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

On the 7th navigation was suspend.s
ed on the upper Ohio and Mississippi
rivera !.
Rev. W. w. Hicks says: "If there,
il hell, am willing to be damned Ios.
believing that there is not such place. :,
The reason why voters scratch y :,
candidate has been discovered by the New;
Orleans Picoyalne. 1t is becauseh he itche4'
too much for Office. !:
The Georgia Legislature, after ses..
sion of thirty-three days, adjourned hst.
Friday night, to reconvene on the firsi
Wednesday in July next. :.
"A decision was rendered. by thc
United States Supreme Court Oh the 9Th
inst. confirming the title of General Lee,,s
heirs TO the Arlington estate.
"A Philadelphia paper says: "That
the Pennsylvania Railroad should need
fifty-6ye new locomotives and six thou
sand cars is one good sign Of prosperity
10 Offset the gloomy reports and forebo'i
ings about the iron mills"
David Davis affianced is coy, writes
"Gaih." She will will not, at her time
of life, go through the gayeties of a
Washington season. She is siiH miss.
Eerging on 40. David is like a hippo,
drOme elephant, indulging in loves young
dream, even on bis daily parade.f
The observations of the transit of
Venus last Wednesday were generally
successful and satisfactory, especially at
St. Augustine and Cedar Key. Success
full observations were also made at Phila-
deIphia. San Francisco, Ottawa, Ontario,
Chicego, Harvard University, Whining
ton Del, New York, Princeton, n. j.,
New Haven, Baltimore, San Antonio, aud
West Point, New York
The indianapolis Sentinel, leading
Democratic paper in Indiana, says: "The
Democratic party, IN taking possession Of
the next House of Representatives, must
begin right; but if it elects Mr. Randal
Speaker it will begin wrong, and wilt
commit blunder which may prove fatal
10 II in the campaign in 1884. Indiana
will be found solid against Mr.. Randall
and his policy"
The days of the iron nail are sppar-
emily numbered. Pittsburg has a com
Pany, with $3.50, 900 capital, organized to
manufacture them of Bessemer steel, and
factories in Wheeling will come only q
little later. The steel article Is sitter
and tougher than the iron nail, and so
much lighter that the added cost per
pound will be more than balanced by the
increased number.
An extraordinary demand for danes
is said TO have sprung up, and the supply
Al the Philadelphia mint is exhausted and
the vaults of the treasury department.
have been drained. An order has been
sent TO Philadelphia for the coinage of
$500, 900 worth, but it is believed that THE
will not satisfy the demand, which is
thought TO be caused by the nlanu!ac-
tnrers Of cheap jewelry. -;
According to a Rochester IN. W
dispatch Tobias Forbes, of Clyde, who is
nearly eighty years of age, and whose Ia
Their was q cousin of William Margan Of
Masonic notoriety, says that Morgan was
released on condition that he would leave
the country. He did SO, going 30 Mel
bourne, Australia, and there he conn
neDced the publication of a newspaper,
which, after his death, passed into she
hands of his sons, who may now be living
In that locality.
"A letter sheet, envelope and postage
stamp combined, all to be sold for thres
cents lie to be the next step of the govern,
ment toward meeting the demand for
cheaper postage. That will not satiafs
the public, says the Philadelphia Hansi
A rigid pruning of expenses that will
give Ms genuine cheap postage is the
demand The people prefer to buy stamps
and envelopes. All they ask of tie gov
eminent il that it carry their letters for
q reasonable sum.
"A Washington dispatch of lhe 1th
says immense cold prevails all over the
Northern United States and Canada aud
Great Britain. In the Northwest this
morning the thermometer ranged firm
Eve 10 fifteen degrees below zero. In the
Hudson river valley the thermometer has
fallen twenty-five degrees in twenty -four
hours, and is still falling. All over Crest
Britain fierce storm is raging, and .e1e-
graphic communication between London
and Glasgow is interrupted, also IN other
directions. Many wrecks are reported
along the British coast. ]:
1T IL said that the Bedo{ ans were
greatly puzzled by the garb of the Scotch
Highlsnden during the war in Egypt.
They came TO the conclusion that they
were not soldiers, but the wives Of sol
disrs, their yelled faces and bare legs seen
@ distance helping the delusion, The
Bsdouins noticed that the soldiers Yo.
nsn canped By themselves, and they ~,
solved % 90 down and spoil the infdsl
soldiers Of their wives and q body of
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