The gale., 1888-03-17
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Weekly News Notes Cleaned From the
Florida Press.

The Gainesville people eat great deal
of Northern beef Fort Meade is to
have a National bank with $50, 900 capi-
tai. {. +. Leon county farmers arc putting
| in heavier grain crops than usual this
year The revival at Waldo of the
| Methodist church promises to do much
good. The farmers of Leon county are
preparing to engage entirely in poultry
farming. . /. The truckers of Carlton,
Alachua county, feel elated over the pres
ent condition of the vegetable gardens.
-. "A race is to take place at Palatka
soon for the St. Johns Yacht Club pen
nant between the Dove and the Tidal
Wave. Yellow jasmine blossoms, of
which there are millions around Talla-
hassee, find ready market in Jackson
Vile at 20 cents per pound. -. The Leon
county LeConte pear orchards are put
ting forth very heavy bloom this year,
and the prospects are good for heavy
yield. Isaac Winegard, Lake Conway,
Orange county, has corn now in tassel, the
stalks of which are seven feet high. -.
The yacht race at Palatka, the other day,
for the yawl rig championship of the st.
Johns, between the Elizabeth and Wig
wan, was won by the former. Her time
was O7A, and the Wigwam, :09....
Twelve families of German cigar-makers
are en- route to Fort Meade, from Iowa,
to be employed on making up the home
grown tobacco, forty acres of which is
now in cultivation at that place..
| Jacksonville's new sheriff has inaugu-
rated war on impure milk-sellers and
gamblers; the latter have hastily quit the
city /. Starke is to have free reading
room. :. Wildwood is to have a news
paper, the Echo :. .Starke's taxable city
property amounts to, $1S1, ,000. Key
/ West merchants received nine large iron
safes in one day. ;. Numerous orchards
of Kelsey plum LeConte pear, and other
fruit trees are being set out at Anthony.
-. Edward Tison, aged 76, an old resi-
dent of Bradford county, died at his
plantation, twelve miles from Starke, last
week. (. Arcadia, in Manatee county,
now has factory for manufacturing
paper from palmetto, which employs oyel
100 hands. !. "A six-leggcd calf is the
latest curiosity of Lake county. 1t die
not live, however, and an enterprisine
citizen will stuff it for the Exposition
The Sanford market has been de
clared a nuisance by the aldermen, anc
the owner, an enterprising citizen, given
fifteen days to abate the same and put il
in good condition :. There is some idea
of holding camp-mecling on Kingsley
Lake, Bradford county, April 1, and con
tinring ten days !. AT the union meet
ing the other night, at the Fernandins
Presbyterian church, officers were elected
for the Nassau Bible Society. Rev. J.
B. Morton was chosen president, Rev.
w. J. Dowcll secretary u. The Baker
/ County Refrigerator and Banking Com.
pany of MacClenny intend to establish a
large fruit depot at Elkhart, Ind. 1t is
the intention of the company to ship in
refrigerator cars all such fruits and veget-
ablcs as are salable there, and put them
Ut prices within the reach of all :. The
laying of rails on the first section of five
miles on the Carrabelle q Tallahassee
Road was completed. Another cargo of
beyen hundred tons of rails is being un-
lloaded The F. r. & N. Co. is trying
TO arrange for semi-weekly excursions
from Jacksonville to Floral City.