Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-23

OLO 1A1I
news and NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
FOX refusing to pay the latest assess
ment three leading Peruvians have been
sent to Chill.
THE Treasurer of the United States
the ooer dav received "a, 900 from 81. R."
tor the conscience fund.
SEVERAL of the most extensive CO.
oneratiye stores in Dublin, Ireland, were
dsstroyed by recent fire.
CrsroMs officers at New York few
d.v. AGO seized a Bible which had been hol.
lowed and filed with costly jewels.
THE death Of Representative Godlove
orth. OF Indiana, was announced on the
18th He was sixty-six years Of age.
THE other day 1000 applications for
assistance to emigrate were made to the
Poor Law Union at Westport, Ireland.
In his message to the Legislature the
Governor of Idaho calls attention to the fact
that in several counties Mormons vote and
hold office.
THE election of M. Riechmuet, Radi-
cal, and NJ Welti, Liberal, as President and
Vice President of the Swiss Confederation
for 1888, is announced.
THE french Minister of Finance stat
ed recently in the Chamber of Deputies that
the amount Of the public debt redeemed in
1882 was 104 900, 900 francs.
The Turkish Government recently
announced the erection Of a special bureau
for supplying correct information to corre-
spoudents of foreign papers.
WHITTIER, the poet, celebrated his
seventy fifth birthday recently. He received
many tokens from friends in different parts
OF the country and from England.
N
THE Home Secretary for Ireland,
Forster, says Home Rule in Ireland means
absolute separation from England and great
probability Of a civil war in Ireland.
The past eleven months show an in
crease of 106,00O,000 francs In imports into
France and 147 100000 francs in exports, as
compared with like months in last year.
i TIE Con, coiOnorc 0f tho ErooI
mems Savings and Trust Company at
Washington received the past year $455, 1884.
Another dividend would be paid, requiring
S3SS,527.
schooner of Gloucester, Mass, with a
crew Of fourteen men, made $26, ,426.S1 in
the bank halibut fishing, the most profitable
year on record.
RECENT dispatches stated that famine
prevailed in Carrick, County Donegal, Ire
land. The people were living, on Indian
meal. Twenty-Five hundred persons were
indanger Of starving.
REV. JOSHUA COIT resigned the pas
torate of the Lawrence-streetC Congregation
al Church at Lawrence, Mass, recently, to
accept the Secretaryship Of the American
Home Missionary Society.
A LETTER was received by high Off
Gals at London, Eng, few days ago,
threatening to blow up one or more of the
Government offices within five days, in
revenge for the hanging of the Joyce mur-
derers at Galway.
RECENTLY the Secretary of the Treas
ury decided that Cinnamon residing in the
United States could not bring into this coun-
Try, under the Chinese restrictions act,
wile that he intends to marry in China,
'nough II ne was already married and his
Vile in China, she could come.
In the recent official canvass of the
o'a'e election made at Lansing, Mi ch., the
,o'e ior governor was declared as follows:
pesoie' democrat and Greenback, 154, 4,26S;
Jerome Republican, 1867; Sagendorph,
ilonloilionlst, 1854. The remainder of the
r"e oilcers stand: Republican, 157, 900;
Fusion, 149,O0O
II was recently announced by the
s0Vle'ary OF the Treasury that three months
m'eies', due February ! next, on bonds
tuoraced in the 10th call, would be paid
y cnecks forwarded to the registered own
eh 'he fractions of interest from that date
'eofliary 10 being paid with the princi-
=" u Bonds at the time OF redemption.
s
IA AREcENT Boise City dispatch says the
~ la'no Legislature has assembled. The
ro rYuucll stands six Republicans, three Nor
nuns, TWO anti-Mormon Democrats and
~, Cas mormon Democrat. They had elected
So Di' T. A. Wall, anti Mormon Democrat.
,n s'ioeh'' House stands: Twelve Republic.
cra,s seven Aormons, five Mormon Demo-
s,..,i IN vote OF California in the last
woGa G,1o"' exclusive of the small County Of
psmo, lDuoc, appears to have been: stoneman,
04. OyIaC' ~n W, 554; Estee, Republican, 67,-
oniadu dAcDonald, Prohibition, 5,479; Nc
H. f.u!' . Greenback, 996, and scattering, II.
ss,;as' wa, vote (without Modoc) is 164, ,OsO,