The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-06-03

was a regular bear show in our town last
wednesday, there being about seven or eight
marching up and down our main street. This Is
something that the city authorities should not
permit, and we hope that this may never occur
again. Several horses came very near running
away at the sight Of the ugly looking monsters
Our peach crop this will be larger
than tor many past, and we hope Their" will bc
good market for the fruit. Goodbreah perches
will he ripe next month. The melon crop also
promises to be one OF abundance This year, and
We think 1t would pay our truckers To ship more
melons than they have done We have the 5
r. & w. H. X. to this point, and with the rapid
transit they make over this line and the connec
tons with Northern lines enables to put Our
produce In those markets in splendid condition
Monticello C0nstitution The young vine
yards ofthis comfy give promise of an enormous
yield of fruit the present season. I'VE are
pleased TO observe that neat and substantial
fence now encloscs the Presbyterian Church. 1t
has long been needed. On last Monday Judge
Lamar purchased the four acres, on which are
several houses, in this town, belonging to Henry
G. White. The Judge secured an extraordinary
| good bargain. Almost without exception our
planting friends are happy and jubilant over the
\ admirable condition of their corn and cotton
crops, which at present indicate very abund-
ant yield :. Mr. w. M. Girardeau is shipping
| large quantities of Irish potatoes, and it is said
| that his present prospects for fine melon crop
son of the year. He is the most successful
trucker in Florida. Some of our friends are de
spalrlng as to the construction OF railroad from
| Monticello to Georgia. bccau-e Of the delay in
| preliminary negotiations There is no reason
| for this All can rest assured that at no very
distant day railroad will be constructed from
Monticello to either Quitman, Dixie or Thomas
| vile.
-Crawfordville Times. Look out for an
avowed imposter called DIR. Kit Sapping,on. lie
is fraud of the first type. IL. J. llobgood says
| he wishes that somebody would hang him to II
good stout limb, from the fact that he has ruth
lessly imposed upon his confidence and stolen
| from him good silver watch and $35 in money.
| Exchanges copy. We are panied to have to
chronicle two deaths from malignant dysentery
in our midst this week One was Mrs. Kcrvin,
the mother of the wife of our esteemed friend
Mr. VIM. Thomas (Uncle Billy.) The other The
| little daughter OF our clever townsman Mr. /.
IL. Moore The deepest sympathies of the Times
| are with the gref-strcken relatives. Mr..
David Kervn a brother of the wife of Mr.. VIM.
! Thomas, better known Uncle Billy, is crit
cally i'll with the epidemic dysentcry. Mr.. A.
| NJ. Alexander reports that recently he has been
catching some very strange muet on the coast
which he cannot identify. He says that he has
been constant fisherman for the last twenty
| years, and has never seen any mulle like them.
They were of grayish white, and the strangest
of all, they had roe in them. Mr.. \. is an es-
| teemed citizen and he knows whereof he speaks.
Sanford Journdl.' About two years ago
MIR. j. b. Magruder had Il valuable pair of horse,
injured by falling through the bridge across
fuckers creek. He presented Il bill to the Conn
Gil for damages which was refused lie then
brought suit in the Circuit Court for $500 dam
ages and last Thursday the tried and
the jury awarded him a verdict for $3.50. -. The
Lodge of knights of Pythias are gong to send
IL delegation OF thirty uniformed members TO the
meeting of the Supreme Lodge at Toronto, Can
ada, on July 10Th The boys will no doubt NOT
only have rare time, but will also draw Il great
deal oil attention to Florida, and especially TO Or
| lando. "A young man, giving his name as j. :.
james, OF Abingdon, Va, hired horse Tuesday
afternoon from A. M. lIycr's stable, Orlando, and
rode out some four miles in the country, offering
to sell or swap the horse to several parties as h,
went. The fact of his endcivoring to sell The
horse was reported to Mr. Ilyer who immcdi
ately telegraphed to Marshal Campbell To look
out for him. Campbell went to Parramorcs
stable yesterday morning, and found that thai
gentleman had just purchased hc horse Il few
minutes before. The man had left, bat he WAS
traced,to Enterprise and captured just after he had
bought his ticket and boarded the train for Pa
! laika. He was carried before Squire Shrine
yesterday and held for trial.
Orlando Sentinel Judge f. X Foster, of
this district, presided at the Polk county CGcnit
Court last week for Judge H. l.. Mitchell, who
has been holding court in this county. -. The
plans for a Catholic Church, to be built at Tava.
res, to cost between s., 600 and Sc 000 are being
| drawn AS has been previously announccd
Joe Drayton and Arthur Williams will he hung
Saturday of next week, June 9TH. The giows
will be erected in The Jail yard and surrounded
by wall fourteen feet high, So that HE cXrcn-
ton cannot be witnessed from the outside Onlv
the witnesses required by law will be admitted
within the enclosure Mrs. Isaac Lanicr, wife
of one OF the large cattle men of Brcvard county,
saw and rode on the train iol the first time IN
her lie last week. She Is seventy two years
old. THE Home Insurance Company is can
ceiling all its policies, not only in Orlando, but
in the State, and will withdraw from This terri
/ tory. Her losses for the past few months have
been very heavy in Florida having reached
! high as $4,000 She lost $52 900 in the Key
West fire, was caught in the Gainesville blaze
and has also met with several other smaller
losses within the past few weeks. We have
always looked upon The Home one of the best
fire insurance companies of the country, and sin
cerely regret her determination to leave us.