The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-11-05
Tallahassee. Fla, Nov. 5, Ess.
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In ten States of the Union to-day
elections are being held.
Show the FLoRIDIAN to your
neighbor, and ask him to try one
doHdr-oNE YEAR-subscription.
The Clyde line pays out from
$500 to 81 900 per week in Jackson
Vile to laborers for handling freight.
Jurors for the regular December
term of the L. S. Court were to-day
drawn from that famous 22-to-one
box.
President Harrison has issued
his proclamation setting apart
Thursday, November IS, as a day
of National Thanksgiving.
Chairman Chipley has called the
Democratic State Committee to meet
at the Duval House in Jacksonville,
Thursday night, 18th inst.
Senator Call is canvassing the
East coast and will speak at DeLeon
Springs next Tuesday. The railroads
will give half rate fares for the &C.
casion.
The Clyde Line has secured con-
troll of the DeBary St. Johns river
steamer line and will run a continu-
ous line of boats between New York
and Sanford.
Hon. J. j. Willie, private secre-
tary to Senator Pasco, was married
at Washington Saturday to Miss
Clara Reasoner, a beautiful belle of
Osborne, Kansas.
Hon. R. W. Davis has resigned
as attorney for the Jacksonville,
Tampa and Key West system, and
will open an office in Palatka for
general practice.
The Florida Agricultural Col
lege Cadet Herald, is new school
monthly Published at Lake City,
Prof. F. L. Kern, Manager, and A.
Wright, Editor-in-chief.
Was this outrage mill started up
in Florida to divert public attention
from Montana, in order that the Re-
publicans might succeed in their ne
farious work OF stealing the election
in that State?
Mr.. Raymond Dodd, the sixteen
year-old son Of the editor of the
Lake City Herald-Reporter, died at
the home of his father, October Goth.
The FLoRID1AN extends sincere sym
patty to the bereaved parent.
Rev. Jas. p. DePass, Director
of the Experiment Station at the
State Agricultural College, Lake
City, has issued bulletin No. 4, de
voted principally to peach growing
in Florida. 1t contains much valua-
BILE information.
MIR. William A. Emmons, re-
Gently connected with the Burling-
ton, Iowa, Gazette, and an expert
enced journalist, has purchased an
interest in the St. Andrews Bay
Messenger, and his trenchant pen
will hereafter help to boom that ia
vored section of West Florida.
1t is now believed by many that
the indictments being ground out by
the 22-to-one grand jury at Jackson
vile, are wanted for use in the inter
est of dragged Mouth" Goodrich,
in his contest for Gen. Bullock's seat
in Congress, and to which the Gen
eral was honestly elected by ma
jority of 3,l95.
Ex-Governor Bloxham has been
removed from the position of L. S.
Surveyor General of Florida, by
President Harrison, and John c.
Slocum, of Orlando, appointed. AS
Governor Bloxham's time was not
out, we presume Harrison desired
again to illustrate his peculiar devo-
ton to civil service reform. Orange
county seems to be catching many
of the best Republican plums.
They talk of erecting q monu
ment to Governor Fleming in Wash
ington. We protest! 1t took nearly
one hundred years to complete the
monument to the Father of his Coun
try. Generally, after man dies, the
final nail is driven into the coffin O
his oblivion by some fend who pro
.1.or