The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-02-19

sonville beginning on the Goth.
Gen. w. T. Sherman expresses him
self as very much in favor of the govern
ment caring for disabled Confederate sol
diers.
Through vestibule trains are now
running between New Orleans and the
City of Mexico. The run is made in
seventythree hours.
Rev. Holland n. McTyiere, Senior
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, died at his residence in
Nashville, Tennessee, Friday.
director General Webb has secured
Gartland's New York Tenth Regiment
Band for the Jacksonville Sub-Tropical,
and it will arrive in time for the opening.
Mr. Blaine wants the United States
to purchase Cuba and stamp out the
yellow fever on this island, 50 that it may
not be a constant menace to this country.
Grand idea Big job!
The Georgia Supreme Court has
granted new trial to Thomas Voolfolk,
convicted about year ago toi the muir
der of his father and eight other members
of the family, near Macon.
The House has passed the bill adj
hitting North Dakota, South Dakota,
Montana, Washington and New w Nico as
States, and it is thought that the Senate
will push the bill through and send ii to
the President for his signature.
Maine doesll'j seem to believe in bal
lot REFORM y legislative committee,
which considered the subject, made an
adverse report on it. Name is NJ.
Blaine's Stat. Probably Mr.. Blaine
thinks all attempts at ballot reform should
be confined TO the South.--Savannah
News.
Old Middle and West Florida no
longer sleepeth. That country is bound
to be the garden spot of Flori,'a. We
of the east must look out for onr lauYels.
Oranges or cotton-which The scale
will always turn in favor of the section
that makes the most meat and bread :
Palatka Herald.
Have the negro delegates from the
South who asked Mr. Harrison toappoint
Mr. EvartS Acknowledgement in order to
insure the counting of the negro census
as the Republican vote forgotten how
completely tbs scheme failed when Mr.
EvartS was Attorney General under
Hayes? 1t is not possible to turn back
the hands on the big dial Of time-New
York World
1t is stated in New York Rcpubl-
can newspaper that the colored people of
the Second Florida District are testifving
right along that they were inundated at
the recent election. We don't hear of
any testimony being tax n on charges OF
Republican freud and intimidation in
Northern Congressional Districts. This
is not because fraud an intimidation were
not practiced in them. Savannah News.
The Republican Legislature Of Maine
has rejected a ballot reform bill, and in
the Indiana Senate eleven Republicans
to one Democrat voted against similar
bill, based on the Australian system,
upon its final passage. VIII the Tribune
and o'her organic Republican Journals
note and rebuke these delinquenc.ts IN
their party? Probably not SAYS the
New York World.
Col. c. G. Yonge, Of Pensacola. died
at Jacksonvillee last sunday, and hi, re-
mains were yesterday taken to his home
for intcrment Col. Yonge was for a lone
series OF years Il prominent and useful
man, respected for his many noble traits
OF character and beloved by all who
knew him. He was the first United
States Attorney for the Territory of
Florida. Col. Yonge leaves a wife. two
daughters and three sons, to whom the
FLoRIDIAN extends sincere confidence
in their sad bereavement.
indianapolis is laughing over baby
story. There is a horrible partisan plan
on foot to inoculate the infant offspring
of 81 Sheerin, Secretary of the National
Democratic Committed, with virus taken
from the infant Mckee, thereby to cap
ture the rising Democratic generation.
Gen. Harrison's family physician is
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