The Osceola times., 1886-03-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Wevss from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

sion merchants, have failed.
On the Sd Right Rev. DR.. Elder, bring
ing the pallium from Pope Leo 10 Arch
ishop Corrigan, arrived at New York ON
the steamer Gallia.
The Prussian Government has ordered
the Polish poet, Krasxwits, to return to
prison on May I. The poet says that his
return will soon be followed by his death,
a. he Is now In feeble health.
JOHN KELLY, the old rammany leader,
10 said TO be improving In health rapidly,
and his friends are confident that II he es.
capes another relapse during the spring he
will be well man again.
v.P. Snyder, Acting Comptroller Of the
Currency, issued call upon the National
hanks on the Sd for q report Of their condi-
tion ct the close of business on the first
day Of March, 1885.
THE Senate committee on military af-
fairs is understood to have agreed 10 .
favorable report on the FitE-John Porter
bill by . vote Of six to four. There will
also be minority report.
The pall;um was conferred with appro-
pirate ceremonies at New York on the ith
upon Archbishop Corrigan.
PROCEEDINGS looking to the disbar ment
of ex-Judge Small, Of Milwaukee, Wis,
have been begun In the Circuit Court Of
that city.
PARxKLL and his followers will support
Mr.. Gladstone In the dabate with the
Conservatives ON the civil service esti-
mates.
GLADSTONE failed to fall into the trap
set for him by the Tories, and the Holman
motion In the House Of Commons was
withdrawn.
GOVERNOR IRELAND Of Texas has re-
voked the extradition warrant in the case
Of J. B. Beloadsky, wanted at Chicago for
embessiemeut.
THURSDAY, the 9Th inst, was the twenty
third anniversary Of Mr.. RandalPs service
In Congress, and handsome flowers were
sent to his committee-room by some Of his
friends In commemoration OF the occasion.
LORD PLuNKErr, Archbishop Of Dublin
and primate of Ireland, at the request Of
the Episcopal bishops Of Ireland has con.
vened the synod for the 2sd inst, to obtain
an expression OF the opinion Of the church
on the political situation in Ireland.
GENERAL GRosvENoR, Of Ohio, presi.
dent of the National League, has called .
m Getting Of the National Council, to be
held at the Ebbitt House, Washington, d T..
c., on Saturday, March 81, at ten O'Clock
q. m.
On the eth the Supreme Court Of Ohio
affirmed the decision of the lower court In
refusing to grant writ of habeas corpus
In the case Of Daniel J. Dalton, Of Cinci :
natl, held for contempt by the House Of
Representatives.
ON the lth Speaker Carlisle announced
the following special committee to inves.
tigate the facts concerning the ownership
Of PAN Electric Telephone stock by certain
public officers: Messrs. Boyle, Oates,
Eden, Hall, Hale, Ranney, Millsrd, Han
back and Moffatt.
JACOB h. DIMMocK, of Port Jervis,
N. Y, has been appointed postage stamp
agent at New York to succeed Major J. b.
Tassett. The place is worth $4,000 per
annum.
ON the night Of the 5th zukertort won
the thirteenth gams In the chess series at
New Orleans.
PRINoE ALEXANDER has ordered the de.
WILLIAM CARVER, who was serving Q
life sentence for murder In the Indiana
penitentiary, has been pardoned.
JAMES T. HOLLAND, on trial at New
York for the killing OF Tom Davis, the
sawdust swindler, was acquitted by the
jury on the bth.
IT is authoritatively stated that Glad.
stone has neither directly or Indirectly con-
suited Parneli In regard to home-rule.
CHIEF PouNpnAKER and eleven braves
were liberated from the penitentiary at
Stoney Mountain, N. w. T., on the 4th
They have gone West to their homes In
charge Of Father Lacombe.
PRINcE BIsMARcK, who expected to at
tend the afternoon session Of the Reichstag
on the 9th, was compelled to remain home
by severe attack Of muscular rheumatism
In the chest and shoulders.
GRNRRAL 6ruRGIs is being urged by his
friends for promotion to be ajor- General.
The Queen. Regent of Spain has par
Toned the Duke Of Seville who was recent
ly imprisoned for insulting her.
LABoR COMMISSIONER KocHrIrxxY Of
Missouri is said to be surprised and
panied" ct the strike on the Gould system.
SENATOR EDNuNDs has not yet made .
declaration Of his intentions toward the
Presidents message to the Senate con-
cerning suspensions.
PREsIDENr CLEVELAND has issued to the
newspaper correspondents who are en- :
titled 10 admission to the reporters gsl-
lsries Of Congress a formal invitation to
his reception In honor Of Congress.
On the morning Of the 9Th Rev. J. X. W.
Sloane, DID,, Professor Of Theology at the
Reformed Presbyterian Theological Sem
mary at Allegheny City, Pa, was found
lead In his bed, supposedly from heart
disease.
her public Saturday receptions on the 9Th &,
and more than four thousand people called
during the afternoon.
NUMEROUS petitions are being circulated
IN Washington and are being numerously
signed asking the Senate to refuse confr-
nation 10 James c. Matthews, who has
been nominated by the President to sue.
ceed Fred Douglass as Recorder of Deeds
for the District of Columbia. He 10 col
ored.
MARQUIS TsESo has left the Chinese di.
plomatic service and has become the
chief of the Chinese Admiralty.
JEn SIXTH, the champion pugilist OF En-.
gland, whom Sullivan is aching tnotl "a
meet, was given . benefit at st. James
Hall, London, on the night Of the 9Th, al
which he was presented with champion
hip belt worth $4,000.
HOLLAND. the Texan, who killed Tom
Davis, the "boodle" swindler In New York
was considerably lionixed after his acquit
tai Of the charge of murder. It is said
however, that some Of Davis friends bat
sworn to kin him before he could leave th.
city.