The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-06-10
President and Mrs. Cleveland re

day by the sale of *i5, 900 worth of build
ing lots and the completion of contracts
for the erection of forty-eight business
buildings to be finished in thirty days.
David Davis is slowly recovering
from his illness, although he is still
great sufferer from the tremendous car
buncle on his left side. His physicians
now say he will recover.
A correspondent of the Tampa 1fi-
Btnse dominates Colonel John w. Malone,
of Quincy. for Congress Colonel NJ. is
= very able and popular man, but We
have heard that he will not accept the
nomination.
The New York Times in speaking of
the condition of ex-President Arthur's
health SAYS: " His friends have hopes of
carrying him through the summer, but
the most >angnine of them hardly hope
for more than this
The House having passed the bill
placing tax upon oleomargarlne ii is now
before the Senate. The better way would
be 10 compel the selling of the article for
what IL Is. and not as butter. Then the
consumer could buy what he chose, ac-
eording 10 his taste or his purse.
w. III. Glider, a brother of the edi-
tor of the Century, is going to start out
on an Arctic expedition this summer.
lie will take the track of Lieutenant
lockwood. Engineer Perry, of the Uni
ted States navy. will also make an at
tempt to cross Greenland i'll the direction
Of Francis Joseph Fjord.
- The Panama Canal, says Paris
cable, twas discussed at length today in
a Cabinet council, which finally decided
30 authorize the Panama Company 10 is
sue loan of Goo. 000, 900 francs in shares,
provided the company is able to prove
that this sum is sufficient To complete the
canal
1T Is presumed that the Georgia Mid
land and Gulf will use the sixty miles of
ZT14f4 IOaal-Dtti DclhtttI 'ih'
Cuthbert. The q. VI. and q. is making
IT, northern connection first and doing
tbe work so rapidly that it can soon turn
Its forces southwark ami push toward the
Gulf
Hon. :. VI. SIarkman and General
J. Il. Wall having been advocated for
the nomination for Congress from the
first district announce that they will not
be candidates. Either of these leading
citizens of Tampa would bring ont the
full democratic vote OF the district and
make very efficient representative in
Congress.
Secretary Manning rendered his re-
slgnation because of i'll health, and on the
lst instant President Cleveland aAlr4s sod
lin letter declining TO accept it, and re-
guesting him TO take furlough until Octo-
Der, hoping that rest and travel will re
store the vigor Of his attached friend and
able assistant Of his administration. Mr.
Manning has gone to Hot Springs.
-tjOyernOrs Foraker and Fitzhugh
Lee spoke from the same Ohio platform
Saturday week, and what they said about
the restoration Of peace and the duty Of
forgetting sectional issues was heartily
cheered by the people. Governor For
aker, says the Philadelphia Times, didn't
talk that way last fall, it is true, but
even a Governor can learn. But what
viii John Sherman do now?
The Palatka Only -Neacs publishes
an eight-column tabulated statement of
Putnam county lands held by the State
for nOn-payment of taxes, aggregating
over sixty thousand acres. The publica
ton is copy OF the official list sent by
the Comptroller of the State to our
County Assessor to aid in the correction
Of the tax book for this year In print
ing this lengthy list without money and
=itbOut price for the benefit Of those
who may be interested, the Neecs does
something public spirited and kindly.
That "a lie will run a league while
truth is putting on his boots - seems to
be verified by the extraordinary run which
the convict story OF Naval Stores" has
made among the papers of the State. As
vi We have noted that but one Of the pa
E,ers which inadvertently or gladly printed
the injurious fiction of NAVAL Stores
has ehrOnicled the refutation. Most of
them. however, are yet TO be heard from,
and We trust there are but few editors in
the State who published the attack of an
ANONYMOUS writer who will not state
that II was made up of misstatements.
Mr.. H. c. Sanderson, of Montgomery,
wzs one Of the soldiers who guarded the
Confederate treasure wagons which were
abandoned at Washington, Ga, May :,
1855. On the night of that day each
Of the soldiers received s25 in silver. Mr..
SnDdenson kept his money and showed it
the other day in the Office of the Mont
gomery AdUerfiser. lie says Ex-Presi-
dent Davis ordered. the greater part of
the money 70 be paid to the soldiers, and
be does not believe Mr.. Davis kept sim
Gle dollar for the necessities of himself
and family.
President Santa Maria, of Chill, has is