The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-08-14
STATE NEWS.

The Fort Meade high school opened
la, xe-k.
-F.oril4'- tpb4ceo crop Viii average
go per acre
Tn mex machinery Tor the ki--im
NEE -ugar factory ha, arrived.
Tie orange crop 81 Fioriia for tbs
ysar j. e-tImated Al 5,Goo.o00 boxes.
Lee-burg j. happy III having secured
Lhine-e laundry and canning factor.
A new arte-ian vol * t. be put
dom IN Evergreen Cemetery at Jack
-gntii.e.
Tie bark J. b. Rabel, from Calves
tn, TeAa-, has arrived at Apalachicoia,
lpaied with rust proof oats.
An eggplant measuring - inches in
circumference has been sent from Pa>co
county 10 the Cincinnati Exposition
Hon. r. T. Bailey, Of Monticello, re-
ceited $40 net for one car load Of wa
termelon- shipped about two week. since.
Tie Manatce River Jouroul i a new
paper just started at Braidcntown, Mana
tee county, by Mr.. J. II. II1nphrie-, of
BARLOW.
~ -1pi Eau JSlIir ~ .'ltdUItIS now
make -ernimonthly triP- between New
Orleans aud Key West, stopping at Punta
Gor1a en route.
A two hundred pound bell, the gift
81 Mr. Emery, OF Kansas City, was put in
ihe helfry Of the Industrial School at Fair.
hank la-i week.
The British steamship Princess,
ahlch cleared Saturday from Pensacola
hal on board 80 800 superficial feet Of
lumber and timber
Mr. ]. j. Sullivan, Of Pensacola. last
xe+k purchased tract Of 60 acres Of
land lying between Bayou Tcxar and
Magnolia Bluff, for which he paid SO
100.
.U,mnrsHe Sur. The contract ha,
i,.'-m il for cutting thu right Of WAY on
the :. : .. Il g.. X. X. % miles eouth
from -eciion -. Thi- viii take it }
rnie- -0uth "i Brooksvilr.
-Apalachicola In,es' The British
steamship Benear, Capt. Appleton, rcpor-
81 IL ae-t pas bar Thursday. The Ben
sar y III take Oh G5o,O0O feet 81 pine for
J. :. Combs ~ Co., foI transportation to
A-,an~ail
Live Oak Ba"'er IF Liberty. the
laTge-f mortgage sale ever made IN Su-
Nannre county, was made last Monday
Is Frank White, special master, fifteen
ihDu-an1 acre. Of land sold 10 {. *. Dat
ton TOR $4,000.
An English syndicate j. negotiating
with the object Of buying out the large
lumber interests Of the Michigan Lumber
Company, Muscoge Lumber Company
aud GeDrge W. Robinson Il Co., Of Pen
saco.a, and their 5000 acres Of timber
land--
Ocala thinner. Colonel ID. H. Fl
lot, who represents the Land Depart
Inent 81 the South Florida railroad, with
headquarters at Sanford, left for Cincin
natl, Ohio this week, with a carload Of
exhibits, and with a lecture on Florida
illustrated.
Orlando Reporter : A young man o.
this city IL about To engage quite cxtcn
Hively ia the manufacture of cement, stov,
polish, frozen perfume, etc He will also
engage in silver plating. We wish hin
success, but we hardly think his frozen
perfume will remain frozen very LONG
during this spell Of weather
Times Inion. A well known coIorcd
Republican of this city says that Chand
ler, the Republican nominee for Secretary
Of state, is about as much of Democrat
a. he is Republican, and that he has
only about one-fourth negro blood in hi,
VEINS. He thinks tho Republican convcn
ton only got gooseberry instead Of a
huckelberry in Its cream.
Sanford JouruaI.' There is a curiosity
at Mr.. J. J. Buckhcit's in the shape of q
potato bug" as it is called Its length
is four feet width across the back, -four
aud half inches snout, three inches
long; height, ten inches; weight, three
and quarter pounds Mr.. b. intends to
send IL 10 Cincinnati as a " Florida curl
Osity."
Lake City Tobacco Punt. Mr.. NJ
Alvarez and family, consisting Of wife
four children and two servants, arrived
direct from Cuba Monday morning :.
Several OF the Columbia county tobacco
growers inform us that their second croT
Of tobacco is turning out well and is ever
Of better quality than the first.
Orlando Reporter : We learn thai
Judge ii. l.. Mitchell, Of Tampa, ha,
lately sold, through the real estate
agency of w. X. Brown IL Co., of Bar
tow, four thousand and forty acres of val
liable timber lands lying on the north
prong of the Alfalfa river, for the sum Of
fifteen thousand dollars. This property
was purchased by syndicate of Pennsyi
yania lumbermen. 1t is their intention
TO develop it for all it is worth. These
Give them a welcome every time.