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Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS.

DEC. 27.-In the Senate resolutions wer,
adopted calling for statement showing the
annual expenditures for carrying foreign
mails calling for the number of contested
homestead entries pending. Consideration
OF the Pendleton Civil Service bill was re-
sumed. Several amendments were adopted
and the bill was passed-yeas, 80 nays, 81.
The House had no quorum and adjourned to
Saturday, Dec. 80.
DEC 2S.-In the Senate the bill reported
by the Judiciary Committee to prevent Gov
ernment officers and employees collecting or
paying to each other money for political pur-
poses was taken up and passed. The bill for
the relief of Gen. FitZ John Porter was then
considered.
DEC. 29.-Several bills were introduced
and referred. The bill appropriatng $40 900
to erect monument to Baron De Kalb at
Annapolis, Nd, was passed. On motion the
bill to provide for the performance of the du-
ties of the office of President, in case of the
removal, death, resignation orSnability OF
both the President and Vice President to per
form the dutios of tho office was takeTf up
and diannesnd at Ianath- II .I,z
sumed as unfinished business. After an ex-
ecutive session the Senate adjourned to Tues
day, january
DEC. 30.-In the House the Senate bill to
reform the civil service and prevent official
assessments was taken from the Speakers
table and referred. Senate bill extending the
time for filing claims for horses and equip
mentS lost by officers or enlisted men In the
service of the United States, with amend
ment limiting the extension to one year, was
passed. A resolution for standing commit
tee on rivers and harbOrs was referred. SEN
ate bill to pay the State of oregon $4,000 for
expenses incurred in recent Indian wars, with
an amendment approprlating s., 400 to REIN
burse the State of California for like expenses.
was passed. The House adjourned to Tues
day, January 3
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the United States Senate on the
2d Mr.. Garland from the Judiciary Conn
mittee reported substitute for all the bills
providing for forfeiture of railroad land
grants. Mr.. Logan resumed his remarks
against the Fitz John Porter bill. In the
House bill passed placing tobacco export
ed by rail to Canada and Mexico on the same
footing as if exported in vessels. A number
of unimportant bills passed.
ELIZA MANNING HAWTHORNE, only
sister OF Nathaniel Hawthorne, died at Bey-
erly, Mass, few days ago, aged over
ninety.
THE coinage at the mint in Philadel-
phia, Pa, during 1882 aggregated 50, ,967 ,290
pieces, valued at $4s,3o9, 1876. The amount
included double eagles $50, eagles 2, 324, 4S0.
half-eagles 2,154 $3.50. So pieces 1910, quarter
eagles 4,040, dollars 5,040.
w. C. ANDERSON, the young tele-
graph operator at Lachute, Cana, who re-
Gently fell heir to $3.50, 900 by the death OF
his uncle in Scotland, was few days ago
notified of a bequest of another $1,000 by
the decease of another uncle.
A BANQUET, ex-senator Bruce pre-
siding, was given at Washington, the night
of the 1st, in honor of Frederick Douglass
and the anniversary Of the emancipation
proclamation. A number Of prominent col
ored citizens attended.
In recent article on mercantile fail
ures for 1882 commercial paper says that
the business disasters for last year num-
bered 1874, against 5, 929 in 1881. and 4, 800
In 1880, being an increase in 1882 OF ], 645
over the year previous.
WHILE cutting through high land for
street at Albany, N. Y, the other day,
three men were killed by the caving in OF
the earth upon them.
AT Little Ride, East Hawksbury,
Quebec, the other day, hired man MUIR
dered R. w. Cooke and wife, eldest daugh-
ter and one son. Another son had thigh
broken and Fannie Cooke, going to heI
brother's assistance, received severe
wound in the breast, but would recover.
WITHIN twenty-four hours from the
time OF filing her bill in Chicago, recently,
Marie Louise Dillon secured divorce from
John Dillon for desertion and habitual
drunkenness.
q. n. DUDLEY & Co., brokers in
canned goods, New York City, made an as.
sipnment a few days ago. Liabilities said to
be from 800, 900 to S2e0,0O0.
THE Common Council of Vienna,
Austria recently approved the scheme for
the embankment Of the Danube, costing 16,
600, 900 forms.
Miss! ELIZABETH LAMBERT, of Cam
bridge, Mass, who was 5edridden for years,
recently claimed to have been perfectly
healed by PRAYER.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

South Carolinans say the crops Of
their State this year are worth over
SS,000,000 more than last years.
Two ninety-foot lathes, said to be
the largest in the world, have been
made by the South Boston Iron Works.
Each lathe contains 100000 pounds OF
iron. They are to be used to bore out
cannon.
A German has discovered that if
wood be exposed to the action Of heat
ed current of pure oxygen, it becomes
proof against the action of moisture and
of changes of temperature, and Is espe-
cially adapted to the manufacture Of
musical instruments. ~
-Lampblack has been found, on
further experimental tests, to act like
selenium in radiophony. Instead, there
fore, of selenizing one of the surfaces of
the double-coil receivers, the plan has
been resorted to Of blackening 1t with
the smoke of an oil lamp, due care
being exercised, of course, not to car
bonize the parchment paper which
isolates the metallic coils from each
other.
One dram of carbolic acid, six drops
of oil of lavender, and two and half
ounces of olive oil formed the prescrip-
tion which proved effectual in Destroy
ing parasitic affection of the mus
tache of gentleman who consulted DR..
George Thin, London, England. The
hair had fallen out and sort of bald
ness occurred in spots, but after the
application of the remedy the hair grew
again as thick and healthy as before the
parasites had attacked it. ~
"A great many people think eight
gallons make bushel, but nine gallons
fall short of a bushel by about seventy
nine cubic inches. The trouble arises
from the difference In the size of quarts.
The dry-measure quart is larger than
the liquid measure quart. Seven men
out of ten-and among them seven ply
sioians-think that there are 480 grains
of quinine in an ounce bottle, whereas a
close scrutiny of their old arithmetics
would show that there are only 4371-2
grains. These are both lessons of an
eminently practical character, but the
ordinary school methods are too dreamy
to reach anything practical, l,- Chicago
Times tit..tr'4 tA .I't
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06


playing with revolver. killed his brother
Joseph, aged ten.
IHE failure of Francis Carvill & Son,
merchants and ship-owners, London and
Liverpool, Eng, was announced recently
Liabilities, f30O, 900.
AT Iippecanoe, Ind, James Tibbets,
IN attempting to adjust belt at saw mill,
was caught by the belt and thrown against
circular saw the other day. He died in a
few hours afterward.
MISS JOSEPHINE G. MEEKER, daugh-
ter Of the late N. c. Meeker,' who was tor
tured and killed by Ute Indians in the mas
sacre Of 1879, died in Washington, the other
morning uf pneumonia. Miss Meeker was a
clerk in the office OF the Secretary of the In
terror. She and her mother were for some
time prisoners in the hands of the Ute In
dians after the massacre OF 1879.
THE No. 10 breaker of the Pennsyl-
yania Coal Company, at Pittstown, Pa, was
burned the other morning; origin OF the fire
unknown. Loss, $50, 600.
Mrs. STILwELL, who was dying of
consumption in Knox County, o., a few
days since, made a confession Of three mur-
ders-her first husband, her daughter and a
stranger; also that she had tried three
times to kill her present husband. She said
her mother and brother had been her ac-
completes.
The Fulton cotton mill, No. 5, ope-
rated by George Calder at Lancaster, Pa.
the other day suspended operations owing
to the dullness Of trade. Two hundred
operatives were thrown out of employment
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06
PITH AND POINT.

fdtrlck, were you q minor Wnen
naturalization officer. ''No, your honor;
was DrIUhldyOI.
The number of domestic patents
issued in one week recently was $50,
and yet it is patent to all that the do
mestic is no better than she ever was.
Ordinary ''stars" on the theatrical
stage are not out of place, but "shoot-
ing stars" should be suppressed. We
couldn't re-Frayne from making this
remark. ."--Norristoe0ft Herald.
1t is impossible for two railroad
trains to pass each other on single
track. This has been go frequently de-
monstrated of late, it is strange that the
fact has not been accepted as proved
Boston transcript. NJ. .r...
A politician is always disinterested
in seeking to serve his country. As no
body knows what the country needs so
we'll as himself, he naturally wishes to
place himself where his knowledge can
be availed of by his country. . a- irt
-"Daniel Webster never wrote but
one poem" When he offered that to
a newspaper editor for publication,
there was such murderous glare in the
latter's ewes, that the statesmen went
down stairs four steps at a time and
made VOW never again to court the
poetic muse. Some poets are less sem
sitive -B Burlington Hawkeye.
=" What's your occupationp" asked
a Judge of q ''drunk" that came up for
inspection in the morning. ''1'm a
calker, SIR" was the reply. IA calker!"
exclaimed the Judge, "what an inapti-
tude of language; should say you were
an uncorker. Give him sixty days"
s'That's 'corker,' surely was the
victims retort. rt.-Ron1e Sentinel. a.
-"And what age is it you are now,
dear?'' asked the colonel just back from
India of the tall daughter of his friend,
Tomkinson Smith. swell, that is what
1 can't quite make out" returned the
girl, taking care not to meet her moth
er's eye, 'sfor when [ go anywhere with
papa am sixteen, but when | go out
with mamma L am never more than
twelve next birthday" The colonel
fastened to change the subject.-Lon-
don Figaro. pA
When Cousin Mary was three years
old she attended church for the first
time with her aunt. During the SER
mon she heard the minister mention the
name of God several times, and acted as
if she knew he was doing something
wrong. At last she could stand it no
longer; the next time he said it, she
rose up in her seat, and pointing her
chubby finger at him, she said in i'm
pressive tones: "Man, top your swear
ing. ."--Erchange.
=" Speaking of owing men and feel
ing unpleasant whenever you meet
them,, said Colonel Mickle, "brings up
a rather pleasant remembrance OF
man to whom l was indebted. There
were numerous men in Little Rock who
had financial claims on me, and when
ever met them L could not help but
feel a sort of shiver creep over me, but
there was one man whom l liked to
meet.n "Didn't bring up any unpleas-
ant memory, eh," said Paxton, who
owes nearly every man in town. s"No,
SIR" "Didn't shudder when you met
him on the street?' "No. I'd walk
past him as though I owned the street. ="
ssI suppose you knew, then, that he did
not need the money" "No, sir, for |
was well aware that he did need it. !"
"Well, what was the cause?" "He was
blind. ."-ArkGrsaD Traveller.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

AT Des Moines, Iowa, the Adjutant-
General celebrated the thirty sixth ami
versary OF the admission Of the State by a
salute of thirty-six guns on the 28th.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

THE Hawaiian Minister, Elisha H.
Allen, died suddenly in a cloak room at the
White House on the 1st during the Presi-
dents reception. t# N
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

GOVERNOR RUsK, of Wisconsin, was
called upon to appoint all the officers for
Waukesha County except sheriff, the other
day, those elected having failed to file bonds.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

THE recently submitted returns of the
Fire Marshal at Detroit, Mich, show that
city to have spent over three and quarter
millions for building improvements during
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

IT was said the receipts of the United
c,.,as uatent office for the past yearwere
4 200 600.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

THE Indian chief Red Cloud visited
bis grandchildren at the Hampton (Ya.)
yormal School few days ago. AA r.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

ANUMBER of frightened depositors at
Rochester, n Y, the other day drew $75,
600 from the Monroe County Savings Bank
and $4l 900 from the East Side Savings
Dn,nl.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

CHOLERA, it was said, was recently
Devastating cities and villages in the inte-
rior Of Kurantieng provinces, China.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

A FATAL disease, believed to be a
brain trouble, recently broke out among the
hO,ses at OskaIoosa, Iowa. The attack
usually caused death in from twelve 10
thirty hours. a
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

THE Inauguration OF Grover Cleve-
land as Governor Of New York took place
ON the 1st. .-..r
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

DURING the seven days ended Deem
Der 90 there were 1913 business failures in the
United States, against 1877 for the previous
seven DAYS. . ..
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

THE Senate confirmed the nomina-
ton OF Robert c.. Campbell, Of Louisiana,
as United States Consul at Monterey a few
days ago. E1 N0 .rl u
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

A1IGHT shock of earthquake was felt
IN Halifax, n. s., the other night, lasting
twenty to thirty seconds. @1
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

HE ratifcations of the convention of
'ne United States and Belgium for the ex-
cnange OF money orders after January were
formally exchanged few days ago between
tne Postmaster General and the Belgian
Minister.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

The death of M. Leon Gambetta, the
French statesman, was announced at Paris
on the 1st. Pyama, the result Of trifling
wound in the hand received some time ago,
was the cause Of DEATH
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

AT meeting the other day Of the
creditors of J. A. & W. H. Sweeney, sus-
pended bankers at New York, James A.
Sweeney promised that every cent due
should be paid. #Hk#s '
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06
NEWS and NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.,

TIE French Chamber and Senate was
rrorogued December 29th.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

AT Cleveland, o., the operators Of the
Masslllon District coal mines few days
s'"ce agreed to reduce the price of mining
from ninety-fye to eghty.five cents a ton,
anu appointed committee to confer with
the miners. 80 :,
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

AT the recent sale of articles accumu-
lated in the Dead Let er Office, the proceeds
amounted to 81 ,497, which sum was depos-
lied in the Treasury to the credit Of the
POSt-ofice Department..
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

FACTIONS ofthe Creek Indians were
az :, war IN the vicinity Of Okmulgee, Indian
l',f''ory, where a desperate battle occur
,Fo few evenings ago. A detachment of
Federal soldiers were sent to the scene and
USafmed l50 Of Chicote's men.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

FOUR hundred co-growers of
New England held meeting at Hartford.
Conn, few days ago, and adopted apeti-
lion to Congress to impose duty Of 81 a
pound on all foreign tobacco except from
tnha
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

LIE Milk River country it was re-
rpi'eu few days ago was oyerrun with
Ean V hunters who were slaughtering the
u. a"A'oes' The Indians were becoming rest
nro 1nu me Agent feared trouble. The
presence OF the military was requested.
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

= 1"E Secretary of the Standard Oil
Sana.Sy S,rShy testified before the New York
tba, :. committee on corners the other day
not ha,'.t capital was $350O,000; that it had
affect NJ ~ y VI sold large quantities Of oil to
lures. ""u uiu not ueai III lu-
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

RnsarS RfokrS having reached. the Indian
ri,orr ~ rom Cherokee County, Indian Ter
ipgs mat white men were erecting build
"Cb.nu nu Fencing off pastures in the
roAee recan.e Outlet" Commissioner Price
at Wnlf addressed letter to Agent Tufts
rAosee to warn the white herders to
lion. 'D' AocA from tne reserva-
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

sra,''i, } a. rfeSldentthe other day issued an
n nv. ~ order setting apart certain lands
tain hana territory for the Turtle Noun
Other Taa, u chippewa Indians, and such
ssera..u 1uuIahs q the Chippewa tribe as the
thereon. i'''er'or may see Mt TO setle
Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-06

.oe.., /. : meeting Of the Western Nail AS
dav 9n' ,t,nI neld at Pittsburgh, Pa, the other
" dsa;5l ,i long discussion, it was unanimous
Jsnn..e TO shut down all factories from
taken ! 70 70 fepruary 10. This action was
ton =, >. ~, view OF the unsatisfactory condi.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-24
NV. HoueHros. N. H. HoueHron, Editors.

THERE are examples enough of the dan
ger OF making Illuminated trees a part OF
Christmas festivals. A year or two since
young man was fatally burned by the
white cotton in which he was dressed for
a Santa Claus taking fire, and two others
were sacrificed with him. This year, a
Jacobs ladder" in an Episcopal Church,
in Mt Vernon, N. Y, was set on fire by a
draft swaying the blaze of wax candle so
as to ignite the evergreen trimmings, and
panic ensued, it being then found that the
doors opened inward, and all the aisles
were blocked with chairs. At Montgom-
cry, n. Y, the dress of the man who per-
sonated Santa Claus, was ignited from
one of the wax candles, and then an oil
lamp was broken, a stampede followed and
that man was so nearly roasted that he
win never want to play Santa Claus again
if he gets well, which is doubtful. And
in this case, also, they found that it made a
terrible state of things to have church
aisles filed with chairs when people sud
denly think they had rather go home than
stay through the entertainment.
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Cold First, Then Diphtheria.

I want to say right here that no
healthy child can possibly catch diDh-
theria-the child it attacks must first
have what is COMMONLY called cold or
a catarrah. A small piece of diphthe-
ric poison may be placed on q IN ans
eye, and unless there is an abrasion of
the epidermis he will not be affec ed. L
am promulgating very advanced ideas,
| am aware, but l insist that neither
diphtheria, measles or scarlet fever can
be acquired unle - the c md tionS have
nam exist. | believe that cholera
might be traced in it's infection to inn
proper diet. In the Sixth Ward, where
l live, diph:heria is very prevalent, and
three cases have termin tted fatally
within 100 yards of ny re 'idence, and
just before coming here | read The STA
tistic- of physic an whose ability for
observa ion can no. be questioned that
out of 56S cases of diphtheria.
50S had Q idet fatally; these sos
cases wee taken from epidem.
les of various seventies. In The
northern part of the city some of the
children died within twenty four hours
of the DEVELOPMENT of the disease.
The is one thing which it is due to
ourselves and friends that we make un-
derstood; m my physicians call diphthe-
ria what is simply some other thro It
disease. and h,virg cared the throat
di ease they aim to having Gu ed
d ph he ia aud the re .ult IS that Mrs.
Brown avs % DIR. Blank; " n. Da h
cured >mIh's child ot diphtheria. but
my child die'i IN your hand>." It's en-
ad d,aueed ideI. but it sh .uld be known
that throat disease which was cured
was no diphtheria,-Dr, C5te, Of st.
Louis
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DOMESTIC.

ENELLY WITHERILL, aged sixty, q
farm employe at F"xboro, Mass, died sud-
denly in ht on the 18th. His maiden sister,
Angelina, started for a doctor when her
brother was first attacked, but also fell In q ft
before leaving the premises, dying imme-
dia ely.
The Record printing Office at Scran-
ton, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the l7'h.
THE ak works at Douglass, Mass,
were burned on the 18th. They were fully in
sured.
The largest ice bridge that ever
bridged the chasm below Niagara Falls, was
formed there on the nigh OF the 10th. 1t was
over a mile in length
SANFoRD's cotton mills, at Amster-
dam, n. Y, were destroyed by fire on the 17lh.
Loss $4,000; insured r S35, 5,0oJ.
A BILL was introduced in the Penn
sylvania. Legislature on the 18th making It
a misdemeanor for the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor and members OF the Legislature to
accept passes from railroad companies.
j. T. GAME, the delegate-elect to
Congress from U ah Territory was sworn In
and took his seat in that body on the 18th.
The President nominated, ON the 18th,
"
be Chief Justice OF that Territory, and Joseph
Wasson, OF California, to be United States
Consul at San Bias, Mexico.
STEPHEN w. DORSEY resigned the
secretaryship OF the Republican National
Committee at Washington on the 18th, and
John A. Martin, Of Kansas, was chosen to I'll
the vacancy.
The President signed the Civil Service
bill on the l7th-
SENATOR RANSOM was reelected to
the United States Senate from North Carolina
on the nth.
The Illinois Legislature elected Gov
ernor Cullom to the United States Senate on
the l7th-
THE portrait of Thomas West, third
Lnrd de la War;, was formally presented to
the city OF phIladelphia on the Ia b, through
Captain Cli perton, the British Consul II is
the gift nj Mary &. West, Countess OF Derby.
The oriyinal portrait is still in the possession
her family. The picture will be kept in
Independence Hall
In the case Of Engineer Melville, of
Jea' nette fame, agai st his wi for The Gus,
tody OF their children, at Medina, Pa, Judge
Clayton rendered his decision on the nth a.
follows; That Maud, the eldest child, b. re-
manded to the custody of her father to be sent
to a school, her mother to he permitted to visit
her. The two younger children, Elsie and
\ eta, are remanded to the custody OF their
mother until further orders OF the court.
haileas corpus was held In allowance to prevent
the removal OF children beyon the 1urfs-
diciion OF the court b, either parent
JAMES L. ToRRANs. United States
Marshal of the Eastern District OF Arkansas,
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Ir was ut the Woman's Society, you
know, the men always go at teatime.
The first arrival OF tie lords of earth,
too much embarrassed to stand still, or
even sit do n, sIr"lle,i Ieisurely past
the numerous groups gathered here amt
there, and in passing 'rom one group Ia
another the c''nver-ation ran fif d s
mrmory is reliably about ;hus: thi"k
IT'S just the thi"g, sO becOn ing To her,
su TED To the col r OF her ey s, AMI her
hair was-ScalloI ell oysters, think
take the best. At our last society ev.
cry body seemed TO like them. tn u.h I
one man was going To eat-TiDred n" e
lie my choice; y SEE, any ze will tit,
and they are adjustable a ro-his head
aches aud ne Is generally miserable, he
has a bad cold, We left window down
and he slept-with a concert truup,-.
Th, Y are now in Michigan. They are
tired of travelling la such bIisine-- aud
are going to-Bowlby Il Halls C',ffe,.
is the best. IL is always fresh, and il
is not slimed over with-my Ieet ai-
vet. my rubbers gut misl,id, aud-I
don't thiuk hOoD skirts will be worn
much, tor the DelineatOr says-I dou'I
want any last ye RS Tuasiei -. mn.
when m Ike cOffre i max, COFFEE. . n
buy &c where always get just such
groceries as l orvrr,
BowLBY & HALLS