The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-10

Fresh News Items from all over the
St0re.


Punta Gorda is to have cigar factory
with capital stock of $4,000.
Globe" Hendry, of Fort Meade, has
gone into the livery business at Barlow
The amount of s7,s22.9l was taken at
the Key West Custom House on the 27th
ult.
William Henry Mann, of Florida, has
been granted pension as Mexican
survivor
There is a good prospect that work will
soon be actively resumed on the Atlantic
coast canal.
DR.. Deikey, of San Francisco, speaks of
locating a sanitarium at Avon Park, De-
Soto county.
Jefferson county's School Board has ap-
propriated So, 900 for Jefferson Academy,
and it is to be made high school.
About eighty negroes left Gainesville
Monday to work on new railroad being
built in the Northern part Of the State.
At Key West on October 3Oth the an
nual meeting Of the State Firemen's AS
ISOLATION and tournament will be held.
Col. w. D. Chipley recently gave a
grand supper at Allegheny Springs, Va,
in honor of Bishop Gallager, of Louis
lana.
Reports to the state board of health
show that good health prevails in every
county, and they are in fine sanitary con-
dition.
Labor day was duly celebrated on Mon
day night by ball in Pensacola by the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners.
A sneak thief and pickpocket has been
plying his trade upon the bathers around
the pavilion on the Fernandina beach
recently.
Over the Tampa custom house now
floats the flag that was first used in dec
Grating the Treasury Department at Pres
ident Harrison's Inauguration.
DR.. F. Wespy of Micanopy has been
selected to fill the position OF instructor
in Greek and Latin in the Shreveport Na.)
college, and has gone to that place.
The snake editor Of the Monticello
Constitution tells story of an old we'll
on Mr.. w. NJ Girardeau's place which
was one-tourth full Of large rattlesnakes
The gardeners of the Ponce de Leon
hotel at St Augustine have beached
thousands of pampas grass tops. They
are white plumes and purple, and make
pretty vase decorations
Miss Mamie Hooker, daughter of w.
A. Hooker, prominent lawyer of Lees
burg, returned last week from Europe.
where she has been spending some months
studying arr. Miss Hooker is an artist of
no little ability
There is probability that the Countess
Vance will have large cigar factory put
up in Tampa. Mrs. Vance recently sold
the largest cigarette mandatory in Cuba
OF which she was sole owner, to an En-
glish syndicate for s. 100000.
The following patents have been
granted to Flordians: Albert A. Ar
mold, Jacksonville, oil can Walter y.
knight, assigner Of half to w H. Smith,
Boardman, railway switch and Albert
+. Rockwell, Jacksonville, door bell.
The contractor for the jetties in the ST.
johns river had a force OF hands at work
Thursday preparing to blow up an old
brig hall buried in the sand near Nav
port; can Of dynamite exploded and
Richard !. Moore, white, and Grandson
Powell, colorcd, were blown to atoms.
Az Old colored woman in Tampa woke
from nap while sitting in chair few
days since and her husband SAYS she whis.
pered TO him. "Did YOU see that boy on
the white horse? He said he'd come
after ne. O! my times come-rm go'in
to die 20 She then got out Of the chair,
laid down on the floor and within five
minutes was corpse.
Palatka Herald The Savannah News.
Ocala Banner and Tallahassee FLoRIDIAN
have been coming to this office for the
last twenty-one years, and, with the ex-
ception OF the latter, no change has been
made in the management OF these old
time friends, though they have greatly
changed in appearance for the better. We
welcome them each time with that hearth.
ness due an old and good friend.
st. Augustine News: Mr.. II. NJ. FLAG
Ter will reach this city about the 10th OF
this month. He evidently expects to de.
vote most Of his time TO pleasure for q
schooner which left New York few DAYS
ago has on board large naptha launch.
Engineer Shaw, who has charge of the
Ponce de Leon dy"amos, will come down
to manage the pleasure boat. DR.. Alex
ander and DR.. E. X. Mitchell will proba
bly, accompany Mr.. Flagler on his trip
South
Jacksonville Metropolis, 4th: w. F.
Wilson, of Madison county, was brought