Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-16

NEWS AND NOTES.
, summary Of Important Events.
c.urr1. P. HALE was inaugurated
or If New Hampshire, at Concord
on the 7th. .
r,rr British House of Lords ha;
a bill legalizing marriage with q
EFaceased wife's sister.
NO., Irish members of Parliament
49, hauouet to United States Senator
ianes. Of Florida, at Westminster Eng'' on
the Sth .
Tur members of the Massachusetts,
u.n.s of representatives have voted them
nous increase of pay from $500 to $75(
for the session.
SECRETARY TELLER has expressed his
...sntion of expending all the money he car
l.r,Ilv in purchasing stock of cattle fol-
the Indians.
ALDERMAN Roe, Liberal, was elected
,osmber of the British Parliament for Der
bv on the 18th without opposition, in place
of Bass Liberal, retired.
CONVENTION of the Greenback
Anti.Monopoly party held in Louisville,
Kv. on the 9th appointed delegates to the
Anti,Monopoly Convention at Chicago,
July
A CELEBRATION in honor of John
Bright as representative in Parliament for
Birmingham, Eng, for over quarter OF
century was begun on the 11th. The pro-
cession was five miles long.
ENCOURAGING reports have been re-
ceived regarding the cotton crop OF the
region tributary to Memphis, Tenn. With
good weather from now forward the yield,
it is said will be good one.
G. w. BENJAMIN, the newly appointed
United States Minister to Persia, had ar
rived at Teheran on the 11th and presented
his credentials to the Shah. He was re.
ceived with cordial welcome.
The President has designated St.
Vincent, Mimi, as the port from which i'm
ported merchandise may be shipped ir
bond in transit through the United States
to and from the British possessions O.
North America.
UNITED STATES SENATOR c.. H. Van
WICK, of Nebraska, the other day ad
dressed letter to the Postmaster General
setting forth an alleged fraud by which the
mail route from Fort Nebraska to Dead
wood was established.
The Massachusetts, Board of Chari-
ties having elected a Superintendent of the
Tewksbury Alms-house, Governor Butler
the other day notified them that their ac-
ton was invalid, as the right of nomination
belonged to the Executive.
ALTHOUGH the star-route trial was
not ended on the 18th, the record up to that
point was the largest ever made in a
criminal trial in this country. Printed in
small type and octave size, it comprised
over 5000 pages, or about 4, ,250,0 900 words.
IT was reported on the 18th inst.
that General Crook, who had been in pur-
suit of the Apache Indians in the San
Madre Mountains of Mexico, had been
found. He had returned from his mission
and was camped sixty miles from Tomb
stone, Ariz., with Cwo hundred and fifty
prisoners.
IHE Second Auditor of the Treasury
the other day finished auditing the accounts
OF surviving members of the crew of the
lost Arctic exploring steamer Jeanette,
and they were not allowed anything for
'helr expenses while in Washington as
witnesses. They were limited to their pay
as seamen.
HERE were 173 business failures
uullhg the seven days ended on the Sth
INST, as compared with 15l for the seven
uays previous. The distribution of the fail
ules was as follows: New England States,
CO. Middle States, 90; Western States, S.;
TVu'nern States, 26; Pacific States and
ce'lUories, Il; New York City, 10, and
Canada, 10.
ihE State Department has dis
pa.cned special agent to La Paz, Mexico,
hH'estlgate 81 the case of the United States
.40oner Adriana, which has been confis-
u py The Mexican authorities, her Cap
Oeing condemned to five years. inn
a a.,'ouihent, for smuggling. The. Captain
tba D'sS that he was guilty of defrauding
A. aereement to submit the claim of
D. government against the Salisburys,
Star -'' ana others, for overpayments on
uL; nlali-route contracts, to arbitration,
haan was entered into in June, 1882, has
nora louid to be illegal, and the Post-office
agai+ p~'.nieht will therefore begin suits
H. 'O ehe contractors for the recovery of
'ae sum of 500, 600 " w ' =
.raI' nNsiDENT SOLOMON, of Hayti, tele-
ohio pHpu The Haytian Consul. at Philadel-
riria. a. on the 11th that there was no up
and - =. IN Hayti, such as had been reported
trort1@ "V 'he only place where there was
warn was at Miragone, where the rebels
10 lo1, gh'fenched. He instructed the Consul
in NJ IN oot ior an iron steamship for sale
sttoo,. 00uiltry that can be utilized in an
"''aek on Miragone from, +ha soa