The Osceola times., 1885-09-05

A GREAT boom is reported In the Bear
Mountain mining camps, recsut runs Of
metal assay inx vsrv satisfactoriiy.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opsnst In
@ alicia for the benefit Of the sxiled Polea
A rxLroaAx was received at the De.
partment of Justice on the Path from .
man In West Virginia, asking II he could
kill man for drunkenness.
BUSINESS failures throu ,hout the coun-
try during the seven days ended on the
2sth were: For the United States, 1856;
and for Canada, "a; or total Of lss fall
ures, as compared with the total OF III
the week previous.
A PETITION will be presented to the
Home Secretary of Great Britain, praying
for the suppression Of the sale OF obscene
prints.
TIE Iowa State Veterinarian has been
ordered to investigate what is supposed to
be Texas cattle fever In Pottawatomis and
Harrison Counties.
HUNDREDS Of laborers have been swim.
died In Chicago by labor agencies who
sent them to the Canadian Northwest on
false promises of work to be obtained
there.
CoLoRED soldiers at Fort Meade, OAK,
who UNDER took to wipe out the town of
Sturges because Of the lynching OF Hall,
were captured and returned to the fort.
THE crew of thu whaling Lrig Isabella,
crushed In the Ice July Goth, 1884, arrI we'd
in Halifax on the 2sth with the loss of
only one sailor, who died Of scurvy ON the
voyage home.
The Treasury accountants are expected
to make some startling objections when
they reach the accounts of the Fish
Commission, the Geolo gical Survey, the
Weather Bureau and others.
IRISH agricultural statistics show that
there are 100000 acres OF land under
crop in Ireland, an increase Of sl,0)0 over
the acreage Of 1874; that there are 10, $50.
900 acres Of grass land, decrease Of 20O,.
900 acres, and that bog, barren and noun.
tain land has increased $1,000.
TIE revised estimate Of the losses by the
recent storm at CharI eston, s. c., Is ST.
100000, including 100000 along the
wharves and $3.50, 900 of privat, property.
The remain der includes losses on ship
ping, 500, 900; on Sullivan's Island, $780,
900; cotton presses, $si, 900. and city prop.
erty, churches, railroads and phosphate
mills, $4,000 each, and miscellaneous,
$l55 600. The work Of reparation Is so
active that all business now Offering Is
fully accommod ated, and in the next ten
days the facilities will be as good a. ever.
CHOLERA Is reported to have made its
appearance at Nagssaki, Japan.
OVER 40 HungarIans and Polanders
havo recently left Pennsylvania for the
Northwest
YELLOW FEVER Is raging on the Pacific
Coast Of Mexico
IT Is now said that peace between En-.
gland and Russia is assured.
ENGLAND is willing to evacuate Egypt
IL Turkey will guarantee to maintain or.
der
The value OF exports OF merchandise
from the United States during the twelve
months ended July 3lst, wore $133, 3Ss 40.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele.
graph Company has sued tho Western
Union for damages to the amount of 81, :
O0O,O00
Two ladies OF rank were recently cap.
turel by bandits In European Turkey aud
were held until ransom Of $40, 900 was
paid.
A NEW set OF glassware Is being manu-.
factured for the White House
| THE German Government Is preparing
for the cons sIruction Of a number of canals,
one Of which is a ship canal from the
Baltic Sea to the German Ocean.
The peasantry Of South Germany are
alarmed over the disappearance Of the
rocks, which they take as an indication oil
the approach Of q cholera epidemic.
GERMANY has assured Spain Of desire
to settle the Caroline Islands dispute ami.
cably.
An officer, who has seen arctic service
is to have charge Of the Greedy relics al
the st. Louis Exposition.
THERE 10 q rumor that Bismarck'i
seizure OF the Caroline Islands was a
ruse to secure an understanding with the
United States VIII reby Germany would
annex Cuba and the United States would
secure the Philippine Islands.
THE number of immigrants landed In
the United S ates during July was es 3O4
THERE were 367l new cases of cholera
In Spain on the 9th and ILL deaths from
the disease There were ffty-six deaths
In Toulon on the 10th and twenty on the
3)lh. In Marseilles there were flfty.thres
deaths on the Goth and twenty -four on the
30th. Typhus fever is also spreading In
the latter city, I