Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-12
NEWS AND NOTES.
, Summary Of Important Events.

NEWS AND NOlEO.
W, Summary Of Important Events.
TUE annexation OF New Guinea to
o.,onsland has been approved by the Aus
tralian Colonial Government.
rur State Auditor of Iowa has re-
I'D the certificates of a number of mu-
.raI life insurance companies.
THE Iowa Republican State Commit
has fixed the date of the State Conven-
on lime q, at Des Moines.
TUE death Of Rev. Josiah Hender-
Mrs Stoves "Uncle Tom," occurred
'v nresden. Ont, ON the 9TH inst.
a. S--
rur New Brunswick Legislature has
.a.,ad AGAINST an act of the Dominion
Psrlia,nent restricting salmon fishing.
au1 uohbiting free passes being
..,+ed to any one except railroad employees
snd ~i Ulcers has passed the New York As
semby. -.
av.RRIAGE has been arranged be-
.-roeu the hereditary Prince of Anhalt and
tbe second daughter of the Crown Prince of
Germany.
BRITISH troops have been ordered to
Part Said. Egypt. where a committee is in
ouring into the causes of recent disturb
ances there.
The Mexican Government has made
contract for the Improvement of Vera
Cruz Harbor The work will cost 1,037, 900
Mexican silver dollars.
MINISTER MORTON has presented
President Grevy a souvenir album given
bv the citizens of Providence, R. l., in
honor of the Frenchmen who fell at York
town.
THE Massachusetts, Legislature has
adopted resolution recognizing the abili-
ty, services and integrity of Oakes Ames,
and asking for like recognition on the part
Of Congress.
The Prince of Wales formally opened
the School of Music at Kensington, Eng,
on the 1th. The Duke and Duchess of
Edinburgh and Gladstone were present at
the ceremony.
The Treasury Department has de-
Cided the Government has no title to certain
lands in Fernandina, Fla, sold for direct
taxes in 1868. The property in controversy
Bvalued at $1,5OO,O0O
AT the National Liberal Club ban
quet at London, Eng, the other evening
Mr.. Gladstone said the Government had
met dangers from an unseen agency, secret
societies, successfully.
CHIHUAHUA Apaches say that Charlie
McComas, whose father and mother were
massacred near Lordsburg, N. NJ, by In
Indians recently, is alive and well among
the Indians in Mexico.
IT was reported on the Sd that in con-
sequence Of revelations by informers two
hundred members of the Patriotic Brother
hood had lately left County Armagh, Ire
land, for parts unknown.
The meeting Of King Humbert Of
Italy and Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus
tra, which was to have taken place at Ber-
IN this spring, has been postponed until
The 9Th of next November.
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AT ifs ono hnpHraA and Hftooo+1 1
annual meeting, on the Sd, the New York
Onamber of Commerce reelected George
WI Lane President. A memorial sketch of
'ne life of Peter Cooper was read.
HE Dublin QrelandD grand jury re-
turned large number of indictments on
u une od' among which were true bills against
lyman, John Walsh and P. J. Sheridan for
murder These three are in America.
~ A
iht business failures throughout the
united States and Canada during the seven
u"sS ended on the 4th numbered 152, as
ronlpared with lS2 the week previous.
loity -iour failures occurred in the West
ern States.
~ hdhlite plot, it is claimed, was
iolned IN America and was BETRAYED to the
-U'n consul In New York and all the
rn.S pal'icuiars given to the English police, who
s aseled The conspirators from the moment
'Ney landed there = -
r,n. M foreman of the jury in the star
tsnti.. vaSes at Washington has called at
a.. 'Vu 70 The fact that he and his associ-
ar., nave devoted one-seventieth of the
Way se human lifetime to the trial. He
"aits to go home.
lrl members of the Pennsylvania
y siSiature who served in the Union army
itad ), var OF therebellion the other day vis-
bprr 'ue It scene Of the battles before Peters
pats, @s, +, a. They were welcomed to the city of
'ourg by Senator Malone.
D,-,ii me 'nrd trial of Timothy Kelly for
and p,.p ,.patlon in the murder of Cavendish
n ne began at Dublin, Ireland, on the
tbat James Carey, the informer, swore
Joe ny one of the Invincibles except
'uy had offered to turn informer.
bs j REAT, at ST. Louis, Mo-, on
'eu' Sustained -, ,,a&;. :. &