Huntsville gazette., 1884-09-13

VOLUME V.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
TAFT. American Minister to Russia, was
+ondereda a reception by the Gear and
czarina on the 4th.
cuR1sr1NE NILSSON has signed with
Colonel Mapleson to sing in America and
ENGLAND for s., 400 night.
AnvrRAL CoURBET will suspend opera
,ions until the French Minister at Pekin
makes his report on the political situation.
YANKEE ROBINSON, the famous circus
and theatrical manager, die New
Jefferson, Ia, on the 4sh, age
years.
Mps. HARLAN, wife of ex-senator Harlan,
and mother-in-law of Secretary Lincoln,
died at Fortress Monroe, Va, the night of
the 4th.
prss1ay corvette seized the Ameri-
can schooner Sophia johnson, at Behring's
IsIond Behring Sea, for illicitly selling
rum to natives.
THE Texas Republican Convention
.,ossad resolution to the effect that it was
inoxnedent to nominate a State ticket,
-.bicb is a virtual Endorsement of Wash
Jones for Governor
THERE were, during the twenty -four
bolrs ended at 8 p. IN. on the 2lst, elgnt
cholera deaths at Marseilles, and one IN
tbe suburbs of Toulon.
nrprvc the seven days ended the 9TH
there we're 19) failures in the United
States and fourteen in Canada; total, 2l5;
against 1876 the previous week.
THE annual session Of the American AS
soc,ation for the Advancement OF Science
opened at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 4th,
with an address of welcome by Governor
Pattison.
THE emgrant ship Lastingham, from
london for Wellington, New Zealand, is
reported wrecked in Cooks Strait, and all
on board except fourteen Of the crew
drowned.
A STRANGER attempted to shoot Sitting
Bull as he was leaving the Opera house at
st. Paul, Mimi, the night of the 4th, but
his pistol did not go off, much to the dis
gust of several bystanders.
ONE man was killed and Superintendent
Pitcairn's private car wrecked by a pre-
mature blast of dynamite on the Pennsyl-
vana Railway, near the Union Depot at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th.
THE engineers report upon the improve
ment of rivers and harbors i'll Oregon and
Washington Territory for the past year
shows the amount available for the cur
rent year, $4S2, 900, and the amount asked
for next year 81, ,92S,o00.
NEWS has been received at Halifax, n.
S., from the expedition steamer Neptune.
She was at Ford's Harbor, thirty -four
miles from Main, Labrador, July 30. Re-
port says all hands well, and seven sta.
tions have been established.
THfRE were tour deaths from cholera in
Marseilles during the twenty-four hours
ended the evening of the 7th. At Navelda,
Spain, there were six fresh cases and five
deaths IN The same period, and at Montfort
five fresh cases and two deaths.
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MRS LOCKwooD's letter accepting the
nomination of the Equal Rights party for
President is before the public; and she re-
cites what she would and would not do,
were she to be elected. Her letter is both
apoltical and literary curiosity.
O
TIEN TSIN advices state that six men,
bers of the Chinese Foreign Office who ad-
vised the Government to make peace with
France have been dismissed. The persons
who advise the payment of the indemnity
demanded by France are threatened with
punishment.
DOUBLE wrestling match took place at
Detroit, Mich, on the 9th, for 1000 side
and gate receipts, between Dufur, OF
Massachusetts,; Benjamin, of Washington,
and Mclaughlin and Flagg. Dufur van
pushed Benjamin and Mclaughlin
downed Flagg.
New Laredo (Mex.) gentleman well
posted in Mexican affairs, makes the state
ment that recent official investigation Of
.ne treasury Department at the City of
Mexico developed the fact that there was
JUST S'.5J in the National Treasury of the
Mexican Government.
Inc losses by fire during August aggre-
gated sl05O0,0OO, exceeding any previous
AnuWn fire record of that month, and
making total of S74,000,0 ,00j as des struction
wrought by fire this year so far, and
soout Sll,0O0,O00 in excess of the same
elsnt months of 1888.
HERE was burned on the steamer Meri-
Sa' al Havana, a valuable collection of
s'e&lcan rarities, geological and botanical,
= c's'irled to7 the New Orleans Exposition.
oenefal Diaz, head of the Mexican Com
a'sSion Is much affected by the loss, and
'S II can't be replaced in ten years.
an extensive conf aUratiop in ClaveIaDd