The Osceola times., 1886-03-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
In the French Chamber of Deputies on
the 4th the motion for the immediate ex.
pulsion of the French Princes was re-
jected.
On the Sd fire was discovered in the Sec
ond level OF the Mineral Railroad and Min
ing Company's Hickory Ridge slope, at
Shamokin, Pa, and it was still burning.
The loss can not be estimated. The miners
all escaped.
MANY Chinese are said to be leaving San
Francisco for Texas and other more East
ern States.
THE House committee on naval affairs
has completed the consideration OF the bill
to increase the naval establishment. aud
will report the measure to the House at
the earliest opportunity.
OK the 4th the seasons schedule was
Axed up at the session of the National
Base Ball League.
DECISION has just been rendered at
Marion, Ind, affirming the rights of agents
and abstractors to access to county rec
ords.
FRANCE win not give in her adherence
to the Turko- Bulgarian agreement, ap-
pointing Prince Alexander ruler of East
ern Roumelia, until the question of customs
duties in Roumelia shall be settled.
On the ith there were lively times among
street car men in New York. The strikers
managed to prevent the running Of cars
despite the efforts of the police.
On the 4th the Iowa House OF Repre-
sentatives decided by a vote of 81 to 40, to
hau n .i.l mil FOO tal 10 haa
charges against Judge Hays with view
to his impeachment.
FRANCE has entered protest against
the Porte allowing Roumelis to impose ad-
ditional duties at the frontier upon French
goods which have already paid customs
tax to Turkey.
The striking weavers at Manchester, N.
H., received a telegram from the National
Assembly, Knights OF Labor, at Philadel-
phia, on the ID, saying that the order could
not ASST them. About three thousand
two hundred looms are running.
THE Senate committee on military af-
fairs, in its majority report on the Ftz-
John Porter bill, adopt the majority re-
port OF the last Congress and say: 1.-THE
committees have little to add 20 the re-
They recommend the passage of the bill as
a simple act of justice to deserving
officer.
OS the 5th the street-car strike in New
York ended in a complete victory for the
strikers.
| AT Montgomery, Ala, on the jth, fire de-
stroyed $500 bales Of cotton and caused q
loss of Sl59,0oO.
The Southern Pacific Railway Company
has made heavy cut in passenger rates
from Texas points to San Francisco.
AN American has created a sensation in
Ireland by bringing suit to dispossess the
holder of the Kilkenny estates.
THK internal revenue collections during
the first seven months Of the year ending
June 10, 1886, amount to StiS,s1S,i which
is 81 ,aS5, ,I57 more than the collections dur
ing the corresponding period OF last year,
| On the 5th a crank created constern tion
on the Paris bourse by firing revolver
and throwing bottle containing an ex-
plosive on the floor, at the same time shout
ing, "Vive L'Anarchie."
| DURING the month OF February the Sec
retary Of tie Treasury purchased i,l50, 900
| '"'S'' " 'hNes i'i Npih1-c ilto
dollars, being about $4,000 less than the
usual monthly purchases.
DURING the seven days ended the 5th
the business failures numbered for the
United States 2o1, for Canada 30, total 2i8.
against 246 last week and 2s6 the week
previous.
The Dominion Department Of Marine
and Fisheries have called for tenders for
the charter Of six swift sailing vessels Of
between sixty and ons hundred tons reg
istered tonnage, to be employed by the
fisheries police force on the seacoast OF
Canada.
THE fire losses of February arc estimat.
ed at Si,5oo,0o in the United States and
Canada. This is about the average for
February loss for the last eleven or twelve
years.
OK the 3th eight OF the Hyde Park Lion
don) rioters were sentenced to penal ser.
vitads for terns ranging from one to five
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