The Osceola times., 1878-07-27

OLA S0"""'nANAh eloers, together with
three English elders OF the church. The
leader of the party was Lawrence d.
Young, son of the prophet Mr..
Young said his party was recruited
through the small towns of Norway,
Sweden and Denmark.
The celebrated trotting gelding Rarus
trotted three heats at East Saginaw.
Mich, in 2;l7l, 2:l6 and 2:l6t. A strong
westerly wind was blowing at the time,
which made difference in each mile.
lie was speeded the same meeting mile
in 2:l4t. On the 4th inst, at Cincin-
natl, o., he trotted mile in 217, which
is the best time ever made on half mile
track. There seems ever probability
tat he will beat Goldsmith Maids re-
cord of 2l4 before the season closes.
The latest aeronaut, c. +. Ritchel,
has actually made progress. His ma.
chine is an obvious advance over the
balloons of the past. 1t will not 20
against the wind, but he can tack it
with the wind and keep it headed in any
given direction, and can raise or lower
it at will without losing any gas or bal
last. There is no gas connected with the
gas cylinder. He made an ascent from
Boston Oh the Fourth with the wind
blowing eighteen or twenty miles an
hour, and landed safely after being up
one hour and twenty minutes.
MADEIRA is gone, and claret must
follow, to the limbo OF the lost. Already,
from the frontiers Of Italy to the borders
of Spain, they are tearing up the useless
wines and preaching the walls of long
respected vineyards. Hot Languedoc,
sunny Providence are now as bare OF
their most cherished crops as are the
bleskest of the Sologne or the widest
heath of Brittany. And the vine plague
spreads, unchecked, unstemmed by all
that industry and science can effect.
How serious is the evil can be measured
only by the recollec lions that 1000, 900
French depend for daily bread on the
now perishing vine.
The Secret service division has on hand
about $500, 900 in counterfeit money. OF
this amount about $4,000 are In coin,
ranging from one cent pieces to the twen-
ty'6ve dollar gold piece. The remainder
is in paper currency. This is the accu-
mutation since December, 1876. Some
OF these counterfeits are very good ones,
but the larger number of them are mis-.
cradle. The latter is especially the case
with the the counterfeit silver. Most OF
this coin Is 80 poor that even after being
melted it cannot be utilized in any man.
ner, becoming as brittle as glass, 1t is
generally compound of antimony
glass and zinc. Many Of the pieces when
struck with hammer, used for indent-
ing the word "bad" on captured coun.
erfeit coin, break in pieces. The paper
counterfeits can he reduced to pulp and
used for manufacturing paper of an in
ferior quality.
THE New York Times says of the
English acquisition Of Cyprus:
"L)rd Beaconsfeld has, in this case
symply accepted the consequences of
policy which Is already two hundred
years old, and whose ultimate conse,
quences must have very important
share in shaping the future history
of the world. When Give and Hastings
wrested from the grasp of incapable
viceroys the richest provinces of the
crumbling empire OF Aurungzebe, they
were preparing the way for the English
administration OF the inheritance OF the
Osmanli; when the British crown
assumed the responsibilities of the en-
pire which had been conquered by a
company of traders, and added to its
titles that OF the MOslem conqueror who
reigned at Delhi, it was but verifying
the logic Of history as clearly as it does
to-day, when it extends to the worn out
debaucl who is caliph and sultan the
same pl otection which it gave to the last
descendant of the Great Mogul."