The Osceola times., 1885-07-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

degree OF Doctor Of Laws conferred upon
him by the Wisconsin State University.
COMMANDER KouSrx OF the Grand Army
Of the Republic, in his annual address,
states that the Adjutant- Generals report
showed membership OF 2s',637.
PRor. TYxpALL has given 5000 each
to Columbia, Harvard and Pennsylvania a
Universities to maintain American stu
dents OF physics at European Universi-
ties, aud Robert Treat Payne has given
Harvard S2So,ooo for astronomical re-
search.
Rev. wM De wIrr HYDE has been
chosen President Of Bowdoin College.
ADMIRAL CouRBEr will he buried from
the Hotel des Invslides, Paris.
Iowa Democrats will hold their State
Convention at Cedar Rapids August 10th.
JAMS ALLISON, OF Cincinnati. is the
new President OF the Master Plumbers
National Association.
ADMIRAL GALBER, French Minister OF
Marine, threatens to resign.
Ell MAHDi has ordered all forei yner, to
BE- killed unless they become Mussu mans.
BLKKcKER BANKS, Mayor OF Albany, is
said to aspire to the Governorship of New
York.
JupoE O'CoxSoR, Of Cincinnati, o., has
brought suit for damages against Judge
Fitzgerald for language used in court
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, the Indian
Secretary, was the frat member OF the
Salisbury Cabinet to assume the dlties OF
ofics.
SIR NATHANIEL korascaILp, Sir Eg slyn
Barring and Mr.. John Morley are to be
raised to the peerage in England
JAMES l. STANTON, general agent Of the
Depart ment Of Justice, has rendered his
resignation, to tlks effect June 3jih.
GENERAL GRANT is growing weaker
and losing flesh. His difficulty in breath
ing increases, and he gets no sleep except
by the use Of morphine
WALKER BLAIyE, soa of Hon. james O..
B,aine. Is to be married this summer to
Miss Ettie, daughter Of ex -Governor d.
T. Farnsworth, OF Buchanan, W. Va.
A coURr-MARrIAL has been detailed by
the Secretary Of the Navy to try Pay
master General Smith on charges OF
scandalous conduct and inefilciency.
Hon. s. II. BUCK, the Director General
OF the North, Central and South Ameri.
can Exposition, has established at WASH
ingtou . bureau Of information for the
press, the public and foreign legations,
In regard to the plans. purposes and prog
ress Of the New Worlds Fair, TO be opened
at New Orleans In the fall.
The Cabinet meeting on the 2J.h was
attended by all the Cabinet officers except
Secretary Endicott, who had not returned
from Boston. It 10 understood that the
case OF Minister Kelley was up again and
that his recall from the Austr .an mission
was practically determined upon.
TaE officers elected by the National En-.
campment, @. A. r., at Portland, Me-,
were: Commander. In. Chief, 3. y. Bur-
dette, Of washln yton; Senior Vice. Com
mander. sx- Governor Selden Connor o.
Maine; Junior Vice. Commander, John X
Lewis, OF Atlanta, Ca; Chaplain, l.. IL.
Stewart, Of Ohio; Surgeon General, ]. C..
Tucker, Of California. Mrs Sarah f.
Fuller was elected President of the Ma
tional Woman's Relief Corps.
Ex-PREspENr FISH Of the defunct Ma.
rine National Bank, New York. has been
donied a new trial
On the Goth General Grant said no had
spont the best day he thad experienced
since leaving New York.
The jury in the case Of Z. T. Johnson a.
Greenville, Tenn, acquitted him OF mur.
der in the killing Of Major Henry.
ADMIRAL PoRrER, under an invitation
from Seer cretary Whitney, is planning Il
new steel cruiser.
LORD SALISBURY gave an official recep.
sion on the 10th to diplomates accredited
TO the British court
THE Pope gave an audience to the
Bishop of San Fran cisco at Rome on the
e6th.
The statement Is repeated at Berliu that
Austria objects to Kelly. as Amer eau
Minister. He has been recalled.
In his last crop report Talmadge the
Milwaukee statistician, estimates the
shortage In winter wheat OF the country
at $4,000 bushels.
GENERAL WoLsELEY has been notified by
the Marquis of Salisbury that the SJudau
expedition must he abandoned.
LETTERS patent have been received by
James M. Freeman, formerly of st Louis,
No., on a telephone based on principle, ,
not now employed In such instruments.
On July 5th Lieutenant Schuetzs will
sail for the Lena Delta, to carry the re-
wards of the Government to the natives
who aided the survivors OF the Jeaunette
expedition.
HENRI RoCHEFoRT has received con-
firmation OF the report that Oliver Pain
died OF fever while in the camp OF FL
Mahdi, where he Is said to have been held
as a prisoner.
ADDITIONAL appointments have been
made in the British Government as fol /.
lows: Under Secretary for the Colonies,
the Earl Of Cadogan; Under Seer stsry
for War, the Earl of Dunmore; Solicitor.
General for Scotland, Mr.. Banperman
Robertson.
The President has made the auxlously
awaited appointments in New York city.
REV. Mr. STURGEON created sensation
in London on the 2sth by a sermon against
vice in high places.
The Queen, according to a London
rumor, is desirous Of ending her reign on
its fftieth anniversary next year.
OK the 27lh James d. Fish. ex- FRESH
dent Of the Marine Bank, New York was
sentenced to ten years at Auburn Peni-
tentiary, and has been taken to that iasti-
tuition.
BALFouR, the new Chief Secretary for
Ireland, is in favor of home rule, but has
his own ideas as TO what the term means
GENERAL scHoTIELD claims to have in
forma tion that the Ute Indians In South.
ern Colorado are behaving themselves.
BURcHARD has been suspended AMI DR..
James p. Kimball, of Pennsylvania, is ap-
pointed Director Of the Mint.
STRENUOUS efforts are to he made TO dc.
feat Lord Randolph Churchilps e-elec.