The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-11-22

The Postmaster-G General has issued
an order forbidding the redemption of
defaced or soiled postal cards.
No prominent stalwart politician
subscribed dollar, or any other sum, to
the fand raised for Gar6eld's wife and
children.
The release Of the star route thieves
is in keeping with the Republican victo-
~ in Virginia. The bigger the thief, the
more respectable the man.
-Track-laying on the new Georgia
Pacific Railway was begun on Friday last,
General Gordon driving the FIRST spike
with appropriate ceremonies.
Rhode Island is to elect Congress-
man in place of Senator Aldrich, resign
ed. OF course this will be done before
Congress meets, which is now only two
weeks Off
Three young children of Mrs. b.
Spann, of Savannah, aged eight, six and
four years years, were poisoned recently
by eating Chinaberries, and narrowly es-
capped death.
The Cincinnati exposition did not
turn out well financially this year. The
receipts were a little over sec, 900 and the
expenditures $4,000. 1t was an "off
year for Cincinnati.
Hon. A. ii. Stephens. it is announced,
has completed his important historical
work, on which he has been so long en-
gagged, and at an early day it will be is
sued from the press.
The years net profits of the Nash
vile (Tenn.) cotton factory amount to the
snug sum of SAC, OOO A new mill to cost
$3.50, 900, is to be built Immediately for
the manufacture of colored goods.
-Chipco, the venerable chief of the
remnant of the band of Tallahassee In
dams, died at his home in the Everglades,
on the 10th of October. He was reported
to be over one hundred years old.
Boss Mclaughlin, of Brooklyn, re-
signed before election, and Boss Kelly, of
New York, is resigned after election.
The resignation of the bosses, so far as
heard from, is complete and heart-rend-
ing.
Mary Frances McVicker Booth, wife
of Edwin Booth, died on the 18th, at the
residence of her parents, in New York.
The cause of her death is said to have been
consumption. Mr.. Booth is said to be in
Philadelphia.
Archbishop Purcell, who has been in
retirement at the Convent of Ursulines, in
Ohio, is growing weaker and his death is
liable to occur at any hour. He has be-
come helpless, and is wheeled about in q
chair and fed with a spoon.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, has new
idea in hotel clerks. At the Palmer House
are three good looking girls behind the
hotel desk, two as cashiers and one as
book-keeper. The cashiers get 81 900 and
5000 s year, and the book-keeper 5000 and
board.
The largest cannon ever cast in this
country was turned out at the Scott
works, at Reading, on Monday. Itweighs
$4,000 pounds, and carries a three-foOt
ball ten miles with a velocity of 5000
feet per second, and yet they call 1t a
pocket cannon.
-Guiteau was fired at by solitary
hOrseman," while being conveyed from
the courtroom to the Jail on Saturday.
A young man named Jones, living near
Washington City, has been arrested on
suspicion of having fred the shot. Gui-
teau was not hit
The editor of the GreenviIle IS C)
Neaos, being Virginian bred and born,
puts his paper in mourning. "The bio"
he says, put upon the hirtherto stainless
name of a State on Tuesday, is better
cause for mourning than the death of any
potentate or person."
The Rev. Walter Ching Young and
Miss All Tim were married at San Fran
cisco by Bishop Kip on Friday two weeks
ago. Mr.. Young is an Episcopal minis
ter, educated in the Eastern States, and
bis bride is cultivated young lady of
Hong Kong. The wedding was the first
fashionable Chinese affair of its kind in
this country.
The Massachusetts authorities have
acted with considerable vigor in their in
vestigation Of the charges against the
members Of the Ninth Regiment who dis
graced themselves 1t Richmond. The
charges are fully proved, and the entire
regiment viii be held responsible unless
the names Of the cuEprits be forthcoming
within thirty days.
1t is reported in Washington that Sec
rotary lincoln win shortly retire yolunta-
rily from the cabinet, that Hon. Emory
Storrs win bs he new attOruey. eensral and
ex-Senafor Gbahes, d COLORADO. viii suc-
ceed 1Er. lakewood = secretary Of de int.
rios. NJ. Chalncsy L Riley Is men:
toned q postmaster general, Gen. Long.
= secrstary 81 tie navy, aad Gen.
Busl = sseretaEy II War.
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