The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-01
The corn crop this year is nearly two

Tallahasseean what was said by the Flo
RIDIAN.
An esteemed contemporary says eve
got a new subscriber at" etc. Yes, got |
him badly.
Prince Bismarck has accepted the |
apology OF Spain for the recent insult to
the German Embassy at Madrid.
Kansas farmers are growing large
quantities of sorghum cane for stock, and
think it is the coming stock feed in that
State.
A Philadelphia paper says that a
Southern Democrat will be placed on the
Civil Service Commission when Mr. Eaton
steps out.
The penalty for selling cigarette to
a boy or girl under l6 years of age in
New Hampshire has been made $50 for
each offence.
The Indians of New Mexico are do
ing very well at making ancient pottery
from the prehistoric mounds and selling
it to credulous tourists.
Florida was the only Southern State
that accepted the offer of the Federal
government to pay half the expense OF
taking a census in 1885.
Captain H. 5. Duval, State Engineer
of Florida. is President of the Southern
Engineer Association. His post-office is
River Junction, Gadsden county.
Hon. Warren Higley, President of
the Forestry Congress, has consented to
attend and address the Southern Forestry
Congress at De Funiak Springs, Dec.
18th
The Democracy of Ohio owe a great
debt to Sherman. They could not get
along nearly so well without John. The
South and the National Democracy are
also indebted to John. EIurrah for
John.
Cotton seed is reported to have ad
vanced at Vicksburg, Miss, on the 18th
instant, from SO to SIG per ton, the lat
ter figures being paid by the Warren oil
mill At this rate the seed will soon be
worth more than the lint.
Cholera failed to strike single one
Of the 1000 women employed in the ma
tional tobacco factory at Valencia, Spain,
though the disease ragged violently in that
city, and the Medical World recalls that
tobacco workers were also noticed to ell
demic at Amsterdam.
will the English language become
universal? The question is decided in
the affirmative. by Cannolle, a Geneva
scientist, who reasons from the rapid
spread of English,speaking people
throughout the world, and their almost
invariabIo retention of their native
tongue.
Canon Farrar, of Westminster Alb
hey, has arrived in America, and was re-
ceived with the warmest enthusiasm at
Montreal lie will visit Chicago and
few Weetern cities, and then attend the
Episcopal Church Congress in New York.
He will also preach for Phillip Brookes, at
Trinity Church, Boston.
"A subscriber at Golconda, Illinois,
writing to renew his subscription, refers
to the meteorological reports of the Flo
RIDIAN, and says the summer was cooler
in our country than in his, where the mer-
curry reached los degrees. Our friend
should move right down to Florida, where
he will find the winter warmer than the
one he will shiver through if he stays in
Illinois. No place like Florida-cooler in
summer and warmer in winter than other
countries
The New York Republicans have
nominated for Governor, Ira Davenport,
and for Governor, Jos. B.
Carr. The latter has accepted though he
had positively asserted that he would
take no position but the first. Davenport
is man of little prominence, and the
strength of the ticket is in Carr, who is
quite popular. He is now Secretary of
State. The probabilities are that the
ticket will be defeated by heavy major
ity-with the possible exception Of Carr.
The Baltimore Sun says: "Thcre
has been steady flow of silver from the
Baltimore sub-treasury this week to points
in south Carolina, North Carolina and
Georgia. These shipments are on orders
to supply the demand for silver dollars to
take the place of the withdrawn currency
ones and twos. From $4,000 to $4,000
have been sent daily, and the volume
promises to increase as the need for money
to make change becomes more pro-
nounced. The small bills are gradually
disappearing, and there is nothing to do
but substitute the c&rt-wheel dollar of
deficient intrinsic value and unenviable
notoriety. The Treasurer authorizes the
shipment of the silver by express at the
cost of the government"
The weather during August in the
Northern and Northwestern States has
been remarkably cold. Low temperature
and heavy rains materially injured the
wheat and oat crops. But September
brought warm and sunny weather again,