The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-25
FLoRIDIANA.

Oeala has hook and ladder company.
Apopka is to have 4th of July cele-
bration.
Mangoes are plentiful in Key West at
80 cents per 100.
The military companies of Florida have
been making display at Pensacola.
A POO feet extension is being built to
the Okeechobee wharf at Kissimmee
\ palmetto factory for the manufac-
turing Of paper is to be started at San
ford.
Mr.. Geo. E. Bryson, well known to
most of our people has been married to
young lady in Macon, Ga.
w. II. Haskell, of Tallahassee, has
growing on his place a pear tree on
which are grated fifteen different vari-
cites OF the pear.
Mr.. Garrett Vinzant has growing on
his farm, five miles from this city, an
India Rubber tree, which is twelve or
fifteen feet high.-Late city Reporter.
There is some hitch about getting the
right of way for the Enterprise Railroad.
How can some people be. so obtuse to
their own benefit as to oppose such a
thing.
Great advancement has been made
with the new buildings the past week.
The moving of the court house is fin
ished and the underpinning nearly com
pleted The frame of the jail is raised
and we hope the work will soon be com
pleted, as the building is very badly
needed.
Manatee trots out "whopper. The
inhabitants of that bailiwick says that
hail recently fell in that county to
depth of five inches and remained on the
ground for 80 hours. The hail was re-
ported to be as large as hens eggs. Do,
for heavens sake, send that reporters
head.
Mary Wiburn, colored, brought to
this office Monday last curiosity in the
shape of corn tassel. 1t had nine small
ears of corn on it, and eleven more that
would have grown out if they had been
left alone. This tassel is very strange
freak OF nature, and, perhaps, is the on
ly instance where ears of corn were pro-
duced in such large numbers without
silk or shuck upon a Observation-Disclosures
colo Tribune,
We have been informed, by credible
person, that during the last week the
current OF the st. Johns river was Oh
served flowing up stream, and into Lake
Monroe. This is said to be the result of
the very low stage of water, the slight
fall from Lake Monroe to the bar, and
tire prevailing have. e.,i+
said before that the current of the river
had been seen to flow southwark, as high
up as Lake George, but never into Lake
Monroe.-Sonford Journal.
The Orlando Reporter Says -
1t is with feelings of profound sorrow
and regret that this community has
learned the death of Mrs. Siller, the
estimble wife of Mr.. Frank Siller, Of
Gotha, Fla. Mr.. and Mrs. Siller, who
left here for their home in Milwaukee,
Wis, only some few weeks since, had
been out riding and were returning home
from the cemetery when they came i'll
collision with runaway icewagon team,
throwing both occupants out and so Sc
verify injuring Mrs. Siler that she died
a few hours after the accident. Mr.. Siller
was also seriously injured, but will re-
cover. The occasion is one to try the
strongest nerves and move the hearts Of
their many friends, especially when it is
remembered that only recently before
their departure from here they lost their
I Oldest son just in prime and bloom of life
and who gave every promise of filling a
bright and useful career
Mr.. and Mrs. Siller spent several weeks
in DeLand last winter.