The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-04
FLoRIDIANA.


with the Plant will be six miles long.
There is to be a convention of the
friends of temperance at Palatka on the
18th of July.
The Lake Worth people are getting
rich from growing tomatoes, which have
melted them about 81 per crate.
Wewere shown cucumber, this week,
grown on DR.. Appell's place, measuring
sixteen and a half inches in length
Lake city Reporter.
DIR. j. j. Harris, of the Sanford Journal,
has sold half interest in the paper to Mr..
j. H. Bault. First-class machinery will
be putin and every effort made to make
it frst-class.
w. Jerome Green, president of the
Jacksonville, st. Augustine and Halifax
River railroad, has purchased the entire
interest of A. NJ. Lyon in the road, also
his st. Augustine residence.
The assessed value of property in
Volusia county this year will exceed
$4,000 which does not include the
double assessments OF 1888, which
greatly swelled the total for that year.
A terrible collision took place on the
st. Johns river near Buffalo Bluff on May
9th, between the steamers Anita of the
DeBarry line and the yacht Princess in
which Mr.. E. r. Hall, of the Seville
Railroad, lost his life.
J. NJ. Graham has secured the contract
for the work ON A. |. Bidwell's new
house, which he will erect during the
present season on his property south of
town. 1t is expected to be one of the
best residences in or about Orlando
Orlando Reporter.
Times Union has the following person
al: "AIr. and Mrs. A. l. Bidwell and
family have left their Arlington home
and gone to their more recently estab-
lished nursery at Orlando. The we'll
known Arlington nursery will eventually
be removed to Orlando, which is to be-
come Mr.. BidwelPs permanent home.
Sheriff Cone has purchased the Baya
Grant, fine body of excellent land stu
ated on Lake Louisa, in the northern
portion of this county. 1t embraces
about POO acres of as fine pine land as
can be found in the county, and the
sheriff proposes cutting it up into five
acre lots and place them upon market.
1t is situated upon the ?. & l. Railroad.
South Florida Times.
Nessrs. Charles and John Hooks have
made handsome corner on their ham
mock garden. Their shipments will
reach seven thousand crates of vegeta-
bles. We paid fifty cents for the first
watermelon from their patch and receiv-
ed mar fa.. Investment: May the
become millionaires. They are indus
trious, clever boys.-Leesburgh Necs.
Enterprise is one of the few towns in
Florida which are comparatively safe
from fire. OF course each individual
building is as liable to be burned as one
in Sanford, Orlando or DeLand, but in
those towns the burning Of one house, if
there should happen to be wind, would
result in the burning OF all. Here the
buildings are scattered, and the vacant
spaces are orange groves Or grass.-En-
terprise Herald.
Our senior has telephone from the
office to his residence, and to hear him
talking through it to his better half
would make one think that his honey
moon is still as fresh as green bay tree.
Conversation last Tuesday morning ran
like this; "Say, 'oney, what will 90
ave for dinner to-day?" ''Pork and
green's, darling" Editors never live
high, gentle reader.-Ocalo Banner.
The laying of the heavy rails, go lbs.
we believe, on the S. F. r. r., has al
ready begun, and heavy force of labor
ers is pushing the work with rapidity
The S. F. is already one of the best roads
in the State, and for narrow guage, in
the world. But when the heavy rail is
down its entire length, the qualification,
'narrow-gauge," will be superflous when
speaking OF it, comparatively ord
Journal,
Mr.. G.. D. Clifford gives us an instance
of the preservation of Florida oranges.
On December IA, 1888, he shipped a
quantity of good ripe fruit to friend in
New York the consignee received them
on Christmas eve; letter received a
few days since by Mr.. Clifford states that
the oranges are i'll excellent condition
and as good as when received, and show
but little sign of decay. They were put
in warm dry place. From these facts
it is certain that by better knowledge
of our fruits by the Northern merchants
and little care on their part, our pro-
ducts can be preserved which if accom-
plished will send the very inferior for
eign orange back to the place which il
properly belongs. New Yorker.
The following civil appointments have
been made by the Governor and duly
commissioned during the past week:
Samuel j. Kennard, to be Notary Pub
lie in and for the State at large.
James McCombs, Jr., to be Notary
Public in and for the county of Volusia.
Harrison X. Bankston to be Notary
Public i'll and for the county of Herman
do.
n. L. Gano, to be Notary Public in and
for the county of Nassau.
John A. Prentis, to be Notary Public
in an for the county of Orange.
\ Thomas II. Aver, to be County Com