The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-12-19

EDITORIAL DREvITEE8.
Both houses of Congress manifest q
disposition to dispatch business. q;
Savannah is preparing to celebrate
the sesqui-centennial Of her settlement !
France has 500 murders a year, ants.
they don't have lightning rod agents ovef
there, either.
Prayer was no invented, it was born,
with the first sigh, the FIRST joy, the fra
s0rrow of the human heart.
1T is said that French chemists hayi
succeeded in solidifying petroleum,
which state it burns like tallow.
The Civil Service Reform Committee
Of the Senate have agreed upon bif
making political assessments crime.
Since it is reported that Cetewayo
wants 70 wed an actress, it is though
that be has become tired of making biz
own living. Z
One of the sweetest pictures of dc.
mestic economy is q poet blocking =
white stocking 30 that it won't show
through the assure in his boot. 1
"A child speaking of his home to Z
friend was asked, "Where is your homest
Looking with loving eyes at his mother
he replied, Where mother is.'' 4
Governor Stephens has pardone,
Capt. Edward Cox, who was sentenced
to the penitentiary for life, for killing Col.
r. A. Aston, at Atlanta, in 1879. /
King Omoru, one of the ducal soyes-
eigns of the west coast of Africa, is deaot
He leaves 706 widows and IS childreE
His eldest son and successor has 4At
wives :
The business portion of Kingsto,.
Jamaica, was burned on the 18th. TIL
loss is estimated at tl5,OO0,O0o. HUI
dreds are homeless; wharves, war,
houses, stores, banks and supplies are
gone, and relief is needed. !
The Winchester OILY Jail cost 81, ,
900 with all modern improvements. Tire
prisoners escaped within twenty-fou
hours after its dedication" The expei,
diture of a few more thousand dollar
might have enabled prisoners to pas
through the Jail without detention he
yond their own pleasure. >
-HGambetta's French editor succeed.
in getting up an attack on the ports nj
the United States, just by way of giving
little exercise to the French fleet, snG
gests the Macon Telegraph, Adnirsl
Robson and Rear-Admiral Chandlei
would doubtless perform wonders on th(
mighty deep. Chandler would count thN
French ships out, and Robeson weull
proceed TO appropriate them.
The Rev. James Beecher, a halls
brother of Henry Ward Beecher, ha,
been sent to the New York Homeopathic
Asylum for the Insane at Middletcwu,
Eight years ago he resigned the pastos
ship of a wealthy church at PoughkeeI
sic, and buying desolate tract of land II
the bsckwoods of Ulster county, settleG
there with his family and preached as
missionary to the few inhabitants. h:
Gently his eccentricities have become &c
marked that he was persuaded to entcs
the asylum
"A California man, says the St. Lrouy
Republican, claims to have solved th;
mnchstudied problem of constructing !
gun 30 that sccelerating" charges ma,
be used. The gun has three chamber,
for powder, SO arranged that the aass
from one discharges the others in succea
sion, the explosive force of the second
and third being applied to the ballet after
the first has started it Experiments a
San Francisco last week showed that
gun with an inch and half bore would
sand bullet through four and a hak
inch iron target at one hundred feet dis
tanee An old ffty-caliber carbine oh
tered over sent steel bullet through az
inch iron plate and six inches Of timber