The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-06-04

politics.
Hon. A. S. Mann spent Sunday in Tai
Rhassee.
MI. S. Cotner has returned from visit
10 Selma, Ala.
The fig crop in this county will be very
small this year.
Crops are looking we'll in Leon county
since the rains.
Leon county has an established reputa-
don for fine Jersey butter.
Work will soon be begun in earnest on
The new Methodist church.
Tallahassee has been we'll represented at
Ae Tampa convention this week.
Leon county housewives are busy pre-
serving wild plums and blackberries.
What would Tallahassee have done dur
iue the long continued drouth without the
city waterworks?
splendid rain showered down upon
Tallahassee and the surrounding country
Monday night.
Large shipments of chickens, eggs and
butter have been made from Tallahassee
to Tampa this week.
St. Teresa will be the popular seaside
resort this year for South Georgia and
Middle Florida folks.
Mr.. L. E. Robertson, prominent young
attorney of Jasper, was among the visitors
to Tallahassee this week.
The Tallahassee Methodist parsonage
has been remodeled, reprinted and greatly
improved in appearance.
Miss Maud Myers will represent Camp
Lamar, United Confederate Veterans, at
the Confederate reunion in Jacksonville
next week.
City Contractor Hopkins is keeping the
city streets in thorough order. He has
been doing good work on Monroe street
this week.
The democratic primary elections for
representatives 10 the legislature and
county officers will take place in Leon
county, Friday, June II.
Sing Key, the Chinese laundryman, has
closed his business here and departed for
some other town where there are not so
many colored washerwomen.
ln this issue will be found the announce
ment OF Mr. James Holland as candidate
Tor representative TO the legislature. He
asks the support of his friends.
why is it that more Leon county farm
ers do not plant broom corn? 1t isa
profitable crop, has been tested here, and
shere is ready sale for the straw.
The Florida Central and Peninsular
hallway company have recently been
drawing water foom the Cascade" to ,un
ue machinery in their shops here. They
ought to bore an artesian well.
experiments were made in Leon county
ais year with raspberries They did
well and bore fruit. This is another
aop that would be profitable for Leon
'0unty planters to grow.
Capt. Patrick Houstoun has a tobacco
pantation that will compare favorably
san any in Gadsden county. He has
alKy machine for setting out the plants
mat does the work to perfection.
LIS Lizzie Thomas of Madison, the
rpolar young newspaper writer who edits
= household department of the Sunny
snn and contributes excellent articles to
magazines, is spending the summer
nm friends at Elkhart, Ind.
~. Robert Munro of Tallahassee, and
son-in-hw, Mr.. A. G. Clewis. have
aa'ed forty acres of the Harper tract.
=! ihe new cigar town in West Tampa.
ing Tor it $4,000. They will cot 1t up
oullding lots and place them on the
- central railway Of Georgia has re-
40 its shops and resumed work.
Carpenters who came here to
10 the Florida Central and PENN
snops when the Centrars shops
oSn have resigned and gone back
gla to accept their former posi-.
secured the use Of several va
1 IN different parts Of the city, the
zee Improvement Association Ii.
aOfshing stock yards, free Of
~ % order that those persons who, |
teams, come into town 10 buy
nd sell their produce, may have
nlortable hitchine and feeding
Ior their stock, md not bel
2 resort 10 the open street o.
nov compelled % 90.