Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-27

NEWS and NOTES.
A Summary of Important Events.
mn was the other day introduced
r congress to pension Kit carSon's chill
dren. -.
pp PICKARD, of Perry County, has
,.in elected Comptroller OF the Tennessee
Treasury
cov,roR HoAR was reelected United
o.,a. senator by the Massachusetts, Legis-
l,ture on the 18th.
TIE Italian Financial Cclami sion
=. decided that specie payment should
4 commenced In April.
OVER $4,000 had been subscribed at
n..,,1once. R. l., recently for an equestrian
l,a,na Of General Burnside.
TgF Democratic caucus of the New
1s,.ev legislature has nominated John r.
MCPHERSON for United States Senator.
IN Sioux CITY, Iowa, the other day,
+be frost had penetrated so deep that the
VA, mains were separating at the joints.
THERE were 277 business failures in
tbe United States during the seven days
ended on the 10Th, against 262 for the pre-
y0us seven days.
THE International Exhibition of Fine
Arts at Rome was opened the other day by
the King and Queen of Italy. Among the
paintings were seven by American artists.
IT was reported that smallpox had
developed in the lumber camps near Rat
Portage, Manitoba, the other day, and the
Government had sent out physicians and
nurses.
THE Supreme Court at Providence,
R. l., recently decreed that the holders Of
trust notes against the Sprague estate were
to have dividend Of ten per cent, the first
in eight years.
GEORGE DARWIN, son of the late
Charles r. Darwin, the evolutionist, has
been elected Professor of Astronomy and
Experimental Philosophy in Cambridge
University, England.
THE rubber manufacturers of the
United States, recently reported as about t.
form combination, met at New York tn
cher day but failed to unite on plan t
control the gum trade.
AsUsPENsIoN of three days per week
was reported to have taken place in all the
c0llieries of the Wilkesbarre, Pa, district
would last until March.
THE Oxford Iron Works at Belvidere,
n J., which had been idle for some time
past, were the other day reopened by new
company. The works, it was said, employed
several hundred hands.
The Comptroller of the Currency at
Washington has authorized the old National
Bank of Cambridge, o., to commence busi-
ness with a capital of $l,000,0 900 to succeed
the First National Bank.
4
AT the Republican Legislative caucus
held at Topeka, Kans., the other afternoon
10 nominate United States Senator, Pres
Ton b. Plumb received the unanimous vote
o. The caucus on the first roll-call.
1T was said lately that Japan was
about to adopt the American system Of rail-
road building, and had organized union
steamship company, with capital OF
SS,OVo,OOO, to develop the trade Of the En-
pire.
1T was said lately that there was a
proposition for the State of New York to
purchase some $1,000 acres Of land in the
Adirondack region and make public park
Oh It, on the same plan as the Yellowstone
project.
1T was announced in recent tele.
gram from Paris, France, that the balloon
n which Powell, a member of the British
armament, perished in December, 1881, had
Deen found in the mountains of Surra del
Phedroza, Spain.
IHE Marquis Of Harrington, the
bfllSh War Secretary, in recent speech in
London, Eng, declared that home rule
'aId never be permitted in Ireland, and
secuted the idea that The Government should
un' funds to establish a peasant proprie-
tary.
4HE Coroner's Jury who investigated
e"1 recent locomotive explosion at Mans
ng,o' La, by which three persons were
Hn'eu and several wounded, returned a ver-
It'll mat the locomotive was made of old
su worked over and sold to the company
OhARrER was secured in New Jer-
tio.I .Tg olher day for the Yellowstone Ma
c.,;,,, ! am Improvement Company, with a
o o"pl'a' OF 100000. Included in the list Of