The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-06-03
NEW SERIES.-VOL. XXH.-NO. =.

Lake Butler 7imes' The directors of ,he
Santc Fe and 81. Johns Railroad held q busiue,~.
meeting here on Tuesday, the 25th instant. A
meeting OF the stockholders was called to meet
al The court house in Lake Butler, on Friday.
June Soth. 1t Is desired that all the stock.
portant matter attend this meeting. Come out
all who can, and encourage the directors by
showing your interest This b q matter of too
| much importance 10 our citizens % be allowed
to drag itself along.
-Fernandina Airror The Home Insurance
Company, after ten years OF trial in Florida.
have decided to Withdraw from the State as an
unprniiable field for fire insurance companies
We say again what we had to say when the
Gefmania and the New York Underwriters
Agency withdrew, viz: we believe they are 90
ing out just when It promises TO pay TO remain.
Our wooden towns have burned and brick ones
take The place OF them. The companies who
have paid the losses would recover their money
most likely; but they go away and leave The
cream t"r new companies The Home has, Tor
several years done u larger business here than
any other company.
-Tavares Herald The Woodbridge ice fac
tory will start up in a couple OF weeks II win
have a capacity OF twenty-fur toms a day.
young man employed by r. J. Aston. east of
Orlando was drowned in Lake Arnold on Thurs-
day evening. lie was hauling water for the gar
den, and. on returning 10 The lake, the mple
went IN, and The yOnng man, being unable 10
swim, was drowned The gardener AM, hiAwile
who witnessed the accident, could not swim, and
therefore were unable 10 render any assistance
The mule was also drowned The brick work
on the new block will he completed this week
and the masons will then commence laying
bricks on the Opera House, the lime for which
has been received. The F. r. & N freight de.
pot IS completed and is a very attractive build
ing, creoiiable to the road The town and its pros-
nj
his once there as soon as the filling in is fin
shed
Gainesville Daily Nesrs II is with nm
speakable pleasure We note the fact that the long
locke for iron fence for enclosing the court
house yard has arrived and will be put IN I'M
mediatey II is from the Champion Iron Works
OF kenton, Ohio, and is furnished through Mr.
". ~ Roberts, manager of the Gainesville
Foundry. The fence is wrought iron and will
be set in stone blocks, EMBEDDED in the ground
and will be four feet high. There will be four
gates, over each OF which will be an artistically
designed iron arch Alachua county will now
have fine court house enclosed with substan.
tial as well as an ornamental fence 1t is TO he
hoped the Commissioners will see to il at once
that the yard is properly cleared of debris and
transformed into something very much different
and much more attractive than its present con-
dition. After the pavements are made from the
gates to the doors. the yard should be sotded
and otherwise beautifed.
-Fernandina Mirror 1t is thought that
contract for building dock, which will have a
river front of nine hundred feet, will probably
he awarded in a day or two TO Mr. p Kelly.
The dock will be on the marsh beyond Huots
mill. w. Nayl"r Thompson, Esq, the pay
master. made the tour of the Western and
Southern Divisions Of The Florida Railway and
Navigation Company 10 pay of the employees
for April in four days. during which time he
distributed nearly 100000. colored lad,
about ten years OF age, was run over by lum-
Der train in front of the warehouse of the Cen
ire street depot last evening at O'Clock, and in
stantly killed The train was being slowly
switched on to siding, when the lad with
companion. larger than himself, tried to board
the train to steal a ride, unknown to the en-
gineer of the locomotive The older bow got
safely on the Car, but the smaller one, after max
ing two or three unsuccessful attempts. fell be-
tween the cars, and the train passed over him.
cutting him in two diagonally. The lad was
the son OF Joe Anderson, one OF our best color
ed citizens, who has the sincerest sympathy of
the community.