The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-09-17
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well.
-Tavares is going to have brass
band.
Barlow has volunteer fire company
and two engines
"A wire fence factory will be establish
ed 1t Sumterville.
The Tribune says Tampa needs a
building and loan association.
The peach crop of Bradford county
this wear 10 said to have been worth $5,-
500.
jackson county wants poultry asso-
citation and Mariana real estate
agency.
Prof. F. b. Noodle has harvested
from fourteen acres Of Columbia county
land 400 bushels of corn.
DIR. J. H. Etheridge, Of Apalachico-
Ia, has invented an instrument Tor
cooling the body when burning with
fever.
-Four prisoners escaped from the
Madison jail last Friday night One re-
turned and gave himself up. Three are
still at large.
Orange City Times. Down on In
dian river the pineapple fields are nearly
cleared of fruit. A few plants are bloom
ing for winter crop.
-Sumterville Times The Tropical
Fruit and Vegetable Company are EN-
ploying all the hands they can get 70
clear land for their one hundred and
thirty acre lemon grove.
-DeLand AgricuAurist Mr.. Chas.
H. Webb, a gentleman well known IN
this county, has received the necessary
material to start paper at DeSoto, to be
called the Courier" 1t will be issued
about the 25th of this month.
Live Oak Bulletin : Lafayette coun-
ty never issues scrip. She is one of the
counties that is out of debt and has mon
ey in the treasury. This speaks volumes
in her behalf and should make her citi-
zens feel proud In All other issue we
propose to say more about this favored
region.
Fort Meade Pioneer: The Brooks
Vile Register has on exhibition at its Of
fee a sheaf of oats measuring seven feet
and seven inches in length, a squash
weighing lis pounds, cucumber weigh
ing four pounds, and watermelon which
weighs 6fty-three and one-half pounds,
all products of fernando soil.
-Pensacola Advance Gazette: A COL
ored ex-policeman in this city is making
pretty fair wages now by catching sharks
and selling the jaws and backbone. We
have seen some very handsome walking
canes which he has made from the back
bone, but he charges handsome price,
some going as high as ten dollars.
Mariana Courier General w. d.
Barnes, our worthy Comptroller, lett last
week for Raleigh, North Carolina, where
be will spend several days He took with
him his daughter, Miss Sallie, and will leave
her at Peace Institute to complete her
education. Miss Sallie has the best
wishes of the Courier for pleasant stay,
and an unretarded progress during the re-
mainder of her school days.
Milton Ne,os: Our worthy Tax Col
lector, Mr.. w. J. Williams, showed us
some specimen ears of corn selected from
a field of corn raised by him, at Coon
Hill, which Is about as good as any to be
found in the best corn districts. One ear
we have in our possession has twenty
rows, with sixty grains to the row, which
would give 1900 grains to the ear.
When Santa Rosa county raises her own
corn and bacon q new era of prosperity
will dawn on us.
Waldo advertiser Our streets now
present lively appearance, crowded, as
they are, almost daily with vehicles of all
kinds, filed with country produce. Bust
ness is brisk and things generally lively.
-. While our merchants have been ex-
pecting a good fall and winter business,
vet it has opened much earlier than was
anticipated and under much more favor.
able auspices, and in no other season has
the improvement been more decided.
Quincy Herald: James 7. Hardin
was selected by the Board of County
Commissioners, at its meeting last Tues
day, as a pupil from Gadsden county to
attend the West Florida Seminary, at
Tallahassee, for the scholastic year end
ing October 1st, 1886. MIR. w. Fl.
Neel, of Liberty county, made land
sale this week from which he realized a
clear profit Of $4,000. Our section of
the State lie sure to be what nature in
tended it, the garden oil Florida, at no
distant day.
-Palatka Herald: River travel keeps
up pretty well for this season of the
year. The City of Jacksonville carried
up the river on Sunday night fifty passen-
gers, and on Thursday night the Chatta-
hoochee sixty-6ve. "A few years ago
there was quite a gap between what is
called Newtown aud Palatka. Now Pa
latka has epcroached upon the western
reserve until it is all one. Some of the
best portion of the land has been settled
by the whites, and the time is not far
distant before the white population will
absorb the whole.
Orlando Sentimel, The Florida
Southern has established hospital in
Eustis for the use of any of the employees
of the company on this division of the
road who may become sick or disabled
while employed on the road. AS an in
ducement to hold the coming fair in Or
lando, the Bank of Orlando offers pre-
MUM of seventy-6ve dollars for the best
exhibit of vegetables raised in Orange
county and twenty-five dollars for the
second best. provided that at least five en-
tries are made for competition.
Bronson Times: Capt. d. p. New
som, of Williston, planted one-third of an
acre in cucumbers last spring, the crop
netting him 1900. he now has the ground
set TO sweet potatoes, and says that he