Huntsville gazette., 1881-08-20

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NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
THE widow of ex-President Aiillard
Fillmore is dead.
The Boer Government has been form
ally proclaimed. 1t is to be known as the
South African Republic.
THE Illinois Department Of Agricul-
ture asserts that in quantity and quality the
wheat crop Of the State is the poorest for
twenty years.
BRADLAUGH is suffering from severe
attack of erysipelas, said to be the indirect
result Of his personal encounter in the lobby
Of the House of Commons.
MAUD S has again lowered the trot-
ting record by quarter of second, having
made mile in 2:10 IA at Buffalo, on the
18th. This leaves st. Julien just an even
second behind.
A COMMISSIONER of the Times of Lon
don, who has made tour Of the wheat dis
tricts of England, estimates yield Of thirty
bushels to the acre, and an increased crop Of
three million quarters.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH L. STEPHENS, one
Of the best-known citizens of Missouri, who
has been identified with many of the largest
enterprises Of the day, died at his home in
Boonyi)le, on the 11th, aged So.
GEN. GRANT has bought large and
East Sixty-sixth Street, between Fifth and
Madison Avenues, New York. The price
paid was $4,000. 1t is understood the
General proposes to make this his future
home.
A CONFERENCE of Civil Service Re
formers was held in New York on the 18th,
Of which George VIM. Curtis, Carl Schurz
and Dorman B. Eaton were the principal
promoters. Senator Pendleton's bill regu-
lating appointments to the Civil Service was
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Hon. o. H. BROWNING died at his
home in Quincy, H., on the 10th, aged IS.
He was Secretary of the Interior under
President johnson, and previously served in
the U. s. Senate, being appointed by Gov.
Yates to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Stephen A. Douglas.
MANY towns and villages in Western
Prussia have recently suffered much from
incendiary fires. The fact that the inhabit-
ants are Jews leads to the conclusion that
the incendiaries are jew -haters. Anti-Jew-
ish disturbances have again broken out in
West Prussia and Pomerania.
THE Nebraska Supreme Court has
rendered decision that the high license
liquor law is constitutional in every particu-
| lar. 1t. compels saloon-keepers to pay 81 900
license, give bonds in the sum Of S. 900, ETC.,
in cities OF over 10, 900 people, and in cities
of under 10 900 the license is $500.
THE International Exhibition of Elec-
tricity at Paris was formally opened on the
10th, President Grevy and other prominent
officials assisting at the ceremony. Some Of
the departments, especially that of the
United States, were in very incomplete
condition, but it was promised that 500 Ed
ison lights would be burning within few
days.
Two parties of hostile Indians are
now operating along the line of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railroad in New Mexico, and three
companies of infantry from Fort Wingate
have been sent out to protect the settlers.
Garcia's settlement, twelve miles from El
Rita Station, has been burned by the Indians
and five men and two boys were killed. Vol
unteers have been dispatched from Albu
querque to guard the railroad line.
The Southern Pacific Railroad is now
being laid at the rate Of one mile per day be-
yond Ell Paso, and President Crocker pre-
diets that the line will, by July next, be fin
ished to Galveston. He says engineers are
now running a survey from COrinne to
Yankton, and a road can be built for one
third the cost of the Union Pacific, which
will be done if Gould consolidates the Atch-
ison, Texas Pacific and Union Pacific lines.
THE Irish Land bill, upon which the
British Parliament has labored for a whole
session, is now imperiled by the inability Of
the two Houses to agree. There is solid
majority in the Commons Of 120 for the bill,
while there is about the same majority in
the Lords for certain amendments which in
the judgment Of the Commons are destruc-
tive Of the objects of the bill, and therefore
inadmissible.
Havana rnRnITnd
the National Board of Health state that dur
ing July there were ninety EIGHT deaths
from yellow fever, and during the week end
ing August ), thirty-six deaths from the
same disease, with 200 cases reported. Dur
ing June there were 2S5 deaths from yellow
fever at Vera Cruz. Yellow fever also pre-
walls throughout Colombia, at Guayaquil,
San Jose de Guatemala and at La Libertad
and Salvador, in the three latter places the
deaths averaging twenty daily. Along the