The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-21
Ward Hunt. Associate Justice of tn

Mrs. Garfield emphatically denies
having written to the President asking
clemency for Guiteau.
Gen. Hancock has been visiting his
son Russell, who is largely engaged in
planting, at Friar's Point, Miss.
Great destitution is reported among
the people in Southern Illinois, and they
have asked the Governor for aid.
Governor McEnery denies, over his
own signature, the reports lately set afoat
of destitution in North Louisiana.
Mrs. Scoville, sister of the assassin
Guiteau, is strong in the conviction of her
brothers insanity, and believes that he
will ultimately escape the gallows.
I'm me Senate, Mr. Call offered a res
olution, on the 18th inst, desiring the
Secretary of State to open negotiations
with Spain for renting the tax on cotton
imported into Cuba from the United
States.
AT meeting of Christians and Jews,
held in Philadelphia on the 18th, to make
provisions for the jewish refugees from
Russia, expected to arrive in that city
bout the 22d inst, 1910 were sub
scribed.
A bill has been introduced in the
Senate by Mr. Gail to exempt a vessel of
less than twenty-five tons in the inland
watel of the United States, and not en-
gage in the transportation Of passt lgers,
from nspection. and license.
From the Jasper Times extra, Of the
18th, We learn that the trial of G. T.
Coyle for the murder of Joel Phillips
closed at 1880 p. m. Friday. Th' jury
were out only sixteen minutes, and brought
in verdict of not guilty"
The Pensacola Daily Adrdnce- Ga
zette comes to US as neat and newsy as
any of our daily exchanges. The enter
prise deserves success, and We hope the
good people of Pensacola and West Flor
ida will give it a liberal patronage.
The Senate Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, on the 18th inst,
authorized Senator Jones to report for
passage, the bill appropriating 100000
for the erection of public building at
Key West for a court house, post Office
and Federal Courts
Senator Call, by unanimous consent,
has submitted a joint resolution to the
Senate providing for the payment of
claims arising under the treaty between
Spain and the United States for the ces-
sion of the Floridas The resolution pro-
poses to appropriate one million dollars
for this purpose, and was read twice and
referred.
"A Philadelphia dispatch, of Febru-
airy 18th, saws: Notwithstanding the re-
ports TO the contrary, the authorities at
the Jefferson Medical College informed a
representative of the Associated Press. at
Up. H., that Senator Hills condition was
very favorable, and that the operation on
the Senator's mouth, performed about a
week ago, was highly satisfactory one.
Mr.. Hill is now getting along we'll
Mr.. Call, on the 18th, addressed the
Senate IA support of the proposed amend
ment to the pension arrears resolution de-
claring in favor of pensions to the survi-
vors of the Indian wars prior to l84l.
He said that every argument in favor of
4k.D nd &c
to soldiers of the late war applied
with equal force in behalf of the disabled
soldiers of the -.'exica- and Indian wars.
AT meeting held in Jacksonville on
Saturday the Florida Land and Improve
ment Company elected the following d.
rectOrs: Hamilton Disston, A p. K
Stafford, ]. J. Dunno, c. A. Sparks, c.. II.
Goss, W. II. Drake, Henry Lewis, George
0. Clrpenter, ]. 7. Bennett, J. X. Settler,
7. Il Asbury. At the same time and
place he following gentlemen were elected
directors of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast
Canal and Okeechobee Land Company
Hamilton Disston, S. H. Grey, A. p K
Stafford, VIM. H. Wright, w. H. Drake,
John L. Hill, J. w. Neale, w. G. Huey
F. A. Hendry.
-Haverhill, Mass, was the scene of a
disastrous fire on Friday night. The
burned district covers ten acres There
were l02 shoe manufacturers and over 200
other firms burned out, and $500 people
thrown out of employment. A dispatch
dated Saturday morning says what was
yesterday the finest street in the city, and
the principal business mart, is to-day a
smouldering, shapeless mass of ruins. The
loss is fully $4,000, 900. but the most
dreadful feature of the calamity is the
loss Of life and the awful uncertainty of
many anxious hearts. 1t lie feared that a
score or more of prominent business men
are buried in the ruins.
Gen. Gilmore, who has personally
inspected the work in progress on the ST.
Johns bar, is confident that marked i'm
provement of the channel may be secured
during the next year, if liberal appro-
priation can be secured from the present