Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-15
AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
Summary Of Important Events.
cp,rS IS worried by the discovery OF
..osb intrigues in Cuba.
co1oyEL DAVID P. HOLLOWAY died
washington on the 9th, ,aged seventy-four
years. -
SIR HENRY MAXEE, Governor of New
s,rndland. died at the vice-regal residence
on the Sth.
Uop .CF GREELEY's farm was sold on
40 s+b Miss Gabrielle M. Greeley was
,he purchaser
THERE was big meeting and oan-
.sef Of the National League at Waterford,
Ireland, on the 9Th.
NAVIGATION Of the Straits of Sunda
isoHciallv declared open. The earthquake
made but llUIle CUdIge III Uue Cudluel.
The driving of the golden spike
which signalized the formal opening of the
Northern Pacific took place on the Sth.
THE issue Of standard Silver dollars
for the week ending September s, was $521,-
qs against $40, 800 for the corresponding
period of last year.
THE Canadian Government .contem-
plates allowing sum of money for each
child brought into the country through Car
dinal Manning's immigration schemes.
SUPERINTENDENT KIMBALL Of the
Lfe-Saving Service has completed his in
spection of stations on the lakes. He rec
ommends telephone connections between
S(atiohS' ri .--- Tsf
THERE were continued reports on the
18th of the damage to unmatured crops by
frost throughout the Northwest. The
Eastern States also suffered to consider
able extent.
MEssRs. Moody, McGranahan end
Whittle, evangelists, leave the country Oc-
tober for Ireland, on an active missionary
campaign. They intend operating in the
south of ireland.
THREE THOUSAND soldiers took part
ina parade by States on the 9th at Camp
Sheridan, Nebraska. Every Northern State
was represented. Thirty thousand visitors
we're on the grounds at the campfire in the
evening.
JAMES KowsKI, who escaped to this
country from st. Petersburg with 10000
rubles belonging to his employer, and who
was arrested therefor in New York was re-
leased on the 10th owing to the want of an
extradition treaty with Russia.
H a-t
ST. JOSEPH's Passionist'S Monastery,
three miles west of Baltimore, Nd, burned
the night of the 9Th. A church adjoining,
in process of construction, was also con-
sideraby damaged. The damage is esti-
mated at from $4,000 to SO, coo; partly in
sured.
RECENT advices from Loando, West
Africa, state that Henry M. Stanley, after
penetrating far into the interior, returned
to Stanley Pool. 1t was believed that he
intended to travel through the country
covered in his former journey along the
east coast.
A WOMAN with an alias for every city
she visited has been victimizing citizens of
Easton, Pa; Indianapolis, Ind; Coving-
ton, KY, and lately Wheeling, w. Va. She
pretended to establish Mosaic Art class,
collecting money in advance and then leav-
ng for fresh fields.
lHE excess in the value of exports
over imports for the twelve months ended
July 81, 1888, was $107, 1913, ,236. The imports
q merchandise decreased $23, ,7S5, ,054 for the
year ended July 81, 1888, as compared with
lne same time last year, and the exports
increased SO, ,4S9,172.
ROME dispatch of the 7th says
me Archbishops of Cincinnati, New York,
baltimore, Philadelphia and several pre-
id'es were expected at the Vatican shortly
-" confer with regard to the propaganda
upon The extension of the church regula-
uOnS 70 the clergy of America.
FARIS dispatch Of the 7th says both
governments, France and China, are equal
y ueSlrous of securing azpeaceful solution
IIe Ionquin question if it can be done
s %''l honor. The general sentiment favored
"s ,-V nope that all issues involved might be
1'iitted to the arbitration of England.
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1hE condition of the National Treas
~! al the close of the week ending the Sth
s;1S sas. Gold coin and bullion, $204, ,66l, ,610;
fr.! st dollars and bullion, S119,079, ,7O3;
SSaI'lOnal S.On silver coin, $27,71O,124; United
ra..s es notes, S57,S35, ,191; total, 4O4, ,2s6,62s
sI. .Ylicates outstanding: Gold, $54, 759, ,160;
ha.s' hF' s'oS9O,2 Psi; currency, IL, 730, 900. The
sra ratss redeemed to date under the 121st call
Se aS,2OO,55O.
c.n auruAL benefit society of Chicago,
vit[ SN Tue Red Cross, has come to the front
mar, proposition to take in the entire
erbans erbosership ofthe late Telegraphers' Broth
ken = = oody. The proposition is spo-
gr.,h new movement" but the tele-
Wort WLeis are assured by the late Master
pronnuiS plan Morris that in accepting the
pIodu ItOSi'ion they will not be violating their
strito " 'ne company at the end of the