The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-10-16

-One thousand 90 cent Lamps for IS cents at
the Racket Store.
If you would shop intelligently, read all the
local advts. in the FLoRIDIAN
Decorated Tea and Dinner Sets, of A to 100
pieces, at the Racket Store.
-Messrs. W. P. Slusser s. Co.'s new adver-
tisement appears to-day. Read it and give
them CALL
Attorney General Cooper has returned from
the east where he was engaged in the political
canvass for Democracy
Largest Tin Pans ever sold in this State for
~ cents, at the Racket Store
Mr.. Geo. Greenhow yesterday ordered fifty
copies of the IMMIGRATION FLoRID1AN, which
he will distribute North and West
One quart Measures cent, at Shay &
Yaeger's
MIR. Max Oestreicher, the wide-awake and
enterprising proprietor of the Quincy Boom
Store, writes us TO send him three hundred
copies OF the IMMIGRATION FLoRID1AN.
Half gallon Tin Cups, 10 cents, at Shay s.
Yaeger's
Mrs. Arrowsmith and Miss Dykes are ex-
pected home to-day
Half gallon Pitchers, 25 cents, at Shay &
Yaeger's.
Mrs. W. D. Bloxham has returned from her
summer outing among the mountains
Miss Nellie Bassett has opened private
school for small children, at the residence of her
father.
Ten quart Dish Pans Is cents, at Shay &
Yaegers.
Mrs. Moses j. Taylor, of Eus,s, leads the van
guard on our subscription books. Her subscrip-
ton is paid to April 26, 1890.
AT One Dollar Year, Every Floridian can
afford to read the EIGHT PAGE FLoRIDIAN
We want all of our Old Subscribers to Renew,
and we desire Thousands of New Subscribers.
Send in your subscriptions now, and your time
will include the session of the Legislature in
1889.
BY voting " For Bonds" on November 9Th
you will lessen the expense of the county by
taking up its present Indebtedness, which bears
8per cent. interest, with new bonds at not over
6per cent interest, and thereby reduce your
county tax.
Lamp Chimneys, cents, at Shay &
Yaeger's.
The Tallahahassee FLoRIDIAN is the best
campaign paper in the State. 1t has enlarged to
eight pages, contains lots of choice reading of all
kinds, is handsomely printed-in short, it is a
6rs-cass weekly in all respects -Lees6urg CON-
naercidl
Florida is plucky. Notwithstanding the
onslaught of yellow jack in several places in
that State, she proposes to hold the sub-tropical
exposition in Jacksonville next year, according
to former arrangement. 1t is going to be an
other eye-opener, too, and don't you forget it,
Savannah Ne,cs
-Miccosukie is in Leon county, only 10 N lies
from Tallahassee. There is daily mail, over
the F. G. s. P. to Lloyds, and thence via over
land, and subscriber informs US that the FLO
RIDIAN of the ID was received there late on the
afternoon of the 9th. Only days! Only 18
miles Only 3 miles a day! How can such
things be in this age of daily mails? Fast
mails! Wepause for a reply!
Captain B. F. Walker dropped in last week
to congratulate US on the good work we are do
ing for Democracy and Florida. The Captain is
in the saddle for the campaign says he was
nominated to be elected he didn't accept to be
defeated he's on the war path and bound to
win. He says the Democrats of Leon county
cannot afford to be beaten in this contest-they
must win-and elect the whole ticket
Mr. 8. s. Mathews, of Chaires' Station,
called at the FLORIDIAN sanctum Saturday and
left some specimens Of crude cement to be for
warded to Webbs Florida on Wheels" Mr.
Mathews says that he has discovered an inn
mense deposit of this cement, and that the anal
yss proves it to be superior to Portland cement
He wishes to organize company to work the
mine and place the products on the market. He
says that the supply is inexhaustible, and that
from the deposit, which he has discovered, the
entire world could be supplied for century or
more. Capitalists should investigate the mat
ter.
We are under obligations to Messrs La
than. Alexander & Co.. Bankers and Commits
sion merchants of New York city, for copy of
the fifteenth annual edition of their valuable
book, Cotton Movements and Fluctuations.
This edition gives the cotton movements from
1888 to 1888. 1t contains nearly $50 pages, is
handsomely bound in rich. red cloth, embossed
with black, gold and silver lettering, and has
gilt edges. This book is the acknowledged
standard reference book for the Cotton Trade of
the country, and at the low prce-two dollars
should be upon every cotton buyer or specu-
lator's desk.
Living ON the Reputation of Others.
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