The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-12-04

Billy Buster, I:illy Han and ricka-
ninny, of Tallahassee's tribe hf Indians,
were in town ON >aInrday-Ek issthu,.ee
Bitter .Ssceet.
The editor Of The Waldo :.4dcestiSes'
contradicts the report that the Wallack
Troupe We're lost AT ,y:.;,. He lras received
letters from Mr.. WaHack at Nassau.
The Supreme Conrr OF Georgia has
decided that dealing in cotton futures is
nothing but gambling and aiT contracts
based on futures arr void aud not col
lcctable.
Hamilton Disston and Fred Dietary
are the two largest taxpayers IN the coun-
ty, the former paying into tile treasury
s ,O35.5 and the latter $s'i2 t@--- m
dnye city Times.
About $4,000 taNes are owed in
Alachua county by thc different railroads,
and Judging from the recent decision of
the L. :. Supreme Court it will have TO be
paid Guii,excWc iJ"Dt,tG
We presume that NJ Thumpson. SUI
perintendent of Railway Mail Service,
will visit Middle FlGi ida while ia the
State, and give mail na>ters lereAhnnls
the benefit OF his attention
Westward the course of icolunarce
takes its way. More anon-which means
that attention will be given to the de-
terred subject OF the Increasing trade of
this section with the Gulf markets.
-Governor Bloxhapi, OF Florida, de-
elines to he candidate for re-electon.
Well, he can afford TO ,"trc as his adj
minis. ration has been on, of the best the
State ever had Ba"hri'iyr Dsnsorrm.
The Rowland Eluil Railroad will be
put down on the same line from which
the Florida Southern track was moved,
aud by January first thu road will be
completed to Gainesvllc.-- G"fue~cWe
.4dcOcdte.
The Marshal OF Ocaa has captured
the negro, John W. Williams, murderer
of James Allen, Marshal Of the town III
Valdosta, GA. The negro admits the
crime. Mr.. w. Z. Shuhn viii. get $500
reward. -JdckSoncak Mtruld
Senator c. w. ,Innrs paid MS the
compliment of a pleasant visit Saturday
afternoon. We were pleased to meet
the Senator and to see him locking the
very picture of robust health aud
strength. He will leave Tor Washington
next week, to be present at the opening
of Congress on Tuesday, Pe,ts.t.oitt ID
cultce- Gokeut
Colonel ". d. Chipley, kice-Iresi-
dent of the Pensacola anl Atlantic Rail
road, thoroughly understands how to win
golden opinions from the gcncral public
He pursues "a most liberal policy III the
management of his road, aud l8s name is
known far and wide. Co:"nrl Thiplc, is
Georgian and We are proud III bin. =
BaimJrilye Democrat.
We do believe that some journalists
write for the pleasure of reading what
they have written, for certainly few 9TH
ers can find qualification in tlieir dreary
columns. Their editorial plan is simple
enough, as simple as the child.s game Of
setting up mark and "chuIking it
with Misunderstanding up She same
brickbsts to chunk with again. I'VE know
some of them who do little !. else but
chunk, chunk, chunk, Issue atteEissuo. A
favorite mark is the Disstonspurchasc,
and they chunk, chunk, chunk with the
same old brickbats at the same. unin-
jured, Indifferent mark
The Washington correspondent of the
New York San is responsible fpr the fol-
lowing An organized movenenl for
the non6nation of General Grant next
year by the Republicans was started by
prominent officers at IA recent ARMY re-un-
ion in the West. The plan is TO enlist
military influence all through She North
and South, including Confede4ates who
may be willing to join che organization,
and to keep aloof from che machine poll
ticians until the time cofaes forfpuhlil de-
monstration. The embarrassing authorAoi
this plan think prejudice agansa the third
term has passed away. They also helieve
that Grants alliance with Jay Gould and
other operators in Wall street wtsuld
bring to his support tho great railroad
corporations, and ensure a campaiga tsind
quite equal to that which. Mr.. VI orion and
his banking friends raised for Garfield i'll
1885,"
is the present reported depression i'll
the iron and steel business tariff scare
The New York Jo,un6a u Commerce
seems to think it may be:to y certain eA-
tent, and bases its suspicious OH the tao
tics of the iron manufacturers of year
ago. At that time, just on the eve of
tariff discussion in Congress. came the
gloomiest reports from every r3lling-mlll
in the country closing aud reductions in
force were expected to throw thousands
Of men out of work and cause widespread
and serious distress Corgressaien, il.nu-
enced unconsciously perhaps: by the