Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-18
NEWS AND NOTES.
4 Summary Of Important Events.

4 Summary Of Important Events.
THE President has recognized Joseph
oskerstrom, Vice-Consul OF Sweden and
Norway. at Denver, Colo.
TUE issue of standard silver dollars
t.oo, the mints for the week ended on the
l,th was s907 800; corresponding period last
year Sl9l,OD
STRIKE of railroad telegraph opera
.ors occurred on the 10th on the Baltimore
E Ohio and tho Pittsburgh, Cincinnati &
q Louis Railroads.
AyArAL disease resembling cholera
;s nrevaling among hogs in Berks County,
p, Some fifty had already died and sixty
mare we're fatally sick.
THE American Microscopical Society,
IN session at Chicago, H., elected officers
on the 10th and adjourned to meet in Roch-
ester, n. Y, next August.
THERE are 6S2 furnaces in the cOun-
tv. Of these only 334 are in blast, yet the
stock of pig-iron has increased LA ,935 tons
since the first of January.
AT the Chicago exposition next month
one of the attractions will be band of
Navajo Indians, who will Illustrate their
mode of weaving blankets.
AT a meeting in London. Eng, on
the 10th resolution was adopted to assist
100000 Irish to emigrate to British colonies
and to provide them with farms.
BISHOP LOGUE says the people of
County Donegal, Ireland, have passed
safely through the crisis of distress by the
help Of the Irish people throughout the
world.
DURING the four days session of the
National Educational Assembly at Asbury
Park, n. j., which closed on the 18th, its
Industrious members considered more than
fifty addresses.
THERE were twenty-nine deaths from
yellow-fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
week ended on the 1lth, among them
steamer Niagara.
OFFICIAL returns from sixty-nine O.
Iii counties in Kentucky show Proctor
Knott's majority for Governor to be over
$1,000. In the same counties Blackburn's
majority was $4,000.
A NATIONAL demonstration arranged
to take place on Parnell's estate in Ireland
has been abandoned, it is said because of
an ntimation from the authorities that it
would be suppressed.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers, in session at Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 18th authorized the Treas
urer to draw a sum of money in support of
the striking telegraphers.
An organization is reported to have
been formed at Washington recently for
the purpose of colonizing negroes in GER
tain parts of the South and separating
them as completely as possible from the
whites
RECENT cablegram announces the
death of Dr. Robert Moffat, the father-in-
law of the late DR.. Livingstone, the cele-
brated African traveller, and who was him.
sell Tor many years missionary in South
Africa.
IT is announced from Washington
that General Drum intends introducing a
olil IN Congress making the State Militia
partially subservient to the General Gov
ernment, which is to contribute to their
support.
lHb British physicians from India,
VINO mad had experience in India in cholera
9piaemlcs, say the plague in Egyptis clear
y Inherent from Asiatic cholera. There
were thlrty-two deaths from the disease at
Alexandria on the 11th.
HE Sunday law cases against the
Ti'Ssouri Street Railway Company, at st.
1Ouis' on the 18th resulted in verdict OF
~ 'qul'tal under instructions of the court,
III otate being unable to prove that it was
"O' work of necessity.
iouR Pullman coaches filled with
llsnts Iemplar from Missouri, Tennessee,
~. nnpu'Siana, Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky
g. ,liiIols Indiana and West Virginia, left
i. rUuls' Mo-, on the night of the 18th for
iriennlal Conclave at San Francisco.
nNGLiSH marine insurance companies
,allled recently to have made the dis
is,sfy i,..,!y that band of pirate salvors ex-
~, s'su IN one of the most dangerous passages
p.t"s s,e nlack Sea, and that pilots of several
Nalleles were in collusion with them.
: TREASURY official at San Francisco,
bales al,' states that $6,OOO,OOO worth of opium
nor, "lCnin y ten years been smuggled into that
nv government officers receiving thirty
M 'n', Oh the amount. He says $1,000,
: time % o"ii oo oiousno ~ q
W. i rAkrY OF distinguished Europeans
tatiou u'ine over to this country at the invi
part pn 81 Rufus Hatch to visit Yellowstone