Huntsville gazette., 1882-10-07
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AMI NUTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR left New York
,be other night for the Thousand Islands.
An endemic resembling cholera has
hrokep out in Chiapas, Mexico, and is
snreadng frontierward.
THE Treasury Department estimates
+bo reduction in the public debt for Sep
tonber at sl60000O0. Checks have been
sent out for ST, 3S9, ,O93 of quarterly interest.
THE MARQUIS of Lorne, in speech at
4be agricultural fair in British Columbia,
said the colony would be distanced in the
roilroad race unless it availed itself of all the
labor that came.
ABOUT forty delegates to the Califor-
nj. Probibition Convention withdrew, and
Tho remainder nominated r. Fl. Mcdonald
tor Governor and William Sims for Lieu
ieaant-Governor
THE Greek Minister has had an
interview with Said Pasha, Turkish Prime
Minister, during which he declared Greece
would not renounce an inch of territory
ceded to her by the Porte.
THE long continued drought has
ruined the crops of Central America, and
now dangerous fever RACES along the coast.
Cholutcay, Honduras, is being decmated.
1zalco, in San Salvador, continues in erup-
ti0n
The Executive Committee of the Anti
Monopoly League of New York has formally
indorsed the Democratic Nominees for Gov
ernor and observation-disclosures, an act
which is supposed to carry with it thousands
Of yoeS.
THE widow of President Tyler has
learned that some vandal visited the monu-
ment to her daughter in Richmond, Va,
and broke off the draping from the statue Of
Madonna. writing beneath that the work
was a botch.
JUDGE BLACK, on behalf of the Nor
Interior argument in favor OF the removal
Of Governor Murray, Of Utah, in connection
with argument to prove the Utah Commits
sion unconstitutional.
FRED DOUGLASS says he is not "the
pvOminent colored man. going to Virginia
iMhe interest of straightout Republicans.
lIck in sympathy with Malone. He de-
cines an invitation to Ohio for the reason
that he is too old TO travel.
MILK SICKNESS, or some other di-
sease equally as fatal, is killing off the cows
in Knox County, Ind, at an alarming rate.
They are dying by scores. One farmer lost
seven cows in one week. The disease causes
much uneasiness among the farmers.
GENERAL Crook, on arriving in Ari-
zona, took company Of Indian scouts from
Whipple barracks and visited all the bands
said TO be dsaffected. He states that there
is not a hostile Apache in the territory, but
the Cheyennes are likely to return from
Mexico and commit depredations.
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THE revolt among the Republicans of
New York grows alarming to the machine
leaders. Stewart l.. Woodford urges Folger
TO refuse the nomination, on the ground of
frauds. The Young Republican Club of
Brooklyn unanimously adopted resolutions
declaring the Saratoga nomination not en-
titled to respect.
JUDGE TRUNKEY, of the United States
supreme Court, has decided that railroad
company must honor its tickets, whosoever
sells them, and that therefore the ticket en-
titles the holder to the rights Of a passenger
between points named. This opinion re-
verses the judgment of the lower court,
ana lays down the law in an interesting way
upon one phase Of the ticket -scalping bust.
ness.
HE dispute over the remains of Gui-
'eau has not yet been settled. The bones
are sun In the possession Of DR.. Shiffert, of
ane Army Medical Museum in Washington.
lhey nave not been articulated and are in
perfect state OF preservation. Rev. DR..
Hicks has not yet surrendered all claims as
to their disposition and DIR. shiffert will not
give 'hem up to any one except upon the
- hiSib VI IoSU lOT Ills services.
EX-GovERNOR RAMSEY, of the Utah
commission, states that the leading polyga-
Hh>'S offered to make no attempt to vote,
'ou nave Kept their word. The Mormons
''ll carry the elections by large majorities,
Suu WI probably nominate Mayor Kane, of
EAU Lake, for delegate to Congress. The
!Necl OF the Edmunds law will be the erad-
.O'uoh from politics of all the able and
"'"''hy men Of the Mormon church.
- the recent session of the Farmers
~. ,MieS'' IN St. Louis, President Hudson,
an. ,,.ri'>sSippi, took the ground that agri-
~''u,N'S should have representation in the
s'uenl scabinet, and that they should have
~ one at Washington whose special train
anu knowledge would enable him to
punt out the evil effects OF State legislation