The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-28

WnlCn nave Oeen PE9sA01ssS Vs.
twenty-five pounds Of dry, wstsr slacksd
lime, and twelve pounds powdered sal
soda Twenty gallons of water win satu-
rate the mass, and more may be added -
required. In two or three weeks the
bones will be soft enough 70 turn out on
the barn floor and mix with two bushels
of good soil"
General B. F. Butler and Hon. Roger
A. Prior have formed professional part
nership for the practice of law. If these
two men, who were once prominent rep
resentatives of ell that was bitterest and
most sectional, says the BGlsimorsdn, can
forgive and forgive the past, there would
seem good reason for believing that the
bloody chasm" is about filled up in the
breasts of less hearty haters.
-Sherman's three per cent. funding
bill has passed the Senate. This is .
Democratic measure which Sherman OPP
posed q year ago, and persuaded the
President to veto, but he and his party
are now obliged to come to it. His con-
duct is remarkable instance of financial
somersault, and is evidence of the wisdom
of the Democrats in the last Congress In
bringing forward this measure.
-Ex-President Zachary Taylor's
daughter, who now lives in Virginia, re-
ceived from the treasury of the United
States the sum of $4,000, which was the
exact amount of salary that would have
been paid General Taylor had he lived
until the expiration of his term of Office.
The payment was made in accordance
with authority contained in the de-
6ciency appropriation bill passed June
10, 1880.
The Hon. Cassius M. Clay, of Ken
lucky, has written a letter urging the
nomination of Hon. Samuel j. Tilden as
the Democratic candidate for the next
Presidency. He says: Montgomery
Blair is right when he says that Tilden
should have been our candidate in 1880,
and again should be in 1884," Astute
politicians contend that there is some
thing back of this, which will be devel-
oped before long.
The total number of failures in bust
ness throughout the United States, dur
ing the year 1881, is reported by R. G.
Dun & Co. to be 5,5s2, with liabilities
aggregating something over $s1, OoO, 900.
In 1880 the number was only 4,7S5, and
the aggregate liabilities $4,000, 900.
This increase, however, is not considered
very large one, when the enormous
growth in the volume of trade is taken
into consideration.
One of the wealthy and fashionable
women of GAINESVILLE, o., astonished large
company of keno gamblers by walking
coolly into the room where they were at
play, accompanied by policeman. She
was in quest of young brother, who had
become possessed of an uncomfortable
mania for gambling; and she not only
took him away, but secured enough evil
dence to convict the proprietors of the
place, which was closed.
Speaking of the recent tariff con-
vention the New York Herald says:
"The professions of tender interest in the
welfare of the workingman that were
made were truly beautiful But why did
not some one explain that while the rep
resentatives of the infant industries are
becoming richer and richer under pro-
tective tariff, the American mechanic is
becoming poorer and poorer under the
same blessed dispensation ?"
There has been some comment over
the fact that the subcommittee of the
Senate Committee on Appropriations in
vestigating treasury department expendi-
lures continues to sit with closed doors.
Members of the committee say they have
the best reasons for this, as will appear
in due time. The character of the mem
bers of the subcommittee is such as to
inspire confidence that the investigation
will be searching and impartial.
The Khedive of Egypt has been In
terviewed by an American newspaper
man, and pays the following compliment
to our schools: Often, too, I go to the
schools myself, and, if I say anything,
point to the United States for an example.
l say that its greatness is due to the edu-
cation of its people, to their enterprise, to
their liberty of speech and freedom of
thought, and urge my people to become
likewise educated, free and great.
Some one who has been making a
critical analysis of the membership of the
House committees discovers that the
members from those States which made
Mr.. Keifer Speaker have been given
the chairmanships Of thirty-6ve of the
fifty.one committees. In the thirty-fve
all or very nearly all the important GEN.
mittees are included. This shows that
MIR. Keifer is one of those men, SO difficult
to find in these days, who does not forget
his friends.
The Mobile Register wonders how
the North, which has been so considerable
toward the rank and file of Southern of.