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Call for State Democratic Convention at
Pensacola, Wednesday, June 95, 1854.

The Conservative Democratic Party Of Florida
will hold a State Convention at Pensacola on
Wednesday, June 25, al II o'clock NJ, for the
following purposes:
10 choose delegates to represent the State in
the National Democratic Convention 10 be held
at Chicago, July 8, 1884
10 nominate candidates for the Offices of Gov
ernor, Lieutenant Governor and Presidential
Electors at Large to be voted for at The next
regular State election
10 choose a State Executive Committee Ia
conduct the campaign of 1884
10 transact such other business ns may come
before the Convention.
The different counties in the State viii send
delegates to the Convention upon the following
basis
One delegate for the first one hun,},ri votes,
or part of one hundred, cast in each cotn,y !ui
The candidates upon the Conservative Demo-
cratic State ticket at HE general clcciou IN lS-a
one additional delegate for every lddi !nn hun
dred voteS or the last fraction The one hl!m-
dred when 1t amounts to fifty or more So cast
tor such candidates, the number Ia hc dc,,r-
mined, when there is difference, bv The Vote tur
such candidate on said ticket who stool highv-l
on the county vote. But il any c"uutv increased
its vote at the general election OF 1889 il snail
have the benefit of such increase Tie countries
under this rule will be entitled to rcprt~lttii
as follows:
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FLORIDA.
BY J. y. WHIrNER.

Know ye the land OF the cedar and vine
mere the nOwers blossom. the beams shine
NneTe the citron and olive fairest of fruit.
And the voice of the mocking bird never is mute
The land of the orange the citron and lime,
Sht4ualled III beauty, unrvailed in cline
l ne lanu OF the mango, the Guava and date,
% tropical bowers, where lovers may mate
Inc land The live oak, magnolia and pine
WIN parasites blossoms and evergreen vine,
vi poets bright fancies, and still brgh er Dreams
or lake OF real beauty aud crystal clear streams
Oi dense tangled forest and wide stretching plain
lie home OF the Indian--deended in vain
Here flowers with hueS like the prisDatic raw
EXhae their rich fragrance from June until Nav
Land of vast fountains all studded with gems
More sparkling than bril!iants in kings diadems
Beneath whose calm waters OF soft svery sheen
lhe Grottoes of Naiads far distant are seen:
ANA legends describe them disporting of old
IN garments besplanglcd with diamonds and gold
In tnls favored land, attractive and blcst
lhe weary sick pilgrim may always find rest
ne lover OF science fields may explore
from valley TO hilltop, and along every shore
Ncw OBJECTS 0t interest, fresh wonders are found
IN howcIs, in fruits, in coral made ground.
Land OF the soft south wind, whose sweet scented
bTeaIn
Bears freely TO thousands long respite from death
Beautlfnl land since the sad fate of Eden
NO iaTer retreat to mOrtalS is given;
nome for the aged the young and the CAV
Ana thost Whose life current is ebbin~ away
Nay tny progress be onward, and virtue thy guide
1 nSnLed cSCut cicDn of treeInen thy pride
*keicrs 70 n" air plant common in the forests of
Noh Florida where more than hundred may
on one tree thc flowers rich crimson very showy
The above lines first published in the Jack
sonViilc SAM TrOnicdI literary magazine pub
.Ishcd lS't-iS, and were copied in "A number of
papers. -Ft1rottf1oa Uir,or.
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t-Sume bait ril hooks with ,nite- Of cheese
and 1T on fence and bob for leas:
But W. bait oars with Tiers tails
/ And - on y rnck and ! =, r,,r ,S Al.

1t sometimes takes a good deal of
money to carry a ward in New York, but
it Is rare that it takes sf much a> it did
to carry Ferdinand Ward.
a gallant wag was lately sitting be-
side his beloved, and being unable TO
think OF anything else to say, turned to
her and asked her why she was like
talc". :" | don't know" said she, with a
poutsns lip, unless it is because l am
sitting beside Il goose"
-La'ly Montague said i" 1t goes far
toward reconciing me to be woman
when reflect that ! am in no danger of
marrying one Now that is singular.
fhe very thing which she feared is Just
what reconclleS the rest of Us TO being
men, B"ltngton Hasckeye
"a poet asks in a few simple verses,
Wbo will plant flowers on my grave 20
We&*n't give names, but we can assure
him that if we had published the lines
every subscriber to this valuable journal
wouei teel 1t incumbent upon him to act
as ar"mmittee OF one on planting
y iull-bearded grandfather recently
had his beard shaved off, showing clean
tacJfor the first time for a number of
yeats. AT the dinner table his three
yeaf-o'd granddaughter noticed it, gazing
l@ng while with wondering ewes, and
finally she calculated: Grandfather,
whose head you got on?"
AT a cowboys marriage, after the
cerd,nnny, the groom remarked: "Now's
the ltimc to s'lute the bride. Step up.
gentttinen; step mp and help yourselves
Thi9 is yer last chance. Their amt
notllal' mean about me. | kin spar a
iewssreing as how I'm to hev the hull
;ron after the first pickin'"
la Clifton girl who married a poor
1out,g man, and who has ip consequence
! beea. .practicing domestic duties, has lost
4 ialth IN the entire social system. The
thef evening her husband came in at 8
/ o'cl9ek to supper and handed her paper
I folded and sealed "What is it. dear ?''
/ sile s4id, tenderly " An insurance policy
on py life, darling, for $4,000" "Why,
j love ,vou already have one. What did
y)us want with another ?" "Angel mine,
| ate two pieces of that pie you had for
{ dinuer.''
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Arkansas Traveler]
ONE .HaOSS" On 1'nE VISITING.
EDITOR

Mr.. Harvey Glidden, editor of the Fen
melville Wdtchm,n, visited the city The
other day, and, upon al surance "t a }'ali-
rate advertisement which for some ti'ae
had been running in his paper at :t,;p Of
column, next to reading matter, hd n gls
tered at the leading hotel The hcNt
mornings paper containe ed very Batter
ing notice of Mr. Glidde1, 4, and, as hrjhad
not called on the editor I the dailypsper,
having been busy among the lnritilants
in an effort to convince hem that "a iew
squares of advert lsemeIts in his paper
would turn all the great trade of FenpvA
vile into their establi ,hmepts, he ielt
highly elated over the unsolicited ,,ncA-
MUM.
"Ah," he mus..d, "that fellow has
taken notice of my writ ngs, and that Is
why he says possess one of the bright
est journalistic minds in the SIats !
shall go around and give him a sartsrtse
Will talk to him awhile and then tel j i'm
who l am"
Come in, said the d;iv paper cdiC,r
browsing among pile cf newspapers Gin
a search for his shears. "Sit down
"Thank you,' seating himself s;,I; a
movement of iml ressive grace. ia
like to look at a copy o this mornings
paper"
Find one on that pile there"
"Thank you," ia king Up the paper AID
opening it with tirt that made the
daily man nervous. "Ah, | see You sise
Mr. Harvey Glidden, editor of the Fen
melville Wotchma>, finttering nrt;i't"
Yes" plunging into an exchange aud
gouging out political tenn.
DO you think that hr deserves such
high praise -
81 don't know. Thought we'd give
him little tatfy. Those fellows are all
vain, and a flattering not ce ticklcs ,tbrn
nearly to death"
Mr. Harvey Glidden hil his face With
the newspaper and said
"Good writer, is he not -
81 never looked ut his paper bat pucc
Always throw ii aS le. He might write
Uncle Josh Jones called n Us Yesterday
or Aunt Patsy Parker pre- >entcd "ur Y,itg
with a ,cn-pound squaSl,' but dDt.'t
think that greater mental cXcItiun would
agree with him
"Sir!' exclaimed the editor of tne
Fennell,ille Uutch,vun, rising in wr.tb,
. I will no longer submit to Your in<,ttts.
am Harvey Glidden." -
The shrewd daily nan, quick to recover
himself threw back his he III and laughed.
81 told the boys" said n, that i Was
going to get away with YOU. llaw, h:,w,
haw, You are known here as IA hnulpr-
ist, and made a tger Of new bat taIat
if you came to the office I'd down yiiu.
You were pointed 'ut t' me Yesterday.
Good joke, eh :" and AS his scissor, hli
on the floor he shook with laughter. j..
"Well, | declare" sand Mr.. Glidie;h
" If that amt a ho.s Oh then the C2ar
is mule Come on an let's have sollle-
thing. Say, don me, tion this in u i,
paper !
"Of course not, and the TWO lau4ni.
gentlemen Went olt to mile.
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IIenrico Thy nasal promont'ly
doth impeach thy yestereven conflict :.
With whom didst pas the hours t~iHt
night and morn -
" An it please thee, lady, the bnlh of
this same interval were unto MOrpl r:l>
freely given"
"Mayhap 'twere 50, llenrco, an may
hap 'twere not If Morpheus hath he
skill to flame the Sc .nt-ient members Df
thy disc so artfully, then have found Il,
schedule of the rasca ; pigments"
An wherefore doth me nose atiroN
thee, maid -
"Well, good my lord, an thou nI.l
know, it doth too mach like beacon lit t
or cosmic sunset glow, an ireights II
air with sultlyness that i'll becomes 10
glacial suitor. Didst with the primari. -
mingle yesterevc
Nay, fair inquis itor, twas y. VI r.
a. that won me full communion."
" An it were net thy phrasing cab T.
istic means Young Miscreant's Gust b.
Alcoholic, see no fitness in this spe, 1h
Of thine"
"That scalpnel i thy mouth is K, j.,
Andromeda, and Yet
"And yet thy facial bulb yields not is
secret to me tongues dissection. Go ne,
knight Of facial plenitude ami >nr 81
beak! if unto me .hou wilt not yield he
recipe of this thy frontal gorgcousn ~,
let science have the hint whereby 1;y
nose did via its semblance to Bartholit IS
flaming statue"'
"Sith it doth loom thy spirits, Al dy,
here blooms the secret of me nasal ,1il-
lance. Last nie hit, as homeward 'oin
me tryst MED, the back gate wooed ME
with its openne's, and as ! sped lae
'thwart the garden plot the line that llh
gleth oft with m oistened garb did ), mite
me i the nasal bridge, and 10. the htnc1-
ness of me front. etfulgence ~
"And thou ha, proof hereof, me :, my
time treach'rous boy?"
cave, cruel one. Ii but thou't xtk
the clothes line, thereon thou'lt find tae
missing fra. .gments of me parts olfactc ~"
Enough, IIenrico. full enough tee
lord I" i
$50 thought . at the time, AndronA--
da -
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THE FLORlDIAN FOR THE
CAMPAIGN.
800 for Seven Months.

ln order to place the FLoRIDIAN within the
reach OF all during the important political Cam
palgn OF 1884, we will send the paper to single
subscribers until the first OF December for 81.
In clubs OF five, and one to getter up of club, at
80 cents copy.
10 clubs of ten and an extra copy 10 person
forming club, IS cents copy.
To clubs of twenty, and extra copy To person
sending club, 60 cents copy
AT these low rates cash mus accompany all
orders.
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AT a school the master asked class
of bows the meaning Of the word "appe-
tite," and, after brief pause, one little
fellow said: 81 know, sir. When Pm
eatin' Pm 'appy, and when done Pm
tight"
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BALL & LONG,
REAL ESTATE DEALERS AND AGENTS,
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA.

rE- Large and small tracts Of improved and unim-
proved lands in Leon and Wakulla countiee,-sHitabe
ior staple farm crops, fruits truck farming, dairyng
general stock raising especially sheep FoR SALE
nj low prices and on easy terms.
S Some specially desirable locations on Lakes Jack
son Lafayette and Bradford, in Leon county, and on the
nyh hammock shores OF the Wakua and st. Marks NV
crs in Wakua county, within few miles Of the Gulf,
with abundance OF fish, oysters and game
SoY- Both State and Government lands selected and
entered for parties upon application.
eE- Maps, plats and descriptions furnished
We complete Abstract Of Titles to every acre OF
land i'll Leon county carefully compiled from County Re-
cords and Probate Office.
Information OF Middle Florida ts lands, climate soil,
productions and cheerfuy furnished and cor
respondence solicited. March IA, lS82-ly
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n RRa3R Send six cents fos postage and
III .UUIA receive free costly box Of goods
"a FnvI which will help Ell Of either sex,
u j uuAA Dt0 more mo1ay right away than
anything else in this world Fortunes await the workers
absolutely At adarsss 1xUn Co., Augusta,
Maine. March H. 166z-1y
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cApt. tseO. Asher, Of this <'ity, Fakes
she ssaG of Judge White'> Vol.
ra's O-Di>cosery OF Ihe Place from
Whence this smoke I,sur~-Sceue.
nntl GncidrnIs, INc.
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:, know ye the land OF the cedar and vine
Mere the iOwers ever blossom the beams ever shine
Where The ctron and olive are farest of fruit
And the voice of the mocking bird never is mute
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
LATER CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
House.

The President transmitted to the House h,
report of the commission appointed to exam.
Inc into the condition of swine products OF
this country. The secretary of state also seni
in communication on the subject, in which
he says the report shows conclusvely that
hog cholera is not present in meat packed fol
human food, and in no event is the disease
communicable TO huma beings AS to trichi-
nosis, the report is less conclusive, because
less is certainly known of the manner in
which the living trichinp or their germs
are transmitted. He advises further inv S.
tsation Of this point. -. Bill were reported
to provide for the issue Of circulating notes
to National banking associations; to estab-
fish a boar1 of Interstate commerce and To
regulate such commerce; for the payment
Of bountes due to officers and sailors under
Admiral Farragut, and to increa e certain
pensions. The naval appropriation bill
was debated, without action.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07

Two Denver Col) lodging houses occu-
pied by railroad aborers We're DESTROYED by
fire and four inmates were burned to death.
NUMEROUS colored mems civil rights
leagues are being organized in the West.
THE Rev Thomas G. Thurston and hi,
daughter. aged sixteen years, were drowned
while attempting to ford the Catawba river,
near Taylorsville, n. c.
MEASLES is scourging the Zuni Indians of
New Mexico, and more than 100 have died
within a month. The scenes about the
Indian villages are sickening.
THE subsistence of the waters OF the swollen
Ohio river has been followed by a rise in the
lower Mississippi. For 100 miles above and
below Shreveport, La, the country was re-
ported under water, and steamers We're EN-
ployed in bringing people and stock to places
of security. The river was filed with feat
ing debris and dead cattle.
Two Chicago boys who had been bitten by
mad dogs died in dreadful agony Of hydro
phobia.
j. O. BEACH, of Ridgeway Mimi, shot
and killed his wife, from whom he had been
divorced, and then put al end to his own ex-
isterce.
Four boys, from ten to seventeen wears
old, while out hunting near Omaha, Neh.
caused an explosion in n powder house CON
tanning six tons OF powder. All four were
blown to atoms.
A PITCHED battle took place in CLAYTON
county Ky, between four members of the
Burke family and two members of thu Clay
ton family. the trouble grew out of al inn
proper remark regarding n female member
of the Burke family, made by one of the Clay
tons. The battle resulted in the death of one
Clayton and fatal woundng of the other
and the death of one Burke and wouhding Of
another.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Spokane Falls,
Washington Territory, says that the rush
to the recently discovered Cpur d Alene
mines in Idaho during the spring and sum
mer will be whelmlng. Already the
craze has spread so that miners are tlocking
to the place without the prospect of earning
a Tenuy in some time. Telegraph and tele-
phone lines are being pushed through the
snow. and capital has been subscribed for
stage lines a railroad, and steam naviga-
ton company. a writer in Fort Keogh says
that, in regard to the richness of the mines,
every one who has been on the ground
speaks glowingly of the placer yield-gold
to the value of from Sl0) to $3.50 being gath
cred, according to this correspondent, i'll a
single day labor.
PART of a Covington (Ky.) distillery.
which was undermined by the flood. slipped
into the Licking river, with 5000 gallons of
beer.
Two brothers Luke and William Jones
were hanged at jackson, Ohio, for the
murder of Anderson Lackey, the motive of
the crime being robbery.
BEN GILLIAN and William Moore both col
ored. were hanged for murder-the former at
Bayboro, n. c., and the latter at Franklin,
La.
MARSHALL I. POLK, who embezzled S40),
600 of the Tennessee State funds while State
treasurer and fled, but was arrested. died
suddenly of heart disease at his home in
Nashville He had been very popular in
Tennessee. and his cas- was to have come up
in few days before the supreme court.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
Washington.

THE state department has received by
cable Intelligence of the suicide OF James X.
Partridge, formerly minister TO Brazil and
other South American States, a Ahca1'e,
Spain. Continued illness is assigned nN the
cause. Mr. Partridge was appointed a mirist n
plenipot ntiary an envoy extraordinary u
Peru on April :, 1883. lie was one of the most
distinguished citizens of Baltimore, anl hal
been identified with the diplomatic service
OF the government for the past twenty years
THE President has nominated Horace
c. Burchard, of Illinois, to be director of the
mint, and Commodore William q. Temple to
be rear admiral of the navy.
SPEAKER CARLISLE has received n letter
addressed to HIM personally By several of the
most prominent members OF the liberal
party in tho German reichstag, express ne
their high sense of appreciation of the action
taken by the House of Representa- ives rs a
token Of respect for the memory of the late
Herr La,ker. The letter expresses the hope
that the two uations may develop and con
tinue in friendship,
THE commission appointed by tho Presi'
dent To examine the swine industry OF the
United States has ma lie report asserting
the htalthfulncss of American pork products,
THE Senate has confirmed the nomination
OF Horatio c. Burchard to be director OF tho
United States mint.
REPRESENTATIVE HEWITT was author
Congress to report bill To prevent the inn
ration of adulterated teas The bill is
based upon the recent recommendations OF
the secretary of the treasury.
CHIEF ENGINEER MELVILLE, of the lost Je-
annette, will accompany the Greedy relief ex
petition as engineer Of the advance ship
Thetis.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
LATER NEWS,

THE extensive works of the United States
Stamping company in Portland Conn, have
been wholly destroyed by fire. They were
filed with machinery for stamping tin and
employed about 800 hands, turning cut and
shipping six or eight car loads Of goods per
day. The estimated loss is $4,000
UTICA, N V, has been visited by the most
disastrous fire known in its history. Eleven
business houses, including the daily Observer.
and the City National bank, were DESTROYED.
the losses aggregating between $5)0,0JO and
SS00,O00.
THOMAS CRITTENDEN, son of ex-United
States Marshal Crittenden, and grandson Of
John j. Crittenden. n noted Kentucky
statesmen, has been sentenced to three years
in the penitentiary for killing negro boy.
who had testified against him in case a.
Anchorage. KY.
A MORTGAGE for s12,OOO,0OO, given by
Western railroad company to New Yorl.
trust company, was recorded a few days ago
at Urbana, Ohio.
The receipts from United States customs
during last month were nearly ST. ,OOO, 600
From internal revenue over IS 900, 600 were
received. From these two sources the ag-
gre2ate receipts last month were S24, SIS, j32,
again-t $2i 46i ,427 for February, 1883.
On the lst inst. the United States treasury
had $l54, S63,97j.u in gold coin, SG1,011,
$3.50 in gold bullion, 1926, 50, 800 in stand
ard silver dollars SIS, 400, 90G.91 in fractional
silver coin Si,9l9. 81 in silver bullion, and
1914, 3O0. % in minor coin. Total, 5 3s2. 14g,.
1928.
DURING February the national debt was
decreased $!,5s2,js leaving the total debt
at 81 ,4SG, 0S3, 1885.
BUST of the American poet, Longfellow,
was unveiled in Westminster Abbey, the
resting place of many of England's distin-
Cuished dead. Addresses by Earl Granville
United States Minister Lowell and others
were delivered
GENERAL IGLEsIAs has taken the oath Of
Office as provisional governor of Peru.
GENERAL GRAHAM'S advancing army
of 1000 British troops defeated a body of
troops of 0,00J of the Fal,e Prophets Arabs
un Ter Oman Digna near Trnkitat, on the
Red sea. The rebels lost loo men. and
were only defeated after desperate resis-
lance: the British loss was twentv-four killed
and 142 wounded. This was the first serious
check received by the False Prophet in his
victorious campaign against Egypt in the
Souian.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-03-07
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CHILDREN Only ten years old are working
in Ohio coal mines.
THE first State election of the year will be
that of Oregon, June >.
ONLY three executions for murder took
place in France during ISIS.
A WOMAN has been elec ed president Of the
Ind ana Bee-keaperS association.
THERE are about 200 births anl about
LOO deaths per week in London.
THERE are 81. 900 cattle suffering from foot
and mouth disease in Greas B.itain.
A TRAMP orator, speaking on any subject
for dime, is travelling III the South,
THERE are three women in New York dime
museums whose combined weight Is l,9G5
pounds
THERE IS more telegraph business done in
minion of Canaia
A CITIZEN of Gainesville. Ga, now worth
0,000 never wore pair OF shoes until
after he was twenty-oae years of age.
The brew of malt liquors in this country
last year amounted to 1850 900 barrels, re-
curing about 20,O0O,OOO pounds OF hops.
GREELEY, Col, rejoices in the distinction of
being probably the one Mining settlement in
tine West in wh.cl there is not at least oCe
liquor saloon.
THE ne, deb of C ma la is Sl5S, 46i. ia. or
about so per capita; that of the United
States is about $50 per capita, but it is rap
ly decreasing.
Two veterans who were with "Old Hex
oryn in the war that ended seventy years
wears ago are still living in Catawba county,
North Carolina.