The Osceola times., 1882-07-15
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS GATHERED
FROM ALL SOURCES.
Abbreviated snd Adapted TO Convey In
formation on = Great Variety Of Subjects
for Readers Everywhere.

Abbreviated snd Adapted TO Convey In
formation on Great Variety Of Subjects
for Readers Everywhere.
Lieut.. Dancnhower Is in Washington.
New Texas wheat has appeared in this
market.
Several attempts are reported to set fire to
Joliet, Illinois.
The rumors that Gladstone and other
cabinet officers are marked for assassination
is revived.
The Limerick poor law guardians have
granted relief to 2s2 of Lord Cloneurry's
evicted tenants.
The clearinghouse of Woolen, Webb &
Co. of Indianapolis has suspended.
Net earnings OF the Missouri Pacific sys-
TEN for April were S277 ,s43 greater than for
April OF last year.
Postmaster Gen. Howe anticipates no
great difficulty in arranging the fast mail
service TO the West.
The Egyptian army is amusing itself by
plundering the shops in all the garrison
towns except Cairo and Alexandra,
England. at the suggestion of France, has
agreed to invite the powers TO conference
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Chief Big Bear has announced his inten-
ton of bringing his tribe across the British
border to hunt on United States soil.
Monroe county, H., got Judgment for
81 :nG against Slate, the collector OF back
taxes.
Edward Isom, who was murdered and
robbed near Little Rock, Is reported to have
been a ST. Louisian.
The Republicans of the Eighteenth Him
ois district will hold their congressional
convention at East st. Louis, July ii.
A Utah rapchman murdered his wife, and
then killed himself with shot gun. He
was subject TO occasional fts OF alteration.
The star-route defendants, having ex-
hausted their stock of motions to quash.
have announced their readiness to go to
trial.
The owner of an overloaded boat which
upset and drowned two persons, has been
fined $500 in Massachusetts, for manslaugh-
ter.
A church in course of erection near Lam
caster, Pa, fell catching fourteen work
men, two of whom will die.
The regular Pennsylvania Republican
convention is to be recalled to fill the va
large.
A Fort Wayne, Ind, special says: Three
hundred men have been discharged from
the shops of the Pttsburg, Fort Wayne and
Chicago company.
Kate Cbase-Sprag,Ie has been granted a
divorce, with custody of her three daugh-
tiers, and leave TO apply for alimony hereaf-
ter If she likes.
Gambetta's organ, the Repubique Fran
caise. condemns Turkish intervention in
Egypt as dangerous to the French opera
tions in North Africa.
The Russian authorities are restricting
the immigration of Russian Jews. Refu-
gees unprovided with passports are being
sent back.
The Mexican decree abolishing exporta-
ton duties on gold and silver coin, bars and
ore, and increasing importation duties on
all foreign goods per cent. goes Into force
the lst of November.
Gen. Garihaldi is dead. A previous dis
patch said the General was lying very i'll
with bronchitis at Caprera, his condition
precarious. and that all the members of his
family in Rome and Genoa had left for his
bedside.
Mr.. W. ii. Trescott and Mr.. Walker
Blaine arrived In New York on the steamer
Acapulco from Peru, by the way of the
Isthmus. II was on December 30 that James
G.. Blaine, then secretary OF state, appoint
ed them special commissioners to Peru and
Chill. MIR. NJ. Il. Dooley, secretary OF the
commission, returned with them.
The Secretary of the Illinois Press Asso-
citation has received invitations from the
Rock Island, Union Pacific and Utah Cen
tral Railway lines TO take an excursion over
their roads from Chicago to Salt Lake City
and return, via Denver. If sufficient num-
ber of editors respond favorably, the party
will leave Chicago about July Is. The en-
tire expense for twelve days trip will not
exceed S35.
Forwood, late mayor of Liverpool, thinks
the PhGniX park assassinations were the
work of hirelings of American Fenians. He
also thinks England has the right to demand
th /, America strangle Fenianism in the
place of its birth.
Mr.. Don Cameron called n meeting of
Philadelphia business men and unfolded his
desperation to them. He has fought for Il
tariff, but if they don't stick to the party he
will fight against tarin and they shall all go
down together.
Inc Garls Ollalrc says tnc society which
caused the assassination of Cavendish and
Burke has branches in various countries
and will operate to free Ireland on the latest
Nihilistic plan. Machines such as killed
the ear are in course of construction.
Edward schiehelin, well known pros
pector. will ramsack Alaska for mineral
treasures. He has a party OF five eXpcr-
fenced men and n small steamer in which
they will ascend the Tukon river. He be-
lieves Alaska is in the mineral belt, which
extends as far north as the miners have ex-
plored and dreappears in Siberia.
Reports from Washington county, Ark.
say that the army worm is destroying the
crops in certain localities. Entire fields of
corn and other growing grains have been
swept bare by these pests. As they are
confined to portions of the county only. it
is thought their ravages will be necessarily
limited
The storm which devastated Southampton
county. n. c., recently, also swept over
southampton county, Virginia, demolshing
houses and running crops. Some hailstones
were foot long, weighing pound and a
half. One woman viii probably die from
fright.
Instructions were issued to the expedition
about to begin search for Leigh Smith, the
Arctic yoyager. Russian subjects are in
structe = to furnish all the assistance in their
power. Prof. Nordenskjold thinks il is not
improbable Smith will be found to have
taken refuge in house built by him Nor
denskiold) on the north coast of SpItZbergen.