The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-10-29
Prof. B. w. Helvenston is now

editor of the Live Oak Banner.
Senator Pasco visited Mayport
last week and examined the jetties
at the mouth of the St. Johns river.
The result OF the election in In
dianapolis fell upon Harrison like a
wet blanket on a blustery winter
day.
A complete jury was secured in
the Cronin case last Tuesday. The
impanelling of the jury began Au-
gust 4.
The King of Portugal died Sat-
urday. His eldest son, the duke of
Braganza, will succeed him and as
sumo the title of Carlos.
What's the matter with Chalm-
ers =? The Republican State Execu-
tive Committee of Mississippi have
Withdrawn their State ticket.
They may call Chicago "Pork-
opolis," but she is not "hoggish"
enough to select a site for the Worlds
Fair until sufficient money has been
put up.
The Monthly Monitor is new
journalistic venture at Bronson. 1t
starts out as a regular boomer for
Levy county, and should be literally
patronized.
New York is troubled with olive
wires,' but her capitalists do not
seem to be very live in coming for
ward with the cash to secure the
Worlds Fair.
The New York World says that
the Republican scheme to steal the
election in Montana is grotesquely
unrepublican, but it seems to be mod
ern Republicanism.
Seminary Siftings is the name of
spicy little monthly pub ished by
the students of East Florida Semina-
ry, Gainesville. Cadet Captain w.
NJ. Davis is editor-in-chief.
The Tallahassee FLoRIDIAN has
been enlarged to forty-eight columns
instead of forty, as heretofore. We
are proud of the success of the Flo
RIDIAN, and wish it continuance of
the prosperity it now enjoys-Perry
Banner.
The New York World has at
last conceded that Chicago is "hust-
Ing for the Worlds Fair, and adj
mits that it is generally the "huster"
who gets there. 1t also says that
New York is taking quite too many
things for granted in the matter.
President Eliot, of Harvard Col
lege, has renounced the Harrison
party, thrown off the yoke of Repub-
llcan oppression, and proclaimed that
from henceforth he will be Demo
crat. Contrasting the Cleveland ad-
mlnistration with Harrison's is what
caused the change.
Governor Fleming, by virtue of
his office, is member OF the National
Board Of Promotion for the Worlds
Fair in 1892. AT meeting Of the
board in Washington last week he
made a speech strongly favoring the
national capital as the place for hold
ing the fair.
The colored orator. Prof. Lang
ston, VOLUNTEERED to help Malone in
Virginia, but Billy's managers have
cast damper over his enthusiasm
by telling him plainly that he might
talk at the negro meetings but was
not wanted to speak to white folks.
Why doesn't the New York Mail and
Express or the Tribune emit few
sparks on this Southern outrage ?"
The Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West system of roads, which had
filed with the Railroad Commission
protest against the rates allowed
on oranges and vegetables, on Tues
day last, in the morning of the day
set for the hearing, abandoned the
protest, saying they would not in
sist on the increase they had re.
quested.
MANY rumors are afloat as to
the construction Of new railroads and
the establishment of steamshin l;ros