The Pensacolian from Pensacola, Florida • 1

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PENSACOLA, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 23, AND SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24, 1884. NO. 11. inlet nimtU'Ci'M KHS, BOSS TUB Mi l. OUR PILOTS, MANY SOURCES.

about to have a CULLED FROM Cedar Key is Of those born in Pensacola t'liatihuns i IV Naval i-onst rin-tnrs Assistant naval constructors 'ivil i It is scarcely necessary, at this late day, for Tut: Pkmsacoliax tout tempt a delineation of its political standing. Those of our Democratic and who have spent three quarters a Ml bank. Live Oak hotels are dob: of a century of life in this city and a bi; A COMPARISON. Total NO ABOLITION OF COMPULSION, i its vicinity, no one has been more widely known or more generally es LINK. business.

Mrs. P. L. Stanley, of Alachua, is dead. (', 1 teemed than the late Mrs.

Roso Greenwood, who first saw light in The danger and usefulness of their service. The effort to strip them of What we have done in the way of. Naval Progress in the last torty- twp able to snub i readers who have not essayed to ignore our editorial abilities, must have seen with each issue of this journal our unswerving allegiance to the Democratic Party. Those of our readers, who have triod to "set down upon us," must have had demonstration of the fact a singular one for a 1 1 7 21 4.1 K.I 77 i 1111 i. 1 ainii this ancient capital on the 12th day emoluments is in the interest of last.

ncL- of July, A. D. 1809. Her husband, ouv Government foreign ship owners and capitalists. ho preceded her to the grave about Wm.

Connor, of Tavares, died last week of pneumonia. 'ouinntn, let's l.ji'iiti nani-ciiniiniinilcrs l.iealcnunls l.ii-iitt-naut, junior tirade Kll-aillls Kiisinus, junior tirade. Total twelvo months ago, was the soul of a hospitality in which he was ever BASIL APPROACHES. Oot ye ready to weloome the Ruler of tho People of the Oulf Coast, for Ho brings Prosperity to His Subjocti. To Tm: Pkmsao.ii.iam, Oillcial Recorder of UiH Majesty, HAS1L, Lord of the Carnival.

recti na: Make known to all loyal subject of His Majesty, HASIL, that their King is in and bums with tho desire ofsceiiiv' his oonle 1H lmi 1W It is said that the Florida sponge If conscientious and dangerous service, even to defiance of the very seconded by his faithful and loving crop amounts to $100,000 per year, help meet. As "the hoary head is a The Tallahassee Kconontist has We have taken pe.sil'u-n in favor of U.H j.i ni iqi proper Naval Kstab u. ami one that will enable i at i' Government maintain its honor on the high was. will bo 1'ial, although wo now have a elements when lnslted to fury by tlte storm, constitute claims to superior newspaperthat we aro under and subject to no dictation. We are grntifyiugly to ourselves able to say thatTiiK Pknsacouan has an advertising patronage amply sufficient to meet all expenses; and crown of glory," as the wise man wrote, so has this venerable couple heroism, then the Pilots of tho ended the third year of its existence.

Oranges are still being shipped by thousands of boxes daily. T.l VV. Medical ilireeinrs Moilie.ll inspect'. i'H l'Assed assistant siii-fii'iins A isNtnnt -ii his .11...... i throughout their old age verified Lnited States deserve to be hailed that other sayfhg, "th memory of population of nearly fiJ.OOi.i.WO of as exponents of the highest form of its editors and proprietors have de tnejust is blessed." They arc both human valor.

termined to make il the true expo' ueau but what is death "A little uniled people HI till" Country. 1 inspectors i in- Naval Establishment has Iron: ivmf i. l'ns-41-il assistant paymasters I iliK' to tilllt' been so reduced- to Assistant iiiii-t-r-i "They that go down lo the sea in nettt of the principles that must be ships, that do business in great waters" live live full of peril, but i niel CilHincel's fussed eltllinccrs Assistant cutiiuccrs adhered to in order to carry victory into the Capital ol tho Slate lite approaching election. Tiik Pknsa- lives that are blazoned with tlte Chaplain i il proper fur Congress to cut I lite unmoor of otliivis of the luieaiiil stall' uniit tlu-re is not now, in iii-iijioriiim to iik-iia-ii-il wealth i 1 ii i f-l. a Naval l-'olee of silent records of matchless deeds of coi.

ian nas no lavonie whose many virtues shall need to be extolled in sleep, a little slumber, a little fold; ingof the hands to sleep." They are both mourned; "their children like olive-plants round about tlwir table" are deeply distressed; but David hath Baid, "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." When their venerable father and mother sltaJl jmcct, is Ue- I Naval constructor Assistant naval constructors Ci il engineers daring; and, to tho 'mariner, tossed sonville Times Union. During tlte present term sixty-six students have entered the Literary Department of the Floridal'uiversity. Early vegetables arc coining up; and spring-like weather will cause them to grow oil rapidly. l-'loridian. There is a gentleman in Tallahassee examining this Stale with the view of finding the best spot for a cotton seed mill.

It is reported that Messrs. Scoville dt Culpeppor are already making arrangements for the rebuilding of the Suwaneo Spring hotel. upon tlte angry billows of a turbulent i-iiia- liiaa one fotirtlt of that nfi Ti-tal ocean, THE GOOD PILOT He is on the wings of the wind and will arrive in his Capital City, IVn- saeola on Monday, the 25th instant. Done in mid-ocean tho Atlantic eablo having been hauled to the-surface by a grapple ou tho end of and ttiis VSih day of February, by rommansl of HAML, Lord or the Carnival. ATALANTIADKS, Royal Cnpliogrammist.

To Tiik Pkssacoi.ian, Official Recorder (r His Majesty, HASIL, Lord of tho Carnival. Greeting: Herald to the People of the Gulf Coast, HASIL. Lord of tl.A order to give thatravorito a prominent place in the councils of his 'people. When that favuritu is-nomtnff-ted by this journal, as a man, in every respect, the proper one to represent the People of Florida, this is "it 'lamp unto 'the feet and a light unto the path." Commcruc hails upon hazardous coasts when tho haven of rest is far be- journal shall be heard; and if wiser counsels than our own pieacliiiiL's was tlii-ii, tit eri' of prii- CalkiYis. to- -state-! uuiuil mm frdm' tlie hiripeclion i.

a war tiirealenitig, kept tlte- fotvg.rhijf" talt'li'S" Ttiat'Tlic aili at tlio Coveniiiieut of tlte number of oilk-ers uf the Hue in 1S42 Sittles for the ir of was ,0 1 and that the Navy KeVis-iisioiaineree and the a.lvaneeineiit i ter last shown an exhibit ul its (nvsti of only a redticliou of Calkins, in a icenl It ill be seen by an inspection of sm gitvc some on this tliid statement that there were more that may be of interest, oliieers oi'thc line in this Nivy in Tin an-as near antln iitie a-i can 1'0'2 than there arc tti-tlay. The to- nd the navigator's ken, and the prevail in the nominating conven Senator Call lias introduced a bill for tho establishment of a laud sun cannot smite by day nor the moon glimmer by night, as a liar bitiger of succor and safety. olliee at Harlow, Polk county, and 1 his is especially the case on the South Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Carnival, commands that his at the appointment of a Register and Receiver at salaries or $2,200 each. There arc H0 convicts nominally w.ii be seemed fiomanv sources of tal nmnlief of oliieers of the line in where the entrances to our harbors, proach shall be celebrated as bellta His Royal station: Let all shin.

in the State penitentiary, but really at work on the turpentine farm of iuloruiatiou ul our comniaud: 1-U. I.INH. I -I of whatever nation, now riding in C. K. Dutton, in Stiwanee county.

was 1 and in 188 i the to- tal minibi-r is a reduction of 285 oliieers the line. The stall has increased by two or three hundred oilieers." I Now we do not mind praising a Keimblican like Mr. Ctilkins, bitter are especially threatening to unprac-ticed navlgativn or strange navigators. In this connection, we undertake to say that no bar is better served, from Machias to the mouth of tho RioGranile.than is that of Pensaeola bay. Our pilot boats frequently to whom the State hires them.

Of this number, 100 are blacks and 20 me nnroor or his capital city, display their bunting and in other ways manifest tho joy of their masters and men nt His Majesty's approach. Let tho Mavor of the Citv Ii twin arc whiles, ana 7 arc lemnies, ,1 blacks and '1 while. i a-inmatcler-, I i-Mii-oailis -n' I I i TiiMl slur. t'a-s'il asi-l -ai Mii'iii-ons l.nM as in- is in ins hostility to this sec coast for 200 miles; and no ship needs to be delayed by the inefllcency tho arrival of His Majesty, turn over tho keys of his trust ami Apopka Citizen: Mr. Maxwell tion of the country, when he is laboring fur out- good and the good of of the service.

faithful account of his stewardship. It is well remembered here that 1st ant silt in and laity while perambulating the streets of Apopka near the Haplist Church came upon a largo otter and after a hard struggle succeeded in lie. mo people be joyful, for HASIL, their King, is r.iisi-i.s siil'S, A Total in late years, in the face of a terrible tempest, but in the line of duty, one pilot boat belonging to our bay Dono on board tho Royal Transport, killing hitu. They will bear tho skin away as a trophy and souvenir of Tho Harry Lec-with three full branch Florida. 1.1 1:.

pilots went down and every life was ost. besides this one three others it eai.ia,!- ai 'iian The Lake City Reporter is to be enlarged to nine columns on March have been lost in this dangerous service. Mr.l.l.A, in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, this 22ml day of February, by command of HASH, Lord o't the Carnival. PHAINTK, Royal Navigator. PILOTS' BROTHERHOOD.

At a meeting of this organization, held last Monday, at Warrington, it was resolved thot one boat. Iiaiimr 1st. It is a mighty good paper, anyhow. Hut let her spread." Putnam I ll'l II .1 WHAT TIIK COIMTUY OWKS. If any clnss of our citizens arc city of the Great King, they may know thnt "Mercy and Truth are met together; Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other." If thoy but emulate, as we have every assurance that they do, for filial honor has been the chicfest virtues of the Greenwoods they will know that in a higher sphere Death will have given "unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, thegarment of praise for the spirit of holiness." Below we subjoin a tribute to Mrs.

Greenwood, who died Inst week.from one who knew her well and loved her tenderly. The poetess has fitly laid her tribute of affection upon tho tomb of this Mother in Israel, whoso long life was one ofgood deeds and gentle ministration. Who can fail to admire the glowing lines that consecrate the respect of one good woman for another Thoro as atlilof In tho nljjlit, A int-HKtuigor to ull, ItnMilnn tlio household anil hearth, Weaving tho Hliroinl ami pull. Youthful forms anil hnary hi-ails, Hunt 'noatli its liiiKhtiiiK breath, Tho strongest arm must ylelil to It -This moNHongiir is Death When youtli'H dark looks or guidon hair Aro hung in It acalpxl belt, It see ins, perhaps, wo ought to grievo I'or tho blow, untimely Uualt. Hut when death comes with creeping tread And rueks tho ot.n to st.KKp, Hindi ev'ry sob, dry uv'ry tear; Wherefore should wo woepT l-'nr surely death to thotn Is gain! -To lliugoarth's bauble down, Its gowgawM and Its hollow Joys, Kora guidon harp and crown.

And hrk, who now has sunk to rest, I. H'k'ii full cup has drained -What linn she loft? but little here, Compar'd with what she has gained. The doar companion of her youth Sum moiied one year before! -Ah! tho bliss to meet again Where partings urn no more, STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION. By invitation from the citizens of Pensncola this Association will meet in that city on Tuesday, 4th March next. The executive committee do earnestly request that the Sucrintcmlcnt of each Sunday School havo a delegate in attendance.

Pastors in charge of Sunday Schools are expected to attend and requested to sec that their Schools aro represented by earnest workers. As the Associa justly cntillod to tlio full protection County Journal. You are right, as usual. Let her spread. You can't have loo much of a uood 11 the whoh- countrv.

lie shows most hi i ilaiuly our Navy needs streugth- citing; and some of these days we shall discover that he should have recciu-d attention, even frtim a I Democratic House of licprcsonta- the. One thing he says most sensibly: "While there is no enemy in sight, I have always been tauglit that tlte time to prepare for war is in time of I If we had been prepared ci-ntly thcie would not have been the f.nir years' war that swept thiscouu-i-l try an 1 devastated parts of it in a wav fioni which it has not recovered Now, as the President has said in his message, country is wnjoying I the blessings of unprecedented pros-j' pet ily, and there never was a time in-it this country could build a navy v'. 1 with such case as it can now. There never was a time when the country uuiit to enter tipo i the construe -1 i and encouragement of our laws, it is I I' 1 Floridian. Oil that class which is engaged in this "I 1 II ijilaill 1 Mr.

James while towing harzardons occupation to which we have alluded; yet Congress after on board ten pilots, was sulllcient to I 1 Congress has been importuned to abolish compulsory pilotage- a meas 00 me outside work, and the other boat will, consequently, bo laid up. There are nine boats in tho aer-vice, which, with one exception, a raft of 8.10 cedar logs from near St. Marks to this place etieoiinlered galo which destroyed the raft worth Hands are at work gathering the logs and it is impossible to l-lll. I I K. owing to tho regulations of the ure fraught with the utmost injus tico to the bravo seamen ol the American const whose lives are spent in the performance of a most iues timahlc work for the benrlil of Im estimate what the exact loss will be.

Brotherhood, are doing nothing; this il ni ii- il- 1 1 ii-1 -iiiiIii' I 1 1 11 ant 1 l.lar. Mi'l-tiiipnu'i, The raft belonged to Messrs, Cottrell Pi economy saves to tho association about $100 per month, Fir.lnyson A Scott, ('apt. Dawes' munity and especially the traflie little steam yacht, Ada M. was as tilings now are, tho business works like a charm: tho nilols rcai.l. loing the towing, and though she lieu of a navy like the present.

And that makes our sens while with lu thousands of home and foreign sails, TIIK AIIOMTION COMITI.SOItY PILOT- ll'li 11 I I hold it to be a crime against the acted nobly il was impossible to avert the disaster. Cedar Kev ing on tho reservation bringing the vessels in, those residing in Pensaeola, taking them out. people ol this Government to stop AUK -'1 I'a- 'l-i. --i aa; i)iis f.i; a a 1 i st tions, Tiik Pknsacoi.ian will support the Democratic Nominees.asstir-ed that their election to responsible official stations will be for the good of the people, and not to further tho interests of any private individual or corporation. Hecause we aro Democratic is no reason why wo should be hide bound because wo aro Democrats is no ren son wl.y we should consider every radical a scoundrel becnuso the radical party is rotten at the Jeore is no reason why it may not bo Composed of some sound atoms; and because our prospectus and sub-seipient salutatory proclaimed that justice should be given to all, i the reason why we enn "see good in everything." Tiik Pknsacolian will fight every i novation upon Democratic rights, and light its common enemy, the Republican party, in everything pertaining to parly issues.

And, now, the sooner onr position is understood by thoso who nic trying not to see it, the better for the Democratic Party it will be; wo desire harmony; but? if there are those who arc opposed to harmony, they, and not we, who will deflno the true principles thnt must constitute a high-road to victory must beheld responsible. If there is any bolting tiny shall be the bolters Tiik will not bolt. Jf Tiik Pensacolian should haven favorite; if it should attempt to dictate the formation of a plank, or planks, in the party platform, it need not demand It shall have a hearing. Then, if the aggregated wisdom of our conventions should see fit to act contrary to the theories advanced by us, we are true Democrats enough to set aside our wt'ic opinions and work for the common weal. Of course we nro working for Tfu Pknsacoliasi; of course we are working for Pensaeola; of course wo are working Tor West Florida; but of course, more than all others, aro we working for a continuation of Democratic rule In the State Government of Florida.

"For ways that n're'dark and tricks that aro Vain" commend us to the man who will not subscribe, and forgets to return the paper he has borrowed from his neighbor. At 12 o'clock last Sunday, a copy of Tiik 1V.nhacoi.iax could not be had for lovo or money; tho whole edition had been sold, and "thereby hangs 0 tale;" Olio fellow got a terrible thrashing in a dispute for the possession of a copy of the pa.r, and he, with 101110 others, wish Tiik Pkhsauoluk had never been born. Verily, the way of tho trangessor is not through mud. Tho New Orleans Grocery Is Just as popular as In days of yoro. It seems that Mr, Mcllugh's old customer! wero Juit waiting for the reopening, so thickly ami quickly did they cluster around their lavoi ito.

Weill Such things will be. We congratulate Pensaeola on the possession of inch a model establishment, and Tm Pehiacouas mUhH th imtltniily propria f- In his uaadtc- -1 now and refuse lo build it." should never be countenanced by Journal. The stem wheel steamer Merri Things tire boomirnr about the Further than this, Mr. Calkins iiia.Ic another good point. Hesaid: mac, 'apt.

W. Davidson, bound from New York lo Indian river, ar any one ho knows what is intended by the proposed measures. They arc purposed to strip the pilots of the very Inadequate protection now Tallahassee Ice Factory. Tho side traek is completed, Hi frame work i-71. i.isia rived here yesterday and is now at 1 nave coiicetci statistics or the population and value of the property in lint following cities upon our sea-coast, namely: iSostmi, New York, lirooklyn, Portland, Charles secured to them by the laws.

As rt 1' i Iiithnla ''a 1 ni.V il. a i I-i. ii aiiiii' s. ton. (S.

Mobile, New Orleans, 1- tho Compulsory Pilotage law stands, when a ship Is hailed by a pilot, she must either take him aboard and pay him tit the established rates of pilotage, or she must refuse to I111V0 a pilot yet pay for the pilot's service just as though its benefit was availed ofon the ground that he has discharged a very important and perilous function in loekinzjlic-v-esfier. in atKHiaivetiion on me Atlantic; S.n Kraneiseo. (Jakland, l'ortland, Or.J, on the I'acilie. 7-i I The ii in her of people in these I cities amounts to nearly 3,000,000. The value of property for taxation," JjiH lepoiK-d in 180, amounts in 1 round tiiinibers to 2.500.OO0.OOO.

tion embraces all Christian denomi- Taal Al t'. 1 "II 1 I ills oit iti illlt luiyticHtrr oil i I 1 1 tr 1 1 1 i a -I as-isi-im riiuiiii'-a's h'l a eitului'cts. 1 T'lat And yet the 'ill'" n'oM4flHltSttrwTetTulv ask that each portion of the State it I In three weeks' time could take every one of those cities and destroy thin immense property, ny iiu 1 gfly ihtil? If you look into the navy register of that country you will find ci me uuiiuing up, ami work progressing very satisfactorily. Floridian. Thero Is a prospect that a portion of our invincible navy will have some warm work pretty soon.

Advices to Thos. Mooney, at Warrington, contain a statement to the effect tho North Atlantic Squadron has been ordered to the Chesapeake to prevent tho constantly re currlug depredations by thieves on tho oyster beds of Ihut section. Wo have a correspondent on the spot who will wire lull particulars of every engagement. Tiik Pkmsacoi.ian is delivered to subscribers In all parts of the city, every Sundii) morning, at per annum. It Is left on your gallery, or thrust' under the door, and read by the head of the family before, or during breakfast.

Its carriers return before tho newt boys aro allowed to soil on the streets, and subscribers art served before purchasers. Subscriptions must bo accotnpanU by tho cash. Everything local; editorial com. mcnt upon everything of local or State Interest; and the most select literature of tho day aro weehl found In lu ctonf pages. Our office Is oa OomaaMMt atari Tysen Smith's wharf.

The steamer is large and well adapted to the Indian river business and is owned by ex Governor Duller, of Massachusetts. Captain Davidson snys that he has been to sen ever silicon boy eleven years of age but during his trip from Massachusetts here he encountered mora gales and btnl weather generally, than on any ne voyage ho has ever mado and bo lias been entirely around the world. nek son ville Times Union. The Gainesville Dec says: "Mr. Walter J.

Coleman, general traveling agent ol lite Florida Vnlral ami Western, Is In New Orleans and in conversation with a reporter stated that the travel to Florida this winter was tnue.lt greater than It had been before. This was due to the fact that it thorough canvass had been made of the North, and that tickets had been put on sale lu the various cities thoroiighotit the country, Very hear all of the travel of tho sV'lorida Central and Western road comes via New Orleans, and it Is the intention of the road to send its travel northward through this city. At present there arc fully 60,000 people sojourning In Florida, and more arc to come." If we had ample hotel and winter-resort facilities In Pensaeola, which capital and enterprise easily create, we should have tens upon tens of thousands of visitors, A'llnital i'i INTCUEST OK roKKION SHIP OW KHS and capitalists to havo this tax on their vessels removed; but such a step would be very injurious to the pilot service of the country, as if would materially diminish their revenues and take away from a large number of them an occupation in which they havo been schooled by years of severe training and continued hardships. mi rosoitmiMiiN ntoM h.oiuoa, in both houses, should do all in their Kiwcr to defeat this measure. Florida has a longer and more dangerous oast line than any of the Stales on the Atlantic or Gulf line of this country.

They aro especially Inter-estcd in keeping in existence the Kllot service from tho St. Mary's ivcr tol'erdido bay; and without compulsory pilotage many would be driven to find a living in some other business Let our Senators and Representatives give this matter prominent consideration and do all In their power to crpctuatc the usefulness of this meritorious class of our citizens. be represented. By arrangement with the railroads, delegates will be charged full faro going, and will return homo free, making the round trip half rate. Pastors will please send promptly to Rev.

C. V. Thompson, Chairman Local Committee, Pensaeola, the names bf delegates, that accommodation may be secured. T. W.

Moons, President. D. A. Coaciimak, Chalrtnun Kj.ec, Coin, Feb. 1884- State press please copy, The fishing smack, Challenge, was boarded last Sunday night by harbor thieves, and a quantity of wearing apparel and other things appropriated.

On another nopage an advertisement will be found that night help the thief or thieves to lighten their consciences, somewhat, I they have got five armored vessels. I VVe have-flot a Teasel Tn our Navy if that could stand before 0110 of those i-; armored, vessels leu inittttte; and every one knows It. No, sir; put nil togetlier; put the entire Fi thirty vessels that we have afloat in II 1 front of one of these vessels of the little cjuntry of Chill, and she would sink every 0110 of them within less space than we occupy in debate bore on this bill. And yet, while I grant j-rni me not in the presence of an enemy, 'tlu fact remains that this eoitntry hits (nickeled Insults not on ly from that liltieeoMtspfct'hill, but VjJ; from tilmost every other" country on the laee or the globe in tlio last 'four I I or live years, becaiiscwe have no J'; I Navy with which to assert our rights hi I or maintain our national dignity," 0- ii.mi-i-citnm tn.li-rs 11 mi 1 i-a Ttl 1 1-1 i t. 1 ll III' I sllrui-iill-i Oil -t, tt a-asti'f tutVllliliater oil tn.tcr-.

i lssti(il 1-tm'ltM't-l'S nit tiuiiii.i.r.