The Florida agriculturist., 1884-07-16
FLORIDIANA.
ocala is being rebuilt with brick.

DSdld II DelllS TeDulII NlLD Dr1Ck.
Sugar corn grows is feet long in Bre-
ward county.
$1,000 has been allotted to repair the
old fort at st. Augustine.
The Paldtka Daily Ne,us is spicy little
paper, just the size to be good.
The Sanford citizens complain of the
high price charged for insurance.
Mr.. Clarence Ashmead has won in
another walking match in Jacksonville.
Mr.. &. A. Buckner, editor of the Gu7f
Coast Progress is getting out an interest
ing paper.
The town of Ellaville was burnt down
last week with Buck 4 Sons mills, the
largest in the State.
\ racing association has been formed
in Jacksonville for the purpose of orga-
nizing first class races at the fair grounds.
Hon. Horatio Bisbee has been nomin-
ated by the Republican Convention at
Fernandina for Congress for Eastern
Florida.
The steamer Tarpon has secured the
contract to carry the mail between Tam
pa and Point Pinellas semi-weekly. The
steamer will be refitted throughout and
used as passenger boat during the sum-
mentioned every Monday and Thursday.
The rainfall in this section the past
few weeks has been Unprecedented. At
st. Mary's during the month Of June
there was a rainfall of over twenty-one
inches On the 22d ult, from 10 p. m
to p. IN. the next day, sixteen hours,
the rainfall was 40 0inches. -FeIuandiRd
Nir0r
10 90 1,1 ,,I
zens were much attracted by large cakes
of ice stationed at each OF the business
corners, frozen in the center of each was
a handsome bouquet of flowers which
was not only attractive but very pretty.
This display was from the new ice house
OF j. @. qOn,-Pa|dtkd HerGH,
Mr. L. L.. Smith, Of Niccosukie,
planted this year t9ng acres III tobacco,
as an experiment. We saw lin in town
last Saturday and he informed us that it
is now up about waist-high and looks
green and fiourishing. He says that he
Was offered recently four hundred dollars
for the four acres Just as il stands, but
he refused it. At that rate tobacco Is
certainly paying crop.-L1Nd Of Flour
ers
A large company, headed 10y Mr.. j.
VI. Bryan, eX-representatlve oi Orange
county, have purchased from the Diss-
ton Company large tract of land which
they will fence, and put in large herdof
cattle. The fence will commence at
Shlngle creek, in Orange county and go
to the mouth of Bonnet creek, and in
Breyard county will commence at the
Cross prairie and extend to the front of
Wm. Frzer's place, a distance of six
miles, making one of the largest ranges
in the State.-EGchdmge.
The we'll known Col. Davies grove,
recently owned by Col. Bringier, was
sold Yesterday by w. I. Johns to X.
H. Moore, Esq, of Franklin, Ky, for
well, we are not at liberty to state the
price, but it was bargain. MI. Moore
is gentleman OF means and proposes to
make the place his home. The grove
carried off first premium on lemons at
the Louisville Exposition. 1t IS a fine
property, and we congratulate Mr.. Moore
on his good fortune to secure it.-Lecs-
b'rg Ncsrs.
Mr.. J P. Miller, who came TO this
county last February from Missouri, and
settled about ten miles north of town,
brought into our sanctum on last Tues
day two specimen stocks Of corn grown
on his place. They are both about the
same height, ten feet, and one has Upon
IT five good, plump ears and the other
l'ine. The latter is the largest number of
ears we ever saw or heard OF on single
stalk. The corn is the common white
kind, and was brought from the West by
Mr.. Miller when he came to this county
Tampa Trjbune