Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-29

NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important EventA
,,.s,MICCIoLA was shaken up again
-, eartbouake on the 23d, but no lives
we're lost.
Rrs,IA is reported to be making ex-
..ivo military preparations along the
Austrian border.
Tar municipal council of the Irish
v.tionol League held its first regular meet
ing on the 23d.
Tur sixtieth session of the Illinois
Annual Conference of the M. E. Church be-
CON at DanvilIe on the 10Th.
Tpr monument erected by the State
y kentucky to General Zachary Taylor
rras dedicated on the Goth.
THE Diamond Match Company has
issped circular making a fifty per cent.
r4dnction in wholesale price of matches.
CoyGRATULATORY telegrams were ex-
changed on the 21st by officials and COM
mercial bodies of the United States and
Brazil.
THE Maryland Democratic State Con-
vention, which met at Baltimore on the
19th. nominated Robert M. Mclean for
Governor
The French have suffered another
check in Tonquin, the Yellow Flags, ,"their
allies, being disastrously repulsed near
Hal Phong
HbN. VIM. FAxoN, Assistant Secre-
tarv of the Navy under Gideon Wells, died
suddenly Of heart disease on the 10Th at
Hartford, Conn.
The failures throughout the United
States and Canada for the week ending the
2st numbered 1S9, compared with 173 fol-
the previous week.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR is the guest OF
Seth Barton French at Newport. r. l., who
gave grand dinner in his honor on the
evening of the Goth.
The International Northern Tel
egraph Company filed its certificate of in
corporation in New York on the 10Th. The
capital stock is $5,OOO,00O.
SECRETARY TELLER has ruled that {
settler under the Oregon donation act o
1880 does not forfeit his right to land by
failure to file notice under the act of 1858.
GUAYMAs, Mexico, reports nine deaths
from yellow fever in twenty-four hours
The weather has turned extremely hot
Horrible stories of plague horrors are told
The recent Sunday meetings of the
Irish National League in Ireland were
orderly. Efforts to hold meetings at places
forbidden were Interrupted by the police
THE press of Melbourne. Australia,
express dissatisfaction with Lord Derby's
dispatch condemning the proposed annex
alton of the South Pacific Islands to Aus
tralia.
THREE fine race horses were ere
mated, jockey burned to death and s., 3,00C
worth of stables on the Exposition grounds
at Pittsburgh destroyed the night of 23d
by an explosion of fireworks.
THE Chinese Viceroy at Canton, ap-
preciating the fact that the American Con
sui maintained a conciliatory attitude, has
assured him that prompt arrangement OF
American claims would be made.
HE National Association of General
Baggage Agents in session at Chicago
passed an unconditional resolution of con.
aemnatlon on the existing system Of check,
ing baggage at hotels and residences.
DURING fire at Brownwood, Tex,
on the 22d which destroyed nearly the
,lare business portion of the place, Mrs.
Alfy Hail. aged seventy five was over
Vone with excitement and dropped dead.
eECRETARY FOLGER holds that under
W ue Clvll Service law when names are GER
untd to him from which to fill vacant offices
Ae bound to give preference to any hon
uaoly discharged sailor or soldier whose
HE acquisitions upon the Post-office
pepartment by postmasters for new two
.VH' stamps are so large that the contract
aS are unable to supply the demand and
y department. consequently is reducing
'nouhts called for in acquisitions.
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lhE Secret Service Division of the
pp'eaSury Department. has received from
IL, ',on one of the fve-dollar notes of the
mIn., n ,Nepublic, previously reported in cir
srn"I a'loh mere. 1t is said by the treasury
S,l' Spei's 10 be fair imitation of the United
''eS treasury notes.
NE Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical
s.a SUuncn of New York, embracing the dio-
RooS.i u New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo,
and dS'er' Albany and Ogdensburg, N. Y,
4 ,'ewark aud Trenton, N. j., opened in
m a'rlck's Cathedral, New York CITY,
"' -od' Cardinal McCloskey presided.
porr phI JOHN V. HAMILTON, of the
been a a;1 ciass OF the Military Academy, has
heon.i dismissed the service for conduct un-
dat iii'g N an officer and gentleman. Ca
s1snau nCnlas L. Kerrin, same class, has been
Isl nuea with loss of pay until July l,
tarr ior violation of the rules of the Mill.
'afy Academy. ~ - 'n' ~ n'