The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-09-24
"A banking establishment has been
opened at Kissimmee.


St. Augustine is progressing rapidly.
The artist of the Santa Rosa Ne'os
hath lively and pleasant humor, and
def skill with the jack knife-a willing
whiting, so to speak.
Judge James T. Magbee, Of Tampa,
and Mrs. Carrie B. Fisher, of Philadelphia,
were married in Tampa on the 10th inst
The groom's mother, "a years of age, was
present.
The following Florida postmasters
were appointed on the 2lst: Welborn,
Albert w. McLeran Greenville, Charles
+. Bemis; Spring Garden Centre, George
Ii. Shoemaker.
--Cocoaine, so recently hailed as God
send to sufferers, is already consigning the
victims Gifts excess to living death worse
than that of opium. The discoverer of an
apnsthctic is not, it would seem, necessa-
rilv benefactor of his race.
The bridge of the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West Railroad across
the St. Johns river at Buffalo Bluff was
completed on the 18th, and Editor Apple
ward, of the Palatka San, was on the first
train that ever crossed the river.
The recent fall in the price of bar >il-
yer in London is for good reason attract
ing wide attention in financial circles
The decline has been steady, and the price
is now a SIS pence per ounce, on which
basis the bullion value of the standard
dollar is equal to about so cents.
Very heavy rains prevailed in Jack
sonville and adjacent country on Satur-
day and Sunday last. There were bad
washes on the Savannah, Florida and
Western railroad, and freight train left
the track at a point thirty-fve miles from
Jacksonville, badly wreckng thirteen
cars.
The better class of New York Rcpub-
lcans are very much downcast since Sena-
tor Evarts has declined to become can
didatc for Go, ernor of that State. The
Senator evidently does not want to sacrl-
fee himself in an attempt to pull the Grip
pied Republican OK out of the ditch.
His head is level
All attempts to create animositles in
the Democratic ranks by reason of differ
ences as to the ratification or non ratlfica-
ton of the Constitution should be discour-
aged. Let us have harmony in any event
and eliminate all acrimony and personal
ity from our discussion Waldo Adper-
tiser.
The Tennessee broom-corn growers
get four cents per pound for their corn
delivered in the cars, and it is shipped
mostly to Baltimore manufacturers. 1t is
estimated that the seed will almost pay
for making the crop, and 1000 to 5000
pounds per acre is the average product Of
medium land.-.Sdydandh Nescs.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
Company will issue, next month, 10000
copies of a very large and descriptive
pamphlet of their entire system of roads
Ten thousand of these pamphlets will be
distributed in Europe, while their agents
will distribute the remainder over this
country. Savannah Ne,cs.
Yesterday the New England Vete-
rams visiting in Virginia marched to the
Confederate Cemetery at Harrisonburg
and actually decorated with flowers the
graves of their old enemies. If this sort
of thing isn't stopped John Sherman will
net,be able to revive enough hostility to
last through the Ohio campaign.-M y.
World.
On the LIST of November next Mr..
John Frank, the enterprising publisher
of the Tropical Paradise, will commence
the publication at Jacksonville of a
monthly magazine entitled Florida Grove
and Gdrden, devoted to agriculture, hor-
ticulturc, etc. Doubtless the undertake
ing will be profitable to proprietor and
patrons.
The Republican State Convention of
New York met at Saratoga OH Tuesday.
The whole number of votes cast on the
first and only ballot had that day was
COL, of which Joseph b. Carr received
2O5, the rest being divided among twelve
candidates. The New York City dele
cation were unable to agree upon candi-
date.
Major A. J. Russell, State Superin-
tendent ofPublic Instruction, returned to
the city Saturday evening after week
spent IN Marion county, where, he says,
he held the largest and most enthusiastic
teachers institute he has held anywhere
in the State. Splendid public graded
schools, he says, have been established
both at Ocala and Anthony, and general
ly Marion county is waking up to the ne
cessity of educating her children.-Jack
sonuiile Times Union.
"A cable special to the New York
Herald says: "Without undue optimism,
it is now permissible to hope that the
cholera is in fair way of disappear
ing, not only from Spain, but also
from the two infected French seaports.
After having attained in the former
country daily death rate of alb out two
thousand, the mortality has now fallen
), Rot waon Eve and aix hundred dav