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


former assurances, has approved the war
rants for the salaries and expenses of the
State .\lmshouse at Tewksburv for Feb
ruarv, March, April and May, amounting
to 100000.
Later accounts regarding the explo-
So, e thn powder magazine at ',cu.,--: .
caused 10y lightning stroke, state that
l5o persons were killed and SO wounded.
Two hundred barrels OF powder and 5000
cartridges exploded
A special dispatch of the 18TH says:
One hundred armed men rode into
Kingston, y. c., last night to lynch Gull
ford soon, Il negro, hut the Sheriff and
citizens were guarding the Jail, and the
mob departed quietly.
The biennial session of the Grand
Lodge of Good Temllar Of the World
commenced at Halifax on the 18TH. .Jo-
~cph Millins, of England presided. A
large number of delegates from Great
Britain, the United States and Canada
were present.
Lawyer Dukes, Who wrote such infa-
nous letters to Capt,in Mutt concerning
the lattrr's daughter and subsequently
killed him when he 4cmanded an cXpla-
nation, was shot and instantly killed by
James Mutt, the Captlin's son, in Union
town, Pa, ON the l3th
On the nth Sau' G. Davis, an In
diana lawyer, ATTEMPTED to assassinate
Congressman John f. Lamb, of that
state, by putting a pistol to his breast
and discharging it, 1t was struck up and
the bullet passed over Lambs shoulder
The parties were opposing counsel in a
case and had 1uarrclcd
Almiral J. Randolph Tucker dropped
dead at his residence in Pittsbur9, Va.
on the night of the 18th, aged - years.
He resigned from the United States Navy
when the war broke out, and was in the
Confederate Navy until the close Of the
struggle, when he entered the Peruvian
Navy, whence he resigned five years ago.
Charles {. Fulton, editor and propri-
ctor of the Baltimore .1n,tricuu, died on
the 1th instant at the age of g. wears.
He was a practical printer, and worked
his way up through all the grades of re-
Portorcal and editorial employment to
high position among the public men of
the country. He was a native of Phila-
dclphia.
A military convention, composed of
commissioned officers from all the com
mands in the State, is in session at the
State House, Columbia, 5. c. Its pur-
pose is to memoralize the Legislature to
perfect the organization Of the militia
and collect annually sufficient money to
thoroughly equip and maintain all arms
of the service.
On Tuesday last at Rockford, Coosaw
county, Alabama, a negro named Jordan
Corbin entered the house of a peaceful
citizen named Benz. Garden and shot him
while he was lying on bed. His wife
jumped up, and the negro shot her down
Gardens son started to the door to Give
an alarm, when the negro also shot him.
All three were instantly killed. Gardens
daughter, about IA years of age, made
her escape, and gave the alarm There
was no provocatlon for the murder.
"A tornado visited Chllicothe, Mis-
souri,, on the 18th. A number of build
ingS were unr0ofed. Dennis Wolfe was
killed at his residence, five miles south
east from the city. His house was de-
moli>hcd and his family carried through
the air about 800 feet, and Mrs. Wolfe's
skull was badly cut. At Utica the Bap-
tist brick church was demolished, and at
sumner City eleven buildings were de-
stroyed, thousands of trees uprooted, and
threc-tourths of the apple crop in the Vi
entity destroyed.
Farther vessels with a capacity Of
ten or twelve gallons, used by the aborig-
ines for burial purposes, have been found
at Elberton, Georgia. They were buried
III the ground, the top being four or five
feet beneath the surface. In the bottom
of the vessel was round hole that en-
clrclcd the neck of the corpse, the head
being IN the vessel and the body beneath
1T, the vessel being evidently made around
the neck. Inside Of this vessel was a
smaller one made with scallops around
the top. This was placed bottom side up
over the skull. The skull was pretty
we'll preserved. The teeth indicated
child about 10 years old.
-Beliot, Wisconsin, was struck by
tornado on the l tn with result demon
alizing TO the business portion Of the
town, killing one man and wounding sew
eral others. The storm came from
southwest direction, and was met by
current of air going south, causing a ro-
tary motion, accompanied by heavy rain.
1t struck the western portion of that city
and wrecked a number Of dwellings,, then
passed on to the heart Of the city, unroof-
ing number of business houses, blowing
down the Northwestern Railway bridge,
scattering the machinery room of the
Rock River Paper Mills, and killing Ed
ward Holeran, chief of the hands.