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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-10-16
Bartaw Informant
Onion Culture.

y ihio is the proper season for planting the
ionn!s' in this latitude few hints on the subject
may, lie appropriate.
Among the requisites for success in this, as
we'll As other branches of horticulture, are the
land, and the seed The best onion land is that
which has been in cultivation year or two in
hoed crops, thoroughly broken and heavily ma
uured If YOU want heavy crops you must ma
nure heavily, otherwise you will be disappointed
Thoroughly decomposed COW or horse manure
wood ashes or guano and superphosphate Of
lime s,te the most commonly used. Only fresh
seed, from reliable dealer, should be used, az
they will not retain the power of vigorous
growth longer than year. Another requisite
Tor success is seed best adapted TO your particu-
lar climate. In this climate the late varieties
will succeed best they will have longer to
grow The yellow Danvers is an excellent vari-
ety. and the Bermuda is POSSIBLY better. Thor
IN row eighteen inches apart, covering lightly
pressing or rolling the earth to retain the moisture
When four OF five inches high, thin out three
To sly inches apart. These may be transplanted
and m'ke good onions. As soon as the young
plants are well up, hoeing must commence, to
prevent grass and weeds from getting start TO
keep tie land open and riable, and continued
through the sc ison every two weeks or as often
It's necessary TO keep the crop clean. We have
ncver planted The Bermuda, but have heard it
very highly praised good cropper and finely
favored We have planted both the yellow
panvers and large red Wethersield both from
seed and sets Both produced enormously and
are good keepers top-dressing of wood ashes
or guaao stimulates them to active. vigorous
growth. The onion is subject to very few dis
e:.scs smut, or black fungus being the only one
with which we have had any trouble liberal
ttp-tlrthsing of wood ashes and salt is the best
remeE
We would be glad for our readers TO expert
ment with the three varieties We have named
and report their success with each.
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The Barge Canal.

The Fernandina Mirror copies from
the Savannah Ne,cs the letter of it's Jack
sonville correspondent stating that there
was we'll founded rumor that the char
ter of the Florida Barge Canal Company
had been sold to an English syndicate
AS Major George Il. Fairbanks, one of
the incorporatOrs and most active advo-
Gates of the canal enterprise, is the editor
of the Mirror, and AS that paper does
not contradict the statement, it would
seem entitled to more consideration than
to be still termed rumor. If it be true,
We believe that the English purchasers
have obtained the most valuable franchise
that was i'll the power of the States of
Florida and Georgia to grant, and that
the completed canal will yicid a large
revenue to its stockholders while proving
a public work of great Importance in tn e
development of the country
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The Capture of ohio.

Well, the democracy have carried Ohio
on a full vote and elected Mr. Hoadley
Governor by majority of over twelve
thousand votes 1t is State that is es:
sential to the success OF the republicans
in the national election, but not essential
to the success of the democrats State
that they cannot afford to lose and that
the democrats can. Therefore, the gain
ing it is Of such Importance and slgniti-
canoe that the triumph of the Democracy
in the national election is cow considered
almost certain. Added to this great sue
cess is the harmonious condition of the
New York democracy, the breaking down
of Mahonism in Virginia-and the dis
abled predicament of Independentism in
Florida and elsewhere in the South: All
these aspects combine to make the situa-
ton Just lovely" and the outlook most
suspicious of decisive and sweeping vic
tory, the utter overthrow of the republi-
can party and the destruction of the radl
cal power But it is in the possession Of
the government, with all its moral, mate
rial and immoral forces at command. 1t
has possession, the strongest coign of
vantage 1t "holds the fort " with a
strength consolidated by decades of arbi-
trary occupation, and let us not be so
sanguine of success as to expect an easy
capture of the government from an enemy
who will not hesitate to use unlawful
and perhaps violent methods to retain it,
The New York World says:
The Democratic victory in Ohio would be u
misfortune If it should tempt the party TO over
confidence or induce it To relax lis efforts i'll this
Stale or in any other debatable Stale IN the ap
preaching election. 1t will not do To underrale
the resources of The Republican party. The
election of 1876 showed what ii was capable of
doing in the way of fraud The election of 1890
proved lis purchasing power.
Repuhlicanism has beiind ii all the powerful
corporations in the country, the great monOpu-
lies, and the wealth which, either in cumbina-
ton in the hands of individuals, seeks special
privileges 1t has an army OF offce-holdcrs upon
which to levy assessments. 1t has a treasury
surplus OF nearly S20O00O,OO0!
Rcpublic;.nisIn appeals to llnaticism and
greed lis political managers are experts at their
business. They have experience, boldness, abi-
ity and unsCrupuousnees They have many
DurseyS al their commend.
The Republicans command The Federal courts
AM; the Federal supervisors. They have all the
fcilireS tor frauds at elections. They have no
scIup!cs at r.sortny to fraud to secure Success
Such party, with dependents in every State
in the Union is not TO be despised.
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Quincy Herald
Judge &c. Love.

In The appointment of this gentleman to the
highly honorable and responsible position Of
States Attorney for this Judicial Circuit. si,.
Colonel John A. Henderson, resigned, Goverpo,
Bloxham has most worthily, and with excellent
judgment, bestowed the Executive patrOuaoe
Judge Love has a long and varied experience a.
all attorney, with very fine practice, and il one
OF the ablest lawyers in our State. His sterling
qualities Of character are admirably suited for
the position, and the State of Florida does not
have within lis limits more faithful public SER
van! who could discharge the duties of his Office
with truer appreciation of the trust that has
been conferred. He is generally known through
out the State, as a man of fine character, large
ability, and Of The truest patriotism and his ap-
poanment will be favorably commended by all
gopl citizens. In this county, where he is best
known, The appreciation is universal and there
is general confidence that the laws will be exc
cuted during his incumbency, as they are in
tended 10 be, with the acquittal OF the innocent
and punishment of the guilty.
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-Brooksvile Crescent: DIR. j ~
Wallace, editor of the Fort Dade -NtsA'n..
ger, paid us breezy visit last Monday
morning 1t is always pleasant to: have
the Doctor around, he is such good:ceai
pany. He is perfectly full Of his bpnsi-
full section; now if his section was tiliid'
with ten thousand as nervous, restless,
energetic, able men as he is, no part oi
the Union could turn it down ut anything
it chose to undertake . . Mr.. II. y.
Franklin, superintendent for Sir Fyede}-
lex Neergard, brought in a sample 81 his
banana crop, plants planted last yeal'
The fruit weighed nearly twelve osncel
to the finger or thirty-fvc ounces tothre,7
fingers. They were delicious III Favor
He also brought along some >pecmtns q
orange leaves off of buds inserted this
year; the leaves measure ten inches. long
by six and IA halt inches wide. Sir EredS
erick'S place is about five miles east of
Brooksville, and MIR. Franklin is rat,idlE
valuable in the county Six miles isortlt
of Brooksville there is a wild orange l,ruvt
i'll the southwest corner of which is oreof
the natural curiosities Of this county, l.
is an immense live oak, which, sever tees
from the ground, measures thirty tivJanl
half feet in circumference; from this
height to the fork, it has but two imntrrs
limbs, is about forty feet, where Hlesd
limbs spread out and the top meatue$
eighty yards across. On the east size o.
the tree and near the ground there :is r
small ori6ce from which pours constant
stream Of cold air, showing some sustert
ranean connection that is entirely ,tnaft
fected by what is going on above gr,;ln3
it blows just the same steady, tol&
blast, blow the outer air east, west, n%rtlt
or south, hot or cold, or not at all |!
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The Florida Volcano.o

We are enabled to state that the Flor
ida volcano" mystery will be explained
in the next issue of the FLoRIDIAN The
fact of volcano will not be developed,
but very curious natural phenomenon
will be shown to exist-the cause Of the
appearances which have induced the be-
lief of the existence of volcano. The
location and the cause of these appear
ances have been fixed by the researches
of a gentleman of Tallahassee who has
finally obtained satisfactory information,
but has not had time to prepare his arti-
Gle for publication. This will show that
if the furnaces Of the earth below Florida
are not hot enough to melt mineral mat
ter for volcano, they can heat water 'aud
things" for a display of dense gases.
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"A Southern exchange says The pe1,e of
the North have presented the South via $2S,-
100000 since the war, tor educational p.:r:'osrs
only. Still we have ingrates among us wEip " 1t
q solid South" Thank heaven, they q, get
and South.
Will this paper, which irequentls pro
duces something disagreeably sectional,
tell us the name Of the Southern exclalge,
and how the " North presented the South
with 5000, ooO:" AS We have tonnd
it guilty heretofore Of something . very
like what George Washington sag he
could not tell we have a right to ask I, Foof
of any statement it may make
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FiorAs Agriculturist.l
FrOPasatinS LeCOnte Pear.

Tie LeConte and Chinese sand pear are not
the same The former is suspected to be a cross
belween the latter and some other of our cult
waited pears. 1t is usually propagated by cuttings,
succeeding better on its own roots than when
budded or grated on other stock. The cuttings
laten in winter from November to February
AS ii buds olt very carly it cannot be delayed
later than February. The cuttings, from ten
inches to foot long, are cut sloping an inch and
haa, opposite bud, at its lower end. The
soil Icing previously we'll broken with pillow or
spade. burrows run ten inches deep and four feet
apart and the cuttings placed in these two feet
apart, leaning against one side, and the burrows
are tl',n filled, leaving only one bud uncovered
and above the surface. Subsequent cultivation
Consists only in keeping down weeds and grass.
In Offer words, cultivate them as you would cot
ton. Atthe end Of one year they will be ready for
lranspianling
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How like picture lies before the
minds eye the fair land OF Florida From
the capitol hill at Tallahassee the vision
stretches away beyond the lovely scenes
Immediately surrounding, and rests upon
the lands and coasts east, west and. south :;
in the east and the west, on the story
land Of the cities at the mouths of the
st. Johns and the Escambia-one port
OF the Atlantic a thousand miles away by
water from the other, port of the Gulf;
in the south, on the great Peninsula, its
summer seas, the lowest point of Ameri-
can domain, where the largest city OF the
State looks over the straits to Cuba; on
its strange "nllotic river flowing north
ward amid the perpetual verdure of orange
groves. One secs the sea beaches of gulf
and ocean glistening white AS snow, the
fringlng palm trees, the thousand bright
islands of the coast, the thousand blue
lakes of the inner land, the open colon
udOCS Oh IDt iOIcSlS Oh LOW CIlDE DlIlCS,
the shadowy depths of the dense ham
mocks, the grassy and fowery expanse
of the broad savannas, the still bayous
OF the lowlands, and the sparkling streams
of the highlands; the homes that ordi-
nary thrift has made luxurious and are
beautiful in their surroundings, and the
homes that are rude, but where want of
necessaries is perhaps unknown: the villa
in the orange grove, the mansion on the
plantation, the cabin on the fertile little
"patch" amid luNuria mt forest growth.
Those who have seen Florida throughout
carry evcrmorc in mind Il picture with
the objective features We have skctched
and what wonder that thousands annually
return to sojourn for tine, and other
thousands to stay for all time, to make
their homes where the yoke of toll rests
lightly, and health assures the ENJOYMENT
Of the other gifts of nature in this favored
land -:
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As to Tallahassee, Etc.

We extract as follows from a letter to
the Pensacola Idounce- Gazette, written
from Tallahassee by Mr.. Ed. c. Campbell,
of the editorial staff of that paper:
TO him who has been much in city pent"
and feels himself both physically and mentally
exhausted by close application 10 business dur
ing the long tedious dry summer months Just past,
we Opine there is no mOie pleasing, inviting CITY
in all the Land of Flowers, than this quiet de-
lighlfu old Capital City Of the Slate
In speaking briefly OF this charming old city,
there is need of lalfeia phra SC " nor silken
terms precise" nor to be gully of that spruce
atfectalon which hunts the dictionary for three
piled hyperboles." No. lei us view her just as
she is, ting quietly and peacefully ON the mill
top, with her rolling, undulating hillsides and
valleys, looking in her antique responsibility,
like some old cathedral town-calm and weighiy
with the stories and traditions of many years of
ante .belum glory and wealth. She is even un-
usually quiet nOw-you see none OF The stir and
hustle and plotlings of political and social ambi-
ton, which stimulate lie during the legislative
sessions. You are not crowded nor hurried. and
have plenty of room to look around you. You
walk leisurely about the city. Here and there
the old land marks of time may be seen, blend
ing most harmOnlously with the stately elegance
of more modern improvements
Tallahassee invites the pleasure seeker, no less
than the immigrant. There is place and attrac-
tons for all. She is the county seat of Leon
county, as well as the Capital of the Stale, has a
population of about $500, is beautifully located,
occupying the top and slope of high hill and
is called by all who see her the beautiful Hill
CITY of Florida. The streets are WIDE the main
thoroughfare, Monroe street, lined with tall and
spreading live oaks, casting their cooling shad-
ows 10 front Of the stores and dwelling-hous
the first named mostly brick the latter, frame,
but all large, elegant and capacious. She has
two large hotels, the st. James and Leon House.
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Pensacola.

There is no yellow fever or other infec-
tious disease in Pensacola. The citizens
are justly Indignant that Mobile should
have re-established the quarantine recently
removed 1t was done at the instance of
DR.. Jerome Cochran, health officer Of Ala
bama, and it is alleged that if his action
was not biased by personal feeling it was
at least taken without sufficient examina-
ton, resulting in injustice to the reputc
Of Pensacola and great injury to her in
terests. Immediately upon the announce
ment Of quarantine by Mobile, President
Guttman, of the Pensacola Board of
Health, procured the subjoined certificate,
signed by all the practicing physicians of
the city, and forwarded it to the Mobile
Board Of Health
PENSACOLA, October 10, 1883.
We, the undersigned, physicians OF the cry OF
Pensacola, do hereby certify that on this date
there are no cases OF yellow lever under our
Treatment, or to our know ledge prevailing III
this city. F. G. RENsHAw,
r. &. WHITE,
j. L. CRAvEY,
ED. BOWER,
WIN. II. Ross, JR,
w. F. FoRDHAM,
JAS. S. HEBRON,
RoBT. b $. HARRIS.
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"A. NJ. Ives, retiring route agent OF
the Southern Express Company in Flor
ida, has been presented with handsome
gold watch and chain by his fellow en-
ployees.
The United States Land office at
Gainesville is daily crowded by applicants
for homesteads on the government lands,
and the business of the off ce is dispatched
with celebrity.
The recent interview with the Gov
ernor Of Florida, by the Times Democrat,
and which has been extensively published
in the State press and elsewhere is con-
sidered one Of the fullest and most con-
else summaries Of the internal affairs of
Florida, that has ever been made by any
one.-.GuJ' Coust Progress.
No individual member of the Flor
ida press has won more largely upon our
esteem and admiration than Major w. It.
Walthail, the newly elected editor lin
chief of the Pensacola 1duance- Gazette.
In everything that we have seen from his
pen, there breathes the spirit Of the gen
tleman, the scholar and the patriot. 1t is
with unusual emphasis that we welcome
Major Walthall and his clean, honorable
methods into the fellowship of Florida
.ournalism.-JochSonriUe Daily Hrald
=" While the Republican party gains
L l. Y Il,
Philadelphia luericon in starting a sen
tence. Whereabouts in the Northwest ::
Is it Wisconsin or is it Michigan: Are
the gains in Kansas, Nebraska or Iowa :?
In no one of these States is the Republic
cad party holding its own. Nowhere in
the country are Republican chances worse
or Democratic prospects in the near flu
ture brighter than in this heretofore
stronghold Of the Republican party
Baltimore Day.
Mr. Harrison Reed is out in long
and curiously imaginative article, which,
however, is not entitled to high place as a
work of fiction. There is nothing strik-
ing about the falsitications the misstate-
ments are mellowed by age, as it we're
the same old errors without the point
and raciness of novelty.
Pensacola Advance- Guzette The
return of Mr.. Campbell affords the chief
editor of this paper an opportunity to
make visit Of few days, on business
of Importance, to New Orleans and other
places in that direction. During his alb
sence the paper is in sole charge of his
associate, Mr.. Ed. G. Campbell. Pen
sacola has never enjoyed healthier sum-
mer than the season just past, and contln-
ues wonderfully free from sickness consid-
ering the unbroken, continued drouth and
unusually warm weather. Had it not
been for the fever scare business would
now be booming The Montgomery
Advertiser had long editorial the other
day on Humbugs," and strange to say
forgot to mention the nonsense of that
city in keeping up strict quarantine
against city in which there is no yellow
fever or other infectious or contagious
disease.
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The Republican party in the various States
where there is any movement appears to be Pc
tering ont In the language of The proverbiallst'
let her peter tdntd Constitution (Dem
ii il were us easy to get an appropriation
for improving the Mississippi as it is to get an
appropriation for a junketing trip the river
Would have been improved long ago.-SdOa"-
sfah Morning Meas (Dem.)
The people of Massachusetts were well &C.
quainted with Butler when they went to the
polls and chose him Governor, and there is moth.
ing to be said him this year that was not said last
year-.I. Louis Globe Democrat (Rep)
AS The buge's blast has died away. the war
cloud lifted. and the sun of peace shone out Tue
warp and wool of the Republican loom has con-
s,sntly shrunken; it has not the fundamental els-
r,ents emitting it 10 a long reign.-Dubuqus Hof-
aM (Dem)
The best thing the Colored Convention dl !,
al Louisville was 10 adjourn.-Chnago Hero'a
und)
. --Thdre can be no alliance between the cor
rorations and the Democratic party.-San fTo"-
cisco Examiner DENY
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fernando County.

The people of fernando county owe much
to the Brooksville Crescent-always a
good paper; but its issue Of the 9th is
especially excellent, for fifteen OF it's long
columns are occupied by articles descrip-
tive OF different localities, and compre-
hensive article treating of the whole
county, its resources, topography, etc,
admirably prepared by Editor Fred. l..
Robertson. The paper is very hand.
somely printed, and will be telling add
vertisement of the fair county of Her
nando at the Louisville Exposition.
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Jacksonville Times Union.

Jacksonville Times Unionl
The esteemed editor Of the Palatka
Herohl is i'll quandary over our remark
that the Times Union does not propose to
be the organ of any faction, interpreting
that to mean that sit will not be an or
gan of the Democratic party in this
State" To help our esteemed contempo-
rary out of his dilemma we will suggest
that we do not look upon the Democratic
party of this State as "taction," but as
an association of citizens upon whose con-
tinued political supremacy rests the best
hopes for the prosperity of the common
wealth. BY the factions" we mean
those minor cliques and combinations into
which the party is broken up, and which
are imperillng the harmony, and conse-
quently the success, of the party. The
contrast which we draw, and which VIC
have always drawn, is between an organ,
and newspaper The Times Union is
primarily newspaper-independent of
all pecuniary obligations or entangling
alliances, aud free to deal fairly and fear
lessly with men and with parties
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Victoryin New Jersey.

At the municipal election in Newark,
n. J., on the 9th the Democratic candl-
date for Mayor was elected by six hun
dred majority over the republican candi-
date for reelection. The Democrats also
gained a majority of the council and
control of the school board and board
of freeholders This success, it is
claimed, promises the State for the Dem
ocratic candidate TOR Governor, Leon
Albeit, at the election in November, by
ten thousand majority.
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TAMPA Tribune.l

TAMPA Tribunel
Our neighbor Of the Manatee News
has furnished the so-caIled Independent
organs of the State whole magazine of
ammunition in the little squib on hide
pendentsm which he published sometime
since. 1t has been published and repub-
lished by every journal Of that stripe in
Florida, with all manner of expressions
of approval. We suppose it was all the
more gratifying to them because unex-
pected, coming as it did from a paper
published in Manatee, one of the most
unalterably Democratic counties in the
State. We opine, however, that our half
andhalf brethren are deceiving them
selves in laying the sweet JUNCTION to their
souls that the Nc,os, in its expressions of
lndependentism," represents even as
much as a respectable corporal's guard of
the voters of Manatee county
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Mrs. +. A. Dyke, wife of the

Mrs. f. A. Dyke, wife of the dis
tinguished ex-editor of the Tallahassee
FLoRlDIAN, arrived in the city by Mon
day evenings northern train. Mrs.
Dyke is visiting her sister, Mrs. Maud E.
Wynkoop, who has recently located in
our city. If we could induce visit from
the Captain at this season, while our
orange trees are grooming under the
weight Of the golden fruit, Starke might
capture him. Our magnificent groves
have never yet failed to charm and cap
tivate all visitors A visit from the Cap
tain would be greatly appreciated by our
citizens and we hope he will do us that
honor before the return of his excellent
lady. We promise to load him down
with the largest, brightest and sweetest
oranges he has ever seen in any country.
-Starke Telegraph.