The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-26
CUR BSTONE CHAT.

~ Is SAID That the La Pierre Phosphate
company will in few weeks bring sew
eral hundred Italians here to mine Mos
phate rock at their works two miles west
OF Tallahassee This will be a new OK.
perlence for Leon county. Heretofore
we have always depended upon negro
labor, and though the negroes a,e nat
urall shiitless they have worked cheap
and have been peaceable and law abiding.
lhere was time when negro labor was
plentiful in Leon county, but it has been
considerably thinned out since there has
been such boom in railroad building in
the state The experiment with white
labor will be wat he'd with interest by
the farmers Of the coun v.
~
The re- rs and impr vements to the
capitol building seem to have aroused the
pride and energy of the gardener who
has charge of the grounds This week
he has been hard at work with soap and
rags washi 6 off and polishing the monu-
ments in the square, and the stones shine
forth now as if they were new He also
keeps the walks neatly swept and has
many choice fruits and flowers growing
in e squares. He wants to have the
grounds attractive and in fine sh pc by
the time tourist travel to Florida begins.
~
cit strikes me-" said young man of
id as the ether day, "that the boys of
Tallahassee ought t. club together and
aise fund to build gymnasium and
swimming pool. 1t would give them an
opportunity for healthy exercise and
wouli be an advertisement for the
town" And why not? 1t would not
cost much money. If all the young men
of Tallahassee would join in the scheme
i would cost them but few dollars each
and it certainly would be pleasant for the
boys and their friends.
~
Now that the work Of improvement is
going on in Capitol square would it not
be we'll to cut down the old oak that was
struck by lightning several months ago?
1t is dead and unsightly. 1t is no earthly
service stand ny, but it cut down would
furnish the state with quite lot of fire.
wood:
The vice. DIS are rapidly disappearing
from the streets of Tallahassee before
the march Of City Sanitary Officer NJ. F.
Papy's corps of efficient weed cutters
Since they have been cut down on the
main thorough fares the soft breezes from
the Gulf have been permitted 10 come in
and every body is remarking about how
delightfully."- pleasant the weather is.
~
Down! down! dow! the drills are cut
ting and making deeper and deeper the
hole where the Tallahassee Waterworks
company hope to have an artesi n we'll
For several days the drill has been work
ing in solid rock, and the conrrac or says
he would not be surprised now to have it
any day crash in an abundant supply of
pur free stone water Plenty of pure
water will do much toward encouraging
the building up of Tallahassee, and if we
get a flowing we'll it will be that much
better.
~
One argument the temperance people
make against liquor is to say that even
hog VI ill not drink it, but they cannot
say that worms will not eat tobacco, for
the planters of Leon county have had to
WORK awful hard this year to keep the
worms out Of their crop. They succeed
ed, huwev. +, and made an excellent crop
and the good pr ces they are ge ting for
the weed are going to encourage many
more Leon c'unty planters to try expert
mental patches next year.
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Tallahassee has never been through the
experience Of boom, but when one
comes to think of it there has been con
siderable buildi G done here during the
past few months. Tn re has been a good.
healthy steady growth in business and
popu alton and every indication pc hts to
an tive continuance of the growth. The
natural development W II undoubtedly lie
stimulated and increased 10y the in oming
of the new railr ads and the beginning
of work at the phosphate mines 1t
begins to look at last that Tallahassee
really Is Gin it.
Medium Price Dress Goods.
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