The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-08-27
a'F-@HEeEED VAS.
Fresh News Items from all over the
State.

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Sanford will put in an electric fire
alarm.
Marion county votes on local option
Sept. 23d.
Splendid broom corn is raised in Brad
ford county.
Tampa will soon afford an electric fire
alarm system.
Another cigar factory is to be estab-
lished in Quincy.
The Odd Fellows of Pensacola will
erect an IS, 900 hall.
The Tampa high school will be opened
about September 16.
Columbia county temperance people
want wet and dry election.
Several counties of this State will vote
on the liquor question this fall
Capt r. II. Marks is now manager Of
the Central Park hotel, Madison.
Dr. Palmer, Of Monticello, has chick
en- with four legs and four wings.
F. NJ. Wicker, of Key West, has been
appointed an inspector of customs.
Work on the North Beach railroad at
St. Augustine is progressing rapidly.
E Alfonso Garcia has been elected Coun-
Gilman from the fourth ward at Tampa.
The Pensacola News prints a rumor
that the Illinois Central is preparing to
build to that port.
Capt. George Warner caught a 175-
pound tarpon at Port Tampa Tuesday
with hook and line.
The foundation of Suwannee county's
new jail is being put down. The build
ing will cost $1,000.
Florida should be painted with an apron
full of oranges, blue eyes and rosy cheeks
Chicago Tribune.
The carrying trade between Tampa
and Havana has increased $4,000 per
month over last year.
A Micanopy lady (Mrs. Annie Heath)
has inherited 100000 from old ances-
tral estates in England.
The Gainesville Moss Hair Company is
prominent hotel in West Florida
There are six thousand cubic feet of
gas used in Orlando per day. That should
give plenty of light on the subject.
The membership of the Manatee
Orange Growers Union of the town of
Manatee now numbers thirty-one.
Arcadia has formed a stock company
to can and preserve guavas and other,
fruits. Let the good work 60 on.
Florida grown Niagara white grapes
are selling in New York at fifty cents a
pound, and there is good demand for
them.
One hundred thousand dollars worth
OF fruit will 60 to waste this summer III
Walton county fer want OF facilities to
save it,
MI w NJ Girardeau, of Monticello,
has hundred hands engaged in gather
ing watermelon seeds. 1t will take fully
two months to finish the job.
Keuka, Putnam county, has a canning
factory which has put up q goodly supply
of peaches and corn, much to the profit
and satisfaction of that community.
An engineer of the Pensacola and At
lantic railroad, who has pulled the throt
tie for twenty-One years, calculates that
he has travelled in that time 100000
miles.
A cigar factory that will employ 800
cigar makers as we'll as women and chill
dren to strip the tobacco, has been or
ganized and will soon be built at St. Au-
gustine
The Live Oak Banner reports test of
oranges kept by the S. g. Ramsey dry
process since December, 1887, and pro-
nounces them in excellent condition, and
very juicy and sweet.
The Governor has appointed the fol-
lowing Commissioners of Pilotage for St.
Augustine harbor: E. D. Sabin, John
p. Lopez, John T. Dismukes, George w.
Gibbs and Edward Cappella.
The result of the Citrus county site
election is as follows: Inverness 2O6 !;
CRYSTAL River, 81; Mansfield, IS; Le-
conta, Al; Section, Is, 4. Total votes
cast. 46O; necessary to elect, 23l. The
canyassing board announced that there
was no choice.
A correspondent Of the Lakeland Ad-
yocate urges that experiments be made In
the growing OF the cinchona tree III
South Florida. He says there are thirty
one species of the tree, and thinks some
of them are adapted to the soil and Gil.
mate of Florida.
Jefferson county's first bale OF new cot
ton, which was consigned to the Alliance
Exchange, Jacksonville, sold at auction
for II cents per pound. 1t was bought
vi. Ic,rohcott Rr CO and the