The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-08-01
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.


Indian troubles are increasing on the
frontier
"A new hotel will soon be completed
at SOpchOppy.
Scientists claim that the equator is
travelling northward.
Half the cotton crop and the greater
part of the wheat crop in Egypt will be
lost
The internal revenue collections for
the past fiscal year amount to SAG, $780,
275.7l.
The Brooksville band have received
new instruments, and Col. Robertson will
blow his own horn-E fiat.
The Mormons will test the constitu-
tionality of the Edmunds act in the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
The New Orleans and Pacific Rail
road is completed. This gives New Or
leans a through line to San Francisco.
"A letter addressed to Mrs. Malinda
Basemore, Monticello, Fla, is held for
postage at the Jacksonville post-office.
1t is said that Guiteau has been
heard from, and that he recants his in
SEPARATION doctrine. 1t is little too late.
A cooperative store at Columbus,
Ohio, has a working capital of SIS, 900,
and pays its stockholders 10 per cent.
dividend
"A self-winding clock, put in position
and started at Brussels, last September.
has kept perfect time with the standard
clock of that city.
The Independent Republican State
Committee of Pennsylvania have rejected
all of the counter propositions for COM
promise from the Regulars.
There will be two executions in this
State next Friday. Harrison Carter will
be hung at Jacksonville and Merritt Jack
son at Fernandina-bot colored.
The Secretary of War has instructed
the custom house authorities at Apalchi-
cola to look out for the steamer Colon,
declared to be pirate by the President
of the Republic of Venezuela.
-BroOksville Crescent: can indepen-
dent Democrat is a political guerilla,
arrayed in a war for the determination OF
49, --->-s--~l>e. olau~s to heIapey, Az His
chief abettors are Republicans"
The story comes all the way from
Washington that Colonel Bisbee will not
be satisfied until a henchman of his is
made Postmaster OF Jacksonville. He is
working hard to convince the authorities
that the only thing to prevent his defeat
for Congress will be the appointment of
Ledwitb
1t is said that Col G. G. McWhor-
ter received the news Of his defeat with
becoming cOmplaeency, and as it was thus,
he was happy to know that Davidson,
his friend of many years, was the man
the people wanted for Congressman. Nc
will do valiant service for the nominee in
Santa Rosa.-JdcksonciU Union.
William Westgate, one of the assas-
sins of Lord Frederick Cavendsh and
Thomas Henry Burke, has been arrested
at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. He has
made a confession, duplicating three
other persons, says he was employed by
4 II
sons, and that the price of the deed was
ego to each of the assassins.
The attempt to unite the two wings
of the. Republican party in Alachua
county was signal failure The AdvO-
cate says: And so the Republican
family of Alachua are unhappy, distrac-
ted and divided, and the Little Giant
will demonstrate that it is dangerous to
ignore him. In fact he has the brains
and energy of his party in the county"
The Democratic nominating conven-
ton of the Second Congressional District
meets in Jacksonville tomorrow, and ar
rangements have been made to give the
delegates an excursion to Mayport and
the bar. The most prominent candidates
are General ]. J. Finley and Colonel St.
Clair Abrams. The Colonel has developed
considerable strength, but a majority of
the delegates are said to favor the nomi-
nation of General Finley.
Galveston Nescs. "Mr. John Boyd,
of Galveston, writes from New York that
he has succeeded in forming joint stock
company, with paid-up cash capital of
$500, 900, for the manufacture of his pa
tent portable houses in Florida. Factories
are TO be erected at Cedar Key, Tampa,
Jacksonville and Charlotte Harbor, and
probably at one other place Orders
have already been received for these
houses to the number of over 300, with
the prospect of five times that number be-
ing ordered almost Immediately"
"Even the Democrats of the First
District" says the Union, are mad with
the Republicans in Congress for the in
justice done General Finley, the member
from the Second District. A friend
writes us that fernando will roll up such
, majority for Davidson that will make
the opposition sick for ten years to come