The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-14

-Senor Romero, OF Mexico, has &C
cepted the mission to Washington
The Tennessee funding act has beer
declared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of that State.
John Kelley, of New York, being
advised by his physician to come to Flor
ida, started South on the 18th inst.
1t is reported that the Senate Com
mittee on Commerce regard Eads' marine
railway project as feasible and practical
BILE
The prOprietors of the Pensacola
Adrance- Gdzette hoped to favor their
patrons with the first issue of their daily
last Sunday morning.
Brother Finley, of the Lake City
Reporter, will print 5000 extra copies of
the next issue of his paper for distribu-
ton at the State Fair.
The total number of pupils enrolled
at the Pensacola Academy is 2G0, and
there was an average attendance of 220
during the month of January.
The new directory of jacksonville
contains 3,946 names, and gives the pop
ulation of the city and suburbs at Is, 1904,
an increase Of . ,434 since 1850.
Mr.. w. II. Pillow, of jacksonville,
recently shipped some strawberries to
New York, and they were readily dis
posed of at from $50 to LIS per quart.
The unjust apportionment bill, from
the indications given, will not pass the
House. Itmeets with opposition from New
England, the West, the Pacific and the
South
Hon. Morrison X. Waite, Chief-Jus-
tice of the United States Supreme Court,
made his first visit to Florida last week,
and expressed himself as we'll pleased
with what he saw of our State
The 1dcance- gazette says a man in
East Florida shipped some shaddocks to
Michigan to be sold. The consignee sent
them back with the indignant response
that Michigan did not depend on Florida
for her pumpkins
Mr.. A. f. Philips was elected alder
man at the municipal election in Sanford
last week. Mr. Z. is an enterprising bus
mess man, a gentleman in every respect,
and bound to win friends and popularity
wherever he may go.
The banquet proposed to be given
by the business men of Jacksonville to
the merchants of Florida, during Fair
week, is an assured success, and will take
place at the Everett House, on Friday
evening, February oath.
Another contested election case has
been disposed of, that from the Sixth Lou
isiana District, in which Smith Rep) VS..
Robertson (Dem.), the sitting member.
The contest was dismissed by the unani-
nous consent of the committee.
The prize-fght between Sullivan and
Ryan, came off at Mississippi City on the
18th inst. Sullivan held the advantage
throughout, having drawn the first blood
and gained the first knock down. Ryan
was knocked senseless in the ninth round,
and thus the fight ended.
The House Committee on Banking
and Currency will report to the House
bill which provides that treasury notes of
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der notes, shall be liable to State tax
alton on. an equality with gold and silver
coin during the time they continue to be
redeemable in coin by the Treasury, and
no longer.
The London Times suggests that the
United States should invite the maritime
powers generally to accede to the stipu-
lation of neutrality for inter-oceanic COM
munications, which now, by the Clayton
Bulwer treaty, binds Great Britain and
the United States. 1t considers that the
American people would view such action
fayorably.
The Ocala Banner comes to us this
week changed to an eight-page paper, and
in an entirely new dress. The paper is
well gotten up, brim full of reading mat
ter, and is a credit to the editor and
typos, and the people of that section
ought TO take a pride in supporting it.
The Office will soon be removed to new
building, two stories high, and twenty-six
by sixty feet.
Senator Call, on the sth inst, intro
duced resolutions, which were laid over
to enable him to speak upon them here
after, directing the Secretary of State to
institute negotiations for reciprocity
+. treaty with the States of Central and
South America; also, declaring that the
good faith of the United States requires
the execution of the obligations imposed
by the treaty with Spain in 1919 for the
cession of Florida, by the payment, with
interest, for losses and damages adjudica
ted by the United States tribunals.
in the House, on the It'll inst, MIR
Davidson presented joint resolution o
the Legislature of Florida, asking for th'
erection of lighthouse at the Eastern
Pass entrance to Choctawhatchee Bay
and beacon-light at the entrance to San
"a Rosa Sound from Chotawhatchee Bay
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