The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-12-04

Leon Cornet Band went out on serenade
Friday night and made excellent music.
DR. b. r. Radford, son of DR.. w. B. Rad
ford, has returned from visit to Newark, n j.
A four hole, No. 7 cooking stove named
Golden Gate at the Racket Store only $1,000
Hon Thomas F. Swearingen, Senator elect
of the Fifth Senatorial District, was in ITALIA
hassee last week.
The County Commissioners are setting this
week as an Equalization Board, to hear COM
plants as to over assessment of property, etc.
See notice elsewhere in this issue.
-Messrs r. j. Roberts & Son received four
large wagon loads of excellent hay yesterday.
It was raised on Mr.. 7. J. Roberts own planta-
ton aud is equal to he best Timothy.
If you want to read the FLoRIDIAN-Flori-
da's Great Dollar Weekly-all next year, send in
your Dollar now, and receive the paper free fo,
the remainder of 1888.
Persons who lead life of exposure are subs
iecj TO rheumatism, neuralgia and lumbagO, an
will find valuable remedy IN Dr. j. H. NcLean'd
Volcanic Oil Linlment; it will Danish pain and
subdue inflammation. Nov 3.m
Sheriff Hurst, OF Townsville, captured Ma
poleon White the Leon county wife murderer,
him by Governor Perry, but Sheriff Pearce was
only four hours behind him on the trail
One advantage of the new brownsville,
Tallahassee and Monticello route is that it
brings US the ever popular Savan nah Morning
Neacs red hot from the type. 1t is read in Talla.
hassee now just twenty -four hours ahead Of any
other daily of the same date.
Club subscriptions for the FLoRIDIAN and
7eras .Sjttings are coming in freely. Subscribe
quick, and get two of the best papers published
| for only two dollars-one dollar each
Sick headache is the bane of many lives
| To cure and prevent this annoying complaint
| use DR.. J. Il. McLeans Little Liver and Kidney
| Pillets They are agreeable to take and gentle
in their action, 25 cents vial. Nov 3-m
-Johu B. Hawkins, manager of the Boule-
ward Hotel, the only hotel for colored people in
! the city, announces that be is now prepared for
the reception Of guests John knows how to
keep hotel as it should be.
In a wreck on the ST. Marks railroad, last
Tuesday, Anderson Burt, colored section hand,
was killed. Mr. Allen Scott and Conductor
William Hines were badly bruised, and Robert
Austin, colore1, had rib broken.
"A hole cook stove No. named the Har-
vest, at the Racket Store, for only SO so.
| Captain D. B. Dunn, of the United States
Engineer Corps, whose headquarters have been
at Tallahassee for the past three months, has re-
! ceived instructions to examine the St. Marks
| river with view to having Congress pass an
| appropriation for opening it to navigation.
Mr.. T. J. Roberts and wife have returned
from trip to Kentucky and Tennessee While
there Mr. Roberts purchased a number Of very
fine horses and mules for his firm, Messrs I. !.
Roberts & Son, which they are now offering for
sale at reasonable prices.
South Florida gentleman has just taken
an option from a Tallahassee real estate owner
on one thousand acres Of choice Leon county
land, which he intends planting in LeConte pear
orchards and tobacco fields. He is exI ected in
Tallahassee in few weeks to close the trade and
begin operations.
An East Florida capitalist is bargaining for
the purchase of large plantation in the ITALIA
hassee Country, containing eight hundred acres,
and will arrive in Tallahassee in a few days to
examine it in person His intention is to oper-
ate it as dairy, fruit and tobacco farm
Governor Perry has appointed the follow
ing ladies delegates to represent Florida at the
Forestry Congress, which convenes at Atlanta
tomorrow Mrs Ellen Call Long, Mrs. Mary
Stockton Young, Miss Maggie G. Williams, Miss
Lila Lewis, Miss Maggie A. Pearce Miss Carrie
Brevard and Miss Corinnt Walker
DIR. Geo l.. Walker, the enterprisng drug
gist of the growing town of Waukeenah came
in this morning to subscribe for the FLoRIDIAN,
and TO renew the subscription of Mr.. J. r. Saun-
ders who had been subscriber to the FIoRI-
DIAN since 1850.
Sheriff Pearce carried Sam Fulton and Cary
Miles, two Thomas county cotton thieves, up to
Tnomasville last week and exchanged them for
Napoleon White, the wife murderer While
there he also captured mule and cart which
had been stolen from Leon county colored
man.
"A colOred woman was standing in the rear
of the Masonic building Saturday evening and
was overheard talking to herself in the follow
ing strain "Dem folks better come on. Left
me here to hold dis gin for 'em. Ii dey want
any of dis gin dey better come on. Fore de
Lawd, | is gwinter hold it !" At this point of
her remarks she lifted the flask to her lips-and
peculiar, musical, gurgng sound followed The
act
Mrs w. Naylor Thompson and children
and her neice, Miss Emmie Roberts, departed
last evening on special for their home, Fernap-
dina. Their many Tallahassee friends regret
1l1n.. l.