The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-01-15
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Florida.
We perceive that our small pics cohtempo-
rary is not Dunraven about the Disss'n sale yet.
Judge w A. Mclean, u q. NJ edits the
Masonic Column of the F"Ia'ti Ii|rEd
captain l. G. Dennis ha, bought The Ar
ling,on House Al Gainesville; paying s2o,"o for
If.
Colonel Crane SAYS the FIogIENAS Is "A
whitewaShcr. Hi, Key qt' Tie Ggy-s black
washer. -
-Ocala has voted to issre $4,000 - bonds for
the purpose of fire protection and lee:'erai m
pfovcmrns.
Thanks To the .Jacksony ale ClGb.r,r an invi-
tation 10 attend HE Opening RrctlHlon on the
23l at January.
Unable To attain the distraction ot+sxcelcnc"
some Journalists, seek the not1riety oE;eyll dong
and readily attain that.
circumstances have tlefersei atten4inn Ia tn.
I1nt, D,mo.rH Everglade Expedition until
next is,ue oi the FLoRIDIAN. L
To-day Il gentleman trom AacfEita county
informed IA Hrald reporter tAat s:nce. Saturday
last he had seen old orange frees ktGed 10 the
ground, the bark split and tn, bougns D'ackened
from leczing. Lrk~mrTt EeraW.
-Rcv. {. NJ Beckwith, o: Atlanta, Ga, s re-
t.ruting his health here, having lcaraSd by past
r>}crirncc that il can he most certainly iione nj
Ftinan.lina As usual, he has acc"mui':' !AtionS
at the E.,mon1 = FtrnanIind Mirror.
Roy !. Knowles has made Il fine l8ptession
upon our people and his efforts and SERMONS are
likely to result in much practical god His
r,lc atlainmcntS, courteous manners sud Chris
tau-lihc bearing commend hin, To all H"ld'.
ld+rf,Ner.
We nave received from the publisher very
handsomely printed pamphlets 81 l32 pages, being
;, description OF Alachua county ny Card Web
brr 1t is entitled The Eden Of the South, and
is ,orncw hat ahead ot any county advertisement
M To date
senator Hill, of Colorado, has introduced a
bill To- require that government building shall
be constructed in every towp and city nt the
Unlon in which the postmaster thereof draws Il
eilarv af 81 900 and over senator llill says this
policy would save the government 81 0'N $50 per
year in rent
- As neatly AS we can estimate the .valne OF
NO. seeing the thing we should charge ..eti thou
sand a year for printing the picture tl':d Smith
a. Berry have in their advertisement III the Sa
vannah Ne,cs in The FLORIDi>N ha9''n< pa
ld' is daisy to that grinncf w no OF i.h' to be
killed il he is not copyrighted
1t is incumbent upon the '&t Democratic
convention To select men with persona: fitness
and representative character Tor llIr Satt ltonors.
I.ocllv must not be considered, nor sectional
preferences INDUCED The State must =, Demo
cratic and IA harmonious convention wiz INSPIRE
the people With confluence hW NdSt E@9""7".
The statistics OF Jacksonville shippgag show
that in 1852 there were 4OJ cntranccs.ah Az
cLarancce, and in 1888 only :;05 cntraBces and
29l ,lcaranccs This heavy falling off 70 pow
ellul argument ia favor of harl'or work, without
delay or consideration of expense TIEs, il not
ON ,l. ST Johns bar on The inland VA tsase to
The ~ Mary
In rendering his resignation a. Congressman
h. Governor Butler, The Hon. George IT, Robin
sou rave ~ his reason the tact OF his t1&fion as
the Governor OF Massachusetts. In rrEiy Coy
crm"r Buirr accepted the resignation; neatly
saying "lhc reason prompting lh'' saatt hlng
entirely satisfactory 10 a m:. jnrty ot 'hr pro-
pl- of the State
Colonel j. II. Gardner late senior EDITOR OF
the Marianne Ttnc~ has retired irom connection
with that paper, the publication If which i@ CON
trinrd bv MrssrS J. f. Burk'- n j. ). Gardner,
To whom We wish much sncc-is, for they Say
'Thr 7lp,s will be uncomrromisinely| Demo
cratic IN politics and Will do It's part, 10 The best
OF il, ability, for the success Of the Democratic
psltv."
"Thc Fast FGorida Seminary Ker0,eG.' is the
title al Il neatly printed and really Welt edited
lnlr paper issued in Gainesville twice at,month,
under the auspices of the Lise.Ary Department
ol the East Florida Seminary Congress, with [.
G. Cochran, Elitor n-Chicf and Brsines4 siaua-
acr: T. NJ. Milan and a. Enlcl, Associate edit
ors. The subscription price Of the Rtoofd is 80
cents Tor The session, and it announces eircula-
ton # $50 already attained,
Apparently our Webstcrian little coIGenpo-
RAJ, of Enterprise thinks it WAS termed as' horse
mackercl" If it will read the offending para
graph again it will See that il was not SO '!esig-
mated. Indeed, why should il have beei called
Il horse mackcTcy But even il il had lt.4.n de-
si.nalcd by a fishy name, how much les4 would
be It's grievance il it had been called bS some
other than horse mAckercl? Would it peter to
bc called sardinc, sprat asackrr, muS cat, "a
ounder, a lomcod, a jack fish ii hog fish 4 snap
per, "A cloakcr or even a sheep-ilcad, i horse
m4chcrel is a dashy, snowy Sort OF fish, but not
good to eat Neither is the contemporary
Senator Call, of Florida, has introduced bills
to provide for the immediate appropriation oil
800 900 to continue the improvements in,Pensa-
cola harbor $1,000 tor the improvement Of
Choctawhache river, $25, 900 for the is1prose-
mrnt of The Suwannee river, 100000 - con
tinuc the work on the improvements in The chan
mel between Cumberland ana Amelia Stands
Florida, and al the entrance 10 St May river
in Georgia; 100000 for the Improvements W the
channel at Key West; $400OtD 30 conti1tM thu
work on the bar in the ST. Iohns rivcs, For
ida and $4,000 for the impiosemcnt 81 iho
river itself, and $lS0,000 for the improvement 81
certain other channels, rivers and marlboro III lhe
Stale OF Florida.
The winter has made for 1854 it, mark
among the cold years oil the ceninry. Tie mer-
ccrv has sunk down to the forbes at some points
within the United States, and cvoh rs lar S.'ntl
AS Atlanta has touched zero There has sl,,ubt
less been more suffering in Southern States than
in Northern, the people being unprcpsref in
dwellings and clothing for weather so se4eIe
The extent of damage done I" citrus and othcr
tender vegetation in Florida is noi yet known