Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-20

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NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
CYCLONE which swept over the re-
-. ~ Shreveport, La, the other day,
IilIed three persons ana damaged mucn
property, -.-----9 81
tl Tgv Senate select committee on wo-
s,,ffrage have agreed to recommend an
an'andment to the Constitution providing
that the right to vote shall not be abridged
N, account Of sex.
rup wife of Sergt. Mason has made a
strong appeal TO President Arthur. The
n.oa;dout ssid he had great sympathy for
nor and the petitions for the pardon OF her
no'l Ia world be laid before the Cabinet
Dp KAYE. Assistant Under Secretary
tor ireland, has received death warming
Tho Government is in possession OF infor-
..;on leading to startling revelations.
ar,-oo imnortant arrests were made Ia Cork
on the 18TH
Covers we're laid for 400 at the brew
srs, banoueti in Washington the other night
sneeches were made by Senator Voorhees,,
representatives Young and Butterworth,
Count Beust and the Acting Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. s@ =
INDICTMENTS have been found at
Washington against William Brockway and
Charles Smith for stealing from the Treas
ury Department the plates and dies from
which were printed the spurious bonds
placed on the market by them.
RECENT heavy rains in Arkansas have
caused incalculable damage to crops and
mill property. The cyclone which swept
through Montgomery County was far more
destructive than at first reported. Several
lives were lost and at least one hundred
families were made homeless.
The pension appropriation bill has
for the next fiscal year, of which nearly al
is on army account: The bill provides tha
the income from the navy pension fund
shall be devoted to the needs Of that brancl
of the service, so far as it goes.
The Egyptian chamber of notable
nave convened to lay plans to depose tn
family OF Mehemet Ali, Of which the pres
ent KhediYe is a member. The ministry
preparing the forts on the northern coast
and many Europeans are leaving Cairo.
IS rumored that France has proposed t
England the dispatch of an allied squadron
to Alexandria.
Mrs. LUCAS and Mrs. Simpson, Pres
ident and Vice. President of the American
Silk Growers Association, have on exhibi-
tOn in Washington piece of black silk, in
tended for Mrs. Garfield, which was made
from cocoons sent from fourteen States OF
the Union. The ladies have also samples OF
silk ribbons made from cocoons by feeding
the worms upon other than mulberry leaves,
one Of the handsomest being from worms
. fed on the leaves of the Usage orange.
In connection with the statement that
agents of Faure, the Partisan electrician, i,
have come to this country with the Faure
batteries for the storage of electricity, a
{ New York paper informs capitalists that
re'sstorage patent is in interference in
the patent office with one of Charles F..
Brush's numerous patents of a similar char
acter, and that Brush, ina case recently, de-
cded in that office, proved priority of his
invention back of the earliest date claimed
by Faure for his French patent.
sS The Dauphin County (Pa.) Court
has dissolved ffty-eight mutual assessment
insurance companies, which were lately
proceeded against by the Attorney General
1.-THE instance of the Insurance Commits
'sloner OF the State. The number the In
surance Commissioner found doing busi-
ness IN violation OF chartered privileges is
-l0' and against all of these proceedings
nave oeen begun, with view to their dis
soiatlon. Only about twenty companies
contest the right Of the Commonwealth to
ulssolve them on the allegations made.
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IHE Washington Post makes the fol.
lowing positive statement Chief Justice
Carter and Judges Macarthur, Hagner and
James held consultation on the 18th. sum-
mug up arguments Of counsel in the apppli-
cation in the Guiteau case for a new trial.
Inc consultation lasted four hours. and was
marked by the most searching examination
s. 'he authorities and most rigorous analy-
Ts ~ u every point made in the arguments.
,ne Judges were in thorough harmony all
.uiough' not differing in the general steps by
Which decision was reached, although. OF
course, each Judge had individual opinions
W 'ne various points of law and their ap-
picaton. The decision affirms the sentence
" me Court below, OF course overruling the
1TASyplions, and will be announced Nav %.
MIN pzposes OF Guiteau's last chance. He
. De hanged June 80, 1882.
>. iht - iltteenth reunion of the Society
Nm NJ .ne Army of the Tennessee at st. Louis.
ma. ~ was called to order by General Sher-
ch; @'er which floral tribute sent by
lva.: sso was uncovered, Bishop Fellows de-
4 n''i'ns an address and ex- Governor Fletch-