The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-12-03

Way and the wagon and team were dumped Into
tho creek One OF was killed BY the fall and
two Others were severely injured. The wagon
was completely demolished. The loss to the
colored man IL about one hundred dollars, be-
sides loss Of time.
-Orange City 7ymes.' Judge Foster sent .
man from the northern part Of the county to jail
last week for appearing before his court In .
drunken state. he also cent the muiatt0 giri,
about whom the murder occurred last spring IN
Judge Prices kitchen, 70 jail tor calling one OF
the attorneys q liar while on the witness stand.
Colonel Harper, General Manager OF the
Blue Spring, Orange City and Atlantic hailroao,
has been In Jacksonville this week seeing to The
shipping for his road Locomotive No. l, Two
carg0es of steel rails and ten fat cars, which
have arrived Ia jacksonville within the past
week or two. Captain Mcfarland mas SKY
hands placing ties 10 position on the Blue Spring.
Orange City and Atlantic Road. Track laying
on the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Road
lie now In the vicinity Of Beresford, and will no
doubt reach Thrasher's Ferry within week or
ten days.
Lake City Guide Our neighbor James e.
English, of Wilson, raised and sold five thousand
pounds of pork last year and will sell Ave thous-
and pounds of pork this year; he Is Florida
raised himself and is near ffty years old and
never bought corn or meat, but nearly always
had it to sell. HIS meat docs not cost him over
one cent per pound. These are the kind OF
farmers we have at Wilson. The farmers are
raising large number OF horses 10 this section {;
il costs but little to raise colt, and he Will DO
good work ON our lands at two years old Ras
a colt. raise your meat and your corn and you
will never feel q short crop OF cotton. Our
county is supplied with farm stock by our own
farmers this season and the prices Of horses are
lower than before. We have many farmers
who raise a great deal more bacon every
year than they use Mr.. Brant Pagett, of Will
lad min loof hal wfiOh
pounds; James English, Saml Adams and W.
H. Wilson, of Wilson, sell pork and bacon OF
their own raising every year. w. ii. Wilson
has one on his farm thai will weigh between
400 and 500 pounds, enough of pork In one hog
TO do q newly married couple one year This
hog has lived principally on Bermuda grass ana
fattened on ground peas.
-Kissimmee Leader. Robert Ramsey, near
Campbell Station. has been experimenting with
buckwheat He had splendid stand, averag-
ing nearly thirty inches high, and which be says
equals the same plant grown In Kentucky. Ax-
pertinent proves that nearly everything can be
grown in South Florida. Thursday morning
we noticed the heaviest frost we have ever seen
in Florida. To give our Northern readers cor
rect idea of its severity we will say that while il
nipped the tender shoots on some OF the tender
tropical plants, it was not heavy enough to de-
stroy tomato plants. While we don't claim TO
be below the frost line we do claim to be below
the line of injurious frOsts EARLY last Friday
morning C. o. Newton, of Single creek, heard
a commotion among his pigs, and on going to
learn the cause was confronted by an animal
which looked large enough to be tiger, or even
young elephant. Quietly reaching for his
rifle he planted ball just back of the vtals,
when his dogs pitched in and completed the
work The varmnt" turned out to be a huge
catamount, four feet and two inches long. He
was fat enough 10 prove the cause Of the myste
rious disappearance OF several young pigs, etc.
from that neighborhood.
-Palatka Sun Major W. P Copper, with
his corps, is making q survey for the Florida
Southern Railroad from Micanopy to Brooks
VILE. During the past week there arrived al
Palaika seven schoOners with large cargoes, COW
erng a great variety of merchandise, which
made our wharves busy scene of activity. -.
We have two letters asking if there are any good
openings IN Palatka for carpenters Ii there are
we think about one hundred already here would
like to escape through them, IS there are great
many more here than can find employment, not
withstandng there are one hundred buildings in
course OF erection. The trestle and bridge oil
the jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Rail
road at Buffalo Bluff, on the ST. Johns river six
miles south of Palatka, is over mile long, being
on the west side 200 feet long and on the east
$500. The draw is $50 feet long, with clear
swing of 100 eet on either side of the pivotp pier
The bridge of the same company al the mouth OF
Lake Monroe, though not 80 long, is of the same
style of construction. 1t is about four miles
north of Sanford, just at the entrance of the lake
and will be completed by December 20. Work
on il and the new extension OF the line is being
urged with much vigor.