The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-05-16

-Guiteau's book don't sell.
The President has signed the Chinese
immigration bill.
Arkansas has been visited by another
inundation, which is reported to have
damaged property to the amount of
100000.
The wife of Sergeant Mason has been
to see the President, and it is believed in
Washington that Mason's sentence will
be mitigated soon.
The Southern Baptist Convention
was in session at Greenville, S. c., last
week. Two hundred and sxty-two dele
gates were present.
1t is said that President Arthur can
play banjo, so that if he shouldn't get
a second term he will have something to
fall back on, at fair salary per week.
Bills for the restoration of Fitz John
Porter to his rank in the army and au-
thorizing the President to retire him
have been introduced in the Senate and
House.
"A Vienna dispatch, of the 18th, says
there are 1000 Jewish refugees in Bradu.
About 200 arrive there every day, while
only 500 leave weekly. Their misery is
indescribable
Mr.. Finley has introduced bill in
Congress TO authorize the Sanford and
Indian River Railroad Company to con-
struct bridge across the St. Johns river
in Florida, and to establish it as pest
road
"A post norton examination of the
body of young Rountree, University stu
dent, recently killed at Athens, Georgia,
ro1aalAd- n-Hod fA4.-4hs.. che 1rAnlrb u
his brother.
The House Committee on Elections
have agreed, by vote of against 2, to
report to the House in favor of seating
William NJ. Low, contestant in the case
of Low vs. Wheeler from the Eighth Con-
gressional District of Alabama.
"A Washington dispatch, of the 18th,
says: The Post tomorrow morning will
say positively that the Justices of the
District Supreme Court have unanimously
agreed to over-rule the exceptions in the
Gulteau case and affirm the judgment of
the court below.
The Georgia Press Association was on
an excursion to East Florida last week.
The party consisted of over forty, among
whom were number of ladies. They
arrived at Jacksonville Friday evening.
On Saturday they visited St. Augustine,
returning to Jacksonville in the afternoon,
where they were royalty entertained at a
banquet at the St. Marks Hotel, in the
evening, and left for Georgia Sunday
morning.
Many arrests have been made in Ire
land, but the assassins are still at large
A London telegram, of the 14th, SAYS
From information that the assassins are
still in this city the conclusion is drawn
that they are afraid that if they should be
separated one would turn traitor. Infor-
nation gathered on Saturday shows that
at least twelve were engaged in the
tragedy. There is reason to believe that
the assassins intended to murder eight
persons.
-Habess corpus proceedings insti-
tuted by Geo. Scoville in New York,
to recover his wife from Jno. w. Guiteau,
have developed the fact that Scoville
thinks his wife's mind has become unset
tied, and ]. w. Guiteau, fearing Scoville
intended to place her in an insane asylum,
has taken her under his protection and
refuses to allow Scoville to know her
whereabouts. Mr.. Scoville was to lecture
in New York, but this complication has
interfered with that project.
New York Sun: The coalition in
Virginia which Malone invented and
managed as a political speculation may
be said to have collapsed. The elements
of which the coalition was composed were
too homogeneous to adhere together long
after the spoils had been distributed.
Malone and Riddleberger have succeeded
? In getting seats in the Senate, some of
their principal lieutenants have been paid
on with Federal and State patronage, and
Cameron is Governor. The honest rank
and file who were inveigled into the bus
mess became disguised long ago, and
sufficient number of them revolted in the
State Senate to prevent the contamination
of scheme to gerrymander the State
into Congressional districts for the benefit
of certain Readjuster politicians.