The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-04-10

PAAO8AAAs RnS2NhNhMSAE
h Is stated that about Ii, go square
miller Of lie area Of Georgia hecsered
,Fith :ine forests.
Howe, Jewell, Dennison AID May.
GARD, ~ho have served d postulastcrs
genera, hayo died within yesH !,
a h-rles A. Dana has started for CAL
Ifonla in hotel car in which helwitl live
with his family during two moptbs. !.
"A bin is pending in the Ithode Is
land Legislature to authorize The use oi1
envelopes as receptacles for ballots iri5
voting. 81 !:
"A man of Los Angeles, California.
has sold the crop of oranges and lcmonsE
on his sixty acres for the round sum Of
s25, 1000. !:
-Ex-United States Marshal Russell,
OfTsxas. il On t<i.R--s =ssa IlVstsrso, FOX:
rendering false accounts and sTindlingi
the government ~ :,
Gen. Carr, Secretary Of Stste in New;
York, got into a row with his son at d
banquet and knocked him down twice and
dragged him from the place. !:
"A giantess, Marian Wsdde bv name:
is being exhibited in Manchester, Engs
land. She is seventeen years Of age;
eight feet and ten inches in he5ghf, and
still growing. .. !:
Another Georgia postmaster. is If
trouble. J. C. Braswcll, for a A,ng tim;
postmaster at Whigham has been com:
mitted to jail in default of bail to answers
the charge of embezzlement. I:
On the 4th instant the PRECEDENT a,t-
pointed Walter o. Gresham, of Indiana;
POstmaster-General. At Che tine of ap:
pOintment he was United Statss Circui<
Judge for the Seventh Circuit al Indians
"A steamer to ply the Apalaehicois:
Chattahoochee and Flint rivcss is no~''
being built at Jacksonville, f34liana, -
be completed in July. Her capacity viii
be seven hundred bales, and passeng. a.
accommodations frst-class. She will ma I .
igate the Flint as far up az Alhany. :;
The Key of the Gulf repcyts the 81
rival at Key West of the war gteame:
TaIlapOosa, where she lies waiting or
ders." If Washington news is correei5,
she will receive them from Secretary
Chandler in person, to the effect that shp
is TO take him to Pensacola to Inspect THE
Navy Yard. s.
The N. Y. San has Chipese- rep5f-
ter named All Wong who gr&s up THE
news among his countrymen, who are b1I-
merous in that city. His command .df
English is good, but occasional qualsyt
solecisms occur that dctract nothing
however, from the interest of bis items b
but on the contrary. ii
As the State officials of Florida ire
elected for four years some OF tho g o.iIts p
are certain to term the Gins . s." Taita-
hassee ring" before the term of admipls-
tration expires. 1t is handy; glib phrase
70 slip trippingly off the tonsu, of AN
" out " who is chagrined because not an
in "-because not Gin the ring: " hir1-
self. T..
AT the rate of progress being made
the tunnel under the English channel will
probably be completed in about three
years. The excavating is progressing
from both the French and English ends,
and it viii be triumph of engineering
for the diggers to meet fsirly in the mid
die of the hole that will be tw4nty-,SAd
miles long, and far down unde3the GGa.
Italy. has over $500 miles Of &ailf6sd,
which cost an average of almost floo POO
to the mile. The population Of he ccun-
try Is more than ten times as dense Sin
proportion to the railroad mileage as chat
Of the United States. There Ire more
than twice the proportionato rfmher OF
employees that we have in taisicoun,sy,
but they average less than haif the
wages IF. I:
The Mariana Times is the aitIe .3f a
new and handsome paper, the in3ial nam
Der of which bears date Aprilh. It is
published and edited by Messrs. I, II. and
J. S. Gardner, who announce dat they
will advocate the true prin,apia OF Pc
mocracy." We bespeak foe or young
contemporary the highest measurs of s.,c-
cess that it may deserve. Isss .alres;ly
well filed advertising celan,ns indicate
that it is partaking, as we'll az aiding, lhe
"bsom" of progress which MafannA.. is
experiencing. II lid.
The papers along the lins OF Gbv-
erDor Bloxham's short t9eatRn taur
bnng to rs reports of the beArti PISS with
which he was everywhere grests by: ihe
people. This cordial wslcceae Has iae
natural and fitting tribute TO- shaS loqaant
ststssman who Is the Executist Of, Jan
Administration which hes secshlphsRed
% much Cor the welfare and s.s,iisl asro.
gres Of the State. At Taysns4 :be 3D.
jsctiys point Of the trip, tho rsS2le gs:h-
ersd from akAr TO do him hcaas4 and The
ms splsndidly entertained, u .Sell III at
s. Angnstins and elsswhsrAs L
-Gmalipox he's broken ousia tackson-
sonville, nys ths Lake City pptsv,
confhod p1ftio1Iarly, We Esr to The
coIof1d popnlntton BY reftsrtt 10 the