The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-12-11
Mr.. John P. Varnum died at Avon


Mass, few days ago, aged SO years.
Stanley is reported to be among the
friendly natives in the Upper Niger re-
gion.
in Pensacola, with population of
$4,000, there was not death reported
last week.
The municipal election at Hudson,
n. Y, on last Wednesday, resulted in a
Democratic victory.
The National Alliance and National
Wheel both assembled in convention at
Meridian, Miss, last Wednesday.
Mr.. Springer of Illinois, is endeav
oring to push through the "Ornibus"
bill for the admission of the Territories as
States.
Eastern capitalists are considering
scheme for forming syndicate to secure
controlling interest in all the Western
railroads and manage them as one sys-
TEN.
A big Bessemer cast steel gun failed
to stand the government test at the An
napolis Naval Academy last Wednesday,
and on the second test burst into num-
berless pieces.
Governor Perry, Senator S. r. Mall
Tory, Hon. E. c. Love, Col. John Earle
Hartridge, Mr.. c. P. Cooper and Hon.
r. +. Taylor are mentioned as aspirants
for the Judgeship made vacant by the
death Of Judge Settle.
Mr.. Cleveland has happy knack of
coming new expressions which forcibly
and clerly convey his ideas. In his last
message he speaks of trusts as the "Com-
'''""ism Of Combined Capital.'
We publish to-day an incendiary ar
ticle from the Chicago Tribune. The
article should be read and remembered
by every citizen. General Sherman, and
journals like the Tribune, are forcing the
fight for 1892 on the Republican side.
The four Republican candidates for
the speakership Of the next House are al
4, making an active electioneering can
vass. They don't know but what Presi-
den. Harrison will call an extra session
and they are trying to be ready for it,
Brother w. w. Moore, Of Starke, has
again entered the journalistic arena, this
being the seventh Florida paper that he
has presided over The first number Of his
new paper, the Bradford County Znder,
has reached our desk. 1t is neat and
newsy eight-page journal and we hope
that it will prove successful venture.
Representative Stewart. of Georgia,
has introduced a bill to establish grad
uated tax, which provides that all indi-
viduals, corporations and estates in the
United States receiving an annual net in
come of $4,000 and upward, shall be as
sessed at per cent. on an income of from
$4,000 to $4,000, and gradually increase,
all incomes over 100000 being assessed
10 per cent.
In the Senate, last Wednesday. Mr.
Plumb offered resolution, which was
agreed to, instructing the committee on
epidemic diseases to inquire as to the
causes OF the introduction Of yellow fever
into Florida during the past season,
whether the instrumentalties Of such in
PRODUCTION are still in force, and what
legislation, if any, is necessary to prevent
similar or other introduction of yellow
fever.
We are getting tired of this gush
about Mr.. Harrison's Southern policy.
We are more interested in finding out
what his Northern, or, more properly
speaking, National policy will be. A
people who endured the oppression of the
reconstruction period under Grant, with
bayonet rule and robbery, will certainly
survive any policy that Mr.. Harrison is
likely to give the country. He cannot
have two policies-one for the North and
one for the South. His policy must be a
National policy.