The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-04-30

"A Cross 4 on che margins Of your
paper indicates that your subscription
has expired.
Gen. Grant continues to improve in
genertl health and strength.
The Democrats of Liberty County
have nominated DR.. L. d. Carfon for the
Convention.
The Gainesville Esening lNesos re-
ports large business At the O. s. land
Office in that city.
Alabama physicians say that pneu-
monia is now worse iu that State than
ever before within 80 or 40 years.
The Democratic nominees 81 Sumter
county for the Convention are W. A.
Hooker, Esq, and Hons. H. H. Duncan
and w. NJ. Bennett.
The contract for deepening Pensa-
cola bar has been awarded to Capt. Geo.
w. Adams, who will use the powerful
dredge boat G. w. Bailey, which he has
chartered.
The oldest clerk in che Treasury De-
psrtment was appointed in ls47 at sala-
nv of o. 200. He now receives q 400
year-an increase of $2oO in thirty eight
wears. He has doubtless found i. pretty
hard to hold his place;
We have the gratifying intelligence
that on the 9th instanrthe President ap-
pointed Hon. James f. Mcclellan, of
Mariana, to be L. s. Surveyor-General
of Florida. The ability and public SER
vices of Colonel Mcclellan justified his ap-
pointment to position At least as impor-
tant as this he has received.
The Government is about TO move
s35, oOO, 900 in gold from the ubtreasury
at San Francisco to that at New York.
The lowest bid of the express compa-
MES is 1925 per $1,000, which does not
come within the 100000 appropriated
by Congress far the purpose. The Pa
cifc Mail makes lower bid.
Minister Phelps will sail for London
on the North German Lloyd Steamer
Elbe MAY 6. He has received telegram
from Mr.. Lowell saying that he would sal
for this country on May 10. Mr. Phelps
will take his house in Lonwdes square
London. Mrs. Phelps, their daughter and
her husband will 60 over in the fall.
-Messrs. McCreary & White some
troll OF the Gainesville Ereniny Ne,os,
which they established, and are making
it an admirable little daily. Its edito
rial articles are eminen,ly sensi be and
practical and every item Of home news
is purveyed for its local columns We
wish it the success it commands.
Some time ago l.. w johnson adj
vertised for the last will of Robert E.
Perley, of Big Spring, Texas, offering
$4,000 to the finder Mrs. F. a. More
land, Of Emporia, Kansas, has the will in
L up in f6e sre sa But are re" cshhG ta
advertiser The will bequeaths a 5000
acre ranch and 10000 cattle to Maud Per
lev, bat her residence is unknown.
The Ocala Banner says that Major
Gruelle has completed the survey OF the
line of the S. S. o. & 6. r. r., and the
work OF grading will be commenced in
two weeks. Also, that the Tavares,
Orlando and Atlantic road is laying rails
at the rate of three quarters Of mile
day and will soon be completed from
Tavares to Orlando.
The New Orleans Picayu'se OF May
l will be printed on bagasse paper, which
it describes as fine, silky, firm texture
fabric, make from the refuse Of sugar
cane. The Picoya1ne desires to give
thorough advertisement to what cali be
accomplished in the South by the devel-
opment of home industries and the frugal
using of every material, waste or origi-
nal raw product possessed by the produc-
tive South.
Fred Douglass, in his address to the
COlOTeU ucu ~ w asHiuStDH vi TIC ioIu,
admitted that the Republican party in
the last campaign had ceased to be the
party of great moral ideas, and had sought
victory on grounds far below its ordinary
level. 1t had made national pelf more
important than the national party. He
eulogized President Cleveland, and sid
that the words of his inaugural were as
good as those in the inaugurals of Elm
coin and Grant.
when Secretary Lamar took charge
of the Interior Department he fcaud on
his desk the names of fifteen persons who
had been appointed in connection with
the labor commission by Commissioner
Wright. These appointments have to be
confirmed by the secretary, otherwise
they are worthless Mr.. Lamar refused
to confirm them until he had time to look
into the matter. He has picked ont half
. dozen whom he will not confirm under
anv circumstances. The half dozen
whom he opposes figured during the last
campaign az Republican orators and ad-
vocates of protection. About one-half
of the total number would have spent the
summer in Europe gathering statistics
had not Secretary Lamar quietly vetoed