The Osceola times., 1885-08-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL


CARLorrA PATTI Is about to publ sh q
book of personal "reminiscences of IAN
Artists Tour Around the World"
The Khedive has issued decree In
which be says s., 0o0, 900 Of the new Egyp-
tian loan viii be expended in irrigation
works.
OK the Goth viscount Errington, NJ. p,
created sensation in London by de-
nouncing the Government for trucking
to the Parnellite blackguards."
PRESIDENT CLKvELAsD has forwarded
a subscription Of $50 to the fund for re-
building Music Hall at Buffalo, y. ",
which was destroyed by fire in March
last.
7. X. MILLS, reported drowned at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 18th, was re-
suscitated.
BRowS, BoSSELL & Co, of Cleveland,
O, have signed the wages scale of the
Amalgamated Association.
A. W. CoFFMAN, a wealthy citizen of
Avoca, Ia, Is in jail at Council Bluffs for
killing a man.
THE Mahdi, just before death, enjoined
his followers to keep up the fight against
the Christians.
AT Rome 1t Is given out that the Arch
bishop Of Bait more will be made Cardi-
nal In September.
VERY Rev. PATRICK REILLY, Vicar
General Of the Roman Catholic Church at
Wilmington, DEL, died on the 30th.
The Virginia Democrats nominated Gem
eral Fitz Hugh Lee for Governor, Jas. Il.
Massey for Lieutenant Governor, and X
e. Ayers for Attorney General.
AT banquet In London ito the Minis
ters, on the 3Oth, Lord Salisbury said the
foreign policy OF Mr.. Gladstone would be
carried out.
SENATOR MALONE has issued a circular
TO the ousted Virginia Postmasters con-
tanning a series Of questions to be an
swered by them, which he will use as a
basis for fight in the Senate.
MRS. GRANT desired that in case Union
officers like Generals Sherman and Sheri-
dan were selected as pail bearers, a lead
ing Confederate officer like General john
ston or General Buckner be also included
In the list. The President has appointed
both the gentlemen named.
A MONUMENT to the memory OF Rebecca
Nourse, who was hanged for witchcraft
July 10th, 1882, was dedicated at her old
home In Danvers, Mass, on the 3th.
The committee of the Union OF Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations has voted that
services In memory Of Sir Moses Monte
fore shall be held In all cities OF the coun-
try on some day to be decided upon.
IT Is reported that since Ell Mahdi's
death his followers have been continually
fighting among themselves.
SECRETARY BAYARD has received dis
patch from the United States Consul at
Marseilles saying that the recent report
Of an outbreak of cholera In France Is un.
founded. In one small village there has
been few cases OF cholerine, which is
not epidemic.
Dr. JoHN OKANE MURRAY, Of Phila
delphia, Pa, died at the Leland Hotel
Chicago, on the 30th, Of consumption. Dr.
Murray was en- route to Colorado Springs
for his health. He was Catholic writer
of some note, being known chiefly through
his "History Of the Catholic Church In the
United States" and "History Of English
Literature"
Rev. JEREMIAH O'SuLLrvAS. not Father
Byrne, is the new Bishop Of Mobile.
PRINCE BISMARCK and Count Kalnoky
will be present at the meeting Of the EN-
perors at Gastein.
OsxAs DIeSA Is reported to have been
killed in the Kassala battle. The Mahd's
followers are every where demoralized.
THE Governor Of Connecticut has pro-
claimed August sth, the day of General
Grants funeral, a legal holiday In that
State.
.<f ~ 4
has been disbarred from practice as an at
torney before the Interior Department for
extorting illegal fees.
JACOB ERB, arrested In Chicago on a
charge of drunkenness, died In his cell on
the 3lst. A post mortem examination
showed that the man was not drunk and
that death was caused by chronic infiam-
nation Of the brain.
COLONEL FRED GRANT has issued a spe-
cial invitation to members of his fathers
Cabinet to attend the funeral.
SECRETARY BAYARD received from
Lima on the evening Of the 30th tele-
gram announcing the death of Lieutenant
Nye, naval attache to the American Le-
cation at that place The Lieutenant. was
instructed to accompany the remains Of
ex-Minister Phelps to the United States,
but before the date of departure he be
came i'll and died.
THE designations Of the six chiefs of di-
visions In the Second Auditors office
(Treasury Department. have been re-
quested. They are: Thos. c. Bailey, F.
II. Goodall, c. Tomell, Thos. Rathbone, II.
A. WALTON and G. c. Snow.
SECRETARY BAYARD on the 3lst recei v ed
from the French Government 10, $50 francs,
being the amount awarded by the,Franco-
American Claims Commission to Ameri-
can claimants against the French Gov
ernment. Nineteen claims were presented
and all but two were either dsallowed or
dismissed for want of Jurisdiction.
THE President, it is said, will, within a
few days, fill the vacant second lieuten-
ancies existing in the line Of the army
from civil life. There will be ten vacan-
cies after the non-commissioned Off GERS
who are now being examined shall have
been assigned to regiments.
The jury in the Riel trial at Regina, N.
w. T.. returned a verdict OF guilty, and
the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged.
GENERAL GRANTS body is said to be ex-
cellently preserved.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, OF Indiana, 10 re-
cuperating at Hot Springs.
MINISTER LorHRoP has presented his
credentials to the Gar
CouST Won MUNSTER has declined the
German Ministry at Paris.
CHEZ SHAW, of the London FIRE brigade,
will visit the United States.
GENERAL JOSEPH e. JOHNSTON started
on the lst from Portland, Ore, to attend
the funeral Of General Grant. He is one
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