The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-13


is dead.
The owners of the vessels in the Sea-
wanhauka disaster, and some of the gov
eminent officials, have been presented by
the grand jury for criminal carelessness.
Dan Leahy, the champion single
sculler of the Pacific coast, has accepted
the challenge of Wallace Ross to row a
ive-mile race for two thousand dollars
side.
ten. VIM. D. Butler, who was can
didate for Vice-President on the ticket
with Gen. Lewis Cass in ls4s, died at his
home In Carrollton, KY, on the 9th inst,
aged 80 years.
-Bradlaugh's paper rose, in one week
after he came prominently before the pub
lie in his Parliamentary struggle, from
eight thousand copies circulation weekly
to one hundred thousand
General Hancock has very pleasant
suburban home thirty minutes by railroad
from St. Louis. The house is spacious
and is surrounded by ample grounds
which command view of the Mississippi
Recent rains have done much dam
age to the cotton crop in Alabama, aHd
with the ravages of the worm, it is thought
that not more than half the expected crop
will be made on the prairie and bottom
lands
Full returns of the Alabama State
election have been received. The Legis-
lature will be almost solidly Democratic,
the Judges and Chancellors the same.
The Democratic majority on the State
ticket will be fully $4,000.
The French Chamber has passed
vote of credit of 81 900, 900 for the Sahara
Railroad, part of which two companies
have already offered to contract for, while
the Medine and Niger section will be un-
dertaken by the government
1t is believed that the Porte, in reply
to the last note of the powers on the Mon
tenegrin question, will comply with the de-
sires expressed in the same and cede Dull
cigno as soon as the agent sent to Albania
has induced the Albanian chiefs to con-
sent.
AN effort is making to break the will
of Edwin Forrest, which ifsuccessfnl will
result in depriving the Forrest Home of
several hundred thousand dollars, and
transfer that amount to William B. For
rest, distant cousin of the actor now liv-
ing in Scotland.
Three passenger cars of an excursion
train from Niagara Falls to Jackson, o.,
on the Southern Railroad, went through
bridge over the canal at Waverly. One
hundred and twenty passengers were on
on the train, and one was killed, ten Sc
verely and others slightly injured.
The statue Of Robert Burns, to be
erected in Central Park, New York, will
be ready for unwilling in September, and
the Park Commissioners have been in
vited by the committee representing the
donors of the statue to unite with them in
arranging proper programme for the
ceremony.
The demand for lie Conte pear trees
promises to be better the coming season
than ever before. A large number of or
ders have already been received from
abroad, and most of them for trees by the
hundred or thousand. If the demand
continues the supply will be inadequate
-ThomasoiNe Enterprise
The Irish citizens Of Toronto, Catho-
lie and Orangemen, had street fight on
Saturday, 18th inst, resulting from pa
rade by the former and display of
sunburst," at which the latter took um-
bragg They fought with sticks and
stones until the police took a hand with
clubs and cleared the streets.
The commercial travellers of St.
Louis, who penetate every business COM
munity in the southwest, are having .
steamboat fitted up for their especial con-
yenience. Captain Lederman, a CONNER
cial man who has been ON the road for
twenty years, is building it, and it will
draw fourteen inches of water, 80 that it
can be run up all the sizeable tributaries
of the Mississippi and Missouri, and have
the finest accommodations for fourteen
different kinds Of business.
AN important meeting Of the Ne
tional Association of Steam Navigation
viii be held at Norfolk, Va, commencing
September 7th next. 1t is proposed at
this meeting to take steps toward an en-
tire remodeling Of the steamboat laws,
the publication of the inspection service,
and the uniformity of rules governing
pilots, fog signals and other means for the
protection of life and property on steam
vessels. The association represents cap
ital of over six hundred millions of dol
lars. 6k M
"A man was arrested on Tuesday in
Wall street, New York, FOR ofEsring for
sale . one thousand dollar South Caro-
lima bond, being dated before tie war.
He refused to give his name. The bond !