The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-19
FLORIDA FACTS.
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS CULLED FROM
STATE EXCHANGES
SIGNS OF INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
ITEMS INDICATING INDUSTRIAL, ACTIVITY
NEWS NOTES FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE STATE CLIPPED FROM LIVE rv-
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THE STATE CLIPPED FROM LIVE Ex-
CHANGES.
Ocala is to have big alliance rally the
first week in October.
Punta Gorda fishermen are shipping
car load of fish per day.
j. c. Wallace is receiving and arranging
his material at Kissimmee, and will soon
issue the Osceola Gazette
A Palatka lady who is spending a few
weeks at Anastasia Island recently cap
tured 15-pound sea bass
Edward Rumley of Keuka, who is an
accomplished newspaper man, will be as
sociate editor Of Tropical Florida.
Considerable complaint is heard of
rust and scald in cotton around Madison.
1t is also said to be shedding consider
ably.
The Amber and Wllliston railroad has
passed into the control of the Florida
Central and Peninsular Railroad COM
pany.
Wildwood can boast of veneer box
factory, two saw mills and one grits and
| feed mill, and will soon have another
saw mill plant.
With the many phosphate mining
plants located around and south Of Bar
| tow, foundry and machine shop is an
absolute necessity
Mr.. /. B. Dawson has just sold piece
If land in the Indian River Narrows con-
tanning twenty acres, to Mr.. Pierre
Lorillard for $2,5
the Walertown saw-mill in Columbia
county, under the new management, com =
menced working again last week, with a
dsiiy output ranging from $4,000 to 900
feet.
Several OF the prisoners in Jail at Jack
onvile were frustrated IN plan TO escape
Sunday night. They h ID Cut through sew
eral bars with tools furn shed them by out
side parties.
A tarpon weighing 10 pounds was
captnred in the Matanz is river Thursday
by A J. Kplb and J. w. Traver. The
fish is the largest ever landed in the
waters about ST. Augustine.
The erection of the sugar house at The
experimental in OsceOla county will be
commenced by Sept. 90 DR.. Sutton, the
manager o! the station, is now in Washing
ton contemplating the necessary details.
Joseph Williamson, the pioneer Porto
Rico pineapple grower of the Indian
river, has no reason to complain of his
f,vorite variety, as he cleared $3.50 from
less than an acre in these grand plants
this season.
The Cedar Key Commercial has been
moved to A ca liza, where lis name will Be
changed 10 Arcadia Commercial, and will
make its appearance next week. The edl-
tor and proprietor, J Ira Gore, had been a
resident OF Cedar KY for about fifteen
years.
Major G. d Sheph rd and n. L. Mills
closed a deal, Wednesday, with n. G..
Motley for his p ace in the northwest
part of Orlando. The purchaser is Major
Fits of Orlan 10. The price paid is $1O,-
900. Major Fits will make his new pur-
ch ,sc his home.
St. Francis Facts: In Florida there are
fortv-four Catholic churches, with total
membership of 16, 667 members Hills :
boro' county has the largest membership
of any county in the state-3, TAG, and
the value of all their church property is
put down at 1926, 100.
Walton county's wool clip report shows
46,745 clips, and an aggregate weight OF
| 1853 sos pounds of wool. E Gambia stands
second on the list, with 10000 clips and
| weight of 10000 pounds. Santa Il 'sa
county is fifth, with $500 and an aggre-
gate weight of 19,500.
Bids Tor building the Jail for Citrus were
opened al the session of the board on NJ H.
dav and the work was awarded 10 W. g.
Bal. a contractor OF Inverness, for the sum
OF 81 TIA. The steel work for the cells OF
the iail was awarded to the Hall Safe and
l. ,ck Company of Cincinnati for the sum
OF $2,540.
There is corn enough made in Jefferson
county this year to more than supply the
couniy for~the next twelve months If
properly taken care of. Many of the
farmers. particularly the colored farmers,
sell their corn every fall from 40 TO so
cents per bushel, and then pay 81 for it
next summer.
AT kissimmee Thursday night Capt
Walter Scott Pitts delivered his lecture en-
titled "Human Lite" at the Osceola county
,urt house 10 large and appreciative au-
dience. He was Afterwards "buncOed" Out
of the entire proceeds of the lecture some
where betweea the court house and the
South Florida house.
There is q project on foot TO form com
pany on the Halifax and Indian rivers to
buiid a 4OO.ton steam sloop drawing eight
feet of water, to run between points on
these rivers and New York. carrying
freight, pas seneers, etc. 1t would cost
S24. ZOO, ,and$ SIS, 900 of the amounts pledged
north of New Smyrna.
Pensacola exporters have already begun
chartering for the winter trade. A local
ship broker, whose house, however, has
as yet done nothing in that line, was
notified in one days mail recently of the
engagement of nine vessels Of more than
/. 600 tons each for timber and lumber
| cargoes out Of Pensacola.
| A Georgia Southern official tells some
| Interesting news Of the orange crop. 10
Florida, which he says his road 10 making