The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-01-29
Mr.. Joseph MediK proprietor Of the


have Boarda of Trade4 Pensacola led off
in the movement, We believe.
The local artist Of the Palatka Her.
aid furnishes an amnAng column which
adds to the value off shat sterling paper.
The last spike in +ke railroad between
Tampa and Sanford sxas driven at half
past six o'clock P. NJ Tuesday, the 22d.
The Orange E<af newspaper Office
has been removed from Wild Wood to
Lady Lake, new t4~n OIL the Florida
Southern.
Track sxying % the Orange City
and BLUE Springs Railroad will be com
pleted to the city by; Tuesday Orange
City Times,
The trisl Of James Mutt for killing
N. L. Dukes, the slayer of his father Ter
minated in a'ver,lict al not guilty because
of insanty.
When al editor sgloomily remarks
eve are not alarniistss it is time to brace
up and get ready fot: him lest he scare
you out of your witsi
We will have no: difficulty the pres
ent year in electing democratic Senator
and AssembIymen III Jefferson county. -
Monticello Constitution
Florida Just b,.atA all There's al
ways something odd: OF comical turning
up, and now turns up'the Yorker! What
next, for gracious saEe"!
The Columbia Sku says that the
laying OF tbs corner stone of the Agricul-
tural College at Lake City has been post
poned to sometime in February.
Mobile sent schioner loaded with
Honduras cecoanuts and bananas to
Tampa, aud Tampa sef' her back to Mo
bile loaded with Florie "a oranges.
Colonel Z. l.. Getkhell died in Jack
sonville on the cath from the effect of the
pistol shot wound in the abdomen inflicted
by d. J. Chandler, On 1he It'll. Chandler
is il Jail
Thanks to Major Albert j. Russell,
Secretary, for tickets hf admission to the
ninth annual estate Fsir" at Jackson
vile on the i2to, lAth,: l4th and 18th Of
February
To-day tor the 6sst time since the
existence of the .Ve7c Era, we apologize
for it's appearance geographically. -Ne'o
ETa.-Some are Of the, opinion that you
ought to apologize for ats having appeared
at all.
Thanks to the Pal4tk journal for a
supplement, 'lone in 'aDlors, which com
prises calendar and is a fine specimen Of
Typographical workmanship. 1t was done
in the Jo'""at office, Yid well advertises
its facilities !
More Of the stIh Captain Maryatt
told about in the Ns,s. Era. 1t takes a
lawyer to defend Indtpendentism at the
bar of public opinion. 1t takes lawyer
to defend sob,e other things at the bar of
the courts-snt some 81 these things are
not nice. !:
Fred. douglass !Marric1 white
woman the et,:er day. He is 10 years
old, and the soman. wAo is English and
has been his private secretary for some
years, is IS. Ffed's old wife was colored
and died abo", year ago. He has
daughters as old as his sestive bride.
We regret to learn that Mr. G. H.
Foster was detained at 9be North on &C.
count Of the death Of. his mother. She
died at Concord, IN H..on December the
10th, at the advanced age OF eightytwo
years. Mr.. Foster has the sympathy of
his many friends at Manatee - Gulf
Coast Proyrtss. !
In h"mictdaL progs.ss the Northern
States seem to be leaving the Southwest
far behind. ln Ailegnahy county, Penn
sylvania, alone there hafe been one hun
dred murder cas- drriug the past six
years And yet eome.of the Pennsylva-
MIA newspapers are the most bitter in
their denunciatious Of tawlessness in the
South. :.
There ara two gentlemen in this city
canvassing the views o.. our people in re-
gard to a canal ttom sic st. Johns river
to St. Augustine. We Are informed that
a passage car be nadA from the river,
near Tocoi, up the skin, lie creek, to with
in six miles of that city, And that the larg.
est vessels thss travel the ST. Johns can
60 up this creek. PuAe ia Jo,r7.dl.
"A dismal ahriek rel the atmosphere
of Madison when the HioRIpIAN intima-
ted coalition between Independents and
Radicals. 1t is the tradn that hurts the
evil.doer-it ie iustice she wicked dread.
By the way, there is Amor that the In
dependents wiz rsu J. gillis Menard, of
Key West, for GQvsrn''f. He's trihe
off color, to be supe; but3 then he is a citi-
zen of Florida ali the same, and so very
Independent in his views that Madison
opponent may failsia . aasntest with him
of the Island City fof the gubernatorial
nomination. At .aEl esents, the thing
would probably bs Close, as it would be
hard to choose between "a small-pica and
a patent-inside candidate.
Sometime since the Daily Insect com
planned of an attempt to strangle" it !;
now il seems to xusxebend burning a. the