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capable girl for general w 1hansework.s GEO. F. SHEPARD, South st,aef Bethel, Conn.
The Newtown bee., 1891-02-13

NOR RENT-A desirable Milk Farm to rent k of 200 acres, with suitable outbulldIngs, situated three miles from Bridgeport, on Park 1891 Enquire of LORENZO HALL, Akron, Ohio. JIOR SALE-My place in Newtown, Hanover \ district, containing B acres, with buildings tharaon win sell stock if buyer wishes In nni,.e of MRS MARY FINNELL, on the prem ises P. o. Newtown, Conn,
 NOR SALE-Two pair Devon stags, four years K old. well matched and broken; also par Devon steers, three years old this Sprlng LOOK 6,.st nrerniuni at Union Agricultural fair, Hunt ineton. last Fall, as two-yearolds; also reg istered Devon heifer two years oIq, L o que 70 caiye in April. Inquire of GEORGE WlNioN, Sandy Hook, Conn.
 Fri FARM FOR SALE-75 acres of good M Iand within miles of city, Address [ 0CK R1X l723. Bridgeport.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
a TAX TALK.

Are the property owners of Leon
county prepared to pay $4,000 per
annum more taxes than they are now
paying?
Nor Then perhaps it would be
wise to do some thinking.
Next Saturday is the day upon
which you are to decile by your
gotes-not whether intoxicating
drinks shall be sold in the county or
not-but whether the state, county
and city are to be deprived of the
amount now paid for licenses to sell
liquor-amounting to $4,000 per an
mum.
If voting the county dry would
stop the sale of intoxicating drinks
the FLOR1DIAN would cheerfully say
vote dry and darn the additional
burden of taxation, but it won't dc
il. There would be just as much
liquor sold-just as much if not more
drnnkenness-and we Temperance
tax payers would have to pay tn
adder while the whisky men ant
tOpers did the dancing.
Voting the so-called prohibition
ticket would be in reality voting 70
free whisky, then having to pay a.
additional tax while the habitua
whisky drinker has all the fun.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

ALL the Alliances,w whose utterances
on the subject we have noticed, says
the Atlanta Journal, have declared
in favor of "graduated income tax"
The Ohio democratic state conven-
ton and many democratic papers,
both north and south, have also
pronounced in favor of it. But we
have yet to find republican paper
supporting it. This is another in
stance in which the declared politics
of the Alliance and those of the
republicans, as well as the acts of the
latter are directly opposed.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

placing the rails within easy reach
as fast as the. tracks, laid.
Mr.. r. L. Bennett says the CON
tracts are all let and that work will
begin on the Tallahassee Northern
railway November l. The depot
will be located in Long Grove add
ton and spur will be built to the
LaPierre phosphate mines, connect
ing near there with the track of the
Florida Central and Peninsular road.
The early completion Of the Cara
belle, Tallahassee and Georgia road
is also promised. making three new
railroads that Tallahassee is to have
in operation within q short time.
This is encouraging. Better
transportation facilities is what we
haye Lbeen waiting for. The time
for action has arrived. We should
hustle and be ready to keep those
new roads busy hauling in merchan-
disc and carrying out the products
of our soil and of our manufacturing
enterprises.
Let's keep up with the process
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
BENEFITS OF RECIPROCITY.

There are some queer things in the
world. For instance, the Standard
Oil monopoly will reap more benefit
than any other one concern in this
country from the reciprocity agree
ment respecting Cuba and Porto
Rico, which is to 60 into effect Sep
TENDER l. Perhaps the negotiator
of this agreement didn't think Of
that when he was negotiating with
the Spanish government; but then
again, perhaps he did, and if he did,
he probably also thought about the
presidential election and the big
check that the Standard Oil folks
might be induced to contribute to
the campaign fund OF the republican
party.-St. Augustine Press.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
The Times. Uniop still continues tt

The Times-Uniop still continues to
use it's news columns in grossly mis-
representing Governor Fleming. The
other day it had q paragraph in it's
Tallahassee correspondence that the
governor was in New York with a
number of other Floridians having a
high old time. There was no truth
in the story. Governor Fleming has
not been to New York. He accom-
panied his wife and little daughter
to Asheville, N. c., and was absent
from the state only two weeks-the
first vacation he has taken since his
election, ~
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
CURRENT COMMENT.
NOT ELECTED AT ALL.

But the Constitution of the United
States is the Supreme law of the
land and that instrument provides
that United States senators shall be
elected by the legislatures of the
several states. Mr.. Call was not
elected by the Legislature of Florida.
In other words he was not elected at
all. We desire that Mr.. Call shall
continue in the United States senate,
but not at the expense of broken
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

A Congo native, who has been
taught to read and write, has just
sent a letter, his first, to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury. 1t reads as
follows: "Great and good chief Of
the tribe of Christ, greeting: The
humblest of your servants kisses the
hem of your garments, and begs you
to send to his fellow-servants more
gospel and less rum. In the bonds
of Christ, Ugalia."
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

TIE hot box of the political train
is in Ohio, and it looks very much as
if Mckinley would fail to get sufi-
Gent "tat" to cool it. Campbell has
turned on the full stream of his
eloquence and is washing away the
fat as fast as Mckinley applies it.
McKinleyism must 60. Campbell is
coming. Democracy is Gin it,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
CONFEDERATE VETERANS.

The United Confederate Veterans
organization is. growing rapidly;
new camps are being formed
throughout the south and it is becom.
ing numerically strong.
In this issue we publish an
eloquent and patriotic address from
General J. B. Gordon, general COM
handing, which should accelerate
the formation of new camps. 1t is
a strong appeal. Be sure to read it.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
TRUTH IN 4 MAZE.

The Iconoclast, an outspoken
journal published in Austin, Tex,
weaves together tangle of words that
jingle harmoniously, and out of the
maze CLEAN gems of truth, that
though rough on us happy-go-lucky
southerners, ought to set as to think
ing and put us to work hustling for
more enc rgy and vim than we have
displayed in the past. The Icono-
clast says:
"In no section of this land of the
alleged free and home of the ism does
the blowhard blow longer and louder
and with less excuse than in the
South. We are the people, the non
pareil; there are none like unto US
beneath the sun! From the empyrean
we look down upon common human
ity, talk turgid and swell up with the
vainglory of young turkey-cock
with his first tail feathers! Perhaps
it was well for US to drop the King
Cambyses vein long enough to in
quire what we are chanticleering
about. What have we ever done
that entities us to assume airs of sup
eriority? Nothing in Gods great
world; absolutely nothing. We are
so far in the rear of civilization that
we foolishly imagine ourselves to be
in the van, with the whole world be-
hind US, struggling desperately to
catch up! We speak sneeringly of
the Yankees and yet those same
despised Yankees are our guardians
and tutors, even our protectors,
Without them we were but lost cali
running toolishly about in circles
until some political power lassoed us
aud led US to the shambles.
Take the South proper, south Of
the thirty-hrst parallel. Virginia
and Kentucky, Tennessee and North
Carolina are southern only in name
land how will it compare with New
England? Here we have veritablt
Eden, broad and fertile savannas, &
land ofperennial summer, the riches,
in natural resources IN the Western
World. New England is a cold anc
sterile land, where nature is ever a
fierce war with man. Yet New En-
gland was developed Gentry ago
Her rock hillsides were made to bios
som like the Vale OF Tempe; he
mountains were ransacked for ore
, her forests transformed into stated,
, ships, or still more imposing build
ings; the hum of the factories rose il
city and hamlet; and the rich com
e MERGE of the world rolled in might,
Q waves over her wharves. Now W
! are stretching out our hands implor
ingly to that stormcursed
frost-girt land, praying tina
she will send brain and Draw
r to develop our rich mines, utilize on
D waists forests, build our railways an
Il teach our children the magic art Q
industry; that shes will do for u
what we have been too indolent or to
inapt to do for ourselves. We loo
to the Yankees for everything 70
- our machinery, our very househol
utensils, our capital, our books, GU
D. higher education; for brain to pla
D. and skill to direct our great ente
prises. While New England ha
"a been making reapers and sewing ms
chimes, spinning jennies and tell
= graphs, we have been making FOOLS
q stumpspeechss and moonligt whisk,
le We cannot boast half q dozen me
:. born south of the thirty,fitth parall'
in the South prcper-whom hi
= torians o century hence will col
9 slider worthy Of . dozen lines. w
y have not produced Q dozen bool
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
TALLAHA6sEEs FUTURE.

1t does seem now, after long years
Of waiting, that Tallahassee is to be-
60 ne something of a railroad Gen.
Ger.
Col. c. w. Mclean is pushing the
y ,rk of construction of the Florida,
Gsorgia and Western railway and
track laying will soon begin. The
Arst cargo Of new steel rails will ar
ne here on the nth inst, and on OF
aooat the % inst, Q locomotive and
eeu VIII arrive, to be used in rapidly
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

JUDGE Lathrop of the Massa-
chusetts supreme court has decided
that under the Australian ballot act,
where votes are not challenged, their
legality cannot afterwards be the
subject of inquiry.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

Hon. Wallace S. Jones, formerly
United States Consul to Messina, is
having an elegant residence built in
Washington. Mr.. Jones is Flori-
dian and brainy one.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

Maj. B. W. Bellamy, the most ex-
tensive planter of Jefferson county,
Florida, died in New York last week
of pneumonia.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

1T WILL BE DONE WISELY AND WELL.
The press Of the state continues
badly divided on the senatorial
question ; some papers continue to
heap abuse upon the devoted head Of
Governor Fleming for not confirm
ing Calls election, others are sug-
costing, almost commanding whom
he shall appoint. Is not this all
wrong, and is it not time to call a
halt? Is it right to vilify a public
officer for performing his duty in &C.
cordance with his conscience, his
judgment and his oath of office :?
Would it not be more manly, more
in accord with their own knowledge
and judgment of the man, and more
decent too, for those who believe he
has erred in this matter to assume
that he has erred Loyalty and hon
estly, and so leave him and his re-
cord to his final arbiters-the peo-
Pile? On the other hand is it not
out of place to be thrusting this aud
that nomination upon him? In this
whole matter he stands solitary and
alone in responsibility; upon him
must rest the consequences Of every
error of judgment, and to him will
belong the praise or blame for what
ever appointment he makes. Should
he not then, be left free, untrammeled
and unbiased to do as his conscience
and judgment may dictate? We
have an abiding faith that whatever
Governor Fleming does do will be
done wisely and we'll, and, in his
judgment, tor the interests of Flori
da rather than for the benefit, or tc
please any individual or -clique.-Or
lando Sentinel.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

worth burning; in the field of inyen-
ton we have done little more than
the red Indians who so long lurked
in our forests"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
United Confederate Veterans.
[DQRs UNITED CONFEDERATE VET

HDQRs UNITED CONFEDERATE VET.
NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. 9th, 1891.
The following is Gen. John B. Gordon's
address to the United Confederate Veterans,
and to all the ex.Soldiers and Sailors of
the late Confederate States OF America. Il
10 published ell over the South. with the
view OF calling the attention tof Veterans m
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05

Governor Fleming received tel
egram yesterday announcing that
Harmon Murray, the negro desper-
ado, had been killed by another ne.
gro at Archer and that bib body had
been carried to Gainesvilles 3.s.'ssJ :
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
THE GOVERNORS CAUsTIC PEN.


The News readers who have been
keeping up with the senatorial con-
troversy have no doubt recollection
of that phase of the question engen-
dered by Calls allegation that
Governor Fleming had traded, so to
speak, his promise to appoint Call to
fill the vacancy in the senatorship,
occurring between the expiration Of
the latter's term and the election of
his successor, for the support of Call
men in his effort to secure the
gubernatorial nomination at St.
Augustine. Governor Fleming's re-
ply to a reporter of the Tallahassee
FLoR1DIAN, when questioned upon
the allegation, has set the question
at rest. So with the matter proper,
it is not now necessary to deal
further. But there is little history
connected with the subject that has
not yet, except in very guarded
way, been given out. 1t appears
that one Tucker of fernando county,
henchman of Calls (and a govern
ment official of course) wrote the
governor claiming the appointment
Of Call in redemption of that alleged
promise. Governor Fleming's reply
to Tucker, which has been seen by a
limited number of people is said to
be the richest, raciest reading yet
contributed to the literature on the
subject, it being a hagellation Of the
said Tucker to such terrible effect as
to have left him completely hors du
combat. The governors letter Is
said to have been a masterpiece of
dignifed indignity with the tactics
employed by the friends of Mr.. Call
who sought to place him in false
position with reference to the
senatorship, and to have contained a
rebuke Of those resorting to such
despicable methods so scathing as
to have made every Call man who
was permitted to read the same fairly
writhe under it's singing Effects
Pensacola News.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05
1t is not too early to organize
Tariff Reform Clubs.

THE final roundup of the census
figures show the population of the
United States to be 81, 622,25O.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-05


seized about the shoulder and led out to
the utmost verge of the platform upon
which the hive rests, then, after good
shaking. are hurled off. In such fight
nothing would induce either combatant
apparently to use their stings. Some
times there are two constables, one on
either side of the scamp, who wriggles
and shows every sign of convicted thief
He moves on between his captors, throw
ing his head rapidly from side to side,
never attempting to use his mouth and
holding his tail high in the air, brandish-
ing it in warlike demonstration, but care.
full 10 keep the sting at home.
1t sometimes happens that in swarm
that has lost it's queen there is g
"worker" who is fertile as it is called
she is capable of laying eggs, but these
eggs produce only drones. She becomes
the tyrant of the hive, and should the
workers attempt to provide new queer
which process will be described further
on-she thwarts 1t by destroying Their
work. By some mysterious influence sh,
dominates the swarm a. long as she lives
. and, unless the apiarist 10 enabled to dc.
tect and destroy her, he cannot introdnc'
. queen. and the swarm psrishes BY th,
natural limitation sof the Life Of tn
worker, which 10 only some 2 or 8months
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-13
New York'S Thirteen Club.

New York has q club that exists for
the purpose of combating the "thir-
teen" superstition. 1t started with
thirteen members, who fled in the face
of Providence by sitting down to-
gether to dine. The club now has 10,
900 members, and the peculiar part
of it is their death rate is no larger,
and, possibly, smaller than is that Of
other clubs. At their dinners they
have 13 courses, with 10 different
wines. There are always 13 seated at
each table, and the dinner always
commences at S:13 P. NJ. Thecommittee
on arrangement, entertainment COM
mittee and reception committee each
number 13. The dues are ID cents a
month. The wine list for the last
dinner, given December 13, is printed
on black cardboard, in the shape of u
coffin lid, in which there are - gold
nails. One side tells you in the most
reckless n that death is salutod
though it is tanned down q little by
being in Latin-and the other side has
the name of the wines, headed with a
gold crown skull, overshadowed by an
incredulous, astonished owl. They
defy death, and then have the courage
to stand up and ridicule the supersti-
ton in their responses to sarcastic
,toasts. They have several dinnera
through the year, and the last was
the 13th.-From the Chicago Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-13
Human Bodies.

A French doctor wants to introduce
his patent process of preserving the
remains of the dead. 1t is not en-
balming them or yet mummifying
them, though the bodies must be en-
balmed before the doctors new pro-
cess takes hold of them. The neNidea
is to e~lectroplate the whole body and
thus preserve to posterity the noble
lineaments of those whose estates cut
up sufficiently well to allow the ex-
pense.
First the body is embalmed, after
which it is dipped into q bath Of
nitrate of silver. 1t comes from this
bath the color of polished silver.
After that the face is subjected to a
regular electroplating dip, and comes
out FURNISHED copper, ready to be
preserved to the latest generations.
In order to insure perfect success the
face is vanished, and this is the last
operation. The FURNISHED copper face
is t.en warranted to remain the
same for centuries if treated with
reasonably fair care. This opens up
great vistas for old families. They
can preserve to the latest day the
FURNISHED copper countenance of the
hod carrier, saloonkeeper or tailor
who was the distinguished founder Of
their noble line. Brazen cheeks can
be transformed to copper ones Along
with the family spoons, grandmother's
corner cupboards and otherrelics, the
old mans copper bottomed face can
be kept a thing of beauty and a Joy
forever. All the race can have copper
plated ancestors by and by.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-13
-. -
~S ~"
--.S-~
BiIlbOardS.

Certain spots in large cities that are
occupied with billboards for theater
posters and other advertising contriv-
ances are becoming as valuable as
though they held the finest buildings.
A London corner of land that has re-
manned wastefor somethinglike twenty
years, abuts on one ofthel lofty palaces
that flank Victoria street, and it seems
IN easy and natural thing to build q
new wing to it. The owner was asked
whether it was not a sad thing for him
to havethisl land, one of hemost vHu-
able sites in London, u~noccupied. He
smiled a satisfied smile, pointed to the
billboards and mentioned the income
derived from the advertisements
When asked if he should build, ode
cidedly not" was the reply.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-13
Winning a Wife in Darkest
Africa.

A plot for q new novel, with a gloss
of novelty, illustrating the old-faDgled
ways of an ancient race seen by STAN
ley in Africa: He was a young Yam
buya chief, stalwart proud and black:
she was a Y%ambuya maiden, hand
some, graceful and swarthy. He vas
brave in the field, bold in thehunt and
merry at the feast; she was true-heart-
ed and gentle and could carol like a
bird. He wooed her, but she was coy.
He almost won her but she shrank
from his embraces. He gave her
flowers for her hair, charms for her
fingers and handkerchiefs for
her wardrobe; she required him to
fetch her the skin of O tiger, the jaw of
a serpent and the head of her rival.
The next day she got them all and ere
the set of the sun they were welded.
They lived in happiness ever after
ward, he proud OF his prize, she vain
of her babies.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-13
Watching 1t.

The Cleveland Leader speaks of the
Jury amendment to the constitution
of this state as zone of the most in
t~cresting changes inthe system ofcourt
practice which has been made in any
part of the United States for many
years back" 1t refers to it as "aradi-
cal Innovation" and anticipates such
satisfactory results that the practice
may be extended to the criminal
trials. In regard to this it says:
That is the field in which reform is most
needed, for it is in trying to save villains
from punishment that INSCRIPTIONS law-
yers are most likely to 'fix' one or W.
scoundrels in a jury. If a system like the
one which is about to go into force in
Minnesota had been in operation in the
Illinois criminal courts whenthe murderers
of DR.. Cronln were tried, the result would
have been that at least three of them would
have gone to the gallows. Then, it is
probable, one at least wOuld have turned
states evidence in trying to save his neck,
and the greater villains who kept in the
background while their tools and dupes did
the work of butchery might have been
brought to justice. 1t is the general rule
that when only one or W men refuse to
join the rest of the jury in renderin a YER
dict, the majority is entirely right, and the
small opposition due to %crankiness or devil
try. Jury reform is sorely needed every
where, and all experimentsin that direction
will be watched with hopeful interest by
lovers of justice.
Should the innovation prove as bene-
fetal in operation as its friends
anticipate, there will be strong effort
to extend it to the criminal practice.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1891-02-13
Be Careful in Speech.

Carefulness and exactitudein speech
are sometimes characterized as af-
fectation and mere pedantry, but
say what some people may, it is I'M
questionably the unfailing mark of
culture. No one thoroughly and low
ingly acquainted with the literature
of his language can regard propriety
in its use with contempt. The purity
andharmony and rhythm ofhis native
tongue are as precious to him Is the
perfect rendering and Interpretation
Of music are to the musician; and to
the preservation of the English lam
guage in it's integrity, it should bethe
duty and pleasure of every individual
lover of it to contribute.-Farm and
Fireside.