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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21
Important 10 Merchants and Plant.

The following circular matters of great
Importance to merchants and planters has been
handed to us with request 10 publish i, and
those interested will carefully read and preserve
il for future reference
SAVANNAH GA, August l. 1882.
TO remove the unfavorate impression: thai
Savannah shipments have made in toreiyu: mar
kets the past season, and with view to pramote
the cotton trade of this port the Savannah Coz
ton Exchange has recently amended some .nt It's
rules and adopted others.
believing II will be of interest To our readers.
we beg to call their special attention TO the fol-
lowing:
Weighing Cotton shall always be weighed
with rising beam.
AAo,cance-A proper allowance in weight shall
be made for double or surplus baggng on all wet
cotton, and on cotton wholly or partially COW
cred with dirt
Examination will be subject a. sec
ond examination at the press. as is the custcm ia
New Orleans and other leading American ,,,ark-
cts. This examination will be very rigid: and
may disclose causes for rejection that have e..
capped detection when delivery was made vi the
warehouse
Rejections.-Cotton that is so wet as to become
liable to damage, unless ii is opened and dried,
may he rejected as understandable Such bales
as may contain any foreign substance water
packed bales, or bales containing damaged cot
ton In the interior, and such bales as are MATED
or composed of good cotton upon the exisrior,
and decidedly inferior cotton in the INTERIOR or
placed in layers in such manner as not to BIZ
detected without opening the bales; candy
mixed packed and seedy cotton, and bales weigh
ing less than three hundred pounds are subject
to rejection.
Claims.-No claim Of any kind shall be al.
lowed, unless brought within thirty days otter
delivery, and while the cotton is still in Savan-
nah.
If bales be detected to be fraudulently rt1cket
after delivery, and before leaving Savannah.
they, If possible, shall be put into merchantable
order at the press, and the substance removed
from the bale for that purpose, shall in ths,, case
be returned to the seller, who shall pay for its
weight at the price for which the cotton has been
sold. Ii such course be impracticable. then
such bales shall be returned in fair order within
twenty-four hours after the fraud has been dis
covered, to the seller at his warehouse, liz pay
ing for the actual weight of cotton at original
price, and one dollar bale to cover expenses.
Sandy Cotton will be difficult to sell, and will
therefore bring very low prices. Sand will be Il
greater cause for rejection than heretofore, owing
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TO the heavy losses that exporters hav. x..,.,-.
during the past season for reclamation mad. -
that account VI
fluOtations.-The Savannah Cotton Fxoh.
two years ago. reduced its standard 10 coasAse.
tc the classification of the Nationa, Co,to.' u
change, but as other exchanges did no, 80. M
10 shis classification, il was found that or, 4seie
tAilOns being based on lower standard. Sao-
those markets created the false impression IN
the Savannah market was the loves, il ' ~
United States me
Our Exchange, to correct the above h..
adopted standards more in conformity win ,s NV
Of other American markets "1e
AS compared with our Exchange standard. !,
iast season, the new types are as follows.
tiood Middling one-fourth grade better H.
last year. '1%a
MiddliDg one half grade better than Is., 49,.
Low Middling onehslf grade better than -.
year ~
Good Ordinary one full grade better than ,..,
year 'A''
in view of the above we feel we cannot mr..
TOO strongly upon planters. ginners and coun,,.
merchants the necessity OF using their best a.
beavers and influence TO have cotton more ~
fully prepared and better protected from ~.
weather Be careful to put only one uuaI;,v =
cotton in The same bale Get out all sand ~:
Die and foreign substances and keep the co,,or
from exposure TO the weather You will ~
carefully attending to the above, save yoursrl,:I
from loss and the factor from much annoyanc.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21

The Brennans played two games with the
jacksonville Herald Nine last week. The score
i'll the first game was to in favor of the Bren
mans. i'll the second 3 to in favor of the same
club.
The Mall0rys and the Floral Ciiys PLAYED
fine game at Pensacola last Wednesday, of
which the Adoa'sce Gazette says: '' As the game
progressed, the usual applause was given the
playt -, and every one seemed satisfied that the
Mallorys had met foemen worthy of their steel.
The errors on both sides were numerous. but
our boys had the best Of the game from the start.
and. at the end of nine innings, players and an-
dience were satisfied by the handsome score Of
4 too"
The third game between the Magnolias sud
the Floral Citys was played at the Fair Ground
yesterday There was some splendid batting,
especially by the Tallahassee boys A few fine
plays were made by members of both clubs, but
the game was decidedly inferior to the second,
played "n the same field few weeks since
Game was called on account of darkness. on the
sixth inning, and the score announced-Florai
Citys. 20; Magnoias z.
The Jeffersons and Magnolias will play at the
Fair Ground. at four o'clock this afternoon.
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1t il said that CONGRESS- will be ask

1t is said that Congress will he asked
at the next session to refund to the States
the $50, 100000 of direct tax which was
assessed under the Act Of August ), 1861.
The act originally applied to all States,
but was subsequently so modified as to
appl y only to the insurrectionary States.
Some of the Northern States assumed it,
in whole or in part, and in the Southern
States the tax was collected by the forced
sale of property A recent decision of
the Supreme Court establishes the claim
of the original owners to any surplus
arising from those sales, and arrangements
have been made by some of the States to
secure the surplus which they claim is
due to their citizens. In this connection
it is thought that it will be necessary to
consider the fact that the States in 1887
had $2s, 100000 distributed among them
as a loan from the General Government.
The loan was made without interest, and
none OF the States have ever manifested
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L. SuHscR,RKRs will be ,,oti6ed. fr,,


We propose to issue early in Sepaena-
Der an edition of the FLoRIpag. IN especially
designed for distribution BY the gea,te-
man in charge of the Leon county exhibit
st the Louisville Exposition.I 1t viii he
the regular issue Of the dag but several
thousand extra copies will be printed,
and its matter will be mainlY devoted to
the resources of Leon county, its varied
natural advantages, the condition of its
industries, and descriptive Of the cisy. Of
Tallahassee. We need hal ally suggest
that space in this issue will: be Of value
10 advertisers here and elsewherr, es3 e.
cially those who are interested in the sale
of lands, interstate commerce. hotels, DC
Those ordering fifty or more .copies.ot he
Exposition Edition of the FrDRImtN will
be supplied at two cents per copy.
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ing journalism and becoming successful
editor-that is, fair, upright writer.
We suppose the bent of his mind is to
take hold of subjects that need defending
to be tolerated, and hence We may often
find him advocating from sheer force of
professional bias of thought what his con
Of course there are exceptions to the rule,
but journalism, in this State at least, has
suffered much in it's character and its
usefulness from the intrusion int" its
ranks of certain members OF the legal
profession
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21

"A writer of quasi-editorials in the
Neso Era thinks he is doing some recog-
nizing of a hidden hand in the FLoRID-
IAN. He is at fault now as he was before,
and we plainly recognize the crooked
hand that got that journal into the d.
lemma of miserably false position the
last time it made issue with this paper.
In this connection we would remark that
we have rarely known an instance of
lawyer playing editor that he did not get
the paper in trouble, and leave his sins a
burden for the. proprietor to work of:
This is easily explained. When lawyer
NEEDLES in journalism he is apt to take
"the shop" into it with him, and in his
editorials exercise the privilege Of his
craft in making whatever crooked state
ment he may choose to sustain his posi-
tion,- even as he would in defending
chicken thief who had pleaded not guilty
We will 60 further and say that we
have rarely known An instance of an old law
yer who had been long in practice adopt
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21
Letter from Commi..ione- Hrln,y.

LOUISVILLE, August II lSo:j
Editors FZo11tiidn write to ask YOU if Sou
will correct a wrong impression that HIS got
abroad. DIR. Lucas, Commissioner frosn your
place, received letter to day from some gentle
man, saying he had collection at the .ler.ot
ready to send off, and he learned that it would
cost him $25 for space. Such is not the case:
ii costs nothing for space. All exhibits coming
from Florida are received on State space Tree
am really sorry that such Il report has gGn1 out
Our exhibits are coming in very slow, and fear
this will retard them much longer. Columbia
county sent in very nice display yesterday
The Disston display was shipped ten or twelve
days ago from Jacksonville and is not here vet
l suppose it is on some side switch 1t is
very wrong for railroads to keep goods back IN
this way. Our exhibits coming very slow.
but am not discouraged. think we will have
a good show. Everything progressing fineDy-a
grand sight 10 be seen; the finest display tina. :
have ever seen, except the Centennial, anil no;
second to that in regard TO implements and mr.
chinery. There is something Florida can feel
proud of. She has furnished this Exposition
with the right man in the right place-that is
Colonel Joseph Hirst, the General Manager over
Space and Exhibits He is from Bronson, Flor
ida, and is also a Commissioner appointed bg
Governor BoXham. He seems TO grasp every
thing with will and determination, ana per
feet understanding; makes mislakea, and
with his kindly and gentemanly department, hc
has endearel himself to the exhibitors haze he'd
good deal to do with Fairs and Exposlians for
the last thirty years, and must say hays: never
seen any man that could equal him il; such
position The Exposition is a grand Success
Every man should see it that possibly come
and by all means bring up your exhibits from
Florida Yours r f. C. ByIvIy
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21
Malone Repudiated.

We direct the attention of " Indcpend
ents" and Republicans, and Republican
Independents and independent Republic
cans, to the subjoned press dispatch.
They will observe, and will not thereby be
made happy, that the old-line Republican
party Of Virginia, in State convention
assembled, denounce Malone, the author
and leader Of mongrel coalition politics
such as contemplated by the " indie
pendent movement " in Florida The
way Of the independent transgressor is
hard, if abandoning the democratic
household he runs to the republican fold
for shelter and has the door slammed in
his face as if he were wolf, and is left
out in the cold between the two. The
colored republicans are mighty 'spicious
Oh desc yer Independents dat wants to
jine in" for common sense tells them
they want to make something off EN-:
RICHMOND, VA, August 15.--The Republican
straight-out State Convention met to day in this
city. platform was adopted favOring strict
adherence TO Republican principles and IA pro-
tective tariff, and indorsing James G. Blaine,
for the Presidency. The action of the
administration in aiding General Malone in the
reputation of one-thid Of the State debt is con-
demned. 1t declares that the power thus glvcH
to Malone has been used in this State for The
prosecuting of lifelong Republicans, and makes
him virtually President Of the United States for
the State Of Virginia The platform opposes
mixed schools, and favors civil service reform
aud an honest enforcement of the recent act of
Congress. 1t also favors IL free ballot and an
honest count. 1t declares that the Republican
party never advocated the imposition of the cap
itation tax, and declares that the establishment
OF public free schools should be made mandatory
1t declares in favor of just and equal division
of school funds according 70 population, and con-
cludes by expressing unalterable opposition 10
the one man power in Virginia represented by
Malone, and calls the attention Of The admins
tration TO the results of such system In other
Qfafa
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21
Of Some Indian Words.

Editor Ftortdian The following Indian words
were collected in personal interviews with old tt
ger Tail, Young Tiger, his son, Johnny Jumper,
*Key West Billy and other Seminoles, who were
accustomed ten years ago to visit the settlements
along Biscayne Bay for traffic. They were
taken down Theoretically, at the time, as accu-
ratey rs circumstances would allow. The wri-
ter had the pleasure of entertaining Old Tiger at
dinner by special appointment. The old chief
presented himself al an early hour, deliberately
decked OF with new turban, three coats but
toned up, although in mid summer and gaudily
ornamented leggins in lieu of trousers. He de-
ported himself with dignified propriety During
the meal he had little to say, but after it was
over, and while enjoying his pipe, he became
quite communicative. His hair was perfectly
white, yet his form was still erect, and his step
elastic His eyesight, however had so failed he
was compelled to abandon the chase Taking
up his old rifle in his hands, and regarding it
with tender interest, he remarked in low, touch
tngly Nd tone, enc no see now me shoot
more and quickly, though gently, laying the
trusty friend and companion of years down in
the bottom OF his canoe, he turned silently away
w NoHtCdl IL uluJ iiuNC OCCA, INC otoI uuS tCdl.
In selling chickens. the invarable price for
which was one chuck-twenty-ive cents-each,
he would never consent TO an abatement on the
small sizes, some scarcely half feathered The
assurance, he grow bumby," ought, he thought,
pretended to think, be quite sufficient. Poor
old Tiger has, some years since, been summoned
to the spirit land, or, he termed death, gone
sleep"
Gitlok-stsha-I don't understands Hinde-
mia Good too much Hindlesta--GOod; H0-
la wa-gus : Bad; So-co- mat -ka-Tiger Tail;
Ees Ia -hat-kee-Whitem man; Ees ia chattee-Red
man; Ees ta-lus-tee - Black man; Hi-wah =
Woman; Kentuckee-Gr Alba -ta-A lligator;
Ephah Dog; Un-gar, also Gar-Yes All hah-
Potato; Toot-cah- Fire; Su co -stsha-All gone
Sof-kee-Soup, porridge lii-What; HE lah-
Expressive of surprise; Harts-ca- tot-ka-rar
ring; Hi-epas-I go; Heepanonestsha-Good
bye; Wee-kiO wah-Cold water; Bees-low-
Canoe; Sla po tah-Neede; Stilla- pi-cah Moe
cssin; O-kee hah-Mosquto; Ho-nah-Dress;
Chas-see - Pumpkin; Oligatah = Chair; Cham
pah--I,asket O-ho-me pi-tah-Table; Cha-kee
sha - Beads; Chut nah Hair SEQ nj ka-
Scissors; Wa-ho nah -Whskey T"o-ka-now-
all -hbuCN ~ SHSC i'Sei
O-ku-k wah-Salt.
Ham kin-One; Ho-cO-lin--Two; Tut -sa-nan
--Threc; Ons.ten -Four; Choc-t a-pin--Five
f par kin-Six Cola par kin Seven Sen-na-
par kin-cght; Oos-to par kin-Nine; Parlin-
Ten. w.
80 called from having lived year so in Key West
He left the tribe to take up his abode with the whites
His friends however opposed the move and old Tiger
Tail il said made the voyage from Cape Florida 10
Key West in his recover the truant.
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Protection Against the Pesky Mos
OmitO.

i s surprising, says an exchange, that some
en,erprsing genius has not long since invented
SOM ding for the protection of the feet and
anklts against the bites of the mosquito. Those
VIII" are sojourning where the pests abound will
no doubt lie delighted to learn that they can ef
fectualy project their neither extremities by wrap
ping around them a single thickness of white It's
SUE paper before putting on the stockings. The
INC 'cuos bill cannot penetrate this thin mate
rial though it readily finds its way through the in
tei,tr es Of the stocking, whether the material
be silk. cotton or wooden. Gentlemen who wear
low hoes will need no further suggestions.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21

The Key West Nesos filings to the breeze the
following unique State ticket for 1884: For Gov
ernor, d. $. Walker, Jr., of Tallahassee; for
Lieutenant Governor, Hon. Allen. of Key
West. Is there anywhere along the line mo-
ton TO close The nominations and proceed to a
ballot ?-Fl0rnid HernM
And is Senator F. w. Pope to be so
easily disposed of? The friends of that
gentleman will resist the motion to close
the nominations and proceed to ballot"
The only significant feature in the above
suggestion is the coalition suggested
that of Col. Walker, an Independent, and
Senator Allen, Republican. What say
the Independent Democrats, and what say
the straightout Republicans ? Sanford
Journal.
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Ftom the Key West Democrat
for License I'm New w.,
Rejected.

..On Tuesday at the regular meeting of The
Board of County Commissioners, Mr.. Merrill
ptescnted his petition asking that license h.
GRANTED for bar-room at the Russell Hons
The petition was signed by SAG voters, but tbis
moi being majority OF the names upon the reg
istration books of the district, the County Con-
m,ssioners refused the petition
There was also another objection The Com
m9ssioners claimed that the names of the vii.
ne4sses to the signatures should be published a
we'll As those of the petitioners
Should this view of the matter be sustained
good-by to all the bar-rooms in Key West. for il
would be an almost utter impossibility to follow
oe strIck letter of the law. Mr. Merrill ac-
cepted his refusal by applying to the Judge OF
ihe Circuit Court for mandamus to compel the
Commissioners TO grant it ON his petition as pre-
seated 1t is quite interesting as the case stands
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21
COMMUNICATED
Shell Mounds ON the Sea Bottom.

From seventy to one hundred and
twenty miles south from the southeastern
coast of New England, the bottom of the
sea which has inclined very gradually east
ward, forming table-and, takes sud-
den dip downward, 50 that, whereas the
water on the edge of the bluff is one hun
bred tathoms deep, al the bottom OF the
BASIN 1t Is one thousand fathOms deep.
The slope is as high and as steep as
Mount Washington, and on its summit,
which Is level, diver, could he go to so
low depth, could not put out his hand
without touching a living creature The
trowel, let down from the ship by mile
OF rope, brings up a ton of living and
dead crabs, shrimp, and star-fsh, and, as
the trowel simply scrapes over a small
surface, the ocean-bed is plainly carpeted
with creatures.
The surface of this submarine mountain
Is covered with shells like an ordinary
sea beach, showing that it is the eating
iIONNN WI Hst~l SCIloOiS Ol cdTnlNO IOuS all
mails. y Goldfish takes 4 whole oyster
into its mouth, cracks the shell, digests
the meat and splits vut the rest. Crabs
crack the shells ana suck out the meat
In that way come whole mounds of shells
that are drcdged up.
The preceding are almost the exact
words Of portion of a paper read re-
Gently before the National Academy Of
Sciences in New York city, by Professor
\. +. NerriIl Of Yale College.
In connection with the interesting sub
Iect Of the Shell mounds existing on the
coast OF Florida, the statements will be
specially noticeable. Various coniectures
exist as to the creation IF our turraneous
shell-mounds, notable one that they
were formed by the Indian tribes that
came to the coast for oyster eating in the
oyster season. Prof. Nerrill makes
pointed statements a. to the cause of the
mounds on the great bed beaches of the
sea.
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Ner York World. I

An appreciative correspondent gives vo;c.
tp the sentiment of a certain section of the Ia.
ocratc party when be asks that the party sbouIs
refuse to accept any one as candidate who h..
y any time been Republican. The answer n
this is that in the Democratic party the msiOr;,v
rale, and The great majority of the party refu,e
y he bound by so narrow and obstructive an
idea The adoption Of such a rule would No.
assert any principle while it would ALLEVIATE IN.
strength on which the party must count whe. il
taarches to the victory. There were some Dem.
etrats in Ohio and elsewhere who were heard "a
-$ish after The nomination that Hoadly might be
Heaten. But 1t speaks volumes for the good
sense, courage and honesty of the party thu,
when it found Hoadly its most available man !,
npminated him, and that it stands by him. with
bhly here and there dissenting voice
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The natural sense, the instinct, the

The natural sense, the instinct, the
impulse of rectitude common to men who
are not exceptions Of the rule of human
kind, revolts at the idea of treachery-of
being false to ones fellows. Hence the
popular sentiment of condemnation Of
some who having associated with and in
the democracy are now against it in the
heresy of independentism, though for very
shame's sake claiming still to be of it,
They are not Of it. They have forfeited
the confidence Of the democratic house
hold in which they treacherously So
journed for time. They are turned out,
are politically homeless, for the old line
Republican party won't admit them, and
they are astray in the wilderness with no
associates but the accusing ghosts of their
departed virtue and those wandering out
casts Of republicanism who meet them in
the same desert of political despair
Ishmaelites all, with their hands against
all men, including each other, and all men
against them.
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Those independents who claiming to
be Independent democrats " complained
of abuses in the party, made sad mis-
take in going outside of the party aud
seeking republican aid and alliance to
correct them. Further, they do not gain
republicans to the democratic party but
add themselves to the republican party.
In such involv ement did the action of the
sulphur water plotters get themselves.
Who is not Of the party is against it.