The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-09-28


E. Robinson has on his place near the
cast on piece of land prepared for to-
bacco which has from one to two ears to
the stalk. Last year he gathered 225
bushels of potatoes from a little over
half acre and sold them at fifty cents per
bushel-$l12,5O total. What would pay
better?
Monticello Constitution. The pear
trees are putting on their second crop of
blooms, and the indications are that there
Will be large crop this fall. IA gen
tleman in town shipped crate Of pears
to Muscatine, Iowa, over two thousand
miles they arrived in first class order,
only one pear being decayed. This goes
to show the advantage the pear has over
any other fruit.
Say to all your moneyless readers
and those having less than $500, to stop
coming to California. Rich people may
do as they please, but the poor laborer
and mechanic should bear their Eastern
ills rather than fly out here to endure
what is found here, and enter the multi
tude in the doggish scramble for poor
bone. Poor people are rushing here from
all parts OF the country, when there is
only 1.-THE of the opportunities found
in the East.-Los angeles Cor. ~. Y.
Sun.
A wealthy lumber and land syndi-
cate has been organized at Pensacola, the
capital stock of which is about $2,OO0,-
900. The syndicate is formed by the
putting together Of the milling and landed
properties of the Muscogee Lumber Com.
pany, the Michigan Lumber Company,
the Seminole Lumber Company and Geo.
w. Robinson & Co. His Grace, the
Duke of Manchester, is President and
two of Pensacola's most prominent bust
ness men are members of the Board of Di-
rectOrs.
NO section can prosper without shar-
ing its prosperity with other sections;
and no section can suffer without it's suf-
fering in measure being shared by other
sections. These are facts that the people
of Hillsborough county will do well to
ponder over. To prosper as county, to
prosper as towns and cities, respectively
and collectively, there must exist spirit
Of harmony among the people. There
must be a strong pull, and a pull to-
gether. And let US ever keep in mind
that there is wide distinction and diff
ference between rivalry and jealousy
Tampa Journal.
- Jacksonville Times Union.' The
opening of the Thomasville and Monticel-
10 railroad will tend to develop a most
excellent section of Georgia and Florida
between these promising places, and
prove quite convenience to Middle
Florida people going y orth. Lemon
and lime-growing promises to be an i'm
portant industry in Florida in the near
future. Large quantities Of these fruits
are already sold every year, and the pros
poets are that the increase IN shipments
will be very rapid. Mr. J. c. Popell, of
Tomoka, sold the lemons off seven-year
old tree for $3.50. A hundred trees
like that on an acre or two of land would
support family very comfortably.
Jasper Times Our old friend w.
X. Tuten has a well in his yard, just out
side Of the town limits, which has been
dry all summer. A few days ago he
heard peculiar rumbing noises at the bot
tom Of the well, which is over forty feet
deep in solid clay, then a stream of water
about the size of mans arm shot across
the bottom of the we'll and disappeared on
of the largest. Mr.. Joe Anderson, who
claims to be the victor of his scalp, saws ::
The last shot gave him he reared upon
his hind feet and beloved like a bull !:
the old fellow laid quietly down and
died." The other two after being shot
at once or twice made good their escape
by getting into the river swamp
Madison Recorder. COL T. M. Simp.
kins, Of Greenville, realized 1870 net re-
turns from Il acres in LeConte pears =.
Mr.. George Davis, of Tallahassee, has
been here several days and is en-
gagged in putting the finishing touches on
the new Jail. :. The crops of tobacco now
growing and being cured in Madison
county will prove conclusively that the
tobacco district of the State is not con-
fined to one county alone. Madison will
make some Of her sisters eyes open yet.
....A LcContc pear tree on Mr.. b. +.
Moseley's place Melted him $500 this
year. An acre planted in such trees would
give an annual income of $4,000 net.
What better investment could any one
desire than pear grove in Madison
county?
Orlando Reporter. From fifty pine
apple plants of the Sugar Loaf variety,
Mr.. S. G. Cotton has sold $25 worth of
fruit and plants, and still has about 200
plants besides the original ones. They
have been growing only two years
We do not remember ever before to
have seen crab grass as plentiful