The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-12-23

TIE Milton Nssas feports foar hun
drsd and twelve acres planted IN Ls'Conte
psan and pscam in sAnta Rosa county.
Good-very good 81
The Quincy EosstAly Esf,enetor for
December d out. well oiled as usual with
carefully selected masaEr and instructive
ARTICLES from the pen Oh Editor Alison
Among the holiday attractions OF the
New Orleans Exposisien will be - gigan-
tic Christmas srse fifty sset high, which
viii be loaded with toys and lighted with
Eve hundred candlesl
John Jacob AstUr sad Miss Cathe-
rine Wolfe, of New Yotk, are ce-opera-
ting in an effort for the establishment Of
o college in Florence where American
women can pursue any branch of Art
Gen. B. NJ. Preutsss, who recently
visited the battlefield Sf Shileh- urges
that the bones of the unknown Confed-
crate dead be removed TO the National
Cemetery, and their last resting place be
properly marked.
The Gainesville ideqcats reports the
discovery near the ssIseyli's Mill Hopper
in Alachua county of immense phosphate
deposits, which are shown by analysis to
be twelve per cent richer than the Stono
phosphate deposits OF Sonth Carolyaa.
The esteemed Times. Cniom Is will
ing to submit the case OH the arguments,
pro and con, OF that paper and the Flo
R1p1AS in re the vexed question If the
constitutional majority. SO Is tins FLc-
RrD1Ax, and it will BE- found co-reet-as
usual
We have received tae Fiorief<F An
,amal for 1885, c. h Mnnroe. editor,
published at 40 Nassau street, New
York. price so cents. The TWO hun dred
pages OF this valuable nubhcatien ART
filed with interesting matter and Eesira-
Bile information as to Florida.
commissioner Seoring calls TOT mape
of counties, townships and towns that he
may display them in the Florida Depart
ment OF the Exposition. He say that
they will be of interest ko visitors and
will serve to advertise the localities
which they represent TIey should be
sent BY express prepaid.
Col Fred L. Robertson, whc long
and ably conducted the Brooksville Ores
cent, retires from the paper, and II sue
ceeded by Mr. w J. Barnett, editor, and
Rev. F. r. Bridges, business manager.
Mr.. B. is also manager OF tne Sentinel and
Watchman, printed at tie same Office, and
edited by Rev. Fl. E. Partridge.
"A gentleman who recently visit ed
Gov. Cleveland In Albany says that du-
ring his talk with the Governor AN ex-
press package was Drought in The
package when opened was found IT, con
tain handsomely made boot of. enor-
nous size and thickness. nf sole. The
boot was at least two t.eet III length.
Upon the sole was the legead, "kick the
Rascals Out"
There are now peading nearly seven
hundred divorce suits in Chicago and
over seven hundred IL Philadelphia.
These shocking figures tell a story OF
crime, of misery, and of social rottenness
in the midst of enlightenment which prob
ably cannot be equaled elsewhere ID the
Christian world Illinois " as at one time
the cheapest divorce STATE" but Penn
svlvania now underbids her for the husi-
ness, which feeds many shyster LAWYERS
who for few dollars enter THE suit (which
makes public the shame OF che clieGz. II
is proper to say that many of the divorce
clients go from other states 10 those
where divorce is made easy
Last Friday the negro Joe Williams
was hanged al Cerro Gordo, 1he county
site of Holmes, for the murder of Mr.. I.
". Cannon, Waterman at the Choctaw-
hatchie bridge of the Pensacola and At
lantic Railroad, on the night Of ting 26th
of July last. The murder was pre- medi-
tated and atrocious crime, and was con
fessed bv the criminal, who crept upon
his victim at his post OF duty end slew
him with q musket load of hnclsshot
fired at distance of six fset. The West.
vile Pioneer gives lengthy narrative Of
the circumstances of the CRIME, the: pur.
suit and capture of the crsntinal, anal ths
execution, written up III frss-elass re
portorial style.
Apparently Mr.. Arthar's Nicaragua
canal treaty viii come to grief, IS strong
opposition 10 developing. The to b; &C
quired territory in Nicaragua, strip Of
land ak miles wide, would be SUCH q
convenient tail to tread on that the eDit
ed Seakes would have tr kssp forces in
readiness by land and sea 10 resent viola
tons Of our right of domain, and 70: de
fsnd our canal property. 1t would ne q
vulnerable point of empire, and any osse oI
half dozen naval powers eould hold: the
whip over US by threatening its seaSuEe,
sud force us TO terms to avoid . waE- IL
which our arms must be defeated. This,
unls. We keep up with ether powers in
constantly improving navy not re,
I..,sl< bxrf ufscI. ahould ie-sanal M M