Huntsville gazette., 1884-12-06

VOLU MI vi.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
DIRECTOR GENERAL BURKE says the
Naw Orleans Exposition will certainly
open Oh the 10Th.
IT is intimated that Sergeant Brainerd of
the Greedy party, will shortly be promoted
N n Second Lieutenancy in the Signal Ser
vice.
LARGE number of business men and
oonitalists of New York and Philadelphia
viii visit the New Orleans Exposition in
body.
1rnGE MANIsTY, who rendered the re-
cont remarkable decision in the Coleridge
..ase at London, is to retire from the
bench.
THREE hundred persons have been thrown
ont Of employment at Pittsburgh, Pa., by
+ba shutting down of one of the glass fac
tories.
TUE feeling among the iron men OF Pitts
hurgh, Pa, is growing more cheerful, ow-
ipg to the receipt of some large orders for
railroad work.
THE imports of dry goods and general
merchandise received at the port of New
York for the week ended the Goth ult., ag-
gregated $7,271, 900.
SENIOR ROMERO, Mexican Minister to the
United States, declares that the people OF
his country have the kindest feelings to-
ward the United States.
THE official count of the vote in Massa-
chusetts gives Blaine 146,724; Cleveland,
122, 30; Butler, 24,3S2; st. John, 1928;
Blane's plurality, 2i,312.
THE Canadians are becoming anxious to
renew the fisheries clause in the treaty OF
Washington, and Parliament will be urged
to take action in the matter.
DURING the first four months of the current
fiscal year the total exports Of specie were
81 ,S6S, ,115; total imports, $l3,24S,3o0; ex-
cess of imports over exports, S1, So, ,235.
SINCE the establishment of the National
banking system, February 25th, 1858, 3,26I
National banks have been organized; total
number in existence November 1st, 1854,
2,671.
THE authorities of Kiel, Germany, have
decided to expel several Danes from that
city, owing to their participation in the
anti German agitation In Schleswig-Hol-
stein.
Two men while digging roots on an island
in the Susquehanna River near Danville,
Pa, on the 10Th, unearthed metal box
containing coins to the value of nearly
$4,000.
THE Ontario (Can.) Board of Health has
decided to send DR.. Bryce as delegate to
the convention of State Boards to be held
in Washington, ID. c., to discuss the chol-
era question.
A SENSATION has been produced in the
Province Of Quebec by grave charges of
malversation in office for personal gain,
preferred against two prominent members
of the Cabinet.
THE Italian House of Deputies appointed
committee to wait upon King Humbert
and Duke D'Aosta to express admiration
for their heroism during the cholera epi-
demic at Naples.
ALEXANDER SMITH 81 Sons extensive
carpet mills at Yonkers, N. Y, shut down
on the 295h for an indefinite period. Be-
tween 5000 and 1000 hands are thrown
out OF employment.
JOHN JoNDRO, who would have been 121
years old had he lived until Christmas,
died on the 29th ult., at Arkansaw, Wis.
de was born in Phillips parish, near
Montreal, Can, in 1868.
IHE cigar-makers of New York protest
against the adoption of the pending treaty
between the United States and Spain,
claiming that it would result in depriving
hundreds of them of work.
For the seven days ended the 2Sth there |
--- ouoihCoo III tuo OulUou
States and twenty seven in Canada; to-
tal 249, decrease of twenty eight as COM
pared with the previous week.
IHE employees OF five glass factories in
Pittsburgh, Pa, inaugurated a strike on
the lst against a reduction of wages aver
aging twenty-one per cent. The men Of
Tered to accept fifteen per cent. reduction.
IN village near Rhone, Switzerland, the
people are said to have embraced the
'enets of Mormonism en- masse, and pro-
pOse to form miniature Utah. Mean
"Hiie the police have their eyes upon them.
NEVILLE. the bigamist, was convicted
a. Toledo, O., on the 29th. He will be re-
lHehloered as the self-styled Count who
persuaded the daughter of c. J. Whitney,
ene Detroit (Mich.) music dealer and
him.
lhE annual report of the Comptroller of
'ne currency shows that during the year
enued November 1st, 1884, 19l banks have
oeeh organized, with an aggregate capital
VI 9i6,042, ,23o, and to which circulating
o.