The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-11-26
On THE ROAD.
Our Emissary Sees Some More
of Florida

CrOWQeQ Win lrclgnt 10 such an extent that
trains in all directions are more or less de-
layed. The people are rushing their
oranges to market, many of them green,
too, as il only few days remained IN which
shipments could be made. The inevitable
results are following-prices dropping,
dropping.
Sui, at this writing the local markets
are holding up and the field is full of buy
crs, who are taking the crops for the most
part on the trees, giving from 81 90 to 81 25
per box and paying all expense of gather
ing, boxing and loading But if the pres
ent rush lasts for only a few days more
these figures will take tumble until the
market is relieved of its glut of half ripe
fruit.
WALDO.
There is not much to say OF Waldo, which
has not already been said in previous letters
from this section. 1t is pleasant little vii
lage, nicely improved, with good schools
and churches, with the two leading orders,
Masons and Odd Fellows, represented.
The F. G. & p road diverges here, one arm
extending through Gainesville to Cedar
Key and the other through Ocala to Plant
City The town of
MELROsE,
fourteen miles east, is connected by Lakes
| Alto, Santa Fe and Canal, through which a
small steamer phys daily, making one round
trip every day except Sunday The canal
was dug by some Waldo capitalists, and is
said to be a paying investment There is
large cold storage building erected al
Waldo which swells the business of the
town some. Some cotton is also handled
tIere, but the orange shipments take prece-
lence of everything else. Some Of the
finest groves in the State are located in the
vicinity. Very little has been done in
strawberry culture as YET, although the soil
is well adapted to their growth.
The post office has just changed hands.
There were no complaints against the
former postmaster and no objections to
the new one, who is DR.. Geo. II. Ambrose,
a Nirginian by birth and well liked by the
community. F. B. Merriam, formerly a cap
tain in The l. S. Navy, and who did duty
of the Florida coast during the war, and
J married Florida lady, will be deputy
! postmaster. He is in the general merchan-
disc business here, and is one Of the sub
: stantial citizens.
} There are some improvements being
made around town, among which is sub
stantal depot which the F. c. & P. are
, erecting. When complete it will be ths
; best on tins part of the line.
, The town is fairly well prepared to take
care oftourisfs and permanent winter board
ers, and the prospects now for quite crowd
are good. The Waldo House, in charge
of Mr. Sydnor, who is from Middle Florida
near Tallahassee, is good, comfortable
home-like hotel, with good rooms, table and
cOnvenienccs. There are also others and
boarding houses.
FLORIDAS OLD RELIABLE
got in its work as a matter Of course. Il
never misses fire in an intelligent cOmmu
nifty, which takes an interest in State affairs
and desires to keep posted. The following
people will at least find pleasure and in
structOn from its amply filled columns dur
ing the next twelve months: Rev. j. +.
Shands, pastor Of the NJ E. Church; An
drew Jolly, druggist; J. S. Weeks, general
merchandise; F. B. Merriam, general mer-
chandise and deputy postmaster; Waldo
House; w. II. West, fruits and confecions;
J. Whistler, nursery. The latter resides at
Island Grove, q small place, four or five
miles north of Citra. He makes a speciality
of propagating The pine apple orange, which
was originated first by Mr. Stephens, of
Citra 1t is favored ike pine apple. is
very sweet and is claimed to keep and ship
better than the ordinary fruit, as well as
| bringing much better prices, yet requiring
no extra work. There is no telling what
Florida can and will do. Here we have an
orange tasting like pine apple, while at
Monticello our friend Glrardeau has pOme
granates without seeds. But this IS an
age of progression and Florida is in the
lead.
HAWTHORN.
of
WAS IIaw thorn, some fifteen miles further
south. at the crossing of the Ocala and
Southern division of the F. c. & Z. and
Florida Southern railway. 1t is about the
same story here also, although this is one
OF the old places of the State. The Baptist
church was established in 1853 by the Rev
Mr.. Johnson, father of the present physician
and druggist, and one of the FLORIDIAN's
old time patrons, brought back into the
fold
There are some 500 inhabitants in town
and in a radius OF n mile of TWO, with all
the concomtants of civilization in the way
of schools and churches.
A new paper, "The Southern Star and
Weekly Visitor" by A B. Engle, made its
first appearance last week. 1t was form
erly published by its present proprietor for
three years at Umatlla. 1t is devoted to
the local interest of the town and starts out
well, remarkably well under the circum-
stances. We have in our checkered exist
ence seen many ingenious contrlvances by
printers to get around and over tight
places, and they generally succeed; but we
never, never saw one build his own press
before This is what Mr.. Engle has done.
For the benefit Of our professional friends
we will attempt brief description: 1t is
built after the fashion of the present Army
press; the bed being made of hard pine
boards Ike inches, bolted together side
ways, leaving the edges turned up similar
to ten-pin alley This surface is dressed
off perfectly true, and is fitted to run back
and forward in frame set on legs under a
wooden roller or cylinder four inches in
diameter; crank attached to a shaft un-
der the bed, connected with leather straps,
gives the bed its motion back and forth un-
der the cylinder mentioned, and thus maxi
| ;or irop prpcoiOn Tho xynrH donQ on il