The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-02-20

determined that hey will no Longer conssiUu1s
a GO ! wear Tor the support Of governor ent
fom which they derive no benefits. Fhey are
,,red az supporting municipal government sim
NV Tor the privilege Of paying taxes. Ihey nov
want public spirited. progressive Mayor, backed
bv a council that will heartily support aim IN
II, ~,ae measures of reform and for pubic I'M
proyements
DILL. NJ. Curry, of Richmond, Va. Gen.
er.l Agent of the Peabody Fund, Is in the city
in response TO an invitation from the Legislature
10 address that body upon the subject OF educa-
ton. The Doctor Is an earnest and zeaious
worker in the educational interests OF the South,
he ID an able man, an eloquent speaker, and all
those interested in educational matters should
hear him to-day, in Assembly Hall, a. IL
o'clock.
Col. John Bradford and Mr.. b. A. Megin-
Miss. while at the State Fair last week, bought
two registered Jersey heiiers, for which they
paid S115 each. They are fine young animals,
and their present owners could have sold them
At considerable advance before leaving jack
sonvilIe, but they bought them for the purpose
of improving their stock. and would not SELL
They also purchased fine pair of Scotch col
lies-the famous shepherd dogs of Scotland
The delightful spriug-ke weather has in-
augurated the annual excursions to the famous
Wakula Spring. A large party went down last
Thursday, and many Others are making arrange
ments for an early visit TO this beautiful spring.
The drive is pleasant one, and visitors and leg
islators now in the city, who have never looked
upon this wonderful spring, should avail them
selves of an opportunity, before leaving the Cap
ital, to visit one of the greatest of Florida won
ders.
Capt. o. s. Porter has never been considered
a dangerous or daring man, but he one day last
week quietly and successfully accomplished
feat that might prove dangerous undertaking
for different parties under different circum-
stances. He actually caned we local on the most
frequented thoroughfare of Tallahassee. We
are exceedingly partial to the Captains pleasing
mode of caring, by which he has made We local
the possessor of the handsomest lime walking
cane in the Capital City.
Mr.. Chas A. Choate received telegram
Sunday announcing that cold wave was APP
preaching Northern Florida and predicting that
the temperature would fall about twenty I'VE de-
grees The cold wave reached this section Sun
day afternoon and by Monday morning the ther-
mometer was twenty-five degrees lower than
the previous day. Early this morning the ther-
mometer was down as low as fifiy-fve, but the
weather is cloudy, with slight winds prevailing,
and no damage is apprehended to fruit and early
vegetable crops.
| There are times in the lives of children, says
an exchange, when colds are taken, no one
| knows how, and when toothache is almost I'M
bearable, and yet il is not advisable to have the
| tooth extracted: one means of relief at such
time is to cut large rasin open, roast II, or heat
it, and apply it around the tooth while 1t is as
hot as can be borne; it will operate like little
pouItice and will drawout the inflammation.
To wet a flannel cloth with strong vinegar, and
| then put hot iron under it, and so us to steam,
the face. will aid in reducing the Inflammation.
Week before last Col John A. Henderson
accompanied his daughter, Miss Flora, and Mrs.
Nora Mage to Atlanta, where they went for the
purpose of consulting Dr. Calhoun, the celebrated
oculist. For number of years Miss Hender-
son has suffered from slight defect in one eye
Last week the Doctor operated upon her eye,
and she is now getting along very well, with a
fair prospect of being permanently benefited
Last summer Mrs. Mage had the sore eyes, since
which time she has bt en- totally blind in one eve
and could see but little with the other Her
husband yesterday received letter stating that
one eye was much better, the Doctor had cut .
cataract from the other that she was doing well,
and expected to return home next week with the
sight Of both eyes fully restored
"A number of English ladies have adopted a
new system of Boycotting. They have organ
lied an association for the purpose OF Boycott
ting Nottingham until the gun club shall give
up slaughtering pigeons and use the newly in
vented terra Gotta pigeon, which is said to an
swer every purpose of the sport, except the in
aictment of pain upon pigeons" The London
Queen says that the first suggestion Of the
pretty conspiracy came from the kindly heart of
the Princess of Wales, and says, also, that the
Prince is bestirring himself in the matter on be-
half of the ladies'" Mr. George Ligowsky, the
inventor Of these pigeons, and Superintendent of
the Ligowsky Clay Pigeon Company, of Cincin-
natl, is spending the winter in Tallahassee. He
is well pleased with his soj0urn here, and an
nounces his intention to spend next winter, &C.
companied by number of friends, at the Capt.
tai of Florida.
"A leading Washington paper tn US discourses
upon the advent Of Lent at the Nations Capital:
"Fair society ladies and brave society gentle
men-especially the former-are now presumed
to be daintily seated on the cushioned ottoman Of
repentance Not that they have committed any
thing very naughty-left undone very much that
they ought to have done, or done very much
that they ought not to have done gone it lit
tie strong, perhaps but nothing to speak Of
but that little periodical contrition is graceful,
has an evangelical look about it, and shows
breeding, approved social relations. and rectitude
in things theological Lent is the season for the
renewal of soul, body, and wardrobe. Old
thoughts and lassitudes and fripperies pass away,
and all things become new preparatory to a
fresh and more brilliant emergence when the
forty days Of penitence shall have expired. What
comfortable thing is sin when its sequences
are so renovating and inspiring!
1SO Barrels Flour.
All Grades, low down for cash. at Carpenter &
Heads. A
Just Received!