The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-12-10

The name of the Hamilton County |
Times has been changed to Weekly Co"-
rir, published At Jasper.
Mr.. John McIvor retires and Mr..
r. D. Davis succeeds him as editor aad
proprietor of the Baker County Star,
published at Macclenny.
WIN. H. Vanderbilt, the richest man
In America, dropped dead at his home In
New York city last Tuesday. He was
sixty-four years of age, and died OF paraty'
sis of the brain.
Editor T. B. Oliver, ofthe Jacksonville
Tropical Paradise, is now manager Of the
White Springs Hotel, in Hamilton county.
As he has been and is q successful news
paper man, we are certain he will succeed
in the hotel business Gainesville Nc,cs.
Hon Ned E. Farrell has been very
properly elected Mayor of Waldo, and by
a vote of four to one. If there are TWO
men who do more public work for the
benefit of Waldo than others, they are Mr.
Farrell and Capt. Johnston. editor OF the
Adoertiser.
We print the presentment OF the
grand jury of Volusia county. 1t Is
model document, creditable to the gentle
men who constituted the ''grand inquest"
and an example to be followed in its thor
ough research and its authoritative ex-
preston resulting therefrom.
The domestic felicity of Mr.. and Mrs
Hendricks was proverb in Indiana AT
wedding ceremony in Shelbyville three
years ago the officiating clergyman, after
shaking hands with the newly married
couple, gave them his benedction in
these words: "May you always be as
happy as Mr.. and Mrs. Hendricks are. .
The special edition of the Palatka
Sun is highly creditable to the publisher.
It's twenty pages are filled with useful
and interesting reading matter, and well
designed pictures illustrate the improve
ment of Palatka as restored since the
fire. The price per copy is ten cents,
and it is cheap.
Maine paid 1850 of internal rev.
enue last year. There are LOLA retail
liquor dealers in the State, where Nea
Dow started the prohibition crusade more
than a third of a century ago. Down
casters consider it an immense joke on
Georgians that these should attempt VIVA
they failed in.
-Sectionalism is the only issue left Il
hold the republican party in organization
Its banner is the bloody shirt, and 1t
bearer just now is John Sherman, holding
higher position than any other rad, as pres
ident pro tempore of the Senate. IL
was placed in that position because hi
bloody shirtiness exceeded that of othe
RAIDS, merit with radicals being measure
by their radicalism.
Senator Logan declined the nomina
ton for President of the Senate, sayin!
In hia littla- snAAah--thst bro ibotsrtf.y b
the floor. But the fact is that he dc
clined because his friends advised hin
that such course would be more useful t.
himself-that he would njure his politi
cal prospects by accepting the position
As his friends help Logan and want Lo
gan to help them, the advice of Logan
friondc r,uof Io foilouod
"A correspondent of a New York pa
Per who called on Mr.. Blaine at Angus
ia, on Thanksgiving day, to ask him fo
An expression Of opinion concerning tn
death of Mr. Hendricks, was met in the
drswing-room by Miss Maggie Blaine
who said: "Papa has gone out and will
not return until after Thanksgiving day
Gas the correspondent stood in the hal
to adjust his neck wrap" he writes, 4" h,
saw the Hon. James G. Blaine looking
At bim from behind pair of plush por
tieres-that is, he saw his nose, one ey,
and part of his beard, but twas quite
enough"
Senator Blair says that he is con
fdent that his educ ational bill will be
come law by the action of the presen,
Congress. 1t will be introduced a,
at the opening of the session, SO that il
will get good position on the calendar,
of both Houses. He claims that the bill
will receive the support of many news
papers that hitherto have opposed it, and
that since the Senators and Congressman
of the South and West have discovered
the real feeling of their constituents to-
wards it, they will be very active in its
support.
The Vice-President's widow is left in
comfortable circumstances. She has her.
self largely taken charge of the private
business affairs of her husband, and has
manage them with signal success" much
better" the Vice President used to say,
than could have done myself" The
residence where Mr.. Hendricks died, in
Indianapolis, is worth &c, 900, and he had
other property in the city, valued, all told,
ct about 900, 900. His life was also insured
In considerable sum. Altogether it is
estimsted that he will leave 500, 900, the