The Osceola times., 1885-04-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
PxnsoxAL AND POLITICAL

TIE President sent 10 the Senate . num-
Der Of nominations on the 3lst. inclu ling
foreign Ministers, Com Is, United States
Marshals and Postmast
TuR Senate Committ. on the 1st re-.
ported favorably the nomination Of Henry
@. Pearson to be Postmaster of New York
city.
EARLY on the morning Of the ID General
Grant was reported weak and restless,
with little hope for . change for the bet
but little way Oh.
r. p. HuoHEs, the defaulter to the
United States ~ Marshal at Richmond,
Va, who was caught In Texas, has been
returned East
IT 10 thought that Baron DeCourcel will
succeed Ferry a. the French Minister OF
Foreign Affairs.
MRS. GARFIKLD's friends deny the pub
lished reports that she Is to marry Rev.
Mr.. Taylor, Of Pennsylvania. She Is liv-
ing quietly In Cleveland, and is educating
her children for careers of usefulness.
ON the LIST Queen Victoria and her
daughter, Princess Beatrice, arrived at
Aix-les- Bains. Tho depot was handsome
ly decorated In their honor. As had been
arranged by N. Ferry, . guard of honor.
composed OF dragons and the Parlsian
Garde Mobile, met Her Majesty at the
station and acted as csc ,rt for the royal
party.
EARL CAIRNS died suddenly at Bourne
mouth, Eng, on the I'd.
BENIN DAVIS, . London solicitor, failed
on the I'd with 81 900, 900 liabilities.
The Senate confirmed Hon. Norman J.
Colman, Of St Louis, as Commissioner OF
Agriculture
The Amecr Of Afghanistan Is much In
censed at Sir Peter Lumsden over his do.
cision on the frontier question.
On the I'd the President withdrew the
nomination of Alex. X. Lawton, to be Min
lister to Russia
THR nomination Of Henry G.. Pearson to
be Postmaster at New York, was confirmed
by the Senate.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND decides
that the Crow reservation In Dakota is
not open TO settlement.
The exile Of the Orleans Princes, 1t Is
thought. will be feature Of De Frey cinet's
programme at Paris.
The Ohio Legislature passed bills to re-
organise Cincinnati and Cleveland. Re-
publicans are not In good humor over the
measures.
On the ID General Grant was resting
easier ct night, but he was very weak,
and his doctors thought the end near. He
has great difficulty in breathing. and the
cancer 70 extending down the throat and
behind the nose.
JOSEPH PALMER was again convicted Of
murder In the first degree at Cincinnati on
the ID. He was the accomplice of Berner
In the Kirk murder, out Of which grew the
Cincinnati riot Of 1881.
NooDY and Sankey begin series Of re-
vival meetings at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th.
PREsDESy CLEVELAND sent 173 nomlna-
tions to the Senate and l59 were con-
6rmed.
GEnERAL GRANT has requested that
when he dies his remains shall be taken to
Warrington for burial.
JOHN X GARRISON, Of Virginia, has been
appointed deputy First Comptroller OF the
Currency.
Mas. CYRus H. MCCORMICK, Of Chicago,
has made further donation of 500 00J to
the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in
that city, making total of 100000 given
by the family to the Institution.
GENERAL GRAHAM advanced ON Tamai
ON the I'd, and occupied the place with but
little resistance. Later in the day the
place was fred and Graham's forces re-
tired to the xereba. The causes for the
latter action were notj stated. Losses
light
REL has . telegraph operator with him
and has been tapping the wires in order to
keep posted.
NrssRs. PHELPS and Kiely, the new
American Ministers to England and Italy
respectively, qualified on the Sd and re-.
ceived their credentials.
GENERAL GRANT was up, walking about
his room the evening of the 81, and was
able 10 sign an important document. At
midnight he was sleeping in his easy
chair, an anodyne having been admins.
tered.
Iris now said that Riel, the rebel, has
1900 armed men in the Northwest Terri
tory, including 100 Indians.
JUDGE CHARLES CHEsLEY, of New
Hampshire, Solicitor Of Internal Revenue,
has, at the request Of Attorney General
Garland, rendered his resignation, to take
effect on the appointment and qualica-
tion of his successor. Judge Chesley en-
tered the Treasury Department as a 81, ,4OC
clerk "a. June, 1865, and was promoted from
time to time since.
COMMANDER KANE OF the Galcna holds
two Of the most prominent insurgents who
assisted In fir ng Aspinwall.
IT IL said that the Governor of Texas
will veto the land bill.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY has
given Admiral Jouett instructions for his
guidance at Aspinwall.
GENERAL GRANT is much touched by the
expressions of sympathy from quarters
where he least expected it.
N. HENRI BRIssoS has accepted the task
OF forming new French ministry.
ApvIcKs to the morning of the 9Th from
the sick room reported General Grant as
resting comfortably, but the cancer is
slowly undermining his strength, and tho
end may come at any hour.
ON the 4th and 5th Wholesale arrests OF
Anarchists, chiefly Germans and Aus
trians, were made at Berne, Switzerland.
GENERAL BADEAU Is authority for the
statement that General Grant is clearly
aware Of the .hopelessness Of his cass aud
desires to die.
ON the 9th the Comte de Paris arrived at
Naples TO meet the Due de Chartres TO talk
over the prospect Of the establishment
Of . monarchy iu France.
7. B. BUNTING, late chief OF artillery Of
Guatemala, and now In New York, does
mot believe the report that General Barrios
has been killed.
On the 4th the mother Of Hon. s. \. Cox,