The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-23

1t is said that four inches of snow
fell in the Tennessee mountains last
week.
DIR. w. II. Babcock has again Joined
the editorial staff of the Jacksonville
Union.
james Wick, the celebrated scotsman,
died at Rochester, N. Y, last Tuesday,
aged "a.
Mrs. belong is the recipient of $50,
900 in government bonds from James
Gorden Bennett.
Considerable damage is reported
from frost in Northern Mississippi, on the
night of the 10th.
The Democrats are making a fight
in the South Carolina election case of
Mackey against O'Connor.
Lieut.. Danenhower and three CON-
rades, of the Jeanette e expedition, will
reach New York this week,
1t is stated that marriage has been
arranged between Princess Beatrice and
Prince Frederick William of Hesse.
The recent cold snap injured cotton
to such an extent in South Carolina that
replanting is necessary in some places.
1t is estimated that the surplus rev.
enue of the general government for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1882, will
amount to about $3.50, 100000.
The fruitless search for the assassins
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke continues. The steamer Egypt on
leaving Liverpool was searched and ten
men were arrested.
Miss Belle Braden, treasurer of the
Waynesburg and Washington railroad in
Pennsylvania, who goes out regularly
with her pay car, is the only lady in the
country who is a railroad officer.
An Athens special says that in the
case of the State against Echols and John
ston, for the killing of Roundtree, the
jury found a verdict of guilty of assault
with intent to murder Judge Erwin
sentenced the prisoners to the peniten-
tiary for ten years.
"A Washington dispatch says that the
anxiety of the last few days is making
serious inroads on the health of Guiteau.
Last week at this time his eyes were
bright and healthy color glowed in his
face. Now he is careworn, and there is
q hectic flush on each cheek
The latest news from Washington is
to the effect that the unanimous decision
of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, in the Guiteau case, which was
to have been officially announced yester-
day, will fully sustain the rulings and
proceedings in the trial court and refuse
a new trial.
The independent party" in GeOr-
gia has collapsed. Its handful of leaders
met in Atlanta the other day, resolved to
vote for Alexander H. Stephens for Gov
ernor, issued an address, and then SUBJ
sided. The independents in our sister
State, like the same class in Florida, are
made up of soreheads and disappointed
ofice-seekers.
Gen. James R. Chalmers, who has just
been turned out of his seat in Congress,
announces himself an Independent can
didate for Congress in the Second DIS
trict of Mississippi, an opponent of the
Democratic party and supporter of the
Arthur administration in all of its policies
that do not conflict with his statement
of principles. The General, in his card,
makes a plain open declaration of war
against the Democracy.
Pensacola Adcdsace Gazette: "To
their shame be it spoken, the counties
contiguous to Leon made little or no at
attempt to get up display for the Mid
die Florida Fair. There are too many
people in this State who sit with folded
hands and bemoan the fate that keeps
capital, enterprise and prosperity away
from them, and yet when the means for
securing these blessings are within their
reach they fail to avail themselves of
them. Again we say, shame!'' By way
of vindication it might very truthfully be
said that the fair was held at an unpro-
pitiOus season.
Charles Langheimer, whom Charles
Dickens describes in his American Notes,
was released from confinement in the
Eastern Penitentiary Of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, having completed his eighth
'>rm, aggregating IS years, in that prison.
In addition to his local career as q con-
vict he has served in Sing Sing, the
Maryland Penitentiary and other prisons.
It is not exsggeration to say that Lang
heimer has spent fifty years. of his life
within prison VALE, and always for vari-
Gus sorts Of thefts. On leaving he said
he would never return, but the prison
officials look for him back again.