The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1889-08-27
GENERAL NEWS.
ems Of Interest from Everywhere

California
The National Press Association meets
in Detroit, Mich, to-day.
The Eiffel tower was struck by light
ming Tuesday no damage done
An attempt will be made to obtain
General Boulangel S extradition.
The New York Democratic State Con-
vention will meet in Syracuse October l.
Edison has been made count and Mrs.
Edison a countess by the King Of Italy.
y IIawkinsville, Ga, farmer is using
pine straw bagging to wrap his cotton.
The first Mahometan mosque ever built
in England has Just been completed in
London.
y Georgia boy has invented car
coupler and has been offered 500, 900 for
his patent.
There is q rumor atloat that the Rich
mond Terminal has scooped the Atlanta
and Florida Road.
The steamer Neera, with 300 Of Cap
tain Wissman's Zulus on board, has ar
rived at Zanzibar
1t is reported that Mr.. Parnell will
shortly make tour of America for the
benefit Of his health.
1t is believed that the naval yard on
the Gulf and South Atlantic coast will be
located at New Orleans.
There is boom in South Dakota oc-
casioned by the now assured opening of
100000 acres of the Sioux reservation
to settlement
One OF the Cronin prosecuting COM
mittee says that Pat Cooney is in Chi
cago and is kept in hiding by women.
United States Commissioner Humph-
ries, of Pensacola, is in Washington
looking after fat offices for his friends
Indianapolis workingmen dislike Presi-
dent Harrison so much that they refuse
to participate in the soldiers monument
parade on account Of his presence.
The English, Scotch and American
colleges in Rome have united in sending
to the Catholic University at Washing
ton marble bust of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Col. Adolph Brandt died of apoplexy
while opposing a resolution during the
session of the Grand Lodge of Independ-
ent Order Odd Fellows at Rome, Ca,
last Wednesday.
The Alabama Midland contractors
have discharged their force of Swedes,
Poles and Hungarians whom they import
ed to build the road They were found
to be unreliable.
Two arrests have been made in Switz-
erland in connection with the anarchstic
manifestatoes circulated in Berne on the
9th inst, and which violently attacked
the Bundesrath. 1t appears to have orig
mated in France.
More than hundred persons partaking
Of ice cream at picnic in SteltePs Grove,
West St. Paul, Mimi, on Sunday, were
poisoned, and some were made seriously
i'll. 1t is not thought that any Of the
cases will poove fatal.
Fully fifty of the Archbshops and
Bishops of the United States and many
from Canada, including Cardinal Tasche-
reau, have accepted invitations to the
centennial of the Catholic hierarchy which
begins in Baltimore November TO-
The Spanish government has sent cir
cular note to the Governors of provinces
throughout Spain, instructing them not
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the Pope to reside in Spain, and to do
everything possible to discourage the
project.
A story comes from Chicago that So
phia Schwab, two years old, while at
Sheffield Park, became entangled in lot
of toy balloons that escaped from ven
dor and was carried high into the air. A
marksman named Koch exploded the bal
looms, one by one, with rifle balls, and the
child was caught by people in boat that
set out for the rescue, escaping without
even wetting her feet.
A crowd Of 5000 or 5000 people met
Mr.. Grady and Col. Northen at Haw-
kinsvile Thursday The speaking began
at 10 O'Clock. Col. Jordan introduced
Mr. Watson, the mayor pro tenn, who
delivered an address Of welcome on the
part of the city, and Mr.. Pope delivered
an address Oh the part OF the farmers Of
Pulaski. Responses were made by the
representatives of seven county alliances.
The barbecue tables were exactly 1000
feet in length and were packed several
Deep Two hundred and ten carcasses
were served, and 400 chicken pies. 1t
was a great day for Pulaski. There were
many visitors who had come sixty miles.
Mr.. Thomas Edison, accompanied by
Mr.. Russell Harrison, assembled the Eiffel
tower and took luncheon at the summit
A number of artists from the opera were
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