The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-23

The total taxable property of Her.
nando county for this year, 1881, is
valued at 1926, 10000
Secretary Blaine, through Minister
White at Berlin, has invited the relations
of Baron Steuben to attend the Yorktown
celebration.
Our magnificent navy has 1900 men
and 1893 officers Most of them are
ashore for want of good vessels to take
them to sea-
The ouly man who holds place in
the New York custom house at Gar6eld's
request is Harrison Willard, the composer
of sentimental songs.
"A large Touring mill was struck
by lightning and consumed by fire at St.
Louis on the 18th, causing loss to the
amount of $4,000.
-Ex-President Grant has bought a
New York residence for sos, 900. Bros.
Jones and Childs will please pass the hat
again as the house must be furnished.
Hon. H. w. billiard, late American
minister to Brazil, has reached the United
States, having turned over his Office and
appurtenances to his successor. He will
soon be in Georgia.
"A new tax bill has been introduced
in the Georgia Legislature, because $50
large a percentage Of taxpayers in that
State return their property at much less
than its actual value"
During the last fifteen years of
slavery, the South raised 4e,675,59l bales
of cotton. During the first fifteen years
of freedom, that is from 1865 to 1880, the
number of bales produced was Sc, 438, 1886.
John Roach & Sons have received a
contract from the Mallory Steamship Line
to build two iron steamships-the Quad
aloupe and San Marcos-to run between
New York, Florida, Nassau, Galveston
and Mantanzas.
The London Daily Nesos says that
England will send United States bonds
instead of cash TO this country to liquid
ate debts amounting to $15,OOO,OOO, and
that France is boarding gold to meet
American demands.
20. II. Browning, ex-senator from
Illinois, and ex.Secretary of the Interior
under President Johnson, died at Quincy,
Ill, recently, at the age of seventy-fve
years. He had been very prominent in
the politics of that State
king Alfonso has ordered that Cuba
abstain from participating in the forth
coming International Cotton Exhibition
at Atlanta, Ca, on account of the scarcity
of money in the treasury and the little
cotton thus far raised in Cuba.
-Ex-Treasurer F. E. Spinner declines
seat in Congress because of his "sense
of propriety and justice to Others" 1t is
so rare that declination is put on such
grounds that many will regret that Mr..
Spinner feels called upon to mention them.
Leo Hartmann, the Russian Nihilist,
has become United States citizen by re-
nouncing his allegiance to Russia, in order
to escape little anticipated unpleasant
ness; and Joaquin Miller, the poet, has
become Nihilist- So that "honors are
easy"
The celebrated Dummit Orange
Grove, on Indian River, has recently
passed into new hands, and the present
proprietors have conceived the idea of
sending the Summer crop to New York
for immediate consumption upon its ar
rival there
-Vennor is already, no doubt, pleased
at the veri6cation of his prophecy of cool
weather between August 18th and August
goth. If he could only guess at the
weight of hogs as well as he does at the
weather, he might make a small fortune
at country fairs.
Sitting Bull surrendered because one
of his braves was shot through liver
pad that an agent had sold to him for a
shield, and was killed. Sitting Bull had
based another campaign on the pad, and
the failure of the invention disheartened
him.-MGcOn Telegraph.
One of the features of the Atlanta
Cotton Exhibition will he the manufac-
ture of suit Of clothes from raw cotton
in twenty-four hours The cotton will
be picked, ginned, spun, dyed, woven, and
made into suit of clothes for Senator
Brown inside of one day,
The commissioners of emigration, in
New York City, have determined to sue
the steamship companies for the amount
of inspection tsx-viz, one dollar per
head, due under the legislative law. 1t
is estimated that Eve hundred thousand
dollars per annum may be derived from
this source,
What with Indians, and drouth, and
cloud bursts, and tornadoes, and grass.
hoppers, and Thermometers that skip
from 100 degrees in the shade in Summer
to 40 degrees below zero in the Winter,
the people of the great and glorious West
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