The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-26

The Wheel Of FORTUNE" b attract
Fsiy advertised in the Pensacola paperA
A DR.. Wallace, of Baltimore, died Of
y sumption On the 18th inst, At Matt
I'D
Mr.. Thomas McNamara, an old citi-
r. Of jacksonville died in that city last
*
The sweet potato crop is failure in
uih Florida, according to the Tampa
b szndia1-
A SEede, named August Segren,
se-umiit~d suicide by jumping into Lake
Nay, n-ar Sanford last week
-imon Moody, the murderer of Mr..
heA, IN Columbia county, has been re-
sBrsd and ~rnt to Wise's camp.
-MrS My F. Bethel, reliet of the
r. Judge l. W. Bethel, died at Key
p - On the 10th inst, aged 90 years.
"A gin-house belonging to Mr. Joseph
~. four miles from Lake City, was
I'D on Saturday night the 10th inst.
The Key West Democrat is doing
AM service in the good cause. 1t is
D Of the most thOrough-going of our
= 10cratic exchanges.
The Tampa Guardian thinks it shame
I 4 Witberspoon has had only &l1o of
< lnI,aign funds, and has to meet many of
b appointments on foot. Too bad
The Telephone reports a severe gale
b the mouth of the st. Johns on Thurs
{ night, and the signal service officers
> on heavy weather all up the Atlantic
G Al during the inst days of the week.
-WitberspOOn had ten times as many
?. ople 10 hear him speak as Conover had,
and vet Conover holds all the campaign
funds5 but merit goes every time before
money. but COnover don't seem to know
G-IaDPa Guardian.
We have written during the last
y k, lays the Jacksonville Union of the
2sth, three letters to Tallahassee, not one
o. Ehich has been received there. This
= > strange occurrence, especially as it is
O. the eve Of an important election.
A dispatch from Washington dated
9 iober 22d says "a board has been APP
, iuis-l, consisting of Commodore Ransom
=. evil engineers Menocal and Prindlee,
= inquire into the efficacy and general
e iiition Of the Pensacola, Florida, Navy
] I'd.
Hon ID. L. McKinnon of Jackson
G luiy having declined to accept the sup
p Of Republicans for the State Senate,
= = have promoted T. K. Jordan to be
G. 3idate for Senator and nominated
a fber cOlored man in his place for the
= --embly.
III steamer Amite reached here Mon
Z - frum ST. Marks, on her way to New
o ana She had a freight Of "a bales
b -.ats'n and 372 sacks of cotton seed for
latter place. This ought to stop here,
p ne hope We may have facilities for
ding II before long.-PensdcOLa Ga
= zsfEe-
The contractors for the Jacksonville
and FerIIan-.ina Railroad began laying
IN track Ia the city of Jacksonville on
q day. commencing on the north side
b lay street, opposite Chase & Thomp-
, = bo4l-yani. About four hundred Ia
a-rs are now employed all along the
Es-,.0,,1Is,<r 4f:-~o~
On Monday last, in the presence of a
b - crowd Of deeply interested specta-
\ =, the frSt steamboat which ever float
b On the waters of Santa Fe Lake was
= nehsd with appropriate honors and GER
p ,'iiiss, under the immediate auspices of
2 Santa Fe Canal Company, of which
p Ned Z Farrell is Chief Engineer,
> 8 Hon. ID. S. Place, Mayor of Waldo,
: --cretsry. Many visitors from other
b aiifies were present, and the affair
P--=ed Of without accident or difficulty of
~ kind. Miss Elva N. Place, the fair
ng daughter of the Secretary, per-
0r.ned the act Of christening and named
T. new steamer, F. s. Lewis. The boat
. - feet in length, 1e feet beam with a
p IN or saloon so feet in length. Too
n-eh praise and credit cannot be given
p be promoters and managers of this
bauis Fe Canal improvement for the
lest, quiet, unostentatious and per-
ifisut manner in which they have pros
< ted their enterprise to q successful
borclusiOu.