The Osceola times., 1886-02-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERsoNAL AND POLITICAL.

in London, in which Sir Charles Dixie 10
correspondent, has been further delayed,
but win probably be begun on the sth.
ON the 4th the seventh annual National
Sugar growers convention met at st.
Louis, Mo. Hon Norman q. Colman,
Commissioner os Agriculture, delivered
the annual address.
ON the 4th Lieutenant Commander X.
M. Curtis, U. s. N, died Of internal hem.
orrhage at San Francisco.
PAnSELL offers to find Morley constit.
uency in Ireland in case Of his defeat at
Newcastle.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has issued his address
TO the voters OF Midlothian, asking re-elec-
tion to Parliament.
N. GOBLET, French Minister Of Public
Instruction, made speech on the 4th In
favor of elementary secular education.
NJ. DE LEssEPs has invited the Chamber
Of Commerce of New York to send dele
gate to Panama to witness the ''inaugura-
tion of the Anal period Of work" on the
Isthmian canal.
On the night of the 4th the territorial
normal school at Madison, OAK, one Of the
finest brick structures in the Territory,
burned to the ground. Loss, $4,000; no
insurance.
A WASHINGTON correspondent AYERS
that in December last Secretary Bayard
and Minister Soteido OF Venezuela signed
a treaty by which the Venezuelan Govern
ment agrees TO pay American claims
amounting to several million dollars. The
treaty also adjusts the relations between
the two countries, and is soon to be sub
mitted to the Senate.
Mr.. ]. CoLLINGs, whose amendment de-
feated the Salisbury ministry, has been
appointed secretary of the local govern
ment board under Gladstone.
DR.. ARMSTRONG was convicted by the
ecclesiastical court at Atlanta, Ca, of vic.
lation of his ordination vow.
MICHAEL DAvrrr believes that Mr.. Glad
stone Is the only English statesman that
has the courage to grapple with the Irish
problem and establish peace between En-
gland and Ireland.
ON the 9TH John Mcmahon, defaulting
ex-collector Of revenue of Hoboken, N. j.,
was sentenced to five years In State Prison.
SIR WIN. VERNON HARcoURT promises
the electors that he will support the new
Government In solving the Irish question
in a way that will maintain the union and
the supremacy of the crown.
THE President has pardoned George X.
Sims, who was convicted Of participating
In a conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment in pension case, and was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment In the South
ern Illinois Penitentiary.
On the 9Th the New York Assembly
passed the bill to submit the question Of
holding constitutional convention to a
popular vote.
On the afternoon of the 5th the Presi-
dent held public reception. There was
very fair attendance, notwithstanding the
cold weather. Over hundred strangers
shook hands with the President, a good
portion of them being ladies.
PROF. c. d. MORRIS, of John Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Nd, is dead.
CONGRESS Is looked to for liberal appro-
priations for naval construction during the
present session.
FRIENDS OF Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett deny that she is or has been In an
asylum for insane.
A YOUNG man giving his name as Rogers
died at sea ON the. way TO America In the
ship City Of Chester.
HENRY BRoADHuRsT, a workingman, has
been made under secretary for the English
Home Department.
ON the 7th deputy marshals failed in
search for George .. Cannon in Salt Lake,
but they have not given up the chase, and
offer 500 reward for him,
USFAvoRABLE stories are published at
Washington concerning the eccentricities
Of Judge Stallo, minister to Italy.
THE London Economist strongly objects
to giving Harcourt the Chancellorship Of
the Exchequer saying 1t is a hazardous
experiment.
THE following officials in Ireland have
been appointed under the Gladstone gov
ernment: John Naish, Lord Chancellor;
Samuel Walker, Attorney .General The
McDermott, Solicitor General.
ARCHBISHOP GIBBONS OF Baltimore has
received from the plenary council in Aus.
tralia circular letter of congratulation,
addressed to all archbishops and bishops
In America.
LIEUTENANT MAus' official report Of the
affair in Mexico in which Captain Craw.
ford was killed, confirms statements al
ready printed, showing that the Mexicans
made no mistake, but did just what .they
intended to do.
THE Governor of Wisconsin has pardoned
two sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Merroot and
Mrs. Margaret NJ. Cooley, convicted of per-
jury nine months ago.
nx,S L.. asl.
suspended Edwin Hudson, Superintendent
of Police, and appointed Arthur q. Moore
in his place.
THE will Of George Lorillard bequeaths
the bulk of his property, estimated at
S2,Oo00OO, to his wife.
THE casket containing the remains Of
James A. Garfield has been placed in q
handsome bronze ssrcophagus at Cleve.
land, and II has been hermetically sealed.
POSTMASTER DALTON of the House Of
Representatives says the mails for mem.
bers have been of late unusually heavy,
from $4,000 to 1900 letters daily, an aver.
age Of forty letters per member. Some
members get but few letters, while 9th
ers often got several hundred communica.
tions in day.
SENATOR LOGAN is said to have adopted
crest for his letter paper. A calume,
across an Indian war bonnet is the design
selected. Senator ingalls, has an open
eye with the inscripti on underneath; "Hs
wins who is aware" Secretary Manning
is sreported to have selected as his motto
"An eagle does not catch fiies."
''TFE Congressional Temperance Socie.
ty" was organized during the administra.
tion Of John Quincy Adams and its vener
able secretary. DIR. Picking, reports tha