The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-11-13
STATE NEWS.

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0danio last week. <; /, o,., -.
,,d rs' week of prayer
''la H. swimming pool in the Alcazar
. 8 AIusus'iue is completed.
~ rna Pasco county farmers will plant
~i aIr increased acreage in tobacco
''' :. Is said that the Pensacola Marine
o,1rav, to Navy Cove, Will be compile
ID in four months.
Mr. V. Is. Webster, of Fort Meade,
III IA sixteen thousand budded orange
l'sss st to California nurseryman.
n. " W. Fuller, of Polk county, sold
:. ~ worth of turnips and had plenty
E .h;s own famiiy-all from ten cent
n,ckage of seed.
paw An effort is being made to induce the
,tacturers of Ciark's thread to estab-
ma an agency ut Madison for the pur-
l s..a Of sea Island cotton, used in the
e u"nrscture of this thread.
REV. Earnest Benton and other in
,u.rou, coorpd citizens of Freedman's
r,,st Suwanuce county, have purchased
iV ongine and other machinery necessary
~ uniting up a grist mill and gins.
Tampa 7liJ,usc.' Mr. w. II. Gillet,
coax Hill. sent a sweet potato to W.
? Henderson last week which measured
ssra5 inches, aud weighing pounds. This
.aato was crown from q drawn vine
.apted on the 4oth Of February.
Fort Ogden A'e'o@: BY reason Of a
,.y fatterin1 increase Of trade with New
dreams the steamers "Ciinton" and
aHuhchin>on" viii hereafter make alter
nate trips between Punta Gorda and New
Orleans, weekly, on a regular schedule.
st Augustine Ncacs Last night,
about quarter past 10 o'clock, large
meteor started in the zenith and went
through the heavens TO the southeast
Tie ball Of ire was as large as mans
head. Ii resembled huge rocket, and
from the ball large flakes of fire would
fash. To an onlooker it seemed as if it
fell about where the garrison target is
now Stationed.
The Spanish steamer Engracia, Of
Havana, and the American schooner Lee
gal Tender We're carried to Key West,
Tuesday, as prizes by the revenue cult er
H. Crawford. Both vessels were seized
on November off Charlotte IIarbor for
smuggling rum and tobacco. When APP
pretended the Engracia was transferring
eOntraband goods to the Legal Tender in
exchange for the latter's cargo of live
fish.
Quincy Herdld:: A number of tobac-
co buyers will be here as soon as frost
puts an end to yellow fever. Northern
people do not seem to realize the fact that
Quincy is two hundred miles from Jack
sonville, and that there is not the least
danger Of the fever coming here They
appear to think that all Florida is in
lected, and are, therefore, afraid to come.
-Mannfeld Star: We are informed
that the grading and track LAYING of ties
on the ). ). Q. Il g. Railroad will be
completed this week between Homosassa
ana crystal River and plate laying will
De commenced as soon as the line is COM
pleted between the latter place and South
DuhnelIon. We expect within 60 days
the snort Of the iron horse will wake up
Island
Monticello Constttutiou The first
mall over the I. d NJ. came in Monday.
-; Double daily service was commenced
On the l. d NJ. Sunday. Two Ger
lan lainllles consisting of ten persons ar
1'eu ID lhe city Saturday last from New
iofA' lhey have gone out to Casa BIZ
anca' ana we understand will purchase
ana ana take up their permanent resi-
1snoe lh TINS county. Another family
s:Vu,s'ih9 OF seven members are expected
about two weeks.
d. Tampa Tribune: Hunting is good in
me woods near Tampa now. turkeys
f S;a aeer are unusually plentiful. A
na VINO has recently seen it informed
IT, IT. sual me famous Booth grove, on Old
In ~mPa Day, has probably more than six
14ieu thousand oranges on it, and they
ale mostly bright. Work was re-
m" ueu Oh the artesian well at the water
, s;ahS Monday morning. 1t is now some
tb bl" (. over We twelve hundred feet deep, and
MI 1'' ~ ID strata Of coral rock through
s n''n IT. ~ has already bored hundred
os ~ Inc contractors entertain no hopes
se''lng flow until this rock is passed
two hey Vest Equator Democrat Over
and thousand thousand lunches Of sheepwool, grass
ia !eNo" sponge were offered for sale
boo. The steamship Mascotte
S.oaght 205 bales of tobacco from Ha-