The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-01

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Senator Lamar thinks the Democrats
wiz carry Mississippi BY from 10000 to
10000 majority.
The rise In the Mississippi and its
tributaries continues. and great damage
from high water is reported.
Colonel Hamilton Jay, the popular
postmaster of Jacksonville, was married
on Thursday last, at Live Oak, to Miss
Alice B. Jones, Of that place.
8 I'm Baltimore, on Saturday, the Dem
ocrats elected their entire ticket, includ-
ing the Mayor and every member of both
branches of the City Council.
Mrs Garfield will move from Mentor
to Cleveland in few days, where she has
rented . house on Euclid avenue, the
handsomest street in America.
Mrs. Mary B. Bradford, a sister of
Jefferson Davis, died at the residence of her
daughter, Mrs. E. L. Miles, at New Hope,
KY, on the 22d inst, of general debil-
ity, aged 81.
We learn through the Union of Sun
day of the death of Mr.. George Pratt,
editor of the Leesburg AdUGnce. We
have no particulars, and can only express
our sincere regret and profound sympathy
with the bereaved family.
The q. S. Signal Service Bureau has
consented, at the solicitation of DIR. C. J.
KenwOrthy, to furnish during the winter
telegraphic forewarnings of frost for the
benefit of the orange growers who are
not located below the frost line"
The West Florida Fair begins at
Mariana on Thursday, November goth,
and will continue four days. The pre-
MUM list is one of the best and largest
ever offered, and the attractions of the
Fair will be unusual and draw large
crowds.
-Vennor is still at it. His prophecy
now is for the continuance of the warm
wave on this continent during the ap-
preaching winter, broken by waves of
low temperature of brief duration. He
disregards the sun or sun-spot theory, and
predicts an open winter.
William w. Astor has been nomin-
ated for Congress in the eleventh New
York district, to Gil thelvacancy made by
l. P. Morton's appointment to the French
mission. It takes money and a great
deal of it to steal that district from the
Democrats, hence Astor's nomination.
"A party of would-be train robbers,
Ia James gang, recently undertook to
60 through train on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, but
the passengers, not being in Missouri,
drew their little pocket pistols and fright
ened the poor fellows out of the train,
and almost out of their wits.
Thomas A. Edison was awarded twen-
ty-twO new patents recently. Twenty re-
lated to his system of electric lighting.
Including the twenty-five just issued Mr.
Edison has been granted two hundred
and nine patents, and be now has over
one hundred more awaiting the decision
of the commissioner of patents.
The Memphis Avalancae and the Gin.
cinnati Commercial have been pronoun-
cling the Eads jetties q failure. A COM
mittee appointed by the St Louis Mer-
chants Exchange sent out committee to
investigate the facts The committee re-
port that the channel, as required by law,
Is two hundred feet in width and twenty
six in depth, and will accommodate the
largest class of merchant vessels.
The New York Herald, in thought
full moment Of charity, suggests that the
emblems Of mourning now. decorating the
land Be sent to the Michigan sufferers to
be made up into winter clothes, or words
70 that effect A Michigan sufferer clad
IN white cambric pantaloons and black
.alpaca overcoat digging himself ont Of
thewintes's snow would be more picture
sque than comfortable but he'd keep up
his reputation as sufferer.
Careful Investigation has resulted in
ebtai1iag trastw0rshy Agurss - 70 the
paetaaI extsnt OF The Losses By tie lats
Gre disaster ID North vestern Michigan.
h i fosud shat / $50 square miles were
burned osss, causing : loss whieh 4 put
IL n. 900, pdnced By insurance -
ei,sss, 900. IncIaded II this los i che
tetal Destruction ol hundreds 81 hones Of
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