The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-09-10

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The Orlando Daily Nescs is the title
of q new paper in Orlando, owned and
edited by Messrs. Allen, Dollins b Grady,
with Mr.. J. s. Shuck ~ manager. The
name is suggestive Of fortunate venture,
there being two other successful dailies OF
the same name in the State.
--Palatka Daily Ncscs The new
through schedule from Palatka to Tampa,
via the Florida Southern Railway, will go
into effect on the l4th inst, when quick
time will be made between the two points.
We learn that this winter through sleep
ers will run over this road direct from
New York to Tampa, and it will other
wise furnish first-class facilities for fast
and comfortable travelling.
Milton Ne.os: Mr.. w. D. J. Collins,
who lives ON Coldwater, presented US
specimens of LeConte pears raised on his
place this year. The pears measure some
four inches in diameter, and he says the
tree from which they were taken had over
seventy others on it like these. He also
has fine apples, specimen of which ne
also sent US. :. We hear that }. A. Chat
fin & Co. contemplate the erection of q
large saw-miIl at the old mill site near the
mouth of Mill creek.
-Ocala Banner: A benevolent gentle
man Of Chicago has donated@the hand
some sum of $50, 900 as a nucleus endow-.
ment fund of a college to be located
in Florida at point in Volusia county
between the towns of Orlando and De
Land. The St. Johns river continues to
absorb all the good things to the cxclu-
sion of the rest of the State. This gift is
truly munifcent, and we sarnestly hope
that it may prove the corner stone OF a
fine institution of learning in Florida
Lake City Reporter: The holding
Of our county fair next winter will de-
monstrate to the Northerner the fact that
our State is capable of growing every
necessary of life as well as oranges aud
other fruits. . . From various reports
from each section of the county the crop
prospect is truly encouraging. 1t is true
some of them have overcropped them
selves, and a few have been visited with
too much grass and little rust, but the
average is fine.
-Leesburg Nesos.' During the four
years ending with this there will have
been built in Florida, | 900 miles OF rail-
road and there will be about 500 miles
in operation in the State. What seems
unaccountable to visitors of Florida Is
the running down by the residents of one
portion the residents and country of an
other not ten miles away. This is more
grating on the ears of the hearers than on
the section run down. No wonder many
of them say give us rest and we join
in the chorus.
Orlando Reporter i: Miss Eliza Fetch
err, the young daughter of Ingram Fetch
err, has attained degree of skill with a
gun which is seldom reached by lady.
A few days ago she killed large hawk
which has been foraging upon their chick
ems, and day or two later she sent two
charges of buck-shot into a nine-foot al
ligator that lived in Fish Lake, and had
made one or two attempts to capture the
family dog. There is no good reason
why young ladies should not familiarize
themselves with the use of the gun, and
such knowledge often proves an advan-
tage.
Quincy Herald: Master Thomas
Wragg, aged p years, and son of Dr. T. L.
Wragg, of this place, has received di-
ploma for a crayon portrait of Governor
Perry, exhibited at the New Orleans Ex-
position. This work of art has been Off
cially pronounced as very fine and gives
high promise of this talented boy. The
diploma is the only one that has been re-
ceived by anybody in our town, and, as a
"Reminiscences of the great New Orleans
Exposition, ought to be highly treasured
in addition to it's claims as a reward of
merit as a production of Quincy talent.
Milton Nesos:: DIR. Hankins comes up
with the boss grape of the season. 1t is
a Scuppernong and measures three inches
in circumference. j.. Milton has eight
stores that deal in general merchandise,
four saloons, three confectioneries, a
foundry and machine shop, a single
machine and shipyard, two shoe-shops,
six churches, three schools, three or four
groceries, and the best managed postofice
in the State. We have also two hotels,
several boarding houses, livery stable,
two grist-mills, and another under way,
and, best of all, very small grave
yard.
Lake City Reporter :. Mr.. John At
well, of our county, brought to town last
Monday some of his choice apples. One
dozen Of them weighed five pounds and
one ounce. He will enter them for prize
at our county fair. &. After many years
waiting for our State to take some steps
for the erection of a monument to our
State dead, the good ladies of our city are
now engaged in raising funds for the erec-
ton in the public square, of monument
in memory of this county's dead. A grand
object, and we trust that there is not one
person within the bounds of the county
that will not aid them in their undertak-
ing.
Fort Meade Pioneer One mile south
Of town, in Peace river, may be seen the
remains of mastodon. Some of the
bones are scattered on the banks of the
stream All of the smaller ones, such as
could be handled conveniently, have been
taken away, but those remaining are as
large as any ever found. Mr.. Safer
had the pumkin vine on his place near
town measured the other day, and instead
of being one mile in length, as reported,
it proved to be one mile and half in
length. Mr.. s. has on the same place a
dogwood that he thinks probably the
largest on the continent, or in the world,
so far as be knows. Il measures six feet
and two inches in circumference two feet
above the ground, and the spread of the
boughs is eighty feet in diameter.
Madison Recorder Colonel G. s.
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