The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-30
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
,rrS AND COMMENT IN BRLEFPARA.
GRAPHS
STATE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
THE BUSY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
FROM ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

number of new buildings are going
up in Arcadia.
There are $50 miles of seacoast in Dade
county.
The ormond 3Sua;d, Episcopal church is in
limo will soon have jail-the first in
Dade county.
Two manatees have recently been CAP
tured near Jupiter.
San Mateo shipped 1854 boxes of or
anpes to the market last week.
The Ocala Lumber Company's planning
mill is overrun with orders.
The farmers are busy plowing and max
ipg seed-beds for the spring crops.
Stephen Johnson killed six offers last
week in three days in DeSoto county.
The postoffice at Orange Mills was rob-
bed last Saturday, it is supposed by
tramps.
Picking, packing and shipping oranges
is now in full blast in the east coast coun-
ties
The farmers say that the cabbage crop
has not been materially injured by the
recent cold weather.
Capt. J. C.Wright and Ben 81. Bradley
of Barlow in five hunts this season have
bagged 3O5 quails.
Will O. Koehnle, secretary of the Flor
ida base ball league, has secured in Ocala
on subscription over $500 to date.
Capt John B. johnson was elected
mayor in the municipal election at Dade
City Monday, by an overwhelming ma
jority.
There is in Tampa an organization of
ladies who have taken up the condition
of the starving Russians, and will aid
them.
A Philadelphia commission house sends
a San Mateo grower two postage stamps as
net proceeds ror over 100 boxes of oranges.
Norvin Green, president of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, is one of the
directors of the Ocala and Silver Springs
Company.
1t is reported that Mrs. w. J. VINEGAR
mas made over her property on Palatka
Heights to the creditors of the First Nation.
al Bank of Palstka.
Larne P. Eley, formerly of San Mateo,
has recently been elected mayor of Mel
bourne, where he is doing thriving busi-
ness in real estate.
Will Harris of Ocala has just completed
contract of picking and packing 1880
boxes of oranges for Valentine FAINT OF
Fantville and 750 boxes for Julian Robin
son of Blitchton.
Mrs. President Harrison has written to
Mrs. John G. Christopher of Jackson
Vile, inviting her to represent Mrs. Har.
rlson at the jackson historic costume
reception to be given at the Ponce de
leon hotel, St. Augustine, on the even
ing Of February 4.
AT meeting of the city council of Pa
latKa Tuesday night bids for lighting the
Guy were opened and that of G. Loper
0Oaliey, receiver of the Palatka Gas and
Ss"castruction s"n Company, for Is lights, at
M.oO per light, for one year, was &C
Mr. Fulton Of Ocala has sold 1900
Scres OF phosphate land in Alachua county
.or SoO,OOO to syndicate of Kentucky
Suu one New York capitalists. This Is
"e gravel beds near the Suwannee river
= The new building for the Owl Cigar
SSompany is aim ost finished and will soon
W ready for it's occu pants, and then the
lumber OF operatives will be greatly in
aeaseo About 800 new workmen will
soon arrive to enter the employ of the
company.
quincy Herald: T. L. Ward & Com
vW pounds Of tobacco, and we under
ssaa sssao the highest price paid was about 80
toh S1 per pound. There is considerable
S,. uacco in this county yet for sale. This
a.. .m also have number of hands at work
'H'ppng and packing tobacco.
i. =. Stearns has made arrangements
s;t. erect new hotel building on the
0s: M OF the one recently burned at
utncy' and has given the contract to T.
tro: w ara: The building is to be of brick,
th,. storles high, and will contain twenty
ee rooms, so built that it can at.any
April /. w. ''Do 40 w No nAi'ne0 W
!, Aae Florida Press Association convened
rool annual session in the board of trade
io,iunat s az jacksonville Monday night. The
Gov"ing members We're present: Mahlon
PsuSs, Pss president Orlando, Reporter; @. B.
Rou.a,.es.on vice president, Key West,
sat0r-Democrst; Tom Harris. Ocala.
tsi Oapitol; Guy I. Metcalf, Juno, Tropi-
StsnSan n, y. =. Merrill, Jacksonville, Florida,
Con.,a;ra; Cuaara; Louis J. Brumby, Monticello,
F"r;a.!u m3 T. T. Stockton, Jacksonville.
OIsua lines Union; ]. Irving Orabbe.
Mo.1Su.o M~1uo' Record; T. r. Moore, Fernandina.
Homoos H,os Mirror; P. w. Corr, Gainesville.
RsnSs,1I e and the Gazette; w. D.
81 RIAL, Hreen Cove Springs, Spring; l.
Bron.ounl DeLand, News J. NJ. Barco
DeTanS' Iimes-DemocraE e. o. Painter,
No,;SSu Agriculturist s. A. Adams.
con ~ correspondent, and A. m. William.
AAsencss0 s0.I Of Guy Phosphate Field. In the