The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-06-13

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Tallahassee must have factories.
Suggestions are now in order for civ i'm.
provements.
DR.. Radford will deliver an address Of
Lake Overstreet On July 4.
Rlpe watermelons have made their an
pearance in the Tallahassee market
Why go north to spend the summer
when ST. Teresa is SO near and 50 Meas
ant?
The boys ought to organize base hal,
club to liven up the long summer after
Moons.
There is to be a grand barbecue at Lake
diversified, July 4, to which the committee
invite one and all.
Judge R. c. Long issued nine marr,aoe
licenses last month, one to white and
eight to colored couples.
Copious doses OF whitewash and naint
Will make any town or city healthy, bright
and clipper. Try it in Tallahassee.
The Tallahassee bootblacks and news-
boys will sadly miss the legislature. II
has been a regular picnic for them.
A bright writer could make quite an
interesting novel out of material furnished
by the Florida legislature of 1891.
Messrs. Gilmore & Davis have taken the
contract and commenced work on reshinp-
ling and repairing the Baptist church.
The entry books for the running, pacing
and trotting races at Lake Oyerstreet
fourth OF July, are open at Lawrence's
store.
Tallahassee is safe to hold the capital for
two years longer anyway, but this should
not stop the citizens from pushing to have
the building and enclosure put in presenta.
BILE shape.
Constipation, blood poison, fever? Doc
tors bills and funeral expenses cost abou,
TWO hundred dollars; De Wits Little Early
Klsers cost quarter. Take your choice
Sold by NJ. Lively.
The many yucca and beargrass plants in
Leon hotel park are in full bloom. The
great punches of bell-shaped, cream colored
flowers of the yucca are majesticaly beau
tiul and attract the attention of everypasser
by.
At the meeting of the Ladies' Old. Con-
federate Soldiers Home Association reso
lutions were adopted thanking Messrs.
kemper, Slusser and Blackwell for favors
and TO the members of the legislature and
to the public for their generous patronage
and attendance at the Auction Fair.
Mr.. E. W. Clark is one of Tallahassee
most progressive citizens. He says that
whenever the Ladies' Improvement So,
ciety get ready to begin the Improvements
on the state capitol and enclosure, as sug.
gested by the FLoRIDIAN, they can call on
him for IS to start with and more further
on if necessary.
Mr.. Henry Diamond yesterday showed a
FLORIDLAN reporter lot of soft, 81 Ky
Florida Cuba leaf tobacco grown by Mr..
J. E. Luten, the most successful of all the
Leon county tobacco growers. Mr.. Dia-
mond carried the leaf to the Office of Hon.
L. B. Wombwell, president OF the state
bureau of immigration, to be placed on ex-
h.bition. Old Leon is coming to the front
as tobacco producing county.
De Wits Little Early Risers never
grippe or cause nausea Mild but sure, a.
sis. rather than force. Best little pill for
sick headache, chronic constipation, dys-
pepsia. Sold by M. Lively.
The festival given Thursday in the AL.
gero storeroom recently vacated by Mr..
W. D. HART, for the benefit of the Meth
odist church, was q brilliant SUCCESS.
The room was lastly decorated and the
tables groaned beneath the weight of
good things to eat. The pretty girls who
waited at the tables were kept busy, and
money flowed into their pockets in a
steady stream. 1t was one of the sue.
cesses of the season.
During the thunder storm Thursday
morning, at 4:3s o'clock sharp, lightning
struck the large oak in the capitol enclo-
sure, on the north side, just across the
street from the FLoRIDIAN Office. The
heart of the old tree was decayed and al
dry as finder, therefore it caught fire and
was soon burning steadily toward the top
At93O the tree was still burning and the
hose company CALAMITY came to the rescue
They turned on full stream of water and
in few minutes left the charred remains
Of the tree, cold, damp and smoking in Its
misery. There has been lots of timber
around the capitol waiting for lightning to
strike, but shis was the first genuine strike.
II allowed TO stand now this old tree would
be anything but an ornament 1t should
be cut down at once.