The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-02-09

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lend NOT 1rtilixed, and makes exoejleat aoCk
feed tcay nothing Of IL domsstic uses. for starch.
the table, etc. We hope to rec the armers In
all mrmof Hamileon county rive sobacco faie
trial thjs year. II ought to snccesd - well here
- In neighboring counties.
Quincy Herald. A number Of young men
arc about to organize Young Mems Christian
Association We are glad to hear of this, for Il
is move IN the right direction, and will do .
vast amount Of good. Mr.. .Thoe Slider, re-
Gently made trip to Carrabelle, and caught
negro named Brimley. who shot . negro last
year, near Concord. The darkey Is now in jail
here. The other day farmer heard futter-
Ing near BY his work, and going 10 see what It
meant, found large hawk with one OF its legs
seized by a terrapin. The hold could not Be
loeseo, and he had to cut the leg Of We sup
pose the hawk had made . strike for the terra
pins head, and got caught, and that the terrapin
was Whiting for It to thunder before turning
Malone, who for sometime has been seriously
i'll, is again able to be upon the streets
Monticello Cor ,tisution Mr. William De-
vine, the engineer who met q terrible death on
last Saturday, in the collision on the s. F&W:
Railway, between Waycross and Savannah, was
one CT the Oldest and best engineers on that road
and was raised in Monticello. The collision
was terrible one and two Pullman cars were
destroyed by fire. The only person besides Di-
vine injured, was the fireman, and he has prob
ably died. None Of the passengers suffered
scratch. The eldest daughter of the editor If
this paper was on board the wrecked train.
Monticslo wants an Opera House and needs it
badly. Mr. w. A. W. Simmons owns q very
desirable and eligible lot on the corner of w ash
ington and Cherry streets, formerly occupied by
Porters Hotel and saloon, and the Episcopal
Church, and If he would build thereon a la re
Opera House, he would receive the thanks Of
this entire community, and in our opinion it
would be fine investment.
Madison Recorder Our clever Assessor OF
Taxes, Mr.. T. T. Ellison, desires US to state that
his books for assessing taxes are now open. He
will also take the censns Of school children in
the county between the ares of 4 and 81 years
the present year. Mr.. M White. of West
Farm, was married to Miss Mamie May in Month
cello, on Thursdav of last week They came
Immediately to est Farm where a coy little
home had been prepared before hand for them.
Our congratulations are extended Last Sat-
urday Col. Smith Smkins, of Greenvlle, was
in town and purchased mule which he hitched
&c his buggy and started homeward When
near his farm the mule took fright and ran away
throwing the Colonel out and inflicting some
pa" al bruises upon his person and breaking the
bugs. We are told that the Colonel received
several very severe bruises f-om which he was
confined 10 his bed for several days. We trust
however that he has recovered from them.
Gainesville Rcord' The Gainesville CITY
and Suburban Ry. Co. has perfected the loan of
sufficient lnds to build and equip its line of
road TO Newman Lake, provided sufficient in
ducements can be offered in way or donations of
lands. The people will be called upon next
week by members of're company, and we would
advise our friends on the lake, particularly
those at Windsor, to treat with the company lib
orally, and We can say positively that they will
receive speedily this much needed improvement
The opportunity IS now offered will the people
avail themselves OF it! The road wiz be built
at once if the people will act quickly The E.
F. Seminary cadets had d. III IN the court
house square yesterday afternoon. They are we'll
up II military tactics. and looked very stylish in
their new Uniforms. :. Mr. w. K. Cessna one
day last week shipped to Philadelphia house,
six quarts of Strawberries, which Melted him
$3.50 He made another shipment of fourteen
quarts Yesterday. At the above prices we
would imagine that strawberry growing will
pay.
-Titusville Star. M. Henry w. Grady, one
of the editors and part owner of the Atlanta
Constitui n, and q pa. y OF about twelve excur-
sionists, ar we'd here yesterday and started down
the yer for few days pleasure, hunting and
fishing and also leasting on Indian river oran-
ges AT this place Mr.. Grady met several of his
acquaintance from his State, and they would be
pleased to see more OF him on his retl n AN
excursion party arrived here yesterday to 90
down the river, being portion of the party
which arrived in Jacksonville last Saturday,
which was the first of series of excursions to
be carried out over the Pennsylvania Centre
Railway to Florida The round trip from New
York to Florida and retuI a, including meals and
sleeper, with p .vilege of remaining 20 days in
the State, is now $4750.. Mr.. L. D. Shook, of
DeLeon Springs, has been in town for few
days this week in the interest of the Brush Elec-
TIC Co., with view Of introducing an electric
plant into our town. A special meeting of the
Towl Council was held on Tuesday evening
to consider the matter. Indian river is receiv-
ing her share of the winter tourists, but they
spread over the country n different style r-om
that of former years