The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-03-04

w. g. Payne has revived the sus-
pended Chipley Inte1igencer, and edits it
with care and industry.
The Florida Midland Railroad, which
will run from Apopka to Lake Jessup,
has received its first lot of iron.
The Florida ISn,ptar, the official or
gan of the Grand Lodge of L O. G. I. of
Florida, is neat weekly recently started
in Jacksonville.
The St. Augustine opera house, with
seating capacity of one thousand persons,
is completed. The building was COM
menced last July.
1t is thought that dozen shots from
the new German bomb, charged with dy-
Mantle shells, would destroy the strong
est Notifications in the world.
-TAe visiting editors have been IN
sy mex, ;,..uisit the Chautauqua Assembly
atN the .h %alE Springs, and Pensacola, as
the guests of the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad.
Lord Tennyson says he would like to
come to America for the purpose OF visit
ing the grave of Edgar Allen Poe, In
comparison with whom he rates Bryant
and Whittier as pigmies.
Blaine is still the favorite of Ohio
Republicans, a poll of the Legislature
showing a majority for him in 1888.
co,1 RI r.lYa rd him.
self as Vice Presidential possibility on
ticket headed by Blaine.
Twelve Governors are said to have
given their approval thus far to the
movement looking to the permanent adj
dition of another to our national holl-
days-the anniversary of the discovery
of America by Columbus.
Judge Thomas Settle, Clerk Philip
Walter, Marshal W. c. Bird, and At
torney E. NJ. Cheney, all officers OF
the United States District Court, left
Sunday, the 2sth, in special car to open
court at Pensacola. Morn
ing Ne,os.
President Cleveland's message to the
Senate on Monday in reference to remov-
ais from Office and the points in issue as
to the rights and powers of the Senate
and the Executive, is mastery docu-
ment. It's length excludes it from this Is
sue of the FLoRIDIAN.
Thomas A. Edison and bride arrived
at Jacksonville last Sunday en- route to
Fort Myers where his newly built resi-
dence is ready for occupancy. The great
electrician and inventor will not be idle
even in the honeymoon and the soft semi
tropics, and his laboratory in the bank
of the Caloosahatchie is ready for work
On the night of the 23d ultimo Mr..
J. r. Cooley, a merchant of Pensacola,
was murdered in his store on the corner
of Chase and Cevallos streets. He was
struck fatal blow on the head with an
axe, and the unknown murderer carried
off his watch and chain and the money
that was in the store. The crime was
not discovered until next morning.
MIR. C. H. Jones, of the Jacksonville
Times Union, was elected President of
the National Editorial Association :"
at its session in Cincinnati last week, and
Colonel VIM. McWilliams, of the Gala
han Record, a member of the Executive
Committee. Senator Mann, of the
Brooksville Register, played most USE
full part, for he carried on and displayed to
the Association quantity of fresh oran-
ges, green orange leaves and flower buds,
exhibiting them in refutation of the
statements that the destruction of orange
growth in Florida had been complete.
The work of grading the Florida
Southern railway to Charlotte Harbor
will be completed to-day, and the track
is laid to within thirty miles of that place.
The completion of the road is now only
the work of few days, which will give
Palatka direct communication with the
Gulf coast, and the beneficial advantage
to our commercial interest will be made
apparent in practical way in the near
future. The finishing of this end of the
road, we believe, completes the Florida
Southern under it's charter, but the COM
pany will no doubt continue the construc-
ton of spurs and branches until it about
covers the State-PdLdtkG Daily Nesos,
26M inst.