Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-10
NEWS AND NOTES. NOT.
A Summary Of Important Events.

A Summary Of Important Events.
prprcrroN of public debt during
May, s1O,s75,4il.
TIE President has approved the
Geneva award bill.
THE exhibition at Moscow was opened
s. Tho Grand Duke Vladimir. 81
THE international monetary confer
onoe is postponed till next April.
THE Attorney-General has decided
t,r.ber legislation is necessary to en-
force the eight-houv law" E@ e
r,rr-r HEWITT, of the Twenty-sec-
al : Infantry, died at San Antonia,
Taxo. June 9. He was married on his
deatb .bedto daughter OF Col. Blanton
Duncan.
rgr will of General Garibaldi orders
,ho cremation of his body and the preserva-
finn Of the ashes in an urn near the tomb OF
bis child at Caprera. A subscription has
bpen opened by workingmen's societies to
srect monument. In the Italian Chamber
ot DEPUTIES Depretis presented bill to
nIace a monument at the grave and pay
nensions to his widow and each Of
bis five children, which was passed. The
French Chamber of Deputies adjourned as
tribute OF respect.
In consequence of strikes, fires have
been quenched in thirty-six rolling mills
surrounding Pittsburgh, Pa, employing
1880 men. Brown, Bonnell & Co., of
Youngstown, o., have thrown out 10000
men by closing all their furnaces and coal
mines. With one exception, the iron and
nail works at Wheeling have stopped for an
indefinite period. The Calumet iron and
steel works at South Chicago, and the La
clede rolling mill, the Helmbocker forge,
and the Harrison wire works at st. Louis
have shut down.
CHIEF JUsTIcE-CARTTER and Judges
Jones and Hagner, constituting the court in
banc, have rendered decision upon the last
motion filed by Reed in Guiteau's behalf
The Chief Justice delivered the decision, a:
follows: stIn the case of Guiteau, tn,
Judges who listened to the argument hav'
come to the conclusion that they have ex
hausted their powers upon it; that the.
have heard it patiently, fully and fairly, ant
that reargument would bring no other con
clusion than that already referred to, ant
they decline to reopen the case.
BRENNAN, Secretary of the Land
League, after his release, June 2, addressed
a large assemblage in Kilkenny. He said his
real jailers were Gladstone, Bright, Cham
berlin and the whole crowd of pseudo hui
manitarans and renegade republicans who
composed the British Cabinet. He hoped il
the 500 suspects were called upon for real
sacrifices they will be ready, if necessary,
to die for their country. They had seen the
government acknowledge Michael Davitt as
conqueror. Much remained to be done.
They must tear up the very roots of land
lOrdism. ~ t4Jlf GfGEf
THE National Greenback- Labor party
Of Missouri, in convention at Moberly, May
81, reatfirmed the national platform adopted
at Chicago in 1880, and indorsed the action
Of the National Committee in st. Louis, May
%, 1882. Resolutions were adopted de-
manding for both sexes equal pay for equal
work; favoring prosecution of persons en-
gagged in the System Of gambling known as
option contracts" and denounclng the sat
tempted national disfranchisement OF 100, :
wO voters in Missouri by the late Demo-
cratic Legislature in the redistricting Of the
State solely in the interest of the Democrat
icparty."
1T is not improbable that the proposed
feace Congress will have to be postponed
lor time. When the call was issued, a year
IN advance, there was every prospect that
Tue ulhculties in south and Central America
"o'lu oe settled at an early day. In this,
no"e'er, the hopes Of the promoters OF the
M CAGE congress have been disappointed.
inere Is practically peace in South Ameri-
ca, and the troubles about the southern bor.
uei oi Mexico have not been adjusted, al
'noEsaa4t is understood that the conditions
are favorable to settlement. Congress hsIs
@heh no action in the matter, although asked
10 do so by the President. 1t is exnected
mat the Senate, as the coordinate treaty.
making power with the Executive. will take
.ne initiative in the matter, and presumably
Tue mouse will not act until it has done "a.
nno'ner embarrassment in the way is the
.aV' , 'nat the South American States appear
81" realize that they are not in condition to
eussge In conference that might pass upon
questions ,.t which they were not ready to sub.
NIT to arbitration. .s,-,- -,
49, pAE ume ago MIR. j. w. Lebarnes,
tas.ie Law Clerk Of the General Land Office.
~. $,.ilea before the Public Land COMMITTEES
in NJ ro senate that certain land grant roads
b.a a-"nesola, Missouri AID elsewhere have
in a ar oer'led to them large amount Of land
toua ACess OF the amount they were entitled
S,,a,. er Ihe laws making the grant. Mr..
r. VI Minnesota, introduced in the
Saous 10use resolution of inquiry, directing the
Hoay HaFy OF the Interior to furnish to the
inc ms all the facts in his department tend
rail- snow the truth or falsity Of the allie.
fnH sa,'On made by Mr.. Lebarnes, and if found
NOV " rue to make such suggestions as he
IN 'nilk pest for the recovery Of the land
sassi"] HeeSs. and for placing it again in pos.
~ LOn h OF The Government and opening il
N nonlestead and pre- .emption settlement.