The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-03-18

Fort White. on The same line Of road; Il Hes ID
Z hfrh niue and oak region, Noted tor its timber
and fertile lands; il Is the shipping point for
BarTsyille, MI Tabor Providence and Wilson,
Fla, and will, In the long run. be quite rival
to our own town in the selling OF merchandise.
The only way for Lake City to grow and main.
tain herself with towns like Gainesville and
other places. is for her to go 10 work and o9iid
road north TO Macon, Ga We understand that
the Macon, Lake City and Pala,ka Railway
Company will commence work TO White Springs
in short while, 1t Lake City will only guarantee
four per cent. interest on twenty-fiv thousand
dollars worth of its bonds for twenty years,
thereby costing us 81 900 per annum, which %
nothing. Will our City Fathers look into the
matter and take some definite action. .Colonei
B. NJ Palmer is employed in the case OF the re-
moval of the county site from Sanderson 10 NC
Clellau. He Is employed on the part OF sander
SON and will go to Tallahassee on next MONDAY
TO put the case on its merits. He Is ripe scholar,
hard student ard a successful lawyer and Is
rapidly building up lucrative practice and TAX
ing his stand among the ablest counselors oil MS
profession. He has just made purchase OF Z, )
600 acres of land in Hamilton county, known as
the Ross plantation.
Monticello Constitution: Judge Love, the
State Attorney for this judicial Circuit, is ter
ror TO evil doors He is an able lawyer and sell
dom fails to secure convictions when the evidence
justi6es We have lived in Florida for up
wards of thirty years. and The present IS the most
backward season. so far as vegetation is concern
ed, that we have ever experienced. The Cir
cult Court convened on Tuesday, but unless the
Grand Jury supplies business tor inve ,tigation,
its deliberations will be concluded during the
present week. as the dockets, civil and criminal,
are very small.
-Titusville Star 1t is with unusual sadness
that we inform our readers of the mysterious
disappearance of Mr. P. E. Wager, the father of
the editor of this paper. In company with his
son, E. B. Wager and B. w. Smith, he started
last Sunday for his cane farm, on Banana creek
and owing to the low stage OF water could mol
get the boat within three -fourhs of mile of his
farm All then concluded TO walk along the
shores of the creek, carrying their bedding and
provisions with them to the house on his place
where they were TO stop for the night and camp
After having proceeded together quarter OF a
mile along the shore of the creek and within
plain sight OF the wharf and house at his farm,
his son and Mr. Smith concluded to walk on, as
they had a heavy load, and let Mr.. Wager take
his time in walking, owing to his feeble health.
On arriving at the farm, his son and Mr. Smith
were astonished to look back and not see him
coming. After waiting JUS few minutes tor
his arrival they became alarmed and during the
balance of Sunday afternoon were unable to find
him even by going back over the route they had
Just come several times and calling with all
their might A search party was formed next
morning at Mr. Sackett's of seven or eight men,
and up TO that afternoon no trace could be found
of him. 1t is supposed that he was taken sick
and cropping his way into the high scrub along
the creek, became unconscious to the calls from
his son and Mr. Smith Parties have been
hunting for him ever since, but up to the hour OF
our going to press we have received no news,
and the worst consequences are feared.