The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-04-19
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Major of Lake City % the leth instant

appropristing SIS e00sS sr beacon hgnss
It Charlotte Hafbor. 20 s~.f
NJ FlAgiss has bought The Casa
Mosica. A. owner Of the Ponce de Leon,
Alesxar and C. II. be may be said 70 have
cornered the hotel basiness in Sc. Angus
tine.
On the 10Th Emperor Frederick was
supposed to Be dying, and the imPerisi
family were summoned, bat On the 18th
his condition improved. There is little
hope of his recovery.
Matthew Arnold, the noted poet and
critic, whose recent article on The
CiviIixssioa Of the United States" pro-
duced . marked sensation, died suddenly
in Liverpool Of heart disease on the 10th.
The Peopls's Journal has again made
its appearance. Editor Thompson, Who
was 30 badly injured in the Hurricane
Greek railroad accident, March 18th, 10
still in Savannah bat convalescent--
Jacksonville Metropolis.
On the 18th instant the new railroad
town of Bombay was elected shire town
of Holmes county BY majority of thir'
teen votes. Bombay is fsvorsbly located
on the P. and A. r. r. and is sure Of q
prosperous future
Hon. w. w. Walker, of our town,
received a letter recently from Hon. NJ.
J. Solomon, of Liberty, in which he says
that Liberty would 60 for Dr.. John L.
Crawford for Governor at the coming
State Convention Cra,ef orduale Times.
Jacksonville now has telephone con-
nection with St. Augustine. Messages
are heard as distinctly as those over the
shorter lines in Jacksonville. The charge
to subscribers is thirty cents for talking
FIVE minutes, and none but subscribers
are allowed TO talk.
The ST. Augustine Ecening Neaos
made its first appearance on Thursday,
and for 3 fedgling possesses points OF
excellence worthy of fostering care and
nourishment. 1t has FIVE columns to the
page, and editorially and reportorially is
a success-&. Aug4stine Weekly.
bismarck is ahead again in the con-
troversy about the betrothal of Prince
Alexander and Princess Victoria, and
it is indefinitely postponed. He gained
strength in consequence Of Queen Victo-
ria's interference, which popular feeling
resented as intrusive meddling in German
affairs. We still abuse old Bismarck.
The rails have all been laid to con-
meet the ST. Augustine and Palatka Rail-
way with the new pier at Harris Point,
opposite Palatka. The St. Augustine and
Pslstka road forms its junction with the
St. Johns and Halifax road near Darby's
mill. 1t was not known what day trains
would begin to run 10 the pier, but it is
thought that Monday next would be the
day.-PdLdtka Neps.
DIR. J. Kost, the State Geologist, was
. visitor at the Sub-Tropical yesterday.
If the exposition has . separate building
for curiosities and such things during the
coming season he will set up the skeleton
Of a mastodon on wire frame, and show
of its mammoth proportions as compared
with that of horse or COW. The skele-
ton is twelve feet in height and twenty
four feet in length.-News- Herald
Work on the new railroad from this
city to New Smyrna is progressing. A
distance of three miles from the junction
with the Pslatks road, near this city, is
now graded, and the material has been
purchased With which TO construct the
trestles between st. Augustine and Moul-
THE. Superintendent Fox has a large
force in his employ, and the work thus
far indicates that master hand il at the
front-&. Ax9Estine Weekly.
Hon. z C. Love, Chairman, has
called meeting of the Democratic Exec
utive Committee of the First Congres-
sional District to be held ct Tallahassee
on the 2ad instant TO appoint the time
and place for holding the nominating con-
vention- The committee consists of Hon.
z G. Love, z. P. Dismukss, Secretary !;
A X. Allison, all Of Quincy; W. Fl. Mil
ton, of Marianne; J. Ira Gore, of Cedar
Key; s. n 6psrkman, of Tampa; J. P.
Jones, of Pensacola; w. G. Maloney, Of
Key West. and 8. Stringer, Of BrooksvilIs.
Jacksonville NeUs- Herald.
The expression of sympathy for the
people Of Tsvares will not help them
much, but they need other help - little
- burnt ont community could, for their
enterprise and energy are proverbisl.
Tsvares will soon rise from her ashes in
better form than before snd progress
with accelerated prosperity. We join
many contemporaries in ssrnest regret
for the disaster which befsll the ofics Of
the Taysrss Herald The mstsrial was
totally Destroyed, bat there was not .
number lost Of that bright and sbls pspsr.
for il was printed ct the Eustis ;SswE
Tropical ofHos and issued three days sttsr
the fra. nj. ,........ '.a.
The Rsstsainisg Order granted lsst
week by Judge Broome, Judge Of The
Seventh Judicial Circuit, temporarily