The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-07-19

sSh inst, and one in Petersburg, Va, on the 7th-
-ConkIing has been calling at the White
noase He did NOT enter but left his card with
the door-keeper.
The AIachua County Agricultural Associa-
ton sent an agent 70 New York with car load
Of melons last week
The Presidents condition has continued 10
improve steadily, and the physicians are now
sanguine Of his recovery.
u r Keene has presented $1,000 francs to
the pOnF Of Paris, out Of his winnings in the
races for the grand prize Of Paris.
The Beach Hotel at Fenandina will be
opened August 18th. by N. N. Folsom, an expe-
r'enced bOtel-keeper Of jacksonville.
-General John e. Pembertou, died at Penllyn,
Pa, on the 18Th He was born in Philadelphia
IN 1917, and was graduated At West Point in 1887.
Mr. Phillip Joseph Gomez, an old citizen OF
ST Augustine, and the father-fn-law of State
Senator Genovar died on the 9th inst, age II
years.
"A negro named Robert Bell died in Balti-
more last week. whose life was insured IN various
o,mEs.nies for 100000, all of which had been
effected by " syndica,es."
-Thirly-iwO car loads Of melons have been
shipped fn,m Townsville up TO yesterday. They
will average ab"u, 1000 each. Seven car loads
we're sept via Savannah. and twenty-fiv west
ward
On the Sab inst at Knoxville Tenn, at a
sE-ciAl meeling ol the stockholders Of the Knox
vile and Ohio Railroad Company. the road was
transferred 10 the East Tennessee Virginia and
Georgia Railrnah for $1,152,OOO.
is the American played out? At the exam
iuAIiOn at Yale College last week all the hOnOrs
were carried of by foreigners. An Israelie had
the bcsi college record, German was second,
while Cinnamon, Mr. Chung, won the prize in
defamation.
The man who sued a theatre manager at St
Louis because the best seats for a certain per-
fOrmance, though advertised 10 be put on sale at
an hour when he was there TO buy, had already
been put into the ha nds of speculators has gain
ri verdict Of 500
The first bale of cotton of the season of 1881
raiss-l by Messrs. NJ. Hanseman, Dewitt & Co,
Consigned 10 T. W. House, was received on the
9Th inst. at Galveston, Texas, and sold for 1925
To A Harris d Bro, and consigned by them to
Lehman Bros, New York
AT The Pittsburg Driving Park ON the 18th,
Maud S. tToiied in 2:10l beating her best record
by of a second This was the official decision
but one Of the judges held that the mare had ac-
tually covered the ground in 2:104. The driver
Of Mand s. said she could have made it in two
seconds less.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad COM
pany valves the privilege Of giving four months
NOUS for the stock of the Louisville, Cincinnati
and Lexington Railroad, and is now paying casl
for all stock presented. The total amount paiC
up 10 the present time is 42.075715. The stock
amounted to $2.JOO.OO0.
The gross earnings OF the Louisville and
Nashville Road for the year ended June 80, ag.
gregaie &l0,9l0, l39, and the operating expenses
were 62.67 per cent of that amount, leaving net
earnings Of $4,334.O7O. It's net earnings have
keen over per cent, but surplus is reserved u
meet any possible contingencies.
"A Danville, Va, blacksmith, who is evi
IDENTIFY convert TO the Malone theory of {" re
adjustment" has posted the following: "Notis
-ipt cDDaTu0eI5ulD ucTctOlO It8lStlO& lWIAl INT
and Nose Skinner is hereby resolved. Den
what ows de firm will settle wild me and dem
what de firm ow will settle wild Nose"
-" What is 1905 t"-Ez We dislike to de.
nnuncs il as fraud, but to answer the question
plainly: il is phYsic of some sort, prepared by
worms. Such medicine his advertising contract
Ors propose footing up advertising fees with
Jnsi think for q moment-ApOpka Times.
DIR. J. c. Whiting, of the Board of Health al
Pensacola. reports that since the arrival of the
Emma Payzant with two cases of yellow fever on
bnard, the quarantine physician has reported five
new cases No deaths have occurred since the
lever made It's appearance. DR.. Whiting thinks
there is no danger of the disease spreading n
Pensacola
An order was issued from the Post-officc
Department. ON Saturday stopping mails and pro-
hbiting the payment of money orders, addressed
tn A. G. Morton, alias the Ponce De Leon Co.
and the Georgia Supply Co., Of Atlanta, Ga. The
parties are alleged TO be engaged in a scheme fol
obtaining money through the mails by means Of
false and fraudulent representations.
The Baltimore Gazette remarks that there
are several remarkable condolences in cOnnec
lion with the lives and deaths Of the Gar and
Abraham Lincoln. Both were the great eman
cipatOrs Of this generation; both died by assas
sinatlon; the chief assassin In each case was
injured and his death followed speedily; q
woman was hanged In both cases and the execu
tons in both cases took place under martial law
and on q scafioId surrounded by troops and In
garrisOned capitals"
Oyster canneries, says the New Orleans Pc
avune. are springing up along the Mississippi
sound, and shrimps arc canned TO some extent
in New Orleans. Many OF the fine fish Of the
Gnlf could be preserved in cans. and now that
public attention is being directed to this source
Of wealth. there Is reason 70 hope for the spring.
Ing up Of new industries connected with the fish.
cries along the entire Gulf Coast Cnbs arr
now canned on the Atlantic coast on q large
scale; our shores literally swarm with these
she'll fsh. The myrads Of sardines, II useful
Tor no other purpose, make . valuable fertilizer
Mr. II. L Kimball. The energetic manager d
the Atlanta COltos Exposition, 70 take place this
fall, has hit upon novel plan Of taking care Of
the creature comfort Of visitors. The hotels Of
Atlanta, Il 10 spprehended. VIII be unequal "a
fnrnikhlag bed and board for tia thousands who
win gather here In October. Mr.. Kimhall, h
ehfa n.Nwwn~ru r~xo~<aea m aak al fhe v,<os,la ~