The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-13
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Secretary Blaine, it is understood,
win retire from the State Department
about the 18th of this month, and prior
to his retirement will give dinner to the
diplomatic corps.
Secretary Folger has called for the
report in the case of Edward J. Evans,
the clerk in the Sixth Auditors Office who
was charged with improper behavior with
one of the female employees of the Office,
and il is said that the report sustains the
charges, and Evans will be removed.
1t is said, and what is claimed to be
reliable information, that certain Csbi-
net officer has,. since his appointment to
Office last March, put into good places in
his own department sixteen of his near
relatives. He ought to be popular with
the family, but most likely they think
he has not done enough for them.
-Guiteau locks back with disgust on
the period Of his life when he was MEM
Der Of the Oneida Community. He adj
mits that he was badly cranked " at that
time, and denounces the society as mis-
cradle affair. He ought to have felt at
home there, for that offensive social exper-
iment was. carried on by particularly
bad lot of cranks of both sexes They
had the merit of industry, however, and
it was probably the necessity of working
for his board which made his life among
them SO irksome to Guiteau.
Over 1000 hands are at work on the
Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad, says the
Mariana Courier of the 9Th, and they
are coming in every day; this looks like
we will have a railroad soon. Captain
Chipley is business man, and intends to
have this road put through as soon as
money will do it. Can Brother Marshall,
who gives such interesting reports of the
road every week in his excellent paper,
Gazette, tell us when track-laying will
commence at Chattahoochee, and whether
or not the cars will run from Chattahoo-
chez to- Mariana before the Chattahoo-
chez bridge is completed?
The Richmond Dispatch informs the
Republicans of the North, who profess to
have all the morals and most ofthe wealth
of that section, that the "Bourbons of
Virginia are I" the owners of foundries and
factories, and the merchants and the other
men have been thoroughly liberalized
by intercourse not only with the Northern
people, but with those of the world at
large. In Alexandria, Lynchburg and
Staunton, the same is the case. The bulk
of the influence of those intelligent COM
munities was, on the 9Th instant, thrown
in favor of honestly settling the State debt
with her creditors. So as to the most
wealthy and intelligent rural districts"
The arrest of President Calderon of
Peru and his Minister for Foreign Affairs
by the Chilian authorities rendered
prompt action by our government, which
had recognized him as the Chief Execu-
tive in the new administration, necessary
As soon as dispatches could be prepared
the Secretary of State forwarded his pro-
test to Peru Walker Blaine, Third As
sistsnt Secretary of State, and VIM. H
Prescott sailed from New York for CallaO
on Saturday, in the steamship Colon,
bearing these dispatches. It is under
stood that, while their purport Is in the
line of vigorous protest against the vio-
lent measures taken by Chill, they do not
contain an unqualified approval of Mr..
HurlbuFt's course in the premises.
The Union Of the 7th announces that
the early building of the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railfoad Is assured
and that Jay Gould, s. J. TiIden. Gov
ernor Cornell, Winslow, Lanier q Co.,
Milton Weston Of the Chicago Belt Line
Railroad and other capitalists have
taken the matter il hand and viii push
the road TO completion. The road will
run on the west side Of the river to Pa
lalka, and thence direct TO Tampa. A
steam ferry Is to be established from Pa
latkA to > point on the opposite side Of
The river, and = road run from there 20
T7lasville, distance Of over ore hundred
miles The contract for grading this
hFsueA Of the road has been let 70 6rm
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