The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1885-02-18
FLORIDIANA.

The quality of the milk sold in this
market is so questionable that one of our
oar-rooms keep pals of it standing about
Tor players to dip their billiard cues into
when they require chalking OcdIa Dai-
ly Item.
Twenty-Five settlers arrived at Island
CITY, opposite here, in the past week, and
seven this week, and we learn that some
twenty families more are ready to come,
as soon as houses can be built for them
-Iitus15lle Star.
Capt. +. A. Hendry saws he finds the
Para grass to answer all the conditions
OF an excellent green forage plant. 1t is
succUlent, nutritious and highly palata-
bic to both horses and cattle. How it
Will cure for hay has not been proved
Fort Meyers Press.
General Bullock has sold a portion of
one hundred and sixty acres of the Du-
Point tract, a mile and half cast of
town on the Fort King road, to Mr.. Eli
sha I. Bugby, of Chicago, representing
thirty families from the western metrop-
oils. Among the purchasers is a Judge
of the supreme court of Chicago The
land is to be surveyed and laid off in lots
at once.-Ocdld Item.
The Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West
Railroad have completed an arrangement
with the DeBary Line, by which thew
make the through trip to Sanford by day
light. The cars of the Company are fit
ed up with every comfort, Buffet and
sleeping cars, and one of the elegant De-
Barry Line boats takes passengers
through to Sanford. This daylight line
is destined to become very popular
E.C.
A North Carolina friend of ours who
less than two years since purchased
some twenty thousand acres of land in
South Florida at 81 per acre is now maxi
ing other landholders, in the vicinity of
his purchase, mad by selling it off at fif-
teen dollars an acre. They say he is
running the real estate market and
think it about as ''unneighborly, as
old Squire Harris did the plea of the
statute of limitations attempted to be set
up in his court.-EcOnOmist
The most sectional can find no just
cause of complaint at the manner in
which the cabinet appointments have
been distributed. Middle Florida has
the Secretary of State, West Florida has
the Comptroller, East Florida has the
Attorney-General, Treasurer and Super
intendent Of Public Instruction, and we
suppose we may also add the Adjutant-
General, if Levy county is considered as |
portion of that section, and South Flor |
ida has at last just the appointment she
desired, that OF Commissioner of Lands
and Immigration. We are all satisfied.
Tampa Tribune
There was forwarded by the steamer
Hutchinson to New Orleans on yester-
day large, varied and handsome exhib-
it of citrus fruit, embracing oranges, lem
ons, grape fruit, shaddocks &c. Accom-
panying these fruit was sea island
cotton stalk thirteen feet high and hav-
ing upon it open blooms and at least
three hundred squares, nearly ready to
open. This handsome exhibit was from
Lakeland, in Polk Co., and intended for
the Exposition. We were, unfortunate
ly, unable to ascertain the sender's |
name.-Tdmpa Tribune.
Indian River will shortly be supplied |
with plenty of steamboats,. We learn
that there are two small steamers at the |
Haulover canal, one, at least is expected
to run on the river in few days. The |
one expected to run on Indian River is
the Ino, stern-wheel boat, built on the
Halifax river some time ago, and is
about the size of the steamer Haulover.
Her route will be from Indian River In
let to the Haulover canal where she will |
connect with another steamer for New
Smyrna. Quite an amount of excavating |
had to be done in the canal to let the Inc
through TitusriUe Star