The Osceola times., 1886-09-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Csnpiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

decorated In honor of the return or frlnce
Alexander. The latter started the pre-
yious evening for Sofia, where he was
warmly received.
Hon. s. NJ. SrocKsLAGER, assistant Com
missioner of the General Land Office, has
withdrawn from the congressional race in
Indiana.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has offered Fl 5000
for the establishment of free library at
Edinburgh, Scotland, on certain con-
ditions.
POSTMASTER WILSON OF Savannah, Ca,
who refused to give way to his successor,
was forcibly elected by post office in
spector on the "a.
A VIGOROUS Home-Rule campaign is to
he conducted during the parliamentary re-
cess by prominent Radical members of the
House Of Commons, assisted by the Par
nelltes.
Prince ALEXANDER of Bulgaria sent a
very submissive letter TO the Gar, upon
resuming tho government of Bulgaria, to
which he received an exceedingly curt and
menacing reply.
THERE are said to be strong indications
at Washington that the State Department
Is not pleased with the part Consul Porch
took in the Sedgwick matter.
MANAGER FRANK PATTERSON, OF the
Asbury Park tN.J.) opera-house, who was
convicted of forgery and has been con-
fined in the Monmouth County jail for two
years, was released on the 2d on $1,000
bail, it having been decided by the Su-
preme Court that the County Court, before
which Patterson was tried, was illegally
constituted.
Acting SECRETARY FAIRcHILD has is
sued n circular calling the attention of all
officers and employees Of the Treasury De-
partment TO the Presidents order of Julyli,
1856, warning the Federal officers aga inst
interference in politics. The circular con-
tains no instructions or orders, but simply
calls attention TO the order OF the Presi-
dent, which is printed therein in full
A. G. SEDGwIcK, United States Envoy
TO Mexico TO investigate the Cutting case,
is said to have been rather prominent in
Washington under the Board of Public
Works regime. In 1870 he went to Wash
ington at the suggestion of Sunset Cox,
whose influence procured him position
un Ter Governor Shepherd. lie became
involved in quarrel with contractor,
however, and resigned, going back to New
York to practice law.
MINISTER RoMERo denies that Mexico
wants to sell any of her territory.
THE revolutionary regiments at Sofia
have surrendered Internationally to
Prince Alexander.
1T is reported that tho Cars reply 70
Prince Alexander has paralyzed the move-
ment in favor of the latter in Bulgaria.
PRINcE ALExANDER's letter to the Gar
Is generally conceded TO lie a mistake, and
the opinion is expressed that his abdca-
tion must follow.
WILLIAM X. KUEPP, of Kansas City.
NO., has sued Colonel E. II. Phelps for
s25,0O0 damages for alleged defamation of
character.
A DEPUrATIoN of Irish ladies, headed
the wife af the Lord Mayor Of Dublin,
will present to Gladstone declaration in
favor of home ru|e, signed by 100000 Irish
women.
GENERAL b. +. CHEATHAM, the famous
ex-Confederate general and postmaster.
died at Nashville, Tenn, On the 81. He
was appointed postmaster at Nashville by
President Cleveland and had been con-
frmed by the Senate.
VOLUME one of General John c. Free
mont's memoirs is to be published this
week in Washington. 1t is said that fifty
thousand sets of the work have been en-
gagged in advance.
ADvIcEs from Philadelphia are TO the
effect that Hon. Samuel J. Rancid is very
Ill at his country residence near Paoli, Pa.
II is his old enemy, the gout.
Ex-PREsIDENr ARTHUR writes to a friend
in Washington that his health has very
much improved since his soiourn in New
London, Conn.
PRrNcE ALEXANDER Of Bulgaria has
abdcated. He told his officers he could
not remain in Bulgaria, because the Gar
would not permit him to do so.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, British Am
bassador to Turkey, has been recalled, and
he has been succeeded by Sir William
White, late minister at Bucharest.
W. c. CoRcoRAN, the venerable Wash
ington philanthropist, sent his individual
check for 5000 to aid the Charleston
earthquake sufferers.
A DISPATCH from London announces
that Hanlan's challenge to Beach will be
accepted. Hanlan has cabled for quarters
at Putney, and will sail for England in
few days.
0S the evening of the 4th, Jake Schae-
fer, the champion billiardist Of the world,
opened his new parlors in st. Louis The
visiting experts were given grand ban
quet by Schaefer during the evening.
MINISTER Cox will sail from Havre
October for New York.
OK the 9th Mayor Courtenay Of Charles
ton, S. c., arrived in New York from
Europe, and left on the first trian for the
ruined city.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has issued a decree
summoning tho Bulgarian National As
sembly to meet on the 1lth inst.
GENERAL AUGER, who was shot by a
negro some time since in Washington, is
rapidly recovering.
SAMUEL MORLEY, prominent cham
pion Of Protestant non conformity and a
former m ember Of the British Parliament.
is dead.
CHARLES HAMILTON, the American citi-
zen recently sentenced to death at Zacat-
ecas, Mexico, for murder. has had his sem
tence committed to sixteen years. impris-
onment
MARCUS A. WOLFF, who was the bearer
Of $500 from the Knights OF st. Patrick
of st. Louis to Parnell is said to have been
shabbily treated by that gentleman and is
still in possession of the purse.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
HENRY REEDE, farmer living two
miles north OF Davenport, Ia, drown ed
himself In tank for watering stock on the
night of the 3Ith.
FIaE in Baltimore, Nd, on the 3lst en-.