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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13

The Executive Committees of the several
counties are requested TO call County COnven-
tons, or General Mass Meetings of the people, as
each Committee may deem best calculated 10
promote harmony and ensure a fair representa-
ton, to assemble at their respective court houses
on some convenient day, say Saturday the 1st
day of July next, then and there TO select good
and true men as Delegates to represent them in
the District Convention.
All good conservative citizens of the District
without regard to past political affiliations, who
are in favor of an ecomical, pure and COnstitu-
tional Government, and of free ballot and an
honest count, and opposed to all Federal en-
croachments upon the Constitutional rights of
the States and OF the people, cordially invited
to participate in selecting delegates to the Dis
trict Convention E. c. LOVE, Chairman.
J. Ira GORE, Secretary.
QUINCY, FLA, May II, 1882.
E8 All papers throughout the District friendly
to the cause will please copy.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13


The editor of the Key West Democrat
recently visited Fort Myers on the Calico
sahatchie river and investigated, as far As
opportunity presented. the prospect Of
draining Okeechobee Lake. lie says
The Okeechobee drainage scheme stiH pro-
crosses in spite OF adverse criticism, and adj
mil that We were among the number who be
lieved il shaky, and while mol wholly CoRN inccd
yet that il is all d. K, we are candid
enough To say that they are showing an esrnesl
ot effective and permanent work They employ
goodly number Of hands and pay them cash
their dredge is at work every day, cutting foot
by foot her passage way into this great pent-up
body Of little known water. Lost 10 sight IL Is
true from the outside world, hemmed Ia ON eE-
cry side by saw-grass, they leave bread and
deepening trail behind They certainly have q
strong and abiding faith in the ultimate sue
cess OF their work, else they could hardly work
SO long ard labUriOusly upon this stupend0us eu-
terprise. One of the fiailering signs Is thai The
people have strong confidence Wherever you
meet q man and ask his opinion, be says, sue
cess is a certainty" Old cOw-hunters familiar
with every foot Of the country, say that the fall
is there the government surveyors say the same;
if this be so the drainage is sure if the work
keeps on. We found from reliable data that q.
Van Horn, who had so much 10 say against the
enterprise, never reached The dredge al ali, bul
came away from the river and derided not only
the entire county, but the company who were
at work. This is certainly most unfair, 10 say
the least and deserves the most severe criticism
from press and people We are sorry that press
ing business engagements prevented Us from GO
ing to the dredge as we originally intended
Hon. +. A. Hendry made every preparation %
take rs up there, but finding that impossible he
has kindly volunteered TO act as our special cor
respondent, and to give US a correct and unbiased
report of his visit and their progress and there
is no man more competent TO I'll this task.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13
Call for a Democratic Mass.
Meeting.

Rooms OF THE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE J
COMMITTEE OF LEON COUNTY,
TALLAHASSEE, June 10th, 1882.
A mass-meeting of the Democratic
voters of Leon county will be held or
Saturday, July sth, at - NJ, in Cables
Hall in this city. for the purpose Of elect
ing ten QO) delegates to represent thu
county in the District Convention to b,
held July 10Th, and for other purposes
A full attendance is desired.
BY order of the Committee.
r. GAMBLE. Sec'y.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13
r. GAMBLE, Sec'y

-Assassinations and outrages are re-
newed in Ireland.
Rev w. w. Hicks last Friday Wis
tied and prayed with Guiteau
The wheat crop of France promises
to be unusually large this season.
The total receipts of cotton at all
ports since September are 100000 bales.
Judge VIM. A. Cooke lectures before
the Young Mems Christian Association
at Sanford this evening.
The Democratic nominating conven-
tiOn for the Second Congressional District
will be held at Jacksonville on the I'd of
August.
Monticello Constitution: Wither-
spoon says that "during the rebellion he
was the body servant of his master, a
rebel officer" Well, that will do; he
worked in Robert NJ. Witherspoon's tan
yard and shoe-shop in Madison country.
The Alabama Democracy, in conven-
ton at Mont gomery, last Thursday, nom
mated the following State ticket: Ed.
O'Neal for Governor; III. c. Tompkins, At
torneyGeneral; Ellis Phelan, Secretary OF
State; ]. III. Vincent, Treasurer; J. Nj.
Carmichal, Auditor, and II. e. Arm
strong, Superintendent OF Education.
Senator Ben Hill arrived from Eu-
reka Springs at Atlanta, Ga, on the 9th
He was met at the train by an immense
throng of people, but there was no de-
monstration. Owing to the Senator's
critical condition he was placed in car
rage and conveyed to his home AS the
carriage passed through the crowd hats
were removed as a mark of respect.
Col. A. ]. Lane says that the grad
ing of the entire line of the p. &. A.
Railroad will have been completed, and
the crossties ready for laying by the Isl
of August, or thereabouts, and in month
a force will be organized that will put
down a mile of track per diem. The
whole road to the Apalachicola river viii
be completed by the first of October
Milton Ne1s.
The AdUdnce- Gazette eulogizes Sena
tor Jones as an cable and astute states
man and peerles patriot" This unstinteC
praise will not sit we'll on the stomach'
of one or two who have resented the Sen
ator's rise from the carpenters bench tC
the front rank of the bar in his own city
as we'll as achieved for himself a wide
reputation for craftsmanship while they
have remained mere lawyers. Envy is ;
popularity of weak minds.
"A duel was fought at New Orleans
last Wednesday morning, between Majol
E. A. Burke, of the Times Democrat, ant
e. II. Parker, editor of the Picayune-
Pistols were used, and FIVE shots ex
changed. At the fifth shot Mr.. Burke wal
shot through both thighs, though nc
bones were broken, and the wound is moi
considered dangerous. The cause of tn,
duel was certain editorial articles which
recently appeared in the Picayune.
The Orange Groacer's Gazette, pub
lished at Micanopy, by Mr.. I. c. Martin
is the latest journalistic enterprise solicit
ing public favor in Florida 1t will be de
devoted principally to the orange and
horticultural interests of the State. The
editor says: When it becomes our duty
to advocate political principles, our course
shall be that of Conservative Democracy,
believing that the prosperity of our State
and the welfare Of our people can best be
promoted by the purity and benignity Of
Conservative Democrats Government"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13

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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13

Fears are entertained that the khe-
dive of Egypt viii be assassinated.
Late advices from South America are
to the effect that Ecuador is in the thrOes
of revolution, Peru in anarchy and dis
order, while Bolivia, at safe distance
from the coast, is preserving . show Of
military force, and Chill is smitten by
epidemics in various parts and cursed
by brigandage.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13


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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13
Call fer q Convention Of Ihe COnser-
vAtive Democratic Party Of the
First Congressional District of
Florida.

At meeting of the Executive Committee of
the Conservative Democratic Party of the First
Congressional District of Florida, this day held
at Quincy; ordered that Convention of said
party be held at the city of Tallahassee on
Wednesday, 18th day of July next, at IL O'Clock,
A. M, to nominate a candidate to represent the
people of said District in the 4Sth Congress of
the United States of America, and to consider
and transact any and all such business may
properly come before it.
The several counties in the District will send
delegates on the basis OF one delegate for each
one hundred votes and fraction of fifty and over
cast for the Conservative Democratic candidate
at the Congressional election held in November,
A. d., 1880. Upon this ratio of representation
each county will he entitled to the following
vote in the Convention:
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13

correctly state what the Democratic party
" promised " but to accurately account
for the reason of the revolt +" OF the
I" Independents" A little reading up
would certainly be no disadvantage to
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-06-13
Vegetable shipments, sc.

The vegetable season is drawing to a
close, and the result is very gratifying,
though the crops were cut short at least
one-third by the long drought in the early
spring. The number of barrels of cab
bage and potatoes shipped to date are:
By Empress. By FTeigha Totals.
Cabbage. barrels 252 9l9 l,173
Potatoes barrels ........ 1854 1854 2 1888
These, with other vegetables shipped,
make an aggregate of 4,1Ol crates and
barrels shipped from Tallahassee this sea-
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-02-04
THE DIFFERENCE.

Last week, when the crowd of six or
seven hundred hungry, disappointed
and angry railroad men came down
upon us from the works along the Air
Line, it was not unreasonable to expect
lively times at least, and could they
have had access to whiskey, we doubt
not they would have gutted the town
But the authorities very sensibly closed
all the saloons and kept them closed
reasonably tight-and as result we
had the quietest and most orderly of
towns all the week. The policemen
stood on the corllcrs and chewed gum
or discussed the weather with none to
modest or make them afraid, and the
people generally felt secure and happy.
But the saloon men did not like that
kind of business, and set up such
hullabaloo that the authorities con-
sented and the saloons were opened
Monday morning, Now mark the
sequal Before twelve o'clock Monday
night the streets were full of drunken,
quarreling, fighting men with one
probable murder committed, the
victim still being in a critical condi-
ton. The contrast between the two
systems of government is so apparent
that we need not dwell upon it. This
whiskey business is not only a danger
Gus and demoralizing business, but
very expensive both to the consumer
and the town that ihdulges in such
uxuries.
?. S.-The Doctor reports the in
jured man out of danger.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-02-04
WORK FOR ALL.

Messrs. Cameron, Holley & Co.,
have received the award of another
ten mile contract from the Omaha
Company, extending south from the
termins of their first fifteen miles, and
will be able to furnish work to all the
idle Air Line men, by the first of next
week. So the much abused Omaha,
may prove to be the friend in the
dire extremity of the very ones who
have been most bitter against it. Now
let all go to work, and give us another
railroad as soon as possible.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-02-04

DR.. j. s. Graham, an old and
respected citizen and business man of
Superior died last Wednesday night
DR.. Graham was pioneer to this
place in an early day, but when the
town went down he moved to Duluth
where he done business for a number
of years, but as soon as fortune smiled
upon Superior again he returned to his
first love, and has been in the Drug
business here since last summer. He
has been in very poor health for a
long time, and while the final sum-
mons seemed sudden, it could not be
unexpected. The immediate cause of
his death was heart disease. He would
have been II years of age in April
next. Funeral services will be held
at the Presbyterian church tomorrow,
9TH inst, at 3 o'clock pm, when the
remains will be taken to the depot and
sent to Geneva, Ny, where his family
and friends live, for the final burial
writes.
Gov. Rusk has appointed Judge
S. H. Clough, of this city Circuit
Judge of this judicial District, vice
Judge Barron, deceased. The appoint
ment will hold until April, when the
regular election occurs, and as Judge
Clough, seems to be the only candidate
in the field, he will then be duly
elected to the position he is so ably
qualified to fill, and which he has
graced in days past. The Judge
enters upon the duties of his Office at
once, and will hold his first term of
court at Chippewa Falls next week
There will probably be no term of
Court here until June, which, we be-
lieve is the statute time. We con-
graduate both the Judge and the peo-
pie, in this appointment.
We regret to learn that the con-
tinued i'll health of Rev. Mr.. Millers,
for some months past, has compelled
him to cease his labors for the time
being at least, and seek rest, and a
different climate. He leaves us this
week for other parts but for no fixed
point, and this retirement leaves the
church without pastor for the present,
though his place will probably be sup
piled soon, when we will give due
notice. We hope Mr.. Millers may
regain his wasted health and energies
and return to Superior to minister to
our spiritual wants ere long. Mr.. NJ
has had charge of the Episcopal
here for about three months past.
LOsT.-Somewhere between Rice's
Point and Superior, roll of Carpet
The finder will be suitably rewarded
by leaving the good at my livery
stable in Superior. JAKE LEIDEL.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
The Winnipeg Boon, Coming Here

The JYj,tnia3eg Boom Coming Here.
The Winnipeg region, on the other side
Of the line in the province of Manitoba,
which the Mouse River railroad will con-
meet with Bismarck, is enjoying an ex-
traordinary boom at present. People are
going t4ere by the railroad train loads,
but are meeting with disappointment:
The country is bleak, cold, dreary waste.
A gentleman who arrived in Bismarck
Wednesday from that section. assures the
TRIBUNE that Bismarck is regarded with
unusual favor by the humbugged immi
grants there, and that the best portion of
them intend TO come here to locate. A
majority of the people composing the
Winnipeg influx are from the snow ours
cd belts of Canada, and we're under the
impression that Manitoba offered them q
more balmy climate, but this has proved
a delusion and snare, and they are
according: " disappointed with that re-
gion, and are turning their faces towards
the chenook beltof Bismarck. The gen
tleman referred to, whose name the TRI-
BUNE regrets to say, cannot be recalled, is
infatuated with the clear and cheerful
climate of this section. He has stuck his
stakes here and is confident that nine out
Of ten of the Winnipeg victims who visit
us will follow suit ss# III
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10

'Nigger General" was suspicioned Of the
foul deed and narrowly escaped lynchin9.
Everybody felt that he ought to be hung On
general principles, and his life was only saved
BY being placed in jail, where he was kept
and guarded for several weeks. Had the
husband of the murdered woman-under the
circumstances which surrounded the case
been in Deadwood on the night of the MUIR
der, there is but little doubt he would have
been gobbled. He, however, proved an
alibi, and then came Couk's and Mrs.
Boughton's turn. The latter was acquitted,
but Couk was sentenced to be hungs
Obtaining new trial, the sentence was
modified to imprisonment for life, and now
he is at liberty.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
BISMARCK, D. T, FRIDAY MARCH 10, 1887.

that they usually commence Christmas Eve,
he sent his sleigh for the party to come to
his residerce for supper and spend the eve
ming. In speaking Of the terrible voyage of
the party, Lieut.. Danenhouse says they had
to travel 100 miles over the ice from the
ship to the mouth of the Lena. They landed
in shoal water, and were compelled to wade
two miles to land. They were forced to
travel 100 miles further before they reached
shelter. and he says he was up five days and
four nights without sleep or rest. He mem
tions the fact that out of thirty three COM
posing the crew and officers of the Jeannstte
only thirteen are known to be living, and
one is known to be dead.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
Our j Jamestown Neighbor.


The jamestown Alert is manifesting poor
Judgment in its attacks upon Bismarck and
the Mouse River railroad ooml any. It should
not be cause of jealousy to the Alert be-
cause our people are determined to build
railroad through the Mouse river region TO-
Manitoba. There is plenty of room for the
Alert man to run another line from his vii
lage through that country to any point mis-
fancy may dictate. AL that will be necessary
for him to do is to put up the wealth necessary
to pay for the improvement. If he is unable
to do that, it should be mo grounds for me-
ligning Bismarck and her citizens who are
successfully pushing the Mouse River and.
Manitoba enterprise. The trouble with our.
esteemed contemporary seems to be jealousy,
and he evidently finds relief from its corrod-
ing nightmares by kicking at his more sue
cessful neignbors. This seems to he the size
OF his malady. Of course the citizens of
Bismarck, and the officers of the Mouse
River railroad care nothing for the Alert's
rawlings, but the TRIBUNE refers to the matter
in the hope that the Alert man will. 'ttake a
tumble" and cease making ga ass Of his.
SELF for the sake of North Dakota journal
ism. ~ J.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
A Land. That is Colder Than Fargo.

"A AhAU 11A6t 1S 1OAUcE A1Assu II dTiSOs
WASHINGTON, March S.-W. W. Danene-
house has received a letter from his son,
Lieut.. John Danenhouse, of the jeanette
Arctic exploring expedition, dated Bulun,
mouth of the Lena, Nov. 9, 1881. There is
added postscript, dated at Yakoutsk, Dec.
II. The trip up the river from. Bulpn to
Yakoutsk occupied fifty-six days. and was
made on sledges, with dogs, reindeer and
horses. Lieut.. Denenhouse describes the
journey as one full of severe hardships.
There were stations at intervals on the way
constructed of logs. He describes the last
one of these, seventeen miles from Yakoutsk
as the best of the lot. This was small log
building with corn shed attached It was
composed of one room, in which we're about
twenty people when the party arrived. In
the center was the body of horse, killed for
food and brought into the room to thaw
out. During the night the party stopped at
this hut. Jack Cole, the boatswain, while
laboring under alteration of mind, got
up and started out to walk to New York to
see his wife. The thermometer was 80 de-
grees below zero. 1t required all that Lieut..
Danenhouse could do to induce him to
come back into the hut. At Yakoutsk Lieut..
Danenhouse says be found man who under
stood French, and was taken to the governor,
who treated him with great kindness and
consideration. He detained the lieutenant
with instructions to give the wants Of the
party special attention. They were con-
Quoted to a small hotel conducted on the
American plan. Lieut. Denenhouse speaks
of his stay in Yakoutsk as exceedingly pleas
ant and comfortable. Dec. oath the gov
ernor sent officers to Lieut.. Danenhouse to
ask him at what time the Christmas festiv-
tiles began in America, and when informed
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
The Co,,ei,s0 R0oea,

sLou1sv svl11E, KEy4.,s y..,,s March The Louisville
Jockey Club has recently put the running,
track in: beautiful condition, while the
grounds have been, beautifed with grasa
plants and trees. Handsome additions q
the grand stands are to be- completed BY
April 1st. Among the recent arrivals a1a
the stables of A. Burnham, from New York,
Ct. w. Stewart, Shelby county, aud o. w
West. Many of the horsemen,l to avoid the
great crush and demand for stabhng, are an
ranging private stables at the grounds, inn
proving many of them handsomely. Befofe
the fifteenth of tins month $50 race horses
will be in training on the grounds. The ex-
orbitant street car fares will be reduced, and
three or four tally-h coac1es will run regu-
larly during the meeting. Exoursions fropQ
Chicago are being arranged, to be followed
by similar accommodations from Cincin-
matt, St. Louis, Nashville and lndianapolis
The spring meeting seems to hare added
new impetus to the love for the race horse,
SO prevalent in the south and west. ,7.g
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
Jesse James Again.

KANSAS C1TY, No., March Sit was re-
ported this afternoon by Agent Lunan, who
came in on the Wasbash train, that he OBJ
tanned from the sheriff of Moberly the in
formation that Jesse James and a compan-
ion had been surrounded by officers in some
place unknown to the gentleman) in Kan
sas, in little cottage. That Jesse fought
desp sperately and killed seven of his assail-
ants and wounded three others, being him
self mortally wounded. This story is treated
with incredulity by some of the local officers
here, and is wholly disbeleved by others.
Particulars are wanting.--
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10

day evening. Prof. e. j. Wilmot, teacher,
and county treasurer, and J. J. Smith, had
an alteration about the formers whipping
the latter's~ child in school, when Smith
seized piece Of wood and struck Wilmot on
the head, the blow crushing tho skull and
the brain oozing out. The victim died in
three hours. Smith surrendered. The
affair caused the greatest excitement ever
known in Porsette county.
Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-03-10
;Ca,s0x.t bvsthe Bltsses,-ss.

WINNIPEG, March .7.-ISpecial] The
blizzard If Saturday left disaster in itsr
train. At Meadow Lea thirty miles west
of Winnipeg. house belonging to John
Taylor. was. burned, down, and his WIFI
and three daughters were frozen to death
The@body of one daughter has not yet
been recovered. 4. Miss Rec |. of Winni-.
peg, who was on a''vislt to- Taylor's kept,
close to theh fire, and was rescued with
hei hands and feet somewhat frozen. i's,