The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-07-08
The storm of Wednesday week did

The storm of Wednesday week did
great damage in southwestern Georgia.
The Governor has offered reward
of 81, 900 for the apprehension of An
drews and Bacon the Sara Sofa thugs
who escaped from the Jail of Manatee
county.
We challenge any Representative
District of the United States to show
better and larger stock of Congressional
timber than this fortunate First District
Of Florida.
Smith & Co.'S. planning mill at Apa-
lachicola was burned last Friday, loss S.
900, and no insurance. The fire originated
in q pile of shavings in the boiler room,
and several FIRE grenades were broken in
the pile but did not check the blaze.
Our correspondent Middle Florida"
suggests Hon. VIM. H. Milton, OF Mari
anna, for Congress. He is as favorably as
widely known through the District, and
is in every respect qualified for the eff
cient representation of his State.
There is a good deal of the ring OF
Democracy in Mr.. Gladstone's declara-
ton in Liverpool, that, "wherever truth,
Justice and humanity are concerned, 1t
has always been shown that the masses
were in the right and the classes in the
wrong"
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accept the invitation of Hon. p. Henry
Dugro, Grand Sachem, to be present at
the Wigwam, Tammany Hall, on the 9Th
of July, being the occasion of the ninety
eighth celebration by the "Society OF
Tammany, or Columbian Order, of the
city of New York"
The Longwood Republican pirates
about the tallahassee ring" Any ig-
norant or vicious fellow can come into
the State and begin that at once, and
harm no one but himself and the few stu
Did persons he may mislead-he losing
his repute among good men, and they
their trust in good men.
The Farmers Alliance and Knights
of Labor celebrated the Fourth in great
style in Dallas, Texas. Their procession
was three miles long and six thousand
strong, on foot, horseback and in three
hundred two-horse wagons, men, women
and children. They pitched camp in the
State Fair Grounds and the day was
spent in speaking, eating and dancing.
The BrooksviIle Register dominates
Hon. John T. Lesley, of this county, for
member of Congress from this district.
A purer man, a more mature statesman
does not live and his nomination by the
convention would strike popular chord.
If nominated, the Tribune, as usual,
would give him hearty support. Tampa
Tribune
Hon. w. Fl. Milton, of Mariana, is
recommended for the Congressional NOM
ination in the Vest Florida Courier,
which says that "not only Jackson
county but the State at large recog-
nizes the ability as we'll as the faithful
service rendered to the Democratic party
at large by the Hon. w. Fl. Milton, and
should his name go before the Conven-
ton he should get the support of West
Florida
The Stephens Monument Association
Of Georgia has purchased Liberty
Hail." Alexander II. Stephens old home,
and built school-house opposite it, in
which school is in prosperous operation;
but the Association has not been able to
pay for the property, nor has 1t raised any
money for the proposed monument.
Dollar subscriptions are to be solicited
throughout the State, and it is hoped that
$4,000 will be secured. 81
IT. P. O'Connor, M. p, in his special
cablegram to the New York Star on Sat-
urday night, said: "The probabilities
seem to indicate that the new Parliament
will be pretty much the same in its gen
eral composition as the one that defeated
Gladstone's home rule bill, except that
the Unionist element may be a little
stronger than in the last house. England
requires another educational course on
the home rule question before she quite
comes up to Gladstone's standard"
Illinois is the banner State for news
papers. Recently the publisher of paper
in that State brought suit against forty
three men who would not pay their sub
scriptions, and obtained judgment in each
case for the full amount of the claim. Of
these, twenty-eight made affidavits that
they owned no more property than the
law allowed them. Then, under decis-
ion of the Supreme Court, they were ar
rested for petty larceny and bound over
in the sum of $500 each. All but six gave
bonds, while the six went to jail
GoinessiNe Ners.
Mr.. John McKinlay, the senior jour-
nalist of Florida, died in Pensacola on the
2eth ultimo, aged seventy-four years.
MIR. McKinlay was born in Charleston, S.
C., learned the printing business, and went
TO Pensacola in 1882 to take charge of the
Pensscola Gazette, owned and edited by
the late Judge B. ID. Wright. He after
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