The Osceola times., 1885-09-12
MISCELLANEOUS,

Oy the 81 the fifteenth anniversary Of
tho German victory of Sedan was cele-
brated at Berlin.
PUBLIC officials in Italy are'to he prohib-
tied from acting as journalists in any
way.
THE Government reservoir at Winne-
begoshlsh was oponed on the 2d, and the
Mississippi shovel rise OF five feet at
Brancrl, Minn.
On the 81 the number Of new cases of
cholera and deaths from the disease
throughout Spain were 3 6l2 and | 81, re-
spectively, The disease is still alarm
ingly lreva. ent in Marseilles and Tou-
Ion
Iowa, in the neighborhood of Council
Bluffs has cattle disease.
A VERY severe hail storm swept over
Erie County, Pa, on the ID, damaging :
or destroying all vegetation In its path.
Hal to the depth of two inches lay on
the ground after the passage of the
81 rm.
The American Watch Company of Wal :
than, Mass, has received a large order
for their goods from Japan The cases
are to bc specially engraved with Jap
anese aracters.
GERMANY is willing to have friendly
power to arbitratc the Caroline Islands
question.
On Mt Washington, N. H., three inches
of snow fell on the "a. The temperature
was twenty eight degrees and the wind
blowing fifty miles an hour.
In the Province OF Quebec frosts have
severely damaged the buckwheat crop.
1T is said at New York that the West
ern Union operators will quit work ON the
l5th inst, il their demand for increa sed
pay for extra work is not complied with.
Patrick HARrNErr, the Ohio wife MUIR
dcrer, who was to have been executed on
the 4th, has been resp,tel by Governor
Hoadly until September 9th.
An order has heen received by the Elk
Rapids (Mich.) Iron Company for 40
tons of charcoal iron, to be shipped to
England.
admonishei not to make anti German
demonstrations
A GENERAL advertisement will be is
sued on the l5.h instant by the Postmas-
ter-General calling for proposals for rem
dering steamboat mail servic, in all parts
Of the United States.
TnRoUGHoUr Spain on the 81 there were
2,9il new cases OF cholera and 1000
deaths from that disease. Cholera has
broken out in Caiz The official reports
show forty-three cases and twenty.three
deaths in that city.
TIE Muskegon (Mich.) shingle. mill
men are out on a strike.
OK the 4th there were :, 800 new cases Of
cholera and 7ss deaths reported in Spain.
The striks of the miners in the Pcnu-
sylvania coal region is spreading.
THE correspondence at the Treasury
and Navy departments indicates an uo-
precedented rush and pressure OF office
seekers upon the return of the Secreta-
ries.
In response TO telegram from Super
intendeni Bell of the foreign mail service,
the Postmaster General of Canada has
replied that in his opinion the number of
cases of smallpox existing in the Domin-
ion does not warrant the adoption OF
measures for the fumi cation of mails COM
ing into the United States from Canada.
THE acting Secretary of the Treasury
has rescinded the order recently pre-
pared by the Register in regard to the
transfer OF United States bonds. which re-
quired as a condition precedent to the issue
to any trustee, executor, administrator,
guardian, etc, that the beneficiary shall
be named in the application aat in the
assignment of the bonds.
TRooPs have bsen sent by Spain to tho
Pelew Islands and tn, Spanish Admiral
has becn ordered to occupy Yap and
other islspds Of the Caroline group