The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-06-04

enterprise Il assured We heard an ex-
perie0ced farmer remark the other day,
that it 10 folly to plant and work farm
when you annually draw on the West for
provisions He il right. A farm that
cannot sustain itself should be left to
grow in grass and weeds
-Palatka Neacs: Mr.. Chas Gordon,
the foreman. has arrived from New York
aud is now engaging help to begin work
on the new building for the Palaika y a
tional Bank, On Front street. Trenches
for the foundations will be dug out this
week and brick work will be begun on
next Monday. The building will be
three stories high, the first floor to be
used by the bank and the upper part OF
the house will be made into sleeping
rooms for the new hotel that will be
erected on the Larkin House lot. We
learn that the work will begin on the
Front street wing of the hotel as soon as
the bank building is finished. So We
have one more hotel now in sight for the
summer, and probably another will be
erected before next season. The Front
street wing Of the new hotel will contain
one hundred and fifty sleeping rooms,
besides the parlors and dining rooms
Pensacola .Idranc<- Gdzett< A mon
ster shark, said to have been fourteen
feet in length, was hauled around the
streets on a dray last Wednesday after
noon. He was caught by col0red man,
at the end Of Palafox wharf. Shark fish
ing off the wharyes is getting quite com
mon now, the thinning out Of the feet in
the bay has deprived these scaveng@rs
Of the SEA Of their usual ration. Of offal
and slush from vessels and th@y blight
readily at a baited hook We have
been told that the beautiful Yacht Rack
ct Just completed by Mr. K. II. Lang
lord for Mr.. J. Fl. Porter will he launched
upon the bosom Of orr magnificent bay
tomorrow. The finishing touches have
been applied by the painter and VIII q
Afoat the Z" Racket" is destined to be the
queen Of Pensacola harbor We were
somewhat amused at the procession Of
business men that filed down Palafox
street on Wednesday evening last, each
and every man being armed with fish
ing pole, or as they are known in the
Common parlance Of the day Pete Rife.
told very plainly OF dnll times up about
the respective business houses, bnt wheth
or this i new mode Of advertising or
not We are at lost to say.
-Fernandina Nirror The City Coun-
Gil meets on Wednesday evening next.
The meeting promises to be very inter
esting one, As the matter Of the yeterina-
" hospital will probably be the chief
subject Of discussion The adjourned
Spring Term Of the Circuit Court for
Nassau county will convene at the court.
room, Lyceum Hall, Tuesday Of next
week Hon. J. VI. Baker, Judge Of the
Fourth Circuit, will preside. \ horned
toad (Thyrnosonpa corn,tun.J was caught
BY one Of the devils " Of the -U,rror one
day this week, in a vacant lot, and
brought to the Office. This species is not
very common here, but are frequently
found in tie Southwest The horned
toad is lizard somewhat resembling a
frog in its general aspect. The one
caught measured five inches in length
the body is somewhat fiattened and Gov
cred with differentiated scales; the head
is triangular, with prominent, vertex,
covered with sharp spines-two OF them
being halt an inch in length the tail is
very short and conical: It's color j. a
dusky gray with black markings on top,
and silvery gray below The little
monster looks ugly enough to 90 by a
worse name than it does.
-Olando Reporter: John Smith, who
has just been tried for the murder Of
Paul Schmidt, has been found guilty.
Schmidt was found dead outside Of his
house, with the back and side Of his head
crushed in BY blows from some blunt and
heavy instrument. He lived alone in a
little house a mile and half east Of Or
lando. He was a German, Of quiet aud
retiring habits, bachelor, and was known
TO have several hundred dollars in his
possession. The object Of the murder
was plumber At the time Schmidt S
body was found his ak was lying near it,
and blood and hair upon its poll indicated
that it was the weapon used. There was
strong circumstantial evidence at the
time pointing to John Smith a. the muir
derer. Detectives were put upon the
case, and evidence secured by them only
made the case stronger. Finally Smith
and another man named Stevens were
arrested. Upon preliminary examination
Stevens was released, and Smith was held
for trial by the Circuit Court. His case
came Oh at the present term. There was
no direct evidence All was circumstan-
tial, and yet the chain was strong enough
To create the belief in the minds Of the
jury that he was guilty, and they rem
dered verdict accordingly. He has not
vet received his sentence The court
will pass upon his case after other crimi-
nal business has been disposed Of.
kENHEBLE GIRLS
A number Of girls in Maine have form
ed protective union, and adopted Sc
ries of resolutions for their government.
Tho IA ranf from hn cnnotit