The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-05-14
florida HAPPENINGS
ND COMMENT IN BRLEFPARA-
GRAPHS.
.r,rE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
ov HIM OF PROGRESS WAITED
..,11 QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
urO.R .RoUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

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g. Petersburg is to have canning
baOry.
.an;uc experiment. at st. Augustine
- ,'sI about $3.50 of the $500 needed.
Ma; N. R. Marks has purchased
- Oliver Prince place on Irene
rsuus st Gainesville for $4,000.
II "a rumored that W. M. Brooks
AL. N. Baker have sold their phos-
4. hate land in Citrus county for $685.
100.
The democratic primary election
1 choose candidates for the county
,6eers and members of the legisla-
urs from Orange county will be held
I the various precincts on Thursday
lsy II.
The Monticello Constitution says
sou prospects are poor in Jefferson
sunty, where ground has not been
4 an inch deep in six months.
Developments since the fire at
Iilton shows that two of the insur-
,Dce companies, who had risks on
property by the fire, are insolvent.
The Marine Band at ST Augustine
was heard distinctly Friday evening
in North City, two miles away. The
wind was blowing from the south a
very light breeze.
Grasshoppers are reported as do
ing considerable damage to corn
some parts Of Madison county, while
in others corn and cotton are re-
ported as dying from the effects Of
The drought.
At the curve on the Silver Springs,
0cala and Gulf near the Ella street
station at Inverness, some miscreants
have been driving railroad spikes be-
tween the rails, seemingly for the
purpose of the derailing to trains.
The Mitchell Club committee on
arrangements at Tampa has decided
not to have the state convention held
IN the Knight building, but to build
an immense tabernacle in which to
hold it in the garrison.
George Stewart Smith of New
York, who has been a frequent visi.
tor TO that section the past few
months, expects to put out 100000
pineapple plants on Indian river this
simmer. He has engaged his plants
nom the West Indies and is desirous
OF securing a fair-sized schooner tc
Transport them.
, Orange county enjoys the unique
distinction OF having within its
'Orders two Incorporated towns,
neither OF which has within it's cor
pOrate limits a single white resident
iOs Oldest OF these, Etonville, if
Z HiAlng preparations to vote on the
aaestlon Of bonding the town for S6.
wv at per cent. In case they dc
succeed, a bargain has already beer
made to take the bonds; and people
"Vk generally uDOn them az hein G
good security.
Washington county democratic
t1ecutlve committee met at Vernon
!, Wednesday. Chairman John D
.i asI'ln presiding. 1t was ordered
wat mass meeting be held at Ver
~ .Tn, May %, for the purpose Of
.lsctlng delegates to the state con
'sn'lOn at Tampa, June l; also that
county convention be held at Yer
~. ~ august Is. The primaries will
- s' delegates to the county conven.
Won on August 6.
lOny Ovens of Live Oak, who
~ convicted and sentenced to the
u'entlary in 1890 for perjury, has
ss sn granted a full pardon by the
sssernor' Sheriff Potsdamer re-
ased the order for his release Wed.
Gay and Thursday went to the
Ups alter him. His release was
.u'ed on decision of the United
ss ss1es land Office that the land con.
ang which he committed the
s righttully belonged to him.