The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-12-20

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Tosk 81 q sds evening lasi, resulted
n svsspihg ttalwart triumph, The half
breeds carrying but single Assembly
district. This gives the staIwsrts control
Of the local organization for another year,
and L 10 claimed 70 mean great deal
more I'm appears On the surface. Fur
thsrnl1se 4 b said it win not be long be-
fore the meaning win be practically ap-
parent
The Titnsville Star takes issue with
the FLoRrDrAn's statement in recent Is
sue that most taxpayers, especially the
poor men, preferred 70 pay their taxes in
the Fall, rather than to postpone the pay
lnent until Spring; and argues that the
oraage and cane crops of South Florida
are not harvested so early as the cotton
and corn of Middle Florida, and that
therefore the extension of thirty days is
. matter Of considerable Importance to
the South Florida people.
The New Jersey Assembly is now
Democratic. At the recent election that
body wal, returned as being composed of
20 Democrats. 80 Republicans and In
dependent, but p recount of one of the
districts gave ths" retArr TO Democrat
where Republicans had been returned.
On Monday one of the Republicans elect
from Norfolk died, which will make the
status of the Assembly when it meets
January LIST, % Republicans, 80 Demo
Gratis and Independent.
Hon. Benjamin Harris Brewster, who
has been nominated by President Arthur
for Attorney General, is lawyer of con-
siderable distinction, and has for many
years occupied prominent position at
the Philadelphia bar. He is also well
known as platform orator, and he often
appears at college commencements and
other anniversaries where fine literary
performances are expected. He was born
in 1915, and is consequently tolerably
well advanced in years, although in APP
pearance and action, and especially in
dress, he gives the impression of a man
who has still great deal of the enthusi-
asm and buOyancy of youth. Up to the
breaking out of the war Mr.. Brewster
was staunch Democrat. He often at
tended the National Democratic Conven-
lions, and maintained intimate relations
with a number of the leading Southern
statesmen of the ante-bellum period. His
wife is daughter of the late Hon. Robt.
J. Walker, Of Mississippi. Mr.. Brewster,
we believe, is cousin of Judge Westcott,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
this State.
The Guiteau trial has been lively, as
usual, for the past few days. Mrs. Will
son, cousin of Guiteau, testified as to the
sanity Of his divorced wife now Mrs. May
nard. Rev. R. s. Macarthur, pastor of
Calvary Baptist Church, New York, tes-
tilted that Guiteau had been member of
his church and had been cited before the
congregation for immoral conduct. This
witness testimony irritated Guiteau great
ly. Scoville objected to the admission
of this testimony, when the District At
torney announced that his object was to
demonstrate that what the defense calls
insanity is nothing more than devlish de-
pravity. On the 9th, several more wit
nesses testified to transactions more or
less disreputable in Guiteau's past life, and
the prisoner abused them all, calling them
liars and every abusive epithet he could
think Of Several applications for life in
surance policies were put in evidence, in
which Guiteau asserted that there was no
insanity in his family. Guiteau poured
out such a torrent of abuse upon the
Witnesses that there was difficulty in
conducting the proceedings.
-" Dr." Spitzka, the veterinary sur