The Osceola times., 1877-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

Cincinnati consumed ffty-two thou
| sand barrels OF beer during August.
II is announced that the order of
Orangemen in the United States has mem.
bership.
Russia has $50, 900 hereditary mobiles
and 3S 1000 who are not hereditary, and
| thousands Of both classes are very poor.
Some forty persons were poisoned in
| Camden, Maine, though not seriously, from
drinking milk which had been standing in
new jars with porcelain Innings.
Texas might be cut up into five states
as large as Illinois, each containing over
5000 square miles, and an early movement
toward this cnt is now predicted,
IL one saw how macaroni was made by
dirty ltslitns, in filthy shambles in south
Fifth avenue, nobody would eat it, says u
New York paper.
Land owners along the Sacramento
river have, in a convention, resolved not 10
employ Cinnamon, and to induce others TO
cease giving them employment and selling
them land.
The nation is great creditor as well
as debtor. The Fix Pacific railroads-Union,
Central, Southern, Kansas, Sioux City and
Western-owe it 93,636,75i, which pays no
One steamer is ready to sail from New
Haven, Connecticut, for Constantiuople, with
tweniy.one hundred and fifty tons Of nmmu>
milton, valued at two millions Of dollars.
Another ste amer is preparing 10 load.
The special session Is not likely TO
prove specially short one. There is a dis
position manifested among the members now
on hand to take advantage of the cool fall
weather and plunge into general legislation.
The saloon men and the Mexican
population Of Colorado voted solidly against
woman suffrage at the late election. The
viii Ky men naturally y believe that the women
Of Colorado, with ballots, would vote a law
through for The suppression oi their traffic,
and the Mexicans we're afraid they woul
| run dry.
From various portions of the northwest
there are evidences Of steady stresm of
immigration to the southern and south.
western states, and indications that this cur
rent viii become stronger and wider during
the present fall and winter season. The Chi.
cago Journal reports that many fimilies are
leaving that city daily for Texas and Florida,
and the number of inqurtrs and seekers
after Information is steadily on the increase.
James Berry, the Pacific railroad rob-
1T,
slant. from wounds inflicted by Sheriff Glass.
cock, while attempting to arrest him. His
diving confession is TO the effect that he was
| one of the mt n who robbed the express car OF
| Big Springs, and he said that Collins, who
was killed in Kansas, planned the robbery
| that the names of the other men were correct
| as. now known by the express company, and
that they all travelled two hundred miles to.
gether, and then separated in squads Of two.
5erry's partner came here with him and went
| to Chicago. Berry leaves wife and six
children. lie was very respectfully con.
nected in Callaway county.
The expectations of cattlc and beef TO
| England, which started up so suddenly few
| months ago and expanded 60 rapidly, ia
already on the decline. The large firm If
| Samuels Brothers, in New York, who made
| the FIRST shipments of live cattle, failed the
other day, and they declare that the business
| is losing one, owing to the inevitable losses
of stock on the voyage. Fresh beef fares but
little better than five stock, owing to the i'm.
mense difficulty experienced in keeping IL
| fresh and sweet while on the water. Another
| ii m, however, in the same city, claims to
have done fairly well at the trade.
| For the frst time in five years a cargo
| of ccal has arrived IN Boston from Newcastle
\
way. The Gas company is the only purchaser
as yet, but there will soon be large market
for English coal in Massachusetts,, unless the
price OF Pennsylvania coal is reduced. The
reason Of this trade phenomenon is plainly
set forth in the American Gas Light Journal,
which lays the blame upon the Iai'road
companies and their stud:ous interference
| with he coal companies. The freight agents
now dictate the price at which coal is sold,
the markets to which il il sent, and other
matters which have heretofore been cor.
sidered solely at the discretion Of the coal
operators. The price has thus been fixed
above the cost of coal in Eogland, with the
freight added and the shrewd Boston men
are seeking the cheapest market.
The secretary of the treasury, in a
communication to the speaker OF the house
of representatives, says estimates Of appro.
priatiops required for military estsblishn,e e mt
Tor the fiscal year ending June 80, 1878, as
furnished by the secretary OF war, together
with special estimates OF other deficiencies
and re appropriations required by the sew
ersl executive departments for the current
and past fiscal year is as follows: War de.
partmcnt, 49,, 1885, ,76i; library of congress,
$22, 800; court OF claims, Si,206, ,iji; treas.
ury department., s27S,s9i; postof'ice depart.
ment, $700,0C0; navy department, 50 COS, ,s6i;
judicial, f2G2. .5S5; total, $4,000. .306 66. Ac.
companying these estimates are the follow.
ing, submitted by the secretary Of war with
out recommendation: Forts and fortifica
tions, S2O7s, ,OO0 rivers and harbors, Sl3,
220,l0 An estimate OF 81, ,03l, ,453 for q per
manent annual appreciation is also submitted
for the information OF congress, but is no
: recommended.