The Osceola times., 1886-02-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Wesiso from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
TEE Cabinet meeting on the ilth was de-
voted 10 the consideration Of the silver
question and the anti Chinese riots In
Warrington Territory.
KINo MILAN has summoned the entire
eervian army to enter the field fully
equipped for war, TO undergo six weeks
drill.
MURRAY, who waved red dag In the
recent riotous procession at London, has
been arrested, and will be tried on the
charge Of melting the mob at Hyde Park.
AT Leipsic Captain Ssrauw has been
sentenced TO twelve years penal servituds
for furnishing plans and information of
German Notifications to the French mill
tary authorities.
In the French Chamber of Deputies on
the 1lth, n. Basley, the workingman depu-
~, made violent speech In defense Of the
striking miners who trampled N. Watrain
10 death.
nsral Of General Hancock, but found that
10 would bs impossible for him to do so. It
was arranged for the Cabinet to be repre-
sented by Secretary Bsyard, Secretary
Endicott and possibly one or two others,
together with detail Of naval officers.
CoLoNRL HARBINGKR has been exoner.
stsd by the French military court from all
blame In connection with the disaster to
the French troops at Lang Son during the
Tonquin war.
On the 18th Hon. Horatio Seymour died
"a 4 -
Conkling, In Utica, N. Y, aged seventy.
elk years.
JoHn MORLEY, Chief Secretary for Ire.
land, has been reelected TO Parliament
for Newcastle.
San JONES, the revivalist, charges that
Chicago Arm has pirated his sermons.
ON The 18th, for the first time in eigh-
teen years, Queen Isabella met her hus.
band Francis ct the tomb of Alfonso.
GEHERAL CRooK will adopt very string.
snt measures In the spring to keep the
Apaches on their reservation.
On the 18th Charlotte Smith called on
the President in the interest Of the work.
lngwomen of the country.
TEE leaders of the recent London riot
called TO see Mr.. Gladstone on the 18th,
and be not being In, they left q statement
Of their demands.
RECENT overhaulfng Of the record shows
that Benton lacked nine months Of serving
thirty years In the United States Senate.
ON the 18th Hon. Geo. c. Bates, one of
the organissrs Of the old whig party, and
having National record, died at Denver,
COL, aged seventy zone years.
t. h. N.~ ~rForl d;vo-,. . z nuAAu
on the 18th, Mr.. Crawford was granted Q
decree, but the charges against Sir Charles
Dilks were dismissed.
ARCHBISHOP ELDER, who brings the
pallium for the Archbishop Of New York,
autographed from Paris that be will leave
Liverpool for New York on the 20th inst.
TEE matter Of the charges against Judge
White, ex-member Of Congress from the
Twenty fifth Pennsylvania district, came
up before Judge Williams, Of Tioga County,
on the 18th, and Judge White was honor
ably acquitted.
On the 18th the Tammany general com.
mittee elected John Kelly chairman Of the
finance committee. Resolutions were
adopted regretting the death Of General
Hancock and recognising the illustrious
services which he had rendered the coun.
Try. A committee was appointed to at.
tend the funeral.
CHARLRs H. McCAULEY, treasurer of
Warren County, Pa, is reported to be Q
dsfaulter In the sum Of $leO,O0O. His defal-
cation 10 attributed to unsuccessful specu-
tations.
Hon. HENRY wArrRRsoS's illness has
developed into q complication Of kidney
and nervous diseases. He suffered q seri-
Gus relapse on the night Of the 11th, aud 10
dangerously III.
On the 18th the remains Of the Gen.
sral Hancock were removed from Cover
uor's Island and taken TO New York,
from whence, after brief funeral services,
they were taken to Norristown, Pa, and
Inferred In the family vault. The funeral
vas conducted without pomp or ostenta-
aon. The usual military honors were paid
BY 6ring. salvos Of artillery over the last
resting place by detachment Of United
States Artillery.
TEE sentence pronounced against First
Lieutenant Lorenzo w. Cook by . general
coust.martial at Fort Ellis, Mont, Of dis
misaal from the army, has been set aside
BY General Terry.
6R CHARLRs DILKE's friends are urging
him to retire to the continent for a while.
KING MILAN Of Servia, II Is said, will
sign . treaty Of peace with Bulgaria re-
gardless Of any action by Greece.
JOHN B. MANNrx, who was until recently
assignee Of the Archbishop Purcell estate
ct Cincinnati, has been arrested, charged
with smbezzling $3.50, 900 of the estate.
On the 18th duel was arranged between
Clemenceau and Buchesne, members of the
Frvnch Chamber of Deputies, but hostile
meeting was averted by the interference of
friends.
TIE dencit In the accounts Of 8. r. Ster.
ling, late treasurer of Rockingham Coun-
ty, Va, 1t is now thought, will approxi-
mate $4,000.
ON the 18th George X. Foster, alias A. c.
Bremwell, was arrested at Detroit, Mich,
on the charge Of forgery, and was taken to
Atchison, Kas., on a requisition by an
agent Of the Nickel Plate railroad. The
road lost 81 200 bv a forged bill Of lading.
Mas. GENERAL SHERIDAN, who had been
quite III for several days, was reported ON
thelsth as rapidly regaining her health and
strength.
Mr.. HKNRY WArrKRsoN's disease 10
said tc be spinal meningitis, and he is not
expected TO recover.
ON the 18th ex-Gov ernor st. John of
Kansas lectured on Temperance at the
South" in Chickering Hall, New York.
In an order to the troops under his co m
mand, announcing the death Of Captain
Crawford, General Crook pays high trib-
uts 10 the dead soldier.
TIE Mormon apostle and fugitive from
Justice, George O. Cannon, who has been