The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-09-21


q. A. Henry, q well known politician
of Tennessee, died at GAINESVILLE recently.
1t 10 now reported that q. S Minister
Christiancy has undertaken mediatory
steps between Chill and Peru.
From returns so far received Church
ills majority for Governor Of Arkansas
il $4,000 over Parks, his Radical oppo-
nent
In the trial of Virgil and Houston
Gully for the murder of Gilmore in Mis-
sissippi, the jury rendered q verdict Of
not guilty.
General Bushrod johnson, the well
known Confederate Brigadier, died at his
farm at Brighton, Macoupin county, Illi-
nois, on the llth inst.
The little Spanish Princess has been
baptized Maria Mercedes Isabella The
Archbishop of Toledo officiated and
Queen Isabella was sponsor.
"A dispatch from Chatsworth, Illinois,
of the 18th inst, says: "a heavy frost
last night did great damage to late corn
in the central part of the State"
"A political prisoner who had been in
prison FIVE months, in Russia, recently
hanged himself Before he died he dis
closed the names of the Nihilist leaders
and that of the author of the Winter
Palace explosion.
The bogus DIR. Buchanan, who has
been fugitive from justice for some time,
and whose bail has been forfeited to the
court in Philadelphia, was captured, on
Friday, at St. Clair, Michigan, whittier he
had fed from Canada after swindling a
large audience by bogus spiritual seance.
He will be taken to Philadelphia for trial.
In Chicago recently two workmen
became involved in a quarrel After a
desperate clinch they separated, and each
seized kerosene lamp and hurled it at
the head of the other. Both lamps struck
their mark and two explosions followed.
In moment both combatants were wrap
ped in flames, and, before their comrades
could extinguish them, both men were
unconscious and terribly burned.
The schooner Moro Castle, Capt. j.
B. Mass, arrived at Gloucester, Mass,
from Grand Banks cod fishing trip, and
reports that while her crew were attempt
ing to catch few squid, and during the
absence Of the master, she was boarded
by two or three hundred natives, who
were very threatening. The day previous
the schooner Victor, of Gloucester, was
boarded in q similar way and violence
was used to prevent her fishing.
"A Washington dispatch of September
IL says: The National Board of Health
here have advices that an epidemic of
dengue prevails at Charleston, S. c., there
being two thousand cases in that city
The dengue also prevails at New Orleans
This disease, the name of which is Span
| ish, is kind of rheumatic fever which
prevailed in 1927 and 1928 in the West
Indies and some portions of the Southern
States. 1t is also called boquet fever,
dandy fever and bucket fever.
The clerks in the treasury are pre-
pairing some ffty-eight thousand checks,
amounting in all to - ,O5o, 900, to pay the
quarterly interest on the per cent. loan
due October l. The checks range from
fifty cents to $475,OOO. While the treas
ury department will not make known to
whom this huge quarterly interest is paid,
it is generally understood that it will 60
into the capacious pocket of VIM H. Van
derbilt, who is known to be the possessor
of $47 100000 of per cent. bonds, which
yield him an annual income of 81 900, O0O
The shaft of the Egyptian monolith
has been safely delivered from its resting
place in the hold of the steamer Desong
and placed upon the cradle prepared for
it Two large pontoons are to be used for
floating it up to the New York pier, where
it IL to be landed for transportation to
Central Park. A large number of Masons
witnessed the operation, and one irrever-
ent brother was heard to exclaim: "How
Cleopatra would be astonished could she
zee her favorite bodkin, now so far from
home, with q pile-driver for sewing
machine and cable for q thread"
The Massachusetts, Radical Conven-
ton met at Worcester on the 18th. The
temporary chairman, E. F. Stone, remark
ed that the South is q unit upon all po-
litical questions because it desires to once
more get control of the government, and
the first duty of the Republicans was to
consider what measures to adopt to com.
pei the South to recognize the legitimate
authority of the government. A plat
form embodying the usual Radical reso-
lutions was adopted, and Governor John
ID. Levy was renominated, with Byron
Weston the nominee for Lieutenant-Go
eRnor.