The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-03-15

William r Frye has been elected oy the
legislature Of Maine TO succeed Mr.. Blaine in
Tie United States Senate
The Fernandina Mirror of last week states
ihai j: understands that no publication Of the
laws passed az the recent session will be made.
The XTrrT Is in error as the laws viii be printed
10 book form. as usual, al an early day.
We pm; on the fourth page OF this issue .
reriion Of the list Of laws enacted at the recent
session of the legislature cartfuIly and accurately
prepared a7i verified by the original enrolled
bills The remainder OF the list will appear next
week
There Is said to be an emigration boom
from Prussia TO the United States The Berlin
correspondent of the London Times says :
Whole villages are described by the local
papers a. migrating from Posen, Prussia proper,
and SchleSiwig."
The Jacksonville and Fernandina railroad
III be finished about the Goth inst, and on the
25-l there i % be 4 Tremendous celebration OF
lie event. lie programme of which includes
i-nqles. excursions. regattas, specchiying, FIRE
zc-ks and other amusementS
The French Government, having invited an
ia;e1naiionAl monetary conference, President
Garfield has nominated and the Senate has CON
frned eN-Secretary Evarts. Senators A. G.
Thurman and T. 0. Howe as commissioners to
represent lie United States.
The President has nominated Levi P. Nor
fyn. Of New York, as Minister Plenipotentiary
q France He will succeed General Noyes who
figured so conspicuously in the Florida count in
- o=aHo f fir,A 10
D. booked for Secretary of the Treasury.
The Washington correspondent of the
World saws: Eek Senator Conover, Of Florida, and
ex-Police Commissioner Wheeler, of New York
are said 10 he anxious TO be Second Assistant
Postmaster GENIAL and William A Grer of
q Pennsylvauis, who voted at Chicago for Gar
fed from the first ballot, is one of their CON-
TfiitorS-
The Congressional Committee of the Ma
iional Greenback party have issued an address
10 lie people of the United States, setting forth
the evils caused by the national banks and great
corporations, and recommending the forma-
lion Of clubs in every village in the United
States. with a view to q more thorough and
Efficient organization OF the party.
- Gath SAYS "The tally sheet kept by
SensfoT Hsmlin, one of the Senate tellers, when
fsoiei Up gave Hancock q majority of thirty
electoral votes Not being expert at figures, the
SENATOR had counted Vermont and several other
Republican States for Hancock. The other
tellers discovered the errors and substituted an
other sheet as the one from which the Official
declaraiion was 10 be made
There IS some comment touching the fact
hat Senator ConkliDg has not yet put in an ap-
Pe2rance al the White House. As he has not
crossed its threshold for over four years. it is sug
gesied he may not know the way there When
Senator Blaine went 10 the White House with
General Garfield on Inauguration day, it was
Just three years and seven months to . day,
since he had visited the Presidential mansion.
A Yield Of So, 200 900 of gold and silver for
the last fiscal year is . handsome exhibition Of
he productive industry of the United States in
his line California still heads the list of gold
production, having supplied 81, 100000 of the
aggregate Of 436300OO0. Prior to the discover
ies in California in 1s47 North Carolina produced
one-ihird Of all the gold mined in the United
States Her product during the year ending
June 30, 1880, was but $4,000.
About 400 acres Of land, with beach nearly
q mile long, not far from the Navesink Park, has
been purchased by the Atlantic Highland As
sociaiiOn for seaside resort, TO be controlled by
lie Methodist Episcopal Church. The capital of
the association is $4,000. divided into 500
shares The price paid for the land is about
10000 Other denominations are asked 10 Join
IN The enterprise. Work il be begun on tenting
ground and cottage plots soon as the weather
permits
One Of the great sources of wealth in the
state Of Alabama, the development of VI ich has
only begun. is what is known as the Warrior
oaal field. This is . vast deposit of btu
miDOus coal. 5000 square miles in extent The
tack begins about eight miles above the head of
navigation on Black Water river, extends on
both sides and Is IN position very convenient for
mining purposes. The river Is the coal basin, %
that mining may be done on large scale with
out shafting.
.-Certain Boston capitalists who are largely
interested in the prosecution Of railroad enter
prises IN Colombo and the southwest are said to
be actively engaged in Q scheme for making San
Diego The most sOulherly port Of California, the
entrepot for q vast system Of transcontinentAl
rzilway trafac- II i proposed, according to the
New York TEAes. 10 connect the city Of San
Diego with The vast network Of railways which
has the Atehis0n, Topeka and Santa Fe Road
for iis backbone. and the projected Mexican rail-
way scheme Cor one Of liz feeders.
Garfield kissed his mother That was the
point of the inaugural which viii stick IN every
home Of the any millions. Yea" said IN old
friend Of 0arAeId's yesterday, he d dramatic.
He gave hat little turn. knowing how Is wsuld
t0aeh every man who ever had Q mother. and
every woman who ever had or expected to have
soa- He d The ahlesi President in the an Of
putiing things since Lincoln. He cenceivo
everything with regard to iis eject upon the
popular mind he b intensely ambitious and
destitute Of moral principles but be has some
ding most ~ good. the wisdom 10 know that in
ths nation . nan 70 stand wen before ihe people
has sos 10 Be moral. religious and sas.s-4Prfs1-
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