The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-01
FLORIDA'S CAPITAL.
The Year to be Lively One Among
the Politicians.

The Year to be a Lively One Among
the Politicians.
TALLAHASSEE, FLA, Feb. 2S.-Although
this is not general election year it will be-
quite lively in Florida, and the legisla-
ture elected this year will elect a United
States senator Calls friends avow their
intention to re-elect him, and those opposed
to the senator are just as determined in
their declarations that they will defeat his
reelection.
1t is rumored here that Congressman
Davidson has written personal friend that
he will not be a candidate for reelection,
and as consequence politicians of this con
greSSional district are casting about for q
strong man as his successor. Several names
ave been suggested; among them are Hon.
e. c. Love OF Quincy, Hon. j. Ernes5 Yonge
of Pensacola, Stephen r. Mallory of PEN
sacola, and others, and if the rumor that
Mr.. Davidson will not be candidate proves
true the outlook is that the woods will be
full of aspirants.
THE GENESIS OF FLORIDA PHOSPHATES.
In a letter to State Chemist Norman
Robinson, referring to the genesis of
FLORIDA phosphates, Prof Lawrence C.
Johnson of the United States Geological
survey says: Sin middle neocene times
Florida consisted of a chain of islands. The
smaller of these, out of reach of land ami
mails, were the haunts of sea birds. Bird
Key, III Tampa bay, aud some others along
the coast, are illustrations. The advent OF
the all-destroyer man, rapidly deminishei
the birds in the later neocene periods. To
the birds were due great deposits of guano.
If this had been a rainless region like the
cast of Peru, the guano beds would have
remained unaltered, as upon the islam DIS
of that sea. Here, however, the ele-
ments forbade such a state of rest
The soluble portions carried away per-
mitted the comparatively insoluble phos-
pilates to unite with the underlying
hmestones, marls or Shells Where the bed
rock of the bird island happened to be ex-
posed, you have pure phosphates; where the
surface of the island was sandy, you have the
Impure forms of the mother rock as at
Tallahassee, Welbourn, Newnansville and
other places of the main ridge of high lands
of Florida. This is the whole thing. The
dlsintegration of the mother rock and the
redeposition of the more insoluble nodules,
accounts for many other varieties of the
deposits The occurrence of the quantity
OF sllicified material in the midst of or
beneath the phosphates also receives eluci-
dalton upon the hypothesis silica was rem
oered soluble las SUPPOSED by the strong
aikales of the guauo-abounding "a it did
In ammonia, with some carbonate of lime
and potash"
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
The Tallahassee hotels have many NOR Q
guests than last season. Quite number of
Chicago people are spending the seaso n
here
Ex-Gov. W. d. Bioxham, n. D. McCul-
loch, and other Tallahasseaus, are spending
few weeks at Suwannee Sulphur Springs.
Miss Sallie D. Barnes, the daughter of
State Comptroller w. d. Barnes. was mar
ried at Mariana Wednesday to Perry Hol-
If Tacl
vile
The contract for erecting the new state
seminary here has been awarded to W. T.
Davis.
H. b. Carpenter, Tallahassee new mayor
has started IN with the avowed purpose of
enforcing the Sunday law. He will employ
only white policemen.
DIR. Joseph Y. Porter, state health officer,
was among the prominent visitors here this
week