The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-05-13
General John B. Gordon, in a letter

nounces that he is candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor.
MIR. G. S. Reynolds has retired from
the editorial chair of the Clear Water
Harbor Times, and is succeeded by MIR.
A. C. Turner, publisher of the paper.
Eight of the Bohemian rioters who
sacked drug store in Chicago have died,
and others are near death. They drank
wine of colchicum and paregoric by
mistake.
Mr.. Davis arrived at his home In
Beauvoir, Mississippi, on Sunday. lie
was well, but much fatigued, and almost
crippled in his right hand by reason OF
excessive shaking.
On the 9Th instant the boiler of San
cello, exploded, MISUNDERSTANDING ;5ek flHlaag Mentl-
gro, injuring another so that he has since
died, and several others severely.
The Escambia Rifles, of Pensacola,
have accepted the invitation given
through Adjutant General Lang to take
part in the State Encampment at Pablo
Beach. The Pensacola boys will surely
hold up their end the West end.
Wisconsin deals promptly with her
Bohemian and Polish socialists. They at
tackled a mill near Milwaukee, and the
military at once fired on them, killing and
wounding number, and crushing out the
riot at once.
The crop report for May shows that
Florida is ahead in cotton planting, the
proportions being-North Carolina, % ;
South Carolina, 81 Georgia, SO; Florida,
81 Alabama, 80 Mississippi, 76; Louis
lana, II Texas, 81 Arkansas, IS Ten
nessee, az.
Master Workman Powderly says the
Order of the Knights of Labor has been
weakened by the occurrences OF the last
few weeks. The theory of the organiza-
ton is good, but the practices for which
II is held responsible have not always
been good.
Mr.. Gladstone is one of the few men
IN the world who have supreme conn
dence in their ability to do the right
thing at the right time. He issued his
recent manifesto, which created such
stir in England, without consulting any
one Of his colleagues about it.
The feeling of Chicago people was
substantially expressed by the prompt
ness with which they subscribed to fun(
for the benefit of the families of police
men killed by the rioters. Fifty Thousand
dollars was subscribed in short time
and the fund is probably much more thai
that now.
Johann Most, the most offensive o
anarchists, who has long been activel.
AZ work in New Y ork, was caugh. in tina
city Tuesday. Detectives traced him t
q house in which he was found bidder
under the bed of one of the female in
mates. lie was hand-cuffcd and taken t.
Jail
The Lakeland and Barlow branch o
the South Florida Railroad was opened
yesterday to travel. The branch is thir
teen miles long. Two passenger trains
run each way between Lakeland and Bar
tow daily. connecting with the through
trains of the South Florida Railroad
Orlando Sentinel.
"A fire in Tampa on the morning o
the 9Th destroyed the Baldwin House
Judge Wall, owner, loss SO. 1000; Miller
& Henderson's store and warehouse
loss go, 1000; Glass & Brothers furniture
warehouse, loss $1,000. The stock O
Friebel & Boaz, was damaged by water
etc, IS, 900. and that of J. ii. Glogowski
1850. S. A. Glenn, landlord of the
Baldwin House, lost $4,000, partly in
sured. Messrs. Miller & Henderson had
10000 insurance and Glass Il Brother
$4,000.
"A merchant in Baltimore, writing tC
one Of his customers in Palatka, giving
the reason for the advance in price in a
certain line of goods, attributes the in
crease Of price to the great labor troubles
now agitating the country, and says that
already the advance on a number of lines
OfgOOds has been at least twenty per cent.
and that is just where the point comes in
The people of the whole country are now
called upon TO pay the fiddler while the
worthless socialistic agitators are doing
the dancing. Some of those Chicago fel
lows should be made to dance on plat
form composed of air.-Palatka Ne,cs.
The strike on the Missouri Pacific
railroad being " ordered off" after con.
test Of two months, the labor organza
tons have learned an expensive lesson as
20 this method of seeking redress fol-
grievances Thousands of men after en-.
during privstions, themselves and fami
lies, during the strike have now perma
nently lost employment, and other thou.
sands have been injured in business or oc.
equations which depended, partly OF
wholly, upon the steady progress of the
interests that were embarrassed. 1t is
surprising that in view of the almost in.
variable failures of strikes others should
constantly occur.
W. have aaauronoa from, n, LII