The Osceola times., 1886-08-14
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MISCELLANEOUS.

A MOVEMENT is on foot to establish
cotton market at Bremen.
TaE bill extending the immediate de-
livery system TO all classes of mail has be-
come law.
THE bill for the relief Of the Christian
Brothers college at st. Louis has been ap-
proved by the President.
The Commissioner of Agriculture reports
that the bureau of animal industry re-
Gently purchased and killed in Maryland
seventeen head of cattls affected with
ro-pneumonia. The price paid the
owners of the cattle was seventeen dollars
head. In all, the bureau has now
slaughtered twenty-five affected cattle
paying an average of eighteen dollars a
head.
The British and Russian Afghan bound
airy commission is rapidly bringing its
work to close, the differences between
them having been settled.
TnE Knights OF Labor and the Miners
Association Of Pennsylvania, heretofore
at outs, are trying to lraternlze.
OK the ith 1t was announced in lie Parts
that a meeting of all the Bonaparte fam
lily, except Prince Victor, would be held
on the 18th instant, at Pranings. Prince
Jerome will preside, The object of the
meeting is to unite the Royalist party.
Prince Victor declines to attend on the
ground that he alone represents the EN-
pire.
THE annual meeting of the National
Civil-Service Reform League at Newport,
r. l., on the ith, was attended by a large
and intellectual audience. Eminent Civil
Service reformers from ali parts of the
country were present. The annual ad-
dress was delivered by the president OF
the league, Hon. George William Curtis.
Mr.. Curtis was unanimously reelected
president.
HONORARY degrees have been conferred
on number Of Americans by the Hedel-
berg University.
TWENTY FIVE new cases of typhoid fever
and three deaths were reported on the
South side of Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 5th
At that time there were over two hum
dred cases, and many of them were Sc
rious.
The contest for the Montreal challenge
cup between detachment Of Canadian
artillery and variols British detachments
took place at Shoeburyness, Englan ,, on
the 9th. The Canadians won with IA score
| of GO. The Midilesex team were second
with a score OF 30.
THE July fire record in the United States
and Canada, as estimated by the New
York Commercial Bulletin, involved the
loss Of sl0,00O,0OO worth of property-ffty
per cent. greater than the average fire
loss in July for nearly twenty years
OK the 9Th a test was made of the pro-
posed Meigs elevated railway at Cam
bridge, Mass. 1t was wonderful sue
cess.
THE cholera returns from Italy on the
9TH were: Bologna, new cases and !
deaths; Ravenna, II new cases and 10
| deaths; Verona, new cases AMI > deaths;
Venice. new cases and l death; Padua,
10 new cases and deaths, and A. new
cases and 10 deaths elsewhere.
So much discord and social confusion
exists in Burmah that il mas been decided
to send 5000 additional British troops to
hat country, and an additional force of
police.
In the opinion of Senator Vest, Of Mis-
souri,, recent legislation will ruin Yellow
stone Park unless Congress comes to its
rescue next season.
Ok the 9Th the Canadian propeller Cali
fornia arrived in Chicago from Montreal,
with about forty passengers. The carry
ing OF passengers on foreign vessels be.
tween two American ports Is violation Of
~ Americas coast laws, the penalty Tor
which 4 aae of I've dollsrs for sach pas.