The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-09-18


The FLoRrDlAN thanhs' sndrx con
temporaries, sound and cxceslen, ipttrI.als
all, for approving notice OF. the exposition
edition.
Notwithstanding the erection Of an
expensive courthouse is t. be provided
for, the rate of taxatiol in AE.chna
county is one mill less this year than last
year
An exchange says mat sherf are
more papers in Florida in proportion to
the population than in ahy:other Stale.
Thus the State is made to prosper, II not
the newspapers.
We refer the reader Il, the inacr"st-
ing article headed "Lipot:s' Tht ven
cradle and respected writes Represents a
class of the former people OF Middle
Florida whose number is, becoming ia
mentally few i'm the land
Judge Parish &. Furaln, "a p:omi-
nent agricuturist and a leaai4rg and NEST
active advocate of the " intensive syS-
TEN of farming, died at Millcdgeville on
the 18th. He was the author Of i Fur
mans Compost Formula foi ro'ton1'
Fifteen of the Pensacola pilots rel
dent on the Naval Reserve make affida-
Wits denying the published charges that
yellow fever had been introduced hy their
negligence. They say thai 'hey boarded
no vessels having yellow t.>&r on board
-Fernandina again suffered by fire on
the l4th. The Baptist ehurch was
burned, the Dell house a'.l two dwell
ings belonging to j. J. Ae,s,a aud ".
+. Wood, Jr The Dell he,l>" was fuliv
insured and the Others partially There
was no insurance on the church.
-Spurgeon tersely claims tha, "a man
had better be among lions than among
liars" And yet Sturgeon lad no cxpr-
rlence of certain independent parc2s If
Florida that SANDER public mer If lie
had, he would probably ha.e-sai wl,!yes
and hyenas, not " lions"
Col. Crane kicks furiousiy against be-
ing sold, and is apparently tie tnaad<>t
man in Florida. His anger is premature,
for there is no certainty that the transac-
ton will be consummatcd. We haA ent
heard from the Captan-ti eht raj vet. lie
NAV not want the Colonel az our FIGURE
or at all
We have filed for publication the
New Orleans Times /Ieg.0.roI'S 1,r.,-
spectus of its expedition into The Ever
elades, which will takr( t.,., ti.ld ne.t
month with the object of thoroughly Tex
ploring the watery Wilderness Of south
Florida. Interesting and i,Apori ant 1e-
suits may be anticipated.
The Pine Level Zin,es s.ates' thar \.
+. Roberts, of Orlando, is t. grade the
railroad lands from Ocala 80 Charlstt4.
Harbor. He says the road will rnn south
down the Washington line TO Charlotte
Harbor, and the branch ro&d from kiS.
simmee City to Tampa will cross at Nc
dulla, fifteen miles west Of LanoN. =
"A fierce storm swept the Atlantic tstl'
the middle coast of the United S:atesIasl
week. One steamship was disabled nt,l
had to be towed into port, al,l Others es1-
tanned injury. One sailing vessel is knoSH
to have been lost, and others doubtless
were, for the hurricane challenged ,ts.
strength and weatherly qualtiI of H.
steamships to their utmost =
Barbara Miller, colored, was hanstl
in Richmond on the 18th for completely
in the murder of her husband BY Charaas
Henry Lee, who was duly hanged i ~,
month, instead of marrying bis psramoh.,
as had been arranged Mrs Mi}lcr ws,
attired as a bride in white anj oran9
blossoms for the scaffold seent, said sA
was ar awful warning, deserved t, die iar
her crime, and was going straight TO glory
There. is fresh outburst Of pitching.
into Governor Bloxham. He:mus, hasI.
been doing some more good service fttr
the State lately. What wa4 it? Evera
time these scrawny scribblcrs attack Elm
it may be set down as certain that he has
just been giving Florda's heom another
boost. Bloxham's strength. i,:s with ,ht
people, and he can afford to treat with
contempt the servile mumblirg. of gang
of scribbling imbeciles.- I'tptuxS Ueraka
Referring to an item which recently
appeared in the Ocala Bon'"r CORRECTING
the assertions Of newspaper c3rreepon6
ents that everything done and being DONE
in Florida is due to the efforts Of Norrh>
ern energy and capital" the Orun0
County Reporter says: "The: Rylo,1dt
has never failed to give old resilient Tio&
idians full credit for degree Of energy
and recuperative power which are extrss
ordinary in view of all circ,imstanceS
They have made more marked ptogresa
and have achieved more since tEe tlosc,os
the war than any other pecrie5 similarly
situated known to American history. The |
most successful fruit and vegctablt+grows |
ers in Orange county are OLD yeiidontss
either native Floridians or Suathefn peo1
pie who have spent most Of their lveS
here. Northern men who haze lateiI
come among US with plenty Of monty may
make more display and attract irldre att