The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-06-11
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
yxws AND CONTENT IN RRLEFRARA-
GRAPHS.
STATE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
,ur RUsY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
FROM ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS. .a

william Troy has received some
Granite tablets from the government
= mark the graves of the soldiers
Inferred in Daytona's cemeteries.
LAdger Clark, who died about
three years ago, bequeathed to the
presbyterian church Of Gainesviile
MOOo. The will was contested by
the heirs, but has been declared
valid by the courts.
J. q. Tatum & Co., the we'll
Known real estate dealers, have pur-
chased the Bank of Barlow, one of
the most popular and substantial in
stitutions in the state. Mayor B. B.
Tatum will be the cashier, while j.
a. will be president.
J.H. Gamble of Daytona has de-
cided not to use concrete in con-
structing his house, but 60 build the
first story of coquina rock and the
second of wood. Good coquina has
been found on the west bank of the
Halifax, opposite Ponce Park.
Orange City Times: A gentleman
from the Lower Indian river country
psssed up the Jacksonville, Tampa
and Key West railroad Wednesday
having in his care four large mana
tees or sea COWS, two males and two
females. The largest one was eigh-
teen feet in length and weighed
about 1900 pounds. He was taking
them to Chicago to be placed on ex-
hibition. He also had several alli-
gators and loggerhead turtle
weighing about 400 pounds.
Considerable tobacco will be raised
in Lee county this year. Messrs.
Vogt OF New York are furnishing
the seed. --.-
A resident of Gainesville out hunt
ing Friday killed twenty-five alIi-
gators, mostly with a pistol. The
smallest of the gators measured.
seven feet in length.
Antonio H. Cato left for Key West
Monday morning, and will immedi-
ately move his cigar factory to Fort
Myers, commencing work with
fifteen or twenty men.
A few days since Adolphus Santini
found dead whale floating near
Chocaluski, one of the Ten Thous-
and Islands. The monster was Sc
feet long and IL feet through, and
they got 81 barrels of oil from the
carcass
Fort Myers Press: S. B. Cameron
commences to harvest and ship Mr..
BushnelPs pineapples this week. He
will have 10000 or $4,000. They
are rather small this season, probably
on account of drought and coei
weather early in the season.
Barlow Courier: J. D. Garrett, is
70 be congratulated on having se-
cured patent on his improved
monkey wrench. This improved
wrench will work in many places
where there ia not room enough for
an old style wrench. In tact, being
racket arrangement, it. will work in
small angle or deep hole; any
where there is space enough to insert
iu jaws. 1t is'pronounced by all who
nave seen it the best wrench for all
purposes, ever invented, and under
some circumstances is the only
, wrench.
A mean and dastardly act was
committed on the shores Of Lake
narney, near Sanford, on Monday
s!sst BY uuknown parties. Itappe4rs
qst toar Oe1ored men aud .0De white
nan went thereto fish, and stopped
= farmers camping ground. Sew
ai persons, presumably those living
Z the vicinity, and who objected to
Iem fishing on the borders of the
axe surrounded the camp and then
Isd into it, apparently Al random.
~ man was very severely wounded,
oae will recover. Two others were
80 badly peppered. Two rounds
sere discharged.
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