The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-01-08

y ne DAILY IcnSacollan mas Deen ais
continued but the weekly will appear
regularly.
The bonded debt of the State of
Florida, in the hands of individuals, is
1892, 300
We have received the first issue Of
the Ocala Daily Press, a spicy and wide
awake journal.
Wall street magnates are talking up
Southern securities and are preparing for
heavy investments.
The first issue of the daily Ocala
Banner has reached our desk. 1t is
bright, newsy and neat.
"A malignant form of diphtheria is pre-
vailing in Lehigh county, Pennsylvania,
of which many have died
Ex-Governor Porter, of Indianapolis,
is being doomed for a soft seat in Presi-
dent-elect Harrison's Cabinet.
Mr.. w. Red Bynum has purchased
an interest in the Live Oak Banner, of
which he becomes local editor
Mn. JAMES LAYNE, and not SAYNE,
is the gentleman elected to the House of
Representatives from Manatee county.
-Membraneous Group has prevailed all
winter in lower Bucks county, Pennsyl-
yania, and several children have died
from it.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has
sold his plantation near Butler to the
Flint River Land and Live Stock Compa-
ny for $4,000.
The Monticello Constitution begins
the new year by charging to eight pages
and is much improved in general make
up and news service.
Mr.. Gideon Westcott, retired Jour.
nalist, and brother of the late DR.. John
Westcott, of St. Augustine, died in Phla-
delphia on the I'd inst, of heart disease.
The bills for admitting five new
States and opening Oklahoma as Terri
tory, are thought to have good chance
for passage by the present Congress.
Those who ale in position to know
Mr. Blaine's feeling, assert that there
will be " merry little war " in the Re-
publican camp if Mr. Blaine is left out in
the cold.
All convicts in Florida should be
made to work the roads. Good roads are
boon any State, ard no State is more
badly in need Of them than Florida. Put
the convicts to building them and in ten
years Florida will have good roads from
one ena to the othcr.--Ocala Banner.
-Michaei Crow, plasterer, was stab
bed in the left breast hy his brothe:-in
law, IA New York city, on New Years
day, and died soon alter This was the
first murder Of 1889 ia New York State,
and the criminal, if convicted OF murder
in the first degree, viii be the first u sal;
fer death By electricity. His trial VII
be watched WIKI 4rcat interest Dy the
entire world.
The Legislature Of A'aba Al elpp'e
az its rcc'nt session n JONI resolution
c&lllng "A conferences o. quarantine regN-
lations to meet in n'gomcry March G.
The Govcrnorha> forwarded letters to tine
Governors OF Georgia, Tsxl-. Louisiana,
Mississippi, Florida, South Carolin",
North Carolina, Tennessee, Mcnturky
and Illinois, requesting hem 10 appoint
delegates to the conference.
Mr.. SPIN gel, Of Illinois, ras intro
duced into the House a joint resolution
proposing a Constitutional amendment
relative TO the election o. President and
Vice President and Representatives in
Congress. Il extends the presidential
term to six wears and makes the President
ineligible for reelection; it also abol-
ishes the Electoral College and provides
TO- direct vote IF the people,
The South Florida Orange Growers
were delighted with their visit to Talla-
hassee last we, k, ami they were specially
gratifed with the pr, cccdings in Tie Su-
preme Court aud before the Railroad
Commission. They all spoke in high
terms of Attorney General CoOpcr's able
argument in ami fprcibie presentation of
their case to the court. A number of the
party told us their eyes were first opened