The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-08-20
FLORIDAISynS.
Fresh News Items from all over the
state.

LOT lampa'S cigar box factory.
The Indian river country is being hon
ey-combed with artesian wells.
The brick walls of the new custom
house at Key West are looming up sky
ward.
The Gainesville Guards took in eek
of camp life at Suwannee Springs last
week
The Blan factory at Green Cove Spring
has an order for over four hundred flat
cars.
Bill Westmoreland, the negro wife
murderer, was hanged in Jacksonville
Thursday.
A single firm in Pensacola has sold
over l 900 dozen quart fruit jars the pres
ent season.
The right Of way of the Green Cove
Spring Railroad is Gu: to within eight
miles of Melrose.
\ wet and dry election is being peti-
toned tor in Gadsden county. The vets,
it is said, will win.
Through the efforts OF the Daily News
an immense furniture factory is likely to
be buil' i'll Pensacola.
The game law has been in successful
operation in Levy county for two years,
and game j. plenJilul there.
Schoorer> plying tvsWe,u Jacksonville
and New York npw receive IS per thous-
and leel for Transporting lumber.
Tues. f. {; ". Company are having
dirt broken for 'he foundation Of i BIG
cotton warehouse at Monticello.
Jefferson county's first bale Of new cot
ton was shipped TO jacksonville, con-
signed TO the Alliance Exchange.
The Knights Of Labor Of jacksonville
call a meeting OF the brethren bv mark
ING cabalstic signs on the sidewalks
All the bridges and trestlss OF the
Florida Southem were Inspected la-:
week, and found to be in excellent condi-
ton.
Orlando has a colorcd citizen six feet
eigh, inches tall, who picks orauge- from
the tale,1 hrnnci.cs without the use OF q
strp-ladder.
Another schooner loaded with 500 tons
OF iron for The Georgia Southern and
Florida Railroad has arrived and IS dis
charging her cargo ;t p;4la' ka.
The Plant Investment Company viii
put on two steamers between Tampa and
Mobile on Scptembcr ID. These steam
erS will run in connection with the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad
Hon NJ p. Delgado, Representative
from Monroe county, has received his
commission from Governor Fleming as
Ouartcrma>te er General, with the commits
sion of Lieutenant- Colonel, Of the Flori-
da State Troops.
The President OF the Pensacola mu-
nicipality says that under the city ordi-
nances a policeman is always on duty
and has no right to visit places or per
form acts, while in citizens clothes,
which are prohibited while in uniform.
The Louisville and Nashville and the
Pensacola and Atlantic railroad compa-
nits are distributing about a barrel OF pen
nies among their agents, as, after The lst
of September, they will be required to
give patrons Of the road exact change.
The Tampa Tribune says that it has
authority to state that the FLORIDA Cen
tral and Peninsula Railway will soon he
built into Tampa and that the Morgan
line of steamers will run to Havana and
New Orleans in connection with that
road.
Collector of Customs Horr of Key
West will appoint George Hudson of
that city special deputy collector at
salary of $4,000 per annum. Peter IL.
Williams will succeed F. c.. Pinto as
special night inspector at $6 per day
when serving.
Edward +. Pittman, of Quincy, has
been sent to jail for one year for Gaming
Geo. Hughes some time since. He was
convicted in circuit court at the time
the case was carried to the Supreme Court,
and the lower courts decision was con-
frmed. Both men were cigar makers.
Milton has quite recently been laboring
under some little excitement. 1t seems
that some of the citizens OF that place
have taken notion to rid the town OF
some of it's more notoriously disreputable
characters, and they have been lombard
;no the houses Of the latter with dyna-
mite.
The newly elected directors of the At
l.nta and Florida Railroad are: l.. ).
Hi D. w. Marsh, J. w. .Rucker, W. II.
Russell. E. P. Howell, J. X. Drummer, L.
T. Mvnati, H. c. Harris, L. y. Blaiock,
John Collier, S. B. Hoyt, r. +. Maddox
and J. r. Wylie. The presidency. was
tendered to S. B. Hoyt, but he refused,
and the election will be held later