The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-09-17
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
.rsIyD COMMENT IN BRIEF PARA.
'S GRAPHS.
sraTE PRESS CLIPPINGS
u, rrsY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
-nov ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

.oarsnce in town from some unknown
source to pay poll taxes for the third
nsrtv Most of it, we understand,
Tas T used to pay the negro tax
Arcadian.
Deer are reported to be quite plen-
t;fnl around Titusville, a number
having been killed in different parts
If the county since last Thursday
when the open season commenced.
/ Several have been killed in the vicin-
ity of Canaveral'
John Leu lays he has seven year
old navel orange tree that has now
,ot three distinct crops of oranges
from an inch in diameter to full
crown fruit. The tree is now cov~
cred with new blooms that look as
though they would mature fruit
Orlando Record.
Robert Merrill, one of Ocala's fruit
buyers and shippers. has contracted
for so, 900 boxes of oranges ranging
in price from IS cents to $l.4O per
box on the trees. Charles w. White
Of Citra has contracted for 100000
boxes of fruit-for many of which he
pays $3.50 per box on the trees.
It is rumored that the Plant In
vestment Company will Immediately
proceed with the extension of the
South Florida railroad from Inver-
ness to High Springs. Part of the
iron is now at Lakeland. When this
is done Lakeland will be nearer Saw
snnah by rail by about sixty miles
than it has been heretofore.
B. L. Griffin of Oconee is going
into the tomato business rather ex
tensively. He is preparing to plant
twenty acres. He calculates 100
crates to the acre. The entire cost
for labor, seeds, boxes and fertilizers
will aggregate $45 per acre. His
crop last year averaged $3.50 per
crate. He uses $50 pounds Of mans
me per acre, at a cost of $45 per ton.
Orlando Record.
c. E. Merrill of the late Jackson
vile Standard, who has spent the
past week here returns tonight. We
are told that Col. Merrill has secured
pledges amounting to $500 to enable
him to start a new paper in this field.
live are to cross swords with an op.
ponent we know none whom we
would prefer to encounter to Col.
Merrill, and await his advent
ley West Equator-Democrat.
The Merchants Steamship Com
pany Of Florida, in order to accom-
nodate their steadily increasing bust
ness and be in condition to handle
the fruit crop during the coming sea
ION in a satisfactory manner to the
shipper, have chartered the frui,
steamship Bowden, owned by the
Boston Fruit company, to run in con
nect'on with their present fast frui,
steamship, John G. Christopher
capacity $4,000 boxes oranges. -
Tmes-U Union.
+; +. Tyler, drum-major of the
ruth infantry, United States army,
eled at St. Francis barracks on Sun
STay evening last of heart trouble
ne was an old soldies, having been
.ltn the Fifth infantry for about
.Snteen years. He had enjoyed ex.
e Ssllent health up to a year ago when
:: = was obliged to confine himself to
ss room. His last service was ren.
~fed at the time Governor Fleming
Es,va sa received at the barracks during
@eampment week. Mr.. Tyler vas
,Syesrs OF age and leaves wife and
"o cn'idren.-St. Augustine Press.
l.. Thursday morning Sheriff Bethea
"l1 Lake City for Fort White with
'osetal prisoners, and among the
lumber was w. Hill, a colored man.
f,oss uss TINS :, side of Herlong, Hill jumped
s4% ..;, the car window, took up the
.alfoad -. track, ran three miles and
IN. ' across the country and jumped
NV ,.w clstern on L. r. Koon's place,
lar ssl Elm church. Sheriff Bethea
,'a ssas TO Herlong's camp, got his dogs
~ started it pursuit Of the fugitive.
9 uogs were put on his track and
sppeG at Koon's cistern, four miles
ss0, u where v" he made his jump, but all
W. on except one, this one remain
until the officers came up, and
ae lhey found Hill in the cistern
"a'er up to his neck. They
81" nIsnt him out and marched him
eosrt, ~ court, where he was tried and
ofIu ofInitted to Jail to await the action
3 leh.. s grand jury at its next meeting
With murder and arsOn.-