The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1880-06-08
GENERAL NEWS.

on the 3lst of May.
Horace Maynard has been confirmed
as Postmaster-General.
The Empress of Russia died on the
Sd inst. at St. Petersburg, in her seth
year.
General r. L. Gibson has been nomi-
mated for Congress for the first district of
Louisiana.
General Johnston Hagood has been
nominated for Governor by the South
Carolina Democrats.
Eugene Schuyler, consul at Rome,
has been nominated to be consul-general
and diplomatic agent at Bucharest.
The Nicauraguan government has
confirmed the concession recently granted
to the American Inter-oceanic Canal Com
pany.
The Carolina Central Railway, from
Wilmington to Shelby, n. c., was sold
on the 3lst under foreclosure for al
200, 900.
"A grand bicycle tournament was in
progress at Newport, r. l., last week
Twenty-Five clubs from different cities
were represented.
Twenty thousand puddlers and other
iron-workers are out of employment in
Trenton, Pennsylvania, by reason of dis
agreements with the masters as to the
wages.
"A negro in Sumter county, S c., one
day last week, beat his ten year old son
to death, first with rods and afterwards
giving him about four hundreds lashes
with leather strap. 2
The Indians in southern New Mexico
are On the war-path, and have attacked
parties of Mexicans and whites on several
different occasions. {. S. troops have
gone in pursuit of the savages.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean has been
informed that should Democratic Presi-
dent be elected, it would be the signal
for an exodus of negroes to the States Of
the North and West, unparalleled in mag
nitude since the Israelites left Egypt. So
mote it be.
The rider of Mr. Lorrillard's Parole
at the race for the Epson Gold Cup in
England on the 2eth ult., filed protest
against the rider of the winner, Fashion,
for crswding Parole against the ropes.
The protest is generally held to be with
out foundation.
L. S. Circuit Judge Baxter, of Ten
nessee, has recently decided on grounds
of public policy, that railroad company,
being common carrier, cannot establish
upon its line an express company for the
carriage of goods by express, to the ex-
clusion Of other express companies desir-
ing to use the line.
"A disastrous malarial fever, almost
epidemic, and caused by imperfect drain
age, is prevailing among the students at
Princeton College and has interrupted
the progress of studies and commence
ment exercises One student, overcome
by the delerium of the fever, committed
suicide, and another has died.
The Senate Commerce Committee
played havoc with the river and harbor
appropriation bill, cutting down and
striking out the appropriations for West
ern and Southern rivers and harbors.
Quite an indignation meeting was held
by members of the House on the ques-
tion, many declaring that they would in
sist on the bill as it went up from the
House.
John w. Dryer, a sewing-machine
agent, in New York city, has been ar
rested on the complaint of customer
who charged him with stealing her sew
ing-machine. He sold her the machine
and there was 90 due on it when he came
to her house and took it away. The
magistrate decided to reserve his decision
to give Dryer chance to return the
machine.
"A special dispatch from St. Louis to
the New York World says that it is au-
thoritatively stated that the National
Committee of one hundred provided for
by the Republican anti-third term con-
vention, held May 9th, has been appoint
ed, and that the names of the gentlemen
composing it will be announced at Chi
cago in the event of the nomination of
General Grant. g
"A law has been enacted by the New
York Legislature, similar to that passed
last year in New Hampshire, empower
ing the State to accept, a. trustee, the
transfer from any citizen, Of defaulted
bonds of other States and bring suit
thereon in the Federal Court in its own
name. AS such bonds to . very large
amount are held by citizens Of New York,
the law will become . very important
one.
John Brougham, the veteran actor
and manager, is dying Il his residence in
New York City. He has been u for