The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-08-17

The Bankers Convention met at Sar-
atoga on the 18th inst. A large attend
ance is reported.
Dudley Field, only son of David
Dudley Field, died suddenly, it is sup
posed of heart disease, at his home in
Massachusetts, recently. Il
The soldiers reunion at Columbus,
Ohio, on the 18th and 18th, was q grand
success, Is 900 ex-soldiers and sailors be-
ing in the procession of Thursday.
in the Tennessee Democratic State
Convention, the state-credit Democrats
bad a majority, and nominated John V.
Wright as candidate for Governor. The
repudiationists minority held an indigna-
ton meeting and nominated L. F. Wilson.
The Georgia Democratic State Con-
vention, nominated Clifford Anderson, of
Bibb county, for Attorney General; d.
N. Speer, of Troup county, for Treas
utter; William A. Wright, of Richmond
county, for Comptroller, and N. c. Bar
nett, of Baldwin county, for Secretary of
State.
"A dispatch to the Lloyds from Alden
says: Upwards of 1000 passengers and
crew were drowned by the laundering of
the steamer Jeddah on the 9Th inst, on
Cape GUARDIAN. The vessel was bound
from Singapore to Jeddah. The Jeddah
belonged to the Singapore Steamship
Company. She was built at Dumbarton,
Scotland, was screw steamer $50 feet
long, with net tonnage of 993 and gsoss
l,54l.
A st. Louis dispatch of August IL
says Charles H. Tandy, president of the
colored relief board of this city, has ad-
vices that ten thousand negroes will emf
crate from Mississippi and Louisiana
within the next two months, and will
arrive here en- route to Kansas and other
Northern States. About forty per day
for the past month have been cared for
here by the board, and forwarded to their
various destinations.
The Commissioners for the United
States International Exhibition in New
York in 1883, met at the Governors room
at the City Hall, New York, on Tuesday
last, and discussed measures looking to
the success of the great exhibition in
1888. Speeches were made by ex-Gov-
ernor Potter and other distinguished
representative men. A committee on the
selection of the site reported, and COM
mittee of twelve were appointed to visit
the location named and report. A tenn
porary organization was effected.
Burning naptha barrels from the YES
sells a6re at Pratt's Oil Works on last
Sunday came in contact the next morn
ing with vessels loaded with lumber at
Hunters Point, L. l., and six barges, one
schooner and one ship loaded with lum-
Der, together with the extensive lumber
yard and contents of the American Elk
port Lumber Company, were destroyed.
The sight was terribly grand, ten acres
of flames licking up millions of dollars
worth of property, and resisting all at
tempts 10 stop its destructive ravages.
Some curiosity having been aroused
by the fact that Mast, the caricaturist of
Harper's Weekly, has so far refrained
from any endorsement of Garfield, the
files of that paper have been searched and
an explanation found. On March Is, 1878,
Mast published double-page cartoon, in
which Garfield and other Credit Mobilier
statesmen were arraigned under placard
reading as follows: "Disgraced in the
eyes of the public for owning Credit Mo-
bilier stock, which was, in fact and intent,
q fraud upon the government; also for
deceit and evasion"
General Garfield and Senator Conk-
ling occupied apartments in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York, not thirty
yards apart all day, and there was a
steady stream of callers on both. But
Senator Conkling paid no attention what
ever to the near presence of the Republi-
can Presidential candidate, and late in
the evening appeared in the Office of the
hotel, settled his bill, and left for Utica
without either calling on or sending his
card to Mr.. Garfield. New York's lofty
Senator is evidently still sulking in his
tent.-ISaU0nn0h Nesos.
News has been received from the ex-
petition which left San Francisco in search
of and to succor the missing whaleships
locked in the Arctic Seas, and the general
impression is that they are lost and all on
board have persisted. The account given
of the starvation of the inhabitants of
the st. Lawrence islands is fearful. In
one village not living being was to be
seen, and the dead lying unburied on the
hillsides and in their beds, just as starva-
ton left them and death found them. A
similar spectacle was witnessed at North
Cape. From two to FIVE hundred persons
perished, and happily whale was caught
and the remnant of the settlement pre.