The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-06-12

Quite stir has been caused in Russia
hY proposition to tax citizens who leave
the country on business or pleasure $50 a
year, the payments to be made to the
nearest Russian consul. Persons who
f.il to do this will be detained on the
frontier when they return, and there
obliged to pay their arrears, plus 10 per
cent. compound interest It's estimated
shat, on An average, about 100000 per
SONS cross the frontier on business or
pleasure every year.
In answer to an inquiry about official
titles of persons, the New York San says
that the practice of Distinguishing hold
ers Of certain Offices with an Honorable :"
and the like has grown up by custom,
and that "there is no law upon the whole
subject" There are two exceptions to
this, and probably only two: The con-
stitution of Massachusetts provides that
the title Of the Governor shall be His
Excellency," and that of the Lieutenant
Governor His Honor
q had one insane man under nearly
incessant observation" wrote the late Dr.
lteserques, the famous French DOCTOR
#lle was cultivated patient, seemingly
q,lite sane and highly intelligent. Wis
tied him three times day. He implored
p,e to have him set at liberty. One min
ute with the most persuasive eloquence
and the next with irrefutabc logic, so ir-
REPUTABLE that at the end of eight months
days after, with one stroke of the knife, he
lilled his wife,
The scheme of the Canadian Govern
nlent for wholesale emigration from Ire
land 10 Canada is causing much bad feel
ing among the Catholic hierarchy and
priesthood in the Green Isle Complaints
are being made that artisans are being
tempted away from the larger cities where
q good demand for their services exists,
and that country districts have been
drawn upon until they are almost bare of
Inhabitants. In the ten years from 1871
TO 1881 no less than 35O,O 900 acres of land
! have gone out Of tillage.
Sunset Cox, in denying the report
that he had withdrawn from the Speaker
ship contest, says: 81 suppose that
prince of schemers, Sam. Randall, is at
the bottom of it. But it will do him no
good. Randall personally has never been
rlixed up in any job, but he has some
very warm friends that have. He was
always honest in his personal and private
transactions, but in his political vancouver
ing he is as INSCRIPTIONS as it is possible
k,r a man to be. In fact he is utterly de-
tDid of one particle of political honesty"
1t is a mistake to suppose that we
, Are threatened in the near future with
Qaarth of land in the United States.
There are yet hundreds of millions of acres
1 Of arabic land open to settlers. On these
Eomes can be readily secured. The Chi
+ cago NeWs says: In the Indian Territory
/ alone it is estimated that there is more
! 8fable land than was contained in the
original thirteen States of the Union. AL
tlgether, there are more than thousand
oiillions of acres of land belonging to the
government that have never yet been sur
vpycd.
"A bill has recently been announced
Ivy the President of the Honduras Con.
eress, containing a grant to an American
company for building railroad across
that republic, connecting the two oc. ans
Ii is to be completed in five years. In
consideration of the valuable concessions
which accompany the grant, the debt of
Honduras is to be assumed by the Amer
can company. That is practically equiv.
aIent to taking contract to carry on the
little State itself. 1t is new thing in the
railroad line, but it is not the less inter-