The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-19


Maine goes Republican by reduced
majority aud Arkansas Democratic by an
increased majority.
Hon A. H. Stephens denies having
given the definition of the term Bour-
bon which is going the rounds of the
press as having been made by him to a
visitor
In the Criminal Court at Washington,
Miner and Rerdell, two of the star route
defendants, have been awarded new
trial. to commence on the first Monday in
December
Data published by the Times Demo
crat. show that all the Southern cities are
feeling the influences of the Southern
boom, and report an unparalleled increase
in all departments of trade.
Isn't the jacksonville Times over
doing the Madison matter? 1t is one
thing to denounce crime but quite an
other to endeavor to brighten people
away from the locality because of it. a
paragraph in that paper of the 9Th is in
excusable.
The Times Democrat estimates that
the flood of $50 cost the Southwest over
$40 900 900, of which SIS, 100000 fell to
Louisiana's share To replace this loss
will require nearly 100000 bales of cotton.
The amount is greater than the net profit
of one entire cotton crop of the Mississippi
valley.
The official proceedings of the Quincy
Republican Convention, signed by the
President and Secretary, give Skinner A.
votes and Mckinnon 80. 1t is now said
that the most if not all Of those who
voted to endorse McKinnon have since
recanted. This perhaps accounts for the
bad humor of the last Spectator.
"A dispatch of the l eth gives the fol
cola: Only ten new cases and no deaths
have been reported for the past twenty
four hours. Among the new cases are
Deputy Sheriff Mcintyre and Mr. Wis
neat, merchant, whose wife is very i'll.
There is to-day feeling of encourage
ment.
The Democrats of Alachna county
nominated the following Legislative
ticket last Wednesday: Messrs Chas L.
Fildes, B. J. Earle, j. S Dupuis, J. O
Cosby. Mr.. Fildes is editor of the Bee
and was member of the last Legislature.
From the published proceedings we learn
that the greatest harmony and good will
characterized the deliberations of the con-
ventiOn.
1t is rumored on the streets that the
Skinner and McKinnon factions are about
to unite in this county. Skinner, it is
said, has secured the ear OF the Hubbell
Committee in Washington, and this
guarantees "the needful" What will
McKinnon do? Will he subside or re-
main in the field to give aid and comfort
to those who fattered him with hopes
and then dropped him like hot potatoe?
Professor E. E. Barnard, of Nashville,
discovered comet on the morning of the
I4th, located near the star lambda in the
constellation of the Twins. 1t is reported
as being bright in appearance, but the
direction of its motion has not been OBJ
tanned. A dispatch to Harvard University
from Rio Janeiro announces the dis
cOvery of another comet visible to the
naked eye. 1t is stated to be probably
Pou's comet of 1912. This is different
comet from the one discovered at Nash
vile on the 18th.
-" What" inquiries the Boston Herald
" is the use of attempting to find out what
the Republican doctrine is, when the Re-
publican practice is so clear? The light
est action of that party, in district, State
or nation, browns its weightiest word. 1t
breaches economy and practices extrava-
gance. 1t promises reform in the civil SER
vice, and makes the gathering OF spoils
Its chief business. II talks tax reduction,
and votes to keep up taxes. Why should
it not be judged by its deedsG" If our
contemporary will keep it up on this line
till November, it will probably receive
satisfactory reply to each of its inquiries.
The Portland Argus, the leading
Democratic paper in Maine, says of the
results of Mondays election in that
State 1t was Waterloo, and the re-
suit may as well be accepted philosophi-
cally a. otherwise 1t is no use in crying
over spilled milk. All the Unionists
have got to do is to take courage, gather
their forces together, and mar ,h-wherep
The Republicans will have their own way
for the next two years, and perhaps they
will conduct the affairs Of the State In
such . manner that the people viii rise
in their might and rebuke them, but that
i very much 70 be doubted. when col
many Of them ean be purchased" ! u