Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-03
news AND NOTES.

news AND NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
THE resignation of Lleutenant-Com-
1or Gorringe, U. S. NJ, has been ac-
cepted.
Mosr Of the strikers in the Arlington
..,or mills at Wilmington, Del, have re-
turned TO work.
THREATS have been made to blow up
.he Kremlin Palace at the time OF the Rus
Ian Cars coronation.
w,sH,seroN's birthday was gener-
.l,v observed throughout the country, and
% in mauy cities in Europe.
Tuv death of James Gamble. ex-
,nago and Congressman, was announced at
willamspOrt, Pa, recently.
MORE than 81, 100000 has been sent
. tbe German food sufferers through sin
rio bouse in New York City.
PRELIMINARY steps have been taken
tor the erection of bronze statute Of Mar
fin Luther at Washington, ID. Z.
IT was estimated on the Esd that
nension payments between that date and
July would amount to "a 100000.
THE Missouri Free-Trade League was
Organized at Kansas City the other evening.
Ex-Governor Phelps was elected President.
Ir was reported on the 26th that an
Investigation of the Government printing
office at Washington would be had, and
large deficiency was limited at.
N
JOHN CRAWFORD, Auditor of Arka n
sas, finding his accounts short, has handed
the President of the Senate a mortgage on
bis real estate, running two years.
THE Montana Legislature has passed
vote of thanks to Governor Crosby, Gen.
eral Sheridan. and Senator Vest for their
Cfforts to protect Yellowstone Park.
THE Civil Service Commissioners re-
Gently selected by President Arthur are
Dorman B. Eaton, OF New York; John NJ.
Gregory, Of Illinois, and Leroy D. Thoman,
Of Ohio.
AT the Vulcan Iron-works in Caron-
deet, Mo-, where one thousand men had
ior three months been on a strike, the fires
we're started up few days ago with nom
union men.
INFoRMERs in seven Spanish towns
exposed the workings of a reasonable So
Cietr with funds and secret tribunals re-
cenGy, and the authorities made over five
hundred arrests.
FOURTEEN Roman Catholic Bishops
in France have been summoned before
the Council of State for publishing the Papal
decree placing certain treatises of education
on the index expurgatorius.
ANOTHER great plot has been un-
earthed in Brussels by the discovery of
compromising documents. From the dis
covery arrests were expected to be made in
Berlin, Vienna, st. Petersburg and Paris.
N
HERE was great excitement at Tue
son, Arz. the other day, over an alleged re-
markable siver discovery twenty-five miles
south OF there, in the Santa Rita Mountains.
Half million was said to be in sight on one
claim.
FARE, one of the communists who
endcayored to destroy the city OF Paris,
france, died in Montreal, Cana. few
uays ago IN absolute want. The French
government had refused permission for his
return.
HERE was little change in the flood
reports on the 26th. Backwater in the
Lower Mississippi regions was still causing
Inucn damage, and fresh break in the
leEee ten miles above Greenville, Ark, had
hooded several plantations,
Ii Is sad that G. P. Huntington, of
,n0 o"ulnern Pacific Road, has purchased
ioi flo'VVo,oOO Morgan's Railroad in Lousi-
ana ana Texas and the Morgan steamship
hn nnes' ana VIII ask Congress to amend the
O,'' lot tne consolidation of trans continent
al roads.
AN indiana journalist, after travers-
ny 'he Hooded section of that Slate, esti-
mats me damage to property at $3, l55, 900.
O'erslx thousand residences have been swept
a"Ay or devastated, and thirty five thousand
tslsons are dependent upon charity for food
and clothing. ~
! MANY bad breaks were reported in
sIe Lower Mississippi levees on the 23d and
Th 1ra"'a'ions along the river were inundated.
iNer was far above the danger line at
.Ion IpnH' Great distress was prevailing
tho " 'ue Nhite and Wabash rivers, though
"pasG was recedng SLOWLY.