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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

Major w. s. Greene, Chief Engineer of the
Georgia Midland Railroad, has returned from
the North and will begin at once to complete
the organization of the surveying corps. He
will commence the survey of the route on Mon
day. The principal members Of the corps have
already been decided upon, but their names will
moi be made public until they have been notified
of their appointment and their acceptance re
ceived. -iSacannah Neacs, 10M.
1t is presumed that what has been fore
Swallowed may soon occur-at least to the
extent of seeing the surveying party come
and look at the route into Florida via
cambridge and Tallahassee, and onward
in southeasterly direction through the
orange section toward the Atlantic.
This course would take the road across
the lines of all the main roads of the Pen.
insults, to be ted by them and to feed
them, and as the most direct route to the
West, Northwest and Middle South,
would be an avenue Of travel and traffic
that would doubtless do a-lsrger business
than any other. It would pass through
counties which are quite without rail "a
cilities and open up large area Of coun-
try now neglected only because Of lack Of
communication.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

On Tuesday evening those merchants of Tai
lahassee who have been taking orders of en-
ployes of the F. r. & N. Co. were surprised to
receive notice that no more of said orders would
be received in payment of their freight bills
AS we have been informed, about year ago
tie company assured the merchants of Tallahas-
see that if they would take up employees or
ders, the company would receive them in pay
ment of freight bills, and in fact, fully protect
the merchants. Tallahassee merchants have
been taking the aforesaid orders, letting engin-
eers shop-hands, train-hands and section hands
have money, provisions, &C, without which
accommodation these men would long since
have been compelled to leave the company's en-
ploy and seek work elsewhere. These advan-
ces by Tallahassee merchants were special fa-
vor to the company, who were to give said mer-
chants timely notice of any intention to change
the arrangement Some merchants have large
sums invested in these orders, VIII ich have the
80. K" of paymaster Thompson thereon, and
they are somewhat excited at the new order of
the company. However, we trust there is no
cause Tor ALARM as il Is asserted that all The EN-
pl0yes will be paid in full by the first Of No
vember, which, as q matter of course, must in
clude all orders of employees held by Tallahas-
see merchants
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

Jabez L. NJ Curry, of Virginia, who has been
appointed Minister to Spain, is one OF the best
known men in the South. He was born in Lin
coin county. Ca. in 1926, his father being a
wealthy planter. When thirteen years Of age he
went with his parents to live at Talladega, Ala
He graduated at the University of Georgia, and
then entered the Harvard Law School, where he
had as classmates Governor Hoadey, of Ohio ;
ex-President Hayes; Ex-Governor Whyte, Of
Maryland; Ansen Burlingame, United States
Minister to China; A. Oakley Hall, and other
gentlemen since more less distinguished in
public life In 1855 Mr.. Curry was elected TO
the Alabama Legislature, where he served two
terms, when he was elected to Congress, and
there remained four years.
Upon the breaking out OF the war Mr.. Curry
was elected delegate to the Provisional Con-
venton at Montgomery, Ala, and subsequently
a member of the Confederate Congress. He
served one term in the latter body and then en-
tered the army under General Joseph E. John
ston as Colonel of the Fifth Alabama Cavalry,
and served in that capacity throughout the war,
and soon after the cessation of hostities in 1865,
he became President of Howard College at Ma
IlOu, Ald LII lOVO uc Wcut ~ hiCuuOuu OOi-
lege, Richmond Va, as Professor of English and
Mental Philosophy, and about this time, at the
earnest solicitation of friends and contrary TO his
own inclnalions, he consented TO be ordained to
the ministry. He, however, declined to accept
any Of the numerous calls he received, and has
persisted in his refusal to regularly ociate in a
ministerial capacity. During several years past
Mr. Curry has been the General Agent of the
Peabody Educational Fund, and he has been
very active in forwarding the cause of education
| in the South. He has been earnest in endeavor-
ing to secure national aid for educational meas
| ures in the South.
| Mr.. Curry has always been a Democrat. and
was an earnest advocate OF the election of Mr.
| Cleveland. He has been noted in Virginia as
steady opponent of Mahoneism and all that the
wofd implies. Three years ago he took the
stump and spoke in favor of paying the debt of
the Commonwealth. He is well known at the
| North, where be has delivered addresses upon
| various subjects.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

A meeting of the citizens was held at the
Mayors office on Tuesday night to perfect ar
engagements for the Gospel Tent Services to be
held here during the month of December, en-
bracng Sunday, the 18th of that month, by the
Rev. Sam Jones, the renowned evangelist.
On motion of j. T. Bernard, Hon. D. w.
Gwynn was called to the chair and a. N Felkel
elected secretary.
The chairman called on Rev. T. E. Smith to
state the object of the meeting Mr.. Smith re-
sponded, giving an outline of the plan proposed.
He thought that committees should be selected
by this meeting for the several branches of work
in connection with the meeting.
The work Of selecting these committees and
defining the work of each was entered upon.
The following are the committees as selected ::
Committee on Financed. c. Wilson, Chair
man. W. A. Rawls B. A. Megiuniss.
Committee of Arrangements-Geo w. Saxon.
J. c. Kemper, c. G. Pearce, NJ. N. Cobb, A. j..
Fish, j. T. Bernard, J. B. Collins.
Committee on Transportation-Jno. A. Hen
derson, D. B. Maxwell, Leroy D. Ball.
Committee on Police and Order-C G. Pearce,
Jno. A. Pearce, Jno. W. Nash, A. j. Fish.
Executive Committee-W NJ. Mcintosh, T. j..
Perkins, w. r. Wilson, H. N. Fekel, W. L..
MOOT, L. I1OuStOu0 ". u. DcdIu
Committee on Music-D. B. Maxwell, B. A.
Meginniss.
Committee on Preaching-H H Kennedy, A.
G. McCants, T. E. Smith, W. H. Carter
Committee on Entcrtainment-J. W. Coles,
G. H. Dickinson, N. NJ. Bowen, r. Gamble. r.
Don. Mcleod G. G. Morgan, G. A. Lamb
The following resolutions defining the duties
of committees were adopted:
Resolved. That the Finance Committee be charged
with the duty of raising the necessary funds, adopt
shall select from their number treasurer to have
charge of all moneys and that they shall pay out
moneys only on the order of the Executive Com
mittee.
Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangements
shall be charged with the duty of selecting site
for the tent prepare seats for at least four thou
sand persons to furnish lights and to appoint ush-
from day to day to attend to seating the congre
cations.
Resolved, That the Committee on Transportation
be charged with the duty of corresponding with the
Railroad and Steamship authorities for the purpose
of securing a reduction of rates for freight and
travel.
Resolved That the Executive Committee shall
have charge of all matters not delegated to special
committees and shall give orders upon the treasu-
of the Finance Committee for all bills incurred
in conducting the meeting.
Resolved, That all committees are requested to
report to the Executive Committee within two
weeks from the date of this meeting
On motion, the secretary was directed to pre-
pare report of the proceedings of this meeting
for the city papers.
Each committee is authorized to fill any va
cancies that may occur
D. w. GwYNN, Chairman.
Fl. N FELKEL, Secretary.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15
Made Florida LANDS Attract
Attentlom.

The subioined letter from well known
and highly responsible citizen of Leon
county needs neither comment nor expla-
nation. Itspeaks for istelf, and it is for us
to say something as to the firm of w. T.
Forbes & Co., all the members of which
have been until recently concerned in the
management Of the extensive affairs of the
Disston Land Companies. In such capac-
ity they have been familiar with all the
methods of real estate business on the
largest scale, advertising and selling lands
and locating settlers They have extern
sive connections and the agencies already
estab lished in other States direct to them
those looking to Florida for land invest
ments and homes. Col. Forbes has in
spected 10 discharge of his duties as Land
Commissioner of the Disston Companies
more than twelve million acres of public
lands in Florida, and such experience will
certainly enable him to a just apprecia-
ton of the value of Middle Florida lands
especially as in comparison with much
other land he has handled. Col. Forbes
resigned his position as Land Commits
sioner to establish this firm. A Middle
Floridian, Judge J. B. Christie, Of Jeffer-
son county, late attorney for the Disston
Land Companies, is member of the firm
as it's legal adviser, and his heart will be
in the work of aiding the section of which
he is native. An agency of the firm
will be located at Tallahassee, and it is
reasonable to suppose that considerable
business will be done through it-and also
that the new owners of lands will perceive
the necessity of railroad northward to
give enhanced value to their property and
will aid its construction literally:
JACKSONVILLE. FLA, Oct. 49, 1885.
IMessrs Editors of the Floridian i: At last has
our beautiful hill country of Middle Florida be-
gun to attract the attention OF the close observing
real estate men They foresee the coming boom,
and are preparing to meet it.
Messrs. W. T. Forbes 81 Co., the successful
managers of the Dsston Land Companies, have
established in Jacksonville a Central Real Is
tate Exchange and propose taking hold OF the
real estate of our Middle Florida section and
giving it all the attention ii so greatly deserves.
The fact of this firm turning their attention to
US is significant, it shows which way the wind
will soon blow. So let our people be in readi-
ness to meet it; let such land owner place IN
their hands for sale at reasonable price a por-
ton of his land, more or less as he thinks best
and secure for neighbors good industrious farm
ers. Then will our country prosper and our
lands become valuable. Knowing your great in
terest in our welfare hasten to give you this
good news. You will tell it to our people SC
they can understand ii and appreciate it.
Yours respectfully,
w L. ROBINSON.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15
NY. World and Florida.

The most magnificent advertising
scheme for the benefit of Florida yet de-
vised is that of special edition of the
New York World in which several pages
will be devoted to the varied interests OF
Florida, with copious illustrations and
graphic descriptions prepared by the
ablest writers and artists connected with
that great newspaper establishment. The
edition proposed would be the regular is
sue with the addition ofthe Florida pages,
and enough more paper printed to make
up the number of copies to three hundred
thousand-a hundred thousand more than
the usual Sunday output of the presses.
The World is willing to undertake the
special edition " if it is given sufficient
encouragement by those to be most ben
efted," and about 90, 900 will be required
to pay the cost-which is cheap. Coun-
ties, cities, towns, and individuals should
pay for proper presentation of their in
terests in the columns of the special edi-
ton. In Gainesville the sum of 81 800
was raised, and $500 in Fort Meade, and
as these two places give one-third of the
required amount we may conclude that
the total will be made up. Tallahassee
might take some stock and be assured of
"good showing" among other places
in Florida-and there Is no time to spare,
as the edition is to be issued in Novem-
Der and time will be required to prepare
the matter, artistic and topographic.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

Mrs. Eugenia Phillips, wife of Mr.. A. z Phil.
lips, died at her home, in Sanford, on FRIDAY Or.
tober Q, 1885, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Phillips was the daughter of Mr.. Tbo
J. Rawls, of Tallahassee, where she was loved
and esteemed by all who knew her. dufhl
daughter, loving sister, devoted wife. and ,
fond mother, her demise is sadly mourned BY Tie
dear ones left behind. In all that was good and
true, generous and faithful, she was pre-emipeut
We deeply sympathizc with the motberless liuI.
daughter, the bereaved husband, relatives and
friends in their great sorrow.
The remains were brought to Tallahassee for
interment. The funeral took place from the n
T. Church on Sunday morning, and the lane
concourse there assembled was a fitting mani
OF the high esteem with which she was recorded
by those who had known her from early ch;l,.
hood
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

When the Leon Hotel was burned early last
April, the citizens OF Tallahassee made up
bonus, for which the Hotel Company agreed to
rebuild and have the new building ready to open
by the first of January. 1885. with the under
standing that it was to be then opened and run
under the same management
The contract was awarded to Messrs Williams
& Rawls, who began work on the new building
about the first Of June, and now the New Leon
Hotel is nearing completion, and looks as beau
tiful as It's predecessor, which was regarded as
the pretiiest hotel in Florida.
The carpenters have completed their part OF
the work, the painters are pattng on finishing
touches, the plasterers are well advanced with
their work, and it is now an assured fact that
the hotel will be opened for the reception OF
guests on or before the first Of January, under
the former management, with Mr.. j. n. Lee, oil
the Everett, Jacksonville, at the head.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

New Orleans Times Democrat
The American Forestry Congress, which met
in New England a. month ago, has attracted uni
versa attention to the importance of passing laws
regarding forestry in this country, unless we de-
sire to completely denude and destroy our for
ests, producing lumber famine; and, at the
same time. impovsrishing our soil. affecting its
fertility and injuring the climate of the country.
On these points the warning issued by the Con-
grcss was especially striking and deserving of at
tention. II showed that this country was not as
heavily wooded as was thought. The greater
portion of the forests of the Northern States have
been destroyed during the past half century, and
the wooded area is now confined mainly TO the
South, to the far Northwest and Pacific slope.
The timber supply of the South will suffice for
the needs of the country if it is properly hus
banded but if the same reckless extravaganza is
pursued that has left Ohio TO- day almost treeless
and is sweeping away the woods of Michigan and
Wisconsin equally as fast, the whole country
will suffer from it. What the Congress aimed to
secure was some attention to this subject, to find
what is the best mode of preventing further reck-
less waste, and what steps should be taken to
replenish the forests now, alas rapidly disap-
pearing.
Strange to say the South, although vitality in
teresed in this matter as the largest possessOr of
wooded lands in the Union, had but one repre-
sentative present and took little part in the pro-
ceedings. This neglect, however, will be made
good by the Southern Forestry Congress, to meet
at Lake De Funiak, Fla, December Is. A
Southern Congress of this kind was deemed nec-
essary, not on account of any sectional or polti-
cal differences, but because the forestry question
in the South is, through climatic or other causes.
entirely different from the problem in the West.
The South is a wooded country, and it is ques-
ton not so much of replacing forests as of pre-
serving those we already have Our trees are
not the same; our time of planting altogether
different from that prevailing in the North and
what applies there seldom does here.
Hence, it was deemed necessary to summon a
Southern forestry congress to call the attention
of the country to the splendid supply of timber
in the South, to the various Southern woods, to
point out to the Southern land owners the mex
haustbe wealth they possess in their forests nd
to warn them to be careful and economical in their
inroads on them.
The convention will meet, as we have said, at
Lake DeFuniak, Fla, December 16. Governor
Perry of that State, who has taken deep interest
in the matter, has extended invitations to the
Governors of all the Southern States TO be pres
ent, and to send one delegate for each congress
sional district. The late American Forestry
Congress will also send delegates, who will ad-
wise with those from the South a. to the best
seps necessary to protect the Southern forests
from too rapid and extravagant destruction, and
to call attention to the wealth and resources of
the Southern woodlands.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

The cigar factories will require Deputy
Collector of Revenue at Tampa Fifty cottages
are to. be erected at once for the use Of cigar
maken The lots are being cleared and build
ing viii be commenced in q few days.-1dmpd
Guardian.
The full meaning of this is largely for
the benefit of Tampa 1t means that
fifty cottages are considerable addition
to the real property of the town; that
their occupants will daily add considera-
bly, to the prosperity of mercantile inter
ests by money expended ; that the money
expended will be brought from abroad
to pay for the products of their industry
and is therefore an addition to the gen
eral wealth of the community, as it wonld
not be if it were money earned from other
residents in the course of usual occupa-
TONS As individuals become rich by
getting money from other individuals, so
with communities. The community that
does not get money from abroad merely
keeps its own money in home circulation,
and grows no richer than the individual
who.moves his mon.y from one 1.-THE other
of his pockets, ms cad Of getting it out
of[other..men's pockets into his own. If
. city would prosper it must do some
thing or make something that will bring
money to it from abroad; otherwise it
will remain stationary-it may be in
comfortable circumstances" but torpid
and stagnant; natural increase produces
q surplus of population that must move
away, for they exceed the self-supporting
capacity of the place; they add
mouths but not means of filling them,
and are burden rather than help; there
is no employment for them and they
must 90. Thus the sons of Tallahassee
have been driven out from their beautiful
home city.
If Tallahassee had industries which
would add $500 worth day to products
sold abroad, the city would begin to grow
rapidly, and in wealth much faster than
by the mere addition of that amount OF
money, for the era of prosperity would
enhance all values and make those COM
paratively rich who were before land
poor"
P. S.-Since the above was in type We
are informed by gentleman from Tampa
that the number of cottages to be erected
for the cigar makers is three hundred,
and the contract for building has been
awarded. The factory will be of brick,
the number of hands employed from
three to four hundred, and the aggregate
of daily wages about one thousand dol
lars
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15
A Negro Arrested for a Theft Com.
miited Nine Years Ago.

About nine years ago negro named William
Frazier, committed larceny in Florida, and
soon after left the State. He came to Savannah
few menths ago and evidently fancied he was
forgotten and was safe from arrest. But the
authorities in Florida were not idle, and finally
learned that he was in this State, and probably
in the vicinity of Savannah. On September 22d,
a requisition was made upon Governor McDan-
iel which was honored and notice was sent to
Sheriff Roman. who Immediately made arrange
ments TO apprefend the fugitive. Yesterday
morning Deputy Sheriff Simmons, colored, found
Frazier on William street, and committed him
to Jail, where he will be held until John A.
Pearce, of Tallahassee, agent for the State of
Florida, arrives to take the prisoner into custody
-01pnnnHh Ee1ca
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-15

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is libelled
by writer in Bldckwood, who says that
her thirteen successive winters in Florida
have made her more Southern than North
ern and that she gives freezing recep-
ton to the Yankee visitors to her Manda-
rim orange grove.-N Y. World.
Sam Jones says that the world never
saw reformed joker. The reason is that
there are only two kind of jokers in the
world, those who are SO good that they
do not need to be reformed, and those
who are so bad that they can't be re-
formed Callahan Record.
Fourteen thousand five; hundred vo-
tiers elect Congressman in Rhode Island,
but it requires thirty thousand voters to
elect one in Florida. 1t is strange that
John Sherman should have overlooked
this difference in representation, but Mr..
Sherman is only looking South for cav
full examples. IN Y. World.
"A cambridge merchant attracts at.
tention to his advertisements the DEM
ocrat by heading it with the words "The
Railroad to Tallahassee Will be Built"
That's the sort of man to have in COM
munity, for while he boldly asserts his
faith who shall doubt that he will back
and aid it with his work? Put him down
for a good slice of stock In one of the
best, if not the very best, paying routes
into Florida.
The course of Senator Sherman in
reviving the sectional issue need not
alarm anybody who has the interests of
the South at heart, even should the Re-
publicans succeed in carrying Ohio; for
it is as certain as anything can be that
the Republican party wouldigo to per-
feet Waterloo, if it should dare to 90
before the country at large with the
"bloody shirt as banner. The great
State of New York would surely para
lyze any party which should dare to
propose the restoration of "carpet-bag"
rule. Mr.. Blaine attempted to raise
this unsavory issue in the last Presi-
dental campaign, and forthwith saw
the White House fade into the dim and
unattainable distance. When the Re-
publicans loudly proclaim the existence
Of certain crying evils in the South, they
are asked why they did not remedy those
alleged evils during their long term of
power; and for this question they can
find no answer.-N o. 1ymes.D Democrat.