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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02
IAMONIA ITEM y.

MIR Lucien Ranes, We are pleased 10 state
is again up, after Il long illness.
The twenty-seventh of December was rather
a cold day for picnic, but one was held upon
the shore and bosom of beautiful Lake Iamonia.
We learn that the feminine element predOmi-
nated-which was fortunate-as The late rain
fall made twenty yards walk upon a rail. fence
necessity. That's right, young ladies, out
door exercise brings the roses to your cheeks.
The Christmas tree at DR.. Manniug's was
quite success. Santa Claus provided bounte-
ously for the little ones, while the older ones
provided bountifully for themselves OF the cake
and good things handed them by their kind
hostess. Every one enjoyed it, especially the
young man who carried the piece of cake home
in his pocket.
Mr. G. P Davis hospilabe home is again
opened to Northern tourists The grand pulpit
orator of the age, Bishop Beckwih, made his
home tor few days with Mr.. Davis. The
Bishop is an excellent shot.
On dit has it that the matrimonial wave is
surging toward Iamonia Tor is it the Marriage
Loan Association !? and is overwhelming widow
ers, widows, bachelors ladies OF Miss Alvira
Slimmens' persuasion, lads and lassies 1t seems
they have no inclination to obey wise old Paul's
injunction.
The Misses Wyche have joined their father
in his Texas home. The neghborhood loses
two of its most estimabe young ladies. Bach
elor Tom is left high and dry and all alone.
Farmers are quite busy getting up hands for
the year 1888. There seems TO be some difficulty
to procure suitable labor. There is no discount
ing the fact that unless the farmer changes his
present mode of procedure and adopts other
and better plans OF cultivating his land, he will
have to sell out (or be sold ouD and 60 West.
The present labor system is injurious to planters
and laborers. Oh, for race of monkeys to
work and no abolitonsls to intermeddle
Bird and duck shooting are the only amuse-
ments afforded by our vicinity to gentlemen of
leisure The open fields TEEN with partridges
and doves, while the lake. sloughs and ponds
are filled with ducks. The fishing is also good
| Mr.. John Strorlan caught twelve pound trout
| last week.
-Charades and a reading club are on the
tapis as means of killing time for the young
people. When the club is in full blast we will
give the FLoRIDIAN an invitation out and treat
him to eloculion in the most approved Will
loughby Reade and Agnes. Herndon style. With
so mlny cultivated ladies and gentlemen as are
! in this vicinity, club would be easy to estab-
lish and highly en- PERTAINING when established
Has Dame Rumor spread the news about
that Thanksgiving ducking party from Talla-
hassee? The weather was piercingly cold, and
the majority of the Thanksgivers sat upon the
lake side and shivered under the trees 1t was
old folks on frolic, and very little of the frolc
| at that
Colonel and Miss jamie Vason were the
guests of G. p Barksdale last week. Time
touches lightly the Colonel May his shadow
never grow less or longer.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

The Institute Of colored teachers, In char &c Of
The colored schools Of Florida, will convene a,
T.ll.hassee on Wednesday, January gath, and
remEin In session one week
This meeting win be very interesting and prof
tl1ble 10 those who attend. Teachers Will dem
onstrnie the methods of teaching the various
branches In their schools, and papers viii be
rad upon the following subjects:
L Communication and whispering, icause,
Q Hardness and irregular attendance, acauses
and cnre)
O. The kinds Of scheolroom punishment
4 School hygiene
g Penmanship.
g. The best method Of teaching photography
T. The best method Of teaching u. s. History
O. The best method Of teaching Geogsaphy.
O. The best method of teaching ArithUaetic.
10 Women va men as teachers.
IL Give reasons Why every county should
have q Teachers Institute
T. Should our Ariihmetics have answsrsi
u Ought spelling bees to be encouraged ?
a Whist shall We do with our dull pupilsf
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STATE NEWS.

ALI the United States soldiers have been re-
moved from Tampa
Tampa Guardian: Zone of the largest POI
tatoes ever exhibited in Tampa is to be seen at
the store of Mr.. M. Hooper. 1t was produced on
the farm of Mr.. J. NJ. Watrous, several miles
from town, and weighs fully fifty pounds.
Says the South Florida Times while
at Volusia last week we saw returns from
three barrels of oranges, shipped to Boston firm,
giving receipts of $50, and net profit of $2S
And yet it is claimed that it don't pay to raise
oranges"
Barlow Informant: "Mr. P. o. Keen, of
Polk county. has recently dug thirteen rows of
sweet potatoes thirty yards in length. from which
he measured seventy-ive bushels of potatoes
This is at the rate of 900 bushels to the acre. and
at fifty cents per bushel would be worth $3.50 to
the acre"
Jacksonville Union, Dec. Goth: Sure enough
the Orange Club proved invincible yesterday and
defeated the hitherto invincible Mystics by a
score of 10 to in eight innings played at the
Fair Grounds. The Orange Club are now the
undoubted champions of Florida and carry home
with them the prize bat to-day"
Madison Rec0rdSr: MIR. b. Smith, who
lives four miles west of town, was recently Of
fered 5000 for six Florida raised cows $3.50 a
piece but refused Each one of these fine cows
gives two gallons of milk day, and Mr.. Smith
sell fourteen pounds of butter every week besides
abundaatv supplying the family with butter and
sweet milk. This shows what care of stock and
proper feeding will do in Florida"
Key West Democrat: The wonderful capa-
bihties of Florida never seem to be fully under
stood. Gov. Gleason tells us that at Miami a
person who was building boat, and who had
run short of paint, coolly walked to his chimney,
"a dirt onel and scraping from it a quantity of
dust, coolly proceeded to pour oil over it and mix
itup What are you going to do?" asked the
Governor. why paint that boat. as matter
of course" But not with that stuff" Yes,
with that stuff Why, man, don't you know that
the prairie to the south of here is nothing but
pure paint of all coors, and in building this Chin
ney we had to use it," The Governor in prose-
cutting his inquiries further found that it was used
to quite large extent, and that it had the won
derful and valuable quality of keeping the worms,
which are such pest to bottoms of boats in these
waters, from attacking it.
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Jacksonville Union, Dec. p.
Death of Dr .UOhn - ROmd

Dr. John S. Bond, one Of The best known and
most respected citizens OF jacksonville died al
his home in this CITY at p. IN. yesterday, after
a rather proracted illness of typhoid pneumonia.
The funeral services will take place from ST.
johns Church this afternoon at $3.50 O'clock.
Friends and acquaintanccs OF the family are in
vited 10 attend
Dr. John Scrivcn Bond was born in Savannah,
Georgia, December Ali, 1925 He graduated
fiom Charleston Is. c. Medical College, and
commenced practice at Tallahassee, Florida.
where he practced for two years. He married
Miss Louisa Randolph, of Quincy, and shortly
thereafter moved 10 Quincy, where he pracliced
his profession for eight years Al the expiration
of that time he returned to Tallahassee, where,
in The enjoyment of fine practice, he resided
until lie changed his residence 10 This city in
August, 1881. His second wife was Miss Ellen
Smith, OF Burlington VI. DIR. Bond entered The
Confederate army and was for awhile post sur
geOn Al Fernandina until he was transferred 10
the Army OF the West, were he was on the Stall
OF General -. At the battle of Corinth,
Miss, he had charge of one of The hospitals.
He leaves wife and six children besides a
host of friends 10 mourn his loss To the aff1ic' ed
family we tender our fullest sympathies.
Union, 2sth.I
The funeral services of the late DR.. J. S. Bond
took place from st. Johns Church at $3.50 yes
terday afternoon. The pallbearers were DR..
Kenworthy, DR.. Baldwin, Dr.. La Roche, Dr..
Bettes, Mr.. Rodriques and Mr.. A. r. Meek, rep
resenting the Masonic Lodges of this city After
the services the remains were carried back to
undertaken Oaks and there remained until 7:30
last evening, when they left the evening train
for Tallahassee where they will be inferred 10.
day.
The remains reached Tallahassee on Thursday
morning and were taken charge Of by jackson
Lodge No /, F. A. NJ, and deposited in The
Episcopal Cemetery. Rev. DR.. Garter, Rector OF
81. Johns Church, read the usual religious SER
vice and Worshipiu Master J. r. Cohen of
jackson Lodge read the Masonic service, aided
by DR.. Garter.
this community, who hearl of his death with
profund regret and with the deepest sympathy
for his stricken family. AS physician he had
few equals, and among those who followed his
remains TO their final resting place were some
who felt, as they looked their last upon his cot
fn that they owed their lives to the skill of him
who had passed away He did vast amount
OF charity practice while he resided in this sc
ton. His knowledge of diseases peculiar 10
the South, his fertility in resources in dan
ger0us cases, made him invaluable in consulta-
ton and In The sick-room. His care OF his pa
tients was proverbial and this it was perhap,
that made him succeed where less watch illness
kind-hearte and never refused to respond to
calls, night day, often with no hope of reward
for the sacrifices he made, except the conscious
ness of duty discharged. His memory will live
green in many hearts
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

The Georgians will, on February IL. cele-
brnie The 150Ih anniversary of the first English
settlement in the old colony. General lanes
OgleIborpe was the man most prominently con-
necled with that settlement, and with him il
Was . labor of love- His idea was to open a
place Of refuge for poor debtors from England,
and give them an opportunity 10 recover their
fortunes and standing, and also TO aid persons
persecuted for religious belief on the continent
Of Europe II was for these purposes that Oge-
thorpe secured q charter from King George ii
in June 1872, for the country lying between the
Savannah and Altamaha and westward 40 the
Pacific The British Parliament also appfGpria.
ned 10000 for the colony, and it started pros
perOnsly- Ogleihorpe is abundanily worthy Ia
behOnored by the Georgians His Indian policy
was Is humane as that of Penn, and his self 81
devotion 10 the welfare of his unfortunate fellow
men il deserving Of all praise.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02
Advance-Gazette, December ISL


Thomas GeDnon was killed last night AT
Hamiton's saloon by Capt Lyle, who was one
of the witnesses OF the prosecution agains, Glen
non last week, when he was on trial for the
murder of Martin Villar 1t is reported that
GlennOn told Capt. Lyle that he had sworn to II
lie against him, or in words 10 that effect, that
he would get even with him, or as otherwise
stated, would kill him when he came out of The
bar room. Whereupon the Captain opened fire
and killed GlennOn. These be the facts as re-
lated to us.
The Commercial says of the verdict ofthe jury
acquitting Glennon: We submit the evidence
in the Glennon case. After careful examna-
ton of that evidence we dissent from the YER
dict of the jury, and think that criminal has
escaped from The hands OF justice. and that the
security for human life, and the preservation of
the peace and good order of society, has been
visibly weakened by that verdict.
We understand that in open court, upon the
rendition of the verdict, the prisoner rose in his
place and thanked the judge. 1t was an act Of.
brazen impuder &c. and calculated 10 create a
false impression. There was nothing in the ru
lings Of the court or in the instructions given by
his Honor to the jury to justify and sustain their
verdict, or call forth the thanks of the man
charged with the murder of Vllar
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Atlanta Constitution. 2lst.]
Mr. stephens PardOms.

Yesterday Governor Stephens sent for one OF
the editors of the Constitution
4" sent for you" said Governor Stephens, to
say why had nothing to say to your reporter
about pardons that had granted, and to CON-
plain about the manner of the publication made
by your reporter"
In the first place, every case that have ac-
ted on has history. have carefully studied
each case. The evidence and the facts that in
duced me to grant the pardon is on hle and
when the Legislature meets they will receive my
report; then, If any one has any right to complain
let them speak. There ase in this State over
twelve hundred cOnvicts. II is my duty to look
over these cases, examine them carefully, and if
l find where it is my duty to exercise executive
clemency, shall not be frightened from that
duty by public clamor. These cases are before
me Just like the docket of the criminal court is
before the judge. If evade that duly am not
fit for the Office"
AN EXTRAORDINARY CASE
" said, continued Governor Stephens " that
every convict had history. There Is one that
has no history now serving life sentence in the
Georgia penlentiary. 1t 10 a woman, and am
Tertiary since 1865. She commenced her service
when the penitentiary was at Milledgeville
There is no record of where she came from or
what crime she Notwithstanding but that she
is sentenced for life. The woman says she came
from Albany, Georgia, but does not know what
SiAaiiO ohC 10 ChdfBcu Win. naQ my secretary
TO write 10 Albany, and they can give no account
OF her. For eighteen years she has been a con-
vict. The State has forgotten her offense She
has forgotten it. Friendless and ignorant she
has been working faithfully eighteen years, and
unless find out something about her case to
make me change my mind, l shall pardon her and
show that the State of Georgia can forgive as
well as forget the misdeeds of even poor, igno-
rant negro woman"
THE PARDoNs Rrrusrn
Another fact" continued Mr. Stephens. " the
public never hear of the pardons refuse Ihave
refused many because I know II would not be
for the good Of society. Here are cases for per.
jury, Tor burglary, for larceny, for murder, for
mansiaughter, and almost every crime on the
calendar, that have been over and refused to
pardon, but when ind q case that does require
executive cemency shall not be deferred from
performing my duty as Governor Of Georgia on
account OF public clamor." ~ think" said Gov
ernor stephens. that those who are 20 ready
70 complain at me for my acts would do well to
wait until they had heard ell the ksts Competed
win what do. Very few men Who deserve 10
ge governor OF Georgia could 20 over the cases
! pave investigated and 6nd lees than ffly cases
lnai required pardon. may have Committed
an error 10 some, bot don't think .. snd I "a
Dol unwilling for The people Of Geoeis o psas o.
ny cSnoncf when they know the kcts Ii each
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

gx49%oaxh frsa Rensacsln--n EarraA
h fas closins days Of the last ssansoaof the Lag
shsN.uge witnessed the chartering Of the Pensa-
a9rsssa q Atlantic Railroad Company. snd the ID
lvOsa,es of the enterprise who expressed their
5oenvIciiot that the members Of the next Legis-
isfakure could travel over the new road were
9dsssned visionary. But their foresight is vindi-
dated. for the members from the extreme West
i hate rushed through by rail over the wilderness
4 tsss.s Of their long neglected section-wiIder-
/ hsss because 90 long neglected-but now TO be
sk+veloped ON its merits along the avenue of trav-
ii And 'rsfilc which is opened up But a small
( gsp of twelve miles remains unfinished, and this
|. s~dause of the loss of q ship-load of rails
+! The gentlemen from the Western counties
|. cane on invitation from Superintendent W. d.
Chipley, and his special car was the first passen-
!; g,r coach TO cross the Choctaw hatchie. Thus
il sn obligation met and cancelled; for less than
/ ts-oiyears ago, Hon. 8. r. Mallory stated in his
p.*ie in the Senate that if the charter of the
Pensacola &c Atlantic road was granted, the
u,s,hbers Of the next Assembly from the West
wo,:ld como to the capital over the rails of a
Florida corporation instead of through Alaba-
| ma and Georgia by hundreds of miles Of unne-
.ei'stry travel. Capt Chipey, protector of the
| Pensacola Il Atlantic road, was back of this
pEoaise, and the object of the trip was to make
/ coed his pledge so solemnly given through Sen
.a,oi. Mallory. Preliminary details of organiza-
tians being accomplished, ground was broken on
! Tie 22d CT August. 1881, and the work of con-
sttr ction has been pushed with energy and in
teitgence, which now shows results scarcely
par Illeled in the history of railroad construction
In The South The West is bound by ties of steel
10 the Middle, and great step-a giant stride
bias been made in the march of progress by
Rh ch Florida is keeping her place in the rank
| OF states
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Quincy Herald. !

Mr.. j. L. McFarlin has raised from his Berk.
shire sow "Jlncie" this year, enough pork for
market to amount to 2. 400 pounds, which sold at
10 and 12i cents per pound. and has realized
from the sales the sum of $240. He ruts down
all the expenses at $75. and his net profit has
been $165. Think of il, $165 to be made in one
year from one SOW, and as another litter is ex-
pected before this year is out, he starts next year
with the same hog and family of pigs Will
somebody please rise and explain. in the face of
the above fact, why our county is said to be 80
poverty stricken, and why some people want to
get away to some land in which there is hope of
making fortune In q short time? Mr. McFarln
says the secret OF success in hograisng is the Sc
lection of q good breed. and don't keep the stock
loo far away from the corn crib.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

An Oregon lady whs has decided to engage in
citing paper. sslutes her patrons thuslyc - We
hsvs serveda regular apprenticeship at working
-w.shing scrubbing, patching, darning, looming,
pizin sewing. missing babies. milking. charming
and poultry raising. We have kept bearders,
tznxbi school, Taught music, written for the news.
p1psrz, made speeches and carried on an: exten
sivs ziIlipery and dressmaking business We
=. prove BY the public that the work his been
Vel done Now having reached the ash of SO,
asd having brought up family of boyp 70 Sc,
type. and daughter to run the millinery store,
ne prpposs 10 edit and publish newsparst, and
ws i1ieDd 10 establish IL - one of the permanent
insGifufisns Of the country"
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TAenasvalle, TeliAAassee N
Rnilroah.

Mr.. John E. Page returned ffom New YORK
yesterday, where he has been for the psat TWO
weeks perfecting the organization for the build
ing of the railroad which will connect the Cult
of Mexico with Middle Florida. and give Us an
other line from the North.
We learn that the contracts Tor building and
equipping have been signed and large subscrip-
tons made to the stock, all contingent upon the
action OF the present Legislature whom we hope
will enable us to build up this portion of the
State.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

The Philadelphia Rrsss is afraid that Con-
gress may embarrass itself BY trying 70 do too
many good things ct once"
New Haven Rscisttr. A Montana woman
sued ior . divorce because her husband kissed
the seryantgirl You vant this man punishedi"
asked the Judge d." aid shs. Then" said
The iudes: IL shali not divorces youI from him
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

The Washington correspondent Of the Sa-
FEnnah Eses sends that paper the follossiDg
item A bill was introduced by Senator Cali
l.li session 10 pay something over 81 ,09o TO
Arxzh Hopkins, of Tallahassee, for the use OF
his houses and lands by the United States troops.
This bill was referred to the Senate C1mIaittee
On Claims The committee has just favorably
reported The bill back, but only recommended
lhat 1882 50 be allowed"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

"A Eiapf dealer in Massachusetts town re-
ceived lasfal-card reading: "Please attend tne
funeral III man you have been ten years In Kill
ing" iS;
Some bf the undermost men In the late po-
litical fAht are consoling themselves over the an
Gent Ell that :" the anvil lasts longer than inc
ha1nmeN.. Il Is heavy consolation.
III seahe people would work = bard % pay
their das,sxlas they do To keep ffom paying tnsm
they wSfi aes along much easier b. this wos'a
and stsfi y better chance ID The world p cons
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

Tbs body viii meet Today at IA O'clock. u,
The following b list Of the members Of both

Aue totUWip& " stSt IN tne Hchoefs oi uotn
Houses
First Disirict--S r Mallory
Second Disirict-J. H. Landrum.
Third Dstrict-J III. MeKinne.
Fourth Distaict-Miles Mountien.
Fifth District-J. 81. Mcclellan.
Sixth Disirict-Isaac N Sheppard.
Seventh District-T. f. Swearengin.
Eighth Districi-John E. Proctor
Ninth District-J ID. Cole
Tenth District-Frank w. Pope.
Eleventh Districi-A. j. Polhill.
Twelfth District-W William D. Hankins
thirteenth District-J. B. Dell.
Fourteenth District-H. L. r. Roberts.
Fifteenth District-A d. Cone.
Sixteenth Disirict-Henry G. Baker.
Seventeenth Dstrict-E S. Grill.
Eighteenth District. C. Greeley.
Nineteenth Dsirict-H. W. Chandler.
Twentieth DIsirici-J. G. Spear.
Tweuty-first District-W III. Sharpe
Twenty second Dstrict-Ausiin S Mann.
Twenty-thrd District-H III. Duncan.
Twenty-fourth Dstrict-George w. Allen.
Twenty-fit District-H. H. Hatcher.
Twenty-sixth District-William Bryson.
Twenty-seventh District-M. G. FORMER.
Twenty-eighth Districts. nj. Hendricks.
Twenty ninth Distrct-C. Delano.
Thirtieth Dis'rict-John T. Leslie.
Thirty-frst District-George G. Powers
Thirty District. l.. F. Cottre
ASSEMBLY
Escambia-S. C. Cobb, Roynal Putnam NJ S
White.
Santa Rosa-Jno. Mcclellan, H. w. Sindorf.
Waton-John P Vaughn, John l.. Campbell
Holiness. S. Calk.
Washington-E. p. Melvin.
Jackson. F. Mcclellan, W. H. Milton
James A. Robinson.
Calhoun-Lawrcnce Baker.
Franklin-John E. Grady.
Liberty-William Fl. Neal.
Wakulla-George w. Tully.
Gadsden-Tbos. L. Ward, q. A. Hendry, Cla
born MunrOe.
Leon-Charles Rawlings, Isaac jenkins, Wal
lace s. Weeks, Mack Davis.
Jefferson-Geo w Wiherspoon, Geo. w
Proctor, William A. Bird, Moses W. G. McCardy
Taylor-Samuel A. Wilcox.
Lafayette-Thos S. Goodhread.
LEVIN A. Bitch, W. W. Cyat.
Hernando-C c. Keathly, Francis NJ. Town
send.
Hilsborougb-Calfrey L. Wilder, Jno j. NJ
McMullen.
Manatee-Jno W. Whidden.
Polk-Jno. w. Bryant
Monroe-James p. Perkins, William Bethel
Madison-Thos A. Hall, Joseph N. Stripping
Alfred B. Osgood.
Suwannee-RObert F. Allison, Andrew Nc
Leod.
HamiltOn--B. B. Blackwell, Robert j. Beville
COlumbia-Thos. w. Ge'zen, Walter r. Moore
Jno. w. Tompkins
Alachua-M NJ. Lewcy, VIM. Trap,p Benz
Rush, L. G Dennis
Bradford-J. l.. Gaskins, w II. Edwards.
Baker-G. p Canova.
Nassau-Riley E. Robinson, Jno Wilkinson
Duval-Geo w Whiimorc. Richard L. Brown
Lemuel H. Thompson, w. Ii. Mccormick.
Clay-L. w. Kckitcr.
ST Johns-James l.. Colee, H. II. Floyd.
Putnam-Clayton A. Cowgirl Geo. w. Lyle
Sumter-M. II. Mabry, Wilson w. Cassady.
Marion-W. A. Wikerson, Hugh f. Miller.
Volusia-Charles Dougherty.
Orange-J. J. Harris, Jno. NJ. Bryan.
Brevard-Francis w. Plat.
Dade-Jno. H. Bresford.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-01-02

The Cincinnati Commercial and Gozest3, two
well-knOxn and influential journals, have con-
solidsied, and single daily will henceforth be
published under the name of the COMMERCIAL
Gazstk Both Mr. Richard Smith, of the Glssette.
and Mr. Muraf Halslead, of the Commercial will
be the management of The newspaper, and they
viii be assisted by such talent from the two pa
pen a. lie needed TO make the enterprise surcess
fuL The paper will be Republican in politics.