The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-08
STATE ssws.

hall years OLD rom tue secu anu ouiy
eighteen months old from the ground,
(hSeiA9 keen cus down by frost in winter
ofFsS64y ttat how has . fine cluster of
lenose md new blooms forming.
Green Cove Spring: 1t is estimated
BY our farmers that the sweet potato
crop will be cut short at least one-half
by the continued wet weather. In some
places water has stood 6 to 10 inches
deep between the rows for two weeks,
and the potatoes, which are now nearly
matured, have become water-sobbed and
will soon sour and rot.
Lake City Reporter: Wool ship
ments have been quite large this season.
If the many sheep-killing dogs could be
destroyed this industry would grow into
immense proportions. . Cotton is bring
ing such low prices our farmers are much
Discouraged There is always money in
rice, peanuts, &c. All cotton is mis-
take, and our people are beginning to
find it out.
Cedar Key Journal. The artesian
well having been started in new place,
is now progressing finely, and we sincere
ly hope flowing water will soon be reach
ed. Several logs have been found imbed-
ded in the solid rock, at depths of fifty,
seventy-fye, and one hundred and twenty
FIVE feet from the surface visitors block
around it each day, and much interest Is
felt by every one.
-DeLand Echo.. Charles Shildreth,
the boy who fell from the third story of the
Putnam House and broke his leg, mention
of which was made in our paper of last
week, died Thursday night, Oct. L..
The trade issue of the Agriculturist, of
Sept 3Oth, is as handsome a publication
as any one could wish to see, and replete
with general information concerning our
State.
-Leesburg News' St. Clara BRAINS,
Esq, of Tavares, has returned, but, like
his ancient enemy, John A. Mcdonald,
of Eustis, he is in very poor health. They
are the founders of their respective places
of abode. i. . County Treasurer Jacobs
has brought suit against the Sanford
Argus Company for libel, claiming dam
ages in the sum $4,000. We understand
that Mai. Alex St. Clair-Abrams will ap-
pear for the complainant.
-Chipley InteUigencer. Mr.. {. W..
Whidden carried to Vernon last Wednes-
day 5000 pound iron safe, the property
of the county. A good investment for
the county. :. Thirty lots were sold at
ST. Andrews Bay few days since, and it
is reported that colony of Northerners
will move down very soon :. We are Of
fering for sale very few choice lots sit
a. of
town, containing one quarter of an acre
each, at $500 each. Apply to the edi-
tor of this paper.
Halifax Journal The dredge Ala
bama cut 2,7O0 feet of canal last week
and is now 81 miles above Ormond.
This powerful machine will soon make
connection with the work done by Dredge
2 now laid up in Smith Greek. Henry
Savage, of Port Orange, Thursday even
ing killed six foot panther in the Dun
Lawton hammock \ short time after
wards he went back and captured the
animals two cubs. Anton Bostrom has
the skin of the first and is preparing it
to send to Sweden.
-Tavares Herald The washouts on
the F. r. & n road and its northern
connections have deprived us of North
ern mail since Friday night. The even
ing express train has been several hours
late every night, and even then did not
run any farther than near Baldwin, the
passengers being transferred a. that
point A schedule is Of no use now
the trains running on a go-as-you-please
time but when the Northern mail does
come it will be fun to Law work aside
and make business of looking it over.
Lake City Guide. Several of our cit
liens procured few Asiatic tobacco seed
this spring and tits said to be the finest
tobacco grown, and the result has been
very satisfactory Samples of it will be
on exhibition at our county fair. We
learn from Mr.. L. Harrison, one of the
school Board, that owing to the fact that
the fund is short and that the Board has
gone in debt to some extent, several of the
young ladies and gentlemen have organ
lied company and intend giving per-
Torrance to pay the present Indebtedness.
We hope they will be well patronized.
-Tit1sville Star: The iron cell for the
county Jail has been hauled from Salt
Lake and will very shortly be placed in
position. Brevard has as good Jail for
the size as there is in the State. The
railroad graders are steadily approaching
Titusyille. Track laying on the branch
from Palatka to Enterprise is being made
at the rate of nearly mile day, and by
this time is extended into the county of
Volusia. From the Herald we learn
that eight large new fiat cars for the
Eenterprise and Titusville railroad ar
rived last week by steam barge Uncle
Sam. They weigh 1910 pounds each,
and have carrying capacity of 20 tons.
Madison Recorder. = Mr.. Davis, pro-
prietor of the new hotel, is preparing to
build the look room and to enclose the
lot with neat and substantial fence AS
to when it will be opened, echo an
swers -" when 2" Several parties are
negotiating for it and we hope the open
ing will not be great while longer de,
layed. .Messrs Gillian & Candy are
doing a good thing for the county on
their stock farm near Greenville. They
have herd of about 100 blooded cattle
and have recently purchased 40 head
from Mr.. w. l.. Robinson, of Leon coun-
ty. Although many obstacles were in the
way of an auspicious beginning they have
weathered the storm and can now show
as fine herd as is to be found in the
State, and very few in the South are su-
perior.