The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-30

eighth year Of his age e
The will Of the widow Of the late ex-
President Millard Fillmore leaves public
bequests to the amount Of $50 900. among
which is one of 100000 70 the University
of Rochester.
The negroes fSouth Carolina are flock
ing in large numbers to the Democratic
side. In Somerville, q black portion Of
the State, they are unanimous for the
Democratic party.
The Macon Telegraph Of the Esd, con-
tains the details of horrible murder Of
four persons composing the family of
David Lee, which occurred in Terrell cOun-
ty on the 18th inst.
Mr. Charles O'Conor is bnilding At
Nantucket house which is to be the larg-
est and most costly on the island One
portion intended for his valuable library
is nearly freproof
Direct descendants of John Alden
and Miles Standish, and bearing the very
names, are said to be living at Duxbury,
Massachusetts, place that was allotted
to those two pilgrims.
in recent conversation General
Hancock was asked his opinion cf General
Arthur, and with much warmth replied
that he was an able, patriotic, hlgh-mind-
ed gentleman, and, in the event of his be-
ing called to to the Chief MIgistracy,
would discharge its duties with: but one
purpose, that of benefting tie entire
country, and that the people might rely
on his judgment with absolute confidence.
1t is now announced positively that
the two principal barge lines plying be-
tween st. Louis and New Orleans have
been consolidated, with Mr.. Jay Gould as
the moving spirit in the matter The
new company will have a capitsl of 81
100000, will have twenty-three power
full tugs and one hundred and fifty barges,
which will have carrying capacity Of
eight million bushels of grain.
The mayor of PhiIadelphia has as
founded the small politicians Of that city
by prohibiting them from lounging on the
broad steps of his Office. That spot has
heretofore been the political exchange,
where strikers" and heelers . cOngre-
gated to buttonhole their leaders, gossip
among themselves, and wait for some
body to invite them TO drink. 4 police
man now relentlessly makes them move
on.
Arthur Merritt, q man of many aliases,
has been arraigned in Boston and held in
$1,000 bail. He is the same ssoundrel
who, under the name of Marvin, recently
betrayed young lady of Richmtnd, Va.
He is known to have married six other
women at different times and places, and
to have been engaged to the daughter Of
an Ex-Governor in Missouri This dan
gerous Lothario is white-bearded fellow,
sixty years of age.
None Of the La Fayettes will be pres
ent at the Yorktown celebration, although
the government has gone to considerable
expense to prepare reception for them.
The only living person bearing the great
name of La Fayette is M. Edmond de La
Fayette, grandson of Washington's favor
lite General, who regrets his inability
to visit this country because the celebra-
tion occurs during the very heat. of the
French electoral canvass, wherein he is
candidate for reelection to the Assembly.
The Ithaca E5ening journal publish
es lengthy article purporting to give de-
tails of q systematic arrangement among
the members of the Cornell crew g throw
their races while abroad for climbing
purposes. The article concludes as fol-
lows: "For the honor of Ithaca and the
University and those connected with send
ing off and managing the crew, belt said
that an investigation is being carefully
and thoroughly pushed, and in due time
the dirty details will be given. to the
world"
The LaGrange Reporter says: La
Grange has been the home Of some of the
most eminent men in Georgia Gordon
spent his early manhood and married here;
Judge Bleckley took to his heart . bird
from the same family nest; Governor Col
quit, as boy, roamed our fields and an
gled in our streams, while Ben. Hin drove
his plow team over the old red hills
about Long Cane. LaGrange witnessed
his first forensic triumphs, and applauded
some of his most eloquent and powerful
utterances.
MIR. John Roach estimates that the
total amount paid annually to foreign
ship-owners for carrying American pro-
ducts abroad is $50, ,OoO, 900. The amouns
paid for passenger fares added to that
spent by Americans travelling in Europe
he thinks more than equals the supplies Of
trade in our favor. If Mr.. Roach il cor
rect, therefore. we pay back to the fbrsign-
ers, In the shape of freights, passsngersp
fares and money spent by our people in
Europe, many millions more than the ac-
count they have to settle with ms in hal-i
ancing the books Of trade.
-Almost simultaneously with The pas-
sage Of the Irish Land bin comes 9he in
telliQence Of excellent crop proer.Ac4a IN