The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-27
FLORIDA HAPPENINGS
nc,vD cOMlLENT IN BRLEFPARA-
GRAPHS.
sr.VE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
The BUSY HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
.,ou ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
,orrs ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

rLo sbinping of veget ables from Haines
City has begun
nora house at Tampa.
Same of the farmers of Madison county
.re planting corn.
A summer Chautauqua on the beach
~ Fernsndina is among the probabili-
r. ;s said that there is at least six candi-
a.,ss for tine Office of superintendent of
oounty usaTd schools of Alachua county.
norton of the peach crop at Orange
c.r has been injured by the frosts, but
,Ssye Sg are still good prospects for crop.
The Ocala rifles have received 5000
tom the State as part payment on their
back dues.
Australian oaks are becoming popular
sr shade trees in Leesburg and many are
being set out.
Florida has shipped up to date nearly
s0OO0OO boxes Of oranges during the
present season.
Hotel Egmont at Fernadina will again
he thrown open for the reception of guests,
Cant D. W. Pratt of Boston having leased
the property for a term ofyears.
The directors Of the Madison County
Tobacco Growers Association have con-
trscted for the building of three tobacco
barns. each to be 5S feet wide, 80 feet long
and 12 feet between joints.
The corner stone of the new Methodist
church at Reddick was laid Thursday
Rev. ]. B. Ley of Ocala was master of
ceremonies
The Sanford postoff1ce sends out daily
twenty-five mail pouches and from ten to
twelve sacks of mail matter, receiving
the same respectively in return.
The South Florida Telegraph company,
owned by the Plant system, has com
pleted its telegraph line from Tampa via
Lakeland, Barlow, Sanford and other
points to Gainesville
Canst. Sharp has shipped to New York
several tons of MANILA and hemp cordage
saved from the wreck of the Minnie
Louise at Fernandina He will get from
two to four cents per pound for the same.
John ". Cox. the founder aud organ
ner of the Bone Valley Phosphate COM
pany of Polk county, has sold his inter
est in that CON mpany to the president, 0.
I. Gray, for handsome sum
Editor Williamson Of Iverness has sue
ceeded admirably i'll having the $50, 900
worth ot stock Of the Sell-at Home Or
ange Market Association taken. Already
$4,000 of the stock has been subscribed
for.
Leesburg Commercial There are more
excursions Of tourists around our lakes
this winter lhan ever before. There are
many attractions here and there is 30
reason why Leesburg should not be made
one of the first resorts in Florida.
The new county court house at Iuver-
ness is not near completed aud it is not
likely to be ready for the April term of
court. The highest point of it's dome is
S1ty-five feet from the ground. The
building will be a handsome one when
completed.
hev. }. P. DePass, in charge OF the ex-
perlmental station at the Lake City Ag-
ncuitural college. was in Ocala Wednes-
gay, having made an address before the
narlon County Farmers All ance, Tues
bacco"
There was organized at Ocala Saturday
we Normal Extension Institute and Cen
uai business college. The incorporators
are II. n. Fclkel, Tallahassee Daniel
: campbell, DeFuniak j; NJ. L. Payne, W.
O. @ bullock, H. H. Schwerin, Hon. A. p.
paskln and F. E. Harris Of Ocala. Prof
1eiKel was elected president, Schwerin
STecle'ary and Bullock treasurer. Messrs.
,relkel, Payne and Baskin are directors.
ane college will soon be> open for busi-
= Madison Recorder: J. Fl. Tillis, one of
oaosden county's most successful and
p.oereSslve tobacco planters spent a
@aple OF days in our town last week on a
visit to the superintendent Of the Madi-
son - County Tobacco Growers associa-
EOn. Hs MIR. Tillis realized 81, ,561. .88 from a
TOO, no,e less than eight acres of tobacco in
.oel, oelng about $500 per acre he will
PAM this year about thirty acres His
,sss years crop of tobacco is said to be
~ue ~ OF the finest, if not the very finest,
Nv; Sto~n IN Gadsden county, and was his
'0ird crop Of the weed.
nj. uoTsDurg Commercial There is q gen.
,ha I,aG FLORIDA curiosity in East Leesburg at
s.s sae nome OF j. NJ Bissontza Some time
Mf. bissontza concluded to dig q well
-. . as YARD: He had gone down but eight
q. NV mnen The well digger suddenly came to
vS,as' ounole'like, 8 feet in diameter, into
Me-. . lusned . stream of pure, crystal
A ~. rs large In volume 40 mans body.
ie.c 0s pump and buckets were brought
W., W. a,s q, 70 bail it out bat 10 no purpose,
ths ea ~; mi. Biesontza proceeded TO wan In
no. M s sr bubble" with brick, and Gays he
bs ouas uas well Of as dne, pure water - can
ec, Juno anywhere He thinks the water
nom some subterranean spring.