The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-20

-Marshal Baxaine is dead.

Adelaide Nelson, the celebrated Eng
lish actress, died at Paris few days ago.
The colored Hancock and English
club of Montgomery, Alabama, 10 now
said to number thousand members.
The Bankers Convention in session
at Saratoga has passed resolutions favor
ing the enactment of bankrupt law.
The American rife team were victo-
rious in the international match 1t Creed-
moor, l.. l., over their oppcpents, he
Canadian team, at each Of the ranges Of
800 and 1000 yards.
The Cincinnati Gazette is astonished
at the gains in population in the Southern
States. 1t had made up its mind to have
things otherwise, and is satisfied there is
some fraud about it.
"A tremendous crowd of thieves, bur-
glars and pick-pockets is thronging Chi
cago to "attend " the Masonic gathering
there. The attendance of Knights Tenn
plar VIII be very large.
The Post-office Department proposes
to establish fast mail trains between New
York and New Orleans, saving one day
over the present schedule; and also be-
tween New York and Savannah.
Some genius has discovered the use
of mosquitoes. lie says they are the in
carnation of malaria, and that their sting
is but a sort of incubation or vaccination,
which will ward off the effects of malaria.
The Montgomery Aduertiser says the
colored voters worked manfully for the
Democratic ticket in nearly every county
in Alabama at the State election last
Monday, and that they will do the same
for Hancock in November.
Heavy frost and thin ice were re-
ported Monday morning, the 10th inst,
from many points in New York and the
New England States. In Stony Cove,
Ulster county, there was slight fall Of
snow. Crops have been somewhat in.
jured.
1t has been asserted that in st. An
gustine, Florida, is the oldest dwelling in
the United States, built there in 1865 BY
Philip Melendez, Spaniard; but in
Santa Fee, New Mexico, is an ancient
Pueblo dwelling, still occupied by mum
Der of families, which priest reported
standing at the time of his visit in 1880
"A telegram to the Coarier-Joswnal
from Shepherdville, says Hon. J. Proctor
Knott was shot and MORALLY wounded
on Monday, the 10th inst, at Noun,
Washington, ten miles from there, by j.
w. Lewis, Greenback candidate for Con
gress. No particulars have been, received
Great excitement prevails. The Courier
Journal does not believe the report to be
true.
AT Indianola, Texas, the waters Of
the Gulf, under the pressure of a wind
storm of forty-eight miles per hour veloc
ity, rose to the depth of three feet through
out the town. On the 18th the velocity
of the wind increased to seventy-fve
miles per hour, and the water rose rapidly
lifting the track of the Morgan Railroad
from the bed of the road and carrying il
half mile away. No lives were lost.
"A furious hail-storm swept through
the neighborhood of Vernon Hill, Halifax
county, Va, on the 18th inst, coming
from a northern direction, embracing q
section of country mile and half wide
and extending great distance southwark
The hailstones were very large. The
wind blew terrific gale and there was q
heavy fall of rain. One planter had q
hundred thousand hills of tobacco de-
stroyed, and other planters had large
quantities ruined.
BY the census just taken it appears
that the State of Wisconsin has not in
creased in population during the last
decade as rapidly as was anticipated. The
enumeration will show about 1900, 600
which will be a gain Of only 100000 in
ten years, and the increase is shown mostly
in the cities, Milwaukee alone having
added to her population about 10000
The people of Wisconsin are greatly dis
appointed over the result, as they had
confidently claimed population of a,
least million and half.
The National Board of Health has
received advices from Havana stating that
during the week ending July slst there
were 81 deaths from yellow fever, Is from
small pox and from typhoid fever The
total deaths from all causes were 2Os
During July 2s2 deaths occurred from
yellow fever, and 1917 from all causes
The board is also advised that the Spanish
brig Charito, which sailed from Havana
August I'd for Baltimore, and the Spanish
brig Nicholas, which sailed for New York
August sth, are believed to be infected
Some of the cigarettes which are
smoked to so large an extent are said to
be dangerous articles. A physician had
one of them analysed, and the tobacco
was found to be strongly impregnated
with opium, while the wrapper, which
was warranted to be rice paper, was
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