The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-07-29
Mr.. Doagherty will be renomjns

OF The 0eorglA nominating convention
are Gordon men.
The Clay County Democratic Con-
vention nominated Hon. William Wilson
for the Assembly.
1t would seem that the great Cut
ting scrape, 50 to speak, will end without
any blood being shed.
1t is year since Gen. Grant died,
and the fund for the million dollar New
York monument has reached Just sl22,-
47s.69.
One thousand acres in melons in
South Georgia returns q revenue to the
railroads equal in amount to 700 acres
IN cotton-tl per acre from cotton, e25
per acre from melons.
DIR. Peters, the German traveller, after
having had q conference with Henry N.
Stanley, proposes that railway be built
from Dar-es-Salaam to the interior of AT
riea, with English capital
A Bombay physician asserts that
gradual increase in the size Of the skull
among the natives of India is taking
place, which change he ascribes to the
effect Of civilization.
The Springfield, Ohio. school board
have decided that colored children in that
city shall not attend the public school
with white children any longer, but shall
90 10 a school Of their own.
Major Russell, State Superintendent
Of Education, returned from the Teach
en- Institute in Bristol last Thursday,
and this week IL down south in Manatee
county looking into the school work
there
New York boasts Of the largest and
the smallest men in the House of Repre-
sentatives Mr.. Hiscock claims the former
distinction and Mr.. Merrman the latter
Mr.. Hiscock weighs 80 pounds, Mr.. Mer-
riman I02 81.
Major T. A. Burke, of the New Or
leans Times Democrat, has sailed for Hon
durAs, where be goes as the guest Of Pres
ident Bogran, for several days. He will
remain at Santa Barbara during his visit
70 the President
The Putnam county Democrats NOM
mated the following excellent legislative
ticket on the 2Ist: For the Senate, Hon.
=. NJ McMeekin; for the House, Mr..
Henry Hutchinson and Mr. Phillip Pri-
leau, ST.
The Raleigh Ne,cs and Observer
prints letter from the firm Of Bruce d
Cook, of New York, who say that South
en creditors who owed them $4,000 at
the breaking out of the war have volun-
tarily, without suit or pressure, paid up all
but IS 900 Of the amount.
The census returns tabulated in the
Office Of the Secretary Of State, printed in
70 days FLoRIDIA~, show Leon county to
be third in population. "There's life in
the old land yet plenty of it, though
colored emigration has decreased it some
what
The democratic State convention of
Vermont met Thursday last and the at
tendance is reported as unprecedentedly
large. There were notably large acces-
sions Of young men and this the chairman
regarded as an augury of the permanence
Of democratic control of Federal affairs
A full ticket srss nominated.
The County Convention of Putnam
offered 10 make Speaker X. w. Davis
State Senator, but he gracefully declined
the honor. And sppreciative Demo
Gratis wanted him to represent them
in Congress, but he gracefully declined
70 seek that honor. Some day the de-
mocrscy of Florida will ask him TO ego
mp higher and Bob Davis " i'll have
70 60 where the people want him. He is
yet young man.
The final analysis of the British Par
hamentary pollings gives the unionists
1,524,107 votes and the Gladstonians
1,447,652. For correct estimate of the
popular vote there must be added the
electorate of ll3 unionist seats which
we're not contested, total of ,O65, lO4
votes, and that of the 100 uncontested
Gladstonian seats, . total of 8O5,S77
votes. The popular vote results in un-
ionist majority OF 272,6s2.
in the contest over the will of the
Late millionaire Tracy, of Buffalo, DIR. w.
r. Gillette, Of New York, who attended
Mr.. Tracy when he lived in that city in
1889, was on the stand. Tracy told the
witness that be was in the habit of drink
ing twelve pints of champagne day, and
that when he went to bed he opened a
bottle Of brandy or couple of bottles of
claret and put them by his bed. In addi-
ton TO this supply, he said, he opened six
bottles Of clysmic water and put in rub
Der eorks, and had q dozen lemons
squeezed into 9 pitcher and all placed
within his reach. The witness said he
regarded Tracy a. q monomsniac on the
subject Of drink
The New Orleans Rcay,ane says:
After more than half a century of liti-
CATION the city seems no nearer the end
Of the claims Of Mrs. Gaines than it did