The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-08-06
Tallahassee, Fla. Aug. 9. 1889.

sacolian have consolidated.
The racks of the Savannah, FLORIDA
and Western Railway are being relalo
with seventy pound steel rails.
A scheme is on foot at Fall River,
Mass. to organize trust to gobble up
all the cotton mills of the country.
Hon. Robert F. Rogers has sold MS
paper. the Live Oak Banner of Liberty,
70 Messrs. W. Red Bynum and Calvin J..
McGehee.
General Boulanger was showed un-
der in the French election last week. lie
carried only twelve out of the five hun
dred and fifty cantons.
The only way to break up the trusts
which are robbing the people is to reduce
or abolish the tariff on those articles
which the trusts now control.
New York wholesale fruit merchants
held meeting August to form trust
to control the Florida orange crop. The
Florida Orange. Growers Association
may have something to say about that
The low grounds around Galena,
Illinois, were visited by frosts on August
1st. which did considerable damage to
growing crops. Corn suffered In the
most exposed places and tobacco was
seriously injured.
John L. Sullivan too long delayed
his departure for Canada and has been
arrested on requisition from Governor
Lowry and conveyed to Mississippi to
stand trial for ignoring the laws OF that
State in being a party to the Sullivan
Kilrain prize fight.
The Democrats of Ohio, whose State
Convention is near at hand, are made OF
the right sort of stuff. They have no in
tention of sneaking into power by way
of Republican measure They are max
ing bold and aggressive tariff reform
fight.
The editor of the Jacksonville Chron
icle, Republican paper, says editorially:
/" But it is not alone for the colored race
we contend our own color equally, if not
more so, demands our attention" What
does he mean Is he green with jeal-
ousy?
Ed Wambley, who was at Live Oak
with Bingley's circus at the time of the
killing OF Marshal Overstreet, is said to
have confessed to a Mrs Cole, a medicine
peddler at Richmond, Va, that ne COM
mitted the crime. He has been arrested
and carried to Madison for safe keeping.
Mrs. President Harrison interceded
in behalf of California convict and Sc
cured his release, because he sent her
copy of Republican campaign song he
wrote last fall Now that Mrs. Harrison's
tender side has been discovered, she will
be flooded with convict-Republican cam
paign poetry.
Mr. Wanamaker is finding Wyoming
hard Territory on postmasters. James
Averill, who was appointed to manage
the affairs of one of the postofices in that
Territory, was so unfortunate as to be
lynched for cattle-stealing, and now his
successor, A. j. Boutwell,, is under arrest
for helping to lynch Averill.
The States of the South pension
their dependent soldiers and soldiers
widows, and the lists are generally
small. Comparison of the quiet outlay
of pension money in the South with the
grand scramble and rush made by North
ern pensioners on the national treasury
at Washington shows the different char
acteristics of different people.
The Fleming-Goff contest for the
governorship of West Virginia is still
unsettled, though nearly year has
passed since the election, and Governor
Wilson still holds the Office. 1t is thought,
however, that the Commission now en-
gagged in investigating the case will soon
decide in favor of Judge Fleming, as all
the testimony thus far taken has been in
his favor
The managers of the great monopo-
lies and trust combines, who contributed
so literally to the Harrison campaign
fund, are now getting back what they
paid by grinding down the wages of their
laborers and by forming combinations to