The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-06-25
Windsor has a moss factory.


-Surf-bathing is the popular craze at
Fernandina now.
-teal estate sales have been lively at
Ovledo during the past month.
Judge Bell took charge of the
Gainesville postoffice last Tuesday.
Counterfeit fifty-cent pieces of the
Issue OF 1861 are in circulation in Fernan-
dina.
Mr.. w. M. Girardeau will begin
shipping watermelons from Monticello
next week.
Mr.. w. p. Grantham and Miss Mag
gle Taylor were married at Monticello
last Wednesday.
The German colony near Monticello
will engage extensively in the cultivation
OF strawberries next season.
Mr.. Cyrus Bisbee, one of the oldest
and most respected citizens of Jackson
vile, died last Tuesday.
Mrs. Abbott, the Georgia Electric
Wonder, who shook up Florida the past
winter, is now in n orth Carolina.
Over $4,000 worth of bird plumes
and alligator hides have been shipped
from one store at Charlotte Harbor this
season.
Over two thousand people visited St.
Angus line, on the Conductors excursion,
and the News says they left fully IS, 900
in the city.
1t is suggested that a convention of
truck growers Of Jefferson be held at
Monticello on July Is, with view to or
ganiZing an Association.
Mr.. Will Elliott, the light keeper on
Gasparella isle, found a so pound bomb
shell on the island few days ago. On
opening it was found to be perfectly
good, the powder being unframed.
A wind storm did considerable dam
age at Brooksville the first of last week.
The Methodist church was blown down
and completely demolished; the Presby-
terrain church was thrown from its foun-
dation and the Baptist church was severe
ly strained but escaped demolition. 1t is
feared that the growing corn crop is
greatly injured.
Gainesville Record: The following
is the faculty of East Florida Seminary,
elected by the Board of Education Col
+. p. Cater, Superintendent, and In
structor in Mathematics; Lieut.. Colonel
j. w. Patton, graduate of Virginia
Military Institute; Assistant Comman-
dant and Instructor in Natural Science
and History; Major W. r. Thomas,
graduate of East Florida Seminary and
kentucky y ormal, Instructor in English,
Latin and Greek languages Capt. II. II.
Alexander, graduate of Virginia Military
Institute, Instructor in Elocution, Rhet-
oric and drawing; DR.. Randolph VAN
pill, graduate from the University Of
Vienna, Austria, Instructor in Music;
T. +. Thomas, NJ. d., Surgeon. This is
an excellent corps, and the coming term
of the +. +. 5. promises to be one of
unprecedented success. The friends of
the Seminary are to be congratulated
that Col. Cater continues to be its able
superintendent. Under his management
it has gained its present proud position
as the leading Institute of Florida.
Mrs. +. Slattery, of Delhi, La, says
her son, IA years Of age, had dreadful
time with ulcers, sores and blotches
which followed chicken pox. After using
many remedies without benefit, she gave
him Swift's Specific, which cured him
sound and we'll.
We have sold S. S. S. since the first
day we commenced the drug business,
and have heard some wonderful reports
of it's effects. Many use it with best
results to cleanse malaria from the sys
TEN, and for blood poison, scrofula and
such diseases it is without rival.
CoLDERwooD & Co., Monroe, La.
Mr.. w. A. Tibbs is printer in the
Office of the Jackson, Miss, Clarion
Ledger. He says that three years ago he
was a victim of bad blood, which deprived
him of health and threatened serious con-
sequences He further says that he took
S. s. S., and it cured him.
have been subject to painful boils and
carbuncIes over my body during the
spring season, and after much suffering
and much useless doctoring found
permanent cure in Swift's Specific. 1t
is the monarch of blood medicines.
Z. J. WILLIS, Augusta, Ark.