Huntsville gazette., 1883-12-15
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IT is reported that Craig, the default
Ing manager of the Exchange Bank of Mon
ueal has absconded.
ADMIRAL PENG YU LIN is massing
the Chinese naval strength at Canton and
gives warning that war threatens.
SECRETARY FoLGER's estimates for
the fiscal year ending June 80. 1885, call
for the following appropriations: Civil es-
Enlistment, $22,045,663; foreign inter
course, 81 ,569, ,601; military establishment
9-,136, ,152; naval establishment, $22, TAI,
81; Indian affairs, $S,466,8l0; pensions
>D,000,000; public works, ST., PA; pos
tai service, $2,959,112; miscellaneous. $25,
1886: permanent annual appropriation
Il5147,037.
GENERAL MANTEUFFEL has once
more vetoed the action of an Alsatian Dis.
trct Diet allowing the use of the French
language in their proceedings.
SPEAKER CARLISLE will not be able to
announce the House committees till two or
three days before the holiday recess. The
increase of the number of Representatives
has made his task somewhat more difficult
than that of his predecessors, and the un-
usually large number of new members in
the present Congress adds much to the diff
Guilty of the work.
ALARGE number of recess nomina-
| tons were sent by the President to the Sem
ate on the 9TH, among them that of Walter
QGresham to be Postmaster-General.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, it is ru-
mored, will succeed Sidney Dillon as Pres
iient of the Union Pacific Railway.
The Prince OF Wales has been re-
elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge
OtF Free Masons in England.
The National Republican Committee
are assembling in Washington, to there de-
teImine upon the place for holding the next
National Convention.
On the 9Th Norvin Green, C. M. Fry,
A, K. Graves, Thomas T. Eckert, John Van
Horne, Augustus Schell, r. Fl. Rochester,
D, H. Gates and Henry Hertz were elected
directors of the Southern & Atlantic Tele-
graph Company
PROFESSOR WALLET, President of the
faculty. Of the Texas University, has ac-
eepted chair in the University of Vir-
slhla' and will not remain in the Texas in
Nlutlon longer than is necessary to COM
Ilete Its new library.
lHE Senators and Representatives in
congress from the Pacific slope are dis
peased over the mild reference in the
teSlaenFs message relating to Chinese inn
"1icn they will introduce in the House and
mate and which will propose severer re-
'IDVlohS upon immigration from China.
LIE Committee on Rules of the
.Nea States Senate will recommend the
~pPolutment of two new committees, one
rn'ernal improvements and the other
r. expenditure of Public Money.
LIE Senators and Representatives
:, I'm 'he Pacific slope held caucus on the
cara anu agreed on course to pursue in re-
1s. es.u 10 bill to remedy defects in the
Ohlnese immigration law.
. w Ihe 9TH, at the annual dinner of
Ton H. DIooklyn Revenue Reform Club, Rev.
c.t;n ~s ward Beecher made speech advo-
ue abolition of the tariff laws.
t.,I +0l-f RESIDENT WELTI, a Liberal,
AMI Veeh '5. elected President of Switzerland,
RAJ ullister of the Interior Schenck, a
I-Val, W Vice-President.
q w. > CHAMBERLAIN, of Cleveland,
who.ar .a'per of Miss Jennie Chamberlain,
Pnroe oeauty has attracted much notice in
tPe' seeing statement that PROPOSE
hs we're making to place photographs of
the usnVer on sale in New York, requests
boma ,-lOuhcement that no photographer at
her ~ VI abroad has his permission to sell
them ppLo:.,ographs, and any one found selling
ofIo Ai De prosecuted to the full extent
pS+a5 5hw days since Mexican was ar
from 'f' a' uuerroro having the pistol taken
ARM lieutenant Banjel, of the Mexican
lean \, N. wnen Passenger train on the Mex
desneras de.iohai Road was robbed by masked
der thraao @aoes near Lajarita, recently. Un-
the autHaas a.s OF hanging, the culprit has given
each ~ 1rilles ~ the names and residences Of