Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-14
TOPICS.
The News in Brief.

The News in Brief.
Tur British House of Commons
- the 9th voted-232 to 65-to exclude
pr.dlaugh. % should he, again claim his seat.
Tus Pensacola ella. Board Of Health
decreed that infected vessels arriving
. ! HAT port must remain at quarantine till
frost.
TrRco- o-AMERICAN Commission has
hsen appointed to consider the establish
,aont Of petroleum depot at Constanti-
nope.
RECENT cablegram announces that
..,,e plague in Egypt has caused the
aastb of ninety per cent. of the cattle at
tackled - D4fa
Tug issue Of standard silver dollars
,-or the Mints for the week ended July
vsre s2s35O0; corresponding period last
year, S23l, 429. -
THE New Hampshire Legislature,
which has been for several weeks trying to
elect a United States Senator, had no quo
nm on the 9th in either house.
The City Council of Mound City, H.,
has offered 500 reward for the arrest and
conviction of the leaders of the mob who
lynched Howard in that city recently.
EIGHrY-EIGHT persons died from
cholera at Dameta, Egypt, on the Sth,
sixtv-four at Mansurah, nine at Samanud,
seven at Shirbin and one at Alexandria.
The Surgeon-General Of the. Marine
HOSPITAL Service ut Washington received
advices on the 9th that the Norwegian bark
Vega was at Ship Island with yellow fever
on board.
In the French Chamber of Deputies
on the 9th a motion that amnesty be
granted persons who took part in the Paris
and Montceaules Mines riots was rejected
34 TO 50. FasE#4hkEas Fr
LIrrA, the famous prima donna, died
at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Var
Elsner, at Bloomington, H., on the oth, O
cerebro spinal meningitis, superinduced by
over exertion.
The Attorney-General at Washing
ton rules that the shipment of whiskey t.
Bermuda, with view to avoid duty pay
ments, is not an expectation within the
view of the law. afAG
CHOLERA had broken out at Swatow
China on the 9th, and was raging violently
In Egypt its ravages continued. Another
death had occurred at Alexandria and the
Khedive meditated flight to Naples.
AREcENT storm did great damage in
various sections about Lancaster, Pa, to
the growing crops. The corn and oat fields
were beaten level with the ground, and to-
bocco fields were badly washed, necessi-
tating replanting in many cases.
The Mississippi Independents held
their State Convention at Jackson on the
4th. The platform favors free ballot and
fair count, demands legislative super
vision of railroads and indorses the South
e-
ADvICES from Venezuela on the 9th
stated that locusts were making havoc in
many parts of the country. In one night
all the vegetation in the neighborhood OF
Moron was destroyed. 1t was feared they
would soon reach the fertile valleys OF
Caracas.
REV ARTHUR RITCHIE, the Chicago
'il') Episcopalian pastor, whose high
'hurch tendencies have lately caused Sc
'uuoh controversy, the other day announced
'uaV requiem mass would be said for the
iepoSe Oh the soul Of man who was
drowned month ago. About half his con.
5regatlon left the church.
In New York, on the 4th, the Cont
aen'ai duards, of Charleston, s. c., helped
~ 'e'erans OF 1872 to raise the stars and
,,peS ,,, ao the Battery. The cadets of the
mary institute of Virginia were received
resident Arthur at the Fifth Avenue
.tO'ea' ana returned flag captured from
'ne 10th New York Regiment.
me Platform adopted by the Nation
~antl- Monopoly Convention. which closed
"o days session at Chicago, ILL.,, on
h.,' v'n' calls for abolition of the national
,s,1 lAilg law, establishment Of the postal
graph and saving bank systems, a
'eu income tax, and restriction OF
nans s,eSslonal taxation to necessary ex.
sssa~: S' and denounces gambling in the nee.
7>Sares of life
o, rht business failures throughout the
Mb Tor the seven days ended on the
hail.. numbered 100, which was considerably
Tho sne average of the. past ten weeks
wbon. Hao been few important failures any.
cisn, "a. ana none in New York City tospe.
TO- W no'e' The New England States had
Pacs sseStern, ter 50; Middle, IS I; Southern, "a;
Yorr ~. states and Territories, 13; New
Ivy, I; Canada, 16. aF
,bs DIhGRAMs 90 from Dublin, Ireland, on
ric.os o,n stated that four men had been con
murdar tne Sligo ,Assizes of conspiracy tt
prisona. Two informers testified that the
the W. nad made an attempt to blow uI
ofa saose vs'on House, Galway, under order.
honso 'ieG society. If they DESTROYED the