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

GEHERAL NEWS.
John Brougham, the celebrated actor
and author, is dead
The Selma, Rome and Dalton Rail
road il advertised to be sold on the l4th
inst
The Princess Louise and Prince Leo
pold visited Chicago during the conven-
ton.
Thomas J. Churchill has been nomi-
mated for, Governor by the Arkansas
Democratic.
The phyllo1era Is raEaging the vine
yards of France, and the damage is in
creasing daily.
About $50 delegate were in attend
ance at the Greenbsck Convention at Chi
cago on the 9th
Five duels are reported TO have oc-
| CURED in the past month in one county
in South Carolina
&C. W. Scofeld, heavy dealer in
iron in New York, has failed for over
two million dollars.
"A saleratus factory in New Jersey
blew up the other day doing much dam
age and injuring several workmen.
The army worm is said to have made
It's appearance on Long Island, n. Y,
and on the eastern shore of Maryland.
-Ex-Senator Bayard, of Delaware, the
father of the present Senator, is lying
dangerously ill at his home in Whining
ton.
Ex-Governor John Wood, the foun-
der of Quincy, Ill, who settled there in
1922, died recently in that city, aged 90
years
On Sunday, the 9th inst, Rev. Tai
mage received in membership to his cele-
brated Tabernacle Church, in Brooklyn.
Ale persons.
Lafayette B. Beech, formerly very
wealthy and influential citizen Of Nash
vile, Tenn, committed suicide in New
York last week.
The larger part of the HeraIfs
Irish famine fund, which amounted to
1le7,74O, has been distributed at total
cost of only $l,os4.
Mr.. Gladstone is alleged to have com
planned that people keep calling at his
house and inquiring after him as though
he had had a child"
The yellow fever and small pox are
both raging in Havana. Eighteen deaths
from the former and seventeen from the
latter occurred last week.
"A severe storm of wind at St. Louis
on the 4th, unroofed the Insane Asylum
and blew down the bins of the Contra
elevator, killing one man.
The free importation of cattle into
the provinces of Puerto Principe and
Santiago de Cuba, will be permitted
throughout this year and next.
The Memphis and Little Rock Rail
road has notified the Southern Express
Company that it will hereafter conduc'
: the expresses business over its own line.
r. W. Cobb has been nominated BY
the Democrats for Governor, and w. w
Screws, editor of the Montgomery Adoer
tiser, for Secretary of State, in Alabama
The Savannah and Memphis Rail
road, which extends from Opelika, Ala.
so miles northwesterly, was sold on thu
7th inst. to the bondholders for %es4,5OO
, Eighty families, comprising two hun
dred individuals, have entered Santiago
de Cuba in Consequence Of the surrende
of the insurgents in the recent uprising
Political disputation is at fever hea
| in France. Besides the recent duel o
/ N. Rochefort, in which he was severely
, wounded, three other duels are expected
t daily.
. Mr.. M c. George, Republican, wa
elected 10 Congress in Oregon on the 9tl
by 800 majority. Also three Republican
Supreme Court Judges. The Legislature
is doubtful.
eff / should meet the dastardly
rebel that shot me-" said q Boston wa
veteran, on drawing $1,000 in peusios
arrears, he'd half to swallow half q bot
tie of wine"
Mr.. Waterman, of Duluth, was *
exasperated by corn that he took care
full aim with q pistol and shot bulle
through it. The corn is gone, and 20 Il
most Of the toe.
The Savannah and Charleston Rail
road was sold on the 7th inst, for $500, 200
to syndicate of bondholders, headed BY
II. B. Plant, who ID to be President o.
the new company.
San Francisco 10 having moro trouble
with Kalloch. A man named Nelson has
undertaken to hunt him down with ex