Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-20


news and NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
j. was reported lately that the Lehigh
valley Railroad had carried G,336, l4l tons
u coal last year.
CESSATION was caused a Pesth the
.bsr dav bv pamphlet predicting, war be-
,,roer Russia and Austria.
THE authorities at Montreal INSISTED
,.,oi, uron taxing Jewish temple because
f,;r was held in the bui'ding.
r was reported that earthquake
lbs we're felt the other day throughout
H. province OF Murcia, Spain.
,ruv rolce OF Cleveland, O., recently
..a,,le,ea census which showed the popu-
la,ion O, that city to be 193,3OO.
Ar Woowich, Eng, the statue OF the
r.,rcb Prince Imperial who was killed in
,be Zulu war was a few days ago unveiled
brtbe Prince Of Wales.
Ara recent special meeting OF the
Portland, Ore, Board Of Trade resolutions
,cere adopted indorsing the action OF Cap
t,in Msrriman in shellng the Indian village
iD Alaska.
AZ its session in Des Moines the other
day the Iowa State Agricultural Society Sc
Jected Das Moines as the place of holding
the next fair and elected officers for the en-
suing year.
LORD DUFFERIN lately informed the
Egyptian Ministry that Great Britain would
withdraw from the Treasury control, and
suggested the appointment OF European
financial adviser.
REPLYING to a question, in the Ger
man Reichstag recently, General Won
Kanuke, Minister Of War, said the Gov
ernment had no cause-either to increase OF
improve its artillery.
THE Maritime Exchange at New York
lately protested against the passage of 6
pending bill in Congress to transfer the ad'
mni>tration OF the revenue cutter service tt
The Navy Department.
IN the suit of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company against the United States
Judgment for plaintiff for $S3. 333 was ren
dered by the District Court Of Claims a
Washington the other day.
WILLIAM GoUyERNEUR MORRIS, Col
Ipctor of Customs at Sitka, recently stated
that last season small force Of men mad,
over $3.50 900 by surface digging on tht
mountain sides in Alaska.
TIE other day verdict for $25, ,00C
was rendered against the New York & Long
Branch Read in a suit for damages for the
death Of G. w. Woodruff, killed in the ac.
cijent near Long Branch last summer.
IT was reported at Montreal, Cana,
lately that project was on foot to unite the
Crank Trunk, North Shore and Rome 4
Watertown Railways with the Richelieu
and st. Lawrence Navigation Companies, in
general traffic combination.
-e
STRAGGLING bands of Indians, en-
route from san Carlos reservation to join
Ju in Sonora, were seen frequently neal
Tombstone, Arizona. The Governor oi
Sonora the other day ordered out large
force OF troops to intercept the hostiles.
The work for the Garfield statute to
he placed in the hall Of the old house al
Washington, and for which the Ohio Legis-
iature appropriated $4,000 last winter, was
awarded to Henry Neehaus, of Cincinnati.
Inc statue is to be military figure full
size.
DURING a late session at Providence,
L. l., the Bricklayers' National Union rec
commended unions 10 vote for eight hours 6
Gay, regardless Of wages. A recommends.
non was adopted that fire proof brickwork
De regarded as brckwork to be done by
regular bricklayers.
HE Board of Trustees of the Uni.
Fefsliy OF Lewisburg, Pa. Baptist Theo.
,oseal Seminary, recently received from
Nillam Bucknel, OF PhiladeIphia, check
lor Sl,"H,000, including his own subscrp.
,oh OF S9O0,O 900, made on condition tha
''J,VVO more would be secured.
FEW days ago Professor Mitchell.
q The Coast Survey, before the Mississippi
hIer Commission at Washington. D. G.
pronounced himself as unqualifedlv in favoI
"a 'ne works IN progress on the river. He
.Housht the entire work of improving tn,
'Ner might be completed for SAC, 900, 900.
IN late decision in q suit for the re-
e0'efy OF money advanced to keep ND stool
Ip siu>' Judge White, of the Pittsburgh
,nn,I. U'mmon Pleas Court, characterized
e'eNued purchases and sales on mar
I'm. 80 nrotnlhg but gambling transactions
,ana;. oia 4 - Their character and exceedingl,
f'iUic'ous in their tendency.
,,5 "a LONDON, Eng, Court recently gav'
s"usnent against Charles Bradlaugh on hi