Huntsville gazette., 1883-12-01

Tr1PTY-FIYE Black sea steamers laden
With wheat were reported on the 10Th ice
bo,pd on the river Don.
THE production OF steel rails IN Aus
- n;il reach $4,000 tons this year, an
increase r Of 5000 tons.
F,rcTRrc light wires are being placed
.a,.rpround on one of the principal ave-
ur nas IN Philadelphia, Pa.
TqF qFLife-Saviug Service rendered as
.:,s,,e in three hundred cases of disaster
drllg the last fiscal year.
Lv,IL PAsHA, ex-Khedive of Egypt,
cave tbe calamity in the Soudan is due to
;rofciency Of the central government at
Cairo.
THE adoption of the new time stand
,ri is only preliminary to the adoption of
suniform code of signals among the rail-
ro9ds,
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN has sent
Instructions to the Asiatic squadron with
view to protect American interests in event
ofwar
The San Francisco Grand jury have
Indicted Miss Hill and her attorney for
perjury and conspiracy in connection with
tie Sharon suit.
MINISTER WALLACE has made fresh
complaint to the Porte because of delay in
bringing to Justice the assailants of Ameri-
can missionaries.
TESTS Of American and English steel
rails, laid side by side for thirteen years in
PennSylvania, show that the former are
he more durable.
THE Archbishop of Namur has been
rpointed Cardinal, and it is expected this
TI settle the difficulties between Belgium
md the Vatican.
CHINA has sent circular letter to the
pvers setting forth that if the French in
7ale Northern Anam they will be opposed
Ity Chinese troops.
THE United States Supreme Court has
decided that the Brooklyn bridge, as con-
stvucted. eau not be declared a nuisance or
unlawful structure.
The POpe has made editor Dawson,
Of the Charleston Is. c. Neaos and Courier,
knight of st. George for the stand he has
taken against dueling.
The fftieth anniversary of the run
1ing Of the first locomotive on the Philadel-
Ihia & Columbia Railroad is to be cele-
trated early next year.
CHEF ENGINEER WILLIAMSON, U. S.
n, who was cOurt-martialed for extrava-
sance in the matter of repairing the Gov
anment vessel Pinta, has been acquitted.
THERE is report from Madagascar
that the French have bombarded a town
without giving notice, killing five British
subjects, and destroying large amounts of
aeltral property.
As the Egyptians are about to send
cut an expedition to try and keep open
road Tor retreat from Khartoum it is prob
'OIe the Soudan provinces are to be aban-
oned for the present.
oOJ0URNER Truth, the noted colored
ec'ufeSs, died at her home in Battle Creek,
men, on the 26th, aged 10S years. The old
Aay has had all her faculties well pre-
NI'td until quite recently.
AfENNSYLVANIA manufacturer, who
a,arcled to put up fire escape when no.
1D'u mas been mulcted for 900 dam
s6S oy an employe who was crippled in
'''aplng from his burning factory.
N
1aE elaborate Evacuation Day cere-
s,'iies IN New York on the 26th were seri-
~! mtertered with by rain. Broadway
- sea of umbrellas. The procession
Wy 'Ouf hours in passing given point.
-hH comptroller of the Currency ad-
.,'ts reduction Of revenue and conver-
a, a" the longtime four per cents. into
n,.s as measures to prevent undue con-
'OH ol the National Bank circulation.
DARING thief entered the Mer-
q, -, a. an National Bank at Des Moines, Ia,
sb.ns- -O,n during the noon hour, grabbed
Saa I'ui OF notes and fed. He was pur-
ironr;s 01' managed to elude capture by
purspaus spais portion of his booty, which his
0iS stopped to yathar in
~. e
,or .NAAi eX-convict created sensa-
H. i. !. jackson, Mich, on the 26th by play
cQrjDg 81" oi0 Oh Pinkerton detective, Sc
rsstiTs 'le use Of a special engine and ar
nur3an "H innocent farmer for the Crouch
lypcboa ), an excited populace had nearly
disco 'ne prisoner before the facts were
ion fr,r ~CoIr' after two years separa-
nsar Fa4on LIS wife, returned to his home
Id. ra, ,on, twelve miles from Muncie,
hpe viii iTn'iy' and insisted that she should
sabbad nlm again. She refused, and he
iled H. er % death with knife, then
Paiae Trs fro own child and took dose of NOR
'' irom which he died ~
taa. Tbas' MY LINTON of the heirs of Wald-
GovernOo-n as Delavill and others, to whom
'large trao. n,.caois' in the year 1866, granted
Is Morris VI Iand, which is now known
Vas hed 80 Flats, in New York City.
attended ~ - Mansfield, O., on the 23d and
,ate has besn aeout 100 persons. A syndi-
sdspt tbs. IN Il formed and the heirs are con-
hid vi. ~ Vhey can prove tbeir +it,a e. a..