Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-02
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
THERE has been terrible cholers
endemic in the Philippine Islands.
TIE Post-oflice Department will turn
,rto the Treasury surplus of $1,000, 900 fol
the fiscal year.
COMMITTEE is being organized in
1ordon TO place in Westminster Abbey {
bust OF Longfellow.
crNrRAI SHERMAN will establish his
homo IN ST. Louis before the date of hi:
ratirement from the army.
WILLIAM PITT KELLOGG has finally
bsen persuaded TO accept the Republican
.on,iraton in the Third Congressional Dis
trict Of louisiana.
THE Treasury Department, with ar
onnropriation of $4,000, is about to es
tabIi.b at the chief Atlantic seaports quar-
aonne stations for imported cattle.
CABLEGRAMs from Constantinople
report the arrest of fifty persons engaged
IN enlisting men in behalf of the Khedive
Osman Pasha is said to have been the in.
termediary. A secret investigation is beips
made.
MERRICK, counsel for the prosecution
in the star-route trial at Washington, de.
mands ayerdlct of guilty against John W.
Dorsey, John r. Miner, Stephen w. Dorsey
II. NJ. Vaile, Montford C. Rerdell and Thos
j. Brady.
IT is stated that General Grant will
decline to serve as member of the commits.
sion framed to establish commercial rela
tions with Mexico. He claims that all thai
i, necessary to be done is to lower the Gus.
toms duties in both countries.
NEARLY three hundred new member;
were received by the American Science As.
sociation at Montreal. Professor Bell eX.
hibited his electric instrument for finding
bullets in the human body, and undertook
to explain why it failed in the case of Presi.
dent Garfield.
EX-GOVERNOR KOERNER, of Illinois
has addressed to Ex-Governor Palmer Ions
letter on the temperance issue, in which b,
takes strong ground against the Maine ant
Kansas laws, and such prohibition of manu-
tacture as is involved in the constitutional
amendment adopted in Iowa.
A MOB of over fifty men, headed by
the Sheriff and Treasurer, removed the safe.
and records of Grant County, Minnesota
from Herman to Elbow Lake the other night
The Auditor and Register of Deeds will no
otlicate at the new point, and the Supreme
Court will be compelled to decide the mat.
Ter.
THE Commissioner on Indian Affairs
has received telegram from Agent Mills,
Of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian
Agency,in the Indian Territory, in which il
is stated that the Northern Cheyennes have
declared their intention of migrating to Pine
Ridge Agency, in Dakota, regardless of the
wishes OF the Indian Office in the premises
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has been junket-
ing about Newport, r. /. He visited Fort
Adams the other day and reviewed the gar
rson, after which battery drill took place.
A reception at the villa Of Edwin d. Nor.
gan, where SO, 900 had been expended fol
flowers, lasted from o'clock until Z, and
was graced by the presence of many distin-
guished persons.
The New York State Freethinkers
adjourned to meet next year at Saratoga.
The resolutions adopted declare that the
only men who can not rejoice in freedom Of
thought are the clergy; that the war upon
the church is simply one OF unselfshness
and that no distinction should be made
which denies to woman the right to be mans
competitor for any position.
Miss ALICE C. FLETCHER, q con-
scientiOus laborer in behalf Of the Indians,
mas reached Carlisle, Pa, with thirty-six
children of the Omaha tribe, thirteen of
Whom are girls. During her tour she Wis
lied the camp Of Sitting Bull and selected
Ten pupils for the Carlisle school, and sixty
more Will be taken from the Rosebud and
flhe Ridge agencies next month.
0EN. WoLsELEY reports that he ad-
Fanced with about 1000 men, Aug "a, and
'ook possession Of dam the enemy had
constructed across the canal near MAGYAR
Inc Egyptians brought up reinforcements,
nut were held in check all day. at Port
'"la and Damietta native merchants have
subscribed money for Arab. Some 1000
Ls!p'ian troops have been withdrawn from
ue'ofe Alexandria to cover Cairo on the
east.
IHE british forces now hold the Suez
Cana throughout its entire length The ad :
,aace Of the cavalry and marine artillery has
sI ordered. The fresh water is failing
tNCepuoly at Ismailia. 1t is feared that
.lSoI PaSha has diverted its course. The
''i company has issued a notice request
economy in the use of water Ruchdi
aSni' formerly the Khedive's Minister OF
nance, and Zulkifar Pasha, of the Khe-
yves household, who had espoused the