The Osceola times., 1885-11-21
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

REK8ONAL AMI
Ftnsr ASSISTANT PosrxAsrER.GESER
STEVENSON has discontinued Post-ohice
In Utah because the community the Post
master served under was composed entire-
iy of himself, four wives and seventeen
daughters. Beside, under the Edmunds
act, q man with four wives Is incapable OF
holding public Office.
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH OF BArrENBERo
has resigned his commission as an officer
in the Prussian Foot Guards. His reason
10 that he wishes to support his brother,
Prince Alexander Of Bulgaria.
CHARLES H. BARKER, Of Newburyport,
Mass, has just inherited S7,5O0,0Oo from an
aunt in England.
CHINESE merchants Of New York have
addressed letter of thanks TO President
Cleveland for his efforts to protect their
race.
LAST services were held over the remains
Of John Mccullough at Philadelphia on the
18th, and the body was placed in q vault
st Monument Cemetery.
ON the 18th factory girls at Londonder.
ry, Ireland, mobbed Mr.. Charles Edward
Lewis, Conservative member Of Parlia-
ment.
L.C. WILSON, OF Fredericksburg, Va,
sued James Gordon Bennett, of the New
York Herald, for 81 900 damages for libel,
which Benefits lawyers settled in court
on the 18th without fight.
P. g. BENNETT, law student at Ann
Arbor, Mich, was arrested on the 18th on
charge of attempting to incite riot.
MINISTER PENDLEroN has protested to
the German Government against the ex-
pulsion Of the five German Americans
from the Island of Fohr.
TIRE Burmese envoy to Paris has gone 10
Berlin to ask Bismarck to arrange with
England for the settlement of the Burmese
dispute.
ON the 18th Fitzpatrick, Riel's counsel,
arrived In Toronto to urge communication
Of Riel's sentence. Several influential
French Canadian members Of Parliament
were also there In the same connection.
SECRETARY BAYARD, has requested Sec-
rotary whitney TO send q man-of-war to
the Samoan Tor Navigatorso Islands DOR
the purpose Of opening communication
with that government. The inhabitants
ars Christians and mostly Presbyterians.
The Government Is under the protection of
the United States.
On the 18th II was reported that special
messenger was on his way TO Regina with
the official document from the Governor.
General ordering Sheriff Chapleau TO pro-
ceed with the execution of Riel at 8 q. m.
on the 10th. Meanwhile, according to a
communication received by Bishop
0rondin, Riel was passing the greater
portion of his time In prayer and medita-
tion
ON the 18th the Japanese Postal Com.
mission, accompanied by the Japanese
Minister, called at the Post-office Depart.
ment. Postmaster. General Villas being
absent, the distinguished visitors were re-
ceived by First Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Stevenson, who explained the Ameri-
can system and escorted them through the
various bureaus Of the department.
SIDNEY DILLON has subscribed $1,000 to
Che Grant monument fund, aud Jay Gould
gave his check Tor s. 900 for the Galveston
sufferers.
ON the 18th Ex-senator Sharon died at
his home In San Francisco, CAL, surround
cd by his family and friends.
x-CoNaREssMAN BEN FRANKLIN, OF
Kansas City, No., win 60 as Consul to Cal.
lao, Peru.
TIE Toronto (Ont.) Sentinel, an Orange
paper, violently opposes Communication OF
Riel's sentence.
THE efforts of the sculptors to get q plas.
ter cast Of John McCullough's face were
highly successful.
THE President, 1t is stated, win make the
silver question one Of the principal fea-
lures of his message.
A DIVORCE has been pronounced between
Mime. Nicolini and NJ. Nicolini, by the
French courts. Now Nicolini's heart will
60 piti-pat.ti.
DR.. LAvELL, Of the Riel Medical Com.
mission, says II the Government hangs
Riel they will hang a lunatic.
In his libel suit against the Washington
ID. C.) Star, Rev. Mr.. Hicks, Guiteau's
spiritual adviser, was awarded one cent
damages.
PARsoS Downs and Mrs. Taber were
held In $500 bail each to appear at the Su.
preme Criminal Court at Boston, Mass, on
the charge Of adultery.
LORD DurFERIN has ordered the Burmah
expeditionary force to proceed with su
haste to capture Mandalay.
STEPHEN c. WILSON, of Indiana, has
sued the indianapolis, Decatur & Spring
field Railroad for $4,000 damages for kill
ing his wife and daughter.
KING THEEBAw is said to have subsidized
1900 dacoits, or robbers, to cross the
frontier at the first sign Of war and begin
plundering and numbering.
IT is announced that the souvenirs given
John Mccullough by citizens of New York,
Memphis and st. Louis are missing and
are supposed TO have been stolen.
MEssRs. BARBER and Marsden, directors
of the Great Eastern Steamship Company.
are charged in court with fraudulently OBJ
tanning 5000 from the New Orleans Ex-
hibition in connection with the Great East
ern.
BARON DE LoRNE, who recently arrived
at New York from China, says the En-
peror wants railroads, is favorably dis.
posed toward the American system, and
will grant liberal concessions to Ameri-
can capitalists.
GENERAL FARSswoRrH has finally and
positively declined the Msrshalship Of the
District Of Columbia.
Miss CLEVELAND has returned to Wash
ington after an absence OF several months
ERNST ScHrLLISG- -HEuLscAMP, Of New
York, who married Old Morosini's daugh-
ter, has gone to work as car driver and
his wife Victoria has taken to the stage.
On the evening OF the l4th Bartholdi,
the French sculptor, who presented the
United States the colossal statue Of LIB.
erty Enlightening the World" was dined
by the Lotus Club at New York.