The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-19

extra preparations to move. He says the
crop will be 2, 500, 900 boxes, and the fruit
was never known to be finer. He thinks
the market will hold up we'll throughout
the season.-Macon Telegraph.
| Kelley Bros. have commenced the erec-
ton of the rice mill at Kissimmee. The
mill will be 45x175 feet and four stories
high, and built where the three railroads
can run cars to the doors. Kelley Bros.
will buy all the rough rice they can get,
and any one having good crop of rice
will do well to correspond with them.
Regino de Castro Palorisio, Cuban
who resides near Ocala, on the old Glasgow
Smith place, planted one acre of tobacco
| last May. The first OF this month he gath
cred the tobacco from this acre, between
800 and 700 pounds, which, he says,is worth
from so TO 75 cents per pound, and can be
used for filters or wrappers in forty days.
]. w. Lee of Madison county had sad
experience with his syrup and swine not
long ago. Several of his hogs managed to
gain an entrance into his syrup house one
night and turned over barrel of the sweet
stuff. 1t forced the stopper out AMI the
syrup covered the ground. Next morning
four hogs were dead and the syrup was
gone.
| Lake City Tobacco Plant: The con-
tractors who are to dig the canal through
the great Okefnokee swamp haYe COM
menced work with 100 hands and the same
number OF mules, and expect to have the
waters of the swamp flowing into the 81.
Ma1y's river by February /, 1892. Will the
Suwannee 60 dry then? Is an interesting
QUESTION.
The schooner E. V. Glover, with 205,-
869 feet of lumber, valued at So, 445.76,
cleared from Jacksonville Wednesday for
San Domingo City, San Domingo This
is the first cargo Of lumber shipped from
Florida under the new treaty between
the United States and San Domingo,
which went into effect on September l.
Consequently there is no duty collectable
on the cargo.
The East Florida Seminary at Gaines
vile has been notified by the navy depart
ment that naval officer from the active
list will be assigned 10 duty as COmmandant
of cadets and instructor in military science
and tactics at tue seminary. The depart.
ment declined to extend the detail OF the
former efficient commandant, Lieut.. G. s.
Ripley.
CT. Parker of lG 4briella has closed a
contract for his crop and other crops O
oranges that he controls, amounting TO
1900 boxes, he to receive 81 per box on
the trees, and SO cents per box for packing.
The freight from Gabr.ella or Golden K ,d
Is 6 cents higher then from Ov;edo, which
would make the price equal 10 81 56 on the
cars there.
The Barlow Courier-Informant says F.
NJ StranshrOugh, one of the prominent
pho .phate brokers of that city. has abou,
closed contract with a large European
phosphate company to furnish them 10000
'ons of hard rock per annum. The pebble
in such great demand, and is usually sold
in advance, so that for immediate orders
brokers must devote themselves to hard
rock at present Mr.. Stransbrough has
been very successful in the brokerage busi-
ness, and has placed some large orders for
phosphate.
Hon. John Sauls, the chairman of the
Volusia county school board, has been
continuous member Of that board for the
past sixteen years. When Mr.. S Stuls first
went upon the board there were only six
teen public schools in the county, and the
total money collected each year for school
purposes did not exceed $780, To-day the
public school system of Volueia county is
the pride OF its ciiZ ms and an honor 10 the
school system of Florida. Nearly $50 600
are now expended annually upon the youth
OF our county, The number of schools hav-
ing increased to seventy in the county.
St. Andrews Buoy Isaac Pitts and his
four sons started up huge bear out in the
Bouie creek country one day last week
and after chasing the be tr about four mile,
ne was shot and killed by VIM. II. Pitts
The animal as a monster OF his kind, and
although in poor condition weighed more
than 4 pounds The bear, having been
t4rted up in The same vicinity as the one
shot by Mr.. Grant few days previous,
Was probably the father OF that brute. Mr.
Pitts says he and his family have killed al
least forty bears since his residence in
Washington county, and this was the larg
est of the lot.
E. T. Tillotson of Jacksonville writes as
follows: l notice an extract from the New
York Sun to the eff, ct that no man had
ever seen or knew whether eels lays eggs
or not. / have two sons, now II and 19
years of age respectively, who in August,
1888, were digging out an otter which they
were trying to get and finally did. In
some way, while they were tramping and
digging, they discovered an eel which was
| tQcu III the dCt VI IoytDS ACA OSSo. \ NY
say the eggs were about the size Of large
garden pea She was laying them in the
mud near the Greenfield creek, on our
place. in Duval county, Florida.
The Gulf Phosphate Mining & Manu-
featuring Co., whose stockholders are
Charleston Is. C.) capitalists, owns by pur-
chase a large territory on Peace river, Fla,
aud has built and extensive plant at Cleve-
land, which is to be the center Of its opera
iions. II has also made contract with
the State phosphate commission by which
, lit has obtained the exclusive right for five
wears to take phosphates from a stretch OF
that rivers bed, where there are said to be
, large and valuable deposits of pebble rock.
Cleveland is at the junction of Peace river
and Charlotte harbor on the Florida
Southern railroad, four miles from Punta
Gorda The daily product of the company
will be 200 TONS E L. Roche, of Charles
ton, for many years special supervisor oi
South Cardinals phosphate interests, is the