The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-03-12
"A large quantity of Florida fruit ar

Mr.. Lamar in the L. :. Senate.
The largest sum ever accumulated |
in one body is said TO be the $500, OOO,-
600 now in the United States Treasury.
The saw mill Of Messrs Buck & Son
at Ellaville is completed. Work was be-
gun at the car factory on the 3D., and ten
cars DAY are now built.
Mr.. +. J. Harris, citizen OF Ocala
for more than thirty years, died at his
sons residence in Citra on the 9th inetant,
and was buried In Ocala.
i don't give the Independents the
credit of beating us. don't give it to
Conkling. The supreme architect Of our
ruin was Mr.. B1rchard- Emory 4.
StorrS.
The county Democratic Executive
Committee Of Suwanee has called
County Convention to meet on the eth of
April to nominate delegates to the Consti-
tutional Convention
One of the last acts of the 4Sth
Congress, on the 81 Instant, was to place
General Grant on the retired list of the
army The income Of a retired General
is $4,000 per annum.
MIR. X. f. Landrum, one of the edi-
tors and publishers Of the Westville
Pioneer, has retired from the paper, the
publication of which will be continued
by Messrs. Porter Il Go.
President Cleveland declined the Of
ters of the railroads to transport him free
to Washington, and paid for his train.
This is very commendable thing for
man on the way to his own Inauguration.
Tile World suggests Allen G. Thur
man as Minister to France. The new ad-
minstration could not begin better than
by this substitution of brains for snobbery
in an important foreign mission.-&.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
The United States man of. war Galena
left New Orleans W ednesday morning for
Port Livingston, Central America, for the
leans who have been working on the rail-
roads in that country.
-Elmira, N. Y, gave Blanca major
ity of 200 last fall, but at the municipal
election on Tuesday the Democrats
elected The Recorder and three of the six
Aldermen. The fight was very bitter
and much money was used.
Edmund Yard, New York mer-
chant who embeEzled 100000 and es-
capped to France, has been arrested in
Paris on extradition papers, signed by
Governor Cleveland, and will be sent to
New York to answer for his crime.
Labor is organizing in New York.
A working woman's protective league
has been established with a large mem
bership. The complaints of poor wages
are becoming more numerous, and there
is strong probability of a general
strike
Bishop Manucy, of the diocese of
Mobile, laid the corner stone Of the Catho-
lie Church in Pensacola on the Sth in the
presence of numerous assemblage. The
site of the building is at the corner of
Palafox and Chase streets, and it will
probably be the finest church edifice IN
the State.
Mr. Emett d. Oslin is in charge of
ne Mariana Courier and gets up very
creditable paper. Mr.. L. c. Vaughan,
the owner, is member of the firm of
Vaughan & Greensltt, publishers of the
Orlando Sentinel, new and handsome
paper, the first number Of which was is
sued on the 4th instant.
The "Central Committee Of the
Democratic party of Jefferson county ~
order that County Convention of the
party be held at Monticello on the %
of April for the purpose of nominating
FIVE candidates for Delegates to the State
Convention.
President Cleveland astonishcd the
employees of the White House on the
morning after the Inauguration by rising
some hours earlier than the former mas
ter of the premises did, and going indus
triously to work in his Office. There is a
great change in the social and official at
mosphere of the White House, where the
latch string hangs outside, as it We're, in
plain, democratic style, the house being
the Peoples house. The quasi-regai style
of the courtly Arthur no longer prs walls.
In the side election for County Clerk
of Suwannee the vote was a tie between
editor d. ~ McAlpin, of the Live Oak
Bulletin, and Mr.. J. w. Newman. BY
order of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee the election was decided by lot,
and Mr.. Newman was the lucky man,
drawing the ballot on which the word
"clerk" was written. Our friend
"Dan.," who has served 50 long and 80
earnestly in the cause of Democracy,
accepted the result with characteristic
serenity, saying in his paper-"the draw
ing was fair, and no Democrat ever went
down with less regret than ID. NJ. Meal
pin"
Hon. E. G. Love, Chairman Of the
County Democratic Executive Committee
of Gadsden, has issued call for /" Con
y.