The Osceola times., 1886-11-13
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

mayor of New York.
IT is announced that Mr.. Henry w.
Cannon, who resigned the position Of
Comptroller Of the Currency to become
vice-president Of the National Bank of
the Republic, has been selected for the
presidency Of a National bank In New
York City.
M. PAsrFUR has informed the Frenc b
Academy of Science that he has treated
during the past year 2.4ao persons who
have been bitten by animals, and that
only ten have died.
I. V. PowDERLY denies the recently
published statement that he is free-
trader, and says he is a protectionist
from the top of his head to the sole OF his
foot.
JOHN BRIGHT refuses 10 accept the prin-
ciple Of political clubs "that wherever the
loader of party goes the whole party is
hound to follow"
MARIANA BARcENA, an eminent engi-
ncer, hes been sent by the Mexican Gov
ernment to study the cause of the contin-
ued eruption of the volcano at Colima.
RIoHr Hon. EDWARD SrANHoPK, British
Colonial Secretary, announces that West
ern Zululand will form new Republic.
Eastern zululand will be reserved for the
Zulus under a British protectorate, IL the
Zules desire II.
The large vote for George In New York
has created a profound impression in Lon
don, where he Is well known. All the pa.
pers moralize on the growth Of anarchic
tendencies, and express the opinion that
his present ideas are more advanced than
those expressed by him In England.
THE Boston Board of Aldermen voted on
the 4th to extend the courteses OF the city
to President Cleveland on his visit TO the
city on the sth to attend the Harvard Col
lege celebration.
The friends Of Parson Dow ms announce
that Benz. +. Butler has been retained TO
defend Mr.. Downs In his coming trial at
Boston.
ALDERMAN McCApE, OF New Y ork, has
been declared insane by council of ex-
pert physicians, and he will be sent to
ono Of the State insane asylums.
N. BARTHoLDI and the other members
of the French delegation paid their re-
spscts to President Cleveland at the
White House on the 4th. They were pre-
sented by Secretary Bayard.
RICHARD PRESTON, the Boston coal
dealer, who was reported to have abb
seconded owing between $4,000 and $780,
900, has returned to the city, claiming TO
have only been away on "a business trip,
and 70 have been detained by illness.
COMMANDER b. +. CHANDLER, u. s. N,
who was reported to have died on the 81 st
ult., proved to have only been in state of
coma, from which he rallied while the un-
dertaksr was preparing him for burial.
He subsequently suffered another shock OF
paralysis, and il Is now announced that he
Is really dead.
The President has appointed George W..
Baxter, of Cheyenne, Wyo., to be Govern
or OF Wyoming Territory, vice Francis Il.
Warren, suspended.
CONTEST is to be made of tn will OF
Mrs. Henrietta Lenox, Of New Y ork, who
made many charitable bequests.
IT is said to be probable that Rounds,
ex x-public printer at Washington, will be
prosecuted for Irregularities in Office.
Two new asteroids have been discovered
by DIR. Palisa.
GENERAL kAuLBARs demands the dis
missal of the prefect who expelled Rus
sian subject from the Sofia council cham
ber,
FRANK JAMES says that Jim Cummings
was not the sort of a man for the Frisco
express robbery, and he does not believe
him tho guilty man.
1T IL rumored that Mr.. Carlisle will de-
cline re- election as Speaker of the House
Of Repre sentatves for the reason that his
seat in TO he contested.
WISCONSIN Democrats are claiming
that their loss of the Second district to
the Republicans in the recent elections
was caused hy General Bragg's treach-
cry.
1T Is reported at Constantnople that
Consul- General Heap viii be appointed
to succeed Minister Cox.
BISMARCK, 1t is said, perceives serious
danger in the increasing fondness Of Ger
mans for foreign investments.
TnE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Merchants National Bank
Of Lawrence, Kas., TO begin business with
a capital Of 100000.
SETH WnMARrA, aged seventy six
years, a man of remarkable mechanical
ability, died at Maiden. Mass, on the 5th.
Since 1855 he has been superintendent and
master mechanic of the Charleston Navy
Yard.
THE reports in the Austrian press that
Nine. Gerster, since the birth of her
daughter, had lost her voice, that her
husband deserted her and that she had be-
come insane, has ELECTED a telegram from
Nine. Gerster, declaring the story libel
GUS untruth and that she is living happily
with her husband.
GENERAL MIDDLETON, commander OF
the Canadian militia, in his annual report
will recommend that the gatling guns
now held ly A and B batteries he trans
ferred to two Of the infantry schools,
and that additional gatling guns be pur-
chased TO supply one TO each infantry
school. He believes. after a thorough
study Of the American weapon, that it
could be made serviceable in the hands OF
the militia.
SENATOR VEST, of Missouri, says Colonel
Benton, the recently suspended district
attorney. is too good an officer and man
to be sacrificed.
Os the 9th Count DeLesseps and several
others of the French visitors sailed for
France.
OK the 9Th Theodore Roosevelt, late Re-
publican candidate for mayor Of New
York. sailed for Europe, and. it is said,
will bring a wife back with him.
THE Democratic National committee de.
.lare that the Dem ocrats will have as
east seventeen majority in the next
House
IT is positively announced that Secre-
.ary Lamar will be married before Christ
mas.