The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-08-12
Reports of yellow fever at Tampa
are entirely without foundation.

Mr.. Jefferson B. Browne has been ap-
pointed postmaster of Key West, the
term of the late incumbent having expired.
is il necessary for the local paper
10 say "this proves conclusively that
Florida will produce bsntams when
ever il records small egg in the neigh
borhOod? -,
The enthusiasm with which Mr.
Dougherty was nominated is presage OF
the popular wave which will sweep his
district and carry him back to Congress
where he has made so good record.
"A Washington special says; The
record of the present Congress fills $500
printed pages, not including the indexes
and appendix. This exceeds by about
500 pages the record of any preceding
The nominee of the South Carolina
Democrats for Governor, Colonel John
Peter Richardson, is the present Secretary
of State. He is a public man of eminence,
with both a war and peace record that
are excellent. He will be elected triumph
antly.
-FLoridd is the name of new paper
started at Bridgeport by a publishing
company, with Mr.. Dill H. James as edi-
tor. The purpose of the paper is the en-
enlargement of industrial pursuits, agrl-
culture especially, and it is edited with
Judgment and industry.
"A Republican Congressional Con-
rention was to be held in Jacksonville
yesterday to nominate scalp to adorn
Charley Dougherty's belt as a compan-
ion piece to Bisbee's lost war lock. 1t
was rumored that Mr.. Greeley would de-
cline and some lesser warrior furnish the
hair on this occasion.
The democratic nominating conven-
ton in the fourth district of North Caro-
lima was held last week, and there were
two hundred more ballots than In the con-
vention of the first district of Florida.
On the 2llth ballot Hon. John w. Ora
ham. distinguished native of the State,
received the requisite number OF votes.
1.-The Brooksville Publishing Com
many" succeeds to the ownership of the
Brooksville Register, and its publication
will be continued under the management
Of Mr.. Charles A. Choate, that literary
TaIIahasseean whose ability in journalism
is so widely known. We now look to the
Reoistey as one of our most interesting
exchanges.
We have neglected thanking the
Rey of the Gulf for its article of the oath
ultimo abusing the FLoRIDIAN. Such Is
the bad repute of that paper that if it
should praise us we should be sad and
the people might dislike us. "The people
love " the good FLoRIDIAN for the enc
mics it has made"
The remains of Tilden laid in state
at Greystone until Saturday, the sth,
when they were taken by funeral train
10 New Lebanon, where he was born, for
burial. President Cleveland and Score
taries Endicott Whitney and Manning,
with a multitude of other prominent per-
sons, we're present at the funeral services
in Greystone.
MIR. w. T. Moore declines to adopt
the views of the FLoRIDIAN as to prohl-
bition. We decline discussion, willingly
resting our case on the very passages ne
quotes from our article. What is the
matter with Mr.. Moore's eyes " that he
cannot see that his article is its own re-
futation? He sets up the pricks and
kicks against them vainly.
Mr.. Marius Moustier, the celebrated
explorer who discovered the sources OF
the great African river, Niger, committed
suicide week before last by drowning
himself in small pond in the neighbor-
hood Of Marseilles. His body was found
after four days immersion, and letter
in one of the pockets stated that he had
been driven thereto by absolute want
and starvation. He was still in the prime
Of life.
The fondness of Newport club men
for porcelain eggs was explained last
week by the accidental breaking down Of
q truck in Boston, on which were piled
fory-eight dozen of legs" in transit
70 the Rhode Island resorts. Some Bos-
ton genius sampled some that rolled out
in the crash, and found that they con-
tanned a very good quality of whisky, in
tended for the fashionable visitors to the
new prohibition State.
The new ten-dollar silver certificates
are much handsomer than those hereto
fore in use. The lettering is very fine,
and in the centre is vignette portrait of
the late Thomas A. Hendricks. The new
ope-dolIar silver certificate will have an
excellent picture of Martha Washington.
On the two-dollar certificates will be fine
porrait of General w. 8. Hancock, ia
ken from a photograph selected by the
family. It presents General Hancock in
the uniform of major-general, wearing
his broad sash.
The Boston Herald regards the vote
on the nomination of the colored man
Matthews, As Recorder in the District of
Columbia, o. q significant test of the dis
interested love of the Republican Sena-
tors for the colored race. "They APP
0.. the HernLd Uto he attached