The Osceola times., 1885-10-10

The expectation OF cereals Is prohibited
by Turkey.
TRANQUILITY SEEMS to have bsen re.
stored at Montreal, ani vaccination is
proceeding.
FoR September the custom receipts
amounted to Sl7 52l. 25l, against sl7, G62..
632 in September year ago. Internal
revenus receipts were $40 4+6, lol, or q
half million more than in September,
1891; and the miscellaneous receipts were
$500, 3G6, ,0s2, nearly half a million mora
than in September year ago.
Ar Pittsburgh, Pa. on the I'd, prize.
fight was abruptly terminated by the
friends of one of the contestants throwing
pepper into the eyes OF the other.
In German di lomatic circles it Is gen.
orally understood that Austria is secretly
supporting Ssrvia.
The Government OF Greece has obtained
t5oO. 900 loan for defensive operations,
in view of the possible spread OF the Rou.
melian difficulty.
The State Board of Charities OF Penn.
sylvania has made the disc overy that the
Allegheny County Home at Woodville Is
in such wretched condition that tle in
mates are dying at the rate OF one day
from typhoid fever and other infectious
diseases.
SERvIA's hostile attitude with an army
in the field and the probability that she
will seize contiguous territory, it is
thought, will cnuse diff Guilty in tho soiu
tion Of the Balkan question.
ADvIcEs from Phiippopols state that
the Roumelians are greatly angered over
the reports that Russia wishes to dethron,
Alexander.
DURING September the total receipts
at the National Treasury wero $29,97i,-
9-G, against $50, ,2lo,llo in Septemb,r 1881.
Government expenditures for September
were SIC, 0l305i. nearly million and
quarter less than In September. 1884
DURING the seven days ended the 2d,
| there were Ill failures In the United
States as compared with 1D the precei-
ing week, and with 1ss. 100 and 122 ro-
spectively in the corresponding weeks OF
1884, 1888 and 1882. About 81 per cent
were those OF small traders whose capital
was less than 5000. Canada had TWEEN
| ty-three, an increase of three.
BULGARIA is described as being one vast
military camp, all the male population be.
| tWttu tue uReS VI ultttli uuu DS
ing under arms.
| A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch says the
English have taken possession of Herat
and ordered the Inhabitants to quit thu
town Immediately.
STATISTICS are being gathered by the
| Signal Service Bureau with view to pre-.
dieting torpedoes and giving warning Of
their approach.
THE people Of Crete have sent an ad.
dress to the powers asking the mainte-
nance Of the Berlin treaty; otherwise that
Greece be permitted to annex Crete.
| THE recent census shows Boston, Mass,
to have population of 36), ACE, a gain
27,S7J since 1880. There Is a preponder
ance of 1G, 2O4 females over the males.
RETURNS Of emigration from Germany
show a decrease for the past eight months
of 90, 1000, as compared with 1884.
ENGLISH sympathies being with the
Christian races in Turkey, it will be next
to useless for the Porte to look for help
from England in the present and prospec
tive difficulties.
THE Mormon contingent which went to
British India some time ago to promulgate
their doctrines have given up the field
after an unsuccessful campaign. They
were in a state of destitution when they
left.
RUSSIA is said, and generally conceded
to be the real power behind the Bulgarian
union.
Forty Nihilists were arrested in War.
saw on the Sd for conspiring to murde,
the Gar.
THE imports Of general merchandise a,
the port of New York during the week
ended the 81 were valued at = ,GGi, ,5SG,
and of dry goods at 81, ,G92, 90i
THE total death list from small pox il
Montreal and vicinity during September
foots up 996. For the week ended the 81
the total was 500.
The number of pension certificates is.
sued by the Pension office last month was
5,546, an increase of thirty-three and q
third per cent. over the issue during Sep.
tember last year.
The people of Bavard, Guthrie County,
Ia, are considerably exercised over the
ravagcs of hydrophobia among horses and
cattle, caused by their having been bitten
by rabd dog a few weeks ago.
THE social purity movement, founded
on the recent revelations made by the Pail
Mall Gazette, is steadily gaining strength
in England.