The Osceola times., 1886-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS.

WAR on the New York bucket shops has
been commenced by the Stock Exchange
ordering that the business of furnishing
them with Quotations must cease.
oN the 2Gth the British Parliament dis
solved.
On the 22d numerous persons were sum-
marily convicted at Sligo, Ireland, of par
ticipatingin the recent riots there. Oth-
ers were committed for trial at the As.
sizes.
The steamer Elbe, with the excursion
party OF American grocers, arrived at
Bremen on the 22d. A very hospitabe re.
ception was given to them.
FIVE hundred kilos ofterritory have been
purchased in Vitu-Zanzibar by the Ger
man Colonial Association.
ON the 22d the new scientific building,
costing $4,000, presented to Smith Coli
lege, Northampton, Mass, by Alfred
Theodore Lilly, was dedicated Prof j.
2. Leslie, of Philadelphia, delivered an
address on "The Utility of Physical
Science in Education"
Prussia proposes to found an indepen-
dent Prussian Bishopric at Jerusalem.
A SYNDICATE of Partisan finauciers have
advanced 2i 10000 irScs TO the Panama
Canal Company a, security for the hy-
pothecation Of the recent call.
ON the a3l the st. Louis & san Francis
CO Railroad Company filed bond with the
Secretary Of the Interior in the amount of
$500 900 as an indemnity TO the Indians
foIany loss that the latter may sustain by
the building of the road through the
Chcctaw and ChicKasaw nations.
THE international llahnemann Associa-
| tion began irs SIKH annual meeting at
Saratoga on the 24th.
A SPECIAL commission of eleven mem-
bers ba' been appointed by the French
Chamber OF Deputies TO inquire into the
proposed Panama canal "lottery loan"
In the Maine canvass the Knights of
Labor propose TO address open letters to
the candidates for the Office OF Governor
and to all candidates for the Legislature,
demanding decided "ycs" or "no" TO
their queries without any "glittering gem
Civilizations"
OK the night Of the oath at a mass-meet-
ing Of the power-loom ingram carpet
weavers OF Philadelphia, at which fully
POO were present, il was decided to 90 on
a strike at once against the proposed re-
duction OF half cent per yard in their
wages.
THE Ninth Infantry eight companies Of
which have been for several years sta
toned at Fort Russell, wy. T., has been
ordered TO Arizona, where General Miles
is concentrating force to crush the In
dians. Fort Russell will be garrisoned By
the Seventeenth infantry, from Dakota.
BY order of the Postmaster General
twenty-seven railway mail clerks have
been discharged for insuburdination in
conspiring to obstruct the regiSation Of
| the service.
WASHINGTON CRY is hard at work try
ing to get the National exhibition Of 1892
located there.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended the 25th for the United States
were 1888 and for Canada -, as compared
with l3o for the preceding like period.
An eleven-year- girl who was bitten
by a dog in April last aud treated by Pas
teur. died a few days ago in France.
THE Ciearmakers' Union of Pottsvile.
Pa, on the 2jth presented scale of prices
to the employers involving an average adj
vance of one dollar per thousand, and
stated that unless acceded to a general
STRIKE would ensue on the 18th. The en-
ployers declared a lockout, applying TO
every factory in this city.
| THE collections OF internal revenue dur
ing the first eleven months of the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1856, amount to >l07,-
lO4, ,4s5, being an Increase OF s5,402, SIS over
the receipts for the corresponding period
of the previous year.
An American citizen has obtained a
concession 10 erect theater in Panama
and engages to complete Il within one
year. n is to accommodate seven hundred
psrsons. he govsiAment exempts the
thsst~r from oil tsxation for the period OF
six ,veafs,