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JUS U T.
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TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, APRIL 6, 1880.
<)BNrrgttTe>Bemecrgilc State
CMYfrBttOB.
The Conaarvathne Democratic party of Florida
will hold a State Convention at Gainesville, in
AJaebtut county, on Thumbat, June 10,1880,
at 18 o’oiook, M., for the following purpoeee:
To cbooee 8 delegates and their alternates to
represent the State in the National Democratic
Convention, to be held at Cincinnati, Tuesday,
June 22; 4
To nominate candidates for the effloes of Gov
ernor and Lientenant-Governor, to be voted far
at the next regular State Election ;
To consider the question remitted to the Slates
by the leal National Democratic Convention—
whether it be desirablete continue the two-thirds
rale longer in force in the National Convention;
To transact such other business as may come
before the Convention.
Tbedifferent counties in the State are requested
to send delegates upon the following basis:
One delegate for the first one hundred votes,
or part of one hundred, oast in each county for
the Conservative Democratic Candidates upon
the State ticket at the General Election
in 1878; one additional delegate for every
additional hundred votes, or the last fraction
over the hundred when it amounts to fifty or
more so cast for such candidates, the number to
be determined by the vote for the conservative
candidate on the general ticket standing highest
on the county vote of each county. But if any
county increased its vote at the election of 1878,
it shall have the benefit of such increase.
The counties under the above rule will be en
titled to representation as follows:
AUchua 13 Levy..... 5
Baker 3 Liberty 1
Bradford 7 Madison 11
Brevard 1 Manatee 4
Calhoun 2 Marion. 10
Clay 8 Monroe 11
Columbia 9 Nassau 7
Dade 1 Orange 9
Duval 15 Polk 5
Escambia. 14. Putnam 6
Franklin 2 Santa Rosa 8
Gadsden 10 St. Johns 5
Hami1t0n....J.... 6 Sumter 5
Hernando 6 Suwannee 6
Hillsborough 8 Taylor 2
Holmes 3 Volusia 5
Jackson 14...... Wakulla 4
Jefferson 8 Walton 6
Lafayette 3 Washington 4
Leon 10
And it is understood that the people in Con
vention will have the right to change the ratio
of representation should they see proper.
The counties will select their delegates either
in convention or general mass meeting, aa may
be considered best by the people, acting through
the usual party organization. And it is recom
mended that the citizens assemble at their Court
Houses in the several counties for this purpose
on Saturday, May 22. But should they fail so to
assemble on that day, that they meet as early as
practicable thereafter.
We call upon all Conservative citizens of the
State, without regard to past political differences
and associations, who are opposed to the third
term movement, to all unconstitutional and revo
lutionary modes of inaugurating defeated candi
dates, to the base brands whereby the vote of
Florida was reversed in the last electoral canvass
and the country was robbed of the legally elected
President, and upon all who are in favor of a
free ballot and an honest count of the votes at
all elections, aad of a pure, economical and con
stitutional, National as well as State, government,
to unite in sending delegates to this Convention.
S. PASCO, Chairman.
Jambs H. Paine, Secretory.
CoMerrative Democratic Con
gressional Convention of the
Second District of Florida.
At a meeting of the Conservative Democratic
Execntive Committee of the First Congressional
District this day held at Quincy, a Convention
of the people of the Second Congressional District
of Forida, was called to assemble at Cedar Key,
on the 11 Ih day of June, next, to nominate a
candidate to represent said District in the Forty
seventh Congress of the United States, and to
transact any and all such business as may properly
oome before it.
The several counties in the District are re
quested to send, delegates to said District Con
vention on the same basis of representation as is
prescribed by the State Executive Committee,
for the representation of the several counties in
the State Convention. On this basis, the coun
ties of the First District will be entitled to the
following representation:
Calhoun 2; Levy 5
Escambia 14 Liberty 1
Franklin 21 Manatee 4
Gadsden 10! Monroe 11
Hernando..... $ Polk. 5
Hillsborough 8 Santa Rosa 8
Holmes 3 Sumter 5
Jackson 14 Taylor 2
Jefferson 8 Wakulla. 4
Lafayette 8 Walton fl
Leon 10 Washington 4
The counties are requested to select their dele
gates at the same time and place and in the same
manner they select delegates to the State Con
vention.
In order that the Convention may act wisely and
conform to the will of the people, it is necessary
that their wishes be well ascertained. Tltis can
only be done through their representatives. It
therefore becomes all important that all the
counties be fully represented. In order to secure
this desirable end the County Executive Com
mittees of the several counties are respectfully
urged to spare no reasonable labor and pains to
secure a fair and able representation of their re
spective counties. Let us enter upon this impor
tant and vital work with a zeal and energy pro
portionate to the result desired, ever displaying
that spirit of harmony and patriotism that should
at all times characterize those laboring together
for the public weal, and for the prosperity, honor
and glory of the commonwealth.
E. C. LOVE, Chairman.
Quincy, March 17,1880.
—A Democratic military organization, intend
ed to seat Tildea by force of anna, wae generally
believed to exist in the winter of 1877, and the
New York Sun quotes interviews with Peter
Bowe, the present Sheriff of New York City,
and Major John E. Tracy, who say that the or
ganization numbered 200,000 men, and had J.
M. Corse, "Hold the Fort” Corse, as its com
mander. It originated in organization of Union
•outers began in the spring of 1870, and intended
to oflbet the “ Boys in Bine ’’ on the Repobllann
side. After the election its leaders began cor
responding aa to the possible need for using
tesce to inangnrate Mr. Tildeo, and perfected
their organization, obtaining coontenanee and
sympathy from officers high in the army and
navy. “Baldy" Smith, Franz Bigei, H. W.
Sloenm, nearly all the Democratic brigadiers In
New York State, M. T. Donohue, ”of New
Hampshire," which k probably a mistake for
MnsmntiwiMta, 8 tend men, of Ohio, and some
others are cial—d -fas the ergenlaeiion. It does
not appear, however, that arms or ammunition
were overcollected ora military organization
eflteted. Tlw tertro association was probably
tJIQgQ
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a paaoarai novmnro. • sis inrnotisQvu
MttUtfitk worth aotieikf, divided afterth* MR
beeamelaw.
A BRIDES RBFLECTIOYN.
Take my cloak—and now fix mv veil, Jenny—
(How silty to cover one’s free!
I might as well be aa old woman:
But then there’s one comfort—its lace.)
Well, what baa become of tboee ushers
Ob, Pa! have yon got my boqnetf
I’ll freese standing here In the lobby—
Why doesn’t the organist play ?
They’ve started at last—wbat a bustle 1
Stop, Pa—they’re not far enough—wait!
One minute more—now! do kero step, Pa!
There, drop my trail, Jane I U it straight ?
(I hope! look timid and shrinking;
The church must be perfectly
Good gracious! now don’t walk ao Out, Pa *
(He don’t seem to think that Inina pull,)
(The chancel at last I) Mind the step, Pa!
I don’t fell embarrassed at all—
Bat, my! what's the minister saying
Oh! I know, that part ’boot BL Paul.
I hope my position is gneefol;
How awkwardly Nelly Dane stood—
Not lawfully be joined together—
Now speak ’’ —aa if any one would!
Oh, dear, now It’s my turn to answer—
I do wish that Pa wonld stand still,)
“ Serve him, love, honor aad kero him
(How sweetly he eays It) I will.
(Where’s Pa ? there, l knew he’d forget if.,
When the time come to give me away.)
“ I—Helen, take thee —love—cherish—
And—(well, I can’t help It !>—"obey,”
Here, Hand, take my boqnet—deu’t drop R!
I hone Charley’s not lost the rT^;:
Just like him!—no!—goodness how heavy 1
It'S really an elegant thing.
It’s a shame to kneel down in white satin—
And the flounce real old lace—but I must;
I hope that they've got a clean cushion,
They're usually covered with dnat.
All over—Ah, thanks I—now don’t fuse, Pa !
Just throw back my veil, Charley, there—
(Oh, bother! why couldn’t he kiss me
Without tumbling up all my hair!)
Your arm, Charley, there goes the organ,
(Who’d think there would be such a crowd ;
Oh, I must look around, I’d forgotten,)
See, Charley, who was it that bowed ?
Why, ltY Nellie Allaire with her husband—
(She’s awfolty jealous, I know;
Moat all of my things are Imported,
And aha had a home-made trousseau
And there’s Annie Wheeler—Kate llermon,
I didn’t expect her at all—
If she’s not In the same old bine satin
She wore at the Charity Ball!
Is that Fanny Wade f—Edith Pearion—
And Emma and Joe—all the Girls ?
I knew that they’d not miss my wedding—
I hope they’d all notice my pearls )
Is the carriage there ?—give me my cloak, Jane;
Don’t get it all over my veil—
No! yon take the other seat, Charley,
I need all of this for my trail.
—San Francisco Xeict Tetter.
WANIiLHUTOV LETTER.
CONGRESS HASTENS SLOWI.T—THE PULP MONOP
OLY —A TAX ON INTELLIGENCE—PATENT OP
FICE CHANGES.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C., March 29,1880.
The Honse on Saturday attempted to make a
show toward a week’s work, and managed to
refer quite a number of bills reported from com
mittees to the caiandar. The Consular and Di
plomatic appropriation bill was then taken up,
and the general debate concluded, aud the read
ing of the bill by sections for amendments begun
which cuts the debate down to five minute
speeches and gives some assurance of the speedy
disposal of the bill. Haviog accomplished this
much, the House closed the week, most fruitless
in results, by adjournment to this noon. The
Senate had adjourned on Thursday to to day.
The argument, if such it can be called, urged
by the advocates of the pulp and paper mo
nopoly, that the Increase iu the price of pa
per is only that which is marked in other articles
and means a return of healthy business, is as
week aa it is imprudent.
It is to be observed that the jumping up of
values so, without a parallel, in the last eight
months, is confined to such articles only as Con
gress has given a monopoly by a prohibition in
duties, that has taken them out of the list of rev
enue and made them simply bounties. While
iron, steel, paper, and a few other staples, have
gone up, wheat has not jumped, nor corn, nor
any other product of an agricultural origin, al
though such industry is the underlying prosper
ity of the country.
Keen, active agents of the press are watching
carefully the progress of this contest, and the
names of the members daring to aid in this mo
nopoly will be duly taken down and forwarded
home for publication, so that the papers may
publish to their constituents the wrong done.
The remedy lies in the proposition made by Sen
ator David Davis, of Illinois, to admit not only
the raw material free of duty, but the paper
itself. There was a cry of a free breakfast to the
poor man when the duties on tea and coffee were
abolished. Now let us have reading for the poor
man in a land where food for the mind is consid
ered of vastly more importance than stimulants
for the stomach.
It seems to be understood that General Paine
will not retire from the direction af the Patent
Office for some time to come, as there is consid
erable business that he desires to close up per
sonally. There are many nafaes mentioned as
the probable successor of General Paine, and it
is very doubtful whether the right one has been
suggested. The civil service theories of Secre
tary Scburz would lead to the belief that Mr.
Doolittle, the present assistant commissioner, a
gentleman well qualified and popular in and out
of the Department, would be promoted to. the
position, but it is rumored that the Bhermau
boom will have a prepondering influence in the
selection of a commissioner.
LOSDOV LETTER.
(Regular Correspondence.)
London, England, March 17,1880.
The course of the past week has been marked
by an unusually mild and equable temperature,
bright sunny days, and little or no rain ; in Bhort,
the weather has been fine and spring-like in the
most genial acceptation of the term. Having
discarded for once the leonine characteristics
with which the well-known adage invests Its ad
vent, March has brought with it unmistakable
tokens of an early spring, as seen in the marked
advance of vegetation and the eager prosecution
of all field work. Advices from the agricultural
districts are nnanimous on the subject of im
provement, as even the heaviest soils are rapidly
getting into workable order, and farmers are
doing their utmost to make up for lost time.—
Spring tillage has been actively carried on
throughout the United Kingdom, and the pros
pect ef a genial season are thankfully hailed by
all whose Interests are centered in agriculture.—
Good progress has been made with the sowing
barley, beans and peas, as the land has been in
flue condition for the reception of these crops.
The recent snrmises as to the probable injury to
the autumn-sown wheat plant, caused by the
severity of the winter months, have in most cases
proved unfounded, aud the fatnre crop, although
retarded aemewhat In ha developement, appears
tooflbruo reasonable ground for alarm at present
as to Ha ultimate prod net. After the mild rain
at the bagtnplng of tile mouth and the subsequent
p,—hina, the pastures have wooderlhlly im
proved aad tfe uow looking jfrero and fall of
life. Scotch advioea arc etpailf favorable, plow
ing betQg well advanced rod barley and oat sow
ing having eommeoeed, while tfeMpasehas been
growing rapidly aad looks greener than (t did a
mouth later last year. Having hero almost ex
dusMr occupied la the preparation of the laud
and spring sowing, fanners have had little time
to devote to thrashing, and the offerings of bome
grewp wheat hove consequently bean very email,
The range of prices has been extended, owing to
irregularity of the samples, and little attention
has been given to inferior produce, but fine par
cels have maintained last week’s prices, both in
London and in the country. The deficiency of
last year’s crop and the present condition of the
wheat trade should render holders careless of
selling any sound corn fit for milling purposes.
Of foreign wheats the imports have again been
on quite a moderate scale. Monday’s list showed
little over 28,000 quarters, nearly all of which
was from America, and the subsequent arrivals
up to Friday have not exceeded 29,000 quarters.
At the beginning of the week lower prices cabled
from America unsettled the trade and deprived
values of the increased buoyancy, which the im
proved demand at the close of the preceding
week led holders to expect would ripen into an
actnal advance. An undecided tone has prevailed
during the past fow days, and millers have ad
hered to their settled plan of only buying from
hand-to-mouth, and this, In face of the light im
ports and rapid depletion of stocks. The posi
tion is critical and difficult to gange, as although
the enormous requirements country be
tween now and harvest are admitted by all, the
demand has shown few signs of improvement,
and, until America shows her cards, which she
seems less than ever inclined to do, in spite of
the recent signs of weakness shown by the
“ ring” to hope for speculation is out of the ques
tion.
WABHIXGTOV LETTER.
Washington, March 30,1880.
It is now evident that nothing will be done at
this session of Congress to reduce expenses, re
form the service, simplify,the tariff. The usual
appropriation bills will be passed, and beyond
that we shall have no record to go before the
country on. This, if the necessary work has
been done in good season, would have been
enough. Even if Congress shall now commence
actively the real business for which it came to
gether, accomplish it and adjourn before the po
litical Conventions are held, there will be no
party loss to the Democracy. But we may as
well understand now that a nomination for the
Presidency, forced by questions that friends of
candidates may raise io Congress between this
time and Convention day, will lack much of the
sympathy necessary to assured success. If any
influential Democrat in the House or Senate is
obstructing business because ot an idea that he
is helping the chances of his favorite candidate,
his mind should be disabused.
The proper Senate Committee yesterday
agreed to the immediate deficiency bill, embra
cing the public printing deficiency, pay for mar
shals, deputy marshals, and election marshals,
as adopted by the House. This is the bill direct
ing that the election marshals shall be selected
from the various parties. It will pass the Senate
certainly, and will probably be the last measure
on which political discussion v% ill be bad. A
House Committee reported yesterday, a bill lim
iting the number, pay and length of service of
Federal election officers, but the sentiment among
Democrats I find to be against forcing discussion
on the subject.
The sudden illness of Senator Thurman, yes
terday, called forth a degree of feeling not often
exhibited in that body. He has in a greater de
gree than any of his fellows, the regard of those
who act with him. His knowledge of law is
known to be profound, and his opinion on any
point in which a legal question is involved is
conclusive. Besides this he is a diligent student
in all branches of literature, and he has the
friendship of everybody—even the warm regard
of Emmunds, usually iu liia intercourse with
men, an Ice berg.
Senator Blaine attacked Senator Carpenter on
a legal point the other day. He felt called upon
to instruct the Wisconsin Senator. A few years
ago he got near the toe of Representative Tucker
of Virginia, when a similar subject was up, and
disappeared from view suddenly. lie seems to
have forgotlon that experience. Hilton.
gnnland Tribune, March 11.]
Hon. W. P. Haisley,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
delivered a very instructive and interesting ad
dress in the Court House in this place on Wednes
day evening of last week. He commenced by
showing the proportion of illiteracy in the differ
ent States, and announced that of Florida to be
fifty-tlirce and nine-tenths per cent including
both races, but only seventeen and five-tenths
for the white population. He next demonstra
ted that the public school system was the cheap
est and best, and is therefore worthy of a cordial
support from the people whom it is designed to
benefit. The right of the State to levy a tax
for tiie support of public schools and educate the
masses was backed by the opinion of such men
as Ch ief .Justice Marshall and Thomas Jefferson,
though the latter gentleman appreciated the dif
ficulties of the system on account of sparseness
of population which has and always will be a no
inconsiderable drawback to its thorough efficien
cy. Mr. H. thought that our system was good
in the main, bnt has defects—that in practical
operation there is a tendency to centralize, or
going to the other extreme, to disperse too wide
ly. He seemed of the opinion that we could not
district otherwise than by counties as is now the
law ; and that the system should be limited to
the common school branches, and provision be
made for separate city or town organization. He
was staunchly of the opinion that the School
Fund should be increased and thought that the
collection of the poll tax would do this, but saw
no way to enforce the collection of this except
by statute requiring the collector’s receipt aa a
qualification for voting.
He thought the Seminary and Agricultural
College Funds could be used to better advantage
than the former la now applied or is provided for
the latter. The two State Seminaries, located
respectively at Tallahassee and Gainesville, were
by no means filling the purposes for which they
were established as State institutions and were
in fact little more than schools kept at the public
expense for the the benefit of the two places and
immediate neighborhoods.
As for an Agricultural College, Mr. Haialey
had no faith in the success of any such institu
tion fur the reason that, as a rule, they had not
succeeded in older States where they had been
established. Out of some thirty-eight Agricul
tural Colleges in the United States only three
could be classed as any arays.succesaftil and
these required a beavy annual expenditure from
the State to keep them going. On this point he
had made particular and special inquiries end
with three exceptions, bad received no encourag
ing reports.
He thought the Seminary end Agricultural
Funds might be consolidated ends first-class
Normal School established. Judging from the
success of the Peabody Normal School at Nash
ville and the avidity with which e few scholar
ships, apportioned to this Btete, were.sought af
ter, be entertained no doubt but the! such an in
stitution established at home, would accomplish
e greet deal more good in the interest of educa
tion than both of eur present Sessinortcs andthe
proposed Agricultural Collage. In hie . opinion
it wss nleo possible to provWeeuch an Institution
with an Agricultural chemist whose doty mieht
NEW SERIES—VOL. XV— NO. 36.
be extended beyond’that of mere instruction, as
a kind of assnyest of soils for the benefit of tboae
sending specimens.
As to what the people of Florida are doing
towards education, be conclusively showed that
they were doing more according to their means
than they were doing in the great States of New
York, Ohio and Massachusetts—that the rate of
taxation for educational purposes is higher in
Florida in proportion to aggregate and individ
ual wealth than it is in the States named.
[Right here we will say that by referring to the
New York Sun of the 27tb alt., it will there be
seen that the State Superintendent of Public In
stmction, of New York, Mr. Neil Gilmour, gives
the legal school year at 28 weeks, being only a
little more than double what our law allows tor
the shortest term, viz: 13 weeks.—Ed ]
In conclusion, Mr. H. urged the importance of
teachers' institutes as a means of promoting the
educational interests of the State until some
thing better could be provided.
The foregoing is as fair a synopsis of Mr. Hais
ley’s address as we arc able to give; and we are
pleased to know that the substance of his re
marks was appreciated and made a very favor
able impression on the thinking portion of his
audience. We think that Mr. Haisley has been
unfairly criticised in connection with our public
school affairs, and is held responsible for what
he is no more accountable for than we are. The
last Legislature saw fit to inhibit the levying of'
more than 2} mills tax far school purposes, and
to this action it was moved by the fact that this
sum had been found sufficient even under Re
publican rule in most of the counties and, be
sides, it was thought that the new method of
assessing taxes insure a considerable in
crease in the taxable property in the State.
HEAD-NOTES OF DECISIONS
or TH*
SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA,
January Tern, A. D. ISM,
Ann E. Wilson, Appellant, vs. Russ & Merritt,
Appellees—Appeal from Circuit Court Jackson
county.
Randall, C. J.:
1. Rents and profits, to which a cestui que trust
is entitled out of property held by a trustee, are
proper subjects of sale, assignment, or pledge to
secure debts.
2. A paper in form of a mortgage which in
terms conveys real estate to secure a debt, the
mortgagor having no legal title but only a right to
the rents and profits for life, creates no lien upon
the realty, but is good as an assignment or pledge
of the rents and profits.
3. A trustee holding the legal title of land is a
necessary party in a proceeding affecting the
property or any interest therein ; But When there
is no trustee in being, at the commencement of
suit, and a decree does not affect the title or the
interest of a remainderman, the decree reaching
only the net income of the property, a trustee
may be appointed by tbe final decree, with pro
per directions as to the management of tire prop
erty nnd tbe payment of the Income.
4. If a trustee so appointed refuse the trust, a
receiver may be appointed to protect the interests
of all parties interested in the estate.
5. A decree of “ foreclosure ” and sale with
directions to put a purchaser in possession of
land, in by an assignee or pledgee to
subject the net income of the land to the pay
ment of a debt for which snch income is pledged,
(the legal title and right of possession being by
the terms of the deed creating the trust, vested
in a trustee), is not a proper decree. A decree
in such case should direct the trustee or receiver
to secure the due protection and management of
the property and the application of tbe net income
to the payment of the debt for which the income
is pledged.
Decree reversed.
Westcott, J. not silting.
J. F. McClellan, Counsel for Appellant; D. L.
McKinnon, Counsel for Appellees.
May’s Executors, Appellants, vs. Stephen Sey
mour, Appellee—Appeal from Circuit Court
Jefferson county.
Randall, C. J.:
1. Where by reason of the ignorance ofa party
he is induced to make “ his mark ” to a writing
which he cannot read, and it is not read to or its
contents stated to him and he takes no benefit
from it, such writing cannot be held to be his
voluntary agreement.
2. When the verdict of a jury accords with
the law and the (acts of a case, & judgment will
not be reversed on account of an erroneous in
struction in the charge of the court, especially
where a correct instruction should produce the
same verdict.
Judgment affirmed.
Pasco & Palmer, Counsel for Appellants; T.
L. Clarke, Counsel lor Appellee.
Thomas L. Whitlock, Appellant, vs. Theodore
11. Willard, Sheriff and ex officio Administra
tor of Louis D. Whitlock, and of Benjamin F.
F. Whitlock, deceased, Respondent—Appeal
from Madison county.
Wkstcovt, J.
Where there is a decree for partition establish
ing the interests of several defendants in tbe
land, an appeal by one only withont notice and
sevirance, or some equivalent action appearing
in the record, must be dismissed.
Appeal dismissed.
Pasco Si Palmer, J. N. Stripling, Counsel for
Appellant; A. Patterson, John B. Marshall,
Counsel for Appellee. J
Fernandfna Mirror, March 20.)
Fereaadlaa and Jacksonville Rail
road Company.
A company with the above title lias been or
ganized. The road is to run from tbe drawbridge
on the Transit Railroad to Jacksonville, a dis
tance of about twenty miles, making tbe total
distance twenty-four miles. It is expected to
run trains through in 45 niinutes, thus making a
trip between the two cities not longer than It
used to be for a New York merchant to go down
town to his place of business. Tbe time, by in
side and outside steamers, between Fernandina
and Savannah, is from eight to twelve hoars,
which would make tbe total time between Jack
sonville and Savannah from nine to thirteen
hours, with a comfortable night’s rest. The im
mense popularity of tbe lines of steamers run
ning through Long Island Sound and connecting
with rail tor Boston and other New England
point*, will illustrate one of tbe aUraoUom of
this route. Our Jacksonville friends can
over and pay us a morning call, or take a drive i
on our beach, or a bath hi onr surf, and be back
at home before they were missed, unites they
were persons of very great consequence.
The site for the depot in Jacksonville, aa well
as the land leading to it, has been secured, and
the city council has passed the necessary ordi
ance for therunning of trains throagh the ttreeta.
We learn that au engineer carps will soon be
at work locating the route.
Florida Lake Reflow.
This section, which is known as the M Orest
Lake Region of Florida,” is composed of Lakes
Griffin, Eustis, Harris, Dnnbam, and Apopka,
and a number of other lakes of smaller dicssn
sione. The lands In thia scope of eoantry, are
both rich and poor, though the better quality is
largely in the majority, and some of k is as rich
as can found in any State in the Union. The
section is settled up with people from nearly
every Stats, and a better darn of citlsaoeoaaaot
be found in Florida. As we ihiak we have the
beat portion of the State, we claim the right to
say bo without comparing it with other aeetiona
We can assure times who wish to aside in Flor
ida* that this section will sail them if they am to
he suited atail. We are blessed *#b law abiding,
intelligent citiaena, among whom am eomo.of
Ihe finest men of the State and Union,,an* a
soil the* wilt produce any secai-tropicelpmdoct
grown, and climate unsurpassed by the world.-
Itetburq Advance^
RTATE HEWN.
—The Starke Telegraph has discarded
its patent ontside.
—Work on the South Florida Railroad
is progressing very rapidly and satisfac
torily.
—Twenty-nine marriage contracts were
consummated in Jacksonville last mouth
—l4 white and 15 colored.
—The Democratic Executive Commit
tee of Orange county will meet at Orlando
on the first Monday in April.
—Jacksonville is having a considerable
boom' just now in the cigar business. Tbe
papers eontinnaly report the arrival in that
city of cigar makers.
—Brooksville Crescent: Barney Rhodes
baa a curiosity in the sha)>e of a preco
cious orange bud put in last Christmas.
It U only about two inches long, has two
tufts of leaves and two fully developed
blooms. Next.
—St. Augustine l*ress : tbe first rail of
the Jacksonville and St. Augustine Rail
road has been laid, and the company has
thereby conformed with the terms of their
charter. Now let the road be pushed to
speedy completion.
—Ki Ko, ” in the Orlando Reqwrter ,
tells of a mneh-in-love young man, down in
Orange county, who has grown so des
perate that he sits and writes poetry with
an open razor in one hand; but his verses
are so sharp the editors have to turn them
into prose before they can be printed.
Talk about your “ ragged edge!”
—lt is rumored that General Ankeny
will be appointed United States Surveyor-
General of the State of Florida, vice
Leroy D. Ball. — Union. We have no
doubt that General Ankeny would make
an efficient and acceptable'officer, bat can
see no need of such a change, as Colonel
Ball bas given universal satisfaction.
—When we get a good rice mill within
a few miles of town, which we learn will
be this fall, our farmers will plant rice
enough to supply the demand of the coun
ty and have large quantities to ship.—
Quincy Star. The cultivation of this
crop is receiving unusual attention
throughout Middle Florida, and is des
tined to become one of our staple products.
There is no reason why it should not
prove a gold mine.
—We learn that the subscriptions to
ward building the contemplated Jackson
ville and St. Augustine Railroad now
amounts to over SIOO,OOO. The amount
required to insure the establishment of the
rood is $200,000, and the projectors are
confident that the balance will be forth
coming in a short time and the road bnilt
as speedily as practicable. With the rail
road in successful operation, the Mantan
*as and Halifax Canal will follow as a
matter of necessity.— St. Augustine Press.
—Major A. J. Russell has severed his
connection with the Breeze. The Major
use 9 tongue and pen with equal force and
ability. His pen will take a vacation,
while the services 6f his eloquent tongue
will be called into requisition often and
again during the approach of the coming
campaign.— Jacksonville Union. Mr. J.
W. Whitney is to preside over the edito
rial column* of the Breeze for the present.
While regretting to see Major Russell de
sert the journalistic ranks, we extend a
hearty welcome to Mr. Whitney.
—Here is a hard one from the Brooks
ville Crescent: Dan McLeod sent us a
curiosity in the shape of an orange. In
external appearance the orange was not
different from any other, but on opening
the fruit, a smaller and perfectly de
veloped orange was found at the bloom
end of the orange, and the inner orange
had no peal. E. C. Peterson has a tree
in his grove at Spring Hill that produces
this freak of nature regularly. When the
crop is short, nine oat of ten of the oran
ges are double, with a full crop the ratio
is much smaller.
—The Jasper Spirit oj the Times is
responsible for the following: “A beau
tiful white partridge was killed on the
plantation of Mr. Zack. Frink, and sent to
this office yesterday. The bird is the
first of its kind we have ever seen, being
snow white. It belonged to a large fam
ily of the little brown gypsies which are
i so numerous in the woods of this country,
Asd is like nnto them in all things save
its color, and has been living peacefully
with them, putting on no airs on account
of the distinction made in its favor. We
•regret that the pretty creature had to be
killed in order to forniah this local.”
—Hie Sanford Journal gives the follow
ing aocount of “ a cowardly murder” com
mitted near that place: "Information of a
brutal assassination that took place near
Moyer’s Mil! on Tuesday evening, March
23rd, is brought to ns. It seems that a
man named Henry Stokes waylaid and
shot a woman by the name of Lovie Glis
son and a man named Noah Keene,
firing a load of buokshot at them while
they were walking together. Three shot
struck the woman in the faoe, one penetra
ting the brain, and she fell. One shot
struck Keene in the shoulder, sad fearing a
seoond shot, he jumped behind a tree.
Stokes approached and said he didn’t want
1 to km him. He then approached the woman
hhd inquired if he had kilted her. Mr.
Keene answered that he thought she was
dead. Stokes then, with Keene’s help,
earned her to- OhUder’s house, near at
handy where, at last accounts, she was still
nochanceof recovery.”
I The jWnofdoee not state the motive that
L prixnpted tbe killing or what action **a
I taken In oonse^nenoe.