The Osceola times., 1885-05-02

Fos the week endei the eth wool sales
at Boston anountsi 10 46p0O pounis
TIE First Comptroller Of the Treasury
has recommended to the Secretary that
the divisions in his Office be rsiuced from
nine to Eve and the force 10 reduced cor.
respondingly.
SEcREIARY MANSIyo has detailed three
clerks to the Second Comptroller's once
to assist in the settlement OF accounts,
particularly those OF pension agentA
which are somewhat in arrears Arrange
msnts havs also BEEN made for the more
promrt examination Of thsse accounts in
the Third Auditors otfics.
THE Indiana Legislature has just passed
a bill limiting the rental OF telephones in
that State TO 50 per month, with a reduce
tion of two cents when two or more are
used by the same firm. The telephone has
become pub ic necessity, but it is in the
hands Of powerful monopoly who have
become enormously rich within q short
time from the burdsnsome tax they have
impos ed upon the people. New inventions
have been quickly bought up or outlawed
by the use ofimmense capital, thus leaving
the public still to suffer. There seems to
be but one way by which the people can
be protected, and that is by State legisls.
tion, and the example Of Indiana should
be quickly followed by every other State
The steamer City of Mexico was seized
by the United States authorities at New
York on the s5th for violation of the neu.
trality laws
THERE are now 1000 Russian troops in
Poland.
AxERrcASs, 500 strong, entered the city
Of Panama on the 18th, but have since been
Withdrawn.
Two more cases Of Asiatic cholera are
reported in Spain.
TaE Egyptian ministers are firm in their
refusal to apologize to Franco
A GENERAL Increase ia rsgimental OF.
fcers in the Russian army has been or
dered.
GENERAL MIDDLxroS's troops had an
engagement with the half breed rebels in
the Northwest Territory on the cath. The
troops appear TO have gotten the worst OF
the fight, their losses being ten killed aud
about fifty wounded. The rebels are re-
ported to have lost twenty five men.
1T is thought that war will last at, least
two years IL Russia and England com.
mence hostilities.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY OF Illinois issued
proclamation on the 25th quarantining
against Missouri cattle, aud urgi ng prompt
action in Illinois to prevent the spread of
pleuro- o-pneumonia.
LATEST advices from Lon Ion are to the
effect that Russia is trying to force Eu-
gland to fight
AUSTRIAN papers think that England will
the event of war.
PARIS papers are urging the French Gov.
ernment to show its ''spunk" in dealing
with that Egyptian affair.
In Germany the movement for Q total
closing of all shops of manufacture and
trade on Sunday grows daily.
WESTERN UNION operators at Chicago
decided to wait until May lst on the com.
pany, in reference to extra pay for extra
work.
IT is said that the Pope will confer with
the Irish Bishops at Rome in reference to
the discour,esy toward the Prince OF
Wales, If not, In fact, issue pastoral let
ter.
DURING the past IN ,nth the Russian mil
itary authorizes have sent 1000 troops
across the Caspian Sea.
THE President Of the Coal Miners A..
sociation at Pittsburgh, Pa, has issued .
card to the striking railroad miners de-
claring the railroad strike at an end.
A San Francisco dispatch of the 18th
from Sonora reports q terrible battle be-
tween Mexicans and Indians, the former
being defeated with heavy losses
CIRcAssIA is preparing to revolt against
Russia in the event Of q war with En-
gland.
A ST. PETERSBURG correspondent Of .
London paper states that the latest En-
glish proposals arrived, and that the Car
still favors the maintenance of the Russian
demand.
TYPHOID malarial fever Is prevailing at
Plymouth, Pa, to such an alarming ex-
tent that all business is practically sus-
pended. Polluted wells are said to be the
cause.
CITIZENS Of Louisville, KY, visited the
Penitentiary at Columbus, o., on the 25th,
TO gather points about the building, to be
used in an article describing the escape Vt
General Morgan during the war.
SUNDAY, the Goth, was the sixty firth
anniversary of the founding Of Odd-Fel-
lowship In the United States.