Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-03
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
Ir is said the King of Portugal con.
.omnlates abdicating on account of the
.,,orrv of Liberal agitation.
Tur contract for turret armOr for the
Tinted States Monitor Miantonomah ha:
Ianr awarded to an English firm.
CHOLERA is again becoming general
,n Fcvpt, and panic has resulted. There
80 - twelve deaths at Alexandria on the
9th.
THE Emperor Francis Joseph of Aus.
ri. hopes that the army of occupation in
BOSNIA and Herzegovina may soon be re
duced.
THE wool-growers of Washington
Territory have formed an association, and
will work for the restoration of the tariff or
wool.
THE Cpur de Leon gold excitement
has reached Salt Lake City, and miners
are starting north to the new placer dig
gings.
RICHTER, Secession deputy in the
German Reichstag, has been sentenced te
six months Imprisonment for insulting the
royal family.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY CORKHILL esti
mates that soldiers and their relatives have
been defrauded of S1,OO0,O0O by the crooked
pension agents.
HENRI ROCHEFORT charges The
French Ministry with having an under
standing with the Due d'Aumale to restore
the Orleans dynasty.
VIM H. JENKINS & Co., door manu-.
facturers. New York, have failed for $179,
600. Eddy, Harvey & Co., hats, caps ant
furs, of Chicago, have failed for 100000.
COUNT Won MoLTKE celebrated hi;
eighty-fourth birthday on the 26th at hi:
estate at Kreisau in Silesia. The day wa:
observed in Germany as national holi
day.
In June last ex-Alderman Johr
Geiger, of Cincinnati, O., disappeared. Oh
the Goth body, identified as his by awatcl
badge and pocket-book, was found in Mil
Creek.
THE trial, for hypothecating pay &C
- h.
Fifth Infantry, has resulted in sentence
Of one months suspension from rank an6
command.
DESIGNS have been invited for the
main building of the Worlds Industrial
Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Or
leans. The building is to embrace 1000,
600 square feet.
Mrs. LANGTRY started on the 25th on
her professional tour through the country
Her first engagement is in Montreal, and
from the United States she will probably
go to Australia.
IT was reported on the 25th that j.
s, Grinnel, State Senator from Greenfield
had been nominated for Lieutenant-Gov
ernor by the Massachusetts Democratic
State Committee.
KAN GI SHANK, better known as
Grow Dog, sentenced to death for the mur.
der of Spotted Tail, made his escape on the
10Th at Deadwood, D. T. He was allowed
to 60 out unattended.
In the past twelve months imports
have decreased $54, IA, ,662 and exports in
creased S74,636,739 as compared with the
preceding twelve months. Excess of ex.
ports was Sill, $4,000.
THE annual meeting Of the Woman s
National Indian Association took place
IN Philadelphia on the 2Sth, when Bishop
Whipple of Minnesota, made an address.
Miss Mary L. Bonny was reelected Presi-
dent
IHE Peoples Railway Company, OF
indianapolis, a concern organized with an
authorized capital of $175,000,O00, has be-
gun suit against the Chicago Times for
s9OO,OOO for reflections on the company's
character.
ALEX. MITCHELL, the millionaire
resident of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
raul Railroad, was rendered a grand recep-
uon by Milwaukeeans on the 26th, in honor
Oh his safe return from Europe. The mill
tary turned out.
Ex-COLLEOTOR BEARD, of Boston,
makes statement to the effect that during
tne administration of VIM. A. Simmons as
collector of that port, an extensive system
Vi smuggling was carried on with the knowl.
cage of the officials.
a PETITION against the appointment
u sumner Howard, of Michigan, as Chief
1ustlce of Utah, has been signed by about
Hal1 the bar of Salt Lake City and will be
.oi"arded to Washington. 1t is said to be
III tne interest of Judge Hunter.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER PRICE reports
auecided advance among the aborigines in
'ne matters of husbandry and industrial
Schools. He recommends that Congress
.Unler civil and criminal jurisdiction on
Ie states and Territories over the reserva-
tons.