The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-07-31

it's erst-whle leaders.
IA poplar tree recently cut in Clark
county, Kentucky, was seven feet in di
ameNtr, seventy feet to the first limb, and
yelled 6o,oo shingles.
"A ninety year-old Pennsylym ymian, who
nes sr smoked, never drank, never fell in
love, and never went out of his native
town, has just started on his first Jour
nay.: He went in hearse.
Fl ohm L.. Sullivan, the distinguished
Bossonian, is said to be drinking heavily
again. The distinction of being the lead
ing man Of that city seems to have turned
his head.-Nacon Telegraph.
"A Philadelphia servant girl has got
a .mohth off and gone to Washington to
see shout n pension. She once worked
tor three consecutive weeks in family
tlaS lost second cousin in the war;
Mr.. Berthold, of Breslau, Prussia,
asef his railroad directors pass to frank
hsf 'aifc and daughters baggage, and was
Condemned to a weeks Imprisonment for
obtssning frsudulently $l.3s worth of ac-
co:IElodation, He appealed, but sentence
was confirmed.
"A collector once wrote to General
Sherman for his autograph and lock of
hiis lair, and he answered by letter "The
man. who has been writing my autographs
hgs been discharged, and as my orderly
is bail, cannot comply with either of
your.,rcquests
= Loco, whom General Crook captured,
is lswlnlly the head chief of all the
Apaehes. When he was a gilded youth
Of. the cigarette smoking period, he got
the name Of Loco, or fool" but during
redert years his ability as a scalp-taker
has hcen proven more than once.
.':'hree graduates of the Naval Acad-
enty have been dropped for color blind
ness. The Mobile Register suggestively
adds. "This rule, of course, is also en-
forced at West Point, for the graduates
mlsst;b he able to tell the difference at a
gl$ner between spades and hearts,"
The President is now spoken of as
haFing always been a civil service re-
former" AZ he was trained in the Conk-
ling school the above language is a trife
inexact. Besides, he was " fired out of
the Aew York custom house by that apos-
tie Of reform, r. Il. Hayes, of Fremont,
Ohio
New Orleans has now a deeper har-
Dor than New York The White Star
and Gaion lines dare not load their ves-
sells above ltwenty-six feet, while the
French line stops at twenty-four feet At
New Orleans vessels drawing twenty-six
ftnt IF water have no difficulty or delay
in getting to sea.
obituary notice from the Kansas
City Joumaf.: "s Nine-toed Annie per-
sonaac well known in the upper circles of
H@ll>s HalfAcre society, fell into the
Missouri river last evening and was
drowned. She was daughter of the late
lame: :.ted 'Scarfaced Maggie and a cousin
of 'One-eared Sam and sGinger-cake
joe
IT. ID. Jones, Of Durham, n. c., has
in: his possession long, black whisky
BOTTLE, out of which Generals Johnston
and Sherman took their last drink after
signing the articles of the surrender on
the 2eth of April, 1865. The bottle was
left with Mrs. Bennett, who lives four
mi les west Of Durham, where Johnston
surrendered,
At the Gentlemen's Driving Club,
horrlsania, on Friday last, Mr. Frederick
Bonner drove the bay mare, Lady Cuyler,
to top road wagon weighing ls6 pounds
in. the extraordinary time of l:O53. This
is the fastest half-mie ever trotted over
any track i'll this country by any horse,
marc or gelding driven by professional
or; arrateur driver.
lLCharles dudley Warner is quoted in
the Boston .Iournol as having said that
New England is the only place in Amer
ica "where habits Of industry survive"
The meaning of the utterauce is not ex-
planned, and one is left to conclude that
Mr.. Warner thus slyly compliments Gov
ernor Butler, Mr.. Sprague and the base
ball rines of Boston.
1t is the opinion of the Chicago 7ri-
b,ne that Foraker will be knocked out "
in Chic in manner so savage as to re-
call the political fate of the late Judge
Folger, of New York. The Tribune is
disglssted with the Sherman plank of the
platform which demands restoration of
the war tariff on wool for the benefit of
few shepherds in the northern part of the
State
@The British corvette Canada, with
Prince George of Wales, son of the
Prince Of Wales, aboard as an ordinary
midshipman, has left Plymouth for her
future station in Canadian waters. The
young Prince has been ordered to per-
form the regular duties of an ordinary
mihshipman. He will mess in the gun
room with the other midshipmen, and will
he allowed no distinction whatever.
Ex-senator Mcdonald, of Indiana,
who is regarded as prominent aspirant
fer the Democratic Presidential nomina-