The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-04-25
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After he ends his arduous labors in
South Carolina, the Utica Observer sug-
gssts that Attorney General Brewster
should investigate the Indiana campaign
Of 1880.
"A Keokuk Qowa) dispatch of the Goth
says that the Mississippi is rising SO rap
idly that another overflow is looked for,
and the people on the lowlands are pre-
pairing for it.
The steamer Rodgers, sent in search
of the Jeannette's survivors, has been
burned and sunk in Lutka Harbor, St.
Lawrence bay. The officers and crew
are at Tapka, waiting for relief The
government has ordered the Corwin to
go to their relief
In referring to the Importance of an
early geological survey of Florida, the
Jacksonville Times says: There can be
no doubt of the eminent desirableness of
such survey, and every legitimate infu-
ence that can be brought to bear to secure
it should be used"
The Union says: cit is said that
the Gordon syndicate are in charge of
the new railroad project from Jackson
vile to Columbus, Georgia, by way of
Tallahassee. The completion of this pro-
ject would put Jacksonville several hun
dred miles nearer to the Great West"
The New York Herald suggests that
the subscription for the benefit of Mrs.
Jesse James will probably be pleasant
thing. The people of Missouri will carry
this affair through unaided, strangers who
formerly passed through the State having
subscribed long enough for the support of
the family.
The Charleston Neps and Courier
protests in the name of justice against
the outrageous packing of juries now al
lowed in the the United States Court in
Charleston. 1t declares that the CRY of
the entire prosecution of the political
cases in that State, as we'll as of the court,
is :" Let no Democrat escape."
:" Independentism," says the Month
cello Constitution, invariably leads to
Radicalism. In other words, men who
switch off from the Democratic camp, un-
der any pretext, never fail to turn up in the
Republican Wigwam- Malone, of Virginia,
hasrecently proclaimed that henceforth his
faction will cooperate with the stalwarts
of the Republican party.
The New Orleans Times Democrat
estimates the losses, direct and indirect,
consequent upon the present food, at
HO0IIJ v0v,vv0,Vvv, 0nu o0y0 o.,VA
mates are even greater, while statisti-
clan justly observes that the cotton re-
gion overlooked, were it all cultivated,
would produce enough in year to go a
great way toward extinguishing the Ma
tional debt"
From all over the South, says the
Jacksonville Union, we have the most
cheering agricultural reports. The crops
are said to be magnificent. The South
seems entering upon an era of great pros
perity. If our people will only learn the
art of saving money, learn to avoid ex-
travagahce and wild speculation, the fu-
ture financial greatness. of the South is
assured.
1t is common superstition, and
nothing more, the New York World
thinks, that it is unfortunate for man
who cherishes aspirations for the Presi-
dency to serve in the Senate. "Of our
Presidents" it says, Monroe, John
Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren,, Har-
rison, Pierce and Buchanan had been SEN
atOrs, while Garfield was Senator-eIect
when he received the nomination TO the
Presidency"
Chicago Tribune: If there were in
Massachusetts,, as there are in California,
one-half as many adult Cinnamon as legal
voters if one-third Of the whole popula-
tion of Boston were Chinese, as is true Of
San Francisco; if the Chinese were de-
scending on the old Bay State at the rate
of 10000 to 10000 per annum, as they
are now descending on California, cry
for help would go up that the country
would be compelled to heed. nn
"A total suspension of building opera
lions is threatened in New York if the
strikes of workmen engaged in the build
ing tradesarepushed much further, One ar
chitect recently countermanded orders for
FIVE apartment houses, the aggregate coast
of which would have been about 3eOO, 900,
the higher prices demanded for Labor, to-
gether with the advance in building ma
terial, rendering It impossible TO do the
work at anything like profit f. Inay
"a Jacksonville Union /" Mr.. @. Va
Horne publishes IN the Key Vest Demo
erdto o. TRADE against the drainage of
Okeechobee. He says the fall claimed is
not there, and that the proposed drsinag 90
n H. an impossibility. The fediier of the
DsDso~0t says. hsiis going to lock into
tie matssss and asks If the scheme lie .
; swindle 2 We advise the Democrat 10
90 slow on Mr.. Van Homes statement (;
: hs'beiongs 20 the sour grape brigade. I"
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