The Osceola times., 1885-01-17

| A LIMA CPei.i) paper declares that the
Peruvians in their desire to become Euro
peanized are losing their politeness.
The debt of the State of Indiana is ST.
$780, COS, all of which is due the State school
fund, except S607 ,s25.
Ar Dover, N. H., Salvation Army Cap
tain defies the Mayor on the ground that
he gets his orders from Heaven, and would
not allow earthly powers to dictate. The
/ Captain has sent for endorsements, and
the Mayor is getting his forcss in order to
assert his authority when the real test
comes.
THE Central Council OF the Irish National
League, at Belfast, has dissolved because
IL could not indorse the action OF Parnell
In connection with the electoral contest in
| Tipperary.
THE iron rolling mills at Wyandotte,
Mich, after being shut down several
months, will start in few days, giving
employment to between two and three
hundred men, who agree to accept the re-
duction of ten per cent. proposed when the
mill shut down.
NEWS was received on the 9th that tho
German corvettes of the Cameroons coast
had fought battle with the natives, the
latter being routed with great loss of life.
The marines landed and burned several
native villages. Only one German was
killed and eight wounded.
THE recently published reports of whole-
sale freezing to death in Northern Ne
braska are now pronounced utterly false.
DURING the seven days ended tho 9TH
there were AS failures in the United States
reported to Bradstreet's against 366 in the
preceding week, and 3ij, 3i2 and 2O3 in the
corresponding weeks of 1854, 1888 and 1882
respectively.
On the llth several members of the SAL
walton Army were arrested at Dayton, o.
A CALL has been issued for a meeting at
Cincinnati, o., on January 9th, of advo-
Gates of the proposed Irish Parliamentary
fund
THE Spanish American citizens OF New
York have taken steps to relieve the dis
tress of sufferers by the earthquakes in
Spain.
THE Director of the Mint reports that
the total coin circulation of the country
January LIST, 1885, was 1927 100000.
On the llth a fearful storm ragged all
day In the west and south of England.
Telegraph lines were prostrated and COM
munication impeded. ltwa thought much
damage had resulted.
IS New York petition in favor of tho
Spanish treaty, addressed TO tho Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions has been circulated among the mer-
chants and manufacturers, receiving many
signatures.
For the week ended the 10th the imports
at the port of New York were -, 900, of
which - ,GGs, 900 were dry goods and =, lO5,-
90 general merchandise.
On the 10th the Deutsche Bank of Berlin
purchased II 100000 worth of second mort
gage bonds of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road
A SENSATION was caused in Berlin by the
announcement of the desire of New Zealand
to annex Samoa.
TYPHOID fever and cholera are said to
be ravaging the troops in the Tonquin
delta.
THE syndicate formed to organize the
American exhibition in London, which Is
to be opened in May, 1856, has been merged
into private company with u capital of
$4,000, of which Lord Ronald Cover is
chairman.
A BRIGHTER outlook seems to be dawn
ing for the iron workers in Pennsylvania.
Many of the mills and foundries in Read
ing are preparing to resume operations.
THE Department Of State at Washing
ton has received from Cork, Ireland,
solid silver model of Shandon Church in
Cork, intended for exhibition at the New
Orleans Exposition.
THE Masonic fraternity at the National
Capital have refused to participate in tho
Washington Monument celebration.
IT was demonstrated on the 10th that
base ball dropped from the top of tho
Washington Monument gets too "hot" for
even an expert ballist to stop by the time
it reaches him.
On the 10Th the most severe snow and
wind storm of the season ragged at Silver
ton, Col, and vicinity.
AN organization styling itself tho Brit
ish Congo Company has been formed in
London. The capital has been fixed at
- 100000. Several members OF the House
of Commons are interested
THE police of London claim 10 have re-
ceived information that simultaneous at
tempts are about to be made to blow up
Holborn viaduct and the Mansion House
railway stations.