confident of the
connection Of East Pass, on the Calf,
with that road within twelve months.
The Green Coue Spring, published
at Green Cove Spring on the St. Johns,
has wisely hearkened to the criticisms OF
its friends, and given up its ridiculous
name, and is now called e The Spring. y
1t appears in neat suit of new type, and
it looks as if it was now printed at home.
Success to it!
Col. T. G.. Lanier writes to the Lees
burg AdUGnce: / see an item going the
rounds in some of our papers that the seed
from budded tree on the sour stock will
not produce a sweet orange. Such is moi
the case; the seed viii produce sweet
oranges. i have trees in bearing that
were grown from the seed of the budded
trees, and the fruit is good and sweet.
-Palatka Journal, At a meeting o.
the Board Of County Commissioners held
on the 18th inst, there was over 81 200 Q
county scrip called in and cancelled, ana
Al order issued to the Treasurer to canoe
over $500 more of the issue prior to 1870
Il Is safe TO say that not more than q, O0t
of scrip will be outstanding at the clos,
of the fiscal year, ending October 1882
In 1877 there were 4le, 900 in scrip ont
standing. tx t.-S S-~&
-Apopka Citizen Governor BIox
ham did himself no little credit by th,
appointment of DIR. J. L. Crawford Sec
rotary of State. His familiarity with tn,
prevailing laws, fncncy and beauty as
writer; honesty, reliability and capacity
and exceedingly popular manners j.,stif.
this opinion but Coy. Bloxham u. othe
things, no les thea tbis, hes proven !.