The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-11-04
in the aList of Disbursements " 10

in the @List of Disbursements :" Tor
ST. Johns county We note that bounties
were paid during the year for the killing
Of fifty-one wild cats and nine bears-s5l
for the former and SIS for the latter.
Mr.. J. B. Williams, the contractor.
and his large number Of workmen LETT
Yesterday for Punta Goria, where they
90 10 build the Hotel Charlotte, for the
Florida Southern kaiiroad. The length
of the hotel will be 525 feet, with wings
extending back loo feet or more, and viii
be three stories high. I, Is TO be an I'M
mense affair, and will BIZ completed III the
early part of next year.-Iat1t%a Da'ty
Nescs.
j. j. Walker, one of the Democratic
nominees tor the Legislature OF this
county, has donated lot OF land at >imP-
sons Spring to the Jefferson County
Teachers Association. Mr.. Walker takes
great interest in All matters pertaining 70
the education Of the youth OF Florida aud
NAV be expected to be champion OF this
cause in the As-embly.-naeiiso" Re-
coT.lkr.
Mr.. William \. MacWilliains, OF II.
Augustine. has just been appointed JUS
tice Of the Peace. aud will settle down per
manently in that city. He Is very pIom-
Using Young man. well educated and OF
irreproachable character, and destined 10
succeed in his profession. His popularity
i attes,ed by the fact that, Young a. he Is,
he wac elected President of The Dougherly
Club formed in the Ancient Ci;y--Il"s.s-
Onion.
The new stern wheel steamer recently
butt in the Dead Lakes, Calhoun county,
and owned by Messr-. Stone. Cara" ay
and others, arrived at the wharf Monday
She is 20 feet in length and = feet beam.
She l. quite trim little craft. and 1t is
said tina; her speed i il every way salts
factory. She Is destined u run from -Apa-
lachicola to points on the CniPo.a river,
and when water will Permit viii run W
a. high as Marianna. - -4paitciicola
IiDaes.
Those Were hre speeches o. GOV.
Lee and the President It Richmond The
Presidents was particularly pleasing a.
exhibiting again the true patriotism. 81
our democratic chief magistrate. Il
showed perfectly just appreciation Of
American citizenship. and % long as such
ideas a. were expressed obtain Ia tae gov
eminent the interests Of al the people
will be guarded. The executive who
really holds such sentiments, a. President
Cleveland does, will assnredly be main
tanned BY this sensible American people
RaIeigh Nees and OIsercer.
The New York Evening Pat, refer
ring to Mr. Blaine's shrill cry that the
lower WAGES Of the South are standing
menace to the labor OF the y orth, calls at
tention 10 the wages ofteacher>, and shows
that, while the female teachers 81 Maine re-
ceiye an average rate Of SlG.2o month,
those Of South Carolina, many OF them col
month, and those Of Alabama an average
of S2e7s a month. Perhaps, says the
Boston HeroId, il would be a good idea
for Mr.. Blaine TO enter upon crusade
for the purpose Of increasing the wages
Of female teachers in the State OF Maine.
Touching the baleful Influence Of the
L. l.. .,,f
the land, case III point Is this: Don
Piatt writes 10 The Current, in the last
tweDty-six years of high protection, one
underll ing source Of prosperity, agiicul-
ture, has deprecated in all its values %
per cent. The farm live On, that was
valued thirty years ago al 1928 an acre,
and land sold readily at that, is now held
at $50, and cannot be sold at that price
/ have 500 acres Of the richest land III
Ohio, and there is nothing that can raise
on it at profit. You say am fancy
farmer Well, my neighbors who are not
open TO that, are in the same condition.
They borrow to pay taxes. Ohio is being
shingled with mortgages that will carry
under the farmers.
Louis Lingg, one Of the convicted
dynamiters Of Chicago, thus closed his
speech in response to the question why
sentence Of death should not be pro-
nounced upon him: g." tell you die glad
ly upon the gallows in the sure hope that
hundreds and thousands Of people TO
whom have spoken will now recognize
and make use of dynamite. In this hope
] despise you and despise your laws
Hang me for it." Whoever is disposed to
entertain any lingering doubt that Lingg
and bis confederates are guilty, need hes
itate no longer after reading his speech,
Of which the sentiment above quoted is a
fair specimen. There was no mistake
made by that Chicago jury, nor yet by
Judge Gary in refusing TO grant to the
red handed devils new tral.-Attdntd
Journal.
Two years ago next Sunday night,
the entire business portion Of our city
was consumed by fire. That night is
well remembered, its horrors still fresh,
n oil