The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-11-12


Work yon the Tampa cigar factosy
and the cottages Of workmen 10 progress
ing rapidly, and manufacturing win soon
,,.-.;ss-. a. S4i>s@..-.ss fH"t-sis44't -
Mr.. S. T. Walker, editor Of the Mil.
ton Nesos. has been appointed Superin-
tendent of Public Schools for Santa Rosa
county.
The crop of raisins grown in CALI
fornia has increased from 1000 boxes,
nineteen years ago. to 100000 the pres
emit season.
The election returns show mp the
grand old Republican party of Iowa
in . most dismal light. The candidate
for Governor escapes with bare plural
ity of 5000.
AN expert in FINE foreign tobaccos
says that "the American tobacco Is strong,
because only the male plant grows on this
side of the Atlantic, while the female
plant is the exclusive product of Turkey
and the Orient"
Colonel J. HI. Ancrum has sold the
Jasper Times to Messrs. Fl. d. Allison
and F. NJ. DeGrafenreid, who propose TO
give their best efforts to the paper. We
trust Colonel AS retirement from the
fraternity is not final.
The Birmingham Age gives us the
following very interesting figures: snip
ments of Alabama iron to the East: 1888,
zoos tons from three furnaces; 1884,
l0,25o tons from eight furnaces; 1885,
22.sl4 tons from seven furnaces"
Up to this morning City Clerk Maura
had registered eight thousand and fifty
nine dollars and ten cents of outstanding
scrip issued by administrations under the
old regime The present provisional gov
eminent has issued no "promises to pay"
Pensacola Adrance- Gazette.
At meeting of the Ocala Rifles last
Thursday night it was decided TO have
the company represented at the Savannah
encampment next June. The entire com
pany contemplates going. The boys have
ample time to drill for the prizes, and we
hope to see them exert themselves for the
OCCASION Ocdld Free Press.
The battle ground of Missionary
Ridge has been converted into straw
berry patch. Yankee colonists have
climbed with hoes where Yankee soldiers
rushed with bayonets. Land that went
begging few years ago at e per acre
now commands $3.50, and natives who
st,rye,i on FIVE hundred acres are crowded
out by New Englanders who grow rich on
ten.
A schooner, the Pathfinder, pur,
chased at Halifax, n. s., for parties in
Victoria, B. c., is to be taken to the lat
ter place by way of the Straights OF
Magellan, a distance of 10000 miles
She is sixty six tons burthen, and If the
Ship Railway was in operation could be
moved from sea to sea at a cost of 5000
and save about fourteen thousand miles
of sailing, occupying months of time,
and involving expensive wear and teal
and much risk of entire loss.
DIR. Quain, delivering recently the
annual Harveian Grafton before the Col
lege of Physicians, London, took fitting
occasion to touch upon the subject OF
vaccination. The epidemic in Montreal
he cited as CHASTITY proof of the danger
of neglecting the operation. On the 9TH
er hand, smallpox has been entirely ban
ished from Ireland By thorough and per
sistent vaccination, and in the German
army, for the same reason, not one case
Of the disease has occurred since 1875.
-Scoundrels who wreck railroad trsint
ought to be hung in chains to the highest
limbs of the trees at the spot where they
commit the crime. The winds of heaven
should bleach their feshless bones
swinging high as Haman-a shame to
their kindred and warning to other
villains. They are worse than murderert
generally, for they risk the killing or do
kill blameless persons-and if there is 9
brute in human form who forfeits the
right to trial by statute it is the cowsrdly
wretch who derails car, and if his death
fate should come quick upon him then
and there when caught red handed, who
shall say that it was not well done in be
ing done quickly?
On Monday night Florida Camp No
/, Confederate Veterans, and Mitchell
Post No. 4, G. A. R., met in Library
Hall, Jacksonville, to hold "joint servi
ces in memory Of Gen. Joseph Finegan
c. S. A., and Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan, q.
s. A. The ex-Confederate soldiers occu
pied one side of the hall and the ex-Fed
eral soldiers the other, and there were
many other citizens present. The speak,
ers were Commander Baya, of the Camp
Commsndant Paine, of the Post, Senator
Call, Rev. 8. F. Gale, Gen. w. 8. Walker
Major A. J. Russell, DR.. Tully and Mr.
p. McMurray, and the occasion was made
interesting by their eloquence or their
narrations of events.
When the Democrats lost Ohio, q