The Florida agriculturist., 1884-08-13
FLORIDIANA.

There are 50 newspapers III Florida
Mr.. j. l.. Bryan has been elected May
or of Orlando.
The ladies of Ocala have got reading
and library association.
Marion county has organized Veget-
able and Fruit Growers Association.
The Agricultural College at Lake City
will be formally opened on the 1st Oct.
Messrs. Il. Mes. Byrne and B. M.
Robinson have been nominated for the
State Legislature in Orange county.
We noticed a case of as pretty comb
honey as we ever saw at Houghton Bros.
yesterday. 1t was in neat pound pack
ages, and was from the apiary of August
Leyvraz, at Peniel.-Poldtkd News
Many OF our citizens are suffering from
inflammation of the eyes although the
disease is not so general as to be called
an epidemic. The inflammation does
not affect the general health, but while
it continues is painful and very annoying
Tile Spring.
According to recent issue OF the New
York Graphic, Florida is the heaven of
the railroad men, as every one who lives
III the State tries to leave it in the sum
mer, and every one who lives out of the
State tries to enter it i'll the Winter.
There might be added to this that the
railroad men OF Florida make heaven
for all who wish to travel in the State,
by their uniform courtesy and attention
to their guests.-TimeS- Ujti0n.
If Oscar Turner were compelled to eat
small sized squash, which was grown
a mile south of Orlando, in Orange
county, Florida, at single meal we be-
lieve he would revise his assertion that
vegetables will not grow in Florida. This
specimen graces the front window of the
Sinclair real estate office, where it at
tracts the attention of all who pass. 1t
was grown by p. \. Foster on his place
lust south of town. 1t is about the size
of a butter firkin and weighs eighty
five pounds s.-OrIdndO Reporter
The following civil appointments have
been made by the Governor and duly
commissioned during the past week:
X. G. Robinson, to be Justice OF the
Peace in and for the county of Orange.
James +. Miller and j. Francis lie
Baron, to be Notarics Public in and for
State at large.
l.. l.. Charles, to be Justice OF the
Peace in and for the county of Holmes.
J. ii. Claywell, to be County Com
missioner in and for the county of
Lafayette.
William II. Gum, Jr., to be County
Commissioner in and for the county of
Liberty FlOrididn.
- oentlenap, Just returning HoHl tne
Gulf Hammock furnishes us with the
following facts from that section: Says
he saw live-oak trees seven feet i'll diam
eter, cypress trees thirteen feet, grape
joints long. That fish are in great abun
dance and deer and turkeys plentiful
Orange trees, five years old from the
seed, are in full bearing. That forty to
fifty bushels of corn to the acre is the
average yield without fertilizing, and
that choice locations can be purchased
for ten dollars per acre. 1t strikes us
that is very good country to live III.
We give this information for the benefit
OF our numerous readers III other states.
--Oc01o Banner.
The Palatka HeroM says that the
Florida Steamship Company, owners
and managers of the steamship City of
Palatka, have Just purchased the iron
steamer City of Norfolk now plying be-
tween Morgan City La, and Galveston,
Texas, and it is expected that she will
arrive here and be placed on the line be-
tween Charleston and Palatka on or be-
fore September 10Th, and run in con-
nection with the steamship City OF
Palatka, when each steamer will make
one round trip per week, touching at
Savannah and Fernandina both ways.
The City OF Norfolk is said to be about
three years old, very nearly the size of
the steamer st. Johns and built about
on the same model. She is elegantly
fitted up, has splendid Accommodations for
one hundred first-class passengers, is in
every way seaworthy, having been built