The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-28

now being laid. Can win run acuas Il ~ a,
endless cable, and win take four mina,es 20 MAKE
the passage from the City Han 10 tlie teD Of The
Hill in Brooklyn, distance OF Tire. quarter Of
mile. The cost of the bridge has been nearly
$4,000 900, but It win probably BIZ fnished In
side Of $15,000,00O. Immediately ION lis com.
pletion there win be transfer Of one hundred
thousand New Workers 10 Brooklyi. on account
of the high rents on Manhattan BLAND. New
York people dislike New, Jersey. and want to
live under the laws Of their own Susie, which are
altogether more liberal and reasonable
The silk industry is revivng in Louisiana
the reports Of this springs Matching being very
encouraging Intetes. in the culture b growing
and inducements are offered to silk workers to
come from France and engage in. the business.
The first exports of silk from Louisiana were
made as far back as 171s The culture of silk Is
also being revived in South Carolns and Georgia,
and preparations are being made for going into
the business in Florida. The time. lie not remote
when the "mosus nulticauls fever" will be
as prevalent as fifty years ago, when The demand
for the silk mulberry was 30 great that fortunes
were made by supplying cuttings from the trees
Tho National Temperance Convention met
in the Methodist Church, Saratoga, on the 2lsi,
and organized by the election OF j. L. Bailey, of
Pennsylvania, as temporary chairman Speeches
were made by Rev. DIR. Homer Katon, of Sara
toga, Mother Stewart, of Ohio, John, B. Cough,
Mrs. Thompson, of Ohio and Others. Upon the
report of the Committee on Permanent Organi-
cation, Rev. DR.. A. J. Gordon waselected Pres
dent. Committees of Resolutions Finance and
the Order of Business were then appointed, after
which Miss Frances E. Willard, Of Illinois, gave
a glowing account of her temperance tour
through the South, and the cordial. reception she
met with from Southern people 10 every part,
from Virginia 10 Texas,
=" Chatham writes TO the Savannah Nelcs
from Atlanta-H will be gratifying to the peo-
pie of Florida who were interested In the edu
cation of the Indians who were confined in old
Fort Marion, at st. Augustine, to know that
$4,000 building is being erected at Hampton
Va, for school TO educate Indian girls, the
boys being well provided for at the Hampton
Institute. The Protestant Episcopal Church is
deeply interested in this great movement, and
has contributed literally 10 its success. The
little educational germ planted among the In
dian captives at Fort Marion, and transferred 10
Hampton, has grown into mighty tree ofknswl
edge, beneath whose spreading branches thou
sands of Indian boys and girls will yet be edu-
Gated TO a better knowledge Of civilization and
Christianity
There is a regular dearth of lAborers for the
cotton fields, says the Raleigh Nexs and Observer
Last season choppers " put up prices from so
cents day TO 60 and even 70 cents This sea-
son the prices have been advanced to 81 per day
in many instances, we have heard that $110 is
being paid Labor is very scarce, and farmers
are complaining loudly of the difficulty in get
| ting it. and of the outrageous prices demanded.
| They all declare there is no money in cotton at
these figures. But there would be money in
cotton" if those engaged in growing il would
| initiate those who manufacture%it. When the
market is glutted and there is no rnoney in max
ing cotton goods, their rule is to-" shut down"
either by closing their mills temporarily or work
| ing short time until the surplus u seduced II
is only the cotton grower who is blind to hisOWn
interest The worm is better friend to him
than he is TO himself. If half of the crop planted
this year is devoured it will pro1e blessing
| in disguise" to the planter TIC remedy is to
reduce the crop by reducing the acreage. This
done, there will be plenty of moaey in cotton"
and prosperity throughout the cotton belt
Right in the middle of one of The most book
ish quarters in New York, right uAder the shad
ow of the Astor and the Mercantile Libraries,
close to the treasures of old books guarded by
| DOutOn and OcrlDner, IN Broadway Just by Ast0r
Place, store not long ago was occupied by a
| hnO hnfo e -
dollar-store." Beneath the flaming and incen-
diary placards which offered million volumes
within, for mere song, and on an improvised
stand in the street itself were hundred or more
copies of bulky and gandily bound book. Gu
riosity urged the writer to discover what book it
was which was thus selling off regardless of cost
1t proved TO be a tawdry subscription book, q
biography of General Grant, supplemented by an
account of his travels, and lavshly illustrated in
the usual style. II had originally been published
at three or four dollars copy Now it was Of
fered at ninety-five cents What a fall was
there, my countrymen. Nay, more; by way of
adding insult TO injury, the poor tonnes were sur
rounded by firery placard, which besought the
passer-by to purchase this great work for the
small sum of ninety five cents, adding with all
the dignity of small caps-that it was WORTH
MORE THAN THIS PRICE JUST TO FILL UP THE
Book CASE ~ Philadelphia american.
The Savannah Aoraing Neas IS adding
number of much-needed improvements 10 its al
ready large and wellappointed establishment,
among which is steam elevator for hoisting the
forms, which was used for the frstdime on Mon
day morning of last week As i. sometimes the
case, says the NeaOs. when first: trial is made.
there was slight accident. The daily edition
of the Nescs had just been worked of, and the
outside form was being brought up to the CON-
posing department On reaching the fourth floor
the pressman became little beWillered with
the working by steam, and failed 70 pull the stop
ping rope in time. The consequence was heavy
jar, which pitched the form from Che bed of the
elevator to the floor, striking so. heavily IS 10
spring the chase, and the entire first page, filed
with reading matter, was entirely g pied min
ion, BREWER, nOnpariel and headlines fearful
mass and tumble. The foreman and compost
ors were at once notified, and by half past eleven
O'Clock every type was sorted and distributed in
the cases The magnitude of such q feat can only
be understood and appreciated by The fraternity.
1t was credit to the efficiency, sill and swift
ness of the Ae,cs typos, and the greater in that
they had been at work at the case all night
We mention this en- passdnt as worthy Of record