The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-30
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
.-,uc AND COMMENT IN BRIEF PARA.
GRAPHS.
sTaTE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
THE BUSY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
,,oy ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

nuriug the seven years ending
,s9l. Fernandina shipped 526,46O,-
oOO feet of yellow pine.
Last Saturday about noon a fire
hroke out in the lumber of r. A.
Mills at bis sawmill, near Arcadia,
burning over $4,000 feet of lumber.
The drought which has prevailed
,brouqhout the state for the past
month has caused some of the
ioroe lumber mills in the interior
n Shut down for want of water.
The Amelia River Packing Com
nanv at Fernandina has just com
prleted terrapin crawl, 45x50 feet
at the factory, and will stock it with
terraplns until October, when they
will be shipped north.
The bluff at Miccosukie lake is
driving up very rapidly. A year ago
il was over a mile wide, but now it
is less than quarter Of a mile wide,
and where the water at that time
was over twenty feet deep you can
drive horse and buggy with perfect
safety.
Lake City Reporter; The recent
cold injured the fig crop very much,
but we notice that trees are putting
on very large second crop. Figs
are never failing crop in this sec
ton, and we think if they were
planted extensively they could be
made very profta BILE.
DR.. C. C. Harris of Ocala and DR..
Joseph NJ. Perry of Lakeland, mem
bers of the Florida State Medical
Society, were elected and duly ap-
pointed delegates at the meeting re-
recently held at Havana, Cuba, to
represent the society in the Ameri-
can Medical Association to be held
in Detroit, Mich, on June next.
Quincy Democrat: John L. Nc
Farlin has recently invented a ma
chine for setting out tobacco plants,
and it is certainly a success; plant
ing and watering the plant
with greatest ease, doing away with
the old-time peg, etc., and saves q
mans back. The machine is very
simple, consisting of a longitudinal
tube in which the plant is deposited
forcing the end of said tube in the
earth, and removing deposits the
plant as nicely as by hand.
Arthur {. Jackson, in the course
OF a conversation with II. NJ. Flaglel
in New York on Thursday, suggest
ed the possibility of $4,000 no,
being secured for the Florida exhibit
at Chicago, whereupon Mr.. Flaglel
stated that, when 100000 was sc
cured from other sources, he would
contribute Sl0,0OO-that being q
ratable proportion of his Original
subscription-but that he would
as gladly give the $4,000 wher
100000 was raised; and he thought
there ought to be enterprise enough
IN Florida to secure the larger
amount.
Key West Equator: two boatloadi
OF Key Vests fairest maidens and
stateliest danes were entertained
tuesday afternoon on board thu
Philadelphia by Rear Admira
Gherardi and the officers Of the fleet
They were chaperoned by Comman
der Winn and his wife who under
stood 80 well how to gather together
the most congenial members OF so
clety. The afternoon hours were
ocehghtfully spent aboard Uncle
sans magnificent man-of-war, anc
an Informal hop was rendered BY
sne ladies. An elegant luncheon
was served the guests just before
snelr departure, adieux were spoken
each one expressing the pleasure at
iorded by Admiral Gherardi's gra
e u u hospitality, and with the dir
VI VI the oars the afternoon aboard the
lnlpadelphia became one of mem