Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-07
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
CONTRIBUTIONS toward pedestal for
the Bartholdi statue of Liberty at New
York have been made by several repre-
sentative men of Ohio recently, and the
committee has reported the possession of
over 100000 with which to commence the
enterprise.
THREE hundred Chinese shoemakers
at San Francisco, CAL, have struck for an
increase of twenty cents day in wages.
THE college boat race between Har
ward and Columbia freshmen, the other
day, was won by the former.
On May "a Lieut.-Co Schlayer, of
the Austrian army, and Lieut.. Bolgar, edi-
tor of the Military Journal at Vienna,
fought duel, in which Schlayer was slain.
A trial at Vienna the other day ended i'll
acquittal of Bolgar, the evidence showing
he was the challenged party, and was
forced to fight.
A RECENT statement prepared in the
office of the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue at Washington shows that the
aggregate receipts during May, 1888, were
S346. .S1S greater than for the same month of
1882. There vas an increase of $231, ,129
from spirits, an increase of $500, 1927 from
tobacco; sn increase of $S4, ,049 from banks
| and bapKers, and decrease of S1SS, 1852
| from Miscellaneous articles.
OKLAHOMA PAYNE has applied to the
| united States Circuit Court at Topeka,
! Kan, for an injunction restraining the
Secretary of the Interior and General Pope
| from interfering with his occupation of
lands in the Indian Territory.
Rev. Mr.. WICHBoRNE, an English
! clergyman, while travelling from Calais OF
Paris, a few days ago, was attacked and
stabbed five times with chisel He fought
desperately, and on arrival of the train at
Amiens the would-be murderer, also an
Englishman, was captured. The minister
was fatally hurt. The object was robbery.
INVESTIGATION shows the recent
charges of cruelty against the managers of
the Soldiers Home at Bath, N. Y, are
untrue.
LAwLEssNEss in Montgomery, Yell
and Garland counties, Arkansas, has called
forth proclamation from Governor Berry,
urging officers and citizens to do their
duty.
A CONSPIRACY has been discovered,
the purpose of which is to betray German
military secrets. Arrests were being made
by wholesale in Dresden, Berlin, Cologne,
Hanover and other cities on the 2Sth.
BOGUS Missouri bonds to the amount
of $271, ,1S5 were sold to Edwin r. Kirk, a
sailmaker of New York. After he had
bought the bonds Kirk became suspicious,
and started an investigation that led to the
arrest, the other day, of Isaac \. Briggs,
a broker, and Wesley Lyon, lawyer, both
of New York, and Emil Brio, lawyer of
Stamford, Conn. Brio, in the role of a Mis-
souri, officer, had the bonds Autographed.
THERE was another bad break in the
markets at Chicago, ILL.,, on the 2oth, and
more failures were reported.
DR.. HATHAWAY, the Philadelphia,
(Pa.. abortionist, in whose cellar were
found the skeletons of twenty infants, has
been fined $500 and sentenced to seven
years in the Penitentiary.
CHOLERA swept away one hundred
and thirteen persons at Damietta, Egypt,
on the 2Sth. Fatal cases were reported
from Mansurah and Port Said, and Euro
peans were fleeing from Alexandria. A quar-
antine against vessels from Egypt had been
ordered at all Turkish ports.
BONDS to the face value of 500, ,OOO,-
600 were Cancelled at the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington the other day by
fifteen persons and five machines, and were
ready to be ground up. None OF them had
been issued to the public. One bond of
each denomination was saved for the Treas
ury specimen book. Nearly one-third OF
the amount was in four per cents.
THE Post-office Department at Wash
ington has received information that the
Austrian colonies have resolved to apply
for admission to the Universal Postal
Union. If the application is successful
Bolivia will be the only country with an
organized postal service not included In the
union.
THE saloon-keepers Of Cincinnati, o.,
on learning that the Scott law had been
pronounced constitutional, made haste to
take out certificates. Over $104,0OO had
been paid in within three days ON the 2Sth.
| The Board Of Public Works was preparing
TO appropriate 100000 of the amount for
street reconstruction.
THE approximate figures of business
J failures over the entire country for the half
wear ended on the 29th indicate marked
| increase in the number and extent of
liabilities as compared with the CORE
spending period for two pre-
yious years. For the first six
months of 1851 the failures were 1852; the
first six months Of 1882, 3,597; the first half
of 1888, 4,637. The liabilities show greater
increase. In 1851 the liabilities for the first
six months were $4,000, 600; in 1882, Soo,-
900 900; the first six months Of 1888, 66,Ooo,-
600.
By the shutting down OF the glass
ware manufactures at Wheeling, w. Va,
| and vicinity, which occurred on the ooth,
| twelve hundred men, two thousand boys