The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-30

The vote in Pensacola on Monday
last on the question of settling the city's
debt under the arrangement, between the
council and the creditors, resulted in q
majority in favor of such settlement of
four hundred and seventy-nine.
The Hour, weekly paper published
in New York, makes the positive an
nouncement that the Hon. Samuel J. Til
den is in the field as a candidate for the
Democratic nomination for President in
1884. The Hour says that "with the
shrewdness and foresight for which he is
remarkable, he has carefully surveyed the
field and has reached the conclusion that
the time has come for the redress of the
great wrong which he believes was done
to himself, to his party and to the country
by the reversal of the popular verdict and
the Inauguration of fraudulent Presi-
dent in 1876"
An experiment with carp, made by
one of the editors of the Thomasville En-
terprise, resulted rather disastrously
They had been placed in small pond
which seemed to be going dry and it was
decided to drain the pond and remove
them. This being done, the carp were
found NON est, except few embedded in
the mud. Of the larger size, 16 in num-
Der when put in, only Z remained. Of
smaller size 20 in number were put in,
only about dozen were found. Several
fish of other kinds-perch, cats and pike
were found, and it is supposed that
these, together with the cranes and other
wild fowl, had destroyed the entire lot
Of carp.
What Secretary Window is entitled
to credit for is that he has actually saved
the United States something like ten or a
dozen million dollars of interest on the
maturing Indebtedness of the government
which no provision had been made to
meet. 1t is all very well to say now, ip
the exercise of that hindsight which comes
SO easy to nearly all of US, that Secretary
Window ought to have secured a continu-
ance of the and per cent. bonds at
per cent. interest instead of 81 per cent.
Probably if the secretary had the BUSH
ness to do over again, with the light of
his recent experience to guide him, he
might do it even better than he did, but
the whole thing was an experiment.
The Boston Herald gives the Geor-
gia Legislature the following hard hit:
Director General Kimball of the Atlanta
exposition has actually had to go before
the finance committee of the Georgia Leg
islature to argue the question of whether
it would be worth while for the richest
commonwealth in the South to invest
$4,000 in state exhibit! If Georgia
were sandy desert, instead of State of
marvellous natural resources, both agri-
cultural and mineral, the advisability of
appropriating funds for an exhibit might
be questioned. The appropriation con-
templated by the bill only amounts, as
Mr.. Kimball puts it, to one-twentieth of
cent for every acre of land in the State;
only four cents upon every bale of cotton
produced in the State this year; or only
one and third cents per capita for every
citizen in the State. If it is the idea Of
the lawmakers of Georgia to allow the
Atlanta fair to advertise the resources of
every other Southern State but theirs,
they may as well withhold the appropria-
ton.
Mr.. T. B. Connery, who has been the
managing editor of the New Yerk Herald
for number of years, is to he retired
upon pension, and the Hon. Francis
Lawler, now one of the editors of the
London Telegraph, is to succeed him in
the management of the Heold at salary
of $2o, OOO The city editor Of the Herald,
Mr.. Meigham, goes to London to repre-
sent his paper there. Mr.. Charles Nord-
hof win be the principal editorial writer.
in the place of the late Mr.. Chamberlain,
with the aid of John Russell Young aud
Mr.. Joseph Howard, Jr. The new man.
aging editor was ct one time member Of
Parliament, and was also privste seerets-
~ to Mr.. Gladstone. he was sent to the
Confederate States by the London Times
during the civil war - its Richmond cor
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