The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-01-17


The Baltimore Times, . new daily
paper that was launched few weeks ago
with great flourish of trumPets, has al
ready suspended.
The Arthur administration is to be
" high-hung" in the extreme. The Pres
idential carriage has the Arthur coat
of-arms on Its panels and equipage is
equally high-toned.
A collision occurred on the Spuyten
Duyvel and Port Morris road, New York,
in which q number of persons, including
State Senator Wagner Of New York, were
killed and others injured.
The Boston Herald says the age may
not yet be wholly ripe for the reform, but
the death penalty for homicide will a.
surely be abolished in Massachusetts,
as the hands of the clock move forward
and not backward.
AT the joint Republican caucus in
Iowa, for the nomination of United States
Senators, Jas. F. Wilson was declared the
unanimous nominee for the long term,
beginning in 1883, and Hon. ]. w. Nc
Dill, incumbent, for the short term, by
reclamation.
Pensacola Gazette: No better evil
dence of the beniicence of Democratic
rule should be demanded by the people
of Escambia than the fact that county
scrip is worth from IS to 974 cents, when
the article was held at about 40 cents,
with few takers, when the Republican
party held the reins of government
Contrary to the general idea, the ma
jority of the European immigrants who
come to this country do not go West, but
remain in the Eastern States. Thus, Of
the 4OO, 900 immigrants who landed At
Castle Garden last year, no fewer than
las, 1000 settled in New York State and
city, while sc, 900 found homes in Penn
sylvania.
Representative Ford of Mississippi,
header Ur TIE GreenDacKers In Congress,
says his party will oppose all legislation
for continuance of national banks; that
the GreenbackeB will not only fight any
extension OF national banks charters, but
win antagonize all refunding legislation,
as they believe the bonds should be paid
Of'at once in greenbacks.
New Workers reckon their Winters by
the early or late freezing of the Hudson
river. This season it did not freeze SOL
idly between Hudson and Albany before
the first week in January, and in 1880 it
was frozen over as early as the oath of
November. 1t is, therefore, confidently
anticipated that navigation will be re-
sumed much in advance of the average
period in the Spring.
The experiments in cotton raising in
Kansas have been very successful. One
planter near Independence has shipped
one hundred bales Of excellent quality.
As the thousands of colored refugees who
AOcked to the State thoroughly under
stand the cultivation of the staple, it is
thought cotton growing win be largely
introduced, and that ultimately another
State win be added to the Cotton Belt
"A dispatch from Albany, N. Y, of
the 18th states that it has finally been de-
cided at an informal conference Of both
wings Of the Democracy that q call for
another caucus Of each branch of the Leg
islature be issued to-day, the caucus 70
take place on Monday evening, at which
the Tammany delegation viii be present.
This action was brought about through
the mediation of prominent Democrats
of the State.
Washington dispatches to the New
York papers says it Is semi-oficially an
nounced In that city that Senator Geo.
Il Pendleton intends to be . candidate
for the Democratic nomination for Presi-
dent two years hence The announce
ment il made by warm personal and pO-
iticAl friends Of Mr.. Pendleton, who say
there il only one contingency which
would cause him to withdraw. and that
would be the consenting Of the Hon.
Samuel ]. Tlden to become candidate
for the nomination-a contingency which
10 not contemplated.
-Ex-President Hayes, according to .
Cleveland Dispatch, has declined 20 CON-
tribute towards the erection Of . naomi.
ment to the late President Garfield, IT
Cleveland. poverty being the sxcuas Of
Jared for the refusal he claims 70 have
met With illenccess in his farming opera
toms in the Red River country, and he
declared 70 tbs gentleman Who solicited
Tie contribution that bis savings ont At
tbs salary drawn By him - President Of
the United States bad besn greatly eng
gera.sd, that his bank disiden1a had not
come up % exppstatione, - that. under
IL circumstances. hs fpHnd himsslf ma
BE to contsibuie anytking - the fund for
monunnent 20 Gax6sld.
Ths lister 81 Goyernor Bloxhpm, which
W pihli1h III norning, yin - rcd
sith inte IL rsdnolion of ths atats
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