Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-11

VOLUME Ill.
NEWS AND }. NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Roscoe CoNKLING has declined.
THE Apaches are reported to have at
tackled town in Sonora.
CHINA is preparing for hostillties with
1,nan on the Loochoo issue.
THE public debt statement shows
.,duction for February Of 50, ,7S3,511.
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THE President has snomins ted Cfner
u,,s A 1,5gan. Of Illinois, to be Minister to
Chill. a 49,
An Austrian force lost two hundred
mon in an attempt to force the passage OF
the Drina River.
RRApLAUGH having been again elect
Oh 10 the British House OF Commons, Sir
stafford Northcote will present another res
olutiop TO prevent him taking his seat.
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TWIN monuments to Keats, the poet,
and his friend Severn, in the Protestant
cemetery at Rome, were unveiled the other
day, with brilliant address by Story, the
sculptor A& 49, n
THE Senate has confirmed the follow
ing nominations: Roscoe Conkling, Asso-
ciate Justice United States Supreme Court;
John A. Sargent, Minister to Germany;
Wm. 7. Pastor, United States Attorney,
Western District Of Tennessee.
IT is said that Judge Advocate Gen
eral Swain, in his review Of Lieut.. Flipper's
case, recommends that less serious punish
ment than dismissal be imposed. 1t is
thought that the President and Secretary of
War favor the lighter punishment.
SPEAKER KEIFER presided at meet
ing held in Washington, March 4, in COM
memoration Of the anniversary Of the birth
Of Robert Emmet. Speeches were not con-
fined to consideration of Emmet's charac-
ter and services alone. Several of the speak
erS were outspoken in their denuncation of
English rule in Ireland.
CHARLES FRY, in jail at Georgetown,
Ohio, under indictment for burning barn,
was shot dead, March 1st, by J. l.. Helbling,
Jr., son of the Sheriff. Fry was powerful
young mulatto, and had been breaking the
furniture of the cell. When the Sheriff
went to give him supper he made murder
Gus assault upon him, whereupon young
Helbling used a revolver. r
BISHOP DUGGAN, who was deceived
from Chicago to an insane asylum in St.
Louis thirteen years ago, when alteration
Of mind had become apparent, entertains
the deusion that Chicago has been swal-
lowed up by the sea, and that all his former
flock have gone to perdition. The church
in Chicago pays 81 900 per annum for his
maintenance. His health is as vigorous as
ever.
THE Chinese demonstration in
San Francisco, March 4, exceeded all ex-
pecations in size and effectiveness, and the
most striking feature was the lack Of all dis
order and violence. Four great meetings
were held, one in Platt's Hall, and three
others in the open air in the main business
streets The chief citizens of the city at
tended the meetings and delivered speeches.
The tone of the majority of the addresses
was temperate, and in great contrast to the
rawlings of the sand-lot orators two years
ago. The streets were filled with people.
The day was a general holiday throughout
the State, and similar demonstrations were
held elsewhere. -rf a f
dUlTEAU has not been annoyed by in
reviewers since it was ascertained that there
hau been several cases of small pox in the
lah' The only persons that he sees from the
outside world are such prisoners as are
brought into the rotunda while he is exer-
clslfg IN his corridor and his attorney, Mr..
Cnarles ii. Reed. He has gained consider
ao'y IN hesh, and is now regarded as one OF
tne most tractable prisoners under Gen.
0iochers care. His egotism. however, is
unrestraned ever, and he regards himself as
NPNiAOi polGd Gu
"i'n tne other inmates, with none Of whom
uoes ne condescend to hold any conyersa-
,ioh' lie still has strong hopes of favora-
oie result OF his application to the Court in
oanc and talks glibly of his future prospects
IN The lecture field when he is released from
custody.
lHE latest contribution to Jesse
0ames literature is discovery by the police
Vi Kansas City, No., that George Shepherd.
'ne ex-suerrilla and bank robber, who
GAINED to have shot the notorious outlaw
s'Jopin, just after the Glendale train rob.
oefy OF 1879, had proved traitor through
1i lnat trouble. Shepherd knew the
oauies brothers well, and offered to 60
,,Ons Il lhem and lead them into an ambush
NJ. III .ney We're to be killed or captured.
wao,' Oner was accepted, and for several
ona Ns ne wrote letters to the detectives,
Sao.t AZ last special train over the Fort
~ % hallway carried large posse
h. nvn 10 Galena, where bank was to
~ lu1oed' .9 The day previous to the talked
n, loooery, Shepherd went tearing into