The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-09-19

News has reached Tallahassee that
Prof. E. G. Ravenscroft, who was last
year one of the faculty Of the Seminary
West Of the Suwannee, has beer elected
superintendent of city schools at Wesson,
Miss. Wesson is about the size Of Talla-
hassee, but it is busy little city, being
something of manufacturing centre.
The Mississippi Mills, located there, have
nearly two million dollars of working
capital. Professor Ravenscroft is pol
ished and highly educated gentleman.
The FLoRID1AN cheerfully commends
him to the good people of his new Mis-
sissippi home.
The Seminary West of the Suwannee
/ will open in its new home on the high
hill in the western suburb of Tallahassee
the first Monday in October. President
Geo. M. Edgar has gathered to his sup
port strong faculty and the progress of
the students this term will doubtless be
rapid. Two new teachers, eminently
qualified and highly recommended, have
been secured to fill the vacancies caused
by the designations Of Professors Dead
erick and Ravenscroft. They are Prof
w. D. Grab of Smithfield, KY, and Prof.
H. B. Arbuckle Of Lewisburg, W. Va
Professor Crab is master of arts of
Georgetown College, Kentucky, and Pro-
fessor Arbuckle is master of arts of
Hampden Sidney College, Virginia.
~
The fair fairies of fashion are fitting
homeward from the mountain and sea-
hospitable Tallahassee homes that have
been closed all summer will be thrown
wide open, and the merry laughter of the
bright and pretty Tallahassee girls and
their fond mammas will ring through the
ancestral halls. Then, o what an inter-
change of condolences there will be be-
tween the girls! How proudly they will
narrate the incidents relative to the hand
some young SWANS who were SO attentive
to them-and then some Of them have
come back wearing diamond rings. How
nice it is to be summer girl.
*x*
Tallahassee has missed the ladies this
summer. So many of them have been of
on summer outings that their absence
was keenly felt, not only in social way,
but otherwise. Tallahassee never would
have grown up into such wilderness OF
weeds had the ladies Of the Improvement
r Association been at home. Now that
they are coming back one by one it is
. apropos to suggest that they again take
up the work of ornamentation and beau
LITIGATION of the city streets and squar, s.
Setting the example is wonder worker
Let one lady have the weeds cut down ir
her yard and others will follow suit, til
soon the whole city will be clean and at
: tractive again.
What shall the harvest be? Well, i
you are farming for profit, little of al
sorts of crops, particularly few acres O
! Vuelta Abajo tobacco. The farmers o.
i Leon county who planted tobacco thi
a year are Gin it, They are finding ready
!, sale for The weed at good prices, and the
J; proceeds are paying them out of debt ant
L giving them the ready cash to begin anew
. with next year. Tobacco is going to d.
more toward making the planters Of Mid
a die and West Florida Independent ane
e prosperous than any other crop. 1t ha
4 already begun to make Gadsden an,
Y Leon counties itch.
s Nv
The talk of the town this week ha
! been tue appointment of Hon. Robert H
G NJ Davidson to be I'm ted States senator
rom Florida. The appointme' ha
q given almost universal satisfn ction il
Tallahassee, the only people who are no
: pleased being the very few partisan Cal
r. men, who of course do not like i
O Colonel Davidson is too popular with thl
b people and the members of congress tx
h suit their purpose-they do not feel 81
= sure now that Call will be seated. Gov
q ernor Fleming has been heartily congra
tulated upon the wisd m of his selection
There is no better senatorial timber any
where in Florida than is genial Boil
p Davidson.
*x*
There was very little interest NANTES
ted in the wet or dry election in Leu
county last Saturday. The vote cast wa'
small-and very wet. The result is JUS
what was expected, for even the mos
b earnest prohibi'io nist did not think there
was any chance Of carrying the county
dry. And it is better thus, for it saves
= Leon county the shame of seeing low
!. Idoggerels and ''blind tigers IN oper
+ operation throughout the county. There
is no city anywhere whose saloons are
conducted in cleaner, more orderly and
law abiding manner than are the four
saloons of Tallahassee.
*.*