The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-03-06
STATE NEWS.

-Palatka had great rush of tourists this sea-
SON
Down in Tampa the other day-but no. we
won't strike below the frost line. It's not fair
play.
Il he Tampa Guardian says that Mr. Haml-
ton Disston will build hotel for winter visitors
at Tarpon spring.
Mr.. B. l.. Blackburn has retired from the ed
itoral management Of the Fort Dade Messenger,
and is succeeded by Mr.. r. O. Carter
The bodies of Mr.. Glover, and of the colored
man drowned with him, were found in the river
near Jacksonville a week after the casually.
The Adrance Gazette reports The drowning
in the harbor Of Pensacola of the chief officer of
the British bark Chieftain, on the 25th ult.
The Tavares, Orlando & Atlantic Railroad
Company advertise for proposals for grading
twenty miles of the line between Tavares and
Orlando.
Tampa Tribune: The schooner Cecilia ar
rived last Saturday from Pensacola with a cargo
of earlhenware, which was manufactured in
that city.
AT the State Fair prize OF sixty dollars was
awarded to Mr.. Garrett GrindaIl for specimens
of jute produced in Levy county. Some of the
fibre was ten feet long.
Spring Hill can boast of a single strawberry
plant, says the Semi Tropical, of the Monarch of
the West variety, that has more than seventy
five perfect fruit stems on it.
-Alachua county has another paper making
five. The new candidate for popular favor is
The Graphic printed at Haw thorne, and edited
nv Mncer5 loo G. Noffhou,o
Another fire occurred in Pensacola last
Tuesday night. The kitchen building adjoining
the residence of Judge Maxwell was destroyed,
and the main building saved with difficulty.
Loss, 5000.
Over half of the track of the road between
Jacksonville and ST. Augustine is now laid, steel
rails being used. Less than twenty miles remain
to be completed, and strong force is engaged
in the work.
The great firm of Drew & Bucki, lumber
manufacturers of Ellaville, has been dissolved by
mutual consent, the Ex-Governor having sold 10
Mr.. BucRi his entire interest in the milling, rail-
road and vessel business.
The Madison Neao Era reports that the safe
in Judge r. NJ. Witherspoons Office in the court
house was robbed of $l75, the property of Mrs.
A. G. Roberts. Two other packages of money
in the safe were left untouched.
The Putnam County .Journai reports the
killing OF a panther that measured within AN
inch of eight feet long. She was with her mate
when killed by the colored man who discovered
the pair eight miles from Palatka.
-TamYo Tribune: The schooner Matchless
sailed last Thursday for Pensacola with the re-
mains Of the soldiers taken from the garrison
graveyard at Fort Brooke. We understand
there were nineteen bodies exhumed.
The Halifax Journal says: Our Halifax
river coasts have 100000 orange trees set in
groves, aud still The work of clearing the ham,
mocks goes on. In five years many ship loads
of oranges will go from Daytona and the real
prosperity of this country commence.
-Tavares Herald: We learn from the highest
authority that final arrangements have been per-
fected fer pushing TO immediate completion to
Tavares the ST. johns & Lake Eusils Railway
The iron has been ordered and Is on The way.
There will be no stopping at Lake Eustis or any
point, but Tavares will be the terminus of the
road until II takes another start towards the Gulf
Col Lane returned from New York this week
and bis advent here means business.