The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-05-15


spirit @orevard county.
-b4Agk continues to want moro ctf
penters, as it is growing too dig i6r ~
houses.
-Davtona Journal: The promise 81
an orange crop is immense. J'"tr"e 4Fe
full Of fruit
Mr.. Blackshear, Of Thor. asHi!l''. t't.,
gathers about a thousand quar7' Of s.Ta::'
berries day. Z
-Titusyille Star: Now Ii 'i'e tTe' J."
look for our summer friend : ,he ~o!'tsl-
east trade wind.
The Waterbury Amerir"H ruts al
clearly when IL says that foa,:s wi,hil'fs
tolls are much more dangerous anan cfl:a'-
mails who carry them. :
There were imported into Hcy v ii
from Havana for the monti. of A1tsl.
G4o bales leaf tobacco, and ~ pipe; .oi
Nine The duty was about $HG.ooi.
bronson Enterprise, May 1 Mr. !.
HaAey shipped on Tuesday to >ew fofA,
The first lot Of Peen-To peaches that v"
have heard Of being shipped this y"a1..
jacksonville Times Imi.:,... We IN
aersiand that the Florida t:Htral add
Western Railroad is To br pat III hrA:
class condition at once. AMI ol+ There =
a LOT Of new iron on the way here. :
Milton .N,,cs Parties fl on this ,,.:pt.c
who have removed TO Marianne and gosc
into business, are meeting vii the m''al
encouraging sucrcss, much I" In grat:h-
cation Of numerous friends left behind:
Mariana Cowier. We mar t.,i'
Major Hines lost over one hunir"d ni.tf.r
six hundred head Of cattle h' recent r.
shipped from West Florida = Texas
they died before reaching NV urIeaI:!
Lake City Rporter: Scarcely ;. d:y
PASSES without some one coming to oil,
Office inquiring the price of la'a ami la
good places to buy. Our business mtn
viii have To get up a real csta'c agency
10 meet the wants of the pubic
Quincy Herul1 n'~ %, tIiS week
II looked like the business seasl:l. Is Ira !,
loaded 18th cotton were seen going 20 TIE
depot 30 far as We can learn there is: a
good deal of cotton now stored and ~.
sold IN the county. This bet"trns pro
perity Of the most substantial kind
Sir Philip H. Clarke, of London, il .
reported 20 the British syndicate whi'I1i
sent him 10 Florida in favor Of IaArchasin. i,
10000 acres Of the land in So .Iohr..,
county. The land is poriic1 O: liz"
Dission tract, and is said to b' icrIil. .n'i
covered with a fine growth OF yellow pin"
and cypress.
The Governor has Offered rcwar,i
81 one hundred dollars for the capture q:
Pink Blocker, tiendish negro "f iradfor!
county. wh" caused the death II = ncgrs
boy ten years old by suspcndine hin oI'.s
a FIRE lie hung his victim head down it
the chimney, and roasted him till tht
flesh Of his arms came from the zones.
Soon, now. the Peninsula People xiii
begin their summer of luxurious illrnc~e.
living on the profits of their TRUCK SHY:
ments and watching the oranges grow Il
make them rich again next antun:n.
Happy, happy people VIII" MAY twaus;
the gay guitar, &c., if they want Ia, sol
about sis months oi the year a"I know
no want
-Dcong, r"u,.ty R,fort'r. delaney
has a hen which has peculiar ACTIONS 81
her own. During all the cary part OF
the season when she took n"tt,'r to lav
AN egg she would resort to an .lr> at;..l
branch on an orange tree. She had nj
nesf there and of course the cg@s 1cil ~
the ground and were broken. i>nN she
lias taken 10 setting on that bran-3l. and
DO amount OF persuasion or coerrios car
induce her to quit her foolishnc~-. y exl
- Palatka HcraM- In CONDENSATION
with one of the Florida Southern eontr;sc
tors few days since he informr,. Us that
the road was being rapidly pushed Souil
from Ocala, that over a half mile 81 track
had been laid and six miles of the Old
track was ready to receive the irsn which
will Ice put down this week Grading i,
also going on. and in fact. everything
along the line presents bnsincs.ilikc az
pearance.
-Palatka Hfrald. The i. & ]. Kali
road is rushing things between here and
Jacksonville Welearn that twcrtv mile.
has been graded, and that their force
which now numbers between faIr anG
FIVE hundred is being increased all I'll,
time. Jay Gould certainly hit .he mai
ON the head when he said last inter
while here, that Palatka was DESIGNED /.
beoome the distributing point 81 SouiI
Florida.
Brooksyille Crescent: l}roilksvill,
was visited this week by ex-Gaycrno
Drew. ex-Treasurer Of State GwyEn. Cap
tain Inglis, and Captain John NJ. baylor
all men of capital, influence and, larg,
popularity. They were ooking altar thei
land interests in this county. The {nvcst
rnent in fernando county lands By these
leading financial and political magnatc'
Of the State shows conclusivcly tirat tht
future Of our section has silver lining.
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