The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-01-23
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
,,urc AND COMMENT IN BRLEFPARA
GRAPHS.
STATE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
TIE BUSY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
,poN ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.
Tho confederate veterans will have {

The confederate veterans will haYe a
.;cnic at Lake City January 21.
A. Fernandina over 200 barrels of ma
..I stores are awaiting shipment to Sa-
yannah.
The cigar manufacturers of Key West
..r that the outlook for busy year is very
ss~"5couraging, s~5 and they anticipate heavy
and profitable business.
The truck farmers of the lake region of
pok county are shipping tomatoes and
,her I vegetables already. They will ship
shont SIS 900 worth this season.
r W. Brown and William Bryson, of
Wsvnesvilc, Haywood county, North
r.rS9lina nrS arrived in Orlando Thursday.
Thew drove all the way in a wagon.
The report of the South Florida railroad
hoon;tal surgeon contains some valuable
Elimination. OF 1850 cases of all kinds
treated during the past year 2,047 have
heen discharged cured, one died and two
remain in the hospital.
The snow will not detrimentally effect
the early paintings, say farmers who were
in Pensacola Friday. On the contrary,
thew say ii had beneficial effect, as it in
great measure protected the ground from
fhe frost which followed.
Ell. Tison of Lakeland is shipping 2 900
grape fruit and 1000 orange trees to Pas
ssdena, CAL, from his nursery just north
Of Tam pas city limits. Other larger con.
signments will be made very soon, some
going direct to Riverside, Cal.
Gen. L. Bingham, prominent attor-
new of Washington, with party of
friends. will charter sailing vessel or
tue and take cruise Of several weeks
duration along the Gulf coast Of Florida,
extending the trip to Key West.
The Baptist Witness is perhaps just
now the most fortunate and happiest pa
Der in the state. A big-hearted gentle
Esman at the convention gave the editor
81, 900 to send 500 copies of the paper to
las many Baptist families unable to pay
for it,
Dr. A. G. Hobbs, famous eve specialist
of Atlanta, who has a practice of $4,000
year, is in Jacksonville en- route to the
Indian river country, where he will do
some hunting and fishing with George S.
May, another prominent Atlantian. Dr.
Hobbs married niece of ex-Vice President
Hendricks
Bill Gaulding got into the gun shop of
Lott Johnson at Lake City on Tuesday
night last and took therefrom Winches-
ter rife He then went to a merchant to
buy some cartridges, but was pursued by
Sheriff Betha and shot in the shoulder,
receiving slight flesh wound He was
captured and put in Jail
Much amusement was caused on the
streets of Pensacola Friday afternoon by
the parade of a youthful local colored
negro minstrel organization, which gave
performance at night. The parade
consisted of six persons, headed by a
kettle drum artist who beat time for the
procession. At every corner the young
artists were met with shower of snow
balls that must have made their march
exceedingly disagreeable.
Tampa Tribune: The Tampa Bay hotel
placed in position to-day in the reception
iney were procured by Mr.. Plant 10 Paris
a. very great expense, and are the finest
10 the state and probably in the South.
Vne known as Esmeralda and her goat rep
lesents female playing with goat, and
!al near the main entrance. The other
known as Faun is graceful female figure
snd Is on pedestal near the north en-
vance This piece is from designs of
maurice Denouvillers of Paris. Several
o'ner smaller ones have also been placed
~ !ne corridors and ldd materially to
their beauty
Owlng to the dull times and tightness OF
WWvoey The transfers Of real estate at Key
mat ior the past month have been very
;e ;e". Apropos, the largest transfer of float
ae property ever made in the city TO q
TuYie individual was made last week by
~. ~ Lowe to E. J.Arapian, Key Vests
TeaVy sponge merchant, who bought Mr..
r~r ~Umes entire fleet of sponging vessels,
TTS1moerlng eight for very large sum.
.a;s aas meet just purchased by Mr.. Arapian. is
hr I ~! 70 oe, outside of the one already owned
Y MIN for the past two years, the best in
Is,.u'uas Susiness. Mr.. Arapian has now the
any sesI 1eet OF sponging vessels owned by
HS aaa ama'vidual or company in the city.
ren,aN neel numbers sixteen vessels, which
''p'esents at least $4,000.
~, ac,uSacola News A circumstance
6hn OF remark is the fact that Of the
ly;D. 4; uare-rigged vessels now
( H. b ~ PENSACOLA harbor but one carries
sim;lol lor'tlsh flag. Such thing under
tho mar ~, conditions has never been seen by
the f.O fSlaest living longshoreman. And
Il is ~oe Is all the more remarkable when
time considered that so many other mari
{ imnort"tries rountries of Europe, all of inferior
Or lesa lance on the high seas, have more
Shin. =" a representation in the local
Russ;ag. There are Swedes, Norwegians,
Austrai;ss uermans, Dutchmen, Italians,
and ,ba ba,iahs, Frenchmen and Portuguese,
formess gan Of but one of them all. In
yesso,r Sr years, of the same number of
At le,s tha IN this port, SO per cent. of them
Pens.ery least had been "Emejuicers.
ofed dsacola rs News: Tom Donald, (col-
abont" t".no'was arrested in jackson county
.kilHn, smo weeks ago, charged with the