The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-11-13

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emit interruption IN receipt Of the paper.
The Georgia Legislature is in ses-
sion.
The rascals are going-going in
again.
We can-we must all work for Flor
ida now.
The Augusta National Exposition is
proving big success.
The Democratic majorities in Leon
county range from l,l49 to l,497.
DIR. Hostetter, the great medicine
man of Pittsburg, died in New York last
week.
Democrats, everywhere: Pick your
iints and prepare for another grand fight
for Tariff Reform.
The first great event to follow@Re-
publican success is a phenomenal snow
storm out in Kansas.
"A new postotfice has been established
at Knott, Manatee county, with Cornela
Rogers as postmaster.
If four years of Radical rule at
Washington don't reconvert the people
to Democracy will?
Harrison has majority in the Elec-
toral College, the Senate is Republican, and
the House still in doubt and very close.
We are under obligations to Messrs.
Bennett 81 Hall, Commission Merchants,
for copy of "New York Illustrated"
The actual bona fde number of
New York Worlds printed and sold
Wednesday, November :, 1888, was $780,
205.
Cleveland carried New Jersey and
Connecticut, which, with the vote Of New
York and the South, would have elected
him.
MIR. Chandler, President of the Flori-
da Southern Railway, who lives in Re-
publican District in Massachusetts,, has
been elected to Congress by his party.
The New York Herald says that the
political lesson of the election is that the
national supremacy Of the Democratic
party has been sacrificed to the ambition
of David B. Hill and Abram s. Hewitt.
"A meeting of the stockholders of the
Sub-Tropical Exposition will be held at
Jacksonville, on December Sd. One of
the objects of the meeting is to consider
proposition to issue $4,000 preferred
stock.
The election is over, and Florida is
Democratic by largely increased major
ity. Our entire State ticket is elected,
Davidson and Bullock are our Congress-
men, and the Legislature is almost unani-
mously Democratic.
Some newspapers are already claim
ing that Hill, of New York, is the "com-
ing man" for 1892 We don't know
about that just now. We are inclined to
look toward the Great Northwest for
him at this time, if Cleveland is to be left
out of the race.
The record of railroad building for
first ten months of the year shows an ag-
gregate mileage of $3.50 miles of new
track on 2S0 new roads. Out of these
totals the South has 90 roads and 2,OS3
miles, Florida's quota being new roads
and lO3 miles of track.
In Atlanta, at noon on last Saturday,
Mr.. Edward Pratt, manager of furniture
company, rolled Mr. J. B. Scarrett, pro-
prietor of the Scarrett Hotel, several
blocks in a wheelbarrow, to comply with
an agreement entered into between them
on the result Of the Presidential election.
The vote for Harrison at his own
home, Indianapolis, was 400 less than
Blaine received in the same town in S84.
Cleveland's plurality in Harrison's county
was 378, against 226 plurality for Blaine
in 1884. What is the matter that Mr..
Harrison's own home folks did not vote
for him.