The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-07-01
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The membership of the Commercial
Travellers Association has increased from
$50, the original number, to IL, 345, with
an average monthly increase of nearly
1000 during the past six months.
The Crawfordville Times has been
enlarged, and its columns show that its
business condition is healthy. 1t evil
IDENTIFY shares the prosperity which is gen
eral in the happy county of Wakulla.
The House Committee on foreign af-
fairs has decided to report favorably
bill authorizing the President to appoint
military and naval attaches to foreign
legations also bill to protect subma-
rine cables.
-Palatka's post-ofice has just been
made second-class, all of which is as 1t
should be. II has been doing the work
of a second-class office some time An
other evidence of Palatka's continued
growth and prosperity.-Palatkd DAILY
Ns1cs.
The long battle for the vindication
of Gen. Fitz John Porter has ended in
victory, for the House bill authorizing
his restoration to the army passed the
senate last Friday by vote of 80 to Il.
Of course it will have the approval of the
President.
"A new description of shell, charged
with rolls of gun cotton, has been brought
out at Berlin. 1t produces extraordinary
results. No kind of defensive works, it
Is said, are capable of resisting the pro-
jectile. The German Government has
ordered 5000 of these destructive mis-
siles.
ALI over Canada there are now re-
siding large number of people who have
made small fortunes in trade or specula-
ton. They are residing i'll country
towns and their money is let out at inter
est. They were once aldermen or cash
iers In the United States that lie north OF
the southern States.
On the 25th the Pensacola = w alter
Works were tested in the presence OF the
City Commissioners, and inspected by
them. and found 10 be in accordance with
the city's contract with Messrs. BIllOck
IL Co In enterprise and progressive
spirit FlOrida's western emporium is no
whit behind any city of the size.
Hon. David Davis died of malignant
carbuncle At his home III Bloomington,
Illinois, on the 10Th utimo, aged Il
years. The death of President Garfield,
in 1851, promoting Mr.. Arthur to the
Presidency, Mr.. Davis was elected Presi-
dent Of the Senate and served ont the
term of the administration.
Reports from Cuba state that the SUI
gar crop now about to be gathered, and
free labor. will probably equal that Of
1873. The crop OF iS73 was the largest
ever made on the Island with slave labor,
and il was just before the law abolishing
slavery went into effect. The crop then
was about 775, 900 tons.
The Pocahontas HealLight, a week.
~ journal of Virginia, has new editor,
and he says in his salutatory that he does
not d" re-enter the theatre of journalism
as the trembling debutant, dazzeled by
the tinsel glitter of pictured scenes, nor
assume It's more sacred functions as the
neOphyte, whose swinging censor but
deepens the awful mysteries of the sane
tuary-"
Senator Buffers sharp protest
against Plumb's INVITING of the southern
senators upon their participation in the
rebellion was manly and proper. After
spending four years in fighting to force
the southern states back into the Union,
and ten or dozen years in reconstruct
ing" them, the North is guilty Of gross
qualification in questioning the right of
their people to exercise all the privileges
of citizens as the equals Of any Boston
Herald
Mr.. w. ii. Wilson, senior editor of
the Lake City Guide, died in that city on
the 23d, after a protracted illness. Mr..
Wilson was public spirited and highly
respected citizen, and the community gen.
orally lament his loss. He was en-
gagged in the newspaper business for
tbirty-fve years, and in his editorial work
always aimed TO be practical and instruc-
tive. Both the Reporter and the Guide
were in mourning last week for the dead
editor
At a recent sale Of real estate at Bir-
mingham, Ala, few days since, one-half
acre of unimproved real estate sold for
ninety-seyen thousand dollars-when we
take into consideration the fact that thir-
teen years ago Birmingham was a worn out
old corn field, the above prices for real es-
tate seem truly marvellous, and yet ex-
trayagant as these figures seem now,
We believe the valuation Of that property
will double within the next five years, for
birmingham is destined to become one of
the great interior cities of America. Her
bert Spencer says that the four great cit
les of America will be New York, San
Francisco, Chicago and Birmingham
~ T. Journal