The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-10-29
FLORIDAISms.
Fresh News Items from ALI Over
aIae state.

Nov. Is. Gov. Fleming has been invited
to deliver the address.
There are four men at Old Town. a suburb
of Fernandina, who make their living out
of sharks. They cure the hide, try out the
oil, and use the pulp for fertilizer.
DR.. P. G. Snowden, an eminent and aged
physician of Ocala, died last week.
L. L. Clark is the new postmaster at
Summit, Marion county.
T. H. Alexander has been appointed
postmaster a Welborn.
A branch of the Orange Growers Union,
with twenty four members, has been organ
lied at Eustis.
AFRO B. Allen, Sanford, has been granted
patent on a step for railway cars, and a
patent has been issued TO August G.. Wur-
pei, Tampa, Tor composition for preserv-
ing oranges
The South Florida Home is new pa
per issued at Charlotte Harbor for the first
time last week. John G. Lee is the man
ager. 1t is devoted 10 the development OF
the Charlotte Harbor region.
Captain r. E. Rose, of st. Cloud, was
in Orlando recently and says that he is get
ting ready to work mp $50 acres OF sugar
cane.
Chipley Times Letter after letter is
received at this Office from people at dis
lance, wanting information about our town
and county. If one quarter of these people
come to Chpley(which we have good rea-
son to believe will happenl the town
will experience boom equal to a new and
rich mining camp in the Rocky Mountains.
Hotel Chautauqua, De Funiak Springs,
has been leased by King & Williams, OF
Boston. Mass.
The Apalachicola Times says that it
been at ST. Joseph locating the line of the
West Florida & Alabama Railroad.
Mr.. Philip Dzialynski, of Fort Meade,
has leased the Orange Grove hotel at Bar
tow, and will take possession November /.
There are 121 cadets at the Florida Ag-
ricul.ural College, Lake City.
The old Marquis mills in Milton were
burned Monday night.
Northern capitalists are prospecting in
the Apaachicola section for new mill sites
and timber lands
The Board of County Commissioners OF
Orange county have ordered an election
tor the change of the county site on the
18th of next December.
The Gainesville Board of Trade offers
81 900 TO any one who will establish a
canning factory there.
Lewis G. Peters, of Apalachicola, has
been advertised for to claim an estate in
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Peters has been resi-.
dent of Apalachicola for some five months,
and when he saw the advertisement in
question, he Immediately wrote claiming
The estate.
The assessed valuation of property in
Ocala is $651 900
5. Paul Brown, an atiache of Webb's
"Florida on Wheels" will very shortly start
in TO make new directory for Jacksonville.
Work is progressing on Mr. Flagler's new
base ball park at ST. Augustine Four or
five clubs, composed of men from the
league and association clubs are expected TO
pass the winter in The city.
The estimated expenses of the city of
jacksonville for the the next fiscal wear.
ns prepared by the committee OF council
and board of public works, amounts to
$3.50 982 Is. divided as follows: For ssla-
ries, care of teams, rents. ETC., $82,052 80 ::
fire department, $21. 1875 65; interest on
bonded debt $21 sos; sinking fund, $3.
800; judgments, 81 1923.
Two companies of U. s. artillery have
arrived in Pensacola from Atlanta and will
60 into winter quarters at Fort Barancas
Pensacola News: .Messrs. r. A. and J.K.
Hycr, Sam Gonzalez and John Merritt, who
went I" Moline on squirrel hunt, have re-
turned. The boys got SO squirrel, six
ducks and two pigs. The story goes that
Sam Gonzalez took porker for rabbit
and fired at him, killing his target and the
targets brother which was close at hand
with one barrel.
Mrs. M. j. Stockton. OF Quincy, died Sat-
urday after an illness Of several weeks
Quincy Herald: Married on Wednesday
23d met, by Rev. N. p. Quarterma n, at
half past seven A. n. Mr.. Thomas A.
Crawford, of Waco, Texas. TO NJ iss Sallie,
youngest daughter of Col. r. FL. NJ David
son. Owing TO the serious illness of n
ne n relative, the marriage was not ceIe-
brated IN the Presbyterian church rs had
been intended, but quietly surrounded by
few friends and relatives in the parlor OF
Col. Davidson's beautiful home
The management of the Semi Tropical
Exposition, AT Ocala, has arranged as part
OF the program 10 have grand freman's
tournament some time during the exposi-
ton.
1t is estimated that two thirds of the Or
ange crop OF the southern part of the State
have already been sold upon The trees, and
at prices far in advance Of those realized in
former years when the fruit was shipped by
the growers.
A movement is on foo, at Chipley to Sc
cure twenty acres of suitable ground in or
near the city upon which to hold county
fair.
Arcadian John Cross, the veteran real
estate agent, returned from the North on
last Saturday. He made a number of sales
OF wild land in this county. and says that
the travel to Florida this winter will be
larger than ever before.
Florida Hprospects for tie coming winter
season are very bright, and with liberal nd.
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