Huntsville gazette., 1882-04-22

AN4A/
NEWS AND NOTES.
"A Summary Of Important Events.
At. STEWART & Co., OF New York.
,re winding up their affairs.
d, ,,xr rs to be heard by the COM
,;,toa on Chileno- Peruvian matters.
TIE Mormon conference at Independ-
..oo Mo- has adjourned to meet next year
,tLamoni, Iowa.
ruv President thinks that he can do
.,inr IN the Fjtz John Porter case. All
tbe Cabinet concur.
THE April report Of the Department
u;o,,it,,re indicates an increase OF two
VI = aont in the winter wheat acreage.
rrp Mexican commander on the Rio
cronda has stationed troops opposite Lare-
do and Americans are not allowed TO cross.
Invited STATES troops are expelllng
,tortmen from Cherokee lands on account OF
non.pavment of the tax levied by the In
dians.
PROCEEDINGS have been instituted in
Pennsylvania to make 213 insurance compa-
MES show cause why their charters should
not be surrendered.
A PLOT for the assassination of the
Egyptian Minister of War has been discov-
cred at Cairo, and many Circassian officers
have been arrested for completely.
So deeply charged with electricity
was the atmosphere, between Chicago and
the Atlantic coast on the 10th, telegraph
wires were operated without batteries.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, on the 18th, six
or eight thousand workingmen in mass
meeting expressed indignation at the action
Of the President in vetoing the Chinese bill.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's reception to
the officers OF the army and navy. the other
night, was brilliant affair. He was as
sisted by Mrs. Frelinghuysen and Miss Fol-
ger. - so
{ THE Saints at Salt Lake have beer
advised by their preachers in the taberna
Gle to boycott the gentiles. Gentle mer
chants will probably retaliate by discharg
ng all Mormon employees.
On the ground that it should have beel
preseuted to the Probate Court of Chicago
Judge L0omis has refused to consider tn,
petition of Mrs. Scoyille for the appointmcn
Of eonservator for the estate of Charles j
Guiteau, and qIashed summons thought.
lessy issued by a deputy clerk.
TaR convention of the National Land
League sitting at Washington adopted reso-
lutions urging continuance Of the policy oil
passive resistance in Ireland. James Mooney
Of Buffalo was elected president for the en-
suing year. The total Land League receipts
in this country since the Buffalo convention
were nearly 100000.
THE First National Bank of Buffalo
has suspended payment. The concern has
acapital of sl0O, 900, and reported loans and
discounts of 81, ,054, $40. Hugh Young, Gov
ernment Bank Examiner, finds that $50, 900
Of Federal court funds are unsecured, and
$4,000 in city and county deposits rest upon
poor bonds.
THE Irish Catholics of Turners's
Falls, Mass, have decided to ''Boycott" G.
L. Rist, member Of the Grand Jury which
indicted for manslaughter David Mcmillan,
who shot Father Mccarthy. The boycotters
think. Mcmillan should have been indicted
Ona charge Of murder. Father Purcell
'old the people that Rist asked an improper
question in the jury room.
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IHE following Presidential nomina-
uO0s have been confirmed by the Senate:
WI Chandler, Of New Hampshire, Secre-
Afy Of the Navy; W.. H. Hunt, Louis
,aua' Minister to Russia; J. r. Partridge,
n't!laha, Minister to Peru; John II.
1nl',ne North Carolina, Minister to Libe-
,ia' III. Williams, Indiana. Charge DAT
aus 10 Paraguay and Uruguay; John j.
hHVA' Minnesota, Comptroller of Currency.
H. W. STUBBs, Mayor of Polk City.
IOWA, M was killed by burglar on the 18th.
MI al' s'upos and wife were sleeping in a
snanOer, and at an early hour in the morn.
.uS mrs Stuobs was awakened by hearing
,oo'steps on the stairs. Arousino ber bn.-
Uana he rose in bed and asked ..Who i
~ele: The answer was, "You Law still or
soun so get shot," Mr.. Stubs told the per.
,uu 10 get out of the house and spranc nm
.'m we ped, and as he did so the reflection
w. uafk lantern was flashed on his face ana
sr,a1., ~e same instant he was shot, the bullet
V.ra.E, ,,,ns MS breast and piercing his heart.
ha s .'| .Sscaed the head OF the stairway. when
s,;,s ,' 0eaa and rolled to the bottom Of the
stnbh. ia hy the light of the lantern Mrs.
Tbap rDVs discovered there were two burglars
f,,,i :. iusnea out of the house after firing the
i0'' mounted horses and fled.