The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-06-21


Domestic slavery is said to exist in
Liberia !" as abject and far more merciless
than is to be found almost anywhere else"
The price Of slave in Liberia is from
eight to fifteen dollars.
-Pere Hyacinthe will sail for the
United States in September, having been
invited by members of different churches
to give series of conferences in the larger
cities Of America. Nine. Loyson accom-
panies him.
The wife of the Chinese professor
at Harvard College. has begun to COM
press her baby's feet in the Chinese fash
ion, and the cries of the little sufferer are
heard day and night by the neighbOrs.
The Cambridge Anti Cruelty Society is
about to interfere
The London Economist estimates the
average immigrant, in capital or capital
producing force, at $1,000, an estimate
which agrees with the opinions of political
economists generally. Looked at in this
light, the United States is being enriched
at present to the amount of 81, 0oO, 900 or
$1,000, 900 daily.
The project Of balloon trip across
the Atlantic, which received quieting
blow in the Wise-Donaldson 6asco of
seven years ago, is now revived by King,
the aeronaut. In order to demonstrate
the feasibility of keeping the balloon infia-
ted long enough for the purpose he will
undertake an air journey from the Miss
issippi to the Atlantic coast
Peru is in dreadful way. No Con-
gress three claimants of power, each
with an army; no money; no credit no
means of getting the foe to withdraw !;
no means of restoring order; no hope
anywhere. The people penniless and
despairing -pawning their pictures and
jewelry to buy bread. Everybody is
ruined, and there are no means by which
to set the wheels of the country's indus
tries in motion once more.
| The Rugby Colony, despite reports
to the contrary, is in fourishing condi-
ton. Two saw-mills have been put up
since the close of the winter, and the
school has begun its regular session with
twenty-three pupils. Newcomers are con
tinually arriving, most of the latest arri-
walls being from England or Scotland.
The colonists now number three hundred,
including fifty-four children. Since the
founding last fall but two deaths have &C.
Cured, both infants
The doctors will have to take new
bearings. The commonly accepted theo-
ry that Bright's disease of the kidneys is
due to generous diets and free indulgence
in stimulating beverages is quite upset by
the case of Mr.. Joseph Sabin, the we'll
known New York bibliopolist. who died
last week. Mr.. Sabin led perfectly reg
ular and abstemious life, drinking neither
spurious liquors, light wines, beer, tea nor
coffee, and never using tobacco in any
form, and yet he fell victim to that pain
full and fatal malady.
:" Dot yellow Gonkling und dis Blatt
is ter most unreasonable fellow vot ever
saw; don't it," said the philosophical
German, as he sat cluster of fresh filled
glasses on the little table, just as the
band stopped playing, "In ter verst
blaze, dey resigns of ter Senate, und goes
home to get ter LEGISLATURE to entorse
him unit ven dot LEGISLATURE entorse
him, unit say yes, dot vos all right vot
you resign den, Ply jinks, tey gifts so mat
apout it as you never saw. Dot vos a
kaveer country, dis America BY jinks,
l don't understand him no more as vo-
man. Washington Star.