Huntsville gazette., 1881-09-10
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
prRsONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
FIFTEEN Socialists have been expelled
,rom Berlin, it is supposed for connection
18th nropaganda in favor of Herr Bebell's
election.
pvx1.M1N ISRAEL BUTLER, eldest son
.fcen. r. +. Butler, is dead, aged p. He
a,s rr,duated at West Point and served q
roarss Lie,v.enant OF the Ninth Cavalry, in
Twas t but subsequently resigned and en-
tered upon the profession OF law. de was
vonng man Of high promise and genial ma
ture
THE EArkansas State Republican Com
mittee in session at Little Rock on the 1st,
effected a reorganization with view OF har-
moniziua the differences existing between
tho two factions of the party. Hon. Powell
CLAYTON was elected Chairman OF the Execu-
tive Committee
THE New York Republican State
Convention will be held in New York City
Oct. D.
GEN GRANT denies the report pub
lisbed that he has been holding conferences
with Vice President Arthur and other Stall
warts with reference to the anticipated sue
cesson of Gen. Arthur to the Executive
chair.
BRADLAUGH has issued manifesto to
the English people in the shape of an ad-
dress to his Northampton constituents. He
announces his intention to 90 to the House
Of Commons again next session, and he asks
the English people to protect him against
unlawful violence.
The Queen has decorated Speaker
Brand with the Grand Cross Of the Bath.
CAPTAIN HowGATE, whose official
defacations now foot up $4,000, "with
the back counties yet to be heard FROM, -
has fled to Canada, it is believed, leaving his
bOnlsmen in the lurch and his wife and
daughter absolutely penniless. He was ac-
companied by the young woman who has
played so important a part in the scandal
which finally led to his downfall. His prop
Ty in Washington has been seized on at
hchment taken by the Government, but it
will not cover one half the amount stolen.
Hon. HENDRICK B. WRIGHT, for sew
eral terms Democratic Representative in
Congress from the Twelfth Pennsylvania
District, died at his residence in Wilkes
barre on the I'd, aged 70.
The recent removal of two mail-rOute
agents in Virginia is occasiOning much COM
ment. One is white, the other colored, but
both belong to the Straightout Republicans
and holly opposed the Malone coalition. The
followers of Gen. Wickham charge that their
for al h,1ff ho
other side claim that they were removed for
general inefficiency.
GOVERNOR HOYT, of Pennsylvania, ,on
the Sd, issued proclamation appointing
Tuesday, the 9th, as day of general fasting
and prayer throughout that commonwealth
for the recovery of President Garfield The
Executives of other states were at the same
time solicited to join in the movement, and
several did so, but the time was too
brief to permit arrangements being made
for general observance of the day through
out the entire country.
EX-SENATOR PLATT has been elected
Chairman Of the Republican State Central
Committee of New York, in place of Vice.
President Arthur. resigned.
THERE was meeting Of the Cabinet
in Washington on the Sd. The session was
second only in importance to the conference
of ofsurgeons, and involved more than the is-
sue Of life and death, extending to the disa-
bllity of the President. It was the first
formal recognition of the possibility of an
ac'mg President by the Presidential advis-
ers. The session lasted some time; what
Inc conclusion was is not disclosed.
JEFFERSON DAVIS has arrived in Lon
don. He declined to be interviewed.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
A MEETING of leading distillers was
neid at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 1st. The
proceedings were secret, but it is under
stood general understanding was reached
lnat the dlstilleries be run on half time, the
price OF corn being SO high as to render it
impossible for them to compete with the
import trade when running to their full ca.
pacity.
HE strike on the part of the Associ
"ed Cotton Laborers of New Orleans caused
temporary stoppage of the cotton presses,
Vut new men were procured from Mobile
anu elsewhere to supply the places of the
.ulAefs, and work was partially resumed on
the LIST. -. :.
DECREASE of the public debt during
august, SH,1sl, POI.
LIE Industrial League of America
aas aaaressed to manufacturers and others
euAr' suggesting the necessity Of Tariff
Invention in Chicago next November. be-
srs.s. rase an assault upon our protective tariff
nis, Is, they say, almost certain to take
f'aee "' lhe xtsession Of Congress.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
~ west Gloucester, Mass, James F.
H. behs was shot and probably instantly killed
ms Wife, who had armed herself with
se'oNef, as she claims, to protect herself
& Aer husband, who attempted to cut
der arrest. "oihan - TN
.. nENRY III. LAWSON, colored, was hanged
fUuat'anooga, fsn. Tenn, on the I'd. His Of
wbi,. was an outrageous assault upon
white woman.
me-, aAANk M JONES and Henry KcKibbins
m.n sr with terrible death while cleaning a
zsl;.,. VI tne farm Of Widow McKibbins, near
Will lnsAi' .. Mckibbins went down into the
had alu ,n was overcome by damps. Jones