The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-04-22
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School boys up North strike for
shorter hours of study. Their mothers
strike every boycott in the act, and this
breaks their strike all up.
xPresident Arthur is still feeble,
BIZ: nopes are entertained that he will be
able to get out when warm weather
comes. lie has not been out of his house
since early in February.
The sham battle on land at Pensa-
cola by the forces of Admiral Jouett's
squadron will he fought to morrow, Fri
day. The camp will break up on Satur-
day, and the men return to the ships.
The sea exercises will continue for ten
days.
The Wakulla Times calls for an ap-
preparation of $40, 900 to remove obstruc-
tions in the Wakulla river, and open it
for navigation to it's source, the famous
Wakulla Spring. If the river were navi-
gable much hauling over bad, and some
times overlooked and impossible, roads
could be avoided.
The Fernandina Mirror of the 18th
reports seven vessels in harbor with car
goes of steel rails for the +. r. & N. Co.
aggregating three thousand tons. Receiv-
er Duval is doing his work thoroughly,
and there will be no better railroads in the
country than the lines of the F. II. Il n.
The municipal election in Lake City
on the 18th resulted most satisfactorily,
and as follows: Mayor, Lewis Harrison ;
Marshal Il. Bush Assessor, w. j. Lee ;
Collector, Z. L. Snowden; Treasurer
and Clerk, William Davis Aldermen, A.
b. Hart, w. S. Cone, w. A. McQuincy,
w. J. Edwards.
The grand new organ recently placed
in St. John's'Church, Tallahassee, by Ro-
sevolt, of New York, will be used for the
first time OH Easter Day. We congratu-
late our friends in Tallahassee on possess
ing by far the finest musical instrument
in the State 1t evidences both zeal and
prosperity, and the ability and will to adj
vance to the lead in the progressive work
of the Church in Florida Church and
Home.
The unwilling of the Ben Hill statue
in Atlanta on the LIST of May, when JEFF
ferson Davis will deliver an address, will
be a great day in that city. "The mill
tary and civic demonstration promises to
suTpass anything ever witnessed in the
South" says a circular of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad,
which also states that the company will
sell excursion tickets to Atlanta at half
rates on April Both and May LIST, good to
return on or before May I'd.
Capt. VIM. NJ. Husson, Of the Gem
City Guards, in company with the cap
tains of the other companies comprising
the First Florida Battalion, met at the
Office of Major w. b. Young, of Jack
sonville, on Friday for the purpose of Sc
Letting a location for the encampment OF
the battalion this summer. The gentle
men made trip to Pablo Beach, and
unanimously decided on that point. Five
companies, four of infantry and one ar
tilery, will go into camp at that point on
July 5tb, and will remain there ten days
or two weeks. Palatka Daily Neacs.
The corner stone of public school
building at Fernandina was laid with Ma
sonic ceremonies, conducted by Amelia
Lodge 70. A., on the 14th. The exer-
cises were closed with an address, OF
which the Mirror says: "Hon. A. J.
Russell, the State Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, then addressed the assem-
bled crowd. He was in his happiest mood
and elaborated the subject of education
in an eloquent manner. He impressed
his hearers, who comprised the best classes
of our citizens, as an enthusiastic worker
for the cause of education and won the
good opinion and esteem Of all" The
new building will be brick-faced, of hand
some architecture, sixty feet front by
forty feet deep, with two school rooms on
each floor.
The Albany Journal says: "While
in Buffalo with the investigation commit.
tee Chairman Platt was shown a letter
from Mrs. Folsom, in which she referred
to the approaching marriage of her daugh-
ter to President Cleveland. Mrs. Folsom
and her daughter are sojourning in Italy
at present. 1t is rumored in Buffalo that
the Folsoms were in reduced circum.
stances, when President Cleveland, with
commendable generosity, offered to de-
fray the expenses of the trip on the Con
tinent which Mrs. Folsom and her daugh-
ter are now enjoying. Mrs. Folsoms
letter was addressed to her counsel, who
is alleged to be the Hon. Henry w. Box
prominent lawyer of Bnffalo. The in
ference drawn by those who have seen
the letter is that the great nuptial event
will occur when Miss Folsom returns
from Europe, which will probably be
about the time when the President will
take his summer vacation"
The strikes continue, and the situa
ton becomes more complicated, the dis
cord between capital and labor more
alarming. A month ago the FLoRIDIAN
suggested the sad possibility that the
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