The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-07-16
NBRsAND C0KkENT IN BRIEFRARA-
GRAPHS
STATE PRESS CLIPPINGS.
THE Busy HUM OF PROGRESS WAITED
rRox ALL QUARTERS OF FAIR FLORIDA
NOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS.

factured during the French and In.
dian war, and has all the improve
& ments of century ago.
The county commissioners of Ma.
rion, at their late session, opened
bids for the north half of the Jail lot,
including the Jail building, and re.
ceived but one bid, that of the city
of Ocala, for $4,000, and the same
was accepted.
The Arcadia, Gulf Coast and Lake
land railroad has obtained right of
way over the military reservation on
Gasparilia Island, and a grant from
the lighthouse reservation of 1900
feet water front, commanding all the
deep water at Boca Grande Pass.
The company has been organized and
wiH commence construction at an
early date.
Fernandina News: William Mehr.
tons, who lives at the O'Niel place
on the mainland, was arrested and
carried before Judge Schuyler for a
preliminary trial, charged with kill
ing a horse belonging to Oscar
Thiede. He was also charged with
carrying concealed weapons. The
judge bound him over in the sum of
5000 to appear at the next term of
the circuit court, and 800 on the
charge of carrying concealed weap-
ons, until next Tuesday, when he will
have a hearing before his honor,
Judge Schuyler
Sheriff O'Neil of Nassau county
has received the death warrant of
Edward Bryant (colored), the date
of execution being fixed tor August
3. Bryant's crime was rape, the
victim being a colored girl, thirteen
years OF age. The pardonirg board
has refused, under strong pressure,
to commute the sentence to life i'm
prisonment, but it is possible that
new facts may yet be brought to it's
attention in behalf of the prisoner.
The sheriff read the warrant to
Bryant in his cell last Thursday. The
condemned man says that he is pre-
pared to die but processes his inno-
cence.
The Port Tampa Mail announces
the establishment of a mail steam
ship line between Port Tampa, Fla
and Colon, a port on the Caribbean
sea at the northern terminus OF the
trans-isthmus railroad. The steam
ers will also stop at Greytown, the
entrance to the Nicaragua canal,
Bluefelas, the leading banana port
OF the world, with yearly exports OF
!, 81 500, 900, and several other ports
OF large Importance. A commerce
of great dimensions crosses the
isthmus of Panama by the Aspinwall
and Colon railroad, and large pro-
portion must necessarily find It's way
into the United States through Port
Tampa, and this mail Service will
prove the tOrerunner of an extensive
line of trade.
Monday morning a negro man was
found locked in one of the Florida
Central and Peninsular railway Sec
ton houses on the outskirts OF Hamp-
ton. he was fearful sight, being
unconscious, covered with clotted
blood from stabs 10 HIS arm and
shoulder aud having the back of his
head crushed in with spike hammer
which lay near by. Robbery was the
incentive, as his pockets were all
turned and his lat gore. No letter
or anything was found ON his person
by which to identity him. A negro
who gave his name as John Williams
hired to the section bose, John Hud
SOD, on Friday. He and other negro
section bands occupied the cabin.
The Others left him there aiurday
evening and requested him TO hide
the key at a certain place. The key
was found there this morning and
John gone, So it is supposed that
he decOyed the others to rob and
N ider him.
The colnred workingmen OF Ocala.
following the footsteps of theil
white fellow woI kmen, have organ
lied On association for mutual bene-
IT. 1t has the name Of '4Ocala
Mechanics Mutual Benefit Associa
ton, same a. the other. The off,
GERS elected for the ensuing year are
3 ". Tdwell, president, aud F. A.
Only, secretary.
Oviedo Chronicle: At the orange
growers' convention at Orlando last
Hnesday Major Marks made an offer
% the growers, on behalf of New
kOrk and Chicago capitalists, that
s7s per cent. Of The oranges grown
eouth OF Lake George would be
n|ledged 60 the syndicate they would