The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-10-16
A letter from Pensacols miN Uses !,

-SuDStantlal gains Tor the l'ttnocEaEtv
of Iowa were recorded by the s.lectiln
last Tuesday.
Mr.. J. VI. Caldwell Is anEoWnced as
The associate editor of the Jasper Tines,
j. H. Ancrum, editor and proprietor.
The assessment OF illsho roulh
county for this year amounts To ovsr
s., 100000, being an increase of $500, o'io
over last year.
Five persons have each Gent q bale ut
sea island cotton from Brd nsonj Levy
county, to the Exposition, AMI eacR hopgs
to get the 81 900 premium
Several car loads OF exhibits have
gone forward to the Exposition within "a
few days past. These a.llitiy n, wall heh
the Florida show amazingly.
MIR. Arthur is a PHILOSOPHER who is
having good time-propostng u get r.
much fun ont OF the Prcsi1cllcy while 1T
lasts as possible. He tiGIlesiso to speak,
with his rod and reel while shis Radical
Rome is burning.
The "satanic press Continues To
falsely assert that Captain Dss'kc controls
the editorial columns of thct FLonIpIh>.
While this is complimenJarySt u, it rs
unjust to the Captain, who is tilu, asaa'lya
in his retirement.
The six boats to be used by the
Times Democrat Everglades Exm dillon
are now in the warehouse at'CclI ke:
They are said to be of the finest maxi,
and the very thing for the PURPOSE ~
tended. Tampa Tribune
Ben Russell, editor OF the cambridge
Democrat, took birds eye view If
Townsville on Thursday morning. Ile
was en- route to Atlanta. There will u
quorum present of the late Lesislaturt,
when Mr. Russell gets TO Atllnta.t
IhomasoiUe Times.
The Democrats Of Virginia shouel
have the sympathy of patriotic hien AL
over the country; for they are fighting
for right as dear in one State ;as an
other-the right of the people to niapa4:e
their local affairs without the interference
of the Federal Executive machine
MIR. James A. Pickett has forwarded
to Louisville branch coutaining forty
two specimens of grape fruit. They we9e
grown near this city, and We venture TN,
prediction that they will not be elcelIcss'
by anything Of the same char.cter at the
Exposition. -JackSoncWe UeTdM
The brownsville Times Of Saturday
announces that the new "Pincy Woods
Hotel " will be completed and ready t.
receive guests on the LIST of .Jan'iart ncx&
1t will be an intellectually elegant stru1
ture, containing two hundred aud: thirtt
rooms, fitted with all modern improves
ments.
AT the municipal election il Key
West on the 10th Mr. MortsalvaEe was
elected Mayor, defeating Mr. Pelsdleto'.
by majority of three handrcd, votes,
as stated III a special dispatch t.
the Times Union eve understaVd that
the result is regarded as triumph for
Mr. Montsalvatje.
Mr.. ]. D. White, late Of Millvaew, ID
Escambia county, died suddenly OF feVes
in Panasoffkee, Sumter county, on tue
9Th. The case was reported as yellow
fever, but was probably malarial tdver Of
the malignant type which occasionally
appears in different parts Of khe INLAND
south, and is often called :. .llGw dis
ease"
Col. w. c. Maloney, j, left for
Louisville where he will take Sn the Elk
position. From there he .wils visit 81.
Louis and other manufacturing cs.ntel.s
for the purpose of contracting fog iron,
cars, &c, for the street railway, (which
the charterers of the enterpE,c are IN
hopes to have opened by the fist g jan
uary-Key Vest Democrat :.
BY the blazing light .ol sthe; Ohil.
bonfres Ben Butler has opene.s rid hot
campaign in Massachusetts, antf is v hoop
ing up a cyclone of enthusiasm which
will no doubt hurl the fierce ,nid politI.
clan into Office again. On tic night Ut
the 10th he addressed three meetings, d
an aggregate of twenty thoasanl per
sons, at Faneuil Hall, Music Hal and
fremont Temple, speaking abcs lt an
hour at each meeting.
The Altoona argus says that she ST.
Johns and Lake Eustis Railroad Com,
pany are building at Fort Mason a. lighf
draft open stern wheel steasabcat to bf
put on Lake Griffin and it's tributaries, u
connect with the Lecsburg branch roaa
now building to Fort Mason. Tht boal
is fifty-six feet keel, thirteeE and q hall
feet beam and four feet depth of, hold,
with twenty-horse power boiler. She
will be able to carry five hundred boxes
of oranges.
We don't blame the republicans fof
merely not building navy but fol- fpendt
ing SO much money and not building q
navy. But it is as well that. they didn't
build navy, for the democrats mag have
the benefit of all the costly experiment;
ing of the European powers and ibnih
something that will be bettet thans thetr