The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-06-18
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS.
.,rrS IND COMMENT Nv BRIEFPARA-
GRAPHS.
STATE PRESS CLIPPINGS
..r RrsY HUN OF PROGRESS WAITED
FROM ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

lanes Campbell of Oviedo receiv-
% $40 for twenty barrels Of Irish
potatoes
F. l.. Ball, late principal of the
.olored school at Tampa, skipped out
Monday night by the light of the
moon. Among those he got the
host of were: Jerusalem lodge for
about $3.50, NJ. Lovengreen for abo ut
s4O, E. Buggs for about $40, Isaac
Howard for about $l2, the "bazar"
hud for about $40, V. Traeye for
about sl5 and several others.
Nearly 1000 cases of oysters were
condemned by the board Of health
at Fernandina Wednesday.
The Moskegan lumber mill, three
miles southeast from Jasper, on the
Georgia Southern and Florida rail-
wsy has been purchased by j.
Maulden of South Carolina; and is
now running on full time.
Governor Fleming has offered
500 reward for Joe Stephens for the
killing of Sim Scarborough at Melrose
on January Is and for Joseph Holden
for the killing Of John S. Par at La
Crosse on October 30, 1881.
Freight shipments on the Savannah
Florida and Western Wednesday
were the heaviest since the vegetable
season began. There were twelve
cars of vegetables, one OF them being
a car of watermelons from Evanston
going to New York.
The citizens Of Manalee county are
rejoicing over the prospects Of new
courthouse. which was decided upon
by the county commissioners al their
regular meeting Tuesday. A 5-mill
tax for two years will be assessed tor
the purpose. The building will cost
about $4,000 and material used in
its construction will be brick and
stone.
Key West Equator, June +: J
Forgarty has been the only buyer ot
sponge IN the MAJ ket for several days
past. He has purchased $1,000
worth Of fine sponge in the past Two
days and shipped eighty-seven bale:
. On the Concho last night. Since Feb
ruary he has bought $4,000 worth
for the NolIman Sponge Company
Several years ago d. G. Erwin o,
St. Lucie, when clearing land on hi!
homestead place near Indian rive
narrows, discovered a number Of in
teresting mounds. They were
/. promptly reported to the Smithson
ian Institution. From the description
furnished them the officers Of that in
stitution's division of ethnology pro
nounced the circumstances unusually
favorable. After some correspon
dence it was agreed that the content
Of these mounds, when explored
should become the property of th'
institution, kept together as who'll
and labeled as a group, Since thel
the mounds have been kept inviolat
and guarded almost religiously
aWaitlng such time as would be mu
tually convenient to conduct syste
matte exploration. Their expects
non have been, in a measure, frus
tfated. On Tuesday, May 81, MI
Erwin left home to 60 to his post
othce and store six miles distant
Heavy rains came on and he did no
return until the next afternoon of tn
tuesday following. Daring thi
ofief absence unknown parties wen
upon the place and rified one of tn
hfgeft and most greatly prizes
MOUNDS Of its contents. Three sep
sfate excavations had been made
fragments OF skulls and arm bone
,eE by the vandals show it to he Lh
sarlai place Of an ancient race
What the find was is known to thos
s0o committed the depreciation, bu
= 1t great or of no value, it ma,
lose costly to them in the end
lEo years ago a like attempt wa
5aae to dig into one OF the larg'
vel mounds on the place, but tn,
Iies were surprised and fed
1sober of this season has been Sc
!. 4 he time TO photograph and explor
asse mounds, and until then it Is thu
pe OF the Smithsonian Institution
= they may be protected.
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