The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-09-02

Secretary Chandler says the ITALIA
poosa must be raised. Some people Will
have their liqnor, no matter what hap
pens Baltimore Day.
-" Mr. Hendricks letter Is very short,
but it covers all the ground. The name
at the end of it is worth a great many
volumes. " y. Truth.
Some miserable villain has mutilated
the tombstone OF one OF Mr.. Blaine's
children. While we cannot vote for the
Maine man, we will help him eaten and
hang the scoundrel-D oylesto,rn (Pa.)
Democrat
The story retuting the charges against
Governor Cleveland, which We print on
our first page, puts the 8 Rev. Mr.. ball
and his fellow scandalmongers Ill the pc
sition Of falsifers and slanderers. Mr.
Blaines aggressive campaign seems to
have gotten black eye.-BotttD1ore Dry
Monday, the sth inst, large mum
ber of ladies and gentlemen Of DeLand,
on horseback, in buggies and il hacks,
wended their way 10 Lake Berestord To
escort to our city Hon. Charles D"Igh"rty,
the popular young nominee OF the Demo
cratic party for Congress from the Second
District. De Land Echo
At a meeting of the Cleveland and
Perry Club last night arrangements were
made for big barbecue on the 9th OF
September, the day on which General
Perry and other speakers will address tie
citizens Of Palatka and Putnam county.
We hope to see all of our country friends
present.-Palatka Herald
The .>0uthern Lotnaberntdh says !:
1--WE do not believe we are extrayagant
in our estimates. We will venture the
prediction that the production of yellow
pine in the South will Re 5000, 600
feet year III from six TO eight years.
Lumber from the South during the war
rose to 500 and $50 per thousand at the
again in txsnty,f7e or t ftrt ,A ytar sGR IL Al
open question"
The County Democratic Convention
of Duval met in Jacksonville last >atur
dav, and nominated Hon. Joshua L.
Burch. of LaNila, for the Senate, and
Messrs. j. e. Cooper, NJ l.. Hartridge,
stephen Wiggint aud David Ogilvie tor
the Assembly. Tins is considered so
strong a tick"t that il will not only bring
out the full strength of the party, but
add many votes TO IT,
Among the venomous assertions Of
the enemy is the statement that Hon Is.
Is. blackwell was appointed State Attor-
ney of the Third judicial Circuit because
he voted i'll the Legislature ogatnst the
short cut method of calling a Consti
tutional Convention. Hon. W. II. Mil
ton was appointed at the same time State
Attorney for the First judicial Circuit.
Major NJ. was a member of the same Leg
islature, and voted for the short cut
method Was he appointed on that &C
count?
The Jackson county Democratic
Convention for nominating candidates
for The Legislature assembled last Satur-
day, was called to order by Major W II.
Milton, Chairman OF the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee, and organ
lied by the election of Captain Thomas
E Clark, chairman, and Messrs +. J.
Blackshear and Latimer c. Vaughan, sec
retaries. Hon J. II. McKiune was nomi-
mated for the Senate, and Messrs. j. A.
Robinson, J. L. Powell and A. {. White
for the Assembly. A dispatch to the
Times Union says that Mr. Mckinne's
speech of acceptance " was one of the best
we ever heard and filled the entire Con
vention with enthusiasm"