The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-07-02

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-Ne,c Foridd is the title Of a news
paper recently started at Orlando by }.
S. Shuck & Co., with T. W. Greenslitt as
editor The paper is of large size and
edited with care and industry.
Col J. II. E>till, proprietor of the
Savannah Morning .Netcs, has erected IN
Laurel Grove Cemetery at Savannah q
handsome monument to the late Col. W IL
liam r. Thompson, who founded that
journal and conducted it for 81 years.
DR.. Theobald VI. Leonard, a native
of Pensacola, where he had many at
tached relatives and friends, died i'll that
city Oh the both, aged "a years For
several seasons he was the efficient quar-
antine physician of the port.
We learn from the hey Of tie GuJ
that Editor Thompson, of the Democrat,
has been appointed to position in the
Key West custom house by Collector
Harris. We congratulate the handsome
editor and applaud the wise collector.
The enterprisiny proprietor> of the
Jacksonville Times Jnion propose to
issue trade edition next fall which shall
surpass anything in that line ever got up
IN Florida 1t will be printed on tinted
paper and contain many pages.
F E. Harris, Esq, editor OF the
Ocala Banner, has been nominated for
Mayor bv meeting of citizens. SO able
an editor should certainly make a good
Mayor-and he certainly will. The
FLoRIDIAS is always right.
In letter TO a friend in Richmond,
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee withdraws his previ-
Gus determination not to accept the Dem
ocratic nomination for Governor of \ir-
/ GINA He now says that he will run II
the nomination is rendered him.
The Republican papers haven't
gushed much over eX-Minister james
Russell Lowell since his return from Eng
land. They seem to be rather cool to-
/ wards HIM since 1t was made known tndt
! he was at heart a Mugwump.
The vessel on which Hoh J. VIM.
Evan, Of Dade county, was recently re-
turning from Key West, was struck by
lightning and sunk. He was rescued
after being sometime adritt, and reached
his home at Miami to find that hi, store
and contents had been destroyed by fire.
-(1en. Logan does not seem To be sat
sfed with the conduct of the adniuistra
ton in turning out Of office Objectionable
Republican Cuiun soldiers and putting
Democratic Union soldiers in their places
The General appears to feel more inter
ested in those officials as Republicans than
a. ex.sollers.
Master VIM J. Johnston, publisher
Of the .1dcertiser, is one of the page
elected by the Convention. Daring his
absence it i Published BY his l3 year old
brother, who does all the work OF com
posing, making up the forms, etc, as
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can beat this = Wuiio .1dcertiSer.
The German Government has dis
charged all women who We're employed il
its postal telegraph and railway service a.
clerks and in other capacities. AS during
the last twenty years they have nearly
rnonopolzed such service in some towns
much suffering has ensued among the dis
charged The motive alleged is that wo
men are unfit for such public service.
General Gordon may have been a
brave and conscientious man, but read
! ing Of the extracts from his wild, discur
sive, morbid journal conyinces Us that he
was skirting very CLOSE t" the bordtrland
/ Of insanity during the latter half Of his
stay at khartoum.-.N y. WorM.
-Kev. w. X. johnson has furnished
US with the annual report of the NJ. f.
! Church of Florida, from which We eN
tract the following figures: l24 preach
ers, 1912 members, 100 churches, l9>
Sunday schools, l ,o90 teachers, 7,67e
scholars church and other property val
ued at 81 ,49o.- CoNoh0m Record.
The ten finest building in tins coun-
try, according to the majority vote given
in the Boston Americun .lrchiteet, are
Trinity Church, Boston; the Capitol at
Washington; W. X. Nandcrbilt's house
Trinity Church and the Jefferson Market
Courthouse, New York; the City Hall,
Hartford; City Hall aud State CAPITOL
Albany; Sever Hall, Cambridge, Miss,
and Town Hall, North Easton, Miss.
Tina City Council of PAlatka having
impcachcd Mayor J. c. Donnelly of that
city, he applet by his counsel, X. ". DA-
Wis, Esq, to the Supreme Coun, which
granted an alternative writ Of mandamuS,
ordering the City Council to restore to
him his rights az Mayor, or to show cause
for not doing SO. The writ is returnable
July &.
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