The Osceola times., 1886-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS,
THE President, in a message to Congress
on the 22i, recommended the appointment
of three commissioners to act as board of
arbitration in labor troubles
AUSTRALIA will send a rife team to
Wimbledon.
1t is semi officially stated that France
will refuse to join the powers in the plan
Of coercng Greece into disarmng.
THE clergy of Cleveland, o., headed by
Bishop Bedell Of the Episcopal Church
are preparing TO boycott the Sunday Sc.
cular newspapers. Confidential circu-
lars have beeir issued to clergymen, aud
all have been urged to join the movemen.
and denounce Sunday papers from their
pulpits on May ?.
INDEPENDENT coke manufacturers, op-
Grating nearly eight hundred ovens in
the McConnellsville region in Pennsyl-
vania, and employing 5000 men, have fol-
lowed the example Of the coke syndicate
and advanced wages from five to ten per
cent, to take effect May !.
A LARGE number OF leading business
rnen of New York have signed a call for a
special meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce, with view to taking action rela-
tive to the labor disturbances now In ex.
istence there.
THE Spanish sanitary council has au-
thorized the practice of incubation for
cholera.
AN attempt to blow up the church of San
Lius at Madrid, on the 2Sd, was partly
successful.
THE labor investigating committee closed
its sitting in Washington on the 23d, and
the members intended to leave for st. Louis
on the 21th.
A FIGHT took place in East Flanders on
the s3l between gendarmes and striking
watchIuakers, in which the rioters were
routed and several were arrested.
THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during tho seven days
ended the 23d were valued at $500, sos
and to- amount thrown on the marke,
- ,292 ,5ln.
The Municipal Council of Stry, Galacia
has been dissolved by imperial order on
account of culpable negligence in failing
to provide the town with fire engines.
THE last stone in the pedestal on Bedloe'-
Island, on which will stand Bartholdi's
colossal statue Liberty Enlightening the
World" was laid on tho 2Sd. The statue
will be unveiled September 3.
A socIALIsTC mass-meeting of German
workingmen was held in New York on tn,
night Of the 23d TO denounce "the capital
lists and the police who were endeavorinC
to crush Herr Most and his workingmen.'
1T is now understood that France will
Join the Powers in an ultimatum to Greece
insisting on disarmament, but will refuse
to join in any naval demonstration intend.
ed as coercion.
A SENSATION has been created in ireland
by an offer of the trustees of the Symes
estate to turn over the lands to the tenant,
at a sum equal TO twelve years rent.
ORDERS have been issued by the Treas
ury Department for the fitting out of tn,
revenue steamer Bear at San Francisco foi
a cruise to Alaska. She is to proceed a.
far north as possible and TO make thor.
ough search for the crew of the wrecked
whaler Amethyst.
THE visible supply of wheat in the United
States and Canada, with the quantity
afioat for Europe, on the 23d amounted
to 6o,G,s,4s3 bushels, against 7i,sG, ,9sl
bushels one year ago, and Of corn 10, 235 =
0s5 bushels, against l3,327 1856 bushels last
year.
ATTACHMENTS amounting TO 81, 900 have
been placed on the Bennington (vt.) mill,
and the mills have shut down. This is the
largest milling property in Vermont.
The total value of exports during tn,
twelve months ended March 81, 1886, wer,
$665 5,s06,o30, and during the preceding
twelve months, $7+3, ,.9i ,olS, a decrease o.
T,Ss4,0oA The value Of the imports 70
ths ssns period we're $6la, a,7-s,67o, and 10,
tas prsesding twelve months, S6ee, ,9o2, ,esS
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