The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-04-09
TaIlahassee. Fla, April o, 1885.
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paper indicates that your subscription
has expired.
VIM A. Blount, ESQ, has been ap-
pointed attorney for the rev municipal
government of Pensacola.
The registers OF the Jacksonville
hotels show over fifty thousand names
for the past season, and thousands more
are being added
Neither the British in the Soudan
nor the French in China have accom-
plished anything against their heather
antagonists during a week past.
Hon. Robt. w. Davis is now the
general attorney for the Florida Southern
Railroad company, and has removed his
law Office from Green Cove to Palatka.
Judge p It. Wright, several years a
resident of Pensacola and much respected
there, died in that city on the Sd. He
was the father of Judge A. @. Wright, of
jacksonville
Editor +. p. Howell, Of the Atlanta
Constitution, has declined the position of
Consul to Manchester, England, proffered
BY President Cleveland. The aalary is
$4,000 per annum.
We are indebted 10 Senator G. w.
Jones for valuable public documents,
among them being Land Laws of the
United States" in two volumes. Exist
ing Land Laws" and "The Pablo Do
main; Its History"
We have received she initial number
of the Barlow Cypress, edited by Mr. g.
a. X. Stevens. The portion of the paper
printed at home is in excellent style, and
is edited in bright and pleasant way
that makes it very readable
MIR. Z. NJ Poser has retired from
the Dade City Observer and is succeeded
by Mr.. J. +. Stands and DIR. J. G.. Wal
lace. As editor of the Messenger, former
ly published in Fort Dade, Dr. Wallace
established his reputation as All odmira-
BILE editor
General Grant still lives, suffering
much and expressing a desire for death.
Public anxiety demands constant bulle-
tins of the condition of the patient, and
the announcement Of the fatal result will
be mighty shock to millions of people
notwithstanding the overweight and
long continued suspense,
"A Washington special to the Times
Union says that Mr.. C. II. Overman, of
Pensacola, has been appointed s,uperin-
tendent of the customhouse building in
course of erection in that city, in place of
MIR. Garfield. An excellent appointment,
as Mr. Overman is fine archit' Ct and a
thoroughly responsible business man.
We question if any Tax Collector in
the State can make such showing as Mr..
Wiley J. Williams, of Santa Rosa county.
His advertisement of tax sale in the Mil
ton Ne'cs includes only property Of "Un-
known" owners, indicating that every
person known to own taxable property
has paid up. This speaks wei! rot only
for his efficiency, but for the prosperity
of the community and their prompt at
tention to the duty of citizens.
The city election in Jacksonville last
Monday was Democratic victory, the
principal nominees Of the Conservative
Democratic Convention being elected,
while the opposition secured but three
Aldermen. The total number of votes
cast was LAY; the majority of N. C.
Rice for Mayor was los, and of w. ID.
Ninzant for Marshal the same The vote
was larger than last yea, and both sides
worked hard to bring it out
The Savannah Morning Nf,cs comes
to us in the enlarged form enabled hy it's
new and costly perfecting press, and its
eight pages offer to the reader as complete
an assortment of the news of the day as
can be found in any .'ther FIRST class
paper. The great prosperity of the -Ne.Os
is fully deserved, for it is due to the uni
form ability with which the paper has
been conducted for so many years, and to
the high character Of Colonel Estill, edi-
tor and proprietor.
The Governor of X Ansas makes two
important statements in his proclamation
for an Arbor Day. He says that "the State
which the pioneers found treees. y and
desert, now bears upon its fertile bosom
"more than 100000 Of fruit trees and
more than 100000 acres If forest trees all
planted by our own people" And the
Governor also says "that there has
been an increase in the rainfall in Kansas
is fully proved by the statistics of our
Oldest meteorologists."
Washington dispatch Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette: +" When Tom Ken
nedy, of Kentucky, drew up along side
the President in the endless procession of
Kentuckians, he remarked in loud voice:
'Grover Cleveland, am delighted, sab,
to see you i'll your prorpah place, sah
could hug you, sab, am no glad, and
don't want any dared Office either,
sah" The President smiled with all the
capacity OF great big face, and shook
hands heartily and said: Il am pleased