The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-12-26

Albert Palmer, Democrat, has been
elected Mayor of Boston by over 1900
majority. +?
-SumterFille has been incorporated.
and Mr.. Jno. F. Shecut, editor Of the
Times, elected Mayor.
1T is said that Chicago bakers spice
defective eggs /" until the in6rmaties of
favor are overcome.
The Picket Guard is a neat and
spicy little paper, published by Charles
Smith, post printer, at St Augustine
-Messrs- Rowley & Beck have bought
the Pensacola Progress, and will continue
It's publication as the Florida Express.
"A post-ofice has been established at
the new town of Lee, on the Florida Cen
taal and Western Railroad, seven aud
half miles east of Madison.
"A Chinemah on jury in New Or
leans failed to agree with the other eleven.
That is, be refused to chip in and send
out for beer every fifteen minutes.
III am asked VINO is the greatest man
answer the best and if required t" say
who is the best, reply, he who has; de-
served most from his fellow creatures,
1t is said that the cost Of converting
the heather has been reduced to about
t25 q head. 1t is great loss to this
country that the hostile Indian is not
heather.
"A Mississippi physician says the day
is not far distant when cotton-seed oil will
have taken the place of lard the world
over. He prononuces it much purer than
lard, and a great deal healthier.
The Florida peuitentiary cony;cts
have been hired to Mr. IL NJ Wood, OF
Live Oak, for 1883 and 1884, at $500
per annum, or s., 500 more than was re-
allied from the contract for the previous
two years.
Hon. James Gilfllan, United States
Treasurer, has purchased 5000 acres of
land in Polk county for a company III
Washington. The land will be improved
and 1000 acres planted in orange trees
next year.
Capt. w. G. Waller, who some
weeks ago purchased the Thomasville
Enterprise, has assumed editorial manage
ment Of the paper, and promises that it
shall be strictly Democratic-true to the
principles of the organized Democracy.
Savannah Nesos o2d: "Rev. J. o.
Branch yesterday handed us a radish,
grown in Calhoun county, Florida, which
IN size is the largest vegetable of that
species we have ever seen. 1t weighed
81 pounds, was IL inches long and l6
inches in circumference"
General Newton w. Curtis, cons icted
Of violation of the United States statutes,
in collecting assessments from office,hold-
e1 for political purposes, appeared in
court in New York, on the goth, and
paid the fine of $1,000. The court d.
rected the entry of an order discharging
the General from custody.
Jacksonville Union, 22d: "Cot. IS. l.
Wales, of Washington, ID. c., United
States Land Commissioner for Florida,
has just returned from Tallahassee, and
informs us that the Surveyor General has
been ordered to survey some of the unsur-
veyed townships in the State, by which
means the State will resume possession of
good deal of land that has been unlaw-
fully occupied by other parties.''
The General Passenger Agent If the
Louisville, Nashville and Chattanooga
Railroad is reported as saying that he
never saw such rush South as at pres
ent More people, he says, have eInigra-
ted to the Southern States, and especially
TO Florida, in the past few months than
for . year previously. A number of them
are eastern people, though the majority
come from Chicago and the Northwest.
The southern country is gradually draw
ing the emigrants away from the West, as
they are beginning to..realize the fact that
they can get better and more profitable
land In the South for less money.
Augusta (Ga) Chronicle: "Itis in
the range of possibilities for the Sonth TO
spin every pound Of cotton made upon
her zelda Our mines are being developed,
and al the iron that we need can be an.
earthed within the limits of our own sec
ton. So, too, with gold, coal and miner
ais of all kinds Our forests abound with
sluxuriant growth of timber; our farms
furnish all the food and provender neces-
ssry for man and beast; our orchards
abound with fruits that cannot be ex.
eslled in tropical chimes; our gardens
give us vegetables,of the most superior
hind, and everything conducive ta the
health and happiness of man is 10 be
found within our borders."
Major A. J. Russell, Secretary d the
Stsse Park Association, being interviewed
bya Union reporter relative to the sState
Fair, which opens at Jacksonville on the
18th day Of February next. says: A puch
greater interest ID manifested in tho ap-
preaching State Fair than he has knowu
for any time in the past. Parties from