The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-07-26

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NEST eiacient sahjects .'sis
| s--Mr. John W. Maekay's letter 20 Mr.
Cyrus W.FSs5d, IN responsss 70 . request
| for 4 scdhhf6dfioh 70 de sGarfeld fund.
| was dated Wall street, July Il, and rad
- follows: Your note Of 1lth inst
received this morning In the matter Jon
pezsr 20 l prefer - pressntio wait before
givang you m answer Thss 90 fFun
VARIOUS reasons. Should any unfavorable
outlook come yoa WIN ind me In the front
rank AZ leave for Europe In the morn
ing am qsats oasy to-day, which has
prevenfed ne rem calling.
- The town OF New Ulm. Minnesota. on
the Minnesota River, sixty Eve miles from
St Paul, containing about $50 persons,
was wrecked By . cyclone On the 18th.
TeiegrsPh wires went down the nver, and
only meagre details can be given. Stone
and brick buiidings were raised from their
ionndafions and hled the air full OF de
Ds's. The town and ITS suburbs are now
: mass OF. ruins West Newton, in the
nelgnDoring county OF Niooliett, vas vis-
Isea a number on persons were killed
sno wouhoeo 1ne oetaus Oh the disaster
-. -
- ~ :" - p.opes oe
- ''e ~'-s VI ~''o'ooo
-Ihecondition OF the health OF the wid-
owof Abraham Lincoln s much improved
on tne itn OF July she took carriage ride
ana mas Deen aole 70 receive callers TOR sew
elsa o.ys Pas@ Inc news Oh the attempted
Asaon on Fresldent 0arneid was
great shock to her. and for day she was
almost Prostrated. When the news was
announced she exclaimed: @Oh, can it
De that the President Of this country is
no longer safe from assassins ? Oh, how
terrible! Who did 1t ?" With eyes suf
fused with tears she repeatedly murmured,
Poor Mn. Garfield" and she retired to
her room, remaining there until the next
day. Since then, with the aid of her
physicians, friends, and the hopeful news
concerning the condition of the President,
she has regained her spirits, and is grad
ually growing stronger, though she is not
free from pain.
"A dispatch from Milwaukie Wiscop-
sin, says: "While conducting revival
meetings here last June, Mrs. Sarah Van
COtt exhibited several letters written to
her BY Charles J. Guiteau, prefacing the
act with the statement. in substance, that
Guitesu was formerly an infdel, who had
been converted through her efforts, and
that since his conversion he was the smart
est and most influential young man IN
chicago. Inc letters were neatly tied
together with . Perfumed blue nbbon,
and were mixture OF ambiguous disssr-
tations upon things spiritual, rhapsodical
references to his ali-absorbing affection,
profound adnlrst'on for and lnexPressibie
gratitude to the iady evangelist, who, he
said, had saved nim. Sald one OF the Ia
dies whe was privileged TO read the let
ters; Mrs- Van Ceft expressed great
Prads IN showing the Letters, and seemed
hlghiy 70 esteem the sutAor. The lady
s<ys that she knows that Ma Van C0tt
is the wealthy widow the cracked-brained
fellow thouobt he eouId marry.
SHHge LaPnam, nominated for the
short term st Albany last week, was q
ciassmate of Stephen A. Douglas st Can
.nd.ou. Academy Me- York. b.s
Oeen cisli eheineef ana ia"yer, oos nas
been . county politician since ne WAS
elected to to the Legislature, in 1857.
elected for the long term. was = member
of the Forty-sixth' Congress. and figures
"A follov. m the Concr.s.;onsl D;rectarv.