The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-02-28


tho pension of the widow of Gen Custer
increased
EMutilated silver coins will be bought
br superintendents of minis at the rate
of 81 per ounce.
Several minor engagements have
taken place in Herzegovina, in which the
insurgents were defeated.
The Legislature of Mississippi is alive
to the Importance of immigration. The
Senate has passed bill appropriating
100000 for that purpose.
The Baltimore Sun advocates the
celebration, in that city in 1892, of the
four hundredth anniversary of the discov-
ery of America by Columbus.
The oil belts of California, from pres
eut indications, may be counted the rich
est in the world The flow of oil from
Los Angeles wells has overstocked the
California market.
The new capitol building at Austin,
Texas, is to be 800 feet high, sec feet
long and 255 in depth, the seventh high
est building in the world, and the second
in the United States.
George Allen, cashier of the Savan-
nah. Florida and Western Railway, is a
defauter to the amount of $4,000. The
money is supposed to have been lost put
ting up margins to speculate in futures.
There are l,55O,OOO, Sunday-schools
in the world and 14,OOO,0 900 scholars and
teachers. In the United States there are
s4,750 teachers and $500, s35 scholars,
making a total of 1905, 5S5 attendants.
Oscar Wilde paid fifty dollars to get
an advertisement inserted in the Wash
ington Post 1t consisted of picture of
baboon with an apple in hand, and just
below it very good likeness of Mr..
Wilde with lily in his hand.
The Constitution says: 1t is relia-
bly, stated that the carriers on Oscar
Wilde's hind legs are tied with a true
lovers knot. The more the public finds
out about this young man the more
sweetly precious he becomes.
DR. Philip Sehaf says tAoe about 3,
100000 copies of the Revised New Tes-
lament, including all editions, have been
sold. Thirty editions have been pub
lished in this country. Criticism upon
the revised version has abated in violence
here, but still RACES in England.
1t appears that Lieut.. Flipper is not
to leave the army after all He was not
found guilty OF embezzlement, but of de-
ceivlng his superior officer Gen. Grierson
aud other officers have written to the
President that Flipper is not bad per-
son and that he ought to be given an
other trial.
In looking over the Confederate ar
ehlves, which are now at the war depart
ment undergoing readjustment, it was
discovered that in company 1, Twentieth
South Carolina regiment, there was a
family bearing the name of Gunter-one
captain, one lieutenant, two sergeants, two
corporals, and twenty-five privates.
From a careful estimate made by the
Agricultural Department it was ascer-
tanned that the annual cost of the fences
OF the country was greater than that of
all buildings together. 1t is stated that
the cost OF fencing a farm and keeping a
fence IN repair for forty years is equal TO
the value OF the estate. Farmers should
inquire into this subject closely.
The poet Tennyson says: 81 am dis
mayed at the madness of the hatred
evlnced against the Jews. If the IN
speakable barbarities being committed
are not universally denounced, it is only
because they are SO alien to the spirit o.
the age as to be almost incredible. The
government, however, may have reason
to fear that official intervention would de-
more harm than good"
-Aprofound philosopher compares ad
vertising to growing crow: The farme
plants his seed, and while he is sleeping
the corn is growing. So with advertis
ing-while you are sleeping or eating
your advertisement is being read b,
thousands of persons who never saw yo'
or heard of your business, nor neve
would, had it not been for your advertis
ing
"A Mr.. Gould, of New York, is in Wash
.lngton with memorial more than 6v,
thousand feet long, signed by merchants
manufacturers, mechanics, farmers, tar
payers and others residing in nearly ever,
State in the Union, which viii be pre-
sented to the Ways and Means commit
lee. 1t asks that the tax on bank dc
posts and the two-cent stamp on check
and drafts may be abolished.
"A fire broke out in the shaft of
0eeP coal mine At Canton, Illinois, an
TIE miners made wild rush for the elevs
'f, crowding the cage and fighting 70
PAGES Five trips Of the cage woul
carry them all up, but it looked - thong
me flames would quickly close the exi
and IN the fright and confusion al stru,
eied t. be first Tom Lucky, the ca.