The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21

The bill appropriatlng $l,ooo,ooo
10 build State capitol passed the Gsor-
gia House of Representatives on the
18th.
The strike of the teleg<apherH il at
an end. The monopolists Starved them
out, and those who can are gtihg to work
again.
Senator C. w. Jones has gong on
journey to Alaska, after which lie wiil
appreciate the climate of f'lotida for all it
is worth. We hope he will ,.ot be Inter
viewed 10y a grizzly.
-Escambia county, Ala, sends IN big
tree to the Louisville Exposition: Il is
IL feet long and will be used as 9 flag
staff in front of the Exposition building.
II required four cars to transport it.
The " prominent membe4 of 3he: IN
dependent committee who wrote the tri-
vate letter to Menard has 40. yet apoFsed.
We have no idea who it was, and there
fore suspect all who were at the sulphur
water pow-wow. ):
The assessment of Orange county for
the current year lacks only forty Thousand
Of footing up three millions OF taxable
property, and it is asserted lat the prop
erty not returned will far exceed the ferry
thousand in value ::
WIN w. Holden, thu opce noted. re
publican Governor of North CarolSaa,
announced by publication the other Gay
his withdrawal from the Republican party,
and that he is not member Of the Eib-
erals, or Independents.
We learn from the ConFitufid,4 that
the caterpillars don't scare tk, Moptic.llo
merchants, who have ordered heavy
stocks of merchandise for The fall and
winter trade. This indicates tbs, an
average cotton crop is Ted.
An excursion party Of. twenty-five
persons, as stated by the Times, from
Pensacola visited Mariana last Thurs
day. This shows how much we were mis-
taken in thinking that there work. be
about five hundred in that excursion
-Jesso's Pensacola orgah announces
Jesso's arrival in Pensacola. If the s$l-
low fever does not break out in Pen.atola
Jesso's organ will doubtless announce
that Jesse prevented it. PIE notiie FRA
erlDl-quacks in physic and 4uacks- in
politics
The Board OF Health Of Jackson
vile gave the sheriff the names Of. per
sons who refused to be vaccinated, and IN
strncted him to arrest them. The sheriff
declined to do so, and the Board we're
then in fix, 30 to speak, As thy could
not make him do it,
The Orange Leaf lie the title. Of
new paper started at Wildwood, III Sum
ter county Messrs. Jordan It shee!.an
are proprietors, and the wors Of She
former, who is the editor, indie rtrs that
be well understands his busiaet. Wild
wood is a rapidly growing .Ills about
one hundred miles south OF Jacksonville
AT one o'clock the other nigh, she
inmates of the hotel in Greeavllle, +, C.,
were surprised at the sudden: Grt-.rmina-
ton of a young couple who had oeen ait
ting up until that hour, IN ma'ry. A
Justice was soon summoned; and In a
short time Mr.. J. A. Clink Scsles and
Miss Ida Hall, of Anderson, were made
one.
The Ishmaelite of the west ia ,fataile
princeps among minnows in its 1wn lit
tie independent puddle, but 1t ICES not
make q ripple on the polisica! w@~ers east
of the Escambia. 1t is not "r.1wer in
the land" but mere borough Journal
. rotten borough" since ite preaching
lost the county of Escambia to the De-
mocracy.
Mr.. Charles A. Choate, of 1'alla-
hassee, is in the city for a few weeks.
During his stay here Mr.. Choate will ELL
the position of night editor of the Tires
Union, while Mr.. John Ransom Occupies
the editorial chair in the abrence Of Mr..
Charles II. Jones. Mr. Choate is .: we'll
known and able newspaper man and will
keep his department of the paper mp 10
the standard.-Zsnses Union
The Madison Neso Era makes sundry
mistakes, and IL become almost as nnfeli-
bic as some other independent papers: 1t
is curious how this independent "whst is
it" affects newspapers. AS soon as they
are seized of it they seem to Rose moral
perception, and to be unable ID tell right
from wrong, or fact from the reverse. i:
ID difficult to decide, though, whether
they are responsible for indspendentissn,
or independentism for them. AZ to thepo-
litical doctrine of independentism wc can
ascertain little. So far AS our observs-
ton goes, however, and as The average
independent resents the impqtatiop of