The Osceola times., 1886-04-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Neyvs from Everywhere.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

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by Mr.. Hoxie.
A RECENT order Of Land Commissioners
Sparks suspending final action upon en-
tries upon public lands has been revoked
by the Secretary Of the Interior.
THOMAS A. THATCHER, professor of Latin
and literature in Yale College, was discov-
cred dead in his bed on the morning Of the
,th. He was In his seventy second year.
A PETITION, signed by lawyers and citi-
gems, has been laid before the Bar Associa-
tion Of New York, and is under consdera-
tion. looking to the impeachment Of Judge
Charles Donahue, of the Supreme Court.
The charges are the misuse Of judicial
powers.
ALDERMAN DELAcY, OF New York, can
not be found, and it is stated that he left
the city on the night Of the l4th with the
intention Of remaining away "until the
clouds roll by"
SENATOR VEST is improving slowly and
expects to resume his seat in the Senate in
few days.
DWIGHT II. MOODY Is to be invited to
visit Chicago and continue the work begun
by Sam Jones and Sam Small.
On the sth Mr.. Gladstone laid his Irish
policy before the Ho use of Commons, and
spoke for three hours In explanation Of its
features.
sth, Mr.. Parnell said there were one or two
matters in the Gladstone scheme that we-s
Objectionable, and these the Irish mem
bers would endeavor to have rectified. As
. whole, the bill was acceptable to the
Irish party.
THE House judiciary committee voted
instruction on the stb TO Representatives
Oats to report favorably his bill to repeal
those sections OF the Revised Statutes
prohibiting the payment of pensions or
the allowance Of claims Of any person who
was disloyal to the United States during
the last war.
Mr.. HEwIrr's Educational bill will be
taken up this week by the House labor
committee at Washington.
ON the 9th funeral services took place at
Westminster Abbey over the late William
z. Forster.
REPRESENTATIVE O'NEILL, OF Missouri, is
trying to stop the military bands from
competing with other bands at picnics,
parades, etc.
Mr., GLADSTONE has entirely recovered
from the fatigue of his exertions in the
House Of Commons ON the evening of the
sth.
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN spoke in the
House Of Commons on the 9th in oppo-
sition to Mr.. Gladstone's Home-rule
scheme.
OK the 9th Chief Keokuk OF the Sac and
Fox Indians had an interview with Secre-
tary Lamar about matters Of interest to
his people.
Hon JOHN WELSH, ex-minister to En-
gland, is dead.
CARDINAL MANNING is strenuously op-
posed to the exclusion OF Irish members
from sitting at Westminster.
Hon. JOSEPH PULITZER has resigned his
seat in Congress.
OK the 10th Governor Oglesby of Illinois
ordered six more companies OF troops to
East st. Louis, making sixteen in all.
THE Dublin Freemda's Journal pro-
nounces Mr.. Chamberlain's apology for
deserting Gladstone the most damaging
political act of his life.
SENATOR CocKRELL, of Missouri, is con-
fident that General Newton will report in
favor Of the two hundred foot draw bridge
for st. Louis.
On the 10th Burns, Hyndman, Champion
and Williams, the Socialist leaders, tried
in London on the charge of Incl ting riots,
were acquitted.
DIR. FRENCH, a prominent resident of
Maiden, Mass, claims to have been swim
died out of $4,000 cash and $4,000 prop
erty by Alfred Richardson, Jr., broker Of
that place.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowpERIY
has written Congressman O'Neill, warmly
indorsing his arbitration bill.
PRECEDENT CLEVELAND continues TO de-
vote himself closely TO office work not
outstanding the warning of his physi-
clans.
OK the 18th resolutions denouncing
Gladstone were passed in London by a
conference of the Workingmen's Radical
clubs.
SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hampshire, is
said to be a prospective candidate for tho
Presidential nomination on the labor ticket
SENATOR JACKSON, of Tennessee, is prom.
inently mentioned as likely 10 take the
place of Judge Baxter on the United States
Court bench.
REV. J. BENSON HAMILTON, of the Cor
nell Memorial Church, New York, has re-
sorted to the plan of illustrating his SER
mons with pictures and placards Of the
subjects of his discourses.