The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-16
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
,vn COMMENT Nv BRIEFPARA
GRAPHS.
Sr,TE PRESS CLIPPINGS
uru OF PROGRESS WAITED
oI., ,KTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
., ,pol.r THRIFTY TOWNS.

marty of huntsmen Saturday
Killed lie near gainesville l57 squirrels
g far thirty candidates are in
.,s o' field for office in Madison
county. J.. Anil I e o3o
,ast" r.U' stopped at the Tropical hotel
# Ki,simmee.
" mho democratic executive com
;ttae rn Of Citrus county will meet at
Inverness to-day.
u nurinc the past year Orlando peo-
.,a have "chipped in" nearly $4,000
pr pr various public obj cts.
~ u is not improbable that the
Plant line will increase It's fleet by a
new steamer next season.
". &. Long of Tavares is a can II ,
,,to for re election to the office OF
sr tax collector Of Lake county
,r order was received at the post
,&ea % At Gainesville c Saturday for
10000 stamped envelopes for one
person.
The council of Lceshurg is having
rpmber of new streets opened,
and is making other public improve
mentS
The colored Methodist Epi> copal
cougregation of Orlando have com
mencei the erection Of an $1,000
church.
The Mexican Gulf, Pacific and
Puget Sound Railroad Company'r
name wi be changed into the Zen
sacola and Northwestern RalIroad
Company.
Much of the cabbage at Rocky
Point, Allclul county, is still III
fair condition. and if rain falls >OOn
the shipments from that quart Will
be considerable
It looks now a though Bcllevicw
we're to @>ye a fine, new N|"hoo
house within a year, and that IT.
cost in cash. labor and material viii
be at least I,50p. The town coun'
ell has taken the matter in hand.
The Orlando Grape and Frui
Company has just finished the set
ting Of 100000 vines Of the White
Niagara variety. The company ha
full confidence in the future Of thu
grape industry.
F. B. Moody of Lake City ha
patented machine for the planting
Of tobacco cabbage, tomato an'
other plants. With this machine
three persons can pant and wateI
ten acres per day.
The country Immediately west o>
Leesburg. from one halt to foul
miles, IS full Of comfortable homes
and hourishing orange groves
There are good ncighbors and plenty
Of them, and everybody is pro per
ing.
Pensacola News: The vcgc able
growers around Charleston and on
The seacOast Of South Carolina con,
smplalc the raising Of celery for
profit, as the soil is said to be well
suited to the growth Of this savory
nerve srcngthcncr. Here is hint
lor our Florida vegetable growers.
as good celery is raised across the
ay from Pensacola on Santa Rosa
sand as comes to this market
ihe trouble with it lies in the fact
wat 1t i, not cultivated to any ex.
tent.
10 the purser's office Of the steam.
ap MascOtte is a curious relic
.ach some spongers found while
allng for sponges near Miami, on
W ae east coast. 1t is a bottle about
"%en @ inches in height, covered
'Al an ovcrcoating Of pure white
%fai, S from which project a great
number OF barnacles like the Ordi-
nary branch coral, some Of them
S%lng three or four inches in length.
.ne key where this relic was found
supposed to have been the
:. .sulI OF sea rOvers in the early days,
~ 'nere are to be found, set in the
Ssu So,iu rock, heavy ring bolts, evi-
.a;y aV"'ly Tor the purpose of mooring