The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-06
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
,ruS 4ND COMMENT IN BRIEF PARA
GRAPHS.
STaTE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
ur pusY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
FROM ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

The Owl Cigar Company at Quincy sold
,srce number of building lots to their
.mnloyes last week.
Rev. J.B. Culppeper of Macon, the
Georgia evangelist preacher, has located
in Titusvlle for While.
pev S. Patterson has recently organ
;,ad new Methodist Episcopal church,
sonth % at St. Petersburg. 1t starts in with
seventeen members.
The rice mill at Kissimmee started up In
mll blast Monday.and is now running on
fine.
Conductor Vickery of the Florida Gen.
rial and Peninsular railroad. who was hit
hv stray ball in a melee at Baldwin,
Fla. about ten days ago, is out on his
run again
The Ladies' improvement Society, re-
Gently organized al DeLand, is doing some
Good effective work in the matter Of hav-
ing the city cleaned up, especially the back
Yards of trash and filth.
Prof. Lawrence johnson, a United
States geologist, appointed by the govern
ment to investigate the mineral resources
Of Orange, Lake and Volusia counties, is
now in Orlando looking up the minerals OF
Orange counry.
M.G. Horgan, employed at the Arcadia
phosphata works, while pouring hot bab-
biting metal into pully on Friday last
received the contents in his face and right
eve and for time it was thought that he
would lose his sight.
There are no new developments in the
Busy murder case Edward Miller, the
negro who was arrested at Chattahoochee
on suspicion of being implicated in the
murder, proved that he was at Sneads,
Fla. on the day of the crime and was
released. Tom Donald. the other negro
who is in jail now, still profess his inno-
cence, although circumstantial evidence
is strongly against him.
Gainesville STn ..oIv GEMS to be an
afectiOnate goose going the rounds in
this city. On Tuesday evening, as d
gentleman left his Office for home, this
fowl followed him al, the way from
! SimOnson's corner up the steps into The
i house, and tried to accompany him in O
his room on the second floor, but the
gentleman refused to allow it.
Maj Andrew Lewis of Roanoke City,
Va, who owns large tract of land at
Bombay, Homes county, contemplate
immediate improvement Of that property
His intention Is TO establish at Bombay d
saw-mill, planning mill, a cotton gin
and grisi mill, and to bring out from
Virginia number of people for settlement
there abOuts
Arcadia Arcadia1: The Pace River
Phosphate Company contemplate building
branch line from point on the river line
halt way bel Teen the mill and the hoist 10
Devils Elbow" The company Ia, iorty
acres there with ieet of overburden and
abont 10 or II ie't of pebble phosphate
underlying The company will work three
dredges at Devils Elbow" until it is al
worked out. The increase in the output
VIII neceSsitae doubling the dry storage
ons and 100 lineal feet of dry storage bins
Will be added. Contractors are now fgur-
ing on the cost OF construction preparatory
70 making bids. Capt. Singleton says the
Peace River Phosphate Company has
enough rock to keep their dredging and
mills working for the next 800 years.
Barlow was shocked Wednesday night
oy the news of terrible disaster which be-
Rll W. b. Simpson while fishing with
some companions on Eagle lake few miles
nom nom town. Simpson with two friends,
William Link and w. H. Flowers, en-
oarked in small boat and went fishing
out on the lake. They fshed tor long
ume but having no luck, Simpson pro
posed that they try the effects of dyna ,
mile cartridge The others acquiescing, he
urew cartridge from his pocket and lit it
UOI Jailed to throw il far enough ont. The
cartridge exploded with tremendous re-
port which was followed almost instantly
Dy another and louder report Of the car
aloges in Simpsons pocket. The boat
was badly shattered and sank, and the oc-
cupants were thrown into the lake. Flow
ers and Link were not badly injured and
ssucceeded IN rescuing Simpson, who was
horribly injured. Both eyes were put out
sao one leg broken and other bruises sus-
tained.