The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-09
EDITORIAL BREVITHEs.

The steamer Alaska recently made
the run from. New York to Liverpool in
days, 81 hours and 46 minutes.
The Denver Tribune is satisfied that
Guiteau is crazy, " for a man who would
make Arthur President must be crazy"
"A rowing match came off on the
Thames river, on the 1st inst, between
Hanlan and Trickett. The former won
by four lengths.
Savage and James will be tried at
special term of the Circuit Court of Ham,
ilton county, which will convene at Jasper
the last week in August.
The latest telegraph dispatches an
nounce the release of Parnell, Dillon, Nc
Davitt and O'Kelley from English prisons,
and promise conciliatory policy toward
Ireland.
Hon. Horace Maynard, at one time
United States Minister at Constantinople,
died suddenly of heart disease, on the Sd,
at Knoxville, Tenn. He was Postmaster
General under Hayes for few months.
Press dispatches say that Represen-
tative Finley repudiates the doctrines of
the extreme free-traders and extreme pro-
tectiOnists, and favors a middle course, a
tariff for revenue with moderate protec-
ton.
Middle Georgia lies directly in the
tornado track marked out by Maury in
his Physical Geography" At any time
when tornado forms in the Gulf it is
likely to sweep through Alabama and
Georgia to the Atlantic.
Washington Post In the opinion of
Surgeon-General Wales, who attended
Senator Joe Brown before he left for the
South, there is no hope for his recovery,
unless he gives up business and politics,
and settles right down to health getting.
About seventy thousand immigrants
landed at Castle Garden during the past
month. Great as is this number, it will
be far surpassed by the present month,
during which probably hundred thou
sand of these pilgrims will reach the city.
Engineer Melville, says the New
York Herald, announces that he has
found Captain belong and his party,
and that all are dead. The message is
dated elena Delta, March H." and came
via Yakutsk by special express to Irkutsk,
whence it was forwarded by land tele-
graph and cable.
"A New York letter says: There is
more or less talk in the dry goods trade
about combination of leading houses in
other cities to buy out the stock of A. T.
Stewart & Co., but whether there is any
truth in it or not cannot be ascertained.
Persons connected with the firm are reti-
cent on the subject, and yet others in
position to be well informed assert that
the combination is beyond dispute"
Among the orators at the junior ex-
hibition at Yale College this year were
nephew of General Albert Sydney John
ston, and Mr.. Leonard, the son Of New
York abolitienist. Mr.. Johnston's piece
was entitled "The Lost Cause" and was
an eloquent, highly rhetorical and truly
Southern defence of his people. Mr..
Leonard chose for his subject William
Lloyd Garrison" his Grafton being a re-
view of the same question from North
ern standpoint and a vindication of the
anti-slavery movement.
The Jacksonville Union of Nav 9Th.
prints the following significant telegram,
sent from New York on the 5th: "The
Reed syndicate concluded to-day in Lon
don arrangements for the immediate COM
pleticn of the Transit Railroad system to
Tampa and Indian river. The roads to
be completed by November first. Large
immigration upon lands of Reeds syndi-
cate will be the immediate result of their
negotiations. Other important improve
ments of great benefit to the State are
also assured"
The st. Louis Republican calls atten-
tion to the queer character of eur tariff
IS exhibited in the duties paid on i'm
ported vegetables. 1t says: I" Potatoes,
beans and cabbages are the food Of the
masses; yet the government exacted of
the consumers of these import duties to
the amount of 1914, OO0-increasing their
cost to every poor consumer by that
much. Strangely enough sauerkraut pays
no duty; it is admitted free, while cab
bage, which is the raw material of which
it is made, pays tariff of ten per cent"
Why not hold the Democratic Con-
vention to nominate the candidate of the
First Congressional District in Tampap
1t IL about - accessible to West Florida
Is any point west of the Chattahoochee
river would be to South Florida; and
besides, would afford our Middle and
West Florida Democratic friends an op-
portunity Of visiting that portion Of the
State now attracting most attention, and
in which even many Of them are becom-
ing interested. We trust that this sug-
gestion win meet with . favorable re-
spouse from our brethren Of the press.-l
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