The Osceola times., 1886-03-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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under the terms Of his peremptory letter of
resignation. II was positively stated at
the Executive Mansion that the President
had not determined upon his successor,
but would take the matter under consldera-
tion as promptly as possible.
The remains Of ex Senator J. B. Chaffee
were taken to Adrian, Mich, for inter-
ment.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL WAL
LKR at London declares that the report
that the United States consuls In his iuris-
diction talk Of resignation II their salaries
are reduced IL mischievous and wholly
without foundation.
AN examination Of the books, concluded
on the 10th, shows an approximate short
age against County Treasurer Hollings-
worth Of Knox County, Ind, Of $7s,27s.33.
Everybody was dumbfounded and morti-
fed at this gigantic exposure. Hollings-
worth was prosperous and wealty farmer
when he took possession of the treasurer's
ofice.
MR. TRENHOLM, one of the Civil-Service
commissioners, is to be appointed Comp
troller Of the Currency.
In the billiard match at New York
'Schaefer made 600 ON the night Of the 1lth
to 500 for vignaux, making the total score,
Schaefer, l 800; vignaux,, 1,029.
ON the llth the Earl Of Aberdeen, Lord
Lieutenant of ireland, attended a meeting
at the Mansion House to devise means to
relieve the distress among the poor.
ON the 1lth motion made in the British
House Of Commons by Mr.. Labouchere,
reducing the grants for maintaining the
royal parks, was carried after lively con-
troversy.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
disailowed two claims Of John Roach, one
of $3S,S40 for extra work on the United
States monitor Puritan, and the other Of
&0,24 for watching, care, towing and
pilotage Of the monitor Roanoke from
March II, 1877, to September "A, 1888.
THE Pope has sent to Berlin q courier
bearing letter to Prince Bismarck, thank
ing him for his eulogistic reference to his
Holiness at the recent German parliament
ary dinner.
PoPE LEO has appointed the Belgian pri-
mate, Mgr. Grossen, to be chief OF the
clergy in the Congo State. A Catholic
seminary Is being founded at Louvain,
Belgium, where students will he especial
ly trained for service in Congo.
NAT c. GOODWIN and several other stage
artists were fined ten dollars and costs
each at Cincinnati, on the 18th, for taking
part in Sunday performances.
SENATOR JONES, "of Detroit,"is wanted
in Washington by the colleagues of the
committee on commerce to break tie on
the matter of the Eads Ship Railway Hill.
ON the night of the l2th Nine. Adelna
Patti partially failed in the first act OF
"La Traviata" at Valencia, Spain, and was
roundly hissed. She left the theater in
high dudgeon, and had to be escorted to
her hotel by the police.
SECRETARY LAMAR has submitted to
Congress, as required by law, IA list Of
about four thousand and five hundred
Indian depreciation claims. The total
number of claims call for an amount
approximating $i5,0o0,OOO.
PRINCESS HELENE Of Ypsilanti, Greece,
who with her husband spent S25,Oo0,000 in
ten years, has failed with liabilities of
100000.
The Postmaster General has issued an
order prohibiting the delivery Of registered
mail or the payment of money orders to
Marcus f. Frazier, operating at Des
Moines, Ia, as the secretary Of the Globe
Mutual Life and Assessment Association.
On the 18th no business was transacted
in Congress, the funeral services over the
remains of Senator Miller Of California
occupying the attention of the Senate in
Its chamber, and which was attended by
the House in body. The remains were
tent westward under charge of the con-
gressional committee.
OK the l4th Zelno p. Gordon, the oldest
telegraph operator in the United States.
died at CASTLE, N. Y, aged eighty two
years.
THE international billiard match between
Schaefer and vignaux closed in New York
on the night of the 18th, with Schaefer
the winner in the six nights by a score of
5000 to ,s55.
The London Observer says Gladstone's
home rule measures were unfavorably re-
eeived by the cabinet at its meeting on the
18th, and II persisted in, viii lead to the
disruption Of the cabinet.
MRS. DELLA PARNELL is better and no
serious results are apprehended from her
recent illness.
THE Irish are very much pleased with
their new viceroy, Lord Aberdeen.
On the l3th the wife Of Representative
Woodburn, of Nevada, died in Washington
after an illness lasting several weeks.
AN English commission has been ap-
pointed to visit Pasteur at Paris and de-
eide as to the genuineness of his method
Of curing hydrophobia.
Ma. PARNELL's long promised declara-
tion of policy, to be made in Parliament
on the 18th, 1t is said, will be very moder-
ate in tone.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 9th the huge paper mills at Frens-
dorf, Germany, were burned. The i'm
mense structure was completely reduced to
ashes. Hundreds OF men and women are
thrown out of employment in consequence
The damage will reach million marks.
OK the 10th John johnson, convic,
confined In the Jail at Pittsheld, Mass.
made murderous attack ON Keeper Full
Ter, and the latter, to save his life, shot
johnson through the heart.
ON the sth horrible double murder and
q robbery were committed at the farm
house of John 7. Everhart, near Licking.
vile, Pa. A boy in the family, returning
from school, found Mrs. Everhart ly
ing on the floor with her throat cut from
ear to ear, and her mother, Mrs. Gillfallen
In the spring house also with her throat
cut and life extinct. The house had been
ransacked and $500 taken.
On the 10th the tug-bo John Marke
was blown up in Boston, and five men
composing hcr crew, lost their lives.
An attemp. was made on the 10th to as
sassinate Jules Verne by his nephew a
Amiens, France.