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The Osceola times., 1885-05-09
Delinquent Tax Sales.

The lands and lots and parts delinquent Mississippi
county for the 1884 together the penalty charged
thereon agreeab!y following
list,
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che instructions already given me should De
changed and should be instructed to bring up
the second bill or not Every Democrat on the
committee and shalt the Republicans present
voted not to change the instructions. but TO
have me call up the original BILL That was
prepared to do week ago to-day, and should
have called it up, and think it would have
passed had it not been for dilatory
motions which were made and sus-
tanned by both Democrats and Repub-
licans. am told there is movement
on foot to call up the second bill by Mr.. Randall,
If he can get the floor The difficulty is in get
ting the floor and suspension of the rules,
which requires two-thirds vote. The whole
question is simply whether Congress shall de-
viate from its usual course on this bill, in order
to comply with the Presidents views, or whether
it shall pass the bill in the form it has always
been in the habit of doing. The question is
whether the Democrats are going to de-
viate from the custom of Congress, In
order to accommodate themselves to
the Presidents objection, or whether
they will pass the bill in the usual form. My
preference is decidedly for the bill in the usual
form, but will Support either bill. The good
feeling of the House committee toward denerai
Grant is shown by the fact that it instructed me
to bring up the first bill before the second was
ever introduced or thought of. This shows the
committee to be earnestly in favor of retiring
the General, and that the present muddie II no
trick to defeat the measure, as many people
70 iul
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Being Inspired to Take Such Action by Eng
lands Course in Enforcing Certain
Laws at the Port of Hong Kong.
The French Forces Succeed in Sup
pressing the Revolt in CambOdia.
Abatement of Excitement Over the Recent
Explosions in London--British Residents
in South Africa Ask for Protection.
FRANCE AND CHINA.
RumOr that the Former Will Officially De.
clare War Against the Latter.

RumOr that the Former Will Officially De-
clare War Against the Latter.
PARIS, Jan. est is reported that France
has decided to officially declare war against
China. This decision is said to have been made
in consequence of the action of England in en-
forcing the terms of the foreign enlistment act
at Hong Kong and elsewhere.
The refusal of the British authorities to allow
the Triumphant to reit at Hong Kong has
caused great annoyance here The Voltaire
denounces England's conduct as especially I'M
friendly and urges the French government to
retaliate by Immediately bleckading all Chinese
ports. This, the Voltaire says, France has
hitherto refrained from doing because France
regarded England as friendly power. and the
blockading of the Chinese ports would have
hampered English commerce
Official dispatches received to- day from Saigon
announce the virtual suppression of the revolt
in Cambodia The French troops, assisted by
native auxiiaries, have been so successful in in
filcting serious punishment upon the rebels that
most of them fed and allowed their bands to be
dispersed Colonel McCramondi had another en-
gagement with Sivotha, leader of the rebellion,
at Preycha. the day after he surprised him in
camp at Mieng Sivotha' was again routed, and
his band fed to the north. Colonel McCramond
Sunday last, a party of French marines encoun-
tered and defeated 300 rebels under command of
Sivotha's lieutenant The dispatches state that
the excitement produced by the revolution has
subsidized, and general confidence has been re-
stored
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MINOR Notes.

The entire building of the Evansville Courier
is now lighted with incandescent electric lamps
VIM p. Cumberland, for several years a
prominent merchant of New Albany, has been
adjudged insane.
AT South Bend, Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Woolver-
ton and their three children narrowly escaped
death from suffocation by gas from closed
hard-coal stove. Prompt medical treatment
overcome the dangerous sphyxiation.
John M. Ulmer, aged forty-four, unmarried.
died suddenly in Madison, on Tuesday night of
heart disease. He was soldier of Company c..
Sixty-seventn Indiana volunteers, and for many
years chief salesman for R. B. Craig, grocer
Kennedy, the noted thief aid murderer. sent
to the Southern prison from Rush county to
serve life sentence, is a brother Of B:ll Ken
nedy, now serving life sentence for killing
guard Chamberlain during Colonel Shutters ad-
ministration as warden.
Louisville Courer-Journal Jeffersonville item:
Justice Eph Keigwin, who has married over one
thousand clipping couples from Tennes-
see and Kentucky. is of the opinion that the
hard times has affected the matrimonial market
He has not soemnzed the marriage rite for an
clipping couple for over a week.
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General and Personal.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-Seth NJ. Whiten, of
Union City, is here working in the interest of
the several pension bills before Congress. He
represents the organization of the Grand Army
of the Republic for Indiana and Ohio
Petitions asking Congress to pass the Mexican
war pension bin were introduced in the House
today by Messrs. Kleiner, Steel and Stockslager.
Major and Mrs. Steele were members of @
theater party given by Speaker and Mrs. Car
Isle at the National Theater tonight.
The following Indiana postmasters were COM
missioned to day: Celestial Vansha, at De-
Paw; Jonathan r. Drayer, fredericksburg;
William Fleming. Porter.
J. III. Holiday and j. +. Pratt, of Indianapo-
lis are at Wizards.
The President to-day transmitted to the House
q letter from the Secretary of State concerning
the awards made by the Venezuelan mixed COM
mission In the opinion of the Secretary of
State tho honor of the United States calls for an
investigation of the charge made by Venezuela,
that seven awards amounting TO $7D4. l2 are
tainted with fraud.
The general court. martial before which Gen.
eral Swain has been on trial, WILL it is thought,
reach conclusion in that officers case by to-
morrow night, and will then proceed to the trial
OF Colonel Albert P. Morrow, on the charge OF
duplicating pay accounts.
The President gave his annual state dinner
10 the members of the diplomatic corps at the
White House, this evening. OF forty guests
present, fifteen were cayoys and seven changes
daffaires, representing altogether twenty-five
friendly powers
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MoSAHAN,s COMPLAINT.
Minister Morgan Charged with Neglecting
His Duties Toward American Citizens.

Minister Morgan Charged with Neglecting
His Duties Toward American Citizens.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.--Secretary Freling-
huysen in response to a resolution, to-day sent
to the House a communication on file in the De-
partment of State relative to the arrest, last
summer, of Thomas Monahan, claiming to be a
citizen of Nashville. Tenn, in Mexico. Mona
han was engineer of a train that met another IN
collision on the Mexican Central railway. he
was arrested and placed in confinement In
letter, dated Tuuca, Mexico, July 81. 1884. and
addressed to Hon. A. J. Caldwell of Tennessee,
Monahan says, after reciting the circumstances
Of his arrest
I'm this exigency wrote twoletter to Minister
Morgan, which. presume, found refuge IN his
waste basket. havelnot yetreceived the courtesy
of an acknowledgements. am not surprised
however as / know several other similar cases
in which he was applied to without avail for he
is alike indifferent to citizenship, to our suf
ferings and to our politics. 1t takes all his time
to cater to Mexican favor. "A wooden image
would be better to represent our country, for
it would not disgrace the greatest republic
the world ever saw. Were it not for
the kind friends / have outside, might well ex-
claim with Dante: Abandon hope, all We who
enter here. for in this country it is all law, and
Dame Justice puts on a veil OF shame and weeps
that it should be So.o
Mr. Caldwell sent this letter to the Depart
ment of State, and Acting Secretary of State
Davis ordered an investigation. In reply, to
Caldwell he says:
81 cannot pass Monahan's observations about
Minister Morgan's indifference to the rights and
interests of American citizens in Mex
leo without observing that they are not
warranted by his course while minister
which has been marked by energetic attention
to his duties. In letter to Secretary Frelng
huysen, Mr.. Morgan states that he did not re-
ceive the letters Monahan refers to, and the
moment he heard of Monahan's trouble he did
all in his poWer to have Justice done. On Jan.
l, 1885, Minister Morgan informed the Secretary
of State that the judge of the Federal Court az
Tuluca had informed Monahan he had been hon
orally acquitted and was therefore discharged"
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Brief Mention.

The trial of Wallace Waterman and Newton
Shinkle the medical students who weres charged
with robbing graves at Rochelle and Sycamore,
has at last begun at Rockford.
Decatur has held huge meeting for the pur-
pose OF taking steps to secure the location of the
illinois State fair in Decatur for two years.
Citizens will subscribe $4,000 to fix sup the
grounds.
At Springfield Samuel A. Holmes and John
H. Kelley have been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary, the former for five years and the latter
for three years, by the United States Court for
altering currency from a low to higher denom
ination.
w. FL. Gallamore, who has been representing
himself through Pope county and other coun-
ties of southern Illinois asa United States mar
shall, and collecting fines, ETC., has been sem
fenced therefore to three years in the States
prison
Henry T. Digby, who has served five years ON
a life sentence fer the murder of John Sinclair,
has been returned to McLeansboro for new
trial He was convicted on insufficient evil
dence, purely circumstantial, and his former
neighbors now universally believe, wrongfully,
James Dacey, murderer of the Chicago alder
man. who is confined In the county Jail at Wood
stock, is failing fast He is so emaciated that
his ankle can easily be encirced with onefs hand
and the sheriff thinks that he will not live until
the March term of court. On account of his fee
bleness he is now allowed the use of the corri-
Q0rS OIL tne JAIL lHSteetu VI UcAH coHHneu 10 his
cell.
John Klug, wealthy farmer living near Ger
mantown, in Woodford county, probably insane
started out Friday evening armed with heavy
pieces of iron, and proceeded to strike down and
mangle every one he met Ferdinand Miller
and his mother neighbors of the Klugs, are two
of the Victims and two of the villagers of Ger
mantown are lying dangerously wounded. Two
others, women, received injuries, one broken
nose. the other lacerated breast
At Springfield Nathan E. Coats, twenty eight
years old, committed suicide by shooting him
self through the head He was executor Of the
will of Mr.. Bloodgood, and is said to haye been
greatly concerned about the business of settling
up the estate fearing that he was not discharg
ing his duties properly He had made q report
of his stewardship to Judge Matheny This re-
port was satisfactory, and was approved Mr..
Coats thereupon resigned his trust, and the re-
port was duly received and entered of record
after which he blew out his brains
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Views of Patrick Egan.

Omaha (Neb. Special
Patrick Egan, president of the Irish National
League in America, whose headquarters are at
Lincoln, Neb., in an interview concerning the dy-
nrmite explosions in London, said 81 know moth
ing more about them than any other newspaper
reader. AS to my official connection with the
league I feel now as did early in the history
of the movement. I was in Paris at the time,
and was the only officer of the league out of
prison. was interviewed by a representative
of the London Standard. who asked me why /
did not issue manifestoes denouncing the Irish
outrages. / replied that / did not feel called
upon to do special police duty for the British
government. No man, however. can justify
this method of warfare; but it has been
excited by the atrocities of the British
government toward Ireland, and having
raised the demon they must lay him, if
they are able without any aid from me. The
work has been carried on too Systematically to
admit that it is done by few fugitive cranks.
and desperate earnestness that amounts to in
spiration. The dynamite war is in direct oppo-
sition to the policy of the league, and is con-
demned by that organization. While cannot
condemn it in too strong terms, | cannot work
up any feeling of sympathy for the British
government or their officers. You who
have only an indistinct idea Of British
atrocities in Ireland can know nothing
of their real character. Suppose this thing to
be the work of Irishmen. They would not take
such desperate chances of their lives unless their
desire for revenge was fed by the most fragrant
wrongs The men who carried out the West
minister explosion knew that they would be torn
limb from limb if discovered; yet they must
have been willing to run the risk. If the atroc-
tiles perpetrated upon the Irish people were to
take place in this country, there is no doubt in
my mind that the reaction would be much worse
than it has been In the case OF Ireland"
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ALSACE-LORRAINE.
Debate ON a Proposition to Rescind Ger
tain Repressive Measures.

Debate a Proposition to Rescind Ger
tain Repressive Measures.
BERLIN, Jan. 2S--The Reichstag to-day voted
to reject Junggreen's motion proposing to make
compulsory the official use of the German Ian
guage in all the provinces of Germany. The
debate commenced on Kebles motion to
abrogate the extraordinary powers vested
in Baron Won Manteufel, Governor-general of
Alsace-Lor raine. Won Puttkamcr Minister Of
the Interior, opposed the motion on behalf of
the government. He cited Antoine's election
speeches as proof of the slight restrictions upon
the expression of public opinion. The
anti-German agitation in Alsace- Lorraine, he
said, prevented the people from adapting
themselves to the new order of things In view
of the fact that Dolfusze, a member of the
Reichstag from Alsace.L Lorraine, had addressed
q letter to sRis dear Fellow-citizens of Paris, y
expressing French sympathies, it was impossi-
BILE for the government to rescind the repressive
measures low in force.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIEs.

The directors of the Baltimore Corn and Flour
Exchange have elected John Gill, of Gill 81
Fisher, president.
A Christian convention, arranged by commit
tees from different churches in Germantown,
commenced yesterday in Philadelphia, under the
direction of Dwight L. Moody.
In fight at card table, yesterday, at Green's
VILE, Tom Wallace was cut and stabbed nine
times by Ed. Devor, and is believed to be in a
dangerous condition. Deyor is under BAIL
C. Frederick Clark was arrested in Boston,
yesterday, charged with being fugitive from
justice. He is wanted in Pittsburg to answer a
charge of obtaining 81, 800 by false pretenses
from Samuel Keys
President Mcbride, of the Ohio Miners Union,
says the miners in the Tuscarawas valley and
Massion districts will not agree to the proposed
reduction of ten cents a ton Operators Eat
Cleveland think they will. If strike is ordered,
1000 men will be out of employment
Edward FL Golf, president of the American
Electric and Illuminating Company, of Boston,
and G. Fl. Wadsworth. of the Baulton Carbon
Company, of Cleveland. concluded yester-
day. This movement, it is understood, harmona
ICES the electric lighting and carbon interests.
The entire family of Philip Schraut, German
baker of Philadelphia. has been poisoned. A
four-year-old son has died, and the wife is dan
gerously i'll. Schraut himself is recovering. A
journeyman baker was also taken sick, and also
Mary Martin, a German servant 1t has been
found that all were poisoned by water lmpreg-
mated with oxidized lead.
Final details of the bituminous coal pool be-
tween the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Companies were arranged yes
terday 1t is understood that material
changes were made in the main features, which
have already been published. The Pennsylva-
MIA is allotted So per cent of the total output
and the B. g. o. 45 per cent.
A dispatch from Easton, Pa, says the Ameri-
can Sheet Iron Mill i'll Phillipsburg. N. J. has re-
sumed work after being idle since Christmas.
1t employs 125 men. The old mill of the Beth
lehem Iron Company has started up, and the
company will next week blow in one of its
furnaces Work on the Spiegel Eisen furnace
of the Lehgh Zinc Company is being pushed
forward, and it is expected the fires will be
relighted in ten or twelve DAVIS.
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THE LONDON EXPLOSIONS.
An Abatement of observation-disclosures Ar
rest of Woman.

An Abatement of Observation-Disclosures Ar
rest of q Woman.
LONDON, Jan. 28.-The excitement occasioned
by the explosions and the great anxiety con-
corning the fate of Gen. Stewart,
which existed for the past few days,
have been completely obliterated to-day
by the news that Stewart has captured Metem-
neh and succeeded in communicating with Gen
eral Gordon Great enthusiasm prevails, and
many congratulations over the success of Stew
arts expedition have been received at the W ar
Office
It is rumored the police have just arrested a
woman in the act of entering the Royal Elk
change building with quantity of dynamite
concealed on her person. The rumor adds that
three men, probably accompliees of the woman,
were arrested at the same time
The Queen has conferred the Albert medal
upon Constable Cole, who was so severely in
iured in the discharge of his duty at the time of
the explosion at Westminster Hail.
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Buffers Unpublished Letter.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25-It is said that Ben
Butler, after his miserable farce as q presi-
Dental candidate had ended, issued aEverbose,
bombastic address to the people, 1t was written
in Ben's most vigorous style, bristling with
italics and capital letters, and denounced almost
everybody in any way connected with the cam
paign. Before it was printed, however, he con-
suited great New York journalistic coadiutor,
who fills an important position on the editorial
staff of paper. The cat did its work and Ben
jamin was suppressed for time, though it is
said the address" is still on file and likely to be
let off at little provocation.
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MINOR MENTION.
Secretary Chandler Resents Alleged Criticism
of the Navy Department.


of the Navy Department..
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-Secretary Chandler
has written letter to Rear Admiral English,
commanding the European station, in regard to
the charge made by an American resident of
Nice, France, that officers of the flagship Lam
caster had publicly abused the head of the Navy
Department, and all connected with it, for hav-
ing ordered that vessel to the Congo country,
alleging that it done to spite the ladies.
The Secretary incloses copy of the letter re-
ceived at the department on the sub
jeet, and says he has written to the
writer, whose name is purposely withheld
requesting that be give him admiral Englishl
the names of tie officers who made the state
ments referred to- The Secretary's letter toad
miral English concludes as follows:
"You will Immediately institute inquiries con-
corning the truth of the averments in the letter,
by nterrogating, directly, all officers of the Lam
caster, and if you find any officer has made the
specific statement mentioned in the letter, or has
criticised, in hotel or anywhere else, any oIs
ders of the department.. you will report the facts
to the department., and, until receiving further
Instructions will suspend such officer from duty
and not allow him to leay1his vessel, except for
urgent reasons, to be made of record and report
ed to the department.
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Is This Madame Durand?

Atlanta Special to Chicago News.
About six weeks ago tall and fascinating
brunette, with light hair and a most engaging
manner arrived at the National Hotel here
and registered as Miss Annie Blanchard.
of Chicago. She at once opened an art
studio, and offered to teach the art of
coloring photographs and other pictures
for $40. She secured many pupils, and she en-
gagged q number of agents to solicit work, charg-
ing each agent S. for an outfit consisting of an
album fun of pictures. Meantime she had worked
her way into the good graces of number OF
tradesnlen, to all of whom she owed bills. Then
she announced grand art reception, securing
for that purpose the loan of large number OF
pictures When the hour for the reception had
arrived, Miss Blanchard disappeared, and has
not since been SEEN
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Sir Charles bike Promises the Introduction
of Labor Measures.

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-Sir Charles Dixie. presi
dent OF the Local Government Board, to-day
held conference with delegates from cham
bers of commerce and trades unions upon the
subject Of wages. After listening to the propos
ais of the different Populations. Sir Charles said
that memorials proposing great but not COM
munistic changes in the laws regulating the re.
lations between capital and labor would be
submitted to Parliament. He regretted that
foreign opinion was not better represented at
the conference. He pointed to the great progress
made in Germany in the work of improving the
worxingmen's condition by such measures as the
workingmen's insurance bill.
During tho conference Sir Charles Dixie
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The Mexican Pension Bill.

BpeclaI TO tha IndlanapoIlsF J ournaI.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.-At q meeting
of the House committee on pensions
this morning, Mr.. Steele moved that some
immediate action be taken upou the thousands
of petitions before the committee asking for pass
age of the Mexican war pension bill. This
created great deal of warm discussion. Chair
man Hewitt, of Alabama, yielded the chair, and
addressed the committee during all of the ses-
sion, strongly opposing any action whatever
upon the subject. Mr.. Steele proposes to renew
his motion at the next meeting, and will keep
nm his work.
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The Sheldon KidnaDine.

KANSAS Cry Mo-, Jan. 28-The Journal to-
morrow will publish an interview with detect
who served pretended warrant Alfred
Sheldon, on the night Of May 4, last. He states
that the mysterious disappearance was a ruse
planned by Sheldon to elude his creditors and
tells the story of the escape and how Sheldon,
away to Canada.
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The Trouble in Isechuanaland.

CAPETowN, JAN 28.-General Warren, who
was sent with special powers to effect settle
ment of the Bechuanaland troubles has had a
friendly interview with President Kruger Of the
Transvaal Kruger urged that he possessed in
divdual claims to certain lands in Goshen.
General Warren, in answer said no attempt to
secure occupancy on such claims could lie toler-
ated by England; the men attempting to gain a
foothold, in Goshen he characterized as-a~band
of robbers, and declared that no white people
should be allowed to settle in Goshen without
Special permits