The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-12-17

We are indebted TO the Secretaries
of the Treasury and the Interior for cop
les oftheir reports.
General Freight Agent F. B. Papy,
of the Florida Railway d Navigation
Company, has removed his Office to Jack
senville-Ferndndind Mirror.
Saw mill men should know that If
creek or small river is utilized to carry Oh
the saw dust it will be at the expense OF
the fishes for miles below the mill. They
will abandon the stream.
-Paymaster w. Naylor Thompson, OF
the +. r & n, is on the road under or
der. of Receiver Duval to pay up every
empioye on the divisions Of the system.
This is pleasant mission for Mr.. Thomp-
son-and for host of creditors.
President S S. Harvey, of the Pen
saeola Board of Commissioners, having
resigned that position because OF exact
ing private interests, Comm ss'oner W.
II Hutchinson was elected President and
Commissioner Ed Sexauer Nice-Presi-
dent
Lightweight men, women I'd chill
dr.n direct from Scotland arrived at Fer
nanjina Sunday and were taken to Ce'
dar Key by special train. They are
members Of the Ormision colony located
at Sara Sofa, Manatee county, by j. 5.
TAFT
= The improved paper OF Editor Mac
Williams, now entitled the FIorida
Record, presents increased claims for
patronage. Still published at Callahan,
it keeps the advantages of that town we'll
before the public and is doing excellent
service for the county as we'll
The new Brazilian slave law fixes the
maximum value of slaves at the following
rates: Slaves under 80 years, 5000 slaves
from 80 to 40 years, $500; slaves from 40
to so years, 5000; slaves from so to SIS
years, 800; slaves from 55 to so years,
5000. The value OF female slaves is put
at 25 per cent lower than these rates.
The combined capital of the firm OF
the Rothschilds is now said by persons
who pretend TO know to amount 81 600,
O00, 900; one half OF it gained within the
last twenty-five years and the whole Of
it in scarcely more than a century. The
founder of the family aud its fortunes,
Mayer Anselm, was poor clerk in
Hanover banking house.
A passenger agent at Atlanta, Ga, re-
Gently sold one man fourteen hundred dol
lars worth of railroad tickets. The pur-
chaser was a South Carolinian, ~ho is now
en- route to California. Every ticket was
purchased for a member of his family.
His oldest child was twenty-one and his
youngest four years of age There were
eighteen in the party.
We are glad to see that the Attor ey
General advises the building of jails at
each place in the country where United
States Courts are held, as this is in accord
with the suggestion of Senator Jones, OF
Florida, that it is the right Of United
States prisoners to De confined in the
States where they are tried and convicted.
-Charleston Ne,cs and Courier.
The Republican Senators have con-
cluded not to nominate Mr.. Cleveland
for a second term by declaring open and
undisguised war upon him. The Repub-
lican Senators of the war-horse order
who were talking about another Andrew
johnson episode, have sprinkied their
hot desire with the cooling drops OF pa
tience.-N. y World
BY the action Of the supreme court
of Ohio in the Hamilton County election
cases the Democratic candidates for the
Legislature are given their seats. This
gives the Democrats the State Senate and
the Republicans the House. The Repub
licans will have a majority Of three on
Joint ballot and Mr.. Sherman and Mr.
Foster can now fight out the Senatorship
on a close margin.
Hon. John w. Daniel, of Lynchburg,
Va. who has been elected to succeed
Senator Malone in the United States
Senate, is only A years Of age He is a
ripe lawyer with large practice, an in
defatigable worker, and superb orator
Wounds received in the war force him to
use crutches. He gets about very lively,
however, and asks no favors of anybody.
The Rev. T. w. Moore, who is .ex
cellent authority concerning the citrus
family, says: "From my knowledge o.
the Satsuma, am convinced that it il
the hardest orange that has yet been in
troduced into the State, and likely of any
in the world. Buds which put into old
sour stock, III Monticello, in 1883, stood
the cold that winter, when large, sou'
stocks, which has hitherto been consid
cred the hardest orange, were killed
down."
Vanderbilt left nearly two hundred
millions of dollars, and willed ten mil
lions each to bis four sons and fou,
daughters and two millions additional to
his son Cornelius. The rest of the es
tate, valued at o hundred millions exclu
sive of legacies, ETC., is to be divided, un
der provision of the will, between the
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