The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-04-02
Ta'Iaha>~ee. Fla. April ,. 1859.

Chicago had a million dollar fire last Tues
day.
Senator P.sco returned to his home in Mon
Ii el'o, last week
Fred d ouglass and the Interstate Dill will
draw immense crowds to the Jacksonville Sub
Tropical.
The name of J r Chalen is now mentioned
in connection with the vacant Florida District
] ,dgeship.
The President has issued a proclamation
opening the Oklahoma lands to settlement at
noon April 22
Governor Fleming has appointed Napoleon
B Broward, the present incumbent, sheriff OF
Duval county.
John Blight, the eminent English Com
moaer, died Wednesday after lingering illness
His loss will be felt all over Great Britain.
From twenty five TO forty Railway Mail
Agents are to be examined by NJ. NJ. Davis
Chief Clerk of the Florida Service, this week.
General Manager Webb, Secretary Adams
and Colonel Cash Thomas, of the Jacksonville
Sub-Tropical, are constant in their attentions 10
visitors.
Postmaster General Wanamaker says that
he intends, as one Of his first acts, to take hold
of the railway mail service and see if it cannot
be improved
Mr.. Seavey, manager Of Mr. Fag'er's pala-
tal hotels at 81. Augustine, gave members of
the press and their families half rates, but they
were given FULL fare
-Halstead was rejected OF account Of his
criticisms on Senators, and when he turns his
guns loose on Senators in the future they may
wish they had confirmed him.
We are under obligations to Senator Oscar
B. Smith, of the ST. Augustine Daily News, and
Col Henderson, for special courtesies during the
sessions OF the Press Association.
-Messrs. r II. Marks and \. y. Densler,
Madison county's Commissioners at the Sub
Tropical, are the right men in the right place,
and Madison county will proft-as she deserves
t. do-Grom her excellent exhibit at the Sub
Tropical.
Chairman Cheney, of the Florida Republic
can Executive Committee, has been in close con
sutation with the Assistant PJStm ,ster General
at Washington, and i; is understood that over
one hundred Florida postmast-rs will be given
the grand bounce" this week
-lne lines mon says That there Is cOn>id-
cradle speculation in that city as to what cor
poralion is making the railroad survey from
Savannah to Brunswick and Jacksonville A
splendid corps of engineers is in the field, and
some great project is under cons lera'i0n
Late advces from Samoa tell OF a terrific
hurricane, in which three American and four
G rman mer- 0f-war were driven upon reel
four officers and forty six men were drowned,
and Of the German crews, nine officers and
eighty seven men lost their lives
We regret 10 notice that Marion county has
brought out two candidates to succeed r lway
Commissioner Hines. The confess for the APP
pointment ought to be left solely between Mr.
Fl mes and the candidate OF the railroads. Mr.
Hines experience and his endorsement by the
leading orange growers of the State ought to
secure his retention in office L aesburg Lees
burger
Fish turtles, etc. are being destroyed
about fifteen miles of Jupiter Inle, by
al oily substance which has made its APP
pearance on the water recently. Ii is sup
posed that some submarine disturbance
has opened a vein of petroleum. The
matter will be invest gated and if oil is
really found that section Of Florida Will have an
unprecedented BOOM