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

are about $6Oo,OoO
interchangeable Mrs. Gaines has got
another Judgment against the city of New
Orleans for nearly two millions of dol
lars.
The Macon Telegraph ventures the
remark that the Car of Russia sends bet
ter men than Commodore Billy Chandler
To Siberia.
The average weight of Bosten men
is l4l pounds, of Boston women l24
pounds; of kentucky men l5s pounds,
OF Kentucky women 1873 pounds.
Within two weeks after the New
York World was taken charge of by MIR.
Pulitzer its circulation increased thirty
five per cent. This is not surprising.
Colonel Frank Howe, the inventor of
Howes scales" died suddenly in Wash
ington the other day from the effects OF
dcbauch. Howe was long a boon COM
panion of Grant.
A special dispatch from Toronto,
Ont, says " \ Fenian plot to blow up
the Weland ship canal has just been UNI
earthed. The particulars have not been
ascertained as yet"
The Fernan,iina Mirror reports an
accident to the steam tug Athlete i'll the
harbor. The cylinder head blew out,
and Captain Sam bennett and Engineer
William Bowman were badly injured.
MIR. NJ. J. Myers has discovered
vein of almost pure gold on his land In
Chesterfield county, 5. G. The vein is
lead Of white flint, fairly studded with
glittering metal. He has gone to Boston
to purchase mining machinery.
DIR. Alexander Means died at his
home in Oxford, Georgia, on the 9TH,
aged eighty-fivc years. He was one Of
the most prominent divines and leading
practical scientists in the South, and was
Fellow Of several European societies.
If the Ohio Democracy could find it
in their hearts to nominate VIM. 9. Thur
man as their candidate for Governor and
elect him, they would settle the question
of the Presidency in 1884, SO far as the
Democracy Of the country are concerned.
Mrs. Helen Perdew, wife of the telc-
graph operator at Ocala, has had the
smallpox there, and is convalescent.-
Mrs. Pcrdcw is a sister-in-law of DIR.
Knight, Of Jacksonville, and contracted
the disease there while nursing sister,
Miss Bishop, who died some weeks ago.
"A special dispatch from Decatur,
Alabama, says that cyclone swept
through Butler county on Sunday, the Sd
inst, demolishing houses on the planta-
tions of Messrs. Betroument, Nelley,
Wilkinson, Stiles, Turner and Miss Mel
CHAN. One negro was killed and several
other persons were wounded.
The 333d anniversary of the settle
ment Of Santa Fe, New Mexico, will be
celebrated in that oldest town in the
United States by Mining and Industrial
Exposition opening July I'd and continu-
ing one month. The programme for each
day is already announced, and includes
much horse-racing, Mexican and Indian
sports, etc.
The steamship State of Texas sailed
from Fernandina Friday morning for New
York with the following cargo 3,27s
packages of vegetables, 1000 melons,
s66 logs cedar, 257 boxes cedar, 4l9 bar
rels rosin, 81 barrels spirits, 1875 old
axles, so old car wheels, 100 planks white
wood, 90 packages merchandise, 80 sacks
cedar saw-dust, 80 empty kegs.
The first through train from Louis
vile over the new line of road arrived in
Knoxville on the 4th inst, running the
whole distance of 265 miles in II hours
The train brought the officials of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad. 1t
was met at the depot by several thous-
and people. The excursion passed on
through to Charleston, S. &. Trains will
run regularly from this date between Lou
isville and Knoxville.
A letter from Gordon, Georgia, to
the Savannah Ne,cs of the 9th inst, saws:
The early peach crop has not been so
bountiful this year as last, and the ship
mcnts are about over. The shipments up
to Thursday night amounted to some
thing over 200 bushels from this point
They were nearly all shipped to the Sa-
vannah market. The average price
ceived was about $3.50 per bushcl net,
the first lots netting about s per bushel.
The varieties are the Alexander AMI Ans
den.
The centenary anniversary OF the
Danish naval hero Peter Willemoes has
been celebrated everywhere in Denmark
1t was Willcmocs who, at the battle of
Copenhagen on April 2. 1901, placed his
small gunboat so close under Nelson's
flagship that he nearly destroyed it; and
when Nelson, a few days later, had an
audience with the Crown Prince regent
he asked that Willemoes should be pre-
scented to him, when he offered him the
post Of his Flag Captain if he would en-
ter the English service. A few years af
terward Wilemoes was killed in the gal
liant fight between the Danish man of war
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