The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-09-10

shoemaker.
-Palatka has ten artesian wells and
wants more.
The trouble between Spain and Ger
many is still unsettled
The Barlow Street Railway Com
pany has been incorporated.
One and two-dollar greenback bills
are worth premium over silver in New
York
Hon. Josiah A Lee, died at bis
home near Leesburg, last Wednesday,
aged sixty-one years.
The Yes. Hillsberough Times has
entered upon its second volume with flat
terng prospects for the future.
Senator Sherman has struck the key
note in the Republican campaign, and the
Boston Glo6e says it is B fiat.
President Cleveland arrived at Wash
incton at s o'clock last Monday morning,
ate his breakfast, aud went to work.
Mr.. Lucien Douglass, of Abbeville,
$. c.. has one stalk Of cotton containing
ABS blooms and bols 1t covers SO square
feet of ground.
Mr.. w. 5. Wagstaff, long connected
with the Tropical Paradise, of Jackson
vile. has accepted position Oh the Or
lando Reporter.
Suit has been commenced in the
United States Circuit Court, in New York
CITY. to test the constitutionalty Of the
civil service law.
The key that General Grant used in
giving the signal to close the Centennial
in 1876 is said to be the property Of Jo-
scph Hirst, of Levy county.
The race between the Puritan and
Genesta was postponed Monday on ac-
count of the weather A foul on Tuesday
caused an indefinite postponement.
The machine shops Of the J. I. d X.
w. Railway will be located at Palatka.
The Florida Southern shops are already
in operation there. Surely the "Gem
City" boometh.
What is most disgusting about pol
itican with sorehead is the fact that he
wants to 60 about the country exhibiting
it, instead Of putting il in bag where 1t
belongs and cannot be seen.
Governor Hoadley has taken the
stump in Ohio lie opened his campaign
at Hamilton on Saturday, when he gave
John Sherman a broadside and fired hot
shot into Foraker--the twin bloody-shirt
croakers.
Major Aaron Stafford, the last sur
viving officer of the war of 1912, died at
his residence in WAterville, Oneida coun
ty, New York, recently, in the Doth
year of his age, having retained his men
tai faculties to the last.
John Sherman, in his Ohio speeches
says: while we waive the animositle'
of the war, we must never fail TO hold on
with courage and fortitude, to all the re
suits Of the war" Fat offices, John and
all the honors and riches for the Sherman
family.
Rhode Island still has the denses
population of all the States, the number
OF inhabitants to the square mile shown
by the new census being $50, as agains
24O for Massachusetts, which has ranked
second in the hat since the foundation o
the Union.
massachusetts long ago told Bel
Butler to go to grass. He Is on his way
there now. He is always for cattlemer
and says he will sue the President of The
the United States for ordering his clients
cattle away from the grazing grounds o
the Indians.-N. o. Picayune.
The Savannah Morning Ne'os pub
lished its annual trade issue Of sixtecr
pages, on the 5th instant, which con
tanned, besides the daily compliment o
general and special reading matter, mucl
valuable and interesting data concerning
the growth and prosperity off Savan
nah.
"A French scientist predicts very Sc
we're volcanic disturbances for 1885, to oc
cur at a time when the attractive infiu
ence of the other members of the solal
system is most strongly felt upon ou
planets or, rather, when that influence j,
most uneveny distributed, during nea
approach of the great attractive bodies.
"A savings bank in Portland, Oregon
ha. twenty dollar gold piece which was
taken from the stomach of a slaughtered
COW. and found to be worth $16.25. The
milling is worn off the edge, which il
smooth and rounded, but the designs
upon the sides remain visible. The date
of the coin is 1870, but how long the COW
has been digesting the $a75 no one car
tell
The New York South Cotton seed
ia the Southern bonanza. There are three
and one-balf pounds of seed to every
pound of fibre. More than 1900, 900 tons
are produced annually, but notwithstaud
ing the rapid increase in the number o.
mills, only about ten per cent. of the seed
is crushed, the rest being largely thrown
away. A ton of seed yields thirty five
gallons of oil, twenty-five pounds Of cot
ton and seven hundred and fifty pounds
of cake, used for fattening cattle. The
value of these products is nineteen dol