The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-11-28
1t is feared that widespread distress
vii prevail in Ireland this winter. ]. I

-IburlOW w eed, the oldest American
journalist, died at hishome in New Y ork,
on the 22d, aged SIS years.
Widow "Stonewall " Jackson has
fallen heir TO 1900 left by Memphis
admirer Of her noted husband.
The Milton Ne,os, which suspended
over two months ago on account of the
yellow fever at Pensacola, came to hand
tins morning.
1t Is believed the President in his
forthcoming message will recommend a
large reduction OF the internal revenuc
taK and revision of the tariff.
Washington Post: Free beer asad
taxed blankets will not make an enth,is-
ing shibbQleth for 1854, even if backed
hoy the elOquence of the entire Kelley
school Of revenue reforms.
The last session of the Forty-seventh
congress cOnvenes next Monday. 1t
promises % be lively and exciting SEES
sion, but whether it will be profitable
one 10 the country remains to be demon
strated.
The official count of the vote OF tie
state Of Pennsylvania at the recent ciec-
ton puts Patiison's plurality at 1922.
The vote was the largest ever polled in
the State, excepting in the Presidential
contests of 1876 and $50.
A Washington dispatch of the 22d
SAYS Captain Hopkins, of the United
States Navy, has been found guilty of
deserving his post as Commandant at the
Pensacola Navy-Yard during the yellow
fever epidemic, and dismissed fron The
service.
Mariana Courier: "The friends of
Col. Mcclellan, member-elect to the next
Legislature, are pressing his name Cor
the next Speaker Of the House Col Nc
Clellan is a fine parliam entarian, aud
would doubtless fill the position with
great aeeeptability."
The Memphis, Tenn, APoeal Dea.
believes that q the first duty of the Desn-
Oeratie Congress will be to revise the ;ar-
III, not IN the interest, as Kelly wccId
have, OF the monopolists Of the country,
but Of the producing classes-the farmers
II the West and planters of the Soeth,
az well a. the workingmen of the North"
"A pOnderous exponent of Stalwart
sentiment rises to remark, says the Wash
ingtOn Post, that the Republican who
" skulked on election day sis sore
spot on creation, an aggravating nuisance,
sinking in the nOstrils of society" That
IL the true way to soothe the irritatlcn in
the party 1t will heal the breach as
readily as oil Of vitriol heals boil
Mr. Hayes, President of the Tariff
commission, says the report of the Com
MISSION will be made to Congress wien
II reassembles, and that it will be fosnd
An intelligent survey of the tariff and
measures Of reform. Mr.. Hayes says xhe
Commission has been unfairly treated by
the politicians, but that the public will
see when the report is presented that they
have done their work faithfully and Prop
erly.
The elections of the autumn have
signally illustrated the sound political CON
dlti"n Of the country" says Har7,@r's
Weekly To this candid declaration IF
Republican journal another Independent
Republican paper, the Springfield Rep,tJ-
iioa1, responds: "The time has passed
when Democratic victories send SILVER
down the backbone of the continent,
stop the wheels of industry and dry up
the springs"
"A singular case of suicide occurred
Al Birmingham, Alabama, on the Eah.
VIM Ii Cunningham, workman at the
birmingham Rolling Mills, went tc the
Alice Blast Furnace, assembled to the
mouth Of the stack and awaited the mo-
ment for charging. When the bell was
raised he threw off his hat and lesped head
foremost into the furnace. He was forty
years old and leaves wife and three
children He had been low-spirited for
several days
The daily Savannah Morning 4ytscs
appeared in handsome new dress last
Thursday. The new outfit weighed three
and half tons and cost about four thou
sand dollars. Its patrons are assured "that
the Nesos will be kept fully up to its high
standard, and that it will conform, I'M ev-
cry respect, TO its improved appearance.
No effort viii be spared to maintais its
long since recognized position as the lead
ing journal Of the seaboard, and second to
none IN the South"
The collection OF the internal tax,
SAYS the Iowa Journal, costs the Govern
Dent over 5000, 900 annually and en-
Ploys more than 1000 people. The pre-
sence Of this army is a constant source of
irritation in. the South. 1t promotes q
feeling Of hostility to the general govera-
ment in large sections of country, and as
Il il no longer necessary it is sound policy
70 abolish Il and remove such constant
source Of irritation and too freqneht
esnss Of actual bloodshed
The rumor that the State Canvass
ing Board has canyassed the election in
fhe Second District and awarded the Ger