The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-07

ipersonal control over him and he regrets
',cry much that the young man should
. sow he Arrayed in hostility to the Demo
!. cratic party.
i$ We have a terrible story of murder
/ which occurred near Clarks, lille, Va, al
/ most nj the North Carolina line Two
brothers were attacked bv a man who
Knocked one down andijumped upon him.
t - lr' vas prone upon the man, the other
! brother shot him in the back The bull
/ Get passed through the bodies of both
men, producing instant death
At congress of working women in
| 4.on1ott Mrs. Blunt said that she would
| fkr ladies To know that the ulsters and
| Jacket in which they are so neatly clad
| @crc made up by poor women, paid at
the rate Of fifty cents a dozen, who had
70 find 1hcir own sewing g-machine and cot
| 3on ami carry their work to and fro.
| Sewing marhinc needles often broke, and
| Ehen hours of labor were gone III a mo-
| Ineni.
| ! To Fort Worth interviewer Gen.
| 'MeC CleliAn said he could see no good rea-
| son Wity Il Southern man should not have
! a place on the next Democratic presiden-
/ lal ticket, and he instanced two gentle
i men 'ot Texas who would look very well
/ in the second plEce-MeSsrs Reagan and
/ Hancock. Either, he thought, would be
acceptable to the great body of the Dem
'ocratic party throughout the United
; Statrs.
"A Northern organ remarks that re-
cent issue of u Rome (Ga.) paper contains
! the following significant item: "Capt
Elliott large bloodhound, Seaphio, weigh
] fng l4o pounds, was shipped to the con-
. Wet camp in Da'le county to-day" The
ink was hardly dry on the sheet that con-
:taned ihc above when the telegraph an
,nouuce4 that a bloodhound was put on
Jhe track Of Chisholm, the Newark, N
+ , Wifc murderer
Tt" -n;tnl States Rrannh Mint IN
New Orleans is preparing to coin 9,O00,-
900 standard silver dollars this year. The
.T;u,>-D"socrm says that last year there
was sueil demand for the dollar through
out lie Southwest that the supply of the
New Orleans Mint was exhausted, and
after The issue of St, 100000 had emptied
the taa.> il became necessary to draw
on The >ub-treaSury at Philadelphia for
50 .0nn 200 more.
:. The Philadelphia Times has very
high appreciation Of Judge Hoadly. 1t
finds 80 hesitation in saying that No
man who has come into political promi-
+ nencc in Ohio since the war can compare
with Judge Hoadly in all the qualities
+ accessory for making strong canvass
/ and a strong Governor The Sun thinks
that if he is elected by the majority now
anticipated he may loom up as a very
prominent Presidential candidate"
+ n lich widow living at Auteuil, near
Paris has suffered much loss and annoy
+ ancc from the mysterious disappearance
I OF her .jewelry. Her son, on keeping
/ watch with a loaded pistol, about mid
| night heard the footsteps of some one
+ -stealthily approaching and fired, but to
+ his surprise wounded his own mother.
| The widow was somnambulist, and had
. been transferring her own jewels to an
. unused cabinet where they were all
found.
The Old Testament Company of Re-
! vsers have now finished the last revision
/ of the Old Testament and are making up
| the appendix, which contains the unad
!, justed differences between the American
!, and English revisers. The committee
| will meet again in July for several days,
! and resume work in September next. 1t
! is expected that the revision will be COM
+ pleted before the end of this year and
: published by the University presses of
) Oxford and Cambridge before next spring.
+, During the recent characterization
blk debate in Parliament Sir Lyon Play
: fair showed that eighty years ago, before
:: vaccination days, deaths from smallpox
: in EDgland were at the rate of 5000 per
=, .0do,ooo of the population. In 1871,
! when the plan of public vaccination was
4 introduced, the figures were reduced to
l56. In the Franco-German war the
( French army was not properly vaccina-
!: ted and lost over 10000 men by small
/, pox, but the Germans, by taking the
7 proper precautions, only lost 263 soldiers.
. The marquis OF Lansdowne, the new
! governor-general of Canada, is one of the
); absentee landlords of Ireland, and an ex-
i tensive contributor to the popular dis
! tress and discomfort there. He particu-
:. larly distinguished himself in 1881 by
{: sending ship load of seed potatoes to
+: his unfortunate tenants-and charging
market rates for them, so generous was
!, he. Moreover when "the nun of Ken
:. mare +" raised fund for the relief Of his
!: tenants he gave 800 to it out of yearly
i rental OF $l73, 3,00O-for his Irish estates
/; cover over l2O, 900 acres.