Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-21
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
Summary Of Important Events.
TUE steamship Strasburg arrived at
r.I.;more. Nd, on the 10Th with l'46o I'M
nigrants for the West.
ru,xc1pAr>N DAY, April 16, was
III celebrated t. the colored people at
Tr,' T.,binpton, D. O., and various other
places -.
Parliament buildings at Vienna,
-! ,,.era filed with police on the 10th
!n.+ nr+ on account of warning OF attempts
to destroy them
r,,n London (Eng.) Board of Pub
rorLs was taking precautions against
\ ;,+roduction of explosives into the
sewers On the 18th
uorican Government has an
.n,oJ that there was no obstacle to the
.rnirsment Of land in that country by cit
tvons of the United States.
p,RyELL has announced that If the
,;octors Of the Irish Convention, to be
held at Philadelphia, Pa, would postpone
) nrtiI autumn he might be able to attend.
JAMES WAUGH, of Washington, DC,
testified on the 18th in the star-route trial.
rho defense closed their case and the pros
4,ution introduced some rebutting testl-
mOny.
THE lumbermen of Wisconsin, it now
,rnears. will have full supply of logs this
season, although the prospect month ago
was that there would be a considerable
shortage.
THE business failures for the seven
davs ended on the 18th inst. numbered 1S9,
IL against 1877 for the week previous, OF
which number fifty-four occurred in the
Western States.
THE twenty-third annual st. Louis Fair
will be held Monday, October lst, to Satur-
day. October 9th, 1888, both days inclusive.
Fifty thousand dollars have been appro-
prated for premiums.
JUDGE HIGHLEY, of Cincinnati, has
decided that demonstrating as commonly
practiced in tests Of skill i'll Workmanship
comes within the purview of the law
against cruelty to animals.
The Executive Committee of the col
aed press of the United States met at Gin
cnnati, o., the other day and arranged a
programme for the annual meeting to be
held in St. Louis on the second Tuesday in
July.
The Secretary Of the Milwaukee
Wis., Chamber of Commerce estimates
that the winter wheat crop will fall twenty
per cent. below that of Last year and So
100000 bushels short Of the average for the
past five years.
MINISTER DOGGETT is firmly con-
vinced that there has been no reshipment of
Chinese sugar through the Hawaiian ports
toevade payment of duty. The expense of
rehandling, he says, would be greater than
the duty evaded.
HE Treasury Department at Wash
mgton has been informed that quantity
Of vine cuttings from China have been i'm
ported into the port of New York which
the Custom-house officers think were in
tested with phylloxera.
JOHN WALSH, who Informer Cary
Swore initiated him into the Invincibles,
ana who was arrested in France upon that
charge recently at the request of the Brit
Sn Government, but not held, arrived in
New York few days ago.
Under the new postal law, it is said
SalafieS OF postmasters in the small
"llices VIII be greatly changed, the Govern
menu getting less and the postmasters
'ioie' Inc receipts from the sales of
'''IipS VIII be reduced twenty per cent.
GENERAL RALPH ELY. ex-Auditor
"eleral OF Michigan, died at his residence
CioSS slilage, Emmett County, aged
n Ns.'"o' he was Colonel of the Eighth
u. .Hlsah during the rebellion, and made
nI'oadler-General the latter part of the
war. pow "a 0Ao
l%nlne months Of the current fiscal
Tn..5 ,% 'ae internal revenue receipts of the
irrr. 'u oates were SOS, ,S25, ,79s, being an
III, "Se Of more than two and half mill
Ra,o;g, 'he same months of last year.
s5ou- r'p'S from the 1st to the 18th of April
YS decrease Of S44S,517.
N;.l. 0iilcial canvass of the recent
NJ -iean State election has been made and
cars7 i, s5'eral counties, from returns nearly
por,f render certain that the Fusion
and De- ior Judges of the Supreme Court
e4c.a5 09h'S Of the University are all
GkaI, Ohe Judge (Sherwood) was not
c,bsr % nave over 1000 majority. The
impurities range from 5000 to 10000.
ot,h nA iroquois Club banquet in honor
rer,ar,o one hundred and forty third anni-
tail !, = me birth of Thomas Jefferson
sna. pace in Chicago, H., on the 18th.
h,o 'he speakers were Hons. Thomas F.