The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-09-13
cIAPPlNGs AND ComMENTs.


Convention to be held at Albany, Octo-
Der 18th.
There was a heavy snow storm in the
Black Hills, near Deadwood, Dakota, on
Monday night and Tuesday morning, the
5th and 9th inst.
The number of empty houses in Dub
lin is double that in any year since 1860.
A thousand dollars a year will give a
splendid abode there.
-Muslapha Bey, the ruler of Tunis,
spent in his stay in paris the trife of
$4,000. He carried home 200 gold
watches and 10000 pocket knives.
John Hancock's chair, the one in
which he sat when he signed his name to
the Declaration of Independence, now
stands in St. Paul's Church, at Norfolk,
Va
Another storm was brewing on the
coast Friday. It's centre was off the
Carolina coast, aud it is thought would
90 northward, causing easterly gales and
heavy rains.
The beautiful district known as Estes
Park in Colorado, is chiefly owned by
Lonl Dunraven. The Estes Park Hotel
is run by Mr.. Stetson, formerly of the
Astor House.
-Twenty-seven per cent worse than
last year is what Brdd<treet's reports of
the cotton crop. The estimate is based
upon answers TO eight hundred and sixty
FIVE inquiries.
Several State Governors, at the in
stance of the Governor of Pennsylvania,
sci apart Thursday the eth inst, as day
OF fasting and PRAYER for the recovery of
the President
The evidence in the case of Exposito,
the alleged Italian brigand, whom the
Italian Government wants extradited, is
so lar strongly in favor of the theory that
the wrong man has been arrested.
The present drouth, which has ex-
tended largely over the Northwestern
States, has caused the spreading immense
forest and prairie fires, and much dam
age has already been done by them, and
several hundred lives lost.
A knowing cotton merchant of Au-
gusta estimates the present cotton crop
at only four million bales. He is not far
wrong. The world needs at least six
millions of bales, and the price will run
up to some considerable figure.
The Century Magazine, which will
succeed .Scri6ner's Monthly in November,
will be distinguished by the only author
lied portrait of George Eliot, and very
intimate description of her character and
personal beliefs, by Frederick w. II.
Myers.
The Pail Mall Gazette laments the
decline of English manliness, as evidenced
BY the fact that fifty well-dressed London
men stood around the pond in KensingtOn
Gardens, recently, and allowed a little
girl four years old to drown in two feet
of water.
Princess Dolgorouki, the widow of
the late Gar, is now at Carlsbad, accom-
panied by her son, who is styled Prince
Peter. When at Vienna, the Emperor
Franz Josef paid her visit, and court
equipsge was sent by the Empress to con-
,,at hor 20 Cohonhruu
-Bigamist Marvin's fifteenth wife
turns up, he having been married to her
in one of the Western States, at the time
representating himself as Lieutenant Gov
ernor Miller, of Minnesota. When the
returns are fully in he will probably have
rivaIed Brigham Young.
AN Associated Press Dispatch from
Philapelphia, September Q, says: " An
inquiry at the Jefferson Medical College,
where Senator Hill, of Georgia, is under
going treatment, elected the reply that
there is no truth whatever in the report
of his dangerous illness.
Benjamin Israel Butler, son of Gen.
B. F. Butler, of Massachusetts,, died on
Thursday of kidney disease. He was
aged 81 and a graduate of West Point.
He served his regiment, the Eighth Cav
airy, in Texas for short time, when he
resigned and was admitted to the bar in
Boston.
After three months of silence the St.
Petersburg organ of the Nihilists has re-
appeared. 1t is now more outspoken than
ever. 1t began by publishing proclama-
ton ten days ago and on Thursday, Septem-
her LIST, contained an exact list of the
names Of all the Nihilists who have re-
Gently been assassinated.
Another star route " msnipulator
has come to grief Samuel n. Lake, chief
of the division Of inspection. has been dis
missed from the Post-ofice Department in
Washington. He is superseded by John
w. Green, late Of the Treasury Depart
ment- Postmaster-GeneraI James seems
to apply the weeding-hoe vigorously.
The steamship Arizona, Of the Union
line, has made another Of her fast trips.
She left New York on the evening Of An.
gust Esd, and arrived ct Queenstown on
eha a4ek a. 4srna ~ r,ae..s.s /.