The Osceola times., 1885-07-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

oAMUEL a. hObiNSON, iorHefsy v. OF
! Louis, Mo-, 10 hopeful Of being made q
Commissioner for the District Of Colum-
bia
The President has suspended Marke L
Blunt, Register, and Michael II. Fitch,
Receiver, Of the land Office at Pueblo,
Col.
JANIS G. wNrERsMrrH, door keeper Of
the House of Representative, is dying
He has been III since the adjournment of
Congress.
HARRIET MOORE, . middle-aged San
Francisco widow, has commenced
breach Of promise suit for S225, 900 against
Moses Hopkins, aged seventy. The de-
fspdant Is q brother of the late Mark
Hopkins, railroad magnate, from whom
be inherited an estate esti mated at 80. .o00,-
900
PRoT. BARNARD, of nderbilt Uni.
versity, lays claim to the iscovery OF the
drst new comet this year.
OS the 9th Judge Forakt figured in
little fsticuff affair In Cincinnati court
room. His assailant was fined So, which
the Judge paid.
Extracts from the private memoranda
Of Louis Riel have been published in To-
ronto, Ont Riel claims In the memo
rands vine inspiration and prophesies
tho Duck Lake and other fights. No new
light 10 thrown on the cause of the rebel
lion.
LIKurENAxI w. II. ScHUTzs Of the
United States navy, started on his trip to
Siberia on the 9Th, on the steamer Fulda,
bearing presents from the United States
Government to the Russians who aided in
the search for the shipwrecked crew OF the
Arctic exploring steamer Jeannette
SYMPATHY for Louis Riel at Quebec has
taken the shape OF defense fund.
JUDGE TREE has qualified at Washing
ton rs Minister to Belgium
GENERAL JOSEPH z. JOHNSON, Railroad
Commissioner, is making tour Of inspec-
tion over the Pacific roads.
the Marquis Of Salisbury declares him
self opposed to the disesta abl b ment of the
Scottish Church.
ON the 9th Vice-President Hendricks
left Washington for home, and expects to
start early In August for a trip to the Pa
cific Coast, where he will stay some
weeks.
ON the 9th the Queen held a council at
Windsor and invested Lords Seton,
Northampton and Kimberly with the gar.
ter.
TIE designations Of the Deputy Comp.
troller Of the Treasury and all the officials
OF that bureau above the civil service
grades are said to have been rendered to
Secretary Manning, by request, but are
not likely to be acted upon for some time
OK the 9th farewell banquet was given
to Mr., s. b Packard, the retiring United
States Consul at Liverpool.
AroUB KHAN 10 still con fined In the cit.
adel at Teheran. He receives many visits
from the Persian Ministers. He thinks
war between England and Russia ineyita-
BILE within five years.
PROCEEDINGS for the determination of
the mental condition of John McCul.
Tough have been taken by his wife.
Judge Allison, Of Philadelphia has ap-
pointed Geo. w. Arundel Commissioner
to take testimony under the writ de
lunatico inquirendo.
AINIsrxR BOYD WINCHESTER arrived at
Berne, Switzerland, on the 10th.
GENERAL SHERIDAN started on the 10th
for the seat of reported Indian troubles In
Kansas.
HENRY OF Russ, German ambassador
to Vienna, accepts the regency of the
Duohy Of Brunswick.
President CLEVELAND has declined an
invitation to attend the opening OF Mag
ara Ralls Park.
GENERAL DECoURcEY informs the Gov.
ernment at Paris that the Anamite troops
at Hue have disbanded and surrendered
their arms to him,
The notorious Lee brothers, Of Texas
and Indian Nation fame, propose to sur.
render II they are paid the rewards, az.
gregating several thousand dollars, of.
fered for their capture
The State Department has made
eighty-seven appointments of Ministers,
Consuls, commercial agents and secreta-
ries of legations and has dispensed with
two clerks.
Mr.. HrBBs, ex Postmaster Of Lewiston,
Idaho, who stole $i5,0Oo and came near
securing $4,000, has written a letter to
Attorney General Bry ant of the Postal
Department complaining that n registered
letter he sent to friend containing 5000
never reached its destination.
CARDINAL MANNING, at London, has ac-
cepted the offer Of the Pail Mall Gazette TO
examine it's proofs Of recent charges.
The President and Colonel Lamont
have gone fishing The President will
fee unto the Adirondack about the lst of
August
ADMIRAL JouErr has been ordered home
from Panama.
JESSE X GRANT obtained Judgment
against Grant & Ward for $l2l Az.
COLLECTOR SPAuLDISa Of Chicago will
hereafter refuse to clear grain laden
Canadian vessels.
REL, the Northwest rebel leader,
hopes to escape through flaw In his in.
dictment
RuhoRs are afoat that General Logan
will oppose In the Senate the confirmation
OF Judd, the Postmaster at Chicago.
N. GREvY says he will not again be
candidate for the Presidency Of France.
SECRETARY LAMAR says that the cattle
trail must be kept open, and he has taken
steps TO enforce the order.
GENERAL JoHs GIBSON has been ordered
by the President to the command of the
Department Of the Columbia.
AUSTRIA Is protesting against the ap-
pointment OF Mr.. Jones, American Consul
at Prague.
Ex-CHIEF OF Police CURTIN, OF Buffa-
10, N. Y, 1t is said, is to be chief of the
Government secret service
A STORY is current that England, before
the fall OF Khartoum, rejected an offer
from Fl Mahdi to release General Gordon
for . ransom.
COLONEL LAMONT, the Presidents Sec
retary, is an expert telegrapher, and
sends and receives much of the White