The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-08-20

Florida is now in the whirl of an
industrial era, and is, consequently, boom
ing.
Governor Lowry is champion. John
l.. Sullivan gets twelve months in county
Jail.
Who is the biggest man of the pres
ent administration, Blaine or Baby Nc
Kee
1t is now limited that Boss Quay is
working up presidential boom for him
self for 1892.
The Sugar Trust may not be Able to
raise Cain, but they can raise the price of
sugar at will.
Several cases of blood poisoning
have occurred from experiments with the
Brown-Sequard Elixir
The bill Incorporating the Georgia
and West Florida Railroad passed the
Georgia Senate Wednesday.
-Balaam's Ass has spoken. See
Times-C Mon August l4th, second page.
The Old South-the South under Re-
publican carpet-bag rule the New South
the South under white Democratic
rule
-Florida's incompatible climate can
give Dr. Brown-Sequards elixir two IN
the game and then do more to prolone
life than it.
Three Commissioners representing
Brazil as delegates to the international
Congress OF American Nations arrived
in New York Friday.
A model Of Tanners wooden leo
should be erected as monument in
Washington aud labeled "a limb of
he WHO solved the perplexing problem Of
reducing the surplus"
the Florida Board Of Pharmacists
were in session at Pablo Beach on the
l4th and 18th instants and organiz ID by
electing DR.. J. d. Palmer. of Monticello,
President, and Ed. DeoueSt, of Ocala,
Secretary and Treasurer.
1t now appears that Geo. II. Mill
man, of Fort Meade, did not commit sui
eide, but was murdered while asleep, the
pistol ball entering the back part Of his
head and passing To the front. The cor
oners jury brought in a verdict to this
effect
-Ciencral Boulanger now appears as a
possible factor in the religious movement
in France. NJ. Edmond de Pressense, in
an article in IIarper's Magazine for Sep
tember, incidentally explains the Gener-
al's relation to a fraction of the Catholic
party.
Late Government investigation has
proven that the Gulf Stream originates at
a point eleven and half miles east of
Fowey Rocks lighthouse, Florida, in the
Caribbean sea- The cause Of the stream
is unknown. It's action and velocity are
controlled by the moon.
The High Court of the French Senate
has tried General Boulanger, found him
guilty Of conspiracy and sentenced him
to transportation and confinement in
some fortified place" The funny part of
the business is that Boulanger is and has
been for long time Tree man and
voluntary exile from France; he secured
his own transportation in advance OF
the trial and will not likely place himself
in the clutches Of his enemies.
"A meeting of the Agricultural Com
missiOners from several States was re-
Gently held at Atlanta to discuss the
question of the cotton producers securing
paw for the difference in weight between
cotton and jute bagging. The difference
amounts to about eight pounds on bale.
The cotton bagging costs more and is
much more desirable than jute. North
ern cotton buyers will benefit greatly by
the change, but object to paying the diff
ference.
-Pensacola's champion boy walker
Henry Klink, has beaten the record and
is now the champion fast walker OF the
world; last Wednesday he walked one
mile in SIX minutes and twenty seconds,
making three seconds the fastest time
ever recorded. Klink won the Chatta-
hoochee Valley Exposition gold and sill
yer medal at Columbus, last year, and