The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-10-05

GENERAL NEWS.
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The Macon, Ga, Telegraph ard Mes
seager b offered for sale.
The depth of water in the New Or
leans jetties is now so feet
The New York City Hancock Repub-
lican Club numbers ga members.
WIN. Macarthur, Liberal member of
the House of Commons for Lambeth, has
been elected Lord Mayor Of London.
The remains of General Torbert were
received in New York with military and
civic honors, the funeral services having
been very largely attended a.
Henry Ward Beecher, it is rumored,
is going to stake the stump" for Gar
thur and Arfeld. 1t is feared, if he does,
that other hearts will ache"
In the recent South Carolina State
Greenbaek Convention q full State ticket
was nominated headed L. w. r. Blair for
Governor and B. c. Gist for Lieutenant
Governor.
The Kings Mountain Centennial
which takes place on the 9th inst, will be
very largely attended. Rates of fare on
the railroads have been fixed at II cents
per mile each way.
"A large elephant belonging to John
Robinson's circus killed his keeper in fit
of rage at Charlotte, N. c., the other day
by crushing him against the car from
whence the animal was being driven.
Col James G.. Fair, a member of the
bonanza firm of Flood, Fair and
Mackey, is to contest U. s. Senator Shar-
on's hold upon the Nevada Senatorship.
Fair has bigger "barrel p than Sharon,
and will doubtless win.
In Pennsylvania Daniel Dougherty,
formerly Republican. and the man who
nominated Hancock at Cincinnati, has
been nominated by the DEMOCRATS for
Congress from the Second District. In
the Third District, Samuel J. Randall was
re-nominated.
The Democrats in the Fourth Con
gressional District of Massachusetts have
split on the nomination of Congress
man the convention having failed to
nominate, portion of the delegates bolt
ed, while the rest remained, each faction
nominating its favorites.
Miss Sallie White, aged 10 years.
daughter of August L. White, promi-
nent citizen of Richmond, KY, was
found dead in bed Wedn esday morning,
with her throat cut from ear to ear. A
knife was found in her hand. 1t is be-
lieved the girl committed suicide while in
. temporary fit of insanity. Miss White
was generally conceded to be the belle OF
the blue grass region of Kentucky.
The complications surrounding the
impending enforced sur render by the
Turks of the ceded province of Dulcigno
are curious. The French allies have re-
ceived orders not to take any part in the
conflict which seems imminent between
the Porte and the Montenegrins. The
German Emperor, whom the Sultan re-
Gently requested to interfere in order to
prevent the consummation of the terms OF
the arrangement, replied that the position
of Germany as one of the referees forbade
him to act individually. The representa-.
tives of the powers have made final de-
mand upon the Sultan for the immediate
recall of Ria Pasha and the surrender OF
Dulcigno to the Montenegrins. The Prince
of Montenegro has expressed his readiness
and willingness to advance on Dulcigno il
he can be assured of the Interior aid OF
the powers in land force to act against
the Turkish troops. 1t is stated that Eng
land and Russia have expressed willing.
ness to accede to Montenegro application
for the aid of land force, but that
the consent of the other powers is
doubtful, and the probable abandonment
of the naval demonstration is thought Of.
The French newspapers Of all shades OF
OPINION oppose the participation of France
| in the naval demonstration in Turkish
waters.