The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-01-22

Protestant Episcopal churcEin this State,
has changed its name to ,Chmrch and
Home. !
We propose to Gnl rootn in "a future
issue of the FLoRIpIAS for The valuable
article communicated 10 the gFmes- Union
over the signature "Faets"
The Earl of Huntingdon, Chairman
of the Florida Land sad Mortgage Com
pany, has sailed for the United States to
inspect the company;s propei+y.
1t is said that Mihone aud Riddle
'crger are quarrelng o>er $4,000 clerk
snip, to which Malone wishesto appoint
t. son Butler, while t;iddIea,erger urges
+ ank Aliriend, of Richmond.
The Bitter >'ceet Gomez to. us en-
larsrd to a seven column paper, well
filed with valuable reading matter, much
of it original. The advertising columns
are also we'll patronlzed- --1po1sko citizen
The Summerl'n Institute ST Barlow
has been opened andes the direction of
Professor j. n. Whitne<, and is now one
of the best schools in the State, OF course.
With him in charge i. cannot be other
wise.
A Young lady iastily and handsomely
dressed at the Odd Fellows ball informed
us that the dress she Wore upon that oc
rasion was the bridal robe of her mother
twenty five years ago Waldo (Fh.) Id
re,tiSer.
There are about b6, 900 locomotive
engines in the world, ana l2O, 900 passen
yer and 100000 freight cars; there are
200, 900 miles of track, 100 railroad
kings, and the capital Invested u 100000
O0O. 600
-MessrS. Scovillc & Culptpper's large
hotel, lately completed a. lower Suwannee
Springs, was destroyed 10y fire on the
morning of the 18th instant. There was
an insurance of So, 900 on AN estimated
loss of $75 700.
The Lake City HokutnGio Star, Of the
18th, announces the retirement of w. X.
Boyd, Esq, who has sod his interest in
that paper to Mr. l.. Harrison. Sorry to
lose Editor Boyd from the State press,
and would like to welcome him back
The attempt of the .Te,o Era to mis-
lead its readers rs 10 the good Saith Of
the Governors letter instructing the re-
duction OF taxes is the most contemplate
trick yet of "3o-per cent~discouat jour
nali>n. DON'T bring p ttifoggery into
journalism to disgrace it AS it would your
profession.
We regret that We canno: print in
full Major \. =. Williams narrative of
the Times D4mocrm Everglades Expeli
ton" 1t is exceedingly interesting and
written in admirable style. We have
space but for a synopsis Of the narrative,
which will be found on the first pfge of
this paper.
Mr. Victor l.. Johnson, editor IF the
Altoona .1ry"S, which WAX lately bGrned
ont. lied at Altoona on the 18th. He
waS an invalid from Massachusetts,
where he was a professional jouris alist,
and dependency after the burning of his
ptiice aggravated his lung trouble to fatal
termination.
- TIE FZoriM HopttSt HitDe4s is
the title Of new and handsomely painted
paper, published weekly st Lake City by
Ashurst Il Co., with r. +. Noodle aid A.
=. Ashurst as editors, assisted by Mtssrs
w y. Chaudoin, w NJ Davis, F. f.
Langley and N. \. Bailey. Its mission
is indicated by its name, and its price is
e a year.
Hon. f. h. Foster has rendered his
resignation, to take effect Feb. 20, ~ the
office of State Superintendent Of Public
Instruction. MI. Foster resigns TO ac-
cept the position of attorney for the
South Florida Railroad, and will probably
be succeeded by Major A. J Russell, now
Superintendent of Public instruction OF
Duval county.
The editor of the Bee raised quite a
tempest in his small teapot the other day
and fired off another tusillale of u" @auton
and malicious charges. Go on with
your suiciding, young man, and the little
Bee will soon cease to be. We may say
something kind, if not sympathetic, in the
way of funeral remarks, when the insect
dies of .telo de Sc.
The "3o-per-cent-discount " organ OF
the Independents had obviously gather
have the people pay high ta1er THAI that
the Democratic administration Should
gain the credit Of reducing them. But it
makes loud professions OF devotion te the
dear peoples interests. If these tnde-
pendents succeed by coalition WITH the
Republicans in defeating the Democtacy,
the dear people will catch ], then IL the
way of taxation under radical adDtinis-
tration, as they did before. j;
MIR. Oswald Ottendories, the veteran
editor of the Stats Zeitung, is nowIquo-
ted as saying: 1.-THE Democrats Had a
very fair prospect, but are beginning to
do again what they have been notsiisfor
in the past-blundering. They saos:Ace
principle for what they balieve to t's She
oF a,onoa, THk.,, 4. tntt., Il