The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-06-04

THOMAS PETERS, SecretsHt.
The Washington correspondent. of
the New FORK Ereniay Post says :.s The
President and the treasury officials learned
with much satisfaction Of the ac,i;on' Of
delegates from the various Southern
States at Atlanta, Ga, in refusing to, vote
for a recommendation for the con;sa913-d
coinage of the silver dollar. The Rresi
dent has expressed the opinion thss The
South has in the last few months saI<en
an active interest in the silver quewion
This section of the country has recSSved
far more than its share of silver csrtifi-
Gates, and has discovered that its currency
| is rapidly becoming almost exclusEIe civ
silver. The President has recently Seen
Informed by Southern men that the SSoh-
gressional delegations of the Southern
States will come to Congress prepared TO
support the Administration on this <iues-
ton. An official said to-day that positive
assurances have been given that the bike
warm support OF the silver coinage in: tie
South is changing to pronounced opsoai-
ton" :
The French press has discovered al
interesting mares nest in Africa. Il is
announced that "the large Mohammaiaa
population inhabiting the basin OF 1.-THE
Upper Congo have resolved to a%ert
their claims to the centre of Africa: and
it is suggested that they have prob5bly
been melted to this resolution by st54ies
of the Mahdi's success The fact uS,on
which this theory is erected seems to: be
that one Of Mr.. Stanley's ivory hunAng
expeditions, after making valuablenoI.
lection OF ivory" instead of returesng
with it to Stanley Pool, proceeded ur]er
the protection of powerful Arab CHEF
to Zanzibar This does not look J;ke
revolution. 1t has the appearance. OF
simple larceny. There is nothing ;im:
probable and nothing necessarily of p3..it-
ical significance in the assertion that an,
untutored colored person, at the inst' Ia
ton of an Arab, has sold his employsr's 8.
ivory and put the proceeds in the Ceoltal
African substitute for his own pocket
Charleston Woes and Courier. :,
A certain Republican editor caflld
upoo Mr.. Cleveland the other day. J1e
said to him: Il desire to make your &c
quaintance. | may have said number
Of very disagreeable things about spa
during the campaign. That was simply
politics, you know. There was nothsng
personal in it, The next time YOU cone
over to New York l hope TO have Tie
pleasure Of your company at dinner. at
my house The President looked IA.
this editor a moment and then he sail
:" Some time after the election you prins.l
in Your paper paragraph saying THAI
was man OF coarse and vulgar habis.
and that when l dined performed wsn-
derlul fcats Of knife-swAllowiny | DO
not think that would be q very agree.
able person for you to have at Jour table,
Mr. Editor and you must therefore exc,sst.
me from accepting your invitation"
While excavating between King
street aud Hamblen's Lane, on Thursday.
for the mains of the water works, the
workmen employed by Alderman Joyce
dug up several human skeletons. The
question now in the minds of many Is.
was this section once a cemetery? Doubt
less it was, for when Mr. r. ii. Gordon
was excava.ing for his building, in tie
same locality, human bones and PARTICLES
Of gold lace were found by him-&. AL
justine Weekly. !
A good many Northern journals axe !
calling Decoration Day." the day SGT !
apart for honoring the memory of the /
Federal dead, memorial Day." Herl- /
tofore the latter name has been accorded !
to the day set apart to the memory of the 4
Confederate dead 1t seems to be NOR, I
appropriate name, however, than the for |
mer, without reference to the side it il |
applied to.-Saydnndh Ne,os. !
Rev. Sam. jones captured that /
stronghold of Satan, Nashville, but thu
people could not capture himi
They offered to give him house and LOS
worth SIC, 900 if he would agree to make
their city his home He replied that Mrs.
Jones was very fond OF her home in Car
and he declined the kind Offer
with thanks.-S0Uannoh Nescs.