The Osceola times., 1886-12-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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- PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
LIEurExANr-GENERAL SHERIDAN has Is
sued o notice that ''the Society Of the
Army Of the Cumberland will hold its
eighteenth reunion at the City Of Washing
ton on the 1lth and 18th Of hay, 1887, on
which occasion the statue In memory of
Is lamented comrade, General James A.
GARFIELD, will be unveiled"
COLONEL THOMAS MOONLIGHT, OF Leaven-
worth, Kas.. has been nominated by the
PRESIDENT Us Governor Of Wyoming Ter
ritory.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has transmitted
the rights OF American fishermen In North
American waters.
LORD LONDONDERRY, viceroy Of Ireland,
has appointed Mr.. Sexton to the shrievalty
OF Dublin and James O'Mara TO that Of
Limerick
TEN Presidents expression of desire
for the negotiation Of q new commercial
treaty with Mexico has been well received
by the press and government Of that coun-
try.
has served notice upon Congressman elect
Nicholas T. Kane that he will contest his
seat in the Fiftieth Congress on the ground
Of fraud.
REv. WILLIAM DUNCAN, a British mis-
sionary, gives a glowing account of the
progress Of the Indians in British Co
iumbia.
COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY TnrS-
HOLM says that Mr. Serbia was asked to
resign on account Of his inccmpetency.
The Comptroller regrets that Mr.. Scriba's
persistence should make IL necessary TO
reveal the true cause Of the desire TO make
a change.
SHERIFF FLEDpERMAN, of Baltimore, Nd,
has BEEN presented by the grand jury for
attempting TO bribe q colored voter at the
polls Of the Third precinct of the Tenth
ward at the recent congressional election.
Fledderman denies the charge.
SENATOR JONES, Of Florida, and his son,
who arrived in Detroit Mich, on the 9th,
from Columbia College, were cut riding on
that day, when a runaway threw the Sena-
tor out OF the carriage, badly straining his
side. He will bo laid up for some time,
but expects V be In Washington after the
holidays.
PRISUs ALEXANDER, late OF Bulgaria,
had D private audience with the Queen ut
Windsor on the 9th, and remains Her
Majesty's guest at the castle AZ his
brothers request he has become sponsor
Of Princess Beatrice's baby, which was
christened with water brought expressly
from the River Jordan.
CAPTAIN WEED of the bark Cremona,
which was lost at sea on the sth inst, has
arrived at New York.
EDWARD HAxLAN, the oarsman, sailed
from England for America on the 10th
]. w. Brown, u Canadian Orangeman, Is
thought TO have met with foul play in Par
is, France.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has expressed his disap-
proval Of the anti-rent campaign being
conducted by the National League in Ire
land.
CONGRESSMAN ABRAM DowDNEY, of New
York, died al his residence in New York
City ON the morning Of the 10th Of apo
plexy.
, Rev. EDWARD McGLyNN, ID. d.. OF New
York, has been summoned to Rome on ac-
count q his advocacy Of the Henry George
movement
MORN and Shields, who wrestled in Kan
sas City few days since, nre having a
wranglc over the gate receipts, and make
ugly charges ag2inst each other.
QUEEN VICTORIA has forbidden the ad-
mission, within the precincts of Windsor
castle, of newspapers containing reports
Of the Campbell divorce suit,
DIR JuSKER, the African explorer, tele-
graphs that he arrived at Zanzibar from
the interior. He reports that he left Emir
Bey well. and that the latter had reduced
the rebels to submission as far as Lardo,
on the White Nile, whence there is daily
steamer service.
The death of Representative Dowdney,
which was announced on the 10th, swells
10 twelve the death list Of the Forty-ninth
Congress. 1t is as follows. Nico-Prosi-
dent Hendricks, Senators Miller, of Cali
fornia, and Pike, OF New Hampshire; Rep
resentatives Elwoon, OF Illinois; Rankin,
of Wisconsin, Aahn, Of Louisiana; Beach,
Arnot and Oowdncy, Of New York; Price,
oi Wisconsin; Cole, of Maryland, and
Duncan, of Pennsylvania.
LOUIS II. STANTON, son of the late Edwin
nj. Stanton, says he will produce from the
papers left by his father ample evidence
to refute General McClellan's allegations
against President Lincolns Secretary OF
War.
SEVERAL petitions have been received
by Comptroller Trenholm from bankers
asking for the retention of Mr. Serbia as
bank examiner, but Mr., Trenholm is de
termjned that Serbia must go.
REAR ADMIRAL JouETr has returned "a
Washington from his trial trip with the
Dolphin and makes very satisfactory re
port as TO her batteries, speed and general
ease in handling.
MAJOR II. 7. STANTON, of Kentucky, has
been appointed "A member OF the commits
sion TO aliot lands in severalty TO the Ia
dians on the umatilla reservation In Ore
gon.
DIR. THEopnRE BARru, member OF the
German Reichstag, had an Interview witt
the President on the llih, and was strong
ly impressed with the dignity and sim
plicity of his reception at the Whit,
House.
THE Earl of lddlesleigh, British Secre
tary FOR Foreign Affairs, is in feeble
healtn, aud has retired TO the country
where he will remain for awhile 10 recu
perate.
4 Yin. PHELPS, American Minister at Lon
don, is confined to his homo with lumbago,
hut the worst of the attack is thought Ia
be over, and he expects TO resume his du-
ties at the legation in a few days,
MAJOR WALKER, late superintende Mt of
police in the District of Columbia, is max
ing strenuous efforts TO secure his rein
statement. He accuses the commissioners
OF failsre TO fulfll their promise.
PREs.pESr CLEVELAND, although still
suffering from rheumatic pains, resumed
his oficial routine on the llth. lie received
an unusually large number Of congress
sional visitors during the forenoon. Gen
erals Sherman and Sheriden were among
the callers, and met Gabriel r. Paul Post,
q. A. r., OF New Jersey, who were pres
ent TO pay their respects 10 the President