The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-14

- Wellt f-IOur Slates Oh inns great /
country now rejoice in Democratic Gov
srnors-
-keelry. the inventor, asserts that he
- NOW ~orking night and day to com
lsleie he morton in time To take out the
patent on December 10th.
A Pensacola special Of the 18th says:
GeilOE feEer reports for the past two
daEs giTe seven new cases and two deaths.
The weather l. fair and warm.
-Csptain Alfred Hopkins, United
state Navy, will toe trled on a charge of
abandoning his post at Pensacola during
ile prevalence Of yellow fever
A Law has recently been passed in
Denmark which provides that all intoxi-
Gated persons shall be taken home in car
riages a. the expense of the landlord who
sold them the last glass.
They are having some cold weather
N the Northwest Al Minneapolis, Mimi,
navigation closed on the Missouri river
On the 18th, and later advices state that
the snow Is twelve feet deep in the far
Eesf
New York l. now entitled to the ban
Der for having east the largest Demo
cratic majority ever given by State.
Texas l. the proud possessor of the flag
a present, but she will gracefully sur
render II TO the Empire State.
The Democrats have majority in the
Congressional delegations from twenty
one States. In the event of the next
Presidential election being thrown into
the House this will enable them to secure
the election Of Democratic President
1t Is now stated that the loss by the
overflow Of the sugar plantations in Lou
isiana last spring was greatly overesti'
mated The crop in Iberia parish will be
nearly double that of last year-say 225,
500 bogsbeads OF sugar to $4,000 last
yezr's crop This years crop may reach
250,O00 hogsheads.
Sir Richard Temple reports that na-
tires Of India, in many sections of the
country, believe that the yield of Indian
CROPS j. gradually decreasing. Sir Rich
ard himself believes there Is some ground
for This view He is certain that the soil
d India does not produce nearly as
much a. the soil in Europe" and that
- virgin soil, broken for the first time III
al parts Of India, Yields much more than
II ever Yields afterward."
The first trial of Mormon polyga-
mist under the Edmunds law has ust
been held al salt Lake City, and it ended
IN smoke 4 man named lIintze had two
Eires. sought 10 take a third, and was
hauled up There was no sort of doubt
about the fact, but in court the second
marriage could not be proved. The sec
oDd wife would not admit that she was
married, nor that she now cohabitated
with Hintze. although she had a child
called by his name, and the case was dis
missed
The Vicksburg Miss Heratd says
there is more " life and boom" in thai
section than for many years before. II
says people are hunting real estate t.
lend money on at per cent. interest pei
annum, while three years ago money
could not be borrowed on plantations il
that potion Of the country at any prize"
Eight per cent per annum seems high
but the Herald says" there are very few
who cannot borrow money at per cent
and make double that per cent. from tn
use OF Il"
AT a banquet the other evening il
London, Lord Charles Beresford, who's
gallant exploits with the gunboat Condo
Al Alexandria made him so coDspicuou
and so popular, in responding to the toas
Of 1.-The Navy" paid warm tribute t.
the service rendered by the American
after the bombardment The Americans
be said, ike brothers, joined the small
band which he had under his command
saving that blood was thicker than water
they worked splendidy and he coul'
never thank them enough.
Says the 81. Louis Republican: "Th
South is not only going to raise goo'
deal more corn this year than it's owl
needs will require, but it has alreSl..
contributed to the foreign export suppl
quite . considerable quantity of whea
and oats. Baltimore reported receipts o
1885,, 500 bushels of wheat last week, an
nearly all Of it from south Of the PoIo
mac, while New York with its tire
great trunk line railways and the Fri
canal, only reported receipts Of l,s34,oo
bushels. This is most conclusive ey
deDce that q new programme has bee
initiated in the agriculture of the South
Who can tell what the results of futur
years viii be?'
When the South gets to growing
her own grain and grass, and with then
raising her own supply of meat and but
Ter; when she gets to manufacturing ane
marketing her own textile, wooden, stone
leather, and metal fabrics; when from
her own ports she sends out her owr
products, In her own ships, to the martt