The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-28

that otherwise the pirates will make 1t
unpleasant for him. Mr.. Vennor appears
to be thrifty v ithal
"A special cable dispatch to the World
from London says prominent and well
informed official states that Sir John A.
Mcdonald is to be raised to the peerage,
and that he is to succeed Lord Lorne as
Governor General of Canada.
Stephen A. Hurlburt, appointed Min
lister to Peru, has decided to accept the
position. He will sail on June 3Oth. 1t
is said the Instructions to Hurlburt will
direct him to prevent, if possible, further
absorption and destruction of Peru. by
Chill.
"A dispatch from Calcutta to London,
June 60, says q report has reached here
from Central Asia that large bodies of
Russian troops are assembling on the
border of Kashgar, and that a conflict
with the Chinese troops cannot long be
averted.
There arrived at the Atlantic ports,
the lake ports and at San Francisco dur
ing the month of May l22, e9s persons, of
whom l7,4s2 were emigrants; lO,70O
were from En- gland, 1850 from Ireland,
s4,3lo from Germany, 1923 from Swe-
den, 6,sl2 fro Norway, l,4ls from the
Dominion of Canada and ,4O5 from China
On the 18th inst. a monster cock
fight was opened on the eastern shore of
the Licking Reservation, in Avondale,
Ohio. Chicken fanciers from all the ter
ritory round about were drawn by the an
nouncement until over 1000 persons had
gathered, and the rising Of the sun was
greeted by the Growing of over 500 spur
red chanticleers
Hon. J. A. Bently has rendered his
resignation as Commissioner of Pensions,
and w. w. Dudley, who is now United
States Marshal of Indiana, has been APP
pointed in his place. The President has
appointed Judge n. c. Mcfarland, of
Kansas, as Commissioner of the General
Land Office, to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent resignation of General Will
hanson.
in 1870 the mills of Georgia con-
sumed 1921 ,l7S pounds of cotton, or
24,2e9 bales last year they consumed
o7,s64 bales. Ten years ago 2,s46 hands
were employed in the cotton mills of the
State; now he number employed is 6,67s
While the number of spindles in the
country has been increased only 40 per
cent, Georgia has 1875 per cent more than
she had ten tears ago.
The caloFifc atmosphere reminds the
Augusta Chronicle of an anecdote of the
war. During the siege of Columbus, Ken
lucky, Bishop Polk and Gen. Cheatham
were FRUSTRATED by the explosion of can
non. Recovering from the shock, while
still upon the ground, Cheatham said ::
Bishop, ain It this hell 20 "Well," re-
piled his Or ace, with grim smile, ait
certainly smells like it, General"
The class of immigrants that have
been pouring into this country during the
present season is far above the average in
social and N ateriaI condition. A single
German ban king house Of New York
cashed drafts aggregating 100000 for
immigrants who arrived by the last Ger
man steamships. A Storage passenger,
who arrived from France, had $4,000
francs in gold belted about his waist
under his clot thing.
The San Francisco Examiner pub
fishes an interview with Gen. w. H. L.
Barnes, the general purport of which is
that the real Roger Tichborne has at last
turned up, aud has unfolded his story to
Gen. Barnes. The Duke of Sutherland
and DR.. Bull Run" Russell also had an
interview with the man, and full state
ment Of the case has been mailed to Eng
land by DR.. Russell. Tichborne says that
he has been for great portion of the
time in the g nited States, that he served
through the war, was married in Brooklyn,
n Y, and is now living in the vicinity
of San Diego.
"A dispatch from Panama, of June
18th, says: Work on the canal has been
partly abandoned. There is much dissat-
isfaction among the employees. There is
no intelligent direction. Stations have
been abandoned, brigades disbanded,
many engineers have returned home, and
the workmen have been discharged. A
few deaths also have occurred to deepen
the dreary outlook before the men, poorly
paid and but indifEerently cared for, who
have accepted the canal company's service
on the isthmus. In the meantime &C
counts from Paris represent everything
- booming, and that adds to the disgust
of the people here.
Friedrich Douglass recently visited
the estate Of Edmund Lloyd in Maryland,
whence he departed as slave ffty-six
years ago. He was received with the
greatest courtesy and kindness by the
greatgrand- sons of bis former owner, and
on entering the old hall where he had of.
ten played when slave-boy he was invi-
ted 70 partake Of the Inequalities of the