The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-04-12
GENERAL NEWS.

The celebrated Southern authoress,
Mrs. L. Virginia French, died recently at
her home in Tennessee.
Archbishop Perche, of New Orleans,
has received Papal bull announcing the
appointing Mt of Rev. E. /. Jansens as
Bishop of Natchez He will be eonsecra-
ted in Richmond, May LIST.
The v ote rejecting the funding bill,
to fund the Tennessee State debt at par
and three per cent. interest, has been re-
considered and has passed the Senate. 1t
is now law, having received the signature
of the Governor.
Mr.. Seney, of New York, has increas
ed his gift to Emory College from $50,
600 to $4,000, and has also given $50, 900,
to Wesleyan Female College, Macon
This is N ost liberal on the part of Mr..
Seney and will be of great benefit to the
colleges.
Miss Hattie Buell., of Iowa City,
Iowa, has entered upon the fortieth day
of her voluntary starvation. She is liable
to die at a ny moment She is about so
years of age, and has suffered from neural
gia all her life, and has determined to put
an end to her suffering by voluntary star
walton.
Terrible floods have occurred in Spain.
From the towers Of Seville Cathedral the
country appears like vast lake. The in
undation is the most serious that has oc-
CURED this century. The gas works, the
Duke of Montpensier's palace and many
streets in the upper part Of the town are
flooded.
The Griffin, Ga, Ne,cS saws that the
horticulturists of that section are pretty
well agreed that the prospects for peach
crop have been destroyed by the recent
cold spell, and some suppose that the
trees, also, have been injured. They think
apples, cherries and grapes may escape,
but pears are almost certain to be affected
by blight from frozen sap. The Nescs
hopes for the best but fears the jig is
up"
AT the Republican Senatorial caucus
last Monday it was determined, after a
full discus sion, to persist in the attempt
to elect the Senate officers at the extra
session. The chief reason advanced for
prolonging the fight to the exclusion of
other business was that hesitancy in car
rying out the agreement made with the
Independ dent Democrats" in Virginia
might have bad effect on the fall cam
paign there and elsewhere in the South.
We have already alluded to the PAM
phlet recently sent us by Mr.. c. +. Will
liams. The pamphlet is neatly printed at
Bremen. in the German language, and is
descriptive of the material resources of
Georgia, the facts and figures being taken
from Mr.. Francis Fontaine's admirable
little book on the same subject, Of which
it is in part translation. The work of
compiling, translating, and giving shape
to the facts set forth by Mr.. Fontaine,
was done by Mr.. Williams, and the ex-
pense of printing it was borne by Mr..
VIM. F. Herring, of Augusta, now livingin
Italy. Two thousand copies of this PAM
plet will be distributed in the German
speaking part of Europe, and if the legis-
lature can be induced to move in the mat
ter, great good can be accomplished
The future political power of the South
depends largely on ofsetting by immigra-
ton the enormous gains in population
that have been made in the West and |
Northwest by means of State and railway
immigration agents and publications
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