Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-30
lEWS and NOTES.

news AND NOTES.
Summary Of Important Events. atv
0N- -.@A day,
h,., rooobod yo- Of
fey days since with the bodies Of mo-, ,,or
d Long and his crew.
R,sHop BENsoN's acceptance OF the Pa.
lhhi.bopric Of Canterbury was officially eyel
.nonnrced few days ago. a
c,-,zvxs of New York have recently II r
.s.rbnted s62. 900 to eSet pedestal for dier
"" partbold statue of Liberty. 10
r,,s Treasury Cattle Commission the K
aov leased tract OF forty acres at pnls
D.1..,o w.. New Jersey, for station. cou
fassa''' NV to Il
\, Nv IEssEPs recently announced had
,or the creation of an inland sea in agel
Africa, to be prosecuted DY private enter +
prise. - mu'
rup death of Rear-Admiral James ate
| !, Scbepck was announced at Dayton, o., oui
,be ohsr day. He was brother Of Gen. S0,,
r. C. Schenck. .
FoRgFarHERs' DAY December 22) Ins
!. general holiday at Plymouth, Mass.,and r
was ushered in by display Of flags, salutes wv
and ringing of bells. Mo,
THE historian George Bancroft re- $3.50
Gently founded scholarship in the college
at Worcester. Mass, to perpetuate the Jul,
memory Of his parents. vill'
SAMUEL L. BRYAN, late chief of the
Japanese postal system, the other day re- ~ -,
turned to Washington, where he was for az. az.
mprly department clerk. -,
The Denver & Rio Grande Road had i
recently pushed its Utah extension to the dan
western line of Colorado, and expected to son
reach Salt Lake by February Is. all
~ his
JOHN r. BUECHTEL, of Akron, o., T
the other day sold 5000, 900 stock in the in 9
bucheye orks, III oroer " MAKE an aoul Pas
tional gift of 800, 900 to Buechtel College, in exc
that town. ,
The following failures occurred in T.,
New York recently: Theodore Weston, the
architect liabilities $170, s22, actual assets wo
SIPS; Jos. H. Adams .S Son, liabilities
sD5,643, actual assets $21 $40. the
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HENRY JAMES, SR., the philosopher duI
and meaphysician, an associate of Greeley, par
Emerson and Tholeaus on this side OF the est
Atlantic and Of Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson pla
on the other, died few days since.
sin,
AFEw days ago. a letter was received bin
at the Washington Post -office marked the
wiltshire, O., Dec. II, 1882" and ad ber
dressed TO Senator Oliver p. Morton, who to t
has been dead somewhat more than five tbir
years. tim
IRENoR w. PARK, native of Ver "
mont, we'll known throughout the United
States as brilliant financier, died on g, g,
steamship bound for Aspinwall few days ~
ago. He was President of the Panama a..u an
Railroad Company. -,
The naval hospital at Portsmouth, Uni
Eng, was visited the other day by Queen last
Victoria, Princess Beatrice, and the Duke con
and Duchess of Edinburgh, who conferred ]
decorations on number Of cOnvalescent Of
patients Of the Egyptian campaign. 9th
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AFTER seven months survey of the "a,
southern coast Of Alaska, the United States and
coast survey steamer Bassler returned to 9th
San Francisco CAL, few days ago. They {
discovered several excellent harbors. The 81
oTncers spoke enthusiastically of the timber 60,
resources OF the region visited. ~
IN his speech at Wolverhampton, =
Eng, the other evening Davitt summed up IN IN
.ne present condition Of Ireland as one of ~. ~
Mmlne and discomfort. He considered the - -.
prevailing distress to be owing to an unjust Wv. 'oo
system OF land laws, rack rent and discour- 81, 80
ASement IN every form. The remedy con- - -
sN'eu IN the turning Of great part of the ~,
I'">s lands into cultivation and the intro
l'n'u oi system OF loans TO oppressed ~
tenants IN order to enable them to tide over va
'ne coming winter tive
it v
the action of the Government thi
as'lust three packages of distilled spirits, COZ
"ntn mad been originally properly stamped, In
~ sa' "lefWard, when part had been drawn ms
- lHa water added to the packages, siezed .
:! y 'ne government as not OF the proof in at ,
T''A'ea by the stamp, Judge Brown, at New me
LUX ne other day held that the mere addi-
,; ol VI water Is not fraud. The sugges- Bo
tbo IN" 'ue stamp must correspond with wo
,io, '' u tne spirits as that OF certifica- the
i q SuMentative only and is not war
lah'ed by law.
Major e C,sv del
U" HASKELL, of Dublin, Ireland, w;t
cr,,;o. 'ne uoVernment Committee on emf on,
Mas in recent interview at Boston, car
s,i5 .' -, ." Tue subject of Irish emigration
inadaa '"'s ueslre to emigrate is caused by the =
yisit 4aacy OF crops. The object of Gaskelps ao,
On ~, y INQUIRE into State laws which bear a
sri., .sration' and see what arrangement ~
ob;oa. 'ot tne Reception of emigrants. The ~ -,