The Florida agriculturist., 1884-11-05


The Jacksonville Times Union has come
out with a handsome new dress. Itis a
first rate paper and is doing good work
for the State.
David Ross has been missing from
Orlando since September 11th. At that
time he left there to 60 to Gotha, and
has not been seen or heard from since.
The opening address OF the Medical
Department of the Florida University
viii be delivered by Major Russell, State
Superintendent of Education, at the Bap-
tist Church on Friday evening, Nov. 7th.
All are invited. There will be music
Economist.
A colony of Italians are about estab-
fishing themselves near the beach, three
or four miles below Mayport. The land
has been purchased and one Of them is
already on the ground making ready for
the others, who are daily looked for
Tropical Paradise.
We have no fighting editor on the
Herald, that is, no particlarly robust
and belligerent individual except one.
He has fallen off some during the past
summer, but is now exercising himself
with sixty pound hammer, in the hope
of regaining his strength. Pdldtkd Her
aid.
The new brick Baptist church is very
near completed. The steepleis is now be-
ing erected and will present handsome
appearance when finished. This new
edifceis the finest south of Jacksonville,
and speaks well for our Baptist friends
and its popular contractor.-OcoIo Ban
ner.
Mrs. r. Greer sent the Reporter an
eggplant measuring eighteen inches in
circumference. 1t speaks well for our
poor Florida sand, coming from new
place in the woods, in this land where
vegetables cannot be raised, according
to the evidence OF some folks.-O Orlando
Reporter.
Mr.. w. 7. Horne, one of our subscri
bers in Darbyville, Baker county, has
presented us with an immense Japan
persimmon, of which he says nine were
grown on one tree that is only two years
old. This one weighs ten and a half
onces, and is eleven and half inches in
circumference.-Tin Union.
The grading of the Jacksonville and
Atlantic, or Beach, railroad has been
completed, as well as the trestles and
bridges. The cross-ties have been de-
hvered, also, and the iron secured. Track
laying is expected to begin within a
month and the road completed and trains
running from the city to the beach by
January lst, 1SS5.-Iropical Paradise.
Our citizens cannot be too careful as to
the kind of oysters they buy. Those OBJ
tanned in the immediate vicinity of town,
back of the Garrison, and offered for sale
ot 1Of
hundred. They are decidedly unwhole-
some, and make every one sick who eats
them. The only oysters that it is
safe to eat are those brought from Old
Tampa Bay and points further south.
These cannot be surpassed anywhere
Tampa Tribune.
At Crawfordville, on the 9th inst,
about O'Clock P. NJ, Hon. G. w. Tully rs
Clubhouse, cotton press, wagon, scales,
blacksmith shop coal house, together
with from II to 10 bales of cotton, large
lot of cotton seed, set of carpenters and
blacksmith tools, and other valuables
were totally destroyed by fire. Loss
from 81 900 to So, 800. No insurance.
The fire is supposed to have originated
by an ignited match passing from the gin
into the lint room .-Floridian
Tom Rogers, of Blake, who has the
only bearing tree of the kind upon the
coast, brought us a Satsuma orange
Saturday. We thought we would lay it
by day or two to let it color up before
we tested it to report on it's merits as re-
quested. Well, we tested it-('twas
delicious, the best orange ever raised,
ETC., yum-yum)- by proxy. Our two
girl typos found it and we did not even
get smell at the peeling.-Halfar
Journal.
The cable for the Jacksonville, St.
Augustine and Halifax River Railroad
telegraphic line, while being loaded ON
aiighter few days ago atthe Waycross
wharf, rolled overheard. On Friday af-
ternoon Captain w. G., Hawkins raised
it to the top of the deck Of his pile-driv-
er, and while hauling it on board, some
portions of the fastenings gave way and
it went to the bottom of the river again.
Another effort is being made to get it
out.-1Smes- Union.
Mr.. L. X. Trafford, Agent of the Flor
ida Land and Colonization Company
arrived last week from England, where
he has been for several months in con-
sultation with the company he repre-
sents. Mrs. Trafford and children, who
have been spending the summer in the
mountains of North Carolina, came with
him. Two nieces, Misses Emily and
Alice Trafford, accompanied their uncle
to America. and are now with the family
in Sanford. An elder brother OF Mr..
Trafford, and family OF several persons,
will soon sail for America, and will make
Sanford their home. Mr.. Trafford states
that in its social aspects his visit to Eng
land, his native country, was pleasant
in the extreme and in its business rela-
lations was entirely satisfactory. He is
y now ready for business, and expects soon