The Osceola times., 1886-02-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
sssJse from Everywhere.
psnsoxAL AND political.

fr1nCe Alexander tne TUE ot musuH uuu
Governor General Of Eastern Roumelia.
In the Prussian Landtag on the 2sth,
Prince Bismarck delivered . two hours
speech ON the expulsion Of the Poles from
Germany.
SrR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH announced
In the British House of Commons on the
26th the resi- ignation of the ministry, and
the House adjourned until February
on the asth cablegram was received an.
nouncing the death Of United States Con-
sui Alfred n. Lyhrook at Algiers on that
date, of consumption. Lybrook's appoint
ment was confirmed Just one week pre-
vious.
An agrsrisn agitation Is to be inaugu.
rated in Wales by Michael Davitt and
others. 4ti.s F.f.
UP to the goth no definite agreement had
been reached by the Ohio Senate confer
snce committee.
ON the 29th, N. Janssen, the American
recently expelled from Norberg, Germany,
returned to that town and was immediate.
ly arrested.
THE remains Of Jacob w. Thoman, the
actor, who died on the 28th at the Forrest
Home for Actors at Philadelphia, were
taken to Lancaster, Pa, ON the 2ssh and
cremated.
QUEEN VICTORIA has accepted the resig-
nation Of the Salisbury cabinet, and on the
10Th summoned Gladstone to Osborne for
conference.
PRINCE BISMARCK, referring to his recent
speech In the Landtag, said a coup de'etdt
or the dissolution Of the Reichstag is not
intended.
ArroRNEY-GENERAL GARLAND has re.
fused to give the Senate the papers con-
cerning an Albania removal, and the issue
is thus Joined.
A RECENT article in the Nineteenth Gen.
tury by Arnold Forster charges the Irish
with being race Of conspirators and ad.
vises frmness In the treatment OF Ireland.
ON the 10Th Murat Halstead, editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. and Joseph
J. Mcdowell, business manager Of the En-.
Quirer, were arrested on a charge Of pub
fishing lottery advertisements.
GENERAL J. B. Far reiterates his state
ment that General Sherman had said that
"had c. r. Smith lived, Grant would have
disappearsd to history after Donelson,"
and produces letter containing the ex.
prslsion.
A POLITICAL article In the Fortnightly
Reviec advocates . frank concert of the
wings with the Nationalists, and in case
Of . failure Of negotiations with Parnell
they should try to deal with the Home
Rulers through Healy.
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY has in
structed Admiral Hay, the mmander Of
the English Mediterranean squadron, to
employ force against the Greeks whenever
they attack the Turks.
In the case Of Paymaster- General ]. A.
Smith, United States Navy, the sentence
of the court-martial having been con-
frmed by the President, was promulgated
on the goth, and it Is: "To be dismissed
from the pos ition Of chief of the bureau Of
provisions and clothing In the department
Of the navy; to be suspended from rank
and duty as pay inspector, on furlough
pay for three years, and to retain his pres
ent number in his grade during that Pc
Rod. A
COMPTROLLER DURHAM has just finished
an examination of the accounts of the
Court Of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims for the five months from April to
August, 1885, inclusive. He has disallowed
of these accounts So, $50, because the pay
ments were not authorized by law.
SECRETARY MANNING on the Goth is sued
. call for 100000 900 three per cent. bonds,
TO mature March next.
The Democratic Senator'S, at caucus In
Washington on the 3Oth, agreed to support
the President In his issue with the Repub-
lican Senators on the question of suspen-
sions of federal office holders.
TIN billiard match, 5000 points, for
5000 side, between Schaefer and Wig.
naux at New York, which was played last
week, closed ON the night of the 30th with
Q victory for Schaefer, the score at the
close standing: Schaefer, 5000; Vignaux,
2,eSs.
MRs. LOUISA LEE BAyARp, wife of the
Secretary Of State, died at Washington on
the 8lst.
OsNAN DIaNA Is said to be advancing on
Nassowah with o large army.
ON the 30th the Ohio Senate adjourned
to the I'd inss-, without having come 70 any
settlement of the differences between the
two factions. Meanwhile the conference
committee were endeavoring to agree
upon Compromise.
JuDoR SrALLo, United States Minister
70 Italy, Is reported to have said in a re-
cent speech at the German club at Rome,
that che called himself an American off,
cially, bat the more he saw Of German civ
ilisation the more he felt that in compari-
son with it the Americans were barbar.
ous."
mrs. NooRH, Of Cincinnati, is credited
with having given the handsomest enter
tainment seen in Paris during the past
week. Many French guests were present.
OK the 3oth Postmaster General Villas,
who had been confined to his room for a
week with neuralgia, was reported as i'm.
proving.
THE House committee on agriculture has
under consideration a number of bills in
tended to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia among domestic animals.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA of Spain has
conferred the order Of the Golden Fleece
upon Cardinal Jacobini, in testimony OF
his services to Spain in adjusting the Car.
olines dispute with Germany.
SocIAL circles at Greensburg, Pa, are
consid erably agitated over the disappear.
apce Of two society people, Mrs. r. E
Aius he rich young wife of prominent
msfchapt, and J. Thornton Marchand, Z
lading iavver and son OF Admiral Mar
chand.
EIfunoRs ere currsnt in washington tha,
Secretaries Bayard and Lamar and Attor'
ney-Gsnsral Garland want TO resign.
rRRpER1c HAhRIsoS, In lecture in Lon
don on the 3ist, prorounced landlordism
crime against human nature and society
CRIMns AND cAsuALrIRs.