Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-20

,rns FANNY SPRAGUE, mother of eX-
carernor sprague, Of Rhode Island, died
V0C..4 .n.,tsn Conn, Oh the night of the 18th,
ssed eighty-four.
icon NrLLING and Jacob Ladd have
,,. arrested for the murder of Ada Atkin-
III i indiana, and it would appear that a
yaat i'd clue has been struck.
,rVglerburv, Conn, on the 10Th 600
.rnfr, Of public school became panic
tssn at an alarm of fire. Many were
..rad The fire was easily subdued.
THE Northern Pacific Railroad has
c,rq into the tree-planting business on an
Sr-ensive scale as a shelter fence to keep
te snow from drifting upon the tracks.
THE New York Fish Commissioners
,-e about to begin the experiment of a
hatchery for salt water fish with which to
r,neuish the waters of the North Atlantic
cast
THERE were two deaths from yellow
fverat Brewton, Ala, on the 18th and two
n5re we're expected. No new cases were
rsoor-ed on the 18th. Female nurses are
needad
TIE steamship Coptic sailed from
/ San Francisco with ], 200 Cinnamon aboard,
ne largest number of the race ever leaving
ii one vessel. Nine hundred are booked to
return.
The revised estimates of the French
budget are said to show a deficit of 55,000,-
NG which the Minister of Finance pro-
poses to cover by reduction of government
ae1penses.
MILES OGLE, 4 noted counterfeiter,
rmpleted an eight years sentence in
Gnnsylvania prison on the 10Th, and was
Immediately rearrested to answer charges
Cincinnati.
The condition of the English harvest
mithe competition of Indian grain is held
Indicate that gold shipments from Great
Britain to the United States will not be
leayy this fall.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, is grinding &c.,
O0 barrels of flour per day. The produc-
ton VIII % to 10000 barrels if the water
power improves. All the mills are grind
Ing all they can.
IN the Catholic Congress at Naples on
the Eth letter from the Roman Duke was
read declaring the $1,000 Catholics in Italy
ready to strike for the restoration of the
temporal power of the Pope.
STATE Veterinary Surgeon Bridge
visited Trescottown, Pa, on the 10th and
aScertained that cattle reported as suffer
in5 with pleuro-pneumonia were merely af-
ftced by capillary bronchitis. The dis
ease is contagious.
LIE value Of exports of petroleum
ma petroleum products for August, 1883,
was 4,229,292, against 1888, ,440 for the
same time in 1882. For eight months end
@August 81, 1888, $50, 917, ,732; same time
N l>4, S50,946,S ,SjG.
lie latest and most extensive eX-
lerments made in France regarding the
uansmlSSion Of power by electricity proved
aFactlcal failure. At distance of nine
niles only fifteen per cent. of the generated
power could be recovered.
UPto the close of business on the 10th
Iere had been received at the Treasury
pIsl%ument for redemption $23, 300
OHNeQ States bonds, embraced in the 12lst
,di' leaving still outstanding S6,410, 700
Ooah included in that call
MEMBERS of the Corean Embassy
".lel at the White House on the 18th in
-uH court dress and took formal leave of
l' resident, attended by all members of
IN Ca0lnet, The presentation was made
y secretary Frelinghuysen.
\, -s
MORE complete returns from the
nsV'Ion N Ohio indicate an increase in the
i'l0'[a'lc majority, and it will probably
NM .rl.g1gIHSlderably over $4,000. The Senate
u Ill Y TWO to one Democratic, and the
muse is estimated at forty-three Republi-
''S ana SlXty-two Democrats.
SECRETARY FoLGER received informa-
:. .l oH the llth from Port Townsend, Wash
n, '" territory, of the capture of eleven
!, 1lainen ~ who, in violation of law, landed
S+.. uV coast near that port. The United
-rrr ,'s ollcers at that port directed the re-
they came. " ''' pave "--''-0o
III, -sllhATES at the National Depart
!. ,1' u Agriculture indicate that the cot
carn uop will not exceed 5,SOo,000 bales.
4. ~ average something like a bush
0nb', acre, or total crop about 1925, ,000,-
Of nsD' aSueiS' Wheat will show a decrease
h.l-a eally lO0OOO,000, or about 414, ,000,0O0
'''' Oats viii show up splendidly.
S,,.l supreme Court of the United
Br.m' IN a decision delivered by Justice
Riyb.s} oh the 10th, declared the Civil
Jr5,;1, lay passed in 1879 unconstitutional.
point /; noflan dissented. The cases in
70 ao,,a, 'oi'ed the right of colored persons
diesi Ia a'commodations in hotels, in la
drass IS, IN railway trains and in the
''S circle in theaters.
L,.o returns from the election in
Teach qI ',oa'e ooa That Sherman's ma ajority will
nipe oo. oy'9"' Complete returns from fifty
cratic all'les' oa' which include heavy Demo
turns on7S, give him 1890. Partial re-
27ON pIH III. 'he remaining counties give him
Bona 7, Ms plurality will not be less than
pubIio. me lower house is close. The Re-
0ftbe raal! now have "a; the Opposition, Al.
get ~ y remaining five the Repnblicans will