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@ljje g^MbrntiJ VOL LXIY. FLORIDA HAPPENINGS!* fIPSJUW COMMENT IN BRIEF PARA GRAPHS. STATE PRESS clippings. HUM OF PROGRESS WA.FTKD jjOJIALL QUARTERB OF FAIR FLORIDA __ nOTES ABOUT THRIFTY TOWNS. 3| r , Stetson is having several new cottages built at West DeLand. Baker county sends uninstructed delegates to the gubernational con vention at Tampa. B B. McGregor, while fishing for tarpon at Fort Myers on April 24, hooked and landed a sawfish 11 feet 10 inches in length, and which weighed 292 pounds. There is in the yard of P. Peck on First street at Palatka quite a curi osity in the shape of an orange tree only seven inches in height but con taining a perfect orange. Sheriff Montgomery of Apalachi cola went to Blountstown a few days since and got the negro who some time since shoved a deck hand off the Queen City, drowning him. lie was put in the new jail. At Bartow Junction Monday about twenty Italians were engaged in a , line digging out clay with which to lacadamize the streets ot Orlando. The mine suddenly caved in, crush ing two unfortunates to death. The Dade county executive com mittee met at Juno last Saturday afternoon and issued their call for primaries, to be held May 10, to elect delegates to the county conven tion to be held May 16 at Juno. The Tampa Street Railway and Power company has been organized, and Mr. Ahern has left lor New York to perfect arrangements for the immediate construction of an electric railway in Tampa and to Ballast Point. W. H. Towles of Fort Myers has pwchased S. Summerlin’s herd of cattle, numbering 4,000 or 5,000, and Mr. Summerlin and son, Holla, are now on the range gathering them lor delivery. This is the second large purchase made by Mr. Towles lately. At Tampa Friday a whirlwind struck a line lull of clothes in the yard of a colored washwoman, who fives in the garrison, and the pieces were “scattered to the four winds.” Some of them fell in Hyde park, on the west side of the river, and others in the lot back of John O. Ball & Co.’s store, and some stuck in trees. Tampa Tribune: So far only about S4OO has been subscribed to the Mitchell Club subscription for the expenses of the state convention. At least 81,500 will be necessary to |y the ordinary expenses, but the club should have $2,000 or more on tod. The people are expecting great things ol Tampa, and no one must go away disappointed. , Sheriff Harrell of Lowndes county, Georgia, who followed two horse thieves from Valdosta, was in Tampa Pnday. Both of the men have been ctptured—one ot them near Lake rs Saturday night, and the other Fort Meade Thursday. Jack Love the man who was caught on the train o€ar Lakeland by J. C. Wilburn, is confined in the county jail at /vf' M - McGregor of the Standard vu Company, while at Fort Myers week purchased through W. C. 80r ne valuable property, was the h Qe property St* fdllifiand, adjoinind Prof. • A. itdison’s residence and labora- Mr. McGregor will make the ®*j*Bsary improvements to render , the most beautiful home on the fiver. Mirror: It is said ~^ e Georgia Southern and fida road is discriminating jjPjfißt the Florida Central and insular in shipment of lumber their line at White Springs. “ow nothing of the merits of but the discrimination is . usly affecting two of our prom ts umber firms, and consequently of this port. 'U'doct Friday afternoon about 5 HtUfiir *? Bevere wind and rain storm ii & hi tbe Bou thwest part of Palatka, known as the “cove.” It ttinjj , P l * shingle mill, the roof from the boiler HWv. &Dd whirling in into the river. Rul visited the lumberyard of Kjg™an-Wilson & Cos., taking PtthoiJj • U P in the air and dash-. §7® in the mud along the ritref. tWtr' ■ ■ • It also partially unroofed the large waw and planing mill of this com pany, carrying portions of the sheet iron with pieces of the roof timbers a considerable distance, also blow ing down the two large smokestacks. The wind then set its course along River street, uprooting several large oaks and a number of orange trees. However, of the large nunSber of men employed in the mills and in the path of the storm no one was hurt nor any moving machinery damaged. Fernandina Mirror : A gentleman well experienced in matters pertain ing to gold dust a few days since picked up a rock on the river front and on examination was surprised to find that it contained considerable gold. As we are hopeful of “corner ing” the spot from which the rock was taken, further particulars are withheld. But there is really no doubt that some of Florida’s soil contains a quantity of gold. How’* Tills! We offer one hundred dollars reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo, O. We the undetsigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially able to carry out tiny obligation made by their firm. t\ est A Tkuax, Wholesale Druggists Toledo. O. Walding, Kinnan & Mar vin, Wholesale Druggist, Toledo O. • Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken iuternally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ot the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by ali druggists. FINANCIAL MEASURES Proposed Restoration of State Bank* ins;—A Graded Income Tax for Pensions. Special to the New York World. Washif May 2. There is likely to be a _ .ateresting movement in congress soon. A measure wa9 introduced some time ago which touches the finances and cur rency in important ways. Nothing has been done and very little has been so ; . hitherto. And now it is in contemplation to take it up seriously and press it to pas sage. It is not properly a party measure but its passage, it is thought, would greatly strengthen the democratic f)arty in the south and west, where it would meet a popular demand, while in the east it is hoped that it will be accepted as a meas ure of simple justice and of prudence. The measure provides for two things: first, the imposition of a graded income tax sufficient to meet the cost of pensions, and second, the repeal of the tax on state bank circulation. The argument in favor of the passage ot such a bill may be briefly summarized. With respect to the first provision the argument is that the enormous and grow ing pension charge must be met in some way and cannot be met out of the ordinary revenues, now that these have been : mort gaged so heavily by the exirivageuce of the Billion Dollar Congress. The most equita ble tax that can be levied for the purpose is a graduated one on iucomes, which shall lay the burden upon wealth rather than upon poverty, uoon accumulation rather than upon industry. The argument for the removal of the tax on state bond circulation embraces many more counts. That tax was imposed solely as a necessity of war. It was the means of levying a forced loan at a time when a forced loan was necessary to save the life of a nation. Stite bank circulation was faxed out of existence for the sole purpose of compelling the institution of national banks and thus forciag the purchase of Government bonds in large quantities. The occasion for such a measure long ago passed away. It yields not one cent of revenue to the government, and it now does nobody any conceivable good* Even the national banks care nothing for it. Circulation is no longer profitable to them, and they are voluntarily giving mi c POWDER Abeofutely Pure. jfftsdgg/us&^'V^ moat Fort Jtoomn (■ sTi l Mi jfto / w3 *- BOYAL BAKING POWDMR 00., 100 Wall St, NY r-i i- TALLAHASSEE, FLA., SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1892. it up because of the high price and the so&rcity of government bonds, on which alone they are allowed to base their is sues. But the prohibition operates in many ways to the hurt of the people. It dis courages state banking at a time when there is no encouragement for national banks outside the great cities. It lessens the volume of currency and deprives the rural regions and small towns of banking facilities which they greatly need. For example : If the merchants of a remote town and their customers feel the need of banking facilities and' make up heir minds to establish a bank, they must begin by buying §50,000 worth of United States bonds, at a cost of §58,000, in New York or some other cen tre. On the strength of this outlay they may issue §45,000 of currency, which leaves them about §13,000 worse off, so far as the local supply of currency is con cerned, than they were before. Under state laws they might easily establish a sound bank on better paying securities than government bonds, but the national banking Law imposes a prohib .ory tax oa state bank issues. The law operates thus both to contract the currency locally and to deprive the country of nceued bank facilities. The ready argument against the repeal of this prohibitory tax is that it might bring back an era ot wildcat currency. That ar gumeut is fouuded in ignorance of condi tions. The wildcat banking of forty years ago was rendered possible by the condi ’ions of that yrne; it is not possible in present conditions. Intercommunication was slow and difficult .then; now it is in stant and easy. It would be impossible now for any bank of any state to put thci r notes into circulation unless the banking law of the B‘ate were so carefully framed and 'adminstered as to .make the notes perfectly secure. In the old days there was practically nothing but state stocks upon which to base circulation; and there is a vast aggre gation of perfectly secured county, munici pal *™ater and other like bonds which "•'•'diated because the courts •. ~ snd (which constitute v.und&uou asjsecnre as that of govern - ment bonds themselves. It would be perfectly easy now for the several states to make their bank issues as safe as treasury notes. Indeed,the only proof oftbat that can be asked is the actual security which state laws have given to the savings banks. The repeal of the tax which particularly forbids state banking would do quite all that can be done by the government to re lieve the agricultural and small mercantile classes of their real distress for lack of currency and bank accommodation. It would tend to check the dangerous clamor for rnflati >n and other unsouod financial devices. It would add to the currency an elastic body of perfectly secure circulating notes, not legal tender bat everywhere ac ceptable. It would demonstrate to the discontented the disposition of the majority in cjngress to do all that can be safely done for their relief. It would give new and profitable employment to capital and anew stimulus to business in every local centre. This is the case as it presents itself to the minds of the leaders of the movement, and for their view they have the sanction of some of the wisest and most conservative financiers in New York.. As one of them has put if: “This is ground on which New York and Georgia can look each other in the eyes and shake hands.” Dripepda and Indigestion In their worst forms are cured by the use of P. P. P. If you are debilitated and run-down, or if you need atonic to re gain flesh and lost appetite, strength and vigor, take P. P. P. and you will be strong and healthy. For shattered constitutions and lost manhood P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium) is the king of medicines. P. P. P. is the greatest blood purifier in the world. For sale by all druggists. The leiyMt Bell in Fraaoe. The largest bell in France is about to be hung in the beautiful Church of the Sacred Heart, which is just being com pleted, on the steep hill of Montmartre. t* > the north of Paris. This bell, whicff is the gift of the faithful in the Depart ment of Savoy, weighs about 55,000 pounds. It is 10 feet high, with a diameter of about 10 feet at the base. Two men oould stand inside of it easily. While by no means the largest bell in the world, this big fellow is ooosidera bly larger than any other bell in France. The largest bell in the Cathedral of Notre Dame weighs lees than 40,000 Bounds, while that in the famous Ca thedral of Khaims weighs hardly more 80,000 pounds, -New York Herald. The Long and Short of It. "Isn't that bathing salt a regular work of art?" exclaimed Clara admiringly, a* she held up the article in question. “Oh, no,” responded Jack; “art is long.” —Kate Field’* Washington. Point* of B arena Manoe. A BIG COAL FIRE. The Scene on a San Francisco Wharf That Suggested the Inferno. For nearly two weeks the bunkers of the Pacific Rolling mills at the Petrero have been like the hell which Milton iescribes in “Paradise Lost.” Thou sands and thousands of tons of foreign coal had been heaped in these twenty year-old, seventy feet high buildings for a time that is forgotten by even the workmen there. Three months ago the men began to talk ominously of “steam” that was creeping out of the huge piles, and old men who had been on tramp colliers at sea shook their heads with a dubious wag. Twelve days ago the flames burst out in the northern bunker. These bunkers are only huge sheds, with rails built along just under the roof, over which cars are wheeled to convey the coal to the dumps. In the northern bunker the coal was piled forty and fifty feet high, till it reached to the car rails and the top stringers. A hundred carts were put on when the fight began to remove the coal to safer places. The fireboat Governor Ir win was set close to the wharf to play streams of water night and (lay. It was a hard and long fight, but the fire was finally driven into the northwestern corner of the banker. Wednesday fight was an exciting time for the worn out men who had carried away 8,000 tons of coal in their carts and were threatened with death on the eve of victory. The gaunt pillars that snpi>ort the structure were weakened by burning, and the dilapidated roof sagged in a dozen different spots, ready to fall without a moment’s warning. The elec tric lights hung like faint stars shining through a fog. The roaring of the mills, the shouts of the bosses who were driving the gangs of shovelers at the glowing masses of coal, the cries of the men struggling with the writhing of hose above, were all a picture for the pointer of the hideous. Every one was in a hurry, for there was a dull, ominous roar in the middle of all the smoke and mingling of stifled lights. There was little use in trying to see the fire from the ground; the heavy vapor was too thick. But on top of the ad joining loft there were things to see. It took a perilous climb up a rickety lad der, with its first four steps burned away, to get there, but a reporter made the trip under the guidance of Fireman Michael Barry. There were holes burned through the floor of the loft, and through these holes six men dropped during ten days. The last who went fell to break two ribs on Monday night. He fell on the red hot coal, too, and three men were brave enough to jump for him. The shoes were burned off of them. Creeping along through the nauseat ing gas and cloud, there was only safety in clutching the guide’s hand, for every few feet were the holes, and only col umns of fog whiter than the rest showed danger to the practiced eye. At last one of the tramways was reached, and threading a narrow stringer over a. chasm of fire and vile vapor, the men could he seen tearing away the fiery coals far below. “It’s been a tough pull,” said Barry, “and Saturday night 1 didn’t see how they’d save anything. You can see how this building has gone in. Look at that stringer over there! Why, I was stand ing on it at 3 o’clock in the morning with two men behind me. I had the nozzle and two fellows were holding up the hoee to help me guide it. All of a sudden the stringer went smash, but just slow enough to Let the two men backing me drag hard and pall up to the track. “Some say it was foolish to play water on a lot of coal like this, and perhaps it was. When a heavy stream of water drives into a pile of coal it sends all the fine siftings down to the bottom, so that the heavy lumps get a good draft through them that keeps the fire going. “For awhile the gas up here was aw fuL At first they wouldn’t let us make holes in the roof so that we could reach the top of the fire, but when we had to climb up and look for two men that were lying almost smothered from the gas they thought it was time to smash in the roof, so now you can see and breathe better than we did some of those nights last week. Then men left this roof in the morning so sick they couldn’t eat till night, just from the poison they got in the gas.” No fire engine oould be taken to the scene advantageously, and the fire boat Irwin had to furnish nearly all the water used in the battle.—San Francisco Ex aminer. When the Funeral Occurred. Some forty years ago a Massachusetts good wife lay in her bed apparently dying with consumption. As the family lived four miles from the undertaker and pastor, and as the roads were badly blocked with snow, the husband when called to the village on business on Tuesday decided—thoughtful man! —to save an extra journey in that bitter weather by engaging the minister and undertaker at once and appointing the funeral for Friday. In some way on Wednesday the sick woman heard of this, and arousing her self from her supposed dying condition, declared, “There’ll be no funeral in thi* house this week!*’ The funeral was ac cordingly postponed. It took place forty tywhwwl ja stfll living at tha age of eighty.—Boston Journal. KING COTTON DETHRONED. Bradatreet’s Deport on Florida Crops Shows a Chanced Condition. The subjoined report on Florida crops from Bradstreet’s shows that cotton is no longer king in this stale. The report says: “A striking difference in business condi tions of this state is shown in the replies re ceded from the 119 correspondents in forty counties reporting. Those sections of the state dependent on or engaged largly in cotton culture return a depressing tale of poor financial conditions, and the promise of a reduced acreage in cotton is freely made. Thus, forty-one reports as to bad conditions of planters come almost altogether from cotton growing districts, while thirty-six better reports, and four teen the same are from eastern counties where other industries than cotton are prominent. Almost similar reports are re turned as to stoorkeepers. Florida resembles other states, however, in the conservatism attending advances, as is shown by the fact that seventy-two out of ninety reports are that advances are less freely made, and the reduction in amounts so advanced varies between twenty and fifty per cent. Fertilizers are to be less freely used; at least three-quarters of the replies so indi cate. That the acreage in cotton will be smaller would seem certain from the fact that 60 out of 64 replies so indicate and the reported tendency toward a decrease is twenty to thirty per cent. That the acreage in other crops will be larger seems almost as certain that the area in cotton will be smaller, sixty-seven out of ninety-one replies so reporting. The crops likely to supersede cotton are com, oats, tobacco, vegetables and fruits. That the truck farming industry will re ceive a big boom seems evident from the number of replies announcing that the acreage in peas, melons and cabbage will be largely increased. Among the leading munufacturing in dustries those of phosphates, cigars, lumber and naval stores are most prominently mentioned. The cigar industry was ap parently well situated, while that of phos phates was much depressed, but the tone of reports from this industry is more cheer ful than for some time, and the feeling is that the state is likely to eojoy a large and profitable industry in this direction. The production of pineapples, oranges and oiher fruits will be heavily increased. Pailroad building is giving employment and distributing money iB several counties. Cigar manufacturing is improving. Cypress lumber manufacturers claim to have a demand for all they can turn oat. New capital is coming into the state, and new land is being put into cnltivation. Someot the grand army boys will be inter ested in the following from Alex B. Pope, A. D. C., Commander, Dep’t Tenn. ana Ga. He says: “We have had an epi lemic of whooping cough here, (Stewart, Tenn..) and Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has been ihe only medicine that has done aDy good.” There is no danger from whooping cough, when this remedy is freely given. It com pletely controls the disease. 50 cent bot tles for sale by M. Lively, druggist. Call and see Miss E. J. Stephenson’s elegant line of millinery, just opened. ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale In 500 and $1 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. fw syrup ccl BAM FBAMOIBQQ, OAL iowsinue. kk new mu **, WHOLE NO. 3308 DIRECTORY OF FLORIDA LAWYER ROBBINS A GRAHAM, = ATTORNEYS AND COUNBSLLOBB4T LAW, TmmvxLLß, Fla. [Postoffice box No. 260.] in >ll the Courts. Q.EOBGE W, WALKER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Tallahassh, Fla. HT*Office up stairs, over Poetofflce. JJOWELL (TITUS, ATTORNEY and COUNBELLOR-AT-LAW, And Notary Public for State at Large. Tituhvilue, Fla. , ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, Arcadia, Fla. J W. BRADY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Bartow, Fla. |3F~Practices in all the Courts. jg B. BRIGGS, ATTORNEY, COUNSELLOR AND SOLICITOR, No 6 Gould Building, Mass. Ave. A Tifinuin’Bt. Tampa, Fla. LakelandT S* py Practices in all the Courts. JEFFERSOH B. BROWNE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Key West, Fla. Practices in all the Courts. JABIEi T. SAXDERS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AY* LAW, Titusvillr, Fla. JpRED T. IHYERB, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW Tallahabseb, Fla. jyjCGRIFF 4c DULLER, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,* T ALLA HASHES • FLORIDA, Practice m all courts. QF.ORGK 6KEEKHOW, REAL EBTATE AND INSURANCE, Tallahassee, Fla. gyDesirable City, Suburban and Fans Properties. g-ly A. SHINE, AGENT FOR THREE OF THE BEST FIRE INSURANCE COMPANI Continental, Western, • and German American. March 8-U JQR. 6. 8. WILSON, DENTIST. J3JTOfflce up stairs in Saxon’s new bri* building. Ang. 27, ’BS-lj^ £ E. PHILBRICK, 91. PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON. PTOffice in Masonic Lodge building. jgRASTIS W. CLARK, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, OPPOSITE ST. JAMBS HOTEL. I do work that others can’t do. I dot charge for what I don’t do. 13&~ All work done promptly and w*F ranted. May 21, *B6-tf gilmore a davis, Builders and Contractors* Only Firet-Claas Wor* done. Lumber always on hand. Address ent, F. G. Gilmore, Tallahassee, Fl*, ft G. I. Davis, Quincy, Fla. For Fine Cigar* and Graverly’s tobacco, call at the drag store of M. Lively’s. Notice of Incorporation. : TX7B, THE UNDERSIGNED, HEREBY GIVE TV notice that under the general incorporation laws now in force in the State of Florida, ws fcsvßj associated ourselves together as a body corporator ander the name of the Tropical Development aa r Navigation Company of Florida, for the pupa* of constructing and operating a canal amonsr tto_ lakes north or the Sooth Florida Railroad, ami such other business as appear* in oar article* oi incorporation. We have purchased all rights and privileges aid Interests of the Polk County Canal and Narfgatloa Company of Florida, In and under thefr charter, lying ana being north of the Sooth Florida RaS road, and have succeeded them therein. We have been granted by the State of Florid* full, perpetual ana corporate rights and exchmv* privileges for the above purposes, and to construct and operate canals along each roots of miles lit length as shall be most feasible for the purpose ot gassender and freight traffic, all in Polk county, The capital stock of said corporation shall b* $50,000, divided into 6,000 shares of s*o etch. The officers and directors of said corporation tor the first term shall be C. L Page,Jjjmde&t sad Superintendent: H. D. Johnston,.vJfte-Preeidents H. Hammond, Secretary and Treasurer, who also be the first board of directors. The principal place of basinets shall be at Ful, unless otherwise ordered. C. L Pave, X D. J r HXBTCN, H. Hammond. Jan. 80,fl8V2 —3 mo. ' ¥. 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