The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-12
EDITORIAL BIIEVITIES.


reported at Newport, Il. l., last Thurs
day
Money is being forwarded from New
York to Brownsville, Texas, for the relief
OF sufferers from yellow fever.
The electric light is unpopular at the
summer hotels because it Is a " dead give
away on the artificial compilations.
There occurred at Panama, on the
9Th, one of the severest earthquakes ever
known on the Isthmus. Many buildings
were damaged, but no lives lost.
The Mariana Courier says: "Col.
Davidson can put down his majority in
Jackson county at five hundred. We
are going to give it to him
The Coroner's jury in the case of
savage and James rendered a verdict to
the effect that they came to their deaths
by the hands Of unknown parties.
Hon. X. II. VI. Davidson, in his can
vass III West Florida, is greeted with
large audiences everywhere, and great
enthusiasm is manifested by the peo-
pie generally.
Hon. VIM Bryson, who was elected
Senator from SuWannee county four years
ago a. an Independent, again announces
himself as and Independent candidate for
the same position.
-Murat IIalstead, who is good Re
publican authority, and editor of the Gin
cinnati Conmerci0I, says that % 900 Re
publican Germans of Ohio will vote the
Democratic ticket this fall That will
give the Democrats a handsom majority
in Ohio.
A Key West Dispatch to the Eniom,
dated the 9TH, says: "The Democratic
Convention nominated c. Il. Pendleton,
of the Key West Uen,ocrdt, for the Senate,
and Messrs. Bethel and Perkins for the
Assembly. The primary meeting was
the largest ever held in this city"
The Radical would-be bosses in the
First District, in seeking to form coali-
ton with 4 few sorchcads and renegade
Democrats, have acted upon the suppose
ton that the colOred masses who make
up the Republican party are mere cattle
to be driven wheresOever the leaders saw
They will find, however, that there are
thousands of them who won't be driven
worth a cent
Major J. {. Gallaher was nominated
for the Senate from Suwannee county by
the Democratic County Convention which
met at Live Oak on the ID inst r. f.
Allison and a. J. Mcleod were chosen
for the Assembly. The nominations were
tremendously made and this indicates
satisfaction with the ticket and deter
mlnation on the part Of the Democracy
% the county that Suwannee will do her
whole duty in November.
Mariana Courier, Sept. Z: I'VE
have just seen letter from gentleman
who has recently travelled much in Wal
ton, Holmes and Washington counties
and he says the people in those counties
are waking up to the importance of stand
ing by the Conservative Democratic
party and give a good solid vote for it
and of sending men to the Legislature
who are honest and worthy and true to
the interests of the country; that indie
pendentism is dying out"
The editor of the BrooksviIle Ores
cent, writing to his paper from Jackson
vile, utters this little chunk Of wisdom !:
Every indication now is that we shall
have largely increased immigration this
fall and winter. But don't let this pros
pect induce the people to try to kill the
godse of the golden egg by putting the
prices Of land too high, because there is
plenty of land elsewhere. The goose is
a big enough and old enough goose to go
somewhere else to lay"
The Tampa Tribune, which has here
tofore favored the policy of assessing the
Disston Company's lands at &I25 per
acre for the purpose of taxation, has
changed its views. 1t says: "Col J. J.
Dunno, General Manager of the Florida
Land Improvement Company, arrived on
last Saturdays steamer 20 look after the
COmpany's interest in this county. He
paid the Tribune Office a pleasant visit,
and by explaining the future interests of
the company as to its method of disposing
of its lands, convinced us that it might be
good policy for the County Commissioners
to reduce the assessments of the Com.
pany's lands to what the company paid
per acre. The policy of the company as
to future disposal Of their lands was fully
determined on last May, and viii shortly
be announced TO the public, and it will
commend itself as wisely considered, and
will accrue to the general prosperity Of
the State"