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

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DIR. Mary Walker draws &6 day as
clerk of the Special Committee on Woman
Suffrage.
The bill to place Gen. Grant on the
army retired list, with the rank and pay
of General, has passed the senate.
The Senate has passed bill appro-
priating 100000 for the relief of suffer
ers from the overflow in the Mississippi
valley.
Mr. Calvin J. Combes, of Charlotte,
N. c., offers the fifty families Jewish ref
ugees fifty acres each in the mountain re-
gions of that State.
1t seems that the Crow Indians will
furnish the annual Spring war on the
frontier. They have already commenced
their depredations by killing traders and
stampeding stock.
Reports from Helena and adjacent
places confirm the former tales of wide
spread disaster from the floods. Several
lives have been lost and terrible want
prevails. Elsewhere the worst is over.
1t required 1000 cars to carry ex-
hibits to the Atlanta Exposition, but 200
were sufficient to take away those which
remained unsold. Nearly everything ex-
cept the heavy machinery found pur-
chaser.
The shovel-makers in the United
States manufacture $4,000 shovels every
week About one-half of them are used
at home and the other half are shipped
abroad, mostly to Panama and South
America.
The Florida Fruit Growers Associa-
ton was in session at Jacksonville during
the fair. Lack of space prevents an ex-
tended notice of this and the other i'm
portant organizations which were in ses-
sion in that city last week.
General Albert, U. s. A., under whose
direction survey Of the Potomac river
front has recently been made, estimates
that it will cost about 100000 to i'm.
improve the Georgetown and Washing
ton harbors, including the filling up of
the fats.
nm -. .~.~u va IucvuanIcal tools
and farming implements assessed for tax
alton in Alabama is $3O5, 800, while the
guns, pistols and dirks are valued at 1854
600, or $40, 900 more than is invested in
farming implements and mechanical tools
combined.
Hon. A H. Stephens celebrated his
SEVENTEEN birthday on the 18th inst, by
grand dining and reception at the Ma
tiOnal Hotel in Washington, on which
occasion he was the recipient of many
handsome floral tributes. Among those
most admired was one from Mrs. Ellen
Call Long, of Tallahassee.
The nomination of ex-senator Conk-
ling as Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court is accepted in New York as a mott
6cation from the President that his friend
ship for that distinguished statesman has
not been impaired by recent events The
half-breed politicians received the
news with a feeling akin to consterna-
ton.
Mr.. Call has offered a resolution in
the Senate providing for a congress of
representatives from all the governments
Of NORTH, South and Central America, to
convene in Washington, for the purpose
of agreeing upon some just method of
settlement of all questions now existing,
or that shall hereafter arise between the
governments
Mr.. J. M. Brown, of Galveston,
Texas, has offered 100 acres of land to
each Of the so jewish families expected to
arrive in Philadelphia, with the proviso
that they shall settle on the same. If
these people are made to properly under
stand the superior advantages Florida
possesses over Texas, they will readily
accept. 40 acres in the former in prefer
ence to 100 in the latter.
Macon Telegraph: Samuel w. Small,
ESq., has bought the interest of Col. w.
J. LAwton in the Daily Florida Union,
Of Jacksonville, and will at an early date
take position upon its editorial staff.
Small, as we have had occasion more
than once to remark, is a full Pledged and
versatile editor, and can make himself the
right bower of any journal with which
heconnects. Wewaft him our best wishes
for success In the /" Land of Flowers
The Chattahoochee and East Pass
Railway Company was organized in Jack
sonville last Friday, with II. s. Haines
President, W. P. Hardee Secretary, and
the following Board of Directors, H. S.
Haines, w. s. Chisholm, W. P. Hardee,
Willis Clary, Henry N. Drane, Ben. E.
Russell, d. N. Monroe. This proposed
road Is in the interest of the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railway, and If
built, win virtually be an extension of
that road from Bainbridge to the Gulf
The Aduapce- Gazette, in . wellwrit-
ten and forcible article, presents the name
Of Colonel George G. McWhorter, of
SAnta Rosa county, for the consideration
Of the Democratic Congressional Conven-
ton Of the First District to be held dur