The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-20

..v hotel has been opened at Indian
Beach.
ud McAllister will arrive in st. Au-
',ns sns toward the end of this month.
Brooks (colored), editor of the
ralds Ledger, has been appointed in
fMnr IF customs at Key West, vice Rev.
ssSrce @ ". Witherspoon, deceased.
~. Rantists of Callahan have CON-
osd Irsd work on their church building. It
D M he SOx4O feet and is being erected on a
y ~ donated for the purpose.
rsnewspaper firm of Moore & Manucy,
,ao Fernandina Mirror, has dissolved.
=. ~ former continues the Mirror, while
~ au' after . has purchased the plant of the
Ensndina News.
!, ;s now pretty certain that an Odd
SHOWS lodge will be established at
ii.soland twenty-three members having
G"Ts .cned already the petition for organiza-
ion and but two more being needed now
= s oomplete the required number.
Prescott & Fitzgerald, owners Of Port
7amUa City, have purchased controll-
NO interest in the Apopka Advertiser
unfit and will move it to Port Tampa
rSN They will publish paper advertis-
ncthe advantages and real estate of that
sry little seaport
The st. Augustine Guards are to obtain
,ou fat;oue uniforms shortly. They will
he United States regulation for infantry.
The guards, since their organization in
1855, have been enrolled as artillery, but
tbe act of July II, 1891, reorganizing the
state troops, made the change into in
hntry for this organization necessary.
Monday DR.. J. A. Henshall of Key
West shipped two loggerhead turtles,
each weighing 200 pounds, and one large
hawk-bill turtle to the fish commission at
Washington. He now wants only one
other specimen of turtles, trunk-back.
He says Commissioner Mcdonald and
Captain Collins of the commission had a
fls turtle dinner off the green turtle
shipped from Tampa.
Mn Mary E. Bryan has sold her inter-
est IN the Old Homestead of atlanta to
Charles BYRD and given up the editorial
management of the MAGAZINE for the
present. She has been for the past month
travelling in Florida with her young son,
who was 50 i'll this winter. Mis-. Bryan
has bought an orange and pineapple farm
On Indian river at Coquina, three miles
below Rockledge.
The steamship Comal, which arrived at
Key West Thursday, brought from New
York small steam tug, the Alice L., con
signed to E. R. Gunby, collector of
Eustoms at Tampa, in care of Collector
John Z. Horr, of the custom house service
p Key West. Heretofore at Tampa it
aas been necessary for thel custom house
pmceS to wait until there was a vessel
saElng port, when they wished to go to
quarlntine station at Mullet Key.
me- matter was laid before the customs
apartment at Washington and they
'aced that a tug was needed at that
sfesh strawberries, beans, potatoes, corn
sS W. tomatoes, and all kinds of early vege-
.Oes are the luxuries that are being en-
Eeo by the citizens of Barlow.
Ao Prltchard, who lives six miles
sa!n OF Lake City, picked from his grove
vary trees 5O,400 oranges this season, at
soa OF two plowings only and the pick
saud boxing.
Barlow News: Our real estate dealers
g 9, receiving propositions of every kind
~ shape. Anything is offered that will
tsa Ife a slice OF Florida pebble phosphate
s ~; d 7. M. Sfansbrough, of the firm oil
s.d IN brown g. Go. of this city, is the re-
~ sseG. y Of TWO very flatteripg propositions.
y. %s Is magnificent 3-story brick hotel,
.aa all the latest and modern improve
= muts, only two blocks from railroad de-
NJ n 10 10 a, growing city Of 5000 population,
s;nu ~ Cioee proximity to the large. -four
saqs Mus Guy Of MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. An
t proposition OF like nature is to ex-
use valuable hotel property at Long
~ .sn: ~ N. D., for pebble phosphate lands,
-. a letter from Chicago, to the Lees
commercial says: "The Columbia
sC cn manufacturing Company was in
81 "lased yesterday with capitalize
VI 100000. The incorporators
~ h ,aat this process will revolutionize
nran BUSINESS of producing starch. The
I'M y tSy Is an Independent organization
n = tha .''e starch trust. The incOrporators
hSos. new company are Leonard NJ.
~: G. Parker and George L.
II fges. The chemist superintendent of
LnoU WORKS, n! which will be located at
IN a Sa n nCity, in Dade county, Florida,
4. = Ss C, Dr. Julius, who built and managed
knina Eia'cago cage Glucose Company's works
ftSa ''e ;.y years. TO the DOCTOR said one
1 dua a'ncsorporators 70 yesterday, the credit
,nnst tor the formation of the new
s,sra ssny. 1t came about through dis.
lat nc made while visiting at Key
hrch a. mere he saw a crude article of
Ne - man aau On investigation found that it
kns,a manufactured by some Florida
Re scoontm s ron a tubular growth known as
q mont COGntr plant. The doctor analyzed
Il tba b0euct a and found that it was starch
sdsSnnnan is nnsst o kind. He went to Florida
saaty qnr =, That nat Dade county, the southern
sih ,ho oi the state of Florida. abounds
ss ~ he ,g growth. In that coupty is an
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