The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-11-19

eminent.
Rich gold fields have been dis
covered in Montgomery county,
North Carolina.
1t is said that Prince Ferdinand,
of Bulgaria, is to be ousted from the
rulership of that country.
Miss Frances E. Willard has been
reelected president of the National
Women's Christian Temperance
Union.
Col Primus Jones, the famous
first bale man of Georgia, has this
year picked out two hundred and
forty bales of cotton-thirty to the
mule.
1t is said that the Cherokee In
dams will employ attorneys to con-
test the governments claim of juris-
diction over their lands known as
the Cherokee strip.
The result Of the recent cleo
tions means that the people have no
confidence in the Republican party,
and they voted to rebuke the Harri-
son administration.
1t is thought that the appeal
cases Of Dick Halves, Fannie Bryant
and others from Birmingham will not
be reached in the Supreme Court of
Alabama until sometime in Deem
Der.
The Southern lumbermen, in SEES
sion at Montgomery, Ala, represent
ing the States of Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Florida and Georgia, have
heartily endorsed Chicago for the
Worlds Fair.
Col. w. d. Chipley, Chairman
of the Democratic State Executive
Committee, has rendered his resig-
nation, to take effect upon the selec-
tion of his successor. The reason
given for this step is that he has been
unavoidably drawn into a discussion
with Senator Call and thinks it best
for the party that he should resign.
Mr.. Sadler, Supervisor of Regis
tration for Alachua, has pleaded
guilty in the United States Court, at
jacksonville, to two indictments re-
turned against him by the 22-to-one
jury for violation of the election
law. What does this mean? Is the
man frightened into taking this step,
or is the damnable plot spreading
growing wider, deeper, darker and
more hellish?
MIR. Sadler, Supervisor of Regis
tration for Alachua county, through
his attorney, Judge John w. Ashby,
pleaded guilty in the L. S. Court to
two indictments for violations of
election law. Perhaps Mr.. Sadler
thought it better to do this, and
throw himself on the mercy of the
court, than to risk his chances with
a jury organized to convict
Nellie Bly,, the very best of all
the New York Worlds immense
corps of writers, has started on tour
around the world, and will undoubt-
edly beat the record. Her letters are
always bright and interesting and the
public will look forward with anxious
for the first installment of
Miss Nellie's spicy account of Incl
dents and notes along the route of
travel
The Boston Herald says: Per-
haps the most SOLDERING thought of
all to-day is, how has this Democratic
party, which came out of the war of
the rebellion so small in numbers and
with so heavy record to carry, been
built up into its present formidable
proportions ? Do their opponents
really think that their own policy has
not been in a large degree RESPONSE
BILE for such a state of affairs?
We have information to the eff
feet that in some counties the inno-
cent men who are being dragged be-
fore the United States Court for AL
legged violation of election laws are
being neglected in that they are left
to their own meagre resources to de-
fend themselves. To put it as mildly
as we can, this is radically wrong.