Huntsville gazette., 1882-04-15
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events

NEWO ANO NOAdO.
A Summary Of Important Events
.porpbljcans of Rhode Island
c.,,orror Iittlefeld majority OF 1853.
ru, domination of Mr.. Teller as Sec
-.tarr w. Of the Interior was confirmed o the
9Th. ~
c,ru MCINTYRE, Mate Bondu-
cocond-mate Hill and the colo{ed
csntaiu es of the watch Wash Smith, have o9n
;a5;cted Tor sinyountary granddaughter IN
hoinr ,u tbe cause of the burning OF the steara-
or Golden City"
rur President will not act in the case
=, SERGEANT Mason until the Supreme Court
Gocides on the legality OF the sentence. The
sooretarv Of War sustains the Judge Advo-
oote General in pronouncing Invalid the
,,roocodur, Of the court-martlal.
1rneE WYLIE has decided the star
-opte indictments good and sufficient, the
evidence presented being strong enough to
warrant the prosecution of the defendants.
Tbc rpcoenizasce of Stephen w. Dorsey was
declared forfeited and his arrest ordered.
JAMES FISK and George M. Irwin,
having in their possession 500, 900 worth Of
new bonds of the city of st. Joseph, Mo-,
were arrested in New York City, April 8,
while trying to sell them at sixty cents on
the dollar. The securities, numbered 901
900 inclusive, mysteriously disappeared
from the Registers safe.
The charge is brought against the
Commissioner Of the General Land Office
that company of sportsmen has been given
atits own price tract of five thousand acres
Of swamp land lying on Lake Erie, twelve
miles outside of Toledo, Notwithstanding the
efforts of settlers in the vicinity to bid off
portion at market prices. Property worth
so per acre went off at LIS through collu-
sion at Washington.
THE President has nominated Henry
NJ. Teller, of Colorado, Secretary Of the In
terror; VIM. E. Chandler, of New Hamp-
shire, Secretary of the Navy; VIM. H. Hunt,
Of Louisiana, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia; Roland
Worthington, Collector Of Customs, Bos-
ton; Adm B. Underwood, Surveyor of Gus
toms; Boston; Daniel Hall, Naval Officer OF
Customs, Boston; John J. Knox, Minnesso-
Ia, Comptroller Of the Currency.
The House Committee have agreed
sinsert in the river and harbor bill an ap-
pOpriation Of S4,723,000 for improvement
Oithe Mississippi River from the head of the
passes to the mouth of the Illinois. OF this
sum, 81, 900 is to be expended for i'm
prOvements below Cairo, and $780, be-
tween Cairo and the Illinois River. The
whole appropriation is to be expended by
the Secretary of War, in accordance with
the plans, specifications and estimates of the
Mississippi River Commission.
CHAIRMAN WILLIAMS, of the Peru
yian investigating committee, the other day,
read letter from the late Minister Hurl-
but, stating that he would sail April 6, and
that the United States had bad reputation
in Lima. Shipherd read a postscript to his
letter OF May 20, in which he announced
that his clients had reconsidered their in
tentiOn OF offering General Grant the presi-
dency Of the company. He then expressed
the opinion that Minister Hurlbut had OBJ
structed and frustrated his purposes, and
was seconded by his chief, the late Secre-
tary Of State. sts-
Mr.. ELMoRE, Peruvian Minister, in
communicating the news that the ex-Dicta-
'oF PlerOk had left Peru, says: ''The whole
Wferu now firmly united, in spite Of per-
Ment efforts of Pierok and the Chilians to
Tes'f0y constitutional order. This is a
,'saV which the lamented Gen. Hurlbut
mas leit Peru, as the greatest triumph of his
Aeiole lie, and while the Peruvian people
I;a' IA.s' united and are in enjoyment Of Repub-
n'su institutions they will ever remember
s s1u -'eneIate the name of Hurlbut, United
o'''os minister and stateman, to whose
.n'uoiy national gratitude will soon raise a
nttlng monument
a TRAIN on the Gulf, Colorado &
..'' : haliroad was boarded by six rob-
az o0's' near Cleourne, Texas, the other night.
U'uerihg all hands up the thieves walked
through the coach, one of them holding
t"ioN'shp open and telling the passengers
4" ufop something in for the missionarv
ruuu' Tu' and they all contributed liberallv.
laa,, VOuuuctor dropped in just after the col.
thoo vn' put Immediately started back for
H., 'Apfess car. As the door closed behind
r;l.l al U,7 OF the robbers shot at him. but
s'u FMS lhe train started I'D at this iunc.
ON, On ts ana one of the men crying Jump.
dis,nnas, .ney rushed to the platform and
got trSalea' Nval The amount OF money they
labls ,nOusly estimated, but the most re.
Sherir 4. pV'I says it was over 81 200. The
posSa.. u Johnson County, with a large
purspit pack OF bloodhounds, started in
best n 1nn steamer Bella Mac, one of the
Vas demoU oUa,s on the Upper Mississippi,
boiler. .na,.n Saea by the explosion OF her
bad croa. brownsville, Minn.. April Z. She
anon, IN VI seventeen men, and not one
njury MI. I entlre number escaped without
he ,a,;s ~ Hnile six We're killed outright How
ar amoas ent happened is mere conjecture.
@he oi,. Tue survivors who were rescued
We're aftan- Aens OF Brownsville, and who
steamer TN "aru carried to La Crosse by the
ssus a iOl' which had been sent to the
aspt t'"a n.y.. one could give any positive state
ssOlasia- sOl'"er than that there was sudden