The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-04-09
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS
..,rc,yD CONNENT IN BRLEFPARA
GRAPHS.
SrArE PRESS CLIPPINGS
,-sv HIM OF PROGRESS WAITED
,nov ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
,orrs ABoI-T THRIFTY TOWNS.

rE Harris of Ocala is candi-
date for clerk of the court of that
circuit.
E.Levbourne of Gainesville ship
nod Thursday 1900 quarts Of straw
berries.
Nv. Williams Of Gainesville has
.old his extensive furniture business
TO George Ozias of Pennsylvania.
Over $1,000 worth of property
has recently changed hands in the
Hawthorn neighborhood near Gaines
vile.
Sales of oforanges for delivery have
already been made in the eastern
part of Alachua county at 1925 per
box.
On Friday of last week 1,4OO
pounds of Spanish mackerel and Sat-
urday 1900 pounds were caught from
the Earves at St. Petersburg by the
northern tourists sojourning there.
Great quantities of tomato plants
are being shipped from Braidentown
to those northern counties where
tender vegetation was killed by frost.
One party has an order for 100000
plants.
Mrs. Samuel Cox Of Brandon,
Hillsboro county, is probably the
oldest woman in the state. She is
l2l years old, all owing to the climate.
The old lady has been enjoying good
health until recently. She is just
beginning to fail.
". NJ. Brooks and J. M. Baker
have projected all arrangements for
beginning mining operations on their
valuable phosphate lands near Floral
City.
80 Tae geological suleey of the Peace
river valley began last week under
the management of George Eldridge
ofWashington. The work was com.
menced just above Barlow and will
continue down the river.
A corps of engineers of the gov.
eminent coast survey is at work
making survey from St. Augustine
across the state to Cedar Keys for
the purpose of ascertaining the diff
ference in elevation of the Atlantic
and Gulf coast.
Rev. l.. B. Plummer suggests that
the railroad companies Of Florida
donate 10000 acres of land for the
Florida exhibit, which, at $l.25 an
acre, is equivalent to $4,000. On
this amount Mr.. PIummer thinks at
least $4,000 could be secured by
mortgage.
The copartnership in the publica.
ton of the Sanford Journal hereto.
lore existing between w. A. Cook o.
Sanford and Willard West Of North
carolina, under the firm name O.
Cook 4 West, has been dissolved BY
@utal consent, the publication of the
journal being continued by Mr.
Cook, Mr.. West retiring from al
connection with it.
Owing to the long dry spell tn.
farmers fLevy county will be little
late IN planting their crops.
The Hotel Ponce de Leon at St
angus inc will remain open till Apri
10 10 or longer, and the Alcazar til
May Is or longer.
The old settlers at Bronson say
mat this is the dryest time that they
nave ever seen. The stock find il
very difficult to get water.
A great many orange tree in Levy
county were damaged by the recent
cold, and there will probably be s
very small crop this year.
Manager E. N. Wilson of the
motel Cordova at St. Augustine an
nounces that the house will close fol
'ae season of 1892 at noon on Mon
DAY, April IL.
The Cresote Company at Fernan
una has contracted to furnish. at ar
early date, 275,OOO feet of creosoted
LUMBER for the United States dry
uock at Port. Royal.
ph lhe acreage of cabbage in the
a:ock Point and Orange Point re
sD g.ons OF Alachua county will aggre
ssSe s;,' 900 acres, on which the growers
onn ",ll realize between $50, 900 and $75.
,o.st Inc schooner Hjalmar, now un
,SOSalng SaN lumber at the Tampa Lum
fr" Ssr Coompany's docks, made the rur
IN nun ;l PENSACOLA bay to Tampa bay
~ Justthirty-six houre-the quickes,
'lme On record.
Mr. Foreman of High Spring. who