The Osceola times., 1886-01-09
,ur actual count Of Wand srbilt,s securi.

rHE actual count OF Wand srbilt's securi.
ties showed an aggregate Of S305,OOo,oO0.
Contributions are being solicited TO aid
those dependent for support upon the
miners entombed In the Nanticoke PAL
coal shaft.
A RELIGIOUS sect at Palmyra, Wis, are
on the point Of starvation in their belief
that they will obtain power" by fasting.
EXPORTS are being made to issue loan
of Sl7j, 900 in London, to provide China
with armam ents and railways.
The presents received during many years
have been converted by tho Pope into
money and presented TO The College OF the
Propaganda.
THK proclamation announcing the an.
nexaticn OF Burmah to the British Empire
has reached RAM Don.
BISHOP IIAssISGros, engaged in mis-.
sionary services in Central Africa, has
been seized by King Mombasa, and will
probably be put to death.
Ir is intimated that the British Govern.
ment will oppose the revival OF the bill for
the construction OF tunnel under the
English Channel, between England and
France.
In the Riverside pa Pententiary there
are $50 idle convicts, the contracts in the
iron, cigar and broom departments having
expired. The conyi,.s employed in these
departments will remain Idle until they
can be placed at rug making or other in.
dustries the State may soc iii to establish
OS the lst meeting OF loading mer-
chants of Boston was held to take action
relative to alleged undervaiuation Of i'm.
ported goods by customs OH ers AT New
York, by which importers at Boston aud
elsewhere are placed AZ a disadyantage,
and committee was appon'ed ed to aid the
special committee OF the United States
Senate in its coming investigation into the
subject.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has con.
ferred upon Cardinal G. Jacobini the dec.
Grafton OF the Black Eagle, and upon Mon.
signors Galimberti and Moceni of the
Pope's official household, the decoration OF
the Red Eagle, in recognition of their VAL
liable services iu connection with the set.
tlement of the Csrolines dispute.
DURING the present month the commis-
sions OF over 100 Presidential Postmasters
will expire.
OIL has been discovered at Park Hill,
Ontario.
On tho I'd the 200 Eastern cigarmakers
who are to take the places of Chinaman
arrived at San Francisco.
THx Dominion Parliament has been pro.
rogued until February 18th.
In the vicinity Of Spring Grove, Mimi,
large number Of persons are said to be af.
aicted with leprosy.
On the I'd the Newark IN. J.) children
Who were treated in Paris by NJ. Pasteur
sailed for home.
A GERMAN family Of five persons living
near Pittsburgh, Pa, arc suffering from
tricbinosis from eating uncooked salt pork.
An old scheme has been revived ip
France to connect Harseilles with the Rivei
Rhone by canal.
LARGE numbers of Jews are going to
England from Germany, Russia and Rou.
mania.
AT the cool miners convention held al
West Elizabeth, Pa, on the 2dit was de.
cided by two-thirds vote to return te
work at the operators terms.
ENGLISH and American companies are
said to have secured extensive contracts
for steel rails with China.
A CONVENTION of steel manufacturers
will be held at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 7th
to consider the advisability OF advancing
prices.
THE American Pasteur Institute has been
Incorporated at New York, with the object
of introducing Pasteur's sy stem OF inocula-
tion for hydrophobia in this country.
WREcKAGE from the missing schooner
Orphan Boy has drifted ashore at Grand
Point Sable Station, and all hope has been
abandoned.
In the recent fight with the British near
Koshey, in the Soudan, the Arabs lost 60
men.
MORE trouble has broken out among the
naval cadets at Annapolis, Nd, and o
court martial is probable.
NUMEROUS West Virginia farmers have
been swiudled recently by accepting
worthless checks from itinerant dealers in
pay for stock.
FREDERrCK FisuEL, OF New York, who
stole $4,000 from his employers, went to
Canada, was captured, taken back and Is
now lodged in prison for IL.
In London u report is current that
number OF Mahdist fanatics entered the
town Of Suskm, and that a number Of En-
glish were killed or wounded in the hght
that followed.