The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-10
GENERAL. NEWS.

ALBANIA, has been acquitted Of the charges
against him.
The condition Of Editor Elam, shot
under the code and in the thigh by Editor
Berne, was improving at last accounts.
Archbishop Purcell died at st. Mar
tins, Ohio, on the 9Th instant He was a
native of Ireland, and was over eighty
three years of age
The building boom is so great at Ma
con, Georgia, that the various wards
cannot supply builders with bricks enough
to carry out their contracts
DR.. w. ID. lIornbeck, respected
| physician, was shot and killed in his Office
in Union, Indiana, on the 5th, by Samuel
Heminger, farm laborer, with whom he
had some dispute about work
The Post Office Department has been
notified that Charles +. Egglcston, Post
master, and Frank f. Eggleston, Asss-
tant Postmaster, at Salmon Falls, Idaho,
have both committed suicide.
r. G. Moore killed a fine doe last
week within mile or two of Enterprise
Mrs. Harris, Of Turnbnll Bay, also chased
one into the bay and then pulled ont after
it, caught up to, and killed it.
The first bale of the new crop of cot
ton was sold at Albany, Georgia, on the
9Th, at 254 cents per pound. 1t weighed
335 pounds and was classed middlng. 1t
was raised by Primus w. Jones, of Baker
county.
William II. Seaborn, aged "a years,
shot and killed his sister Fanny, aged %
years, and then killed himself at the
Riggs Neck, Weschester county, New
was insane.
The lawsuit of +. Lehman, who con
ducts =" Cheap John store, against the
Chicago Xer"ld for derogatory statements
regarding his reputation, was concluded
on the 3D., with a verdict for 525, 900
damages against that paper
A year old child Of John Darby
was beheaded by cars at IIoosick Falls,
New York, on the I'd The frantic mother
saw fifty cars pass over the infants body,
and she carried away the head in one
hand and the body in another to her house
Mrs. James Jack, aged 35 years, of
\ orristown, Pennsylvania, was found in
her bed on the 4th strangled. Her neigh
bors suspected something wrong and
found her husband and companion,
named Harvey, drunk and the woman
dead. Both men are jailed
The steamer Daphne, launched on
the Clyde with a great crowd aboard of
her, was top-heavy and capsized Over
one hundred and fifty persons were
drowned, and divers find it difficult to
remove the bodies from the vessel which
lies deck down on the bottom.
"A daily news special from Little
Rock, Arkansas, says: A fight occurred
at an Indian dance at Bird Creek, In
dian Territory, on the ID. Over one
hundred Pawnees with revolvers and
knives took part. Two Indians were
killed and others were wounded
"A dispatch from Maysville, Colorado,
says that on the LIST "Doc" Baker came
to town and amused himself by shooting
into several buildings. The city consta-
bic being absent, Mayor John Martin I'M
dertook to stop the disturbance, when
Baker commenced firing at him. The
Mayor then shot Baker four times, kill
ing him.
The British navy, when all the YES
sells on the stocks are finished, will in
clude 36 first and second class ships, with
armor averaging ID inches in thickness,
and guns of the average weight Of 35
tons. France has the same number of
ships, but the armor is l44 inches thick,
guns average 40 tons, and half of them
are breech-loadlng.
-Abram Coppernall, farmer of the
town of Victoria, New York, was shot
three times with large navy revolver 10y
Louis French, young farm laborer, sus-
pected of intimacy with Coppernalps
wife. The wife was present at the shoot
ing, and ordered French to fire. Both
French and Mrs. Coppernall are under
arrest. The victim will die. All three
shots took effect in his body.
Bids for the construction of the new
naval cruisers were opened at the Navy
Department on the ID. John Roach, of
Chester Penn, was the lowest bidder for
all four vessels He bids for the Chicago
1888, 900 the Boston &c 80, 900; the At
lanta $Gl7 200, and the Dolphin, dispatch
boat, $4,000 The contracts will prob
ably be awarded to him. There were
only four bidders for each vessel.
-Four Commissioners and the County
Clerk Of Grand county were all shot at
Hot Sulphur Springs, Colorado, on the
4th, by mob of masked men. Barney
Day and Mr.. Mills were instantly killed,
and E. r. Webber and ID. J. Dean were
mortaly wounded. Grand county lies
IN the northwestern part of the State
The citizens of Grand county have called
on the Governor for the aid of State mi
litla.