The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-07-08


firmed as Collector of Customs AT: the
port of Key West. i
The Republican Convention. fotI tife
Second Congressional District is calleEl go
meet in Tallahassee on the 23d instant. /
Hon. S. c. Cobb, of Escambia, is FA,ti
to be the coming man" With the Re
publicans in the First CongreSsIonaIIfs-
trict II:
Mr.. c. 5. Brown, of Florida, SECURED
the medal for scholarship and excell4h'e
of department, at the late oonmebce-
ment of Mercer Uni, ersity, at Macons +
We print timely article about sfigs
from the Jacksonville Dipat4h. :1Je
crop is verv abundant in Leon coepiy,
and the suggestions of the articlsEafe
valuable. III!
The jacksonville Herald mas inter
viewed Ex-Governor Drew. who said 1
shall cheerfully and heartily SUPPORT
General Perry and the State ticket at the
coming election" 4.
Editor Harrison Reed don't liks the
nomination Of General Perry. Hte grseans
bitterly thereat, for he knows WHIST Il
means. He knows that the republicans
are going to be routed horse, foot and
scalawags. {.
The chairman Of the Indepeuaeilt
State Executive Committee seems 10
have been admitted into full communion
with the republicans, and Addressed a
convention of them in Duval county the
other night. -.
"A committee appointed by .ihe Re
publicans who protest against the lf.rni-
nations of their party at Chicago, Will
issue an address to the republican, OF he
United States urging them not to VOTE for
Blaine and Logan. -
The =" fine hand" of the scalawsg
candidate for Governor seems to Ii. re
been required to write an " editorial y for
the Bee, endeavoring to explain It's, quite
remarkable position of the editor If sist
peculiar publication. 3;
The Quincy Nonttly Eo"cdt'w i, re-
ceiving deserved encomium from tire press
of the State 1t was happy thought al
Captain Allison to commence its pub'icaf
ton, and the ability with which he exits
it will secure support to assure ITS aaiF
tinued publication. !
Information from the best sousaes
shows that in his own county Candidate
Pope is without other constituency than
some of the straight Republicans-$ets
cept very few white persons who ead
become irretrievably committed TO kif1
before they discovered whittier tie was
leading them. I
Texas is shipping watermelons 't1I
Key West, where they are quoted .ati
thirty to fifty cents each. Five or tatS
cents will buy family melon " in Tai
lahassee. A schooner load shipped at 81
Marks southwark might have proved
better than train load shipped nor:he
ward from Tallahassee. &.
The Pensdcolidn of the 5th eontains
the closing words of Major Ben. Robinsor
on his retirement from the staff, and the
announcement that his late associate, Mr..
John O'Connor, remains as editor. Mr,
O'Connor is good writer. Mr.. Charles
G. Beck has purchased an interes. in the
paper, and the publishing firm il O'Ccn!
nor & Beck. ri
The " Independent " movement.
which was to break the democratic parsyi
has done no damage. Its leaders, Tish4
out a following, have gone over to- the,
RAIDS, and the democracy remain solid, ttc'
integrity of their organization assures; hyI
the departure of the traitorous element
But one so-called democratic paper HIS,
hoisted the scalawag colors, and that h4si
been for year writing itself out Of TIA
party. s.,
Most good people supposed Chat tta
time had passed for the further procreE-H
ton of that pestilent political proaudt
known by the term "scalawag," even al
the era of carpet-baggers had ended
This proves a melancholy mistake, for ths
year has Matched scalawags in Flornik
Is not the Southern native who abAadeuk
the democratic party and joins himself
with the republicans to obtain Office 81
scalawag in the understanding of thaN
word? AS compared with the scalaws8
the carpet Dagger is eminently respect9S
BILE. III
We find in the Louisville Coslrtesf
Journal of the I'd instant full report if
the Commencement Exercises OF ths
Louisville School of Pharmacy for Wos
men-certainly the most entertaining Oh
the many Commencements of the season! =:
The readers of the FLORIDIAN will be in
terested to know that Miss Fauntine Vet.dd
ter, our accomplished correspondent dur
ing the Louisville Exposition, wasawardy'ss||
ed diploma as q proficient pharmacist.
and delivered the valedictory address,
which won much encomium. Miss Vett{r !
was also elected to the Chair of Professor
Of Botany in The institution. II