The Osceola times., 1886-11-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
csapllsl frsn Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


dent Chester A. Arthur died at his resi-
dence in New York, as the result Of q
stroke Of apoplexy caused by q burstin g
blood vessel.
ON the 18th Hon. Alonzo Hawley, OF
Hinsdale, N. Y, formerly member of the
New York Legislature, died at Chillicothe e,
Mo.
LORD SALISBURY expressed his inten-
ion 10 remain N London on the 2lst to
receive the ieputation of unemployed
workmen.
THE Czar has instructed General Kaul-
oars to leave Bulgaria at once IL his de-
mand for the dism issal of the command
ant at Philippopolis is not complied with.
STRENUOUS efforts are being made TO
have District Attorney Stone, of Phlla-
ielphia, who was removed at the same
lime rs Benton, reinstated, but 1t Is said
sbey will fail.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will attend the
funeral of ex-President Arthur, and will
be accompanied by the Secretery Of State,
Secretary of the Navy, Secretary Of the
Interior and the Postmaster General.
COLONEL JoHS MOORE, Of the medical
department of the army, has been ap-
pointed Surgeon-General by the Presi-
dent, to succeed Surgeon General MUIR
ray, retired. Colonel Moore, who is In San
Francisco, has been directed to report at
Washington Immediately.
COLONEL MAJESDIE. chief OF police Of
London, Eng, was In st. Louis ON the
goth.
SEVENTEEN United States Senators own
their own homes in Washington.
1T is announced that Sir Robert Hamil-
ton, under Secretary for Ireland, is about
to resign.
CoUST KALYoKy, Austr ian Minister for
Foreign Affairs, treated the Bulgarian
question at great length in speech on the
10th, on the budget.
A Nav political club, modelled after the
Manhattan, Of New York, and Iroquois,
OF Chicago, Is being organized at WASH
ington.
Dr.. II. G. CALDw ELI, distinguished
traveller, and the last relative OF John c.
Calhoun, died OF an overdose OF morphine
at Peori a, ILL.,, on the 10Th
THE Gar on the 10th teiegraphed to
London his warm thanks TO the official
whom Colonel Mutkaroff arrested for
service in the Russian cause, and has
granted the man pension and decora-
tiop.
The Vermont Legislature on the 10Th
passed a joint resolution expressing sor-
row at the death of "that illus.rious and
eminent son of Vermont, ex-President
Chester A. Arthur" eulogizing him and
rendering sympathy to his family.
JOHN MCINTOSH KELL, who was chief
executive officer OF the Confederate cruiser
Alabama, has been appointed Adjutont-
General Of Georgia by Governor Gordon.
kell has been living in retirementin Geor.
gia ever since the war.
Bishop Henry b. WHrPPLr, Of Minneso-
to, amember Of the committee to neg otiate
with certain Indian tribes in the North
ives. for the sale TO the Government of
portions Of their reservations, has re-
signed, and Jared W. Daniels, of Minne-
sofa, has been appointed to the vacancy.
GENERAL j. ID. c. ATKINS, Commissions
or OF Indian Affairs, returned to WASH
ington on the 10Th, after IN onth spent in
inspecting the Indian agencies In the
Southwest. He reports that affairs at the
difion and that the policy of the Indian
Office, that the Indians should abandon
their tribal relations and accept their
lands in severalty, is daily growing in
favor among the tribes.
The retirement OF General Kaulbars
from Bulgaria is spoken of in all the Eu-
ropean capitals as the retreat of Russia
before the united force Of Europe.
GENERAL kAuLBARs, In his note TO the
Bulgarian Government announcing his de-
parture, says that the government has re-
Jected Russia's counsels, which were in
tended to extricate Dul lgaria from her
difficulties, and has continued its violent
attack upon Russian subjects. His
further presence, he adds, is useless, Bull
faria having completely lost confidence In
Russia.
RrrREsE NATIVE MORRISON, of Illinois,
is now mentioned In connection with the
Austrian mission.
SIN RoBERT HAMILTON, British under
secretary for Ireland, is to be appointed
Governor of Tasm ania. with a salary of
$1,000 year.
CnAuNcrY f. BLACK, Lieu enant. Gov
probable successor Of $. S. Cox as United
States Minister to Turkey.
THE announcement is made that Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the defeated Republican
candidate for mayor of New York, is to
be married In London on December 3
SEcRETARY MANNING is said to lie
steadily improving in health and strength.
lie walks every pleasant morning and
drives cut in the afternoon. The Secre-
tary has dispense with the daily attend
ance Of a ply sician.
OK the 20;h the American legation at
Berlin was closed under the supposi,ion
that that was the day axed for the fun
eral OF ex-President Arthur. The Berlin
press eulogizes General Arthur as an up
right man and an independent pc. o.itican.
Ex-GovERSoR c. X. DAVIS, promi-
nently mentioned for United States Sem
ator from Minnesota before the next Leg
lslature, has temporarily lost the sight of
mis- left eye and the other is in danger.
His physician is very rstieent as to the
outcome. and il is feared that total blind
ness may ensue. Tho case is atiribut ed
TO overwork.
On the 20th General Ksulbars and his
STAFF departed from Sofa. Only twenty
persons were at the station to bid him fare
well. The town was decorated with flags
and Illuminated; net in honor q General
Kaulbars, but because it was the first an-
niversary Of the battle of Slivnii2a.
On the morning Of the 2ist Hon. Charles
Francis Adams, Sr., died at his home in
Boston.
COMPTROLLER DURHAM has deciiei that
a Congressman is not an officer of the
United States.
CoNeHrsssi, SPRINGER thinks Prosi-