The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-30

-Oultedu hangs one month from TO-
day.
Strikes prevail among tradesmen
North and West.
The Postmaster-Generalr recommends
that the postage on papers and magazines
be abolished
Anna Dickinson's effort to play Ham
let is described as Ga lady's attempt to
become a step-son."
The coronation of the Gar of Russia
has been postponed for year on account
of rumors of Nihilist plots.
The rumored engagement of Princess
Beatrice to the eldest son of the Land
grave of Hesse is authoritativelY denied.
Mr.. Reed, counsel for Guiteau, is
taking additional steps in the interest of
his client, the nature of which he refuses
to disclose.
-Twenty-eight deaths from yellow
fever were reported at Havana last week.
Ten deaths occurred in one day, and the
disease is increasing
From an item in the local column of
the Jacksonville Times, of Sunday, we in
fer that there was hairpulling time "
in that Office on Saturday.
Senator Ben Hill is improving again,
and his physicians say there is strong
hope of a cure, or at least that his life
will be greatly prolonged
Mr.. John T. Graves, of the Union,
has temporarily assumed control of the
Florida Military Institute at Jacksonville,
which, however, will not interfere with
his journalistic duties.
-Advices from London, of the 25th,
say Sir Edward James Reed and Mr.
Charles Edward Lewis, members of Par
lament, are going to America, where they
will make an extended tour.
The postmaster general, in response
to resolution of the House, has sent
letter to the Speaker in which he recon-
mends that postage on second class matter
(papers and magazines) be abolished.
There is trouble in the Republican
camp in Pennsylvania. The Independent
Republicans nominated full State ticket
last week, and Republican Congressman
from Pennsylvania say the Democrats
will carry the State.
The Memphis Audldnchs keeps the
docket of Judge Lynch's court, and states
that since January /, l6 persons have
been hanged by mob-law in the South, g
in the North and in the frontier States.
This probably equals the executions by
due process of law.
Governor Cornell vetoes bill re-
curing portion of all the boards of
trustees of State institutions for both
sexes to be women, on the ground that it
is difficult to get women to serve, and
that the matter ought to be left to the dis
cretion of the executive.
Much excitement was occasioned in
Jacksonville last Thursday by an assault
upon Mr.. Crook, a Swede, by Bailey
Smith, baggage master on the Fenan-
dina and Jacksonville Railroad. Mr..
Crook was thought to be fatally injured
at first, but Sundays Union says he is
improving very rapidly.
"A telegram from Nashville, dated
the Goth, says the Methodist General
Conference, after adopting resolution
referring the question of the change of
name Of the Methodist Church, South, to
the Annual Conference, adjourned sine
die. The next General Conference meets
on the first Wednesday in May, 1885, at
Richmond, Va
"A Washington dispatch says circu-
lars from the National Republican Con-
gressiOnal Campaign Collection Commit
tee were received by the employees of
the Capitol on the 9th, in which each
employee is informed he will be expected
to contribute two per cent. of his annual
salary towards the campaign fund, which
is to be used during next fall. These cir
culars impose assessment of 324 on each
doOrkeeper, and about so on each page
boy.
W.