The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-04-11

Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, has par
,doned Kate Sothern.
The public debt is $l6,462,947 less
than 1T was on the first day Of March.
Philadelphia is rapidly coming to
the front as the champion divorce city.
., Georgia is said to export 100000, 900
feet Of lumber annually, which strips s5,-
900 acres of timber land.
The issue Of postal note for conven-
fence in transmitting small sums is pro-
posed BY the House Post Office Commit
tee.
The Supreme Court granted the
prayer for leave to file petition for a
writ of habeas corpus in the Sergeant
Mason case.
The President has nominated w. E.
Chandler, the notorious political manip-
ulator of election frauds, to be Secretary
of the Navy.
The President evidently thinks this
country is too big, too great, and too lib
eral in policy to close its doors against
Chinese immigration.
Professor Lewis Boss, of the Dudley
Observatory, Albany, has made some in
teresting calculations concerning the new
comet. He predicts that it will soon be
visible to the naked eye, and that its
tail will be enormous.
1t is proposed to dispose Of the Fitz-
John Porter case by paying him the salary
of a Major-General from the time of his
dismissal to the close of the war, and
send his name to the Senate and retire
him with the rank of Colonel.
In the sculling race for the cham
pionship of the world between Hanlan
and Boyd, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, on the
Sd, the former won by five lengths. Han
Ian had the race so easily in hand that he
stopped more than once and played with
Boyd.
The appointment of Worthington as
Collector of the Port of Boston in place
of Beard is a recognition of the Stalwart
element Of the Hub 1t was also lick
at Senator Hoar who favored the retention
of Beard Massachusetts Republicans
pretend to see the hand of Ben Butler in
this.
Representative Haskell, of Kansas,
O. 1a Met -,o4
of Columbia Code, establishing mixed
schools 10 the District. Fred. Douglas
and others declare they will not cease
their efforts until they have broken down
all distinctions OF race and color in the
schools.
The ntterancns of tho p"~;c~ 1870
papers on the veto of the Chinese bill in
dictate strong feeling againt the Presi-
dent, and the Republican managers in
that State practically give up the State
as not worth contesting. AT several
places on the Pacific coast the President
was burned in efigy.
There is CLEAN of hope in the mat
ter of continuance of the supply of pine
lumber in the statement that Colonel
MERGERS exploring party, which recently
went up the Spanish river in the province
of Ontario, found immense pine forests
estimated to yield 24,OOo,OOO,OOo feet of
superior lumber, and very favorably stu
ated for reaching the market.
Mr.. Charles S. Wolf, of Pennsyl-
vania, said in an interview the other day,
that if the Democrats would nominate
Judge Turnkey for Governor; Philip G.
Garrett, chairman of the committee of
one hundred, for Lieutenant Governor; ].
Simpson Africa for Secretary of Internal
Affairs, and Major A. M. Brown or Geo.
Shiras for Judge of the Supreme Court,
the ticket would sweep the State like
whirlwind."
"A London dispatch, of April eth,
says the pressure of emigration is so
great that an additional ship of the Allan
line (the Nestorian) sails to-day for Bos-
ton. The steamship Partisan, which
sailed yesterday from Liverpool for Bos-
ton via Halifax, took out 1000 passen-
gers, most of whom are capitalists, bound
for Manitoba. The City of Rome sailed
from Liverpool to-day for New York
with 1850 Storage passengers
The journal L'EIectricite of Paris an
nounces that premature burial can be rem
dered absolutely impossible by applying,
in cases where the certain signs of death
are wanting, an electric current to the
body. Such test being applied FIVE or
six hours after presumed death, non-con-
traction of the muscles will prove beyond
doubt that life is extinct. This discov-
cry is received with much satisfaction in
France and Germany, where the laws re-
quiring prompt burial admit the POSSIBLE
ity of horrible mistakes, which, in the
belief Of many persona competent to form
an opinion, are of not very infrequent oc-
currence.
"A telegram from Winnepeg, Mantle
ba, dated April 9th says: "A Canadian
Z Pacific train with 800 emigrants is frozen
in three miles from the nearest source of
eupplv. Proviaions are heino carried Tn