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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-14

CONNECTIONS.
At Jacksonville by Waycross Short Line with oil
points North or West with the Fernandina and
Jacksonville Railroad for Fernandina and with
steamers for all points the st. Johns river Sa.
vvnnah or Charleston.
At Baldwin with the Florida Transit Railroad for
all South Florida, Ocklawaba river, or Gulf points,
without change of cars also for Cedar Key and
steamers to Gulf ports.
At Live Oak by Nos. 5 and with the Savannah,
Florida and Western Railroad for Albany or Sa.
vannah.
At Tallahassee with st. Marks Branch Railroad
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
At Chattahoochee river with steamers = Chatta-
hoochee on Sundays, and Everingham on Thurs
days for Apalachicola, and returning on Tuesdays
and Saturdays for Columbus, Ga.
JOHN P. LAIRD,
W. NJ. DAVIDSON, Superintendent.
General Manager.
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DY AUTHORITY OF AN ACT CF TIE LEGS
ID lature Of the State of Florida entitled ~An Act
TO Provide General Law thu incorporation %
Railroads and Canals" approved February - 1874
notice s hereby given, required By said set that
q company has been formed, and their articles Of
association duly fled, under the name Of the 81
JOHNS AND sJwANERE RAILROAD EoMPAET 70 oe
invested with all the rights, p0wersa privileges ana
franchises conferred upon e0mpsnfss formed under
said act for the purpose Of constructing, maintain
ing and operating railroad for pablo use y ~
conveyance Of persons and property. The line q
said road Is to be about sixty miles In length and
TO be constructed from the town Of Melrose, u
Alachua county. at the terminus % the Green Cove
Spring and Aelr0se Railroad, thencs westwarCly %
Gainesville, and thence on WestNardly 70 the 81
wannee river at or It Fanning 70 pass throag1
the county Of Alachua, and, II need be, In pA1
through the county Of Levy.
Az VOGELkACH,
r B. CANOVA,
sHREVE ACKLEY,
THEODORE u. WUR1S,
ROBERT w. EAVIs.
kscorp0rnton
December Is, 1ss1-sm
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Notice of Incorporation.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IHk ~
In designed have associated themPelVes toge.s1
for the purpose Of orgsulkng eem7any under -
Act of the Legislature 81 Florie1 approved IsoE
ary the 10Th, A. D. 1874, enfisled = A Act @ Pr
vide General Law for the Incorporation o. -
roads and Canals" and the amendnenfs ihere.oI
for the purpose Of constructing, Npeaflng, ~
maintaining railroad from the bQnn0ary nnc 2.
the State OF Florida, In the county a. Hamilton !,
tor. Columbia, Alaehua, Lew, Merton. Sumter
Hernand0, Hillsborough. Mnnatpe md Mo1ross
with terminl at some feasible pSinL 81 Pos.Is 9.
the Gulf Of Mexico, N said State 81 llona. 49, 80
the counties Of Polk, Orangss yoirale and e.ss a.
to some suitable terminus % ne Walen 81 - - -
lantic Ocean, for public ne = re eoatey-- -
poraie name Of 4 Tk Htv xork k'Atds -
Asa'0aa 70 WILLIAM n. !FUNNo,
MATHEWS kTUNn9
JOHN I. CHkARNklA
February IL less-sm
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Discharge Notice.

OK MONTHS AFTER THE DATE HEREOF.
- the undersigned, executors of tie last will and
testament of Joel B. Jefcoat deceased late OF Leon
county, State Of Florida, win present their final ae-
counts to the Hon. VIM p. Byrd, County Judge Of
said county, and apply for q discharge as such ex-
ecutors. J. II. PERKINS.
GEO. W. JEFFC0AT,
Sept. 9, 1661-6m Executors
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The beauty and color Of the hair may be safely
regained by using Parker's Hair BaIsam, which
Is much admired for lie perfume. cleanliness and
dandruff Graduating properties.
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A Ii CREDITORS, LEGATEEs, AND PER
IA sons entitled to distribution of the estate of
Charles p. Chares, late of the county Of Leon, de-
ceased, are required TO present their claims the
undersigned within the time prescribed By Law. or
this notice will be plead in bar Of their recovery
and all persons indebted to said estate will make
payment Immediately to the executors.
SAMUEL p. CHAIRES.
JOHN A. HENDERSON,
January 8, 1S62-6m Executors, dEc-
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Notice of Incorporation


OF IHE
st. Johns and Halifax Railway Company.
HNDER AND BIZ VIRTUE OF AN ACT or
~ the Legislature Of the STATE Of. Florida. IN
titled An Act to Provide Geferai Law for the
Incorporation Of Railroads ane Cannls," and a.
proved February -, 1874, notice ls'hereby given. =
required by said act, that . oonpany has been
formed under the name OF the 81 Johns and HAli-
tax Railway Company, to be invested with all he
rights, powers, privileges and franchises cor
fcrred upon companies formed under said act, and
acts amendatory ther.t0, for the purpose OF Coz
structing, maintaining and operating railroad for
public use In the conveyance OF persons and prop
erty The said railroad 10 be abgus forty i've miles
in length, and TO be Constructed f0m k0llese0wn,
IN Putnnm county, on the s. Johns river, 70
point on The Halifax river In Volisia county Bear
New Britain, passing through OF Into the COUNTS
Of Putnam, ST. Johns and VolusiA
Q. ]. WHITE San Mateo, ia
SYDNEY l. WALES, Washington. d. G
W. B. BARNETT. Jacksonville, Fla
December 20, 1seI-Sm
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATI0E
LIVE OAK AND ROWLAND BLUFF Rku-
ROAD COAPAtT.

D1 AUTHORITY OF An ACT or The LIZ
ID islature OF The state 81 Fl0rida. entitled a
Act 10 Provide General Law Tor the Inruruur.r
ton Of Railroads. and Canals. sod approved -
r1ary ~, los4 notice Is hereby Eixeu a. r-asiruf
oy said act, that a company hAa Teen formed andsr
road Company" to be invested Vim al tie rirhts
powers. privileges and franchises confrrrei uuua
companies formed under said A. for TIE uur1uss
OF constructing. maintaining an1 operzIinE ~
TO q Tor public use In the couvey ance q Deruuns
and property The main line o. said rHlr1nd vi
be about twenfy-three miles IN kngrn and Vii b
constructed from point a. or near Live OAK n
Suwannee county. 10 = point a. Or near Rowlnnda
Bluff, in SuEannee couufv
H 4 HAISES.
w 4 HARDEE
HENHT n DRAM
J,nua-y 81. lSs2-3n
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATE
oBrn
FLORIDA VENfERI RLlROED uPm

R1 AUTHORITY OF An ACT OFrzR
- isAture 81 the state 81 Fiurida - :. =
Act 20 provide Generml Law fur - - -
oi hAliroaos ana 14un4. mpQr0Eed o. -
lct4s n0lice 10 hereby given. e requirua - -
that company has been forms6 nndrr - -
the Florida Weztern RAzlrh.d Co., -
Invested with All he rixhtH. puHernL url-I7....-
Ilseenises conferred apon eoupanirI fornc< -.
saio aet, Tor the purpose % eoI1truelinr -
Ing, and operating rallroad fnr pubIir - h -
coHFeyance o. persons and pnopsrrF- ~ -
eOnatrnct and maintain uhAr1ra e. 80 -
the Bay OF Pensacola - The -uainens II = -
railroad company shall rcquirr.
The main line q said railroaf wIu Be rkuws -
miles In length. and I'll BE- eonstrursrS - -.
point ON The Louisville and MashviIIe Rnil--.S =
the City Of Pensacola, sourh and u-rr = - - =
oama line, In EscnmbiA c0uufy
~ D. CHIFKY
Q 4 sTANLET
T. T. WRIGHT
February IA, 1ss2-am
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NOTICE OF INCOEPORATI0E
or rm
JACKSONVILLE AND PALaTKA RATEWnV
C0MPANE

DT AUTHORITY OF Al ACT or THR In.
- isi4ture Of the state of FI0rida Emitted ; -
Act 10 provide General Law So TIE Inro-nr--..--
o. Railroads and Canals. and Approved Feb--~-
~, 1874. notice 10 hereby given - rruuIrei - -
act, that q company has been formed No. =
name Of the . Jacksonville and PaInlka -
Company, Ia be invested sifh al TIE riwhr. -.
ere. privileges, and franchises c,snferrud 49, -
panles formed under said act Aad acts auien1s..--
thereto, Tor The purpose II cansrrucfinR mnIu1-l
ing. and operating railroad & pubic use n -
conveyance Of persons and properly The - -
road % be about zixfy-dve n les IN l-uzrR -
10 D. constructed. malnlained. and 0peralea -
Jacksonville la Duxal county ID rhe srass ~ -
ida. 10 a point On the RalaEka and fndia1 -
Railway Companys railroad. & Or near Palnsk1 =
Putnam county, in The State - Fiorisa. -
through or into the counties - DurnL CO =
Putnam, in said state
MASON Young.
Se~.York CIV ~
K0SWE ELL a. MASON
Pai.tkA -
ALFRED BISHOP mason.
February Il. lSs3-sm ChIcnxo- N
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NOTICE OF INCORPORATION
Or TaE
ChattahOOehee and East Hass Railway

DY AUTHORITY or AN ACT or The LEGS
70 Provide a General Law for the incorporation e
Railroads and Canals" and approved February Il.
1874, notice IL hereby given reqnired By SD 80
the ChattahOOchee and East Pzss Railway Comp4nE.
to be invested VITA AL TIE rghts powers, prirlIza
and franchises conferred npon ,cfmpanieI forme6
ma ntaining and operating rallFoAd for pubic use
IN the conveyance Of persons and property he
main line Of said railroad viii be ab0ut nfx1y-ave
miles IN length, viii be Constructed between point
at or near Chattah00chee, In GaGsden cDunfy. 90
the waters Of the Gulf Of Mexico. - point On
the southern boundary line o. FrAnklin county, be-
tween the eastern and western boundary lines Of
said Franklin county and win pasF through OF into
the counties Of Gadsden, Liberty md Franklin
H & EAINES
WM p HARDEE
HENRY n DRANK
December q. Iss1-Sm
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FLORIDA CENTRAL AND JACESOgVlLLE,
PgISlC0LA AND NOBILE
RAILROADS.

JAcKsoxvnLz, March s. 1881.
~ this date, trains on this road will
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Miscellaneous Advertisements.
River and Manatee RR
NOTICE.

january 81, Tsse-Sm
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-04-07
A Horrible Beast in q Sewer.

One of the most remarkable incidents
that has yet come to Lighter rather to
darkness-in North ST. Louis is recorded,
and although the hero in She case
escaped with his life, he is not particu-
larly anxious to go on any more explor-
ing expeditions, even when they are In
the interest of home comforts and re-
quirements. Billy Prant is well known
meat-shop keeper, doing business on
Ninth street, near st. Louis avenue. He
resides at Elliot and Sullivan avenues,
and the Rocky Branch sewer carries away
the offal and refuse of the locality. For
some time Mr.. Prant has had trouble
with hs sewerage, and the other after
noon he took his younger brother with
him to investigate matters. The sewer
is a natural one, and large enough to
allow a wagon with double team to
drive through it. From the surface the
depth is something over twenty feet, and
rope and ladder was brought into
requisition. Mr.. Prant descended
through the main hole, which was barely
large enough to allow of his descent.
He had scarcely entered the sewer when
he heard a rushing through the rushing
stream IF water and offal, which sounded
as one might imagine the breaking out
of a menagerie, and by the uncertain
light he saw plunging toward him
monster dog, with eyes bloodshot and
emitting sparks of phosphorescept fire.
The animal was about two and half
feet high, and was heavy set, of the
bloodhound species with a crossing of
mongrel blood, and probably weighed as
ua hAu
ing madly, and his white, cleaning
fangs were barred in manner which evil
IDENTIFY meant business. The beast was
covered with short white and black hair,
and was endowed with other character
istics which were peculiarly interesting
and worthy of research. Mr.. Prant,
however, remembered an important end
of the ladder, and, after breaking the
paralysis of fear, he moved up the rungs
as quickly as possible, and not moment
too soon, leaving the beast bowling
fiercely at the foot, and expressing its
rage in canine shrieks, which were fairly
blood-curdling. The younger Prant
heard the noise below, and felt the lad
der shaking violently, and his eart stood
still until his brother appeared III day
light, looking blanched and agitated.
Mr.. Prant soon got back to terra .frna,
and postponed Investigations of that ma
ture. Mr.. j. Kurtzelom, gentleman
who is particularly well posted in matters
in that locality, expressed his opinion
thatthe dog must have been carried into
the sewer when pup, and had lived
there all of its life. 1t was too large
even to get in through any man-hole,
and as for its getting out at any time,
that is simply absurd. The only exit is
by way of the river, and the animal
would be drowned instantly if he ever
attempted to get out that way.-St Louis
Post Disoofch
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John Duff, Chief Of the Leading States
men Of Zululand.

The Pail Mall Gazette thus describes
the operations of the South African boss |:
John Dunn, one of the thirteen knglets
among whom, by the agency of Sir Gar
net Wolseley, Zululand was divided,
differs from his twelve brethren not only
in being pure-blooded European while
they are stark savages, but also in re-
serving to himself in an especial way
privileges of cutting timber, with the
right to mine and seek for minerals,
divert streams, cultivate unplowed lands,
advance or retard trade, in such and SO
complete a way that he has, as it were,
the right of ingress, egress and regress
everywhere that his authority extends.
His country, next to the Tugela, and
bordered to a great extent by the sea,
has within it one landing place, Port
Durnford, where, it may be remembered,
noteworthy failure to secure safe de-
barkation delayed the operations of Sir
Garnet Wolseley in the winter of 1879.
Dunn has imposed, after the Natal
fashion, hut tax on his people, amount
ing to five shillings per hut, payable in
cash, every penny of which he keeps
himself for his own purposes. Dunn is
a Kaffir chief with European skill to
raise q revenue for himself. He taxes
all wagons going into his country to the
amount of f25, and he has the right and
the power to lay an embargo on all
trade at will. He is a clever, observant,
brave man, who means TO make money
fairly and rule reasonably if he can but
he takes thought to himself because he
is - wise in his generation" and has no
guarantee for the permanency of his
office, one created by within and of most
uncertain tenure.
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A Reformed Robbers Confession.
KANSAS CITv, April {

KANSAS CITv, April ..
Dick Liddel, one Of the old James BOYS gang,
who has been in the custody Of the officers for
some time, has made q full confession, and
told everything connected with the gang. and
given full details OF all their operations since
the close of the war. The officers refuse to
make the statement public, but il is
known that he tells all about who harbored
and fed and protected them during their raids
into Missouri. The officers have all the names,
and when known they will create q grand sem
sation. Other arrests will come. After the
Blue Cut train robbery, the gang went to the
home Of the mother OF the James boys. in
Clay county, where quarrel took place. and
jesse James killed Ed Miller. Then they went
to Kentucky, and stopped with the father OF
JEFF and Wood Hfte. Old man Hrte
had young wife, and Dick Liddel be-
came enamored pf her. Thus led to
quarrel between Wood Hite and
Liddel, and the former was killed Wood Hite
being cousin Of Jesse James, the latter swore
vengeance, but Liddel escaped, and through his
wife opened negotiations with the authorities
to surrender. He was promised immunityif he
would tell all and assist in looking up the gang.
The first result was the arrest and sentence Of
JEFF Hite to twenty-five years in the peniten-
tiary, for which a reward OF $4,000 was paid.
or this reward il is believed the officers have
given Liddel $500.
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Two old bachelors living In ono house,
One caught muffin, the other caught mouse.
Said be who caught the muffin 70 him who caught
the mouse:
"This happens just in time, for we've nothing in
the house,
Save tiny piece of lemon, and . teaspoonful Of
And what to do for dinner-since we haven't any
money:
And what can we expect II wo haven't any din
her,
But to lose our teeth and eyolashes and keep on
growing thinner?"
caught the muffin:
avs might cook tho little mouse IL we only had
some stufhn';
II We had but sage and onion could do extremely
well,
But how to get that sufnn' 1t is dificut to tell"
These two old bachelors ran quickly TO the town,
And asked for sage and onions as they wandered up
and down.
They borrowed two large onions, but no sage was to
Do found,
In the shops or in the market, in all the gardens
round.
But some one said: "a hill there is little to the
And to its porpendicuiar top a narrow way leads
forth,
And there among the rugged rocks abides An ancient
An earnest man who reads all day most perplexing
Climb up aud seize him by the toes all studious as
he sits, -
And pull him down and chop him into endless little
bits;
Then mix him with your onion, cut up likewise
into scraps,
When your stuihn will DO ready, and very good,
perhaps
Those two old bachelors, without any loss Of
time
The nearly perpendicular crags at once began to
And at the top, among the rocks all seated in a
They saw that Sage a-reading of a most enormous
book
"You earnest Sage" aloud they Cried "your book
you've read enough In,
We wish to chop you into bits to make you into
stufin'"
But that old Sage looked calmly up and with his
awful book
At these two bachelors bald heads sudden aim
he took;
And over crag and precipico they rolled promis-
cuous down,
At once they rolled and stopped, in lane or
field or town,
And when they reached their house they found DO
side their want of STUN y
The mouse had fed aud previously had eaten mp the
muffin.
They lett their home silence, by the conylv-
al door.
And from that hour those bachelors were never
beard of more.
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before choice was made. Finally one
of the candidates withdrew. and Marcy
tried to make q break for Garfield. He
put a Garfield ballot into one delegates
hand, who already had ballot for
another man. "He hardly knew which
to vote for" says Mr.. Marcy. "As the
teller came around / saw Merrill hest
tate, and leaning over took hold of the
hand which held the vote for Garfield
and sort of in fun shook 1T, and he let
the ballot drop into the hat When the
vote was counted it was found that Gar
field had just one majority. 1t was on
this nomination that Garfield was first
elected to Congress, and afterward he
used to laugh and tell me that 1 shook
him into Congress-
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A QUARTERS FAILURES.
The Reports Of tho First Three
Months OF the Current Year.

The Reports Of tho First Three
Months Of the Current Year.
The returns OF business failures throughout
the United States for the three months ending
March 81, compiled by r. q. Dun q Co.'s mer-
camille agency, are as follows: Eastern States
202; Middle, sos; Southern, 700; West
ern, 523; Pacific States and Territories, 1877
Total, 2,19O, with liabilities Of $30,338, 27l
This is large increase over the corresponding
quarter OF 1881, when the failures numbered
l,76l, with $24, 437 $50 liabilities. The increase
i'll the loss by bad debts this year il, there
fore, "a per cent. In 1880 the liza
biftles of the first quarter were but $12, 00O,-
900, but in 1879 they were $43, 600, 000 and in
1878 $50, 900, 900 for g. 1886 failures SO, as COM
pared with the first quarter Of 1878, the first
quarter Of 1882 shows q good advantage, with
l, 165 fewer failures and $52, 00O0 900 less liaDl
tiles. In the Dominion of Canada the failures
for the quarter ending March 81, 1882, were
206, with liabilities of $2,653, 600. AS COM
pared with 166 and 90, 026 900 liabilities for the
corresponding period Of last year this is some
what of an increase, but there is decrease of
nearly 8 per cent. both in number and liabilities
Is compared with the first quarter of 1880.
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A POlyglOt Family.

There is living at Middletown, Mass,
a family in which nine distinct languages
are spoken, namely, English, German,
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese,
Greek, Arabic and Turkish, besides any
number of dialects connected mostly
with Italian and Spanish. The head of
the family, who is native of Zurich,
Switzerland, is musician, who, after
extended travel, settled in Tunis, North
Africa, where he held the position of
musical director for the Bey. He
married there lady who was a native of
Arabia, but born of Italian and English
parents. Children were born to them
there. They settled next at CONSTANT
nople, and resided some years at the
Turkish Capital. There he was the Sui
tan's chief musician. not only having
the charge of the bands of all his regi-
mems at the Capital, but also of the
music of the Sultan's harem. Other
children were born to them at CONSTANT
nople. He left the Turkish Capital to
come to America, dwelling a year in
Germany and travelling in Italy before
coming here. Of fourteen children,
several of whom were born in this coun-
try, only six are now living, and all but
one are residents of Middletown. The
Oldest of these, who is the wife of Mr..
Frank De Morvelle, is by birth an
Arabian, and speakes all the languages
known to her family except Portuguese
and Arabian. The next younger member
of the family, who is resident of
Brooklyn, was born in Constantinople.
The eldest son. whose marriage was
lately published in the Press, is also by
birth turk, and the other three-a sis
ter and two brothers-are American
born. Middieto,Dn Press.
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shook Into Congress.

A gentleman named Marcy, who knew
Garfield when boy, and who was an
enthusiastic Garfield delegate to the
convention that first nominated him,
says that nearly 100 ballots were taken
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-04-07

ELI PERKINS cut open Florida al
hgator and found pine knots in his
stomach. That's nothing. An alligator
is not obliged to make diet off of rocks
and gravel-banks all the year round.