The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-24


dead.
Another oil fire is reported at Brad
ford, Pa; $4,000 barrels Of oil are burn
ing.
Brownsville, Texas, was nearly de-
stroyed by fearful storm on the 18th and
18th inst
One hundred and fifty-seven cases of
smallpox were reported in Camden, N. J.
on the 21st.
Hiram Warner, Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Georgia, has resigned
his position on the bench.
About 800 of Sitting Bulls follow
ers, who fled with him across the Cana
dian border, have surrendered.
Mr.. r. TenBroeck's American horse
Entire Nous" won the race for the Den
ham handicap plate at Egham, England.
The Yeager FIGURING Mills, the larg
est establishment of the kind in ST. Louis,
was burned on the 18th inst. Loss, half
a million.
Boston has appropriated $4,000 for
the celebration on September 18th, Of the
two hundred and fftieth anniversary of
her foundation.
General Albert J. Meyer, chief sig
nal officer of the United States, is lying
very sick of heart disease, at the Palace
Hotel in Buffalo, N. Y.
-Whitaker's ears have got well enough
for his case to be disposed of, and he has
demanded court-martial, and received
instead an indefinite furlougb.
Hon. James Alexander Sedden, for
merly Secretary of War of the Confed-
eracy, died at his residence in Goochland
county, August 10Th, aged 65 years..
1t is officially announced that Maud S.
and st Julien will certainly trot at Spring
field, Mass, the former for special purse
of $4,000 against her record of 2:ll4.
"A duel between J. B. Hope, editor Of
the Norfolk, Va, Landmark, and Mr..
Lamb, Mayor of Norfolk, was prevented
on the 2lst by the arrest of the latter.
Senator Lamar has been spending the
summer at his home in Oxford, Miss. He
has improved in health and regained his
strength and he will take the stump in
Mississippi next fall.
The town of Goliad, in Texas, was
visited by a fearful cyclone recently,
which, in two minutes, demolished twenty
five houses, injured five persons, and
caused loss Of fifteen thousand dollars
There is no truth in the statement
telegraphed by the Associated Press last
Monday that Hon. Proctor Knott had
been shot and MORALLY wounded by J.
w. Lewis, the Greenback candidate for
Congress.
The news from Afghanistan indicates
that the siege of Candahar has commenced
IN earnest. A heavy and continuous fire
is kept up on both sides, and Ayoob Khan
is attacking on two faces of the city, while
number of men are pushing forward
trenches towards the walls.
Colonel Miles, Indian Agent, was to
leave Fort Reno, Indian Territory, on the
18th inst, in charge of eighteen Cheyenne
and Arapahoe children, who are to be
placed in the school at Carlisle, Pennsyl-
vania, or Hampton, Virginia. Several
chiefs will accompany the party.
The measure of dissatisfaction felt in
high quarters at the proposed marriage
of Lady Burdett-Coutts and Mr.. Bartlett
is indicated in the refusal of the use of
the Chapel Royal, Savoy, for the cere-
mony, despite the great desire of the
Baroness that it be celebrated there.
John Buchanan, the notorious dean
of the Eclectic Medical College of Phila-
delphis, who was under heavy bonds for
his appearance to answer charges of fraud
ulently issuing medical diplomas, drowned
himself by jumping from the ferry boat
between Philadelphia and Camden. His
body was not recovered.
The State Department has instructed
the United States Legation at CONSTANT
nople to investigate fully the recent muir
der Of the American missionary, Rev. ].
w. Parsons, near Ismid, in Asiatic Tur-
key, and to impress upon the Government
of the Sultan the necessity of bringing the
murderers at once TO trial and punish
ment.
The Democratic ratification meeting
to be held in New York city on the 28th
inst. will be one of the finest demonstra-
tions ever made there. A platform is to
be erected capable of holding 500 people
and to be profusely decorated. Mr.. w.
w. Corcoran viii preside. over the meet
ing, and among the speakers expected are
Senator Bayard, Speaker Randall, s. s.
/. Cox, Senator Vance, Lieutenant Governor
Dorsheimer and John Kelly. About fifty
delegations viii attend from the surround
ing country. Daniel Dougherty has prom
ised to speak, and Dorsheimer is expected
70 reply 70 schurz's Indianapolis speech.
"A dispatch from Indisnola, Texas, Of
August 18th, says: "W. s. Happham,