The Osceola times. [volume] (Osceola, Ark.) 1870-current, 1888-07-28

I THE American Mechanics Of Pennsyl.
yania will hold their next State conven-
ton at Harrisburg on the third Tuesday
| in July, 1888.
Ir is reported from France that forged
/! iO0-franc notes OF the Bank of France
have been discovered in circulation.
The dedication OF the Woonsocket (R.
| IL Hospital occurred on the 18th. It is
constructed on the cottage plan, and cost
10000.
OK the 10Th an earthquake shock, with
out damage, was felt at Dumtries, Scot.
land.
IT has been decided that the great
double scull race between Teemer and
Hamm and Gaudaur and Mckay will be
rowed on the Round Bay course, Severn
river, near Baltimore, Nd, August or &
The managers of the course are to offer
purses 10 be contested for by other oars
men on the same day.
A SCHEDULE Of campaign rates will
shortly be issued by the Pennsylvania
Railway Company. The heavy passenger
traffic expected during the presidential
contest has necessitated the arrangement
OF special tariff to provide for the
transportation Of large bodies. The new
rates will probably be one-halt the pres.
ent tariff.
On the 10Th. the man found murdered at
Westfield. n. j., several days ago, was
identified us Edward Miller, recently
coachman for John F. Lawrence, a
wealthy New York business man residing
at Westfield. 1t is supposed by the au-
thorities that Miller was murdered for his
money.
On the 18th waterspout passed from
the ocean through the town of North
Beach, Fla, doing considerable damage
to boats IN the harbor and houses in its
track.
ABOUT 100000 feet OF lumber was de.
stroyed, on the 10Th. by fire in the lumber
piles on the docks OF Montgomery. Cham
paign & Co.. at Lakeside. Mich. A large
proportion of this was choice stock, and
the loss can not fall short OF so, 900, about
half OF which amount is covered by insur-
ance.
Or the Goth all the Indian Commission,
with the exception of Judge Wright OF
Tennessee, left Bismarck, Oak, for
Standing Rock agency, aud held their
first conference with the Indians on tho
2ist.
CoMTE DE PARIS reply TO deputation
of Partisan workingmen, who called upon
him at the Sheen House, was published
by lie Solicit and other Royalist papers,
on the 10th. The police have made no
attempt to interfere with the sale OF the
papers.
ACCORDING to the report of the director
of the mint for the year 1887 the product
OF gold amounted to $50, 600, 900, and OF sill.
yer to 1853 2j7, 900 Coinage Of the minis
during the calendar year amounted to
S10,3I9, ISL
A SELECT committee of the House OF
Commons has recommended the closing
of all public houses throughout Ireland on
Sundays hereafter, and at nine O'Clock on
Saturday nights.
AT Per ham, Mimi, the grasshopper war
continues undated. Although over 10, I.
900 bushels have been caught, the farmers
are still catching them at a lively rate.
None to speak of have flown.
THE steel cruiser Charleston, the first
Government vessel ever built on the Pa.
cifc coast was launched from the ship
yards OF the Union Iron Works, San
Francisco, on the 18th, and was witnessed
by an immense crowd
DURING the review of the Russian troops
at krasnoe, the Kaiser, noticing q regi-
II emit with adecoration, marking its pres
ence at the capture OF Berlin, smiled and
remarked that that was an event of a
century ago, and had been forgotten.
OK the night of the 22d the total eclipse
OF the moon was seen from New York
City under the most favorable circum-
stances, and satisfactory observations
were recorded by the astronomers at
Columbia College. The sky was cloudless
throughout
On the 2lst the twenty-seventh ami.
versary OF the battle of Bull Run was
celebrated or the battle field by sur.
vivors of the battle and their friends.
The Astronomers at Cambridge and
Boston were prevented by misty weather
from taking observations of the lunar
eclipse on the night of the 22d.
THE Car and the German Emperor re-
viewed 10000 men and l6s field guns AT
Krasnoe, Russia, on the 22d. The EN-
peror William greatly admired the
troops, especially the Cossack artillery.
AN effort will be made to induce the
Governor of Ohio to commute the sem
tence of Blinky Morgan, sentenced to
hang at Columbus, August 3, to impris-
onment for life.
On the Odd the steamers Amalh and
Roetia, from Hamburg, landed 1,2sI i'm
migrants at Castle Garden.
A VILLAGE near Wady Halfa, Egypt,
was attacked by four hundred rebels on
the 2lst, but they were defeated and re-
pulsed with great slaughter.