The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-24

Gov. Bloxham will deliver the
opening address at the State Fair.
Pensacola has new opera house,
and leads Jacksonville in that respect.
Mr.. E. B. Bailey is about to estab-
fish cotton seed oil mill 10 Jeffer>
son county.
d. Master Willie Patten sent the edi
tor of the Cult Coast Progress a wa
termelon tor his Christmas gilt.
The Pensacola Loan and Building
Association has out at interest ST.
800, which returns monthly interest
of over 500.
cartridges must be plenty in ST.
Jonns county, as We see it stated that
two young men shot and killed nine
ty-six in a few hours.
The difficulty about the Green
Cove and Melrose railroad has been
settled, it is said, and the enterprise
will soon be completed.
Visitors TO 81. Augustine, this
winter, are said to excel in numbers
those who have ever before visited
the ancient city in this same length OF
time.
Escambia county collected last
year a good sum of school money.
The expenditures were $8,464.3O
leaving In the treasurer's hands ST.
864.
middle Florida as they call il,
is on the boom. Will some one tell
us what part of Florida is not on the
boom when such weather RACES as the
northerners are now running away
from?
The Tampa Tribune says a party
of Kentuckians are now in that vi
entity prospecting with view to the
manufacture of fibre from the bear
grass so common throughout the
county.
The Madison Recorder says Mr..
Sloan Agner recently killed a pig
seven months and twenty-seven days
old, which weighed 200 pounds net.
This was evidently not a Florida
razorsback.
From an article in the Fernandina
Mirror, we judge that Fernandina is
enjoying degree OF prosperity, as
evidenced IN the Improvement OF real
estate, never before realized by that
people. May the boom continue.
The bonded debt of Florida is
shown TO be $1,276,400, of which
S350,0O0 is at Z per cent, and $685.
600 at 6 per cent; $685., 700 is held
by the State itself, leaving in the
hands Of individuals the sum OF $685.
800.
Mr.. John Simonton presented the
editor of the Orange Growers Ga.
zette, last week, strawberry that
measured Gan inch each way in diam
eter," and the aforesaid editor swal-
lowed that strawberry and has been
dreaming of strawberry short.cake
ever since. Lucky mortal.
A Leesourg correspondent OF the
Fernandina Mirror heads late ar
ticle "Where Does the Frost Line
End?" It's beginning and ending is
immaterial. The question the Flori-
da peninsula people are most inter-
ested in is, where does the breadth OF
the line cease, inasmuch as we have
knowledge OF its extent from Bangor,
Maine, to Key West
From an editorial in "The Spring"
we learn that the mail steamers have
carried the mails by that place, up
and down the river, and made no eft.
tort to land and put them of. Since
the so-called fast mail line has been
in vogue, the mail arrangements in
Florida have been shamefully neg
lccted. There must be new deal,
aud cleaning out OF the worthless
and negligent old mail carriers.
Hold on-the question is not set
tied yet. The Land of Flo wers says
South Florida member OF the Legis
lature remarked few days ago that
South Florida grew the finest oranges,
but Tallahassee grew the prettiest
gills That is only one mans opin
ION. The question has not been put
"a IL L.