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Mr. Joseph Voyle, who returned on Monday
from Tallahassee, brings with him two huge
pears to exhibit among his friends. One is Lee
Conte pear from the grove of Captain G. 4.
Dyke, and makes one marvel that this fruit has
been so slow in becoming staple production oil
Georgia and Florida The other is sand pear
raised by Mr. Herring, near Tallahassee lie
has on his place fifteen varieties OF the pear fam
lily. The LcConte is said to he very different
fruit from the sand pear. We have had several
parties going through this section selling young
sand pear trees, and representing the fruit to be
equal to the LeConte variety. The growers
about Tallahassee can set the uniformed public
right on this question: dinesrilie Adoocdte,
July 10.
The sand pear is an inferior quality
of fruit, excellent for cooking. The tree
is a rapid grower and prolific bearer.
The LeConte is a cross between the sand
and some other pear-the Bartlett or some
other cultivated variety, not definitely
settled which, as we understand, as the
naturalization was not known to have
taken place until years after. The Lee
Conte also grows rapidly, bears early and
heavily. The tree from which Mr.. Noyle
was supplied grew from a rooted cutting
set out in February, 1878, having been
C cut back " three times in four years to
make it spread. The sand is good pear
for stock The cuttings root more read
lily than the LeConte, and furnish wood
or roots for CRAFTS or buds of any variety.
Like the LeContc, it has never been
known to blight. It's fruit is rough
skinned, while that of the other is
smooth.
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LONDON, July 2L-The Csnfnss N.suuz aispaiEh
from Alexandra says refugee frssm Care ~
ports that numerous massacres If Earup~zns
foak place on Munday on The uaiskirfs e ne
city. General Allison vii leave here so-maTTgE
with detachment OF trg0ps ID blow NJ ilae -
struciion in the MahamoadirGh canal
The Times correspondents Al CeussaniinaFie
says the proposal discussed yesterday a. ne
conference that the protection of the Sae1 e4n4A
he entrusted to England and France. ID ca
junction with Italy. emAmafe3 frssm EaEl41d
There j. QUESTION af psrml1ncnI prnlscfa-
rate. All that i aimed a - efficicmt pFulsc-
tion over the canal until order has been rcesia-
lishcd.
LONDON, July - "A dispatch q the Assrs
from Canstanfiuaple rt-pgrls that Al Earupe4a
officers who have hevn rxing win Aribi FA-44
have deserted 20 the kheslive Admiral Sey-
mour. in his dispatch - the admiralty. gisias
his account af the bombardment af AlexaadrlA,
says the Egyptians fought with determined
bravery, firing until they must have been deei-
mated.
ALEXANDRIA July 2S-There are i've hun-
drcd soldiers and many Bc,iouins in Lsszzg.
These have been joined By soldiers and Beieu-
ins from Cairo. aud NJ doubt general massacre
has brgun.
LONDON. july sa-The Daily Telegraph has
the following
ALEX ANnREA. July 2t.-The traops last night
slept outside the walls. The Notables NJ q mess
ing in Cairo have adopted resolution declaring
that the khediEe having violated the Cunsslta-
lion. is Traitor and have dep0sed him They
have also issued proclamation declaring var
with England aud summoning all good Mosems
Ia fight against her.
PORT SAM, July 22-At q meeting Of loreisn
consuls held yesterday. il Was agreed - call On
The Admirals and Captains Of the men-oi " AZ y
the harbar. TO ask what steps are 10 BE- taken ~
the security Ol Europeans on shore, IN event =
an outbreak Fresh eaFthw0rks have been
thrown mp by the Egyptians a. Fort 6uernl -
about six miles from here. The Araos 81 -
malta are numbering the Copts- Every Faro
pean has now left Cairo
LONDON, July %, 1880 A. MA dispatcas
from Alexandra To the Daily Telegraph daiea
$50 this morning. says: MaloF-eeneral . az.
son i inst moving out with two regiments 81
infantry and a mounted squadron in The d'ree-
ton of Aribi PashAs intFenchment This move
ment will probably lead 10 an engagement
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This gentleman, who ostentatiouslV
and wipes his eyes in a newspaper" com
plains that he is assailed by "bitter per
sonalitics." Who began the "person-
alities ?'' Mr.. Campbell's first letter con
tanned attacks on thousands of Democrats
who were never known to falter in strug-
giles in which his voice was not heard,
and to this hour ne has not had the man
illness to confess that he was in error. He
denounced in languarge approaching bill
lingsgate the whole Democracy for faith
lessness in redeeming "promses never
made. The trouble with him is that he
writes like feed advocate AS lawyer
he is paid for his opinions and the more
he can belittle and abuse the other side
so much the more are his services con
sidered valuable, by him at least. Ills
antagonists are rogues, thieves and vii
lians, while himself and his clients are of
the highest type of honesty. Is this not
indeed a popularity of his judicial mind !?
Read his letters and observe how
faithfully he adheres to the tactics
Of the shyster. Inuendo and nsinua-
ton are their chief characteristics, and
these, say the books, are " regarded
as one of the basest resorts of malice and
falsehood." 1t is commonly believed that
the purpose Of his several appearancesN
before the public has been to strengthen
the Independent movement by teaching
the leaders thereof how to attack and de-
feat the Democracy. Bitter personal
tiles !" Mr.. Campbell's personal organ,
edited by one who stands charged among
the archives of the State as having been
forced to resign from negro regiment
because of conduct unbecoming a gen.
tleman,'' has been eng aged for months in
villiication, and he has stood by encour-
aging its falsehoods and ISLANDERS, so far
as any one knows to the contrary It's
attacks on the FLoRIDIAN are mostly re-
hashed from the defunct Sentinel whose
editor (McLin) was deserter from Con
federate regiment and whose known ma
lignancy and disregard of truth made him
disgrace to decent journalism. McI4in
is the model for the slang whanger Of the
Commercial, and if we notice his false
hoods relative to the editor of this paper
it will only be because MIR. Campbell ap-
pears to endorse them and not because
they emanate from one who prostitutes
the columns of newspaper to personal
malice.
In his repetition of the charge against
the Chief, Justice, from which the Assem-
bly, by vote of 40 to completely ex-
onerated that gentleman in 1881, Mr..
Campbell says that several millions . of
the bonds issued under the act of 1870
were sent to New York, "but their sale
"was prevented by the exertions of Hon
ar. B. Hilton, now editor Of the EcOno-
"naist." The truth il that the editor of
the EcOnomist was only one among seve-
raj gentleman who took early steps to
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The Georgia Democracy.

An Atlanta special, of July 10th, says:
In the Democratic Convention this morn
ing Hon. \. O. Bacon's name was with
drawn and A. II. Stephens was nomina-
ted for Governor. The vote stood-for
Stephens 325, scattering and not voting
81. The following State officers were
nominated by acclamation n. {. Barnett,
for Secretary of State; w. A. Wright, for
Comptroller General; ID. n. Speer, for
Treasurer; Clifford Anderson, for Attor-
ney-General. Thomas Hardeman was on
the call of counties nominated for Con
gresham at large, and his nomination
made unanimous. The vote for congressman
for the State at large stood: Thomas
Hardeman 2os, George r. Barnes l7S, II.
II. Carlton 81, w. H. Dabney q.
The platform re-atiirms the principles of
the Jeffersonian Democracy and renews
faith in the Democratic doctrines charges
the present National Administration with
undignifed, partisan, corrupt interference
with local elections, and prostitution of
executive patronage for the purpose of
extending its power, and under color of
collecting internal revenue, with setting
on foot armed raiding parties, who range
at will, and often subject innocent per-
sons to loss of liberty and even life
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prevent their sale The FLoRTDIAN was
the first to make public the secret issue
of the bonds, and Immediately thereafter
telegram was prepared warning the
public against them and sent to the New
York Stock Exchange and to the World.
This telegram was signed by J. John
Williams, w. ID. Bloxham, G. w. Scott,
c. E. Dyke, b. c. Lewis, and perhaps by
Judge Hilton. The World of the 18th
June, 1870, gave its substance and also
printed letter from Mr.. Hilton on the
same subject Furthermore, extracts
from Florida papers bearing on the same
question were printed in the Dutch papers
and contributed to throw more distrust on
the alleged securities. This is not exactly
germane to Mr. Campbell's war on the
Supreme Court or any of its members,
but it simply shows how conspicuously
inexact he can be when be tries, and that
seems to be all the time. \ matter that
is worth abiding to at all, is worth telling
the whole truth about. If the editor of
the Economist made greater exertions y
to prevent the sale of the bonds than
some half dozen or more other people the
fact is only known to Mr.. Campbell
We shall reserve for another occasion
an exposure of the falsehoods of MIR.
Campbell's personal organ relative to the
FLoRlDIAN and its editor, as this article
has grown to a most unreasonable length.
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Hon. n. III. Nj. Davidson.

This gentlcmaus nomination for fourth term,
by the Convention last Wednesday, was quite in
accordance with our expectations There was
some opposition by the friends of Col McWhor-
ter; and certainly there an absence of any
special enthusiasm among the delegates, but this
we attributed more TO dissatisfaction with the
workings of the present Democratic State adj
minisiraton for whom there was no resolution
of endorsement, than objections TO Colonel Da-
WILSON, Econon,ist, Juiy -.
The E'ron0nist will have its little fling,
thusiasm was quite as unanimous and
hearty as is generally exhibited on such
occasions while as to " endorsing" any
administration Of State affairs the resolu-
tions reported and adopted went as far in
that direction as the occasion called for.
The resolution on the subject reads as
follows: That they congratulate the
"people of all sections of the State on the
material progress and prosperity that
have followed the triumph of Demo
cratic principles and the advent of
Democratic administration in 1877"
The Economist interpoates the word
the" before the words Democratic adj
mnlstration," which changes the sense
and apparently limits the endorsement to
Governor Drew's administration where
as, " the material progress and prosper
ity" over which the "peopfe of all Sec
tions of the State" are congratulated,
have followed" or resulted from, the res
olution declares, the triumph of Demo
cratic principles and the advent of Dem
"ocratic administration in 1877" 1t will
be for the Economist to explain how the
resolution came to be so materially altered
when passing through it's hands.
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Monticello Constitution, July 90]
we stand by Dur COIOr~.

The new campaign paper at Tallahassee, the
Spectator, is very much mistaken in its estimate
of the character of the gentlemen who were con-
demned by the Monticello meeting, if il seriously
believes that they can be influenced to abandon
elong principles, and party with which they
have always affiliated, and go over to a nameless
organization without defined principles, and
very few followers. Bnncombe phrases are
cheap and generally constituted of glittering
nonsense, and sometimes they are entertaining
but we confess that we could not discover wit.
point or reason in the half column of rigmarolc
INDUCED in by the nameless editor of the Spect,t-
tor, and its comment on the Pasco, Budd and
Whitfield protest
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~ ben EmErsss1Eas-sss s. Ezse NssmE.uaa.s
l.. G. p a. 49,
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his DuEnsn4E1ssu h44 t--eM 4ama1m~8 =
A.. 60 ~. .s
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eloquent sF~.ech. waarA e-aza-s.4 tas~ as4r--
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IT
summary - the AIR.
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sl''s.@l l1=aEaei = rissfl. e tassaseaaa a-az-
blcA hAAe @iA&t = Al4s4 a. 4fr ezzsa-
dtie Be- NssslETe~s EsMl AS A~4 ms1s.aaras
tha~ al-s'aA& 49, $3.50 I - @~ ~
h''lnaiE
AwsFe an l. 80 a-lsa~s- Ea-1 Ca g. assraasszl
inS cAaialH-iSn 80 -a-aAe~ A-srs Na@@sHwm So
- ~ fslt1iiczi csssasssas e ~ So ~ 4@E~ o.
- eno"unlersA A~Are 1za aia2z @za-za -
uxIiy Ehil = rssasazEf-& 49, aaa4 ezsas-t Eaaas
and lsaisoE'asls ~ar< - AaEe q =. aszsssm-E
ysf anreIpi tae nsslzansaiaan- z-'4 Aa-e .4e-rmT
sssli g. usr Al ialr and afaHsEzle aasu- ia-
ttr fszsEale - r&laS A4 Tx seas@. - 49,
nrNi. shat yssa haEe IAas alaE aaar 81 azrea-
tiou. keHrsaak.rEInE sae AieT4l1F aar-sHar4ass
AMI patriotism assssaeFe2 IS rA~ d. IS
this District In PSI cznaEna1za~. : assts-e a.~
boE~ ihai ~ m ssue ns~ af~aE Z ~& Me
their e4ruesf szlIsf'ar1 and nTa-rF nsH.aea4asm
Fellsw--IiIzsEss. mlE sxgs-F1sassas . aa.azars e
ConzsTess Gnd my ots~erTa1aa.a@ ~ aAr EMS 4
Washington. have ~lErngzhrmssl ar IS saae ss.~E
tllaf the parry 81 lhe p~ag.le IS naa- easazaw
against Pssuer. e'arI'ssrs11issa an lsasls- -
party oi consiliuiSanzal El-a1s 4a4 EsrEals- go )
the Ns1iaan24 D--EnsaeT11ac parry 8 aass rsssszzE
errors. bui tins n 0wInE maI - nla.a 8 -
weakness and inlg.erf-classu 81 - szausaps~ -
The wezknsss and isiiiaa1E = - .sislsl- aall.-
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Prohibition.
This is the way it works in Georgia, a
cOrding to the Savannah Mems:

This is the way it works in Georgia, ac-
cording to the Savannah Ne,os:
The merchants of Griffin desired to know of
those of LaGrange whether trade had been in
jured by tie prohibition OF the liquor traffic in
that city. gentlman who ict interested took
paper around The town and asked an expires
sion from each dealer as TO the effect upon his
business Without exception, they testified
that prohibition had worked no harm, while
many bore witness To its benefits-some saying
their trade had increased fifty per cent When
the efficient jailer, John Wilngham, who is also
Il dealer in CONTEMPORARIES, was approached he
abruptly declined to " sign any such paper" He
finally relented so far as To consent To so much oi
it as referred to his mercantile interest, but de
clared that his business as county iaier had been
nearly ruined by prohibition that whereas his
fees amounted formerly to hundreds OF dollars
they now aggregate next To nothing. So he
could not sign il on the Jail business
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Mr.. Campbell appears in new role
in the Commercial To illustrate the
hardship of taxation in an extreme case,
he resorts to dialogue between "a widow
with two children" whose chief support
is one thousand dollars loaned at 8 per
cent When the tax collector calls on
her she is told that her taxes are $3.50.
But why did not Mr.. Campbell put it into
the mouth of captain b." one of his
dramatis persona, to explain to the ex-
cited widow that only So of the amount
went to the State, and that $3.50 of the
balance was imposed by the county, 81
of which was to pay county expenses,
$3.50 was a special county tax, and the
other $3.50 was for county schools at
which her 1.-TWO children" were to be
educated ? Why did he not further ex-
plain that of the 90 for the State, a only
was for general expenses, So was for in
terest on the public debt, which must
either be paid or repudidated, and that
the remaining 81 goes into the county
treasury for schoolsp Would it not be
more instructive, when next Mr.. Gre
sorts to dialogue, to select some one who
knows something about State matters, and
not thrust forward such an ignoramus as
"Cspt. B.?" But perhaps Mr. Campbell
himself did not know any more than his
fugIeman, which is highly probable, since
it is abundantly evident that what that
gentleman does not know about eate af-
fairs would fill several Libraries.
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to New York, where they are to embark
for their former homes Those that re-
main are greatly dissatisfied. They say
they were told that they were to be
placed in colonies, instead Of which the
watchmakers, diamond settlers and clerks
were sent to the mines and stone quarries
while the farmers and laborers were given
work in the cities, to which they were
entirely unaccustomed
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Some persons are so weak that they
thank no one for correcting their errors.
They pride themselves on their infallibil-
ity and resent any attempt to convict
them of mistakes Four years ago Mr..
Campbell appeared before the public for
the first time as an advocate for a Conven-
ton to change the Constitution. He had
been unsuccessful in cases appealed to the
Supreme Court and this fact, it is generally
believed even in his own county, made
him an ardent Conventionist. In his first
letter in 1878 flor he wrote at least two)
he amazed the public by citing certain
articles of the Constitution as demanding
the assembling of Convention for their
amendment or repeal, among other things
to be accomplished, when these same arti-
Giles, as was shown by the FLoRIDIAN, had
been so amended as to materially modify
their Objectionable features years before
by a Republican Legislature, and Mr..
Campbell was as ignorant of the fact as
the veriest shyster who practices in a
police court is of law! OF course the
FLoRIDIAN got no thanks for kindly cor
recting this stupendous blunder. The
pride of infallibility I" forbade any such
acknowledgment. 1t would have detracted
from the pompous dignity of sBig In
dian Me" which always accompanies
enormous egotism. So, too, quite recently
the FLoRIDrAN has felt called upon to set
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What Is mean timer asked q correspondent
Attending pic mic alone and seeing your iAEo1-
lie girl in company with fellow yoa hale =
about as near our idea Of a mean time - pen
can express.
THE kindness OF the mother Is what makeS
the child love his home" Yes, but 4 requires
the sternncss Of the old man 10 start him on 70
The grocery without half an hours aFgumens
about Il befare he starts.
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"A batch of fifty Jewish refugees, con-
sisting principally of aged and feeble men
and women with families and others I'M
willing to work for their own support,
were sent on Thursday from Philadelphia
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i II
him right in other grave matters and this
has so angered him that at times, Is we
have been told, he is literally convulsed
with passion. 1t was bad enough for
mere layman to convict lawyer of his
pretensions of being ignorant of the Con-
stitution of his own State, but to GO fur
ther and show that he is equally ignorant
of the cOmmonest events in the political
history of the party with which he pro-
fesses to be identified but in whose strug
giles in the dark days he had neither lot
nor part that any one ever heard of, has
proved the last feather on the camel's
back. He has now less use for the Flo
RIDIAN than ever, and his late ridiculous
letter to the Governor which appears in
his organ of the j lth inst. amounts in eff
feet to an appeal to that functionary to take
tie FLoRIDIAN Oft Of him! And in this
same letter he again publishes his igno-
rance by apparently assuming as fact
that the Gocer,aor appoints the State prin-
ter, not knowing that the Office is created
by law and filled by vote of the Legisla-
ture and that the Governor has no more
to do with the Office or him who fills it
than any other outsider. He approves no
bill, makes no contracts and in fact has
no connection whatever with the public
printing or the printer. Does MIR. Camp
bell know anything outside of the horn
books of his profession? And here we
might as well say that twice only in four
| teen years has the FLoRIDIAN been elected
to do the State printing first in 1877
and afterwards in 1881, Mr. Finley of the
Lake City Reporter having been elected
in 1879 We will add further that the
FLoRIDIAN is the personal property of its
editor, bought years and years ago by
the labor of his head and hands, and that
no person save himself is responsible for
what appears in its columns; that the
FLoRIDIAN is the organ of no ring or
clique and never was that its utterances
are those Of its editor only, who has de-
voted his life, in peace and in war, to
what he believed and believes to be for
the best interests of the State, never
swerving to the right or the left through
fear or favor. AS lifetime Democratic
journal it supports the party with which
it is identified, whether in power or out,
and always did During the dark days,
beginning in 1868 and ending with 1876,
it was in the thickest of the fight for the
overthrow of Radicalism, not unfre-
quently furnishing material for Demo
cratic speakers and contributing its full
share towards the success which culmina-
ernor Drew. 1t supports the present ad-
ministration, rs it did the former one, not
as 6 it's organ 2 as Mr. Campbell seems to
suppose, but because it was elected by
the Democratic party and because its
chief acts have undeniably contributed to
the growth and prosperity of the State as
the acts of no previous administration
had done The support given by other
Democratic papers makes them as much
of Gan organ as is the FLoRDIAN. The
attacks on it have been unfair and un Just
in many instances, and are made some
tunes from ignorance anu Sometimes from
malice and to accomplish some Interior
purpose, and conspicuously so by Mr..
Campbell.
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y West Democrat, July ~
Davidson RRm0mfmnfRh

Yesterdays dispatches bring the welcome in
telligence of the denomination of" Bob " David
son for Congress The honor of fourth nomi-
nation and triumphant election is an honor sci
dom accorded any man. We congratulate the
people OF this district on their choice as leader
As we predicted, the entire vote of stud old
Monroe was cast for him. Further words at
present are unnecessary.
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Ocala Banner July ri
K. II. W. Davidson Again for Com


R. II. W. Davidson Again for Com
greSS.
The Democratic voice of the First District has
been heard again for this gentleman. The econ
vention met at Tallahassee on 10Th inst, and
nominated him on the first ballot The vote
was 80 for Davidson and ~ for McWhorler.
The nomination was then made unanimous.
All this means election.
Fernandna Mirror, July 22.l
We are pleased 10 observe the unanimity
with which the Convention of the First Dist riot
has again selected Colonel Davidson TIA. ~..,,-
didatc of the Democratic party for Congress in
that District This is deserved recognition of
the valuable services of Mr.. Davidson as well as
a judicious selection OF tried and energetic pub
lie servant in sphere where legislative eXpe-
ricnce, tact and energy are so greatly needed
Cedar Key journal, July 81
The Democratic Convention for the First
Congressional District of Florida met in ITALIA
hassee on the 18th inst, and after effecting an
organization, nominated on The first ballot the
Hon II H. VI. Davidson to be his own successor
in the 4Sth Congress.
The result of the Convention seems not only
to meet the approval of large majority of the
Democrats of the First District but meets with
universal favor in the Second District. There is
no rubbing out the fact that Mr.. Davidson has
made an able and efficient member of Congress,
and the people intend TO show their appreciation
the 4th consecutive term.