The Osceola times., 1885-08-01

1T Is rumOrel tnat the rfeucn 0ovorns
ment is Withholding unfavorable news
from Anam and Tonquin.
THs State conv sntion OF miners at Pitts
burgh, Pa, decided to refer the question
OF afflliation with tn Knights Of Labor to
the National convention.
ENoLAND has tsnierei the use Of her
Gem terry at Constantinople to the Ameri-
can colony there.
SHIPMENTS OF anthracite Goals to West
ern markets have commenced In earnest.
The rate this year is but trifie over three
mills p,r ton per mile.
THE gross earnings OF the Central Pa
cifc Railway for the year 1854 were S23,-
90, being nearly two aud a half nil
lion less than for 1881 The expenditures:
2i,2 900, over Sl,O0),00J creator than the
previous year. ,ficit inclui ding unearned
dividends paid Si,sj0,0)o.
A DEMENTED man was arrested at L)n-
don, on the cath, having made threatr
against the Princess Beatrice.
DELEGATES from Pittsburgh, Pa, to the
National Millers' Convention have been In
structed to favor the eight-hour law.
THERE is CONSERVATION among the rail-
way postal clerks at Washin gton who
have been summoned for examination on
short notice
A MILITARY organ In st. Petersburg,
Russia, reports the off from Texas of the
servi ices of a hundred cowboys in the event
Of war.
ALL the public buildings In Washing
ton are elaboraiely draped In mourning
in severely simple but most taste ul
manner. The mourning was put on in
bands without any strsamers, and the
fleet is described as str kingly effective
IT Is rumored that the Apaches have
surrou nd ed the mining camps In the Cam
onea Mountains, Ariz ma The miners
are standing guard night and day. Indian
signs have also been seen within four
miles of Nogales.
THE MEXICAN editors vis,tsi Mount Ver-
non on the oath, aud upon their return
to Washington called a meeting, at
which speeches were made aud odes read
expressive OF the affect onate regard en-.
tertaInsd by the Mexican people for Gen.
oral Grant.
THE bus ness failures occurring through
out the country dur ing the seven days
ended the oath number for the United
States 1872, and for Canada 90 or a total OF
2 8, as against a total OF 227 last week,
and lSj the week previous to the last.
ON the 25th Maud S. trotted a practice
mile at Cleveland In 2:ll.
THE Montana Iidiln trouble Is said to
have been greatly exaggerated.
THE battle Of Calamar was not a success
for the Colombian Government
APPLICATIONS have been made by Qua
temala and Venezuela for twice their
former amount OF space at the North, Cen
trail and South American Exposition at
New Orleans
THREE HUNDRED mechanics have quit
work In the West Shore Railway shops
because their wages have not been paid
them for nearly three months.
SEVERAL Fall River (Mass.) mill corpo.
rations, representing over a million spin
dies, have agreed to shut down for -four
weeks between July % h and October ist.
| ON the 25th the Oxford crew pulled
,cross the English channel from Dover to
, Calais starting at 10 !: Is a. IN. aud arriv.
ing about Up. m.
A SYNDICATE is forming In Germany to
inaugurate q plantation system in the
Cameroons country.
| STARTLING developments are promised
! when the investlg alton Of the coast survey
bureau is made.
| RUSSIAN troops are to be withdrawn
from the advanced positions in the z ilh-
car Pass provided the Afghans do not oc-
cupy the positions evacuated.
the British Government 10 inv ,stigat-
ing the proposed trade convention be-
tween the United States and the British
West Indies.
THE Cleveland Rolling Mill is reported
to be forming pool to fill orders Of iron
and steel mill m an whose works are closed
by strikers or other causes.
On the 25th band OF returning Apaches
were.intercept ID at the pass leading to
their reservation, near Bisb,e, Ariz, by
Captain Lawton's command and seven
were killed.
The flagship Tennessee arrived In
Hampton Roads on the 26th.
JOHN Slower has been convicted OF mur /.
dering Archilta Scraper in the Cherokee
Nation, and sentenced to be hanged Octo.
Der 18th.
A NUMBER Of owners of bonded whisky
have devised scheme by which they hope
to dodge the tax for period Of eighteen
months, but there is small prospect Of sue.
cess for them.