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Jefferson Davis was severty-three years of age on the 3d lust. -Boston is agilating the proposition for a World's Fair there in 1885. -According to the recent census the popula tion of London is 3,814,571. -Alfred B. Street, the poet, died at Albany recently, aged seventy years. -Pierre Lorillard's 3 year-old colt Iroquois won the English Derby June 1st. -A large county Sunday School Convention was held at Gainesville on Thursday, the 26th ult. -Adolphus C. Schaefer, Jr., a prominent cot. ton broker of Baltimore, committed suicide last week. -One thousand striking weavers are preparing to emigrate from Chemnitz, Germany, to America. -Mrs Garfield is convalescent, and the President has gone off junketing in a revenue-cutter to Norfolk. -Another man is trying to make a fool of himself and the telegraph operators by fasting a la Tanner. -Bids for the work of construction of the Jacksonville and St. Augustine Railroad are advertised for. -The first cotton bloom of the season in Texas was gathered near Schulenburg, on the 27th of May. -The DeLesseps Canal Company has bought the Panama Railroad for seven millons, four millions payable July 1st. -Archbi-hop Purcell, of Cincinnati, is reperted to be sinking rapidly. He is at the Ursuline Convent, in Brown county, Ohio. -The grading of the Peninsular Railroad has been put under contract to Mr. Agnew of Ocala, between Ocala and Panasofka Lake, via Sumterville. -The Discount and Deposit Bank of Chatta nooga, Tenn., suspended on the 30th ult. The liabilities are reported at $104,000, and the available assets at $106,000. -A meeting will be held at Live Oak to-day to organize the Live Oak and Rowland's Bluff Railroad Company, at which Col. Haines, of the Savanuah, Florida and Western Railway, is to be present. -It is stated in Washington that Assis'ant P. simaster-General Tyner has placed bis resig. nation in the handset the President, and that ex Senator Spencer. of Alabama, will be appointed to the position. -It is reported that ex Governor Sprague went out in the back yard and fired a national salute with his little shot gun, when he heard that Conkling hall m tele his masterly retreat from the U. S. Senate. M Evarts, representative of the United States in the International Monetary Conference, has arrived at London from Paris and will remain there until the reassembling of the conference the 30th of June. -The vegetable growers along the Transit Road are at odds with Mallory's Line, and now ship mostly by express. Arrangements have been made for transfering cars from the Transit to the Waycross Road at Callahan. -Prophecy in the Boston Herald: Imagine Gen. Grant as the Democratic candidate for President 1884, with Roscoe Conkling and our own versatile and evermore bobbing-up serene friend Gen. Butler as his right and left hand supporters -Seven bids were received by the Missouri Fund Commissioners to loan the State $150,000; two at 3 per cent. per annum, one at 31, one at 31. two at 4, and one at 4) per cent. The Bank of Commerce of St. Leuis was the successful bidder at per cent. -The county commissioners of Jefferson coun ty at their meeting on Wednesday last, bought $4,500 Jefferson county bonds for cancellation These bounds were known as White Bonds,' and the action of the commissioners settles the question of their validity. -The Fernandina Express says: " A mixture of equal parts of pennyroyal, oil of tar and glycerine applied to the person in small quantities said to secure perfect immunity from mosquitoes. Those living in mosquito districts would do well to try the remedy." -A citizen of Quincy had a growth of 400 plumes, from four bunches of the South American pampas grass, which he sold at 25 cent each, making $100. Cost of cultivation, not ing. Who but: cotton planter will say people cannot make a living here ?-Herald. -The Philadelphia Record calls Chandler's defeat by the Democrats the Senate his reward for stealing the vote of Florida from Tilden. To be sure. But how about the confirmation of Mathews by the same Senators? Was that also a "reward" for manipulating electoral votes? asks the Boston Herald. -The first number of new paper called the Gulf Coast Progress, was received on Thursday. It is handsome sheet, published at Tampa, by O. J. Andreu, and ably edited by Rev. T. A Carruth, formerly of Columbia county, but for several years past a citizen of Tampa, and until quite lately, postmaster at that place. -The Mahone convention which met at Richmond on the 2d inst., completed its work on the 3d and adjourned. W. E. Cameron, of Peters burg, was nominated for Governor, and ex Senator Lewis for Liegtenaul-Governor. The latter is a Republican. There WHB much enthusiasm in the convention, indicating that the Democrats will have as much as they can do to defeat the little Readjuster. --N. Y. World: It is just a little curious that in this supreme agony of the great and grand old Republican party we do not hear one word about the peril to the Union of a solid South, not one word about the sacredness of the ballotbox, not one word about finance and the tariff. not one word aboutcivil-servicereform-notone word in fact about any subject except the New York Custom House and the machine! -We learn that the County Commissioners of Columbia county have notified the holders of old bonds of that county that they will be prepared, on the 1st of July next, to issue the new funding bonds in exchange for the old bands which were issued in payment of subscriptions to the capital stock of the Florida, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. The new bonds bear six per cent. interest, payable semi-anuually in Jacksonville. -Robertson, who has suddenly loomed into prominence as collector of national is white nice, tuft clean, of beard, fresh-faced, fatherly man, New with a York, a blue eye that looks at you, and warm way. Ashard worker, close stu.
