The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-09-24
FLORIDIANA.

vestment Co. wasin Lakeland, last week,
looking to the securing of right of way
for a railroad through that place to
Charlotte Harbor.-Barto~ Intorn,ent.
The Hon. r. C. Long, one of the
Democratic Electors at Large, has resign
ed oweing to dissatisfaction with speech
he delivered in Madison. Col. j. &.
Sinclair of Orange county will fill Mr..
Longs place.
Our fishermen complain of the scarcity
of fish in the channel. In some places
where they were accustomed to catch a
fare mess now they hardly can obtain a
bite. We trust that the absence of fish
is only temporary. a fish famine is to be
dreaded.-Key Vest Democrat.
John Qualey, formerly OF Ohio, who
has been cultivating Cuba tobacco mile
south of Tallahassee the present year,
says there is no section of the Union
in which land can be made to yield larger
crops of tobacco, of the finest quality,
than in Leon county.
We learn, just as we go to press, that
the depot at Parker lake, on the South
Florida railroad, was totally destroyed by
fire last Friday morning, with its con-
tents. We have no particulars, but
fear that our people will suffer loss and
Inconvenience by it.-BdrtoW Informant.
For several days this week we have
been having most charming weather.
The days and nights have been perfectly
delightful. Few persons, in the over
over frigid North of the winter, realize
what balmy weather we enjoy in Florida
the year 'round.-Spring.
Our friend John Anderson of Ormond
is sailing under an alias in the White
Mountains. His name there is Buckskin
Joe. Recently in a tournament at CraW-
ford n. H. he carried off eight rings and
instead of being arrested for larceny or
highway robbery the Judges ofthe tour
nament presented him with Mexican
saddle and bride over all competitors.
Now if John only had burro, SOM
brero and pair of spurs, how he would
astonish the natives on his return, and
then the burro, whatever his disposition
would not make him as sea sick as the
steamer Greenwich.-Hd Journal.
By some means our popular Yankee
grocerman, Terrill, got hold of half
bushel of guavas. They set around his
store short time, keeping his nose on a
constant curl upward. He finally told
Il
quarter to take them away. OF course
the Judge quickly assented. But the
next day some one brought in six or
seven BUSHES to Clifford, and Terrill, as
he looks on and sees them selling readily
at 60 cts. per peck, and being eaten gre
eddy like he would an apple or a peach
can but shake his head, and, say. "Great
Jupiter Inlet. There's no accounting
for Florida tastes and smells. Fila, Nem
Yorker.
The Florida Southern railway is re-
ceiving bids for the construction of its
line from Leesburg on the Withlacoochee
river, where it will connect with the
Plant system and give an all rail route
from Palatka to Tampa. The work will
be pushed to completion as soon as pos
sible, and the contractors will be re-
quired to give bonds for its completion,
ready for the cars, within five months.
Several bids have already been received
by Major Copper, the chief engineer of
the road, and he has been kept quite
busy for several days past answering cor
respondents i'll regard to the proposed
work. This is another move in the onward
march of Palatka, asthe filling up of this
gap will result in benefit to this city in
various ways.-Pdldtkd NeWS.
Col Dancy SAYS. 81 have lived here
forty years and have undergone exposure
of every kind, and never even smelt
chills or bilious fever. | have had
fifteen children, and never paid ten dol
lars doctors bill for them-never had
a case of chlls and fever in my family
up to the close of the war Ii man
lives decently well anywhere on the st.
Johns river he need not have chills.
AM in 9th - 10,
perience proves the same. In 1885 |
was ordered by the United States
Government to repair the old military
road from st. Augustine to Tallahassee.
| began the work on the Goth of July
with forty-five white men, and continued
the work up to November. The men
had no shelter except light canvas
covering, and were often wet, but none
were ever sick. But they were supplied
plentifully with good wholesome food
Palatka Herald.
Messrs. 7. IL. Randolph d Co. are ex-
hibiting in front of their store bale of
most excellent hay which, they inform
us, was cut from grass that grows
spontaneous on the flats about Cara
BELLE Major O. II. Kelly, of grange
fame, cut the hay and states that he
will have about ten tons of this crop for
sale. The Major further says of it:
Let the horses and mules smell off
the first mouthful will tell them what it
is. 1t is an entirely new grass for hay,
so they write me from the Agricultural
Department at Washington. The
botanical name is RhyncoSpor0 Ma
crostdrhyd The name alone would
tempt mule to try its qualities. Please
call the attention of each of the editors
to it. They are looking after "public
benefactors, and if he who makes two
blades grow where but one grew before
A is a benefactor, then he who bales hay
u LIZ. Il.