The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-09-03
d1ENE,R AL NEWS.
Items Of Interest from Everywhere


The cyclone which visited Hayti re-
Gently did not do much damage.
\ letter can now be sent around the
world in sixty-ninc days via Vancouver.
A tower similar to the Eiffel Tower in
Paris, but twice as high, is to be built in
London.
The promoters of the tunnel between
France and England hope to build it in a
few years.
A charter has been granted for the
first railroad in Liberia. 1t will be CSC
miles long.
Granny Barton died at Murphy, N. c.,
Sunday, aged l21 years. Her BODY
weighed only fifty pounds.
Arrests continue to be made in Ger
many in connection with the recently
exposed frauds in the navy
A market for Congo products has been
established at Antwerp. Sales Of ivory
and caoutchouc will be begun in October.
Tanner has combined with Dudley and
Lemon for vindication by the Grand
Army Of his course as Pension Commis-
sioner.
Twelve thousand veterans paraded at
the opening of the national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic at
Milwaukee.
Chas. a. Dana, Of the New York Sun,
has been elected chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the New York worlds
fair project
There have been about l5,O 900 changes
made in the postoffices of the United
States since the present administration
came into power
Henderson Bros New York agents of
the Anchor Steamship Line, will. it is
said, start weekly line Of steamers to
the West Indies on Sept. %.
Claus Spreckels, who has returned on
the Fulda from his European trip, an
nounces his intention to fight the sugar
trust to the utmost. The result NAV be
cheaper sugar.
Private Secretary Lge Haford has
brought suit against a firm ,or. cinarnttA
autIrautaiGrs Tor putting photos Of his
daughter, Jeanette, in packages Of their
fragrant smokers.
1t is now announced in Baltimore that
the proposed sugar refinery to be erected
near that city will soon be built. The
output will be about 80 barrels a day,
two,tbirds of which will be used at home.
The Austrian police have unearthed a
socialist society, whose organization eX-
tends throughout the province of Galicia
Many LAWYERS, students and ladies con-
nected with the society have been
arrested.
Mrs. James &. Blaine, Jr, is still dan
gerously i'll in New y ork, suffering from
intiamatorv rheumatism. She has been
obliged to give up her rehearsals for the
stage and her dramatic season will have
to be postponed in consequence.
"Jack the Peeper'' visited several
houses in Bavonnc CITY, y. J., and had a
knock down fight with a woman. One
Young man has been arrested, and an
identification has been made by one of
the women whose house he entered.
w. H. Mathewson, Of Cambridge,
Mass, driver of an electric street car, is
one of the heirs of the late Hiram Pear
sons, of Chicago, who was drowned in
Mackinaw Straits, Lake Michigan, last
July. His share will be about $500, 600.
The report on the use Of electricity in
the execution of Kemmler, the New
York murderer, will be delayed until
Sept. Il because Of tardiness in printing
the evidence, drawings, exhibits, etc. So
says Referee Tracy G.. Becker, of Buffalo.
The Piedmont Fair association has Of
fered prize of 5000 for the best twelve
ears Of corn, the growth of 1889, and also
a prize of $4,000 for the best drilled
military company in the United States.
The fair will open October 7, and close
November T.
A monument is to be erected at the
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs,
Va, to the Confederate soldiers buried
there. The money to defray the expenses
of erecting the same was contributed by
the generous ladies who are visiting the
springs this summer
A design for new postage stamp has
been prepared by St. Louis printing
house and sent broadcast over the coun-
try for approval. 1t is a green stamp,
two inches square and contains the por.
trait of John L. Sullivan, the slugger
On the top are the words gu. S. Our
Country's Champion" and on the bot.
tom: "Too Big to Be Licked"
Mormon elders have been doing some
effective missionary work in West Vir.
ginia, and the effects are beginning to be
felt in a serious way. A special from
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