The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-09-26
STATE NEWS.

Marion county wants twenty-nine
school teachers.
A four-eyed toad is the latest curios-
ity at Madison.
A gentleman proposes to establish a
paper at Yalaha.
The Democrats of Alachua are or
ganizing campaign clubs.
The Pensacola Board of Health have
torty-nine nurses employed.
Mr.. VIM. Munroe, an aged an respec-
ted citizen of Quincy, is dead
A variegated palmetto has been dis
covered in the woods of Volusia county
Capt. w H. Carroll is announced as
associate editor of the Live Oak BuLIetin
Two cnterpriSing young men pro-
pos 10 establish a tannery at Apalachi-
cola.
Br". Pratt says there is talk of col
"r'd mans paper being started at Pa
iatka.
MIR J. : lIancs, an -employc of the
Pensacola -ld,once GozeHe, died of yellow
tcv,r on the 18th.
-Laborcrs have arrived at Tampa to
work on the jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West Railroad.
The Democrats of Orange county
last Saturday raised the first hag-pole for
the present campaign.
1t is estimated that one thousand
names will be stricken from the registra-
ton list of Jefferson county.
DR. J. ;. Brown, of East Florida, a
life long Republican, openly declares that
he will vote for General Finley.
Florida ranks as the ninth State in
the temperance phalanN, having 653 in
habitants to each drinking saloon.
Mr. J. +. Grady was unanimously
nominated for the Assembly by the Dem
ocrats of Franklin county on the 18th.
The assessment of the Disston lands
in Hillsborough county increases the as
sessed value of property in that county
over 100000
The Democratic convention of Baker
county, held at Sanderson on the 18th,
unanimously nominated Mr.. w. =. Horne
for the Assembly.
BY the accidental discharge of a gun
III the hands of Mr.. 5. Carrera, of st.
Augustine. last week, his little son was
seriously injured
The Democrats OF Madison have
nominated Mr. c. W. Stevens for the
Assembly, in place of Mr.. J. b. Marshall,
who declined to run
Monroe county, though this is an off
year, says the Key West Democrat, will
poll a larger Democratic vote than ever
before, and don't You forget it.
Second, third and fourth-class matter
from Pensacola for Jacksonville is quar-
antined. and tirst-class matter is detained
from T. to n hours for fumigation
w. +. Anderson, Grand Master of
the Masonic Order in this State, appeals
to the fraternity in Florida to contribute
to the relief Of the Pensacola sufferers.
r. \. W. Fowler, of Clay county,
= % 'mocratic nominee for the Senate
frrn ..c Twcnty-eighth District, com
pcs. d If the counties of Baker and CLAY
fhc taxable property of Marion
c'uu was returned last year at about
Sl.5on,00o. This year it amounts to
more than S2,3O0,00o. This large in
crease is mainly due to the taxable rail
road property.
Madison Ne,r Era: eve understand
that J. * u. Coats, the great spool thread
men, have purchased from Captain Jno.
l. lngliS part of his depot property, and
intend erecting a factory and cotton seed
OIL mill thereon"
At the recent municipal election held
IN LeeSburg one negro, two white Repub-
licans, one Greenbackcr and one Demo
crat were elected as the Board of Alder
men, and DR. y. {. Stevens (Democrat)
was elected Mayor.
A new station, Glen st. Mary, has
been established on the Florida Cen
trail and Western Railroad, near little st.
Marys river. \ hotel and several dwell
ings are being erected, and it is said that
large colony will settle there SOON
The Reporter says the farmers of
Columbia county expect to make more
bacon this year than usual Some do
not expect to depend on the West for
meat next year at eighteen cents a pound,
when six cents pound will make it
at home
Asa Carter, colored man, who as
sanlted and robbed a peddler between
this city and Townsville, in June, 1879,
was captured in Jacksonville last week
and taken to ThOmasvlle, where he is
charged with larceny and an assault with
intent to kill
Mariana Courier "Each and every
Democrat must work from now until the
sun goes down on the 9TH of next Novem-
b-r. Talk to your friends, tell them the
folly of voting for Nc or skinner We
have DrOmisad Davidson 6yo lu1J -o1