The Osceola times., 1885-11-07


THE Servian Government is endesvor.
ing to cancel its orders for uniforms for
the troops. A peaceful sign.
THERE Is no apparent decline In the
ravaees Of the small .pox at Montreal. or
the 252 persons who died from the disease
there during the week 237 were French
Canadians, 0 were under months, 25 from
0 months to year, 127 from to years,
and 80 from 10 10 years.
THE German Missionary Conference at
Bremen resolved to appeal to the Govern.
ment to stop the sale OF liquor to natives
In German colonies.
On the 9th the eleventh annual conven.
ten OF the National woman's Christian
Temperance Union began at Philadelphia,
Pa
THE German War Department is en-
gagged in improving the military establish.
ment, and issarranging to furnish the army
with the latest improved rifles.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has rem.
dered a decision in regard TO the duty on
rice, which, it is thought, will settle the
differences between producers and i'm.
porters.
The COMMISSIONS Of Education has in.
formed the Secretary Of the Interior that
he has been diligently .endeavoring to per.
feet the arrangements for the education
Of children of school age in the Territory
Of Alaska, without reference TO race.
Two schools have been established, one
at Sitka and one at Juveau, and the re.
ports received indicate favorable prog.
ress.
AN effort Is being made by river pilots
and engineers to recover from the Gov.
ernment money alleged to have been
wrongfully collected from them In the
shape OF occupation tax.
GENERAL MILES has received official
information that 400 boomers, rndsr Cap.
tain Couch, are marching to Oklahoma,
and has issued orders 20 head them Of,
and eject any that have entered the terri.
tory.
The Director OF the Mint has reduced
the estimate of appropriation for the mint
service for the next a seal year over s2l0,
900 as compared with the estimates for
the present year, and over $15, 600 as com.
pared with the actual expenditures OF the
last year.
On the Goth sixty-one new cases oi
smallpox were reported in Montreal, oi
which forty-four were verified. There
were I25 patients in st. Camille's Hospi al
forty-five in ST. Sauveur and ninety three
in st. Rochs. Detcct.ve we're investigat.
ing charges Of negligence of duty in the
health boards Of several of the surround.
ing villages.
The public debt was reduced during DC.
tober $i3, 100000.
TOTAL exports OF specie from the United
States for the week ended the 3ist were
$lSs,s15.
GERMAN officers are placing the Tur kish
army in respectable shape.
THE rent question is prominent feature
Of the campaign in Ireland.
ENGLISH mercantile and manufacturing
circles are seriously agitated by German
competition.
AMEErING Of dignitaries of the Catholic
Church is shortly to be held at Baltimore,
Md, TO further the project Of university
at Washington city.
The Congo Free state Is proving an ele.
phant of huge proportions to the King oi
Belgium.
1t seems to be the general opinion that
the conference TO settle the Balkan trouble
will be failure.
ONLY dsagreements In the party stand
between the English Liberals and victory
Gladstone is said TO be making splendit
progress In making peace.
THE Northern Minnesota Indians hav,
decided to surrender their lands for set
| tlement.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has is
sued an order refusing free entry to arti
fetal mineral waters.
AT Bustamente, Mexico, a political fac
tion war is in progress. There have beei
six fatalities, and it is probable there will
be a bloody pitched battle.
The nailers and feeders at Brooks iron
works, Birdsboro, Pa, have had theil
wages advanced ten per cent.
AT the town Of Bakau, on the Caspian
Sea, Russians and Moslems recently on
gagged in a little blocdletting. Severa
Russians were killed.
The Typographical Union Of New Yorl
has issued an address calling on all work
ingmen to vote against the Republican
candidates, because "the recognized or
gan Of the party is issued from ''slave
pen."
The wife OF Eph Simmons, of New
York, is charged with getting a divorce
from her husband to marry a consumptiv
| for his money.