The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-05-06
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idly put in position.
-Ihe champion cucumber raiser of
Gainesville is doctor--Dr Parker. All
IN the way Of business.
The Gainesville Guards represent
Florida Al Savannah, and will no doubt
do 80 most creditably.
On the Sd Senator Call introduced
bin spprOpriating 100000 for public
building Al Tallahassee.
An electric light tower 9s4 feet high,
or nearly twice the height OF the wash
ingtOn monument, is TO be built In faris
for the French international Exhibition.
Secretary Manning's health is I'M
urOr1ng. but IL is authoritatively an
nounced that be will not return to service
IN the Treasury Department. His reslg-
nation viii be rendered at an early day.
The people of Key West ale bravely
Il work rebuilding the destroyed portion
Of their city, and the disaster which has
befalIen her will prove but temporary
check Of her progress in wealth ana I'M
POrtznee-
We congratulate Editor L. J. White
of the Gainesville Daily Ne'cs, who was
married on the 18th ultimO to Miss Lena
McBurnev. Of Cambridge, Ohio. The
bride i a daughter of Professor Mciour-
ner. who has attained distinction as an
educator.
The BrOOksyille Register OF May IS
= star issue of that journal, being Its
trade edition. and comprising eight
uages. printed on fine paper, containing
much valuable information about the fer
tile. beautiful and booming county OF
fernando
Nearly a mile and half OF side tracks
have been built recently at the machine
shops Of the company in this city to ac-
mOdzte the rolling stock of the Florida
Railway d Navigation Company prepare
tory 10 changing the system to the stand
ard gauge, which will take effect on June
-FsrnandilaG Mirror.
The French Minister of the Interior
has issued an order to the mayors and
r,refects Of France that they are to do all
IN their power to dissuade emigration.
The French are the least migratory OF
nations. the annual average OF emlgrants
being under 5000 ont of population OF
100000
Washington specials to the Times
LzFon state that Messrs. Henderson
White and Chipley have appeared before
the Public Lands Committees of the Sen
ate and House, and have made such clear
statements ~ IlIV i~.-a e.-->~ - -~'i
roads that forfeiture need not be appre
bended.
High license in Illinois has increased
the revenue Of the State from the liquor
TAX from 100000 to over 81, 500 900, and
reduced the number of saloons from 5000
70 $4,000 In the city of Chicago alone
there has been an increase IN the tax OF
$1,000. 900 and reduction of GOO in the
number Of place where liquor is sold.
-ExPresident Davis has reception
Al the city hall of Savannah to-day, and
On Sunday morning will leave that
ritr for his home at Beauvoir, Missls-
sippi, travelling by the Savannah, Florida
and Western road as far a. Albany. ga.
A committee left Jacksonville to invite
INN 10 visit Florida, and he may change
the route above stated.
The North Atlantic squadron sailed
from Pensacola for New York on the
sOtb- The flagship Tennessee again
crossed the bar without detention, show
ing that any ship in the navy can enter
Pensacola bay-which can hold the whole
navy Of the United States, swinging free
n anchor, If its ships were twenty times
- many as they are
We have received the Cincinnati
florida C.0saquqsla, for April, an inter-
esting number of this valuable rublica-
ton. Each issue of this handsome
monthly contains sixteen four column
pages, and the subscription price of fifty
eeuts a wear makes il one of the cheapest
periodicals published Address 1.-The
Florida Cbautauqua, box 2l7, Cincinnati,
Ohio"
The Senate Committee on Commerce
has reported fsvOrably on the Eads bill,
which authorizes the Atlantic and Pacif
&c Ship Railway Company to issue stock
and bonds, in aid of project to build a
ship railway between the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, TO the amount of 100000
900, and requires the United Safes to
guarantee, for five years after the railway
IL completed, that two-thirds of the net
revenues Of the company shall amount
annually 10 q, 500, 900, but the total liza
bility Of the government is not to exceed
f7,5OO,O 600
The latest newspaper venture Is The
Florida Republican, printed at Long
wood. The paper is of good size and ap-
pearsnce, but the publishers name is not
giTeD-nOr the editors, even at the close
Of ma smartly written ''salutatory.' Mod
ssty may not be the cause of this omis-
.iOn. for be announces that he "nails our
tho ,uhlio ovoo