The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-22

Tanahassee, Fla, Oct. -. l99S.
An addition of over City rooms win
soon be made to the already commodious
Chautauqua Hotel 1t DeFuniak Springs
-NAwck's Orlando Daily is the latest
newspaper enterprise. 1t is not 90 large
as some papers we have seen, but is filed
with reading matter of lively sort
Miss Annie Longfellow, youngest
daughter of the late poet, was married
Last week to Mr.. Joseph G. Thorpe, OF
Eau Claire, Wis, brother of the wife
of Ole Bull The ceremony was very
simple, and was conducted by the Rev.
Samuel Longfellow.
When General Babcock remodelled
the White House he replaced those SUI
perb Italian mantels in the East Room
with white wooden ones, and now those
marble mantels cannot be found, and
some people want to know who "paid
the freight"
The report to the stockholders of the
L. d. N. Railroad at the recent meeting
in Louisville was very interesting and
shows that the affairs of the system have
been managed with great ability. The
amount of bonds of the L. & N. road
foot up $7,01l.l1O, and the annual inter-
est charge is $429,2so.
The "authoress and detective" the
story of whose adroitness in New York is
printed ON the first page of this paper, is
doubtless Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, long en-
ployed in editorial work on the Atlanta
Sunny South. 1t was recently published
that she had removed to New York under
a literary engagement that would pay her
$4,000 year.
Mr.. D. D. Melvin, of Vernon, writes
to the Chipley Lntelligencer, anent the
St. Andrews Bay boom, and says eve
have recorded the 22sth deed to St. An
drews bay lands" 1t would seem that
the capitalists said to have bought the
fifty thousand acres on the lovely but
heretofore lonely bay will found large
settlement there.
The Key West Democrat comes to us
with the names of knight & Moreno as ed
itors and proprietors. We did not see the
issue which announced the change; but
though delayed our welcome to the gentle
men who thus entered the fraternity of the
fourth estate is none the less cordial. Mr..
Phil. Thompson, the retiring editor,
earned the esteem of the press during his
tour of duty.
The Trade Number of the Jackson
vile Times Union is the largest thing in
the way of newspaper enterprise yet &C.
complished in Florida. 1t consists of
twenty pages and is excellent in matter
and in style of Typography. 1t gives
much interesting information as to Flor
ida generally, albeit but bare reference to
Middle Florida particularly.
Among the distinguished divines
who paid tribute to the character of Car
dinal McCloskey the Sunday after his
death were DR.. Morgan Dix, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church; DIR. Cros-
by, of the Presbyterian Church DR..
Storrs, of the Congregational Church
DR.. Robert Collyer, of the Unitarian
Church; Henry Ward Beecher, of Ply
mouth Church, and three rabbis.
The Gainesville Daily Nescs acknowl-
edges a call from Mr. Caleb Higginbo-
than, about sixty years old, and the first
person born in Gainesville. Mr.. H. once
owned the land on which Gainesville is
built, sold it for sixty cents per acre, re-
moved to Levy county, and came back for
the first time the other day to find it
worth q thousand dollars or 80 per acre,
without the houses on it.
The Philadelphia Press says: "Of
2,7Oo men appointed to the more import
ant Offices by President Cleveland some
2,4O0 are ex-Confederate soldiers" We
don't believe that the Press can prove
this assertion. If it were true it would
simply show that the President is select
ing good men, for more changes have
been made in the South than elsewhere
Mobile Register.
-Hyoscine, a worse sedative than chic
raj, is being used in New York. 1t comes
from German plant, and has been occa-
sionally sold by German apothecaries at
seventy-6ve cents grain, but the de-
mand has recently increased and that
price has gone up. The danger arises
from the fact that it is very powerful,
and the risk of overdoses is great. Its
habitual use produces muscular paralysis
and violent delirium.
The National Museum is said to have
been . great gamer by the New Orleans
Exhibition, where it had large represen-
tation. About one thousand boxes were
sent there Is part of the Governments
diaDlavs INIT nvor two fhouaord boxa.