The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-02-13
STATE NEWS.

The Florida Southern Railway runs full
| trains twice daily
1t is stated that the new hotel being erected
in Tampa is to cost $4,000.
There were nine deaths only in the city of
Pensacola during the month of January
The Herald warns the people of Quincy to
keep their open as there are tramps about
The South Florida Times saws that the
culture OF cassava seems TO be the great question
of the day"
| The J0..rndl reports thirteen hundred and
fifty arrivals at the Cedar Key hotels during the
month of January
The Adoamce Gazette reports the arrival AT
Pensacola of the steamer Peerless from Geneva
with $50 bales of cotton.
Another sea-cow captured in Brevard county,
near Rockledge, weighing :, 900. pou nds, fourteen
feet long and nine feet in circumference
The Atlantic House, at Oak Hill, Volusia
county, is found TO be so much too small this
winter that before the next fifty additional rooms
will be added.
The Eustis Semi Tropical says that ex Gov
ernor NJ. l.. Stearns has purchased property ut
MI. Dora, in Orange county, and intends making
his residence there in future
The Barlow hotels are crowded 10 overflow
ing, and more than fifty persons are lodging
round in the neighborhood, wherever they can
get shelter. The Informant calls for a big hotel
"A suicide has at last occurred in the happy
land of Florida. J. e. L. Bennett cut his throat
at Tomoka. The Enterprise HeruM saws tina,
melancholy caused by sickness was the supposed
cause
The Adcunce- Gazeue of the 4th, chronicles
the arrival in Pensacola of the canoe tourists
Dr. Neidc and Capt. Kendall, in their canoes
Solid Comfort and Aurora" The vnyapcrs
are the guests of the Osceola Club.
IN raise the dickens with you when get
you home cried an imprisoned beauty TO her
mama at the carnival last night; "you have
spoiled my pleasure for the whole evening"
Poor thing What did the cid lady do 10 herr
Times. Union.
Milton Neacs: The quantity of freight
shipped over the p. & A. Road steadily H.
creases, and by The time through schedule is
established it will no doubt reach immense pre-
portions, as a fine territory will be opened ND
whose trade will find an outlet over this road.
The Tropical Paradise is the pleasing title of
large and weprinted paper, John Frank, pro-
prletor, the initial number of which was issued in
Jacksonville last Saturday The mission of the
new journal is literature and Florida intelligence
and it will be published weekly at 50 a wear.
We wish it success
The Times Union entered Mr.. j. E. Allen.
of hat ool-;ll
tor IN the tournament which will be a feature If
the State Fair. But while that gentleman was
practlcing Friday, he was thrown from his horse
and leg broken. The accident Was caused by
the breaking of the saddlc-girth.
The Lake City Reyoorter SAYS the town is
booming, and that more store buildings to rent
are needed, as numbers Of business men abroad
are seeking locations there 1t would be well if
the business men were OF sufficient pocket cali |
bFc to build the stores as well as sto>'
That's the best way to make ~lnie truck
Mr. II. n. p, near Gainesville, tor the
patch" iuys there are twelve acres Of straw
ferries, now ripe and ripening, several acres in
radishes alone and several acres of bees, tur
nips and cabbages. We take in The whole slate
ment easy-swallowing even the several acres
of radishes.
- Gainesville Bee East Florida Seminary
now occupies quarters in the Dennis block. Ev
crthing is very comfortably and conveniently ar
ranged for both scholars and instructors, and so
satisfactorily is everything moving that it would
appear that the pupils u, this Institution have
suffered as little from the burning of HE building
as anybody else"
Tuesday night the ladies of thr Jacksonville |
Relief Association managed Charity Carnival
at Metropolitan Hall, and the society editor OF The
Times Union stamps it as the social event OF the
season. He chronicles bewildering descriptive
list of bellies and their beautiful costumes
enough 10 make any but society editors head
swim, and serve his heart worse.
Levy Enterprise: AT present Cedar Key
enjoys better religious privileges than for years
past. Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist and Prcsby-
terrain ministers either permanently fixed
here, or are TO visit us monthly. We must soon
have more churches, our population seems 10 be
rapidly increasing, and an increased interest III
religious matters is manifested"
"A revision of the State map is needed. Flor
ida is growing so rapidly that revised issue OF
once in two years. New settlements are con
stanlly receiving names, new pnstotlices being
established, and their localities should be indi
Gated to the outside world And the inside
world of Florida wants to know much us it
may of all things within its borders.
The "dengue" is an old-fashoned Florida
disorder. Looking over the flies OF the Pensacola
Argus, we find the following paragraph in the
issue of September 9, 1928 1.-THE dengue con-
tinues to annoy our citizens" If there had been
there some very scientific physician" of linn
tied collegiate training and brief local experience
he might have diagnosed it as :" a mild type of
yellow fever, yielding readily to my treatment"
| you know.
NeWSOm &CarrOll