The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-29

was highly cOmplimented BY spectators
and the press.
Mr.. Cyrus w. Field has purchased
the New York Ebsniag Esprsss, the price
paid being el75,OOO.
--RiddIeberger is DISTINGUISHED so that
he cannot succeed to the United States
Senate. He is . duelist
The people of New Orleans are fix
ing up for rousing Msrdi Gras frOlic on
the 2lst Of February next.
The story is again current that Mrs
Lincoln, widow of the murdered President,
l. so poor to be almost in want.
The Marquis of Lorne, it is an
nounced, viii resign the Governor Gener-
alship of the Dominion of Canada early
IN 1882.
Sidney Dillon. one of Jay Gould's
partners, is about to build the costliest
and most ornate private residence on this
continent.
H. v. Redfeld the nationally known
correspondent of the Cincinnati CONNER
ci0I, died at his residence in Washington,
November 18th.
-Postmaster-General James and party
have gone up the st. Johns river for a
tour through the orange region of East
and South Florida.
Jacksonville and Townsville are
reveling in ripe strawberries from the
twenty-acre strawberry farm of Mckay
and Blackshear at Townsville.
AT the Bay District Association
course in San Francisco, Kinda Rose, the
fastest yearling of the world, made mile
in the remarkable time of 1891.
Charles T. Aldrich, Of New York,
mysteriously disappeared from Charles
ton hotel on the 18th inst, and no clue
to his discovery has yet been found.
An accident occurred on the Central
Railroad near Savannah on the oath, in
which six persons were killed; q white
fireman named Wade, and five negroes.
South Carolina papers are engaged
in wholesale denunciation of the new pic
torial immigration pamphlet just pnb-
lished by immigration Commissioner
Boykin.
The General Assembly of Tennessee
will meet in extra session December It'll.
The principal business will the redistrict-
ing of the State for members of the Leg
isIature.
Ten years of the sentence of the
Tichborne claimant expired on October
20, and by continuance of good marks
he will have three years and eight months
more to serve before he is free.
The sword Of General Francis Ma
ron is now in the possession of the Com
missioner of Agriculture, at Columbia
while his commission and china tea sets
are in the possession of lady in Aiken.
The steamship Newport, en- route
from Charleston to New York, recently
encountered large school of whales,
twenty miles long and quarter of mile
wide. Two of the monsters were killed
by collision with the vessel.
The Jacksonville Union, besides send
ing out supplement containing the latest
dispatches, issues a most interesting
Sunday edition Of six pages. It has very
greatly improved in every respect, and is
credit to Florida journalism.
AT the Metropolitan Hotel in St.
Paul, Minnesota, recently, Clara LOuise
Kellogg invited the members of her COM
pany to seats at her table, and called
upon them to congratulate her upon her
engagement to Mr.. 7. B. Whitney, of
Philadelphia.
lin . recent pigeon shooting match in
England, between DR.. Carver and Mr..
Eden, ; member of the principal club, for
4lOO side, Mr.. Eden stood at twenty
eight yards and Dr. Carver at thirty
yardA Carver won the match by Eve
birds, killing thirty five ont Of fifty.
-GuiseAu has been making his brags
70 the warden Of the prison on his success
in acting the role ola lnnatic, seeming to
b 80 vain Of his skin in that line that he
eonld net contain his exultation ct having
ebvinced Judge, jurY and audience ofhis
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