The Osceola times., 1885-10-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
TIE Postmaster General says he has
seventy-tive cases OF Post Office changes
now waiting the Presidents action.
OwIxe to misunderstandings between
King Thebsw of Burmah and the chief
Commissioner for British Burmah, the lat
ter has asked reinforcements before send.
ing an ultimatum to the King.
AT meeting on the l4th, the New York
Board of Trade and Transportation adopt
ed q memorial to President Cleveland re.
sitting the necessity for National bank.
rupt law and urging him to recommend
such . measure to Congress In his next
message.
H. w. SHAW, better known as "Josh
6illings." the humorist, died at the Del.
monte Hotel, Monterey, CAL, on the l4th,
Of apoplexy.
MISS FOLSOM. whom the gossips have
oeen saying President Cleveland was to
marry, has sailed for Europe.
CHIET-JUsTICE VINCENT Of New Mexico,
whoapponted Stephen w. Dorsey a mem.
Der of the commission to draw grand and
petit jurors, has been suspended by the
President.
IT has been decided that the pressure OF
their public duties will not permit the
President and the members Of the Cabinet
to attend the Virginia State Fair.
fosTMAsrER.GENERALV Villas has decid-
ed that the Department was under no oh.
legation to deliver mail matter thrown in
20 its collection boxes by Wells, Fargo &
20. after they have cancelled their stamps,
and Postmasters have been instructed TO
refuse such matter.
J. N. WALTON, Of Arkansas, has been
appointed special agent to take charge
of the Indians on Tongue River in Mon.
tana.
ROCKFORD FARM, near Cedar Rapids,
ia., was bought by VIM. Roxbury, OF Glas.
gov, Scotland, for So, 900.
PREsfprNr 0REvY announces that he
will enter the contest for the French pres
idency.
IT was stated In London on the 18th that
the sentence of Riel had been commuted
to Imprisonment for life.
The Land Office has received commu-
nication stating that DE-. Powers, who was
q Government witness in the prosec ution
of fraudulent land case in California,
has been slain by T. F. Pruett, one Of the
defendants.
The Cabinet meeting on the 18th was
short, and was devoted principally to the
,onsid GRAFTON Of topics to he embo odied
IN the annual reports OF the Cabinet
,ficers.
MR- J. A. MANNING, the attorney whose
1isbarment by the Court OF Alabama
Claims was the indirect cause Of the re-
cent offlcial objections to the necessary
Incidental expenses" of the court" filed
motion asking for reinstatement 1t was
passed upon on the 18th by the court in
written opinion, delivered by Presiding
Judge Harlan, and concurred in Dy the
other two judges. The motion was de-
MED.
In q speech st Trowbridge, Eng, on the
18th, Mr.. Chamberlain declared that Mr..
q. Goshen was to the Liberal party what
deaths head was to an Egyptian feast.
A NEW indictment having been found
against Ferdinand Ward, on which he Is
to be tried shortly, he was arraigned on the
18th in the New York Court of Oyer and
rerminer and pleaded not guilty.
MEssRs. Hill and Jones, Democratic
nominees for Governor and Lieutenant.
Governor of New York, have sent in their
etters Of acceptance.
THOMAS ATKINSON, of Chicago, has fall
cn heir to large fortune In England.
RIGHT Hon. HUGH HESRY Rolf, Field
Marshal Of England, is dead.
In all the departments at Washington
the heads Of bureaus are busy preparing
data for the annual reports to be incor.
porated in the message Of the President TO
Congress.
ARcHDEAcoN FARRAR, the distinguished
English divine, is sojourning in Washing.
ton, and lectured on "Dante" in the Con.
gregational Church on the evening of the
10th.
SUPERINTENDENT SMITH, of the Cleve.
land tO.) Police Department, has ordered
all the gamblers in the city to close their
rooms. The order has been obeyei, and
the gamesters are leaving for other cities
n swarms.
On the 10th Peter McGeoch, the Mil.
waukee speculator, was stricken down by
what seemed like apoplexy, and for sew.
sral hours his life was despaired OF, but
he finally rallied under the careful treat.
ment of his physician.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has leased from
The Frelinghuysen estate the residence in
Washington formerly occupied by the
late Secretary and his family.
THg Secretary of the Treasury has re-
quested the resignation OF Mr. Benjamin
p. Davis, Deputy Fourth Auditor of the
Treasury, and has selected his success ssor,
but the name is withheld for the present
The Sultan of Turkey gives the Euro.
pean powers to understand that he will
under no circumstances recognize the Bull.
gar.an union.
CARDINAL NEWMAN, in an address at
London. said the Protestant Church was
the bulwark Of the country against athe.
ism, and wished all success to those de-
tending the Church.
THE President has virtually decided to
postpone the appointment of a Superin-
lendent Of the Coast aud Geodetic Survey
until the meeting OF Congress. 1t has
been suggested to the President that an
engineer officer of the army or navy might
probably be detailed 20 perform the du.
ties of the office. and that question is now
under consideration.
GOVERNOR EATON OF Colorado has is.
sued proclamation raising the quaran.
line against cattle from Missouri, Indiana
and Ohio.
MRS. JAMES QuAYLE, Of Cleveland, o.,
has mysteriously disappeared.
REv. r. HsBER NEWTON preached at
New York on the 18Th, ON "rhe Glory for
Evangel licalism."
On the 18th, VIM. Kinsey, a prominent
citissn Of Evansville, Ind, dropped dead
from apoplexy.
Junar VfNcrxr n " ,y Maxfco has