The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-04-15
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pointed Street Contractor, Mr. Jehn A. Pearce
Market Clerk, and Thomas Chester Keeper of
Cemetery.
The following attorneys were in attendance
on the Supreme Court during the past week
Colonel L. l. Fleming of jacksonville: Mr. S.
Belden, OF Pensacola John G. Reardon, ESQ,
and Colonel S. d. Mcconnell, of Ocala.
There is constant wartaring being waged
between the various species of the animal king
dom. Think of the horrbeness of an army of
worms storming the citadel of life A dose of
Shriner's Indian Vermifuge will destroy them
-"Cans't thou not minister to a mind dis.
eased?" This question is answered in the
affirmative once and for all in the new medical
treatise on nervous and physical debility pub
lished by the Peabody Medical Institute. Ad-
vertised in another column.
Our carrier has failed to deliver the FLORID-
IAN TO so many subscribers during the past three
weeks that we to-day send out IA new carrier.
hoping that he will serve all our patrons rcgu-
larry.
"A packing house has been established at St
Marks by Mr. G. A. Lamb He will pack fish,
game, &c, in ice for shipment to various points.
This will supply long felt want and properly
managed will prove profitable industry
We are informed that Mr. julius Ball has
purchased The Swain plantation near Crntrevie,
from Mr.. d. S. Walker, .Tr The trac, contains
nearly thousand acres of land, and Mr.. Ball in
tends to improve the place and make it more
valuable.
Captain c. A. Bryan, Leon county's efficient
and popular Circuit Clerk last week issued liccn-
ses for the marriage of three white couples in
one day. He has served as Clerk sixteen wears,
and never before issued that number of licenses
for white persons in one day
We learn that arrangements have been per
fected with the railroad authorities by which
persons of neighboring cities, who desire to wit
ness the entertainments To he given by Mrs !. b.
Gamble, on Thursday evening. may purchase
round trip tickets for one fare
Lent has passed and now comes IA season of
amusement. The Young people of Tallahassee
enjoyed delightful hop at the Leon Hotel last
night; to night there Will b, Il bazaar and festi.
val at Cables Hail. to be followed by the "Back
Warblers " Wednesday, evening and Mrs James
b. CANDLES entertainment Thursday evening
-FLoRIDGAN Item Box: Pap. how old was
Adam when he WAS BORN "Adam wasn't
born. He was made by the Good Man, and be
was made a young man Well, I'll be dog
gone if wouldn't like to know WHY the Good
Man didn't keep maxim en- voung men
when they're horned, and then fellow wouldn't
have to rock The baby every time he wants to 90
out to play
The Republicans of Leon will hold their
County Convention at Cenireville next SATURDAY,,
when they will elect lecg ties 10 the State Con-
ventiOn soon To be held ut St. Augustine. The
precinct meetings will be held on Thursday
Hon. John Wallace is in the CITY, and will prob.
ably try his hand at manipulating the convention
in the interest of some aSpiranS for political hon
ors, lone of whom he is which"
Articles of incorporation of the Bank of
Key West were filed in the Office of Secretary
of State on the 11th instant The incorporators
are Messrs George Lewis (of The Banking house
of 3. G. Lewis & Sons. of Tallahassee Edwarlo
IIidalgo Cato George W. Allen, John W. Saw
yer Frank n. Wicker. G. w. Ferguson, George
n. Warren, Fernando Valdez and William d.
Cash. The officers are George Lewis, President ;
f. II. Cato Ece-Prcsident; George w Alen
Cashier.
A new form in poetry, differing alike from
the sonnet and The French devices now 80 favor
lite with the younger poets, is introduced by a
new poet, William Sharp in series of poems Of
which the first will appear in the May Hrper's
The poems are called "Transcripts from Nature"
and are clean cut little gems bits of pictures of
scenes or tones of nature, each Of eight lines, a
sextete of three rhymes followed by a rhvmcd
couplet They will be accompanied by series
of landscapes by Alfred Parsons.
Secretary Dinner OF the Ohio Horticultural
Society, says he knew n man Mho had made n
great success with an acre or twO of strawberries,
gathering from twenty to thirty bushels per day,
and was so elatcd at his success that he con-
cluded to enlarge his fields and, to use his own
language, said he would hereafter gather 100
bushels per day or bust !" and he busted, The
moral is, one acre Of fruit well attended to will
bring more net profit than five partially neg
tcted.
Mr. Henry Heath, of Massachusetts, after
spending two months at Tallahassee, left for
home last Friday greatly improved in health. He
came here suffering from asthma and general
debility. During his sojourn in Tallahassee he
gained about eighteen pounds in weight and
city he did not suffer as much from asthma as
he had in single night at other places. He
we went away improved in strength and general
health, and will return with his family next
season.
All nature smiled on Easter day, the Joyous
festival of song and flowers. The temperature
was that Of summer, the aspects those Of spring
in oveliest garb. The sidewalks were populOus,
for the people would be out of doors and fockcd
to the churches The floral decorations of ST.
Johns Episcopal Church were pronsc and very
beautiful, might have been expected in the
" city of flowers, which affords TO taste 40
much material for its qualification. The Easter
music was excellent. The church crowded
beyond its seating capacity, which was supple
mented by chairs in asles, and those who came
to see, or hear or worship, were frasled in en-
ioyment Of sight, sound, and scent.
The FLoRIDIAN was pleased to receive
a call this forenoon from Messrs c. c.
Yonge. Jr., r. c. Watson and Mr. Mac
Donald, of Pensacola. They arrived at
the Capital this morning from Key West,
where they had been in attendance on the
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, and favored us
with the following list of officers elected for the
ensuing year: J. A. Hooton, Grand Master; s
Pasco, Deputy Grand Master; A Delono Grand
Warden: w. N. Mcintosh, Jr., Grand Secre-
torv Harry RornharI Grand Trooouror. q