The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-02

-Chss. r. Darwin, the scientist, is
dead.
Another crank threatens the life of
Queen Victoria.
DIR. Lamson was hanged last Friday.
He confessed the murder of Percy John.
The General Assembly of the South
ern Presbyterian Church meets at Atlanta
on the 18th inst
Queen Victoria's son, Prince Leopold,
was married to the German Princess Hell
en-, on the 9th ult
The General Conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South meets in
Nashville tomorrow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson died at his
residence, in Concord, Mass, last Thurs
day evening, in his 10th year.
The Indians are on the war path in
Arizona. They are stealing horses, burn
ing houses and numbering the whites
Colonel D. L. McKinnon, of Jackson
county, has announced himself s'as candi-
date for Congress, independent of party"
The New York Herald says the
vouchers for expenses of the Garfield fun
eral excursion are too disgraceful for pub
LEGATION.
BY private telegram to a gentle
man in this city, we learn that the Bing-
ham College, at Mebaneville, N. c., was
destroyed by fire yesterday.
The House of Representatives has
awarded the seat held by General Chal-
mers, Democrat, from the Sixth District
of Mississippi, to the colored Republican
contestant, Lynch.
There is plan on foot for using the
hydraulic power of Niagara Falls as
means of generating electricity to illumi-
nate several of the large Eastern cities, in
Guiding New York.
1t seems that the Chinese musl go.
An anti Chinese Convention in San Fran
cisco adopted plan which includes a
scheme to divide the Pacific coast into
districts, which shall be notified to re-
move the Chinese within specified time.
"A fine feat in the great gun target
practice was witnessed byPresident Arthur
at Fortress Monroe last Thursday, where
Colonel Loder's detachment of United
States artillery cut away flagstaff at
5000 yards range with an eight inch
rife.
President Arthur, says the Baltimore
american, (Rep.) goes on filling the
stalwart bill with his appointments
Probably he will not be disturbed out
of his serene complacency until Demo
cratic victory next fall makes him know
something of the sensations of a man
who has unwittingly placed his hands on
the opposite poles of the biggest kind of
galvanic battery.
=" Ransom" the Washington CORE
spondent of the Jacksonville Times, un-
der date of April 29th, says: "a strong
party of Southerners is here urging the
appointment of Judge Settle to Judge
ship on the Court of Claims. The Judge
arrived here last night, accompanied by
T. B. Keogh, of North Carolina, and ex.
Marshal Conant, of Florida. These gen.
tlemen ask for the appointment, and it
will probably be made. have trustwor-
thy information that Colonel Wicker will
be re-appOinted Collector at Key West
within few days"
The first Of the Pacific States to hold
an election this year will be Oregon.
There will be general election in that
State on the first Monday in June for
Governor, Secretary Of State, Treasurer,
Public Printer, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, both branches Of the Legis-
lAture and member of Congress. Should
the agitation of the Chinese question con.
tinue, this election will be watched with
unusual interest as indicating any change
of sentiment that may have occurred or
the Pacific slope. Oregon is exceedingly
close, politically, and rarely ever gives
more than . few hundred majority fol
either party.
Tampa Tribune, April 20: "Judgs
II. L. Mitchell and g. B. Sparkman re
turned from Key West Monday, where
they had been to bold term Of court fol
Monroe county. But one person was sent
to the penitentiary, viz. Thos. Brown
larceny, sentenced to year. Alexander
Fleming was convicted Of an assault and
fined. But one indictment was found BY
the grand jury, which is considerable
falling of ~ compared with the courts
under the csrpet-bag regime. Il wa
nothing unconmon then for 20 and 80 in.
dictments TO be brought in. Verify, Key
West hss been benefited by wholesome
sdministraEion Of the laws under good
Democrats government