The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-05-22

~ ana out OF the CITY.
The Florida Intelligence. tere' otote
= monthly is now printed at Live Oak A.
4 weekly. :.
Prairie dogs are found to b4 Of use.
Their skins supply glove material eqnal
n the finest kid.
The Quitman Free ffrss says the
watermelon shipments from THAI >e''li'i1'
will not begin before the first OF .Ini*.
The Recor.l.r reports fourteen han
ired and sixtv-two barrels OF p"th'o"s
shipped from Madison up To the iii
instant
Editor Mc.Alpin is about fH "n'aret
his Live Oak B"Iietj". hut il will be dltA-
cult In improve its quality N pr'P"rti"p.
bring "a just good enough ~ it is
Mrs. Theresa Fair has been divorced
from SENATOR James g. Fair. She was al,
lowed& $50. 000i in money. lie family r''s'-
.lence IN san Francisco" AMI The rHs,ody e'
the three minor children.
baltimore Uoy Gen. ilazen, ~ ti'f
signal service. has been in Fsnr'ta trying
10 determine the frost line, ana h" say;'
he hsas come Ia the conclusion that a frEe
drawn from the equator t. the North
Pole bisects ii. =
The Democratic state Convention .;
Kentucky. which convened an IN" W,
nominated j. Proctor Knott i"f EoH-
rrnor. The contest was lively. bu' after
a number of ballots opposing candidates
withdrew and the result was Harmonious
action.
The first crate of Georgia peaches ~ (
expressed from Macon on tbs l4th ~
"A 70 InIt3tlots;
that the shipments will toIloN rapidly OF
IN large quantities, for the reasun that th;
frosts in March hurt the crnp IN many L.
calities.
Another frightful tornaAo has 90.
Cured In the Northwest T!ie killed ana
wounded in Illinois and Wisconsin rnn,-
Der several hundred, ami he damage:
amounts IL over a quarter 81 million GOT
lars The wear sustans the bad prc-eni-
nence for disaster with which il hrEat.
At IIarrodsburg, Ky. an the 18th,
the jury returned a verdict g. acquittai III
the case of Hon. Phil Is. Thomp>or, at'cc
being out one hour The verdict Was re-
eeived with deafening >hon<a by he
densely packed house. \. soon as 'hr
jury was polled and dismissed Thomp>oI'
was crowded upon by his 'rrenl~, ho
warmly congratulated him. He bore the
ordeal with the same GOODNESS that marked.
his conduct throughout tn, trial
Times Union: What with the Sill.
Canal, the building of the railway t.:
Palatka and St Augustine. tho tar-rrach4
ing extensions of the Plant system, th,
improvement of the Florida Ecniral aud
Western, and the steady p~"grrs~ "f the
Okeechobee drainage and Atlantic coast
canals, Florida L. on the exc Of "A boom
that will far transcend all previous eNI,c,
riences IN that line. The >t.d ha> he'.lf
~"wn aud harvest time is approaching.
Pierce " smuggling be: w"tn III" tive
Jacksonville dailie>. They give ap'l
take with such tough Indifference. To
punishment " that il i innpos>iL!.. /"
tell which will be knocked out by
some harder word, if possible, than has
vet been said, for the set-t" j. without
gloves, and "quite regardless" ~ hard
words break no heads, and merely dam
age regulations. ii seems psDbabe that
the sporting event may continue TO enter
tain the readers of the two PAPER, f"r
some time to come.
If il is only the Offices tbat Sout1
Florida il after and abOu: which it ~
making such hub-bub of contention. We
suggest that il go over horse, foot and
Dragons to that party whose only vital
izing principle is the "spoils at Office. ,
Agitation and turbulence will Their c~ast.,
harmony and peace prevail, and South
Florida will once in her life present a old
If not a lovely spectacle of homogtne-
Gus whole. If office and nothing but
Office is its sole desire, it has no place in
the Democratic party.-Banner LN'ot'
Editor Moore says that All effort il
70 be made Ia start another paper il
Starke, 1" TO be sort of hybrid cOnceru-'
pan Republican, part independent and
psr1 pseudO-Democratic. Its mission is We
fold: First. to starve out the Telegraph
Second, to disrupt the Democratic party
Of Bradford county" He states empLati
ezlly that the scheme won't york, icf he
expects to be there with his 7f'c9royh
when all rivals who come with the ex
pectatien of starving us out will no' bt
able TO buy salt sufficient to pickle Jay
bird"
The commanding natural advantage
II DeFuniak, the prospective "Cit! by
the Lake. are to be aided by what eapi
tai and energy may do. Colonel Van
Kirk, agent. advertises in the Pensacola
Adr0nce- Gazette for sealed bids for ,h'
construction OF a hotel of sryenty'6ve
sleeping apartments and other necesrsar!
rooms. II is easy TO f"resee that DeFu
MAX will soon become one OF the famed
Florida resorts for invalids and tourists
being 30 readily and cheaply accessible