The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-05-28
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~ CpIlHSH clu, -'l'N'., tHC : anu J"J
have indicted the Bost,.n x Albany r. r.
for running trains on Sunday.
The New York fForhrs Bartholdi
Pedestal Fund has resschcd nearly sixty
thousand dollars. T:ne contributions
have averaged nearly {: Thousand dollars
a day since the subscription was opened.
The jacksonville X rolTs Park Fund
grows apace. and the prospect is that the
realized improvement will he u substan-
lie spirit of the enterprsing daily.
Col. Crane is delighted because the
cash in the L. $ Treasury was reported
only two cents short. 4 is not surpris
ing that he was surrri-9d, knowing the
''grand old party as 'xsclI az he does.
Hon. f. r. Frelingt uysen, Secretary
of State for the Arthur. Administration,
died at Newark, New: Jersey, on the
2oth, aged sixty-eight ysans. lie was the
nephew and adopted ION of Theodore
Frelinghuysen, an Amtr'san statesman of
note in the first half century.
Editor r. w. Harris, of OcalA, has
begun the publication oe weekly called
the Free Press, which, is;ycry handsome
" printed and edited ;rith much judg
ment and industry. It'is suggestive of
the enterprisng and energetic spirit
which has pushed south Florida into
prosperity 50 rapidly.
Captain John b. .J'>lnston has been
elected a delegate Iromi Alschua county
to the Florida Constitutional Convention.
We are pleased to learn s11re preiernent of
our friend and fellowA.ovnsroan The
Captain is possessed Of talents OF high or
der and it is gratifying IS his friends in
Fort Gaines to know th-.' lie is apprecia-
ted bv the citizens OF las adopted state. :
Font Games (G"D 7r'b':h'.
Secretary Whitney will probably in
a few days revoke ,h.- o4der issued by
Secretary Chandler, f"rhil'Iins wives of
officers accompanying th".' when ordered
10 toIcI9H IoIlH. li' tsH'c l''i"''37''"
recently to an officer ep;ng abroad to
take his wife with him. a'4l then said he
would set aside the unr:ruIar mandate
of his predecessor in very short time.
France loses an illu:trious French
man in the death of Victor Hugo at the
age Of cighty-three. He sufnt large Dor
ton Of his life in exile 5lom his native
land because Of the liberal political ideas
which now have sway There. AS poet,
dramatst and novelist r. was alike ex-
cclcnt, and his work lives in many Ian
guagcs.
The Presidents policy toward
MANNED Union veterans is to retain in
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perform their duties crettitably. lie has
informed Col. Rooscvtlr. of PcnnSylva-
mia, who lost leg in t:le Mon army,
that he need not apprchead removal from
the office of consul, whicA he now holds
at bordeaux, as long as he attends prop
erly to his business.
There now seems bat little doubt
that the Worlds EXPOSITION will be re-
opened in the fall, as the amount Of
money requisite to assure the result is in
sight. All should be Glad that the great
volume of object lessons is not to be
closed forever before all eyes that can do
so have looked upon item As the re-
ceip per diem average much more than
the expenses, the cxtcnston of the time
will reduce by large amount the outlay
of the undertaking.
The present Secretary OF the Navy
has four vessels of way To construct
Two of them are to be vessels Of the first
class, while one will belong III the second
rank, and the fourth Will be a gunboat.
The money for the vessels Of the first
class is ample to procure ships equal to
an ything in the best Of the foreign navics
Secretary Whitney is very anxious to
have these vessels a credit to the navy,
and to avoid the dismal failures involved
in the cruisers now being constructed by
Mr. Roach. 1t is only because he is tax
ing great care to find the right Kind of
men to supervise the construction of these
vessels that he has delayed starting their
building 1t is probable that the plans
for their building wili be completed and
ready for approval by next fall.
The rise and yprogress OF the New
York World beats the records of the
world to date If iii prehistoric times
the planet sustained Journalism, and the
World Of our day was surpassed in
quick accomplishment of greatness, there
is no chronicle thereof, and our World
remains unrivaled, am with still sus-
tanned course to carry it Upward and on
ward to the highup zenith Of lis orbit
high-up as the American eagle flies
Within two years from the time it's pres
ent management took charge, the circula-
ton of the World has risen from 10, 900
to over $50, 900, and il Is quite impossi-
bic to say when it will; stop rising Price
of the daily Sc year; of .he weekly 81.
We are not paid for this notice. 1t is
simple outbreak of appreciation.
In April the grand Jury of Duval