Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-04
NEWS AND NOTES.
[, Summary Of Important Events.

IN II w - h4N - IN ~ i AIOs
Summary of Important Events.
4 CONSOLIDATION of the New Eng
"a Telephone Exchanges has been ar
ranged. The Bell Company has majority
of the stock.
TUE remains of the late Montgomery
p,o;r we're placed in the family vault in
III III, Creek Cemetry near Washington, D.
c., on the 29th'
1x tbe case of ex-Treasurer Polk, of
r.nressee the jury found verdict of
1,iltv and assessed punishment at twenty
Taars Imprisonment.
BETwEES 1900 and 1,5O0 cases were
made by the police in st. Louis, Mo-, on the
no.h .cainst violators of the Sunday law,
mainly saoon-keepers.
THE Treasury Department purchased
4oOC00 ounces of silver on the 26th for de-
livery at the Philadelphia, New Orleans
and San Francisco Mints.
ENGLAND has protested against the
roturn of paupers from New York, who
we're on their way to join friends that were
ready to take care of them.
THE mail-boat Casino, which recently
sailed from Liverpool, Eng, for the west
coast of Africa, took three thousand car
bines for Henry NJ. Stanley.
PACKARD, the American Consul at
London, Eng, has appointed a doctor to
inspect the passengers and cargoes OF all
vessels bound for the United States.
AyELLOw-FEyER stricken steamship
PASSED the health authorities at the mouth
Of Chesapeake Bay without detection the
other day, but was quarantined at Balti-
more, Nd.
THE report of the luke Committee
shows that in three months 1927 emigrants
we're assisted out of Ireland at a cost of
f3j.OO0. 1t recommends a continuance of
the practice.
AT a recent meeting of the South Car
olina Grange, Senator Butler argued that
negro labor grows more worthless each
year: that 200, 900 black hands can be safely
spared, and that Chinese ought to be i'm
ported to cultivate the cotton-felds.
THE Sioux Indians held their annual
sun dance at Rosebud Agency the other
afternoon, ten thousand being present from
all parts of the reservation. The Govern
ment had given orders to suppress the
barbarous practice, but the agents were
powerlesS.
AT the national soldiers reunion at
Columbus, Ohio, on the 26th, twenty-five
members of the Fifty-fourth Virginia Reg
iment were entertained by the Third Ohio.
Speeches were made the day before by r.
B.Hayes, Charles Foster and Judges Hoad
ley and Foraker.
The cholera cases which had oc-
Cured in England were on the 9th pro-
nOunced sporadic, and had no connection
with the epidemic in Egypt. The deaths
at Cairo for the twenty-four hours were
Sll. In the Bombay presidency 1, 161 deaths
occurred from cholera the first week in
june
ASTATEMENT of the condition of the
United States Treasury on the 2Sth showed
gold coin and bullion, $201 $50, ,557; silver
dollars and bullion, Sill, ,1S6, ,449; fractional
silver coin, S2S ,0S2 1874; United States notes,
HiS'0S6,S12; total, 4O1, ,947, ,S37; gold, $780,
4ii'VN; silver, S73,536, ,341; currency, $12,-
G5jJOOO.
MEMBERS of the Brotherhood of Tel
esraphers at Washington, D. c., presented
the PRESIDENT of the United States
~ oi grievances" on the 29th, setting
-o..n 'ne great injury resulting to the
a.iondl government from the obstinate
a''i.uue" assumed by the telegraph COM
panieS.
1hE failures throughout the country
~ Tue seven days ended on the 9th num-
o.lVu lN' as compared with 16S the week
r.s'iVaS' The geographical distribution
w. Vs. New England, 35; Middle States, 80;
,,, s''Trh' 81; Southern, 90; Pacific States
W., ai iaeiirltories, 20; Canada, 81, and New
lork City,S.
n iHh commissioner of Statistics in
S'soVa reports an increase of 146,904
~. ~ n wheat, and predicts a crop of at
son,t -'V'o'oOO bushels, as the yield in the
H. counties will more than make up
Ob;0 ~Ought in the Red River Valley. The
III" LD board Of Agriculture estimates the
de r''' crop Of that State at 23,S73,OO0 BUSH
,. - HhhE We're 322 deaths from cholera
bros ai1o, Egypt, on the 2sth, including
sevon. Dii'iSh soldiers, seventeen at Zifteh,
Ia, gen a;ntI at Barraze, eighty -four at Mehal-
Tan,afS SHcy-one at Shirbin, forty-six at
Nityon' nlty-one at Ghizeh, twenty-five at
nna ANU ~ fourteen at zagazig, and thirty
places ~ eleven other widely scattered
FINN nh : hhedive returned to Alexandria
were ,aa HairO' Egypt, on the 26th. There
that a. - deaths from cholera in Cairo on
i've a. s'y y The death list on the 18th was
tven+,. = nDdinleta, twenty eight at Tantah,