The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-08-02
GEnERAL. NEWS.
The population of Columbus, Ga, is
11Q12

"A dispatch from Portland, Me-, dated
July 25th, announces the death of Justice
Nathan Clifford, of the United States
Supreme Court, at Q o'clock of that day.
Blind Tom is said, when at his home
in Georgia, to remain alone with his piano
and play day and night. He plays about
1000 pieces by ear, and picks up new
ones every day.
AN immense school of about 700 or
500 whales was seen off Cape Hatteras
few days ago by the officers and passen-
gers of the Steamship Seminole. They
were slowly proceeding southwark.
The following dispatch is said to haye
passed over the wires from the Fifth Av-
enue Hotel to Coney Island just after the
election of Lapham at Albany:
"T. c. Platt, Oriental Hotel, Coney Island:
"Me too. r. c."
BY the convention prepared by the
Royal Commission, the Transvaal is to
be receded to the Beers, who will be re-
buried to pay claims of 100000 pounds.
They are now considering whether to ac-
cept or reject the arrangement.
1t has been decided by the New
York Court of Appeals that dwelling
house shut up for the season and tempo
rarily vacated by the owners, is no longer
protected by an ordinary policy of insur
ance, and in case of loss or destruction by
fire the insurance policy shall be void
"A New England thread factory has
made arrangements to bring from fifty to
one hundred girls from its factories to
Atlanta, where they will remain during
the exposition. The whole process of
making spool thread will be gone through
with. The company has appropriated
100000 for the expenses of the dis
play.
-Ex-Judge VIM. H. Robertson took
the oath of Office as Collector of the Port
of New York, vice Gen. Merritt, who
took foreign mission, on the 25th. Col
lector Robertson's bondsmen justified in
the sum of &4OO, 900, double the amount
of bonds required, and the instrument has
been forwarded to the Secretary of the
Treasury for approval.
The Pennsylvania Legislature sppro-
PIRATES 422O,O annually for the State
militia, which Numbers $50 companies,
aggregating about 5000 men. Gen.
Hartranft thinks 5000 men sufficient, if
they are properly trained. Since the
Pittsburg riots the Pennsylvanians have
been paying greater attention to their
militia The sum appropriated ought
certainly to be enough to keep the troops
in very efficient condition.
"A bale of new cotton, the first of the
season, was received in Savannah last
night by the Central Railroad. 1t was
shipped by Mr. P E. Boyd from Leary,
on the Southwestern Railroad, via Macon,
and is consigned to Messrs. H. M. Conner
& Co. We have advices of twenty-three
more bales Of the new crop, which will
arrive this morning from the same section
by the Central Railroad.-SaUannah
NesOs, July 25th.
"A costly statue of General J. B.
Mcpherson was unveiled on Friday, the
22d inst, at Clyde, Ohio. The statue
is gift of the society of the Army of the
Tennessee. The procession was nearly a
mile long and $4,000 people were in the
audience. Ex-President Hayes called the
assemblage to order and made brief ad-
dress, recalling the tragic death of Gen
eral MCPHERSON, seventeen years ago. on
the battlefield at Atlanta.
=" Bless the man 70 exclaimed Betsey
Trotwood. as Mr.. Micawber pulled out
his roll of manuscript setting forth the in
famies of Uriah Heep, he'd write letters
by the ream if it were capital offense. :"
Nothing but vivisection will deprive Mr..
Conkling of his rhetoric. He telegraphed
to Albany yesterday that he had been,
among other things, " borne down by for
"bidden and abhorrent forces and agen-
"cies." What does anybody suppose he
thinks he means ?-Neo York World.
The New York World compares
Conkling to the honest farmer who hitch
ed himself up with lusty yearling steer
in order to accustom the animal to the
yoke. Shortly afterwards he was heard
exclaiming, " Here we comel Blame our
fool souls Head us, somebody" When
after thirty-six hours hard work the doc
tors brought him to what passed for bis
senses the old gentleman remarked, That
Or steer hadn't made morn'n a dozen
jumps fore I realized that had made a
mistake r.
-Mormonism is fourishing in Georgia
and " Walter Scott, President" publishes
in the Atlanta Consultation the following
announcement; The annual Conference Of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints will be held in Mormon Meeting
House, FELTON,, HARRISON county, Ga.
July 22d, 2Sd and 24th. to which cordia
invitation Is extended to all. There will