The Osceola times., 1885-11-28
TOPICS OF TILE DAY.
News from Everywh GRO.
prRsoNaL AND POLITICAL.


AeExr ARMsrsoSG Of the Crow Agency
In Montana, has telegraphed the Interior
Department that the Indians on Tongue
River are properly supplied with rations
and in no danger Of starvation.
THE old naval retiring board has been
dissolved and q new one formed, composed
Of Rear Admiral John L. Worden, Captain
A. w. Weaver, Medical Directors Thomas
J. Turner and William T. Hood, and Cap
tain Richard W. Meade.
AN international single scull race is TO be
arranged for the championship of the world
between Beach, Of Australia, and Hanlan.
The challenge issued by X. X. Fox, Offer
Ing to match Hanlan against Beach for ST.
BOO a side, has been accepted by VIM. Dee
BILE, Beachs backer, and he has written to
the Police Gazette that he will cover the
forfeit The match Is TO take place two
months hence.
SPEAKER CARLISLE and family are in
Washington.
Ex-SrArE SENATOR ANDREWS, of New
York, died ON the 18th.
LIEUTENANT GREELY lectured In Edin.
oulsh, Scotland, CT Tie n.ght o. the le.h.
GENERAL PRENpERGAsr, in charge Of the
British expedition to Burmah, expected to
reach Mandalay on the sith.
CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS was inaugu-
rated President of Cornell University on
the 10th.
ANDERSON, who eloped with Miss Ridge.
way, an English ward In chancery, got
one months Imprisonment for it,
PRINCE ALEXANDER in his appeal to the
Porte, states that he has withdrawn the
Bulgarian troops from Eastern Roumelia.
Ma. DORIAN B. EAToN will, 1t Is said,
remain ON the Civil Service Commission
till the end Of the coming session of Con-
gress.
The Quebec Chronicle demands that an
Investigation be made into the escape Of
jackson, Riel's Secretary, from punish-
mont, and says that his plea Of insanity
appears to bc dodge.
GENERAL SroNEHoUsE, of Albany, N.
T., who was member of President Cleve-
lands staff when he was Governor of New
York, 10 lying very seriously i'll at the Eb-
bett House, Washington.
Mr.. ROBERT L. REAH. s"', father OF mrs.
h..-. ursease at the residence Of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Fuller, at Washington, ID. C.
Ar the meeting of the Cabinet on the
18th each Of the members submitted a
statement Of affairs in his department
deemed Of sufficient consequence to be
brought to the attention Of Congress in the
Presidents forthcoming mes age.
Mr.. BAyARD, Secretary Of State, and
n. Romero, the Mexican Minister, are
about to exchange the ratiacations of an
additional article to the commercial treaty
between the United States and Mexico Of
January 20, 1888, extending the time to
May 70, 1885, for the approval Of the nec-
essary laws to carry into effect the opera
tions Of the said commercial treaty.
SUPERINTENDENT BELL Of the Foreign
Mail Office, Post-otiice Department, has
requested Surgeon General Hamilton of the
Marine Hospital Service to have all mail
matter coming from Canada fumiga at
the exchange Offices on the frontier. This
10 ordered because Of the continued pres.
ence Of smallpox In Canada.
UNITED STATES CONSUL NEwcoMB at
Lyons has sent to the Secretary Of State
. report upon the use Of q mixture Of
slacked lime and sulphate of copper as
cure for mildew or rot upon grapevines.
This remedy is being extensively used In
France with favorable results.
STEPHEN NJ. OsrRANpER, the historian,
Of Long Island, N. j., died on the night of
the 10th, aged fifty -four.
Ex-GovERNoR SMITH will contest Mr.
Edmunds' reelection to the Vermont
Eenatorship.
A GERMAN American named Thielman,
locksmith. has been expelled from Fleus.
burg, Prussia.
APPOINTMENT CLERK HIGGINS Is said
10 be devoting his energies to secure the
position of Sergeant Arms Of the House
Of Representatives.
THE Servian General Govanovitch has
been dismissed from his command for fail.
ure to execute an order given him previous
to the repulse of the Servians before Sliv-
nitxa.
WILLIAM Il. SMITH, the successor of Mr..
Coon, as Assistant Secretary of the Treas.
ury, took charge of his office ON the Goth.
Russell SAGE has given $G0,OO) to Cor
nell University to found a professorship
of Ethics and Moral Philosophy, which
ing Of the Trustees on the goth.
JOIN GEARHARr, a farmer living near
Catawissa, Pa, has recently lost three
children by diphtheria, and on the Goth
had four lying III with the dread disease.
He had family of fourteen children.
ON the 10Th Hon. Levi p. Morton, ex Min.
lister to France, and family, arrived In
Washington. Mr.. Morton says he will
take no active part in politics this winter
A BODY, found near Los Angeles, Cal.
has been identified as that Of Benjamin II,
Longnecker, defaulting Poor Director Of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
JAMES BLACKBURN, q former paymasteI
Of the Lake Shore & Western Railway, has
been arrested at Milwaukee, Wis, In con.
nection with shortage in his accounts.
MALCOLM 8. DorY obtained judgment
for $l,7O0 against the St. Joseph Hospital
at Omaha, Neb., for the loss Of an eye by
Q servants carelessness.
The complete correspondence of Carlyle
and Goethe has been discovered In the
archives of the latter.
SENATOR CALL, of Florida, is building
himself fine residence In Washington.
MRS. CoLMAs, wife of Norman ]. Col.
man, Commissioner Of Agriculture, is dan.
gerously III at Washington.
IT Is rumored that the Duke of Con.
naught is TO be made chief of Her Maj.
esty's lorces, vice the Duke of Cambridge
who will shortly retire.
In an election letter the Marquis of Sails.
bury says: make the support Of the
church test question above all Others"
HRrRY RYDIcK was defeated in his sui,