The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-12-18
STATE NEWS

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-Tnc O,ala wafer works have i CA
compl,ied AMI accepted by the city.
d. H. Mays, of Monticello, has
bought 300 b lies of cotton this season.
Every room in the Ponce de Leon
Hotel, st. Augustine, is en- yagei for the
winter.
The electric arc lights were turned
on at Pensacola for the first time last
Tuesday night, and the whole city turned
out to see them.
AT Quincy, Mr.. WIN. Munroe sr.,
sold his crop of tobacco, six thousand
pounds, to the svndic ste at 325 cents per
pound. Mr.. Wyley Shelter soLl his crop
of several thousand pounds at 30 cents.
The Bronson Times CLAIMS the
youngest printer in the State. The pa
per is gotten out by Master Willie Den
ham, who is only II years old. He does
all the work except running the press.
lakeland Cracker : A sweet potato
measuring two teet in length AMI weigh
ing four pounds was sent TO this office
on Thursday, by Mr. 5. T. II llingSworth,
as sample of what can be done in Polk
county sand.
The saw mill operated by j. j. Nc
Caskill, two miles east OF Argyle, was de-
stroyed by fire on last Tuesday night.
About 50 800 worth Of lumber and two
cars belonging to the p. Il A. Railway
Company, were destroyed.
There will be a grand military ball
at Orlando on the night OF December
Goth. 1t is to be given by the Orlando
Guards, and the ball will open with
broom drill by fourteen of Orlando's fair
est daughters, followed by drill in the
silent manual by the Guards. About 400
invitations have been issued.
Orlando Reporter Last weeks issue
of the Reporter had an account Of the
cowardly crime Of the wife-beater, George
w. Jennings. Justice followed swiftly
on his heels, for we have to record this
week that he has already been convicted
and sentenced to six months in the county
Jail.
-Haines City Items in Orlando Re
porter. Captain H. T. Blocker, Of Talla-
hassee was here on Thursday and Friday
last, looking over the route for railroad
from IIanes City to Estero on the Gulf
The Captain says that they mean business,
and that the road will certainly be built
lie left here on Friday morning in care Of
+. Ruttercr, Esq.
Pensacola PenS0c0linu : There is an
enterprise being very quietly worked
here, which if the experiment proves sat
isfactory will be of great benefit to Pen
sacola, and this is trial shipment of coal
Ni,f, 4h la
transfer here Of the business Of coal firm
which now ships between eighty and one
hundred thousand tons of coal annually
to Cuba.
Jacksonville Times Union.' On the
10th inst, Mr.. +. B. Papy was appointed
assistant traffic manager OF the Charles
ton and Savannah, the Savannah Florida
and Western ana the Brunswick and
Western railroad companies an also Of
the Plant Steamship Line and Peoples
Line Of steamboats,, with his office at
Savannah, where he will have charge of
Office matters and act as the representa-
tive Of G. ID. Owens, traffic manager
Apalachcola Times Jno. r. Block
er has been appointed by Collector Grady
Inspector of Customs at Carrabellr. \
good appointment. Me,srs PattSon,
of Mobile, AMI Downing, of Brunswick,
OF the New York firm Of Downing, Pat
tlson Il Co.,, have been in the city this
week looking at our great and unsur-
passed natural advantages. Their object
is to engage largely in the square timber
business here, aud also to open up a ma
val store depot for the exportation, by
way of the Gulf, OF all the naval stores
contiguous to the great Chattahoochce
Valley.
Madison Recorder: The Harrison
place, tract Of land containing $50
acres, lying four or five miles from town,
was sold at special masters sale last Mon
day at $40 per acre. Fifty or more
vehicles of different kinds came to town
last Tuesday III a squad from Taylor
county and trading was lively We are
always glad to See our Taylor county
friends and hope they will come oitcn.
Mr.. Jacob Summerin, of Orlando. sp.n,
few days recently iii and about Mad
son buying pork hogs and turkey s for he
South Florida markets. He lcil between
six and seven hundred dollars here with
those from whom he purchased.
Mt Pleasant IIudica'o,..' SO much
syrup has been run into thc market that
the price of it has been pushed down to
20 and 25 cents Some Girls think