The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-07-09

The price of sugar has advanced
about forty per cent.
1t is estimated that there are now
standing in the Florida forests 6,6l5, 000,-
600 feet of long leaf pine.
constitutional conventions met on
the 4th in North Dakota, Montana and
Washington.
Canada is stirred by political volca-
noes, and the pre'udices of race and relig-
ion threaten the Dominion with civil
war.
The Jacksonville Metropolis was two
years old last Tuesday, and though SO
young it is one of the best and brightest
dailies in the State
Thomas Ewing Sherman, son of
General William T. Sherman, was or
dained to the Catholic priesthood in the
Cathedral at Philadelphia last Sunday.
The Geographic news brings the
usual quota of Fourth Of July casualties,
deaths and disasters. When will people
learn to quit playing with gunpowder?
1t is said that the owners of the pine
straw patent intend to establish five mills,
each to turn out 100000 yards of bag
ging, in time to wrap the bales of this
years cotton crop.
The Chipley annexation basket pic
mic proved to be not grand affair; no
annexation resolutions were introduced
and the Alabama visitors returned home
feeling very much like becoming part
and parcel of Florida themselves.
The local physicians of Johnstown,
Pa, have entered a vigorous protest
against the charitable work of the Red
Cross Society Physicians. No notice was
taken Of the matter by the authorities.
The sympathies Of the public will be
strongly against the attitude of the doc
tors.
The same coal miners who are now
appealing for aid in Indiana and Illinois,
because the mines are all closed down,
sent delegations to Indianapolis last fall
to hear Harrison talk about the beauties
of the protective" tariff. They now
know from sad experience the falsity OF
that doctrine.
E. L. Harper, who wrecked the Fl
deity Bank of Cincinnati, two years ago,
thereby cheating hundreds of poor people
out of their hard earned wages, and who
is now in the Ohio penitentary, is said to
be conducting business giving profit
of 100000 a year. 1t seems he has
bought off the officials.
Some of the Republican papers claim
that the report that Senator Bill Chandler
bought votes to secure his nomination is
incredible. However, the only reason
they give is that he had votes enough
without buying any more, and is too
shrewd to uselessly expend money in the
purchase of unneeded votes
The future disposition Of corpses was
thought to be settled when cremation
was put in practice. Now a new theory
is being discussed. 1t is called desicca-
tion." 1t is process Of drying all or
ganic matter out of the body, leaving a
shrivelled shell, which is to be preserved
in tombs built for the purpose.
Colorado Springs, COL, has donated
eighty acres of land within one mile of
that city to the international Typograph-
ical Union, on condition that the Union
build Home for Aged Printers on the
land, the building to cost not less than
$4,000 aud to be finished within three
years. The offer was accepted
Hon A. p. Butler, Commissioner Of
Agriculture of South Carolina, has issued
circular requesting Convention of the
Commissioners of the Cotton States to
consider the question Of the use of cotton
bagging He thinks that such Conven-
ton should be held in order to encourage
the use of bagging made of cotton instead
of jute.
Three hundred American civil engi
neers breakfasted last week in Paris.
The speeches were recorded in a graphic
phone which was placed in a corner oil
the room, and will be placed in the rooms
Of the American Society of Civil Engi
neers in New York. This is said to be
the first attempt of the kind made