The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-11-12

The shipping of oranges from this
county is comparatively new business
but much of it will be done this season.
The crop is very large.-Madison Re
eorder.
If Little Malone concludes to retire
from politics and leave Virginia, we
would suggest the Dry Tortugas as
spot about fitted to . man of his mould.
~ r World
This issue of the FLoRIDIAN intro
duces to its readers " Bienville," regu.
lar CORES pondent. His admirable letter
from Colorado will induce them to wish
to hear from him again.
Hereafter let no little crowd of dis
affected Republicans move into the Dem
ocratic camp with the idea that they can
take possession and command the entire
army.-Bufalo Times.
Here and there the man is popping
up who is nominating Governor David b.
Hill for President. Sometimes he is
country editor and sometimes he is sim
ple-minded politician.-N Y. World.
The united Democracy of New
York have won an old-fashioned victory.
They have maintained their ascendancy
in this "pivotal State, in which they
now hold the citadel of power for the
next three years, including the Presiden-
tial election of 1885, Buffalo Courier.
-Honors are still rolling in upon
Governor-elect Foraker, of Ohio. A Gin
cinnati newspaper gives an account of his
recent initiation As a knight of the Red
Cross in that city. He is known in this
part of the country as the Knight of the
Red SHIRT and Loose Tongue.-M Y.
World.
"A trade edition 1000 copies) of the
Waldo Aduertiser is being prepared by
the editor, Colonel John B. Johnston, and
as whatever he does is well done, the ad-
vantage to this section of the State will
be correspondingly great. We hope to
see Colonel Johnson's efforts sustained
and appreciated.-C Callahan Record.
The change of the railroad tracks in
the South and Southwest to the standard
gauge, four feet eight and one-half inches,
will disquslify many locomotives on the
roads interested, which will not permit
the shrinking of the wheels to the requi-
site distance. The Louisville & Nashville
has ordered already thirty new locomo-
tives, averaging fifty-seven tons in weight.
These are to take the place of Fifty which
will be disqualified. OF the forty-one
locomotives of the Florida Railway &
Navigation Company, twenty-three will
have to go.-Fsrnandin Mirror
j. s. TAFT, the organizer of the plan
for a grea: Scotch colony in Florida,
sailed from Liverpool on the Polynesian
on Thursday. He will be on the ground
before the arrival of the first instalment
of fifty families who sail from Glasgow on
the 26th. Each of these has from 800 to
$4,000. The lands to which they 60 are
already secured. Fifty other families,
who are alse owners of Florida property,
are ready to follow as soon as the former
have developed q colony. Mr.. TAFT ex-
poets to move fully 1000 Scotch families
during the next few years. Charleston
Nesos and Courier.
The subject Of cremation is causing
q considerable amount of excitement in
religious and medical circles. The New
York city registrar decides that the law
does not allow him to issue permits for
bodies to be moderated, and, notwith-
standing tie fact that forty corpses ARE
now in the society's vault, refuses to act
Bishop Coke, of the Episcopal Church,
preached . sermon at Albany, N. Y, on
Sunday week, in which he spoke with
much vehemence against cremation. His
text was ST. Johns description of the
burial of Christ He claimed that incin-
Grafton was repugnant to Christian civil
ixatiou. -
-" The Republican party" says its
Official spokesman, the Chairman of the
State Convention, "gives the negro the
Civil Rights Bill, clothes him with the
ballot, and endows for him school and
college" Yes, and . Republican Su-
prsme Court upsets the Civil Rights
Bill, two Republican Presidents fail to
Hfts finger TO protect the negro in his
right 70 vote, and every Republican Con-
grsss hss neglected 70 vote one dollar in
lid Of common school instruction for the
negro children. individual Republicans
may have " endowed colleges" but they
did il - philanthropists. mot as partisans.
The party, - sueh, las not dose thing
fos tbs negro sinss lits doubtful gia Of
tks ballot, beatSssd sslfshly - means
81 psrpssastiag itself ID power--Bos-
ton Herald sws
Nov VI ~ oncss - eIvea 10 he Demo
sssts, ~ tAepsetla DGD6k 1JMsA f
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