Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-19
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
. Summary of Important Events.
CIR has been begun to recover $685.
t.,r, the sureties of ex-Treasurer Polk
of Tennessee
Trwr1K PAsHA, the new Turkish Min
- oresspted his credentials on the 11th
at Washington.
r,ncr WYLIE expressed his belief on
~ t,tb that the star-r6ute case would last
..ore than another month.
cry Nav reports on crop prospects
,.la.a . falling off of 77,O00,OO0 bushels
- +be winter wheat yield.
III 'nN e----
MORE than S,40o emigrants sailed
Queenstown for America during the
,root ended on the 10th inst.
TDrpg was a heavy frost in the Sec
about Montgomery, N. Y, on the 14th.
r. tbe low lands some ice formed.
THE President has appointed Norman
camp Superintendent of the Assay
Office at Boise City, Idaho, vice William
Walters, suspended.
THE business failures for the. seven
days ended on the 1lth numbered 156, as
compared with 152 last week. The Western
States had forty-fve.
THE Virginia tobacco crop is re-
ported endangered by ravages of the fly.
In many instances the farmers have had all
the plants destroyed.
The order for the court-martlal OF
Pavmaster Wasson has been temporarily
suspended, pending further examination as
to the extent of the defalcation.
A BILL has been introduced in the
British House of Commons providing that
at the expiration of leases tenants shall be
compensated for improvements.
AVERY complete report on the spring
wheat crop of the Northwest indicated on
the 18th that the prospect was more favor
able than for several years past.
THE Colombian Government proposes
tOmake the Canal Company pay the cost of
naintaining police supervision over the
E@t of workmen brought into the country.
The Fisheries Exhibition opened on
0s2th in London, Eng, with a grand
trish, and the Hygienic Exhibition at
Berlin, Germany, was opened by the
Crown Prince on the same day.
TUCsoN (Ariz.) advices indicated on
the 18th that the force of renegade Apaches
in Mexico was considerably larger than
General Crook bargained for and it may
take six months to subdue them.
NEW counterfeit five-dollar gold
coin has made its appearance. 1t purports
to be coin of the United States struck at
New Orleans in 1913, is heavily plated and
iorty-nine and one-half grains light.
EX-GOVERNOR SEYMOUR, of New
York, says he would favor law making it
a crime for any resident within our borders
tOplan or aid in violent measures toward
persons in this or any other country.
LONDON ENG dispatches report that
the ministerial party in Parliament is
steadily losing strength, and that much of
the abstention in the House of Commons is
deliberately planned to weaken the Min
iStry
tHlEF-JUSTICE BECK, of the Colorado
supreme Court, has decided the act mop
eratve under which Packer, the San Juan
snoui, and seven other murderers were
convicted. All would be Immediately re-
leased.
HE National Board of Health has
nnlormed the local authorities at Memphis,
iehn', mat after June next they will have
Ne oi 'he expenses of quarantine on the
mississippi River between New. Orleans
and Memphis.
lHE Duke of Connaught, third son Of
ra.s sasen lc'oria, has been appointed to the
r;,.al' I'anu Oh brigade in India, in order to
for a. ''u oil opportunity to qualify himself
W. ~, o tle Office of Viceroy of India, which
s"'el desires to see him occupy. ~
b,, aI. district Court at Virginia, New,
of ~ .Au'ed decree of divorce on the suit
,or 'L'ieSa i Fair against United States Sena-
ona griHes u. Fair. There was no contest.
0n i a. All FAR settles upon Mrs. Fair S4. .2OO.-
tbo :. ".oiey and United States bonds and
residence in San Francisco.
1ah h' . i've 0 clock on the evening of the
Gin v destructive cyclone struck Kansas
a n.tb ,4y'' from the southwest, and cutting
doc aoout block wide through the city.
klloa kllyeo property worth fully $500, 900,
Some &c. persons outright and wounded
ton-s ni'eeh others. A number of smaller
wroros vest Missouri and in Kansas also
'unered severely. ''eo
Trs.an s'atenent of the United States
Statas - = showed gold, silver and United
as folIoL nO'es In the Treasury on the 18th
@I :, uold coin and bullion, $751;
a. - silver dollars and bullion S11O S14.
-''' fractional ~, 4AAo'o1'