The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-06-15

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The House Of Representative has
passed bin providing that the Preaidcn-
tial salary Of General Zachary Taylor for
the unexPired portion Of his term Of oases
shall Be paid 70 his heirs, some Of whom
are in indigent eircamstaAess-
The contest over the win of Mr1
Dorsey, giving the bulk Of hsr property
to JeGerson Davis, has beenconclude1 by
decision Of q. s. C. Judge Wood 20 the
effect that the contestants had NO casa
Justice Bradley refused rehearing.
The Ohio carpet-bagger editor Of the
Okolona CAisA) States, has yielded to
the immutable decree Of Destiny. He
charged his senior, Mr.. Harper, with dis
honesty, and was promptly eow-hidsd,
and claimed the protection Of the by
standers-
Jefferson Davis plantation At Hurri-
cane, Miss, is leased by Montgomery d
Sons This firm is composed of foar ne
groes who were formerly owned by q
brother of the ex-President of the Con-
iederacy. They own plantations worth
t75, 900, hire several more, and do mer-
camille business ut Vicksburg.
Iowa walnut logs are now being
shipped to England. The timber is
bought in the tree by Liverpool agent,
and is cut down and hewn square. The
ends are then painted to prevent crack
ing from exposure to the weather. The
logs are shipped to Liverpool to supply
the cabinet makers of Great Britain.
/ Mr.. Henry G. Venner, the Canadian
weather prophet, predicts for that lati
tude, that June will be an intensely hot
month, that July will be terrible month
for storms, with terms of intense heat
but another fall-like relapse, with frosts
will, in all likelihood, occur q few days
before the 20th. He fears the storms Of
thunder and hail will be of unusual Sc
verify during July.
The American Rifle Team sailed foI
Ireland, on the Sd inst, in the City o.
Brussels to meet the Irish team At Dolly
mount The following are the names Of
the ten men who constitute the team and
reserves: Colonel BodiDe, Captain c. II
Laird, DR.. S. L Scott, William N. Far
row, Homer Fisher, Ransome RathbODe
Colonel II. F. Clark, w. II. Jackson, j
F. Brown and H. T. Rockwell.
Rhode Island has the following stat
ute: "All marriages between 3 white per
son and negro shall be absolutely void
and the person joining them in marriage
shall be subject to a penalty of 5000.
Samuel D. Dorrell, full-blooded negro
was lately married at Providence to FL
len Darlington, white girl The Rev
Geo. B. Smith, who performed the cere
mony, is to be prosecuted, in order Il
test the law.
AT the rate of June immigration thus
far, Sc, 1000 will be received at Castle Gar
den during the month. That will make
$50, 900 for the quarter year comprising
April, May and June. Taking in Boston
Baltimore, Philadelphia and other portl
for the same period, we may expect :
total of 100000 for the quarter. Nearly
all these immigrants are sturdy and Wig
orous; they will increase and multiply
This westward procession of the people O
Europe is one Of the imposing spectaclei
aud political portents Of our day.-M Y
San.
The story of q prophetic dream
comes from California: Amasa Wilsey
of Petaluma, dreamed that he would die
on the lst of May 1880. The occurrence
oppressed him, although he, aAected t.
attach no Importance to it, and he tool
out policies in three insurance companies
30 as to leave his wife provided for ir
case of his death. On the LIST of May be
was apparently in perfect health, and
preparations were made to give Q dinns1
to his friends in the evening, to celebrate
his escape from the fulfllment of bis Wis
ion. The party had just gathered, how
ever, when he fell from his chair, strickeI
with heart disease, and died in a few
minutes.
The Rev. Aleck Caraway 10 one o.
the most eloquent Of North Carolina
colored preachers. His sxhortations q,
camp meetings are wonderfully effective
and he is able to move his audience al
will. But when, on being convicted o.
stealing pair of trousers, at Charlotte
he made the greatest oratorical effort o.
his life to convince the magistrate tha.
the devil alone was responsible for the
crime, he found that he had hard hearea
to move. "YOu say that yea we're pos