The Osceola times., 1888-09-22

Tnn shortage In the harvest OF France,
IL estimated, will reach 40 0oo oap hento-
liters.
The Bohemian Diet opened on the 18th,
the German members declining to sit
The st. Leger stakes were won by Lord
Calthorp's Bea Breeze at Doncaster, En-.
gland, on the 18th.
THE California Dried Fruit Association
has been formed ct San Francisco with .
capital Of 100000.
A CUT in grain freight rates was made
by the Pennsylvania railroad, on the 18th,
without consulting with the other roads,
but was met promptly by the Lake Shore
and other competing lines.
A NOTICE to mariners has been issued
by the Light House Board to the effect
that at about the end OF September an
attempt will be made to light Gedney's
channel, New York bay, by six lO0- candle
power incandescent electric lamps, In.
closed in lanterns supported by spar
buoys. --ae.-a.t --aaurs..s a-ar-sl.-' '-H''r
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed by
the Dominion Postmaster General by
which the West India mails, which have
hitherto been sent via New York, will
hereafter be transmitted by the new line
Of steamships which will ply directly be-
tween Halifax and the West Indies.
FORTY -FOUR new cases OF yellow fever
were reported nj Jacksonville, Fla, on
the 18th, and four deaths-Wm. A. Jones,
Mrs. Thomas Floody. j. A. Bogart and
Mrs Charley Peterson. Total cases to
| date, 1s,; deaths, 104 t~--
MANY deaths from starvation are re-
ported to have occurred among the In
dians OF the British Northwest Terri.
tories, said TO be owing TO the dishonesty
Of their supply agents. ~ ~ l-.9T
zanzibar ID reported qulrt. and the
| Sultan is Withdrawing his troops
On the 18th two inches %. snow and
sleet fell on Mt Washington, N H., with
the temperature four degrees below the
freezing point.
THE official announcement is made that
pensioners entitled to On increasegof al
lowance on account OF total or partial
deafness. will only be req ulred to write
letter to the CoInmiss ioner of Pensions.
giving the name, certificate number and
services. aud their case will be settled at
the earliest practicable moment
PRIEsHEvALsKI has been granted, by
the Russian Government $1,000 roubles
to enable him to proceed with the Central
Asian expedition.
THE Cooperative Implement and Hard.
ware Company, with houses in Creston
and Lenox, Ia, made an assignment on
the 18th.
1T Is thought that the efforts OF the
Southern Ute Commission to treat for the
removal of the Indians to Utah will not
be successful.
THE American Typothet@. the National
association of employing printers, CON-
vened In New York in annual session on
the 18th inst.
OWING TO opposition In clerical circles
the Russian negotiations with the vati.
can for the establishment of diplomatic
relations have collapsed. ff-
Os the 18th the paying teller OF the
Third National Bank OF Buffalo, N. Y,
went to lunch, leaving a package contain.
ing s., 049 in bills on tn counter. Twenty
minutes later, when he returned, the
money had disappeared.
The launching OF the crui ser Baltimore
has been postponed indefinitely. 1t was
TO have been launched at Philadelphia on
the 18th.
SUBSCRIPTIONS In New York to the yell
low fever relief fund, on. the l4th, amount.
ed TO 81 ,007.25.
THr headquarters of the Peach Grow.
ers' Bureau Of Information and Distribu-
tion, at Clayton, Del, have been closed for
the season. The season ended earlier than
an ticipated because OF the destruction
Of ate varieties by recent storms.
TRAINS on all the roads entering tho
City OF Mexico were behind time. on the
18th, owing to recent heavy rains. At
Metlac, fourteen dead bodies were recov.
cred by men repairing the railroad
AN international literary, artistic and
meteorological congress was opened, on
the 18th, in the ducal palace in Venice.
II was announced that King Humbert
would become patron.
| THE French Government hes ordered
gun boats 10 the west coast OF Africa for
the purpose Of pursuing vessels engaged
In the slave trade, especially those flying
the French flag.
A MODEL of the White House, composed
of silver, weighing 1852 pennyweights,
comprising l,5O6 pieces, and valued at
$3.50, Ia to be placed at church fair in
Washington and voted to the most popu-
lar presidential candidate.
ON the 10th two special cars Of fat cat =
tie from Nevada for Chicago passed
through Ogden, Utah. They rode in palace
cattle cars, on passenger train time, and
were fed and watered while enroute. III
the experiment proves successful, large
winter shipments will probably follow.