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FLORIDA ITEMS.
—Col. Estill of the Savannah Morn
ing Nem is in South Florida.
—Truck gardening will bo tried in
Florida on a more extensive scale this
year.
—The orange crop of South Flori
da, it is predicted, will bo unprece
dentedly large this year.
—The new jury law in Florida
changes the number from twelve to
six, except in capital cases.
—Col. John A. Henderson has been
appointed Solicitor Second Judicial
.Circuit. A good appointment.
—A consignment of seventeen hun
dred chickens, ducks, geese, etc., from
Tennessee arrived in Jacksonville last
week.
—An old man of sixty, living in
Marianna, Jackson county, was lately
married to a blooming young miss of
sweet sixteen.
—Several old newspapers were on
exhibition at the State fair, one among
them a copy of the Boston News Let
ter, issued April 22, 1704.
—Capt. C. E. Dyke, Editor of the
Tallahassee Floridian, was elected on
the third ballot State Printer by a
majority of 27 over Air. Fowlo, of the
Sentinel.
—Tiie ladies of St. Augustine be
lieve in “learning how to shoot." A
title match between the ladies a fid
gentlemen of that ancient city will
soon take place.
—Twenty-eight city lots were sold
by Mathcson A McMillan, of Gaines
ville, during the month of February.
And this is what cornea of a good
Dentoeratic gover ll mont.
■—A law has been passed and ap
proved by the Governor changing the
county lines between Levy and Mari
on counties, giving a good strip of
ihe latter to the former. The editor
of the Ocala Banner is mad about it.
—Past Grand Master Samuel Ben
ezet, of the Grand Lodge of Masons,
is no more. Ho was buried with the
imposing honois of Free Masonry on
Monday week last. He was Governor
Milton’s private secretary during tlio
war.
—There is a restaurant in Jackson
ville, where the visitors while waiting
to be served are allowed by the pro
prietor to chant:
HoM the forks, the knives are coming,
The plates are on the wav,
Shout the chorus to your neighbor,
Sling til., hash this way.
—A cat crawled into a cooking
stove in Quincy one night week be
fore last, and remained there till
morning, when the door was closed
and a fire kindled. Its whereabouts
was not ascertained, however, until it
had baked so thoroughly that it threw
out an offensive odor.
-—A young man named Wilcox, a
member of the burnt-cork fraternity,
of the North, took into his head to visit
the Land of Flowers, and walked the
whole distance, sometimes doing with
out food for two days during his long
journey. He alighted on Gainesville
as a proper place to rest his feet.
—Col. Lucius Hardee, of Jackson
ville, has ordered from England a
gun, whose ordinary cl .urge is 250
pounds of powder. Ho intends to
locate this monster ns nearly as pos
sible in the centre of the orange belt,
so as to rid the entire section of that
destructive little creature, the scale
insect.
—On last Wednesday night the
Windsor Hotel of Jacksonville, would
have been burned to ashes but for
the timely discovery of a gentleman
who was passing there at two o'clock
in the morning. Late hours some
times accomplishes good to the detri
ment of health.
—A locomotive of tlio A. G. A IV.
1. Transit company, ’exploded at
Swail's wood landing, about one mile
from Dutton’s mill, on Wednesday
last, killing the engineer, Mr. James
(J. Frazier, aged GO years, outright,
and the fireman, a colored man, will
probably die, having been scalded
very seriously.
—The inward bound freight train
on the Florida Central railroad ran
off the track on Tuesday morning be
fore daylight, about two miles east of
Baldwin. It was caused by the burn
ing of the cross tics which had caught
from a pile of wood on lire near by.
The cars was loaded with lumber and
two of them were burned. The lum
ber was the property of Messrs. Drew
& Bucki, of Ellaville.
—A colored man named William
Edwards, who labors on Messrs. Ben.
and Robert Johnson’s plantation in
Jefferson county, turned confessor
one day last week, and thinking that
ho was about to “‘close acoounts” with
this mundane sphere, acknowledged
that for adroitness in stealing and
burglary he was second only to bis
satanic majesty. Discovering that he
would be likely to recover, and be
brought before a magistrate, left for
parts unknown.
Senator Gordon’s Views.
AVo clip the following tis tho ex
pressed views of Senator Gordon from
the special correspondent of the At
lanta Connlihdion:
I had a long talk with Senator Gor
don to-night. The Senator has been
suffering terribly with a pressure on
his brain, which binds itself like a
cord about his forehead. Ho has
continued, however, to mingle in af
fairs and give his wise attention to tho
tremendous matters now pressing for
daily solution. His views on the sit
uation will be interesting.
“I never doubted,” said he, “and I
am now absolutely assured of the fact
(ind from Republican sources too)
that if tho Democrats had from iirst
to last,
PRESENTED AN UNBROKEN FRONT
and given notice of their inexorable
purpose of resisting to the very last
extremity any attempt to seat a fraud
ulent President, that the Republicans
would never have attempted to seat
Hayes. I know this to be so. The
uncertain policy of tho Democrats,
the reported divisions in the ranks
and their alleged willingness
TO SUBMIT PEACEABLY TO ANY USURPA
TION,
encouraged the Republicans to such
an extent that the electoral bill be
came a necessity. Now-mark tuc. If
the Democrats had but presented an
unbroken front the Republicans would
never have gone to extreme measures,
and the electoral bill would never
have been thought of.
“What course then would the Dem
ocrats have pursued ? Why, simply
this: The House would have thrown
out Florida and Louisiana, and if the
Senate did not follow suit, the House
would either have elected Tiklen out
right, or would have provided a bill
ordering
A NEW ELECTION NEXT NOVEMBER,
making some decent Republican act
ing President, until that time. Of
course the new’ election would have
resulted iu Tilden’s triumph. But I
believe that tho Senate would have
voted to throw out Louisiana, aud.
possibly Florida, if there had been no
electoral commission; if the Demo
crats had been determined aud undi
vided from the first.
“But that is all past, and w’e must
look to the future. Hayes’ prompt
disavowal of the offensive article in
the Ohio State Journal prevented the
inauguration of movements that will
keep him out of tho White House.
What will become of the Democracy
in four years ?
A GRAND, SWEEPING VICTORY
awaits them, beyond tlio sliaodw of a
doubt, if they will remain in ranks,
and keep the party intact. The coun
try will repudiate the fraud by which
the Republicans have established
their usurpation, just as surely as the
time arrives for them to vote. Our
only danger is this; that Hayes by
glittering offers, by really conservative
and liberal action, will
DISINTEGRATE OUll SOUTHERN DEMOCRACY,
and put us in danger of losing some
of the Southern States. Such a pros
pect as this would demoralize our
friends in the North. The Republi
cans will make herculean efforts to
capture southern Democrats and de
bauch the southern party. His friends
have already petitioned Grant to
“hold his haudz off” of Louisiana and
Carolina, and leave the solution of
those problems to Hayes. Their ob
ject is plain. It is intended that the
new President
SHALE HAVE ALL THE APPLAUSE
that the recognition of the Hampton
and Nicholls government will win.
You will perceive at once that this
advantage will be a tremendous one.
The full and prompt recognition of
the honest governments of those two
States will give him an opportunity to
signalize the opening of his adminis
tration that few Presidents, if any
President, ever had
A JUDICIOUS DISTRIBUTION OF THE OF
FICES
in his gift among the southern Dem
ocrats is relied upon to further, or
complete this disintegration. It is
plain that no Southern Democrat
should accept office under Hayes. It
shall be my purpose to advise all who
approach me on the subject to have
nothing to do with it. Our only
safety, and it seems to me our only
honor is in bolding ourselves abso
lutely aloof from this fraudulent and
usurpatory administration. If this is
done we shall reap a glorious harvest
four years from now.
THE MOST HORRIBLE RESULT,
it seems to me, that can como from a
division in our party in the South is
demoralizing and the miserable scuffle '
that will ensue over tho negro vote.
It will be a sad day for the South,
when we see decent white men array
ed against each other, and engaged
in a deadly struggle, the prize of
which is a batch of ignorant and cor
rupt negro voters. I hope and pray
that the
PARTY WILL PRESERVE ITS ORGANIZATION
and save its honor. And I believe it
will. I have no idea that Hayes or
any other man can buy tho sentiment
yf the South with a few potty offices,
or debauch with patronage a party
that lias proved its heroism and dem
onstrated its fortitude and purity as
the Southern Democracy has.”
Du. Dkmas Barnes is said to have
sunk $400,000 in the Brooklin Argue.,
Worse to take than his own bitters.
Georgia’s Action on the Late
Presidential Election.
The following preamble aud reso
lutions were introduced in the House
of RepresenlntivcMNby Colonel Hood,
of Randolph, and unanimously adopt
ed by both Houses, on the 22d ultimo.
Wo publish them as apposite in this
particular crisis iu public affairs at
Washington.
The following preamble and resolu
tions were introduced in the House
Representatives on the 22d day of
February, the birth-day of Washing
ton, and were unanimously adopted
by both Houses:
“We, the representatives of the
people of Georgia iu general assembly
met, deem it a duty which we owe to
ourselves, our common country and
posterity, to utter a voice of condem
nation as well as of warning, in view
of the state of the republic. The dis
regard which for years has been
shown for the strict letter of the law
lias naturally degenerated into a dis
regard and defiance of its spirit and
we now stand confronted with tre
mendous peril to liberty itself. Our
servants have been our masters and
neither tho laws nor the constitution
can protect us. Could reason be left
free to combat error and the people
to effect reforms where they are
needed, we should be hopeful of the
future.
But the facts of our present politi
cal history declare that the very safe
guards of the ballot have been taken
away from us by the wicked instru
mentalities which have been devised
for the purpose of robbing the people
of power and free suffrage, and we
are powerless to redress our wrongs.
The patriotic of all parties can but
fee! how earnest the effort was 111 our
recent Presidential election to redress
the evils which were affecting the
country by a peaceful and honest use
of the ballot, and the whole world
proves how a wicked oligarchy has
defeated tho purpose. If fraud no
longer vitiates the actions of men or
States then, indeed, are we hopeless
of the corrupt and lawless who now
hold power and may hold it forever.
If the highest tribunal in our land
which we have fondly looked to as
the last stronghold of freedom, lias
'declared that frauds on liberty and
law must stand unreversed and irre
versable, then, indeed, are we a
doomed people. With the law tram
pled upon, the name of State sov
ereignty a by-word ot reproach, gov
ernments, in the South, at least, set
tip ami pulled down at will, and the
foundation of justice itself polluted,
it does seem that the overthrow of
our common government is imminent.
Iu the present state of the republic
the voice of every patriot is needed;
apathy is a crime, and silent acquies
cence ia the conspiracy against our
liberties is ruin.
Besot cud, by the Senate and House
of Representatives in General Assem
bly met, that we hereby declare it to
be the sense of this Assembly, as well
as the firm belief of the people of
Georgia, that Samuel J. Tilden was
fairly elected President of the United
States for the ensuing four years, and
that Thomas A. Hendricks was elected
for the same term Vice-President, and
if they shall fail of a peaceful inaugu
ration, then will the people of the
United States have been defrauded of
their choice and a fatal blow be given
to public honor and to the stability
and integrity of the government.
Resolved, by tlio authority afore
said, that the General Assembly views
with alarm and most decided con
demnation, and hereby enters into
solemn protest agaiust the interfer
ence of the authorities of the general
Government with the full exercise of
the ballot in the several States,
whether that interference is mani
fested in the control of returning
boards or in the presence of United
States troops at the polls, or in the
arbitrary elevation of its favorites to
supreme power iu place of those
chosen by the people.
A. O. Bacon,
Speaker of House.
E. P. Speer, Clerk of House.
It. E. Lester,
President of Senate.
TV. A. Harris, Secretary .of Senate.
Approved February 27, 1877.
Alfred 11. Colquitt, Governor.
The Last Chance.— Tlio Now York
Sun says: “J. Madison Wells will
get back bis big pistol, liisbowie knife,
and bis rillo cane about the 4th of
March, but lie will hardly get another
chance to sell the electoral vote of his
native Stato to the highest bidder.”
It is to be hoped so. But after the
precedent which has been set in the
case of Louisiana there is certainly
much encouragement to the same sort
of people to go on in their nefarious
business hereafter. One more inci
dent of making a President in the
same way would probably end the
whole business cf popular elections
on a national field in this country.
The people may bo relied upon, how
ever, as we think, to effectually pre
vent tho recurrence of suck a specta
cle.
my ♦
The author of the phrase “Invinci
ble in Peace, Invisible in War” which
lias been ascribed to Beu. Hill, was
the late Captain George 11. Derby,
better known us “John Phoenix,” who,
while iu San Francisco, at a public
dinner of tho stato militia, gave as a
toast: ‘-'The California Militia; Invin
cible iu Peace, “Invisible iu War.”
Tiie Republican Party on its
Death-Bed.
The Republican party is really to
day in sore need. On the popular
vote it is in a minority. In tho Elec
toral Colleges its strength rests en
tirely upon such extraordinary ex
pedients as partisan returning boards,
constituted for the sole purpose of
destroying tho polls. In the next
Sennto its once enormous preponder
ance is reduced to four or five ma
jority. In the House it will be in a
minority. One after another of its
groat leaders has been suppressed or
driven away, until in tiie next House
Gov. Cox, of Ohio, will stand out
almost alone as conspicuous for public
service. It is only undue charity
which accords to Garfield or Eugene
Hale capacity for leadership. Iu the
Senato Edmunds, Cu;’:!ing, and Geo.
F. Hoar may bo considered strong
men and leaders. Christiancy anti
Booth are Independents. Blaine must
yet rehabilitate his reputation. Mor
ton and John Sherman, certainly tho
former, can scarcely be called vital
izing forces in party.
Nor are we better off in respect of
measures than of men. Upon finance
and tariff we have no policy. Upon
reconstruction of the South the policy
we have must be abandoned, aud we
must own up to having made a miser
able and criminal failure of tho whole
business. What is left for us but to
die ?—Boston Transcript. ,
When tho Senate was discussing
the release of Mr. Jordan, Cashier of
the Third National Bank, from alleg
ed contempt on Friday week last,
Brother Blaine gave vent to some vir
tuous indignation. Indeed, he spoke
with great emphasis and feeling in
j regard to investigating committees,
las he had a right to do. Here is a
i specimen of the rebuke administered
| on that occasion:
“I do not wish to lie understood ns
! believing myself at all iu the policy of
j going into every back room and pri
vate drawer aud personal memoran
dum and portmonaic and bank ac
count of every man in the United
j States, whether lie is a Democrat or
whether he is a Republican.”
In this enumeration tho Senator
with great delicacy does not refer to
the subject of personal letters relating
| to jobbery, though he evidently points
in that direction when ho includes
i “personal memorandum” in the list
i which he prescribes from investiga
tion. Brother Blaine lias been
i through the mill, and he knows how
it feels to bo ground into fine pow
| der.— N. Y. Sun.
i The New York World gives an ac
curately compiled statement of the
vote for Presidential electors, which
is very melancholy reading just now.
The Democratic majority on the pop
ular vote was 204,829. It is entirely
unnecessary for us to state the ma
jority in the Electoral College. The
j entire vote lor Air. Tilden was 4,305,-
03G; for Mr. Hayes, 4,040,807. The
Electoral vote stood: Tilden 184,
j Hayes IGS. Of the twenty contested
| votes Air. Tilden had rightly and
j justly iu every respect thirteen, with
| South Carolina doubtful. A party
| may override tho people’s will once,
! but they will not do it again. The
Republican party threw away its en
| tire future to win one more term.
The Destruction of the Supreme
; Court.— lf Congress bad set out de
liberately to devise a scheme to render
the character of our Supreme Judges
contemptible in the estimation of all
Americans, Congress could not have
invented a more effective plan for the
purpose than this compromise farce
lias proved to be. It lias already
done more to bring that high tribunal
into popular contempt than all that
has ever before occurred. If, at tile
conclusion, there should bo left any
vestige of a decent public respect for
a court, the majority of whose Judges
have shown themselves to be con
temptible partisan demagogues, the
world may well marvel thereat.—
Chicago Times.
The Charleston News anil Courier
says tho following dispatch was sent
to President Grant by tlio girls of
Summerville after they had been made
aware of bis objections to a military
turn-out on Washington's birth-day:
Summerville, S. C., Feb. 22.
To Ills Excellency I Igsses S. Grant,
President oj the United States of
America:
We wish to celebrate the birth-day
of Washington by a candy-pulling.
Can wo do so without violating the
spirit of your proclamation and the
recent orders based thereon ?
No reply was received, but then it
was not expected.
Secor Robeson has spent one hun
dred and twenty-five millions patch
ing up old navy ships. Yet the
navy is of about as much use for
fighting purposes as a colloctiou of
mud scows. It will long remain a
wonder bow any people could iu pa
tience bear such corruption in high
office. They did last November rise
up and by a million majority of white
voters demand that honest men should
be put at tho head of their Govern
ment, but now tho party which stole
their money proposes to steal tho
Picoideucy from them. — N. F. Sun.
VOL. IV.—NO. 2.
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY.
In speaking of a person’s faults
Pray don’t forget your own;
Remember those with houses of glass
Should seldom throw if stone.
If we have nothing fiTse to do,
Than tali: of those who win,
’Tis better to commence nt home.
And from that point begin.
We have no right to judgo a man,
Until he’s fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
So many have faults, and who has not?
The old as well as young;
Perhaps we may, for anght we know,
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you a better plan,
Aud find it works full well;
To try my own defects to cure,
Ure others’ faults I tell;
And though I sometimes hope to lie
No worse than some I know,
My own short comings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us nil. when we begin
To slander friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little kuow.
Remember curses, sometimes like
Our chickens, ‘‘roost at homo;’’
Don't speak of others' faults until
We have none of our own.
Fault Finding.
Wo should always be ready to for
give, remembering that we have great
need to be forgiven.
How often do we find fault with
others, when we ourselves have per
haps faults of a different kind. When
we see faults iu others lot us as far as
is consistent with truth and right,
endeavor to draw tho broad mantle
of charity over them,-feeling that ours
need hiding.
“What arc another’s faults to me?
I’ve not a vulture's hill
To peck at every flaw I see,
And make it ~ler still.
It is enough f,. r me to know
IVe foili of my own;
And on my rt the care bestow,
And let my end alone.”
What a Child Wants. —When a
child begins to read, it becomes ’o-.
lighted with a newspaper, beoans, it
reads of names and things which are
familiar, and it will progress accord
ingly. A newspaper iu one year is
worth a quarter’s schooling to a
child. Every father must consider
that information is connected with
advancement. The mother of a fam
ily, beiug one of its heads, and having
a more immediate charge of children,
should herself be instructed. A
mind occupied becomes fortified
agaiust the ills of life, and is braced
for any emergency. Children amused
by reading or study, are; of course,
more considerate and more easily gov
erned.
Fleeing from Bliss.— About two
weeks ago a young lady broke through
the ice of a deep skating pond noar
Toronto, and a young man rescued
her at the risk of his own life. As
the half-drowned girl was recovering
consciousness her agonized father ar
rived on the spot. Taking ono of her
cold, white hands in ono of his own,
he reached out the other for the hand
her rescuer, but the young man, real
izing his danger, with one frightened
glance broke for the woods, and was
soon lost to view. He has not been
beard of since, and it is supposed
that l e is traveling in tho United
States under tho false and hollow
name of Smith.
A young Lady bet a man a kiss that
Tilden would be elected—be to pay if
Tildeu won, and slio to pay if Hayes
was elected. On the morning of the
Bth of November be called and paid
the debt; oil the 9th he called and
took it back. That evening she paid
tho debt. Next mornieg she took it
back and ho paid; then she paid, and
so they have been kept busy by the
contradictory dispatches ever since,
and both declare their willingness,
and ability to bold out until Congress
decides tho question. They don’t,
like the new Compromise bill.
Two young ladies from Cincinnati
are visiting two different families not
far from Beacon Hill. A Boston gill
speaking of the ono to tho other, said:
‘‘She’s the most disagreeable girl I
ever saw.” “Yes,” returned the dam
sel from Cincinnati, “and the proud
est, though her father packed only a
hundred hogs last year.”
A good story is told of a Now
Hampshire physician who vaccinated
a family of twelve and charged sl2.
A few days after he took a dozen cab
bage plants in part pay, as ho sup
posed, but upon final settemeut
learned, to bis surprise that Mr. Farm
er charged doctor’s prices—“$1 a
head.”
A Woman disturbed a congregation
in Manitowoc, Wis., by making audi
ble comments on the sermon. Tho
clergyman went down from the pulpit,
seized the woman aud forced her out
of tho church. Subsequently ho was
fined ton dollars.
Tin: passengers ou a Kentucky rail
road train became so interested in an.
eloping couple that, whon the father
of the girl came aboard at a station
to take her home they forcibly eject
ed him.