Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1888-03-10
THE LAND OF FLOWERS.
Weekly News Notes Cleaned From the
Florida Press.

The Gainesville people eat a great deal
of Northern beef. Fort Meade is to
have a National bank with $50, 900 capi-
tai Leon coun'y farmers arc putting
in heavier grain crops than usual TINS
wear The revival at Waldo OF the
Methodist church promises to do much
rood. 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-
hassec, find a ready market in Jackson
vile at 20 cents per pound. The Leon
county LeConte pear orchards are put
ting forth a very heavy bloom this year,
and the prospects are good for heavy
Weld. 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 :O74, and the Wigwam, :O9. -.
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 a free reading
room Wildwood is to have a news
paper, the Echo. q. 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 ovel
100 hands. . A six-legged calf is the
latest curiosity of Lake county. 1t die
not live, however, and an enterprisinl
citizen will stuff it for the Exposition
The Sanford market has been de
clared q nuisance by the aldermen, anC
the owner, an enterprising citizen, givel
fifteen days to abate the same and put j
in good condition There is some ide;
of holding camp-meeting on Kingsle.
Lake, Bradford county, April 1, and con
tinuing ten days :. At the union meet
ing the other night, at the Fernandin
Presbyterian church, officers were elected
for the Nassau Bible Society. Rev. }
B. Morton was chosen president, Rev
W. J. Dowell secret Try -. The Bake
County Refrigerator and Banking Com
pany of MacClcnny intend to establish
large fruit depot at Elkhart, Ind. 1t
the intention of the company to ship j
refrigerator cars all such fruits and veget
ables as are salable there, and put then
ut prices within the reach of all ...Th
LAYING of rails on the first section of tiv
miles on the Carrabelle & Tallahasse
Road was completed. Another cargo Q
seven hundred tons of rails is being un
loaded. The F. r. & n: Co. is tryin
to arrange for semi-weekly excursion
from jacksonville to Floral City.