The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-09-10

Jasper Times: Twelve cars of steel
rails unloaded near here yesterday for the
S. +. &W. This gives US steel rail track
between DUPONT and Live Oak except
ing about 10 miles, which will soon be
supplied. The S. +. & w. is determined
to have first class road in every respect
....E. p. Smith was driving towards
Ellaville some days since when he noticed
a rail stuck directly in the centre Of the
road. On going up slowly he found that
a sink of about quarter of an acre had
occurred directly in the road and pre-
vious passer had stuck up the rail as
warning-had he been driving fast at
night he may have gone down abruptly
fifteen feet as that is all this place went
down.
Tampa Tribune: Tampa has at pres
ent three large establishments engaged in
the business of catching and shipping fish;
and all are doing ra.tling business.
The river was full of boats last Saturday
of all kinds, from the mouth up to the
ways. Twelve steamers were in port and
a larger number of sailing crafts than we
remember to have ever seen before at any
one time. =. Mr. r. Mugge has engaged
in the culture of strawberries on a novel
plan. He has one hundred barrels filed
with rich earth, around the sides of which
are bored q number of holes. The plants
are then put into these holes and will pro-
duce, as Mr.. Mugge claims, more berries
than you could on an acre of ground in
the usual way.
Orlando Reporter: Orange county's
new Jail now contains thirty-two inmates,
which number crowds the capacity of
that institution. 1t begins to look as if
some of the negroes purposely got them
selves into difficulty in order to get into
Jail where the living is good, the quar-
ters comfortable and no work to do.
The Orlando Daily Ne,os has enlarged
since its first issue, and each successive
number is an Improvement upon the
former ones The publishers are full of
hope and enthusiasm, and are confident
of success. We wish them all the success
thep anticipate; but at the same time we
can assure them that the burden of their
lives has but JUS been shouldered, and it
will steadily grow heavier. The life of
newspaper man is one of the most exact
ing toll, and even his friends are merci-
less in their criticisms.
-Ocala Banner: The Florida South
ern is laying down "spur" from Loch-
bic to Citra, q distance of six or eight
miles. The road will skirt bearing groves
almost the entire distance The right of
way has been secured and trains will be
running in time for the approaching ship
ping season. Mr.. FL. Richards, of Cand-
Ter, was In Ocala last Tuesday and paid
us visit and gave Us many valuable sug-
gestions as to how TO run newspaper"
We hope to be benefited by his sugges-
tions, and are sorry that Mr.. III. will not
remain with us to note the marvellous de-
velopments that his advice will inevitably
lead to. In the meanwhile, if there are
any others who know how to run news
paper better than we do we should like
to profit by their suggestions Advice
unsought is always appreciated.
Cedar Key Journal: On Tuesday
last when the drill in the artesian we'll
had reached depth Of about one hun
dred feet, the rock below suddenly gave
way and the ground under the derrick
began sinking. Shortly after this it was
found that another sink was under way
about fifty feet to the westward, which
progressed with alarming rapidity extend
ing in straight line to the westward and
continued sinking slowly till night.
The failure of the ice factory to msnufac-
ture ice for the past ten days has been
| great draw back to the 6sh dealers.
Mr.. Bunting informed us on Thursday
that if he failed to get ice that night that
he would have four or Eve hundred dol
lars worth Of fish to throw away. On the
same day the McIlvaine Brothers threw
away 1900 very fine mullet. The people
can stand the scarcity or ice better than
the fish dealers, though it is poor stand
when the Thermometer is ranging among
the nineties.