The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-04-15
The Pensacola Daily Advancs- 81

Gen. Crooks Apache prisoners ar
rived at Jacksonville day before yester-
day, and were Immediately forwarded to
st. Augustine.
The naval drill changed Pensacola's
two semi-weekly papers into dailies that
are highly creditable to the enterprise
and ability of the editors and proprietors.
"A remarkable bedstead, made to or
der by q Milwaukee furniture firm, is
twenty-four feet wide and has nine COM
partments, each intended to hold one OF
the purchasers children.
The North Atlantic Squadron sailed
into Pensacola bay last Friday. The
flag ship Tennessee, drawing twenty-five
feet, crossed the bar without touching,
and could have come in on twenty'six
feet.
-Seventy-seven Apache Indians who
surrendered to General Crook on the goth
of March, are on their way to St. Angus
tine, Florida. They will be quartered in
Fort Marion, and supply another attrac-
ton to the ancient city.
The testimony of woman before
Salt Lake City court the other day in
polygammy case was, in substance, that
"she didn't know whether her husband
had another wife or not; it wasn't of suf-
fcient Importance to talk about"
The Evening appeal is handsome
six column daily published under the
auspices of Jacksonville Typographical
Union No. 1872" 1t is the enterprise and
organ of the striking printers, and its edl-
tors and reporters are clever writers.
The Augusta Chronicle says Rev.
Edwin G.. Weed, bishop-elect of Florida,
els one of the most valuable men in
the ministry of his church in the South,
and besides being priest of learning and
power, is man of untiring energy and
unfailing humanity"
On the 9th squad of deputy sher-
ifs who were guarding the yards of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad at St.
Louis, fred into a crowd of disorderly
persons killing several. Circumstances
did not justify the shooting, and the shoot
ers will probably be punished as the crime
deserves.
The Connecticut Senate has declined
to accept the weekly payment bill pass
ed by the House, and has substituted one
to its own liking, which makes impera-
tive only the payment of 80 per cent. of
the wages weekly with settlement each
month, and this is further limited by a
proviso that it shall apply only upon re-
quest of the employees.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, of Indiana,
recently said eff the Indiana Legisla-
ture is Democratic, and l believe it will
be, shall stand for an election to the
United States Senate; but l shall not be
the reason of sending any one to the Leg
islature for that purpose. All that shall
ask is that the Legislature be made up of
men without being under instructions to
support any one"
The new organization of the "Pa-
latka News Publishing Company" in
cludes the following officers and direc-
tors: w. J. Vinegar, President; S. J..
Kennerly, Treasurer; Benz. Harrison,
Secretary; Robt. w. Davis, Attorney /;
S. U. Hammond, Business Manager. This
is very strong team, and the name of
Benz. Harrison at the head of the edi-
torial columns is assurance that the paper
will maintain the high repute which his
ability gained for it.
Editor Joseph Pulitzer, of the World,
has sent in his resignation as Representa-
tive in Congress from the Ninth District
of New York. The reason given is not
the assaults of the press because of his
conspicuous absence from his seat, but
the impossibility of his being in two pla-
ces at the same time-in that seat and on
the tripod. Between saving the United
States and the World he chose the latter
query, can he do it? If he takes care
of that, it will take care of Pulitzer.
Richard K. Fox is in thriving circum-
stances, being able to tour in Florida, as
he is now doing.
We have it from q most reliable
source that lady in Barlow has l3 hens
that lay Is eggs every day. We would
like to hear from any town in Florida
that can beat this.-Bartoso Informant.
All other towns in Florida now hide their
diminished heads. Barlow has got q
boom-clear the track-look out for the
engine when the hen cackles. We should
confess that sectional" if not an envi-
GUS disposition il distinytlx manifest in
our remarks, and thst 1S1Ils unable to
rejoice in Bastow's ksqssss We would in
Tsllahassee's hens; but at the same time
we would have it understood that we are
not sorry that Barlow has such hens,
while wishing that Tallahassee had some
like them.
1t Is said that Martin Irons. the con-
trolling spirit of the Knights of Labor Of
St. Louis, is in the pay ofstock gamblers
in that city who are interested in bear
ing" stocks, and that hundreds Of thous-
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