The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-03-14
"A New York paper says we must


The report that Senator Hills mala-
dy is mortal, is authoritatively denied.
There is a rumor to the effect that
Don Carlos is about to abdicate the Span
ish throne in favor of his infant son.
The "Fat Boy" David Navarro,
died of smallpox, at Pittsburg, on the
18th. He was 81 years old and weighed
700 pounds.
Hon. Ben. E. Russell, of the Balm
bridge, Ga, Democrat, is being urged by
the press of his district to become a can
didate for Congress.
st. Louis claims that the cap and
rope to be used in the execution of Gui-
teau has been manufactured in that city
and presented to the government.
In Constantinople war is feared be-
tween Russia and Austria. The question
of calling out the reserves has been dis
cussed and preparatory measures are to be
taken.
Senator Call has introduced a bill
providing for the improvement of the St.
Johns river at Mud Flats, in the vicinity
of Orange Mills. Read twice and re-
ferred
"A Mobile dispatch of the eth says:
At the municipal election yesterday the
straightout Democratic ticket was sue
cessful. The Democrats elected the
mayor, the municipal board and probably
their tax-collector.
The pension of Mrs. Gen. Custer is
about $3.50 year. Grant has an annual
income of thousands, and it is proposed
to put him on the retired list of the army
with the rank and pay of General, which
would increase his income $500.
1t is alleged that Brigham Young
feigned death, that body resembling his
was buried in coffin bearing his name,
and that he has been living in conceal
ment, waiting for the present. emergency
to appear as the great deliverer of his
polygamous people.
The Montgomery Advertiser says
that "a large number of negroes, who left
Montgomery some time ago to work on
the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad, are
on their way back on foot. They are re-
turning in struggling squads, and will, no
doubt, many of them, go back to the
plantations.
The latest dispatches state that sew
eral minor breaks are reported at points
on the Mississippi. The rivers are still
rising slowly, and traffic has been again
interrupted by washouts resulting from
the late rains The distribution of pro-
visions continues, and reports of loss and
suffering are still coming in.
Preparations for important changes
in the secret work of Odd Fellows are
now being made in Baltimore by duly
authorized committee of the order Judge
Carey is the chairman of the committee
The ritual has been so far revised that
portions of it have been placed in the
hands of the printer for distribution to
lodges everywhere in short while.
The Chicago Inter Ocean draws the
following picture of the delightful situa-
tion of affairs in that city: All over the
city men are to be found ready to insult
any lady whom they find unprotected.
They represent thieves, pick-pockets and
cheap Washers, who are at large upon
straw bail for some crime, or at liberty by
reason of acquittal on technicality.
The successful contestants in the late
six days walking match in New York
have received the following amounts each
Hazael, ~$e,Ss0.sI gate money and &c.
600 sweepstakes; Fitzgerald, $3.50 with
$1,000 sweepstakes Noremac, 81, PSI. SO
Hart, 81 ,5os Hughes, el, 225.7e and Sulli-
van &75O.47. Hart, who is Georgia dar-
key, swindled his trainer out of 1913.
If Baron de Worms catalogue of the
atrocities Of the riots against the Jews in
Russia Is half true, the I, oOo, 900 IsrseIites
Of the Cars empire have good reason TO
fee from the country. He states that
20l women had been assaulted, So men
killed, 10000 persons rendered homeless,
and property of the value Of $50, 900, 900
destroyed by barbarous Russians.
1t would be well 10 enact, says the
New York Mail and Esspress, . law Ie-
CALLING the instant killing Of any one
caught in the act of assassinating, or of
attempting to assassinate, any other hu-
man being. The justifyiDg facts, of
course, to be proved to the satisfaction of
ajury. Thus the Law would protect the
prompt actions urged by the sense Of JUS
tice.
"A writer in the Union, in some inter-
resting speculations as to the choice of
Bishops to be made by the coming Gen
eral Conference of the NJ. e. Church,
South, looks into the future and says:
"In Florida, too, there is the stuff of q
future Bishop in Chaa T. bowman, now
P. E. of the Tallahassee Crcnit, in G. A.
FullwOOd, of the Jacksonville Circuit, or
in J. B. Johnston, Of Cedar Key"
The police have ascertained that
AaeLean, who shot At Queen Victoria,
wa formerly ~ inmate in the Wells Luz