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

will have ready for the coming season an inn
proved cotton compress and her new gas works
will begin operation within a month.
A FEW NOTABLE RESIDENCES.
There are many handsome residences in Tai
lahassee. That of DR.. Hawkins is primitive, but
massive and imposing. Governor Bloxham's
Mrs. Dykes Mr.. w. r. Wilson's. Colonel Gam
ble's and many Others are designed for taste
and comfort, and set in grounds rich with vines
and flowers There is not in the South if in the
United States, another residence so extensively
furnished as that of the late DR.. Arrowsmith,
two miles north of the Capitol. The build
ing erected by Mr.. Groom, before the war, at a
cost of $50, 000 has often been visited by admir-
ing travellers. Heavy mirrors, set in the walls
of parlor and drawng-room, reach from floor to
ceiling These of course, went with the sale OF
the place to DR.. ArrOwsmith, six years ago,
land and all costing only $4,000 Mrs. Arrow
smith, who keeps her residence there, kindly
showed MS through the mansion. The furniture
could not be bought insthe United States for less
than $4,000 Two or three Venetian cabinets
of the finest tortoise SHE'LL naid with gold leaf
aud ornamented generally with arts highest eX.
preston, could not be matched, perhaps, this
side of Europe. The heavy mahogany side
board, with its immense mirror, cost 81, 900 in
London. The bedsteads are of solid brass pol
rshed like great rO1s OF gold, while the library
and its rare books # the finest binding are in
keeping with the whole, as are the rich oil paint
ings that decorate the walls OF every room. [
do not agree that the residence OF itself is more
attractive than that of Mr.. James p TaliaterrO,
corner of Church and Julia streets, jacksonville,
constructed of FlOrida's native hardwood, TAX
ing on natural polish beyond the painters art,
and throughout model OF convenience as well
as taste, designed by Mr.. Taiaterro HIMSELF nor
handsomer than that of Mr.. James Harris,
MariOn's Orange King, which is said to have
cost $40 900, but in The matter of furniture there
is nothing more rich and elegant than the Ar
rOwsmith home this side the royal palaces of
Europe.
AMONG 1.-THE EVERLASTING HILLS"
l have scarcely had time to do anything but
look on in silent admiration during the two or
three brief days allotted to Leon. Three long
drives first with Captain w. P. Slusser then
with DR.. A. B. Hawkins behind his housekeeping
matched horses and next with Hon. w. D.
BlOxham, have furnished enough material to fill
dozen letters. Leon was settled by wealthy
slave holders sixty years ago, until when the
war closed the population was five negroes to
one white Immense plantations were fenced,
and many handsome country homes built The
new system of intensive farming and the search
ty of labor leave thousands of acres now I'M
cultivated, and for sale al prices "a HIGH would
not pay for the Improvements. Hence, as in
Madison and Jefferson, I again invite Henry
George and his anti-poverty followers. All they
ask is that they be given land in state of ma
ture. In Middle Florida the can get the equiv
alent of entire sections and $5 an acre, gratis
That is, they can get for 30 an acre cleared
land, on which $40 an acre have already been
expended. Here is q chance for the anti-poverty
society, unless they are more exacting than the
starving man who, when his neighbors hauled
him q load Of corn, complained because they
had not shelled and ground 1t.
-Four miles north we drove into the grand old
oak grove their bachelors hall in the centre)
owned and occupied by the Schrader Brothers,