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Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
CONDENSED TEEEGRAMS,

] A CREW of eleven wreckers from the
Steamship Inverolt, stranded on Picton
Island, off the coast of Halifax, N. S., on
the 18th, while attempting to land in a life
boat during northern gale. The boat was
upset in a reef and eight of them were
drowned.
THE Coon Hollow distillery at Hope,
KY, was burned on the 17th. Loss about
{S5, 900, partially covered by insurance.
FRIGHTFUL mortality is reported aAong
the laborers on the Panama Canal.
THE weavers of two large establishments
in Philadelphia have just gone out on
strike.
A NEGRO roustabout made a mistep from
the wharfboat at Memphis on the 18th, and
falling into the river was drowned.
A. J. SNEED, grocer at Canton, Miss,
assigned on the 18th. Liabilities small,
located in New Orleans and Memphis.
Assets not stated.
Two freight trains collided on the Ala
bama Great Southern r. R., near Bates
Vile on the 18th. Several persons were
badly injured, if not killed, Particulars
not given.
HIRAM BoDINE, of Ohio, a department
clerk at Washington, committed suicide on
the 18th, by shooting himself, while seated
at his desk.
Snow fell at New York and Louisville on
the 18th.
A PROMINENT citizen of Nashville is on
-; for to hurp his store.
THE Farmers National Congress met in
the hall of Representatives, at Nashville,
on the 10Th.
JOHN MANNING fell down long stair in
Memphis on the 10Th, which caused his
death in few hours.
GEO. WALKER, colored, while trimming
trees in Memphis, on the 10Th, fell about
fifty feet to the ground, and was killed.
ISAAC JOHNSON, colored, was hanged at
Canton, Miss, on the 10th, for the murder
of his mistress in April last.
Col. J. w. YoUNGBLooD, well known as
journalist in Mississippi and Tennessee,
has formed a connection with the State
Ledger at jackson, Miss, as one Of its
editors.
COOPER, JACKSON & Co.'S circus was
sold out in Memphis on the 10Th, under
various attachments, principally by en-
ployes.
W. r. HARRELL, of Collierville, Tenn,
assigned on the 10Th. Liabilities about
So, 900.
THE boiler of the Steamer Capt. Sam,
exploded near Selma, Ala, on the 10Th.
Five persons are missing, including little
daughter of the Captain.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
Til Mail SERVICE.

what 1t Costs to Transport Uncle Sans
Mails-!mDortant Suggestions and Rec
cmmendations-The Estimates for the
Next Fiscal Year.
WASHINGTON, d. c., November II.
Second Assistant General
Lyman, in his annual report just SUBJ
mtted to the Postmaster-General, says
There were in operation at the close of
the fiscal year ended June so, 1884, II, ,729
star routes, aggregating 227,779 miles at
a cost of S5,089,94l; ,573 railroad routes,
aggregating 1l7,160 miles at cost OF
Sl5,0l2,603, and III steamboat routes
aggregating 1851 miles at cost of
$596,573. At the close of the fiscal year
more star route service was in operation
tilan isE:icat ed by an atelage Tor The FIVE
years next preceeS,pg, and was per-
formed at diminished cost. The aver
age cost per mile during the earlier
period was 18-l00 cents per mile,
against 6 l8-l00 per mile in 1883 and
1884.
Mr.. Lyman devotes considerable space
to the question of railroad rates, ques-
ton which he says has been before the
public from the beginning of the service.
For thirty years this great problem was
passed over in blind and cropping way,
and it was not until 1873 that defined
and intelligent basis was prescribed for
gauging the compensation. Eleven years
have elapsed since the adoption of that
basis. In this period over $4,000 miles
of road have been added to the system;
the amount of mail matter carried has
increased in still greater ratio; and the
care, efficiency and accuracy with which
the mails are handled and distributed
have reached a degree of excellence approx
mating perfection. tits not astonishing
therefore, he says, that the methods of
compensation adopted when the great
work of distribution transit was in the
experimental stages are not adapted to the
present requirements of the public ser
vice. The rates of compensation recon-
mended by the Committee of Department
officials recently appointed to devise an
improved plan for Sauging the pay for
carrying the mails on railroad routes, in
his Judgment, are fair and reasonable.
The object sought is the Improvement of
the present concededly insufficient and
imperfect laws. The opposition to the
committees plan so far has been only of
an obtrusive character, for nothing def
mite has been proposed in its place to su-
persede the present Objectionable system.
This i'll effect, serves to perpetuate old
errors, involving among other things the
serious consequence for the current year
of the expenditure of more than a half
million dollars Of public money unneces-
sarily For these reasons he submits and
urges the passage of q bill by Congress
embodying the recommendations -of the
committee for the readjustment of COM
pensation for the transportation Of mails
on railroad routes.
Mr.. Lyman's estimates for the needs of
the service for the year ending June 80,
1886, are as follows: Railroad service,
$l5,GS4, POS; Star-route service, $5,900,-
0n0; steamboat service, $6l5; coo. Total,
$22, l99, POS.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER p 1884,

The net earnings of the Baltimore s.
Ohio Railway for the last fiscal year were
Si,I60,OO0. The aggregate surplus fund is
now $47, ,7o3, 79G.
-FOUR HUNDRED men employed in the
New Haven Conn., Iron Works, struck
On the 18th against reduction of wages.
THE workmen of the Branford Lock, at
branford, Conn.,, 325 in number, struck on
the 18th against a reduction of ten per
cent III wages and the cutting off of one
hour from the days work.
The report of First Comptroller. Law
renee to the Secretary Of the Treasury
shows that during the last fiscal year 27,-
TAI accounts and 3,535,S25 vouchers, in
yolving in the aggregate $2,243, ,O53, ,3a'
We're received from auditing officers, >
used, recorded and tbs. balance there
certified to the Register of the Treasury.
PosTMAsTER-GENERA HATToN has is
sued an order which provides that un
claimed letters inclosed in envelopes upon
which hotel cards are printed should not
be returned to the mailing Office unless
such envelopes have written or printed
upon them the words "Return to' in addi-
tion to the hotel card.
QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred upon Sir
John A. Mcdonald, Premier of Canada,
the Grand Cross of the Order Of the Bath
in testimony to his eminent public SER
vices.
The Eagle Cotton Company of Taunton,
Mass, has notified it's employees of re-
ductlon of seven per cent. in wages, to take
effect November oath.
PATENT COMMISSIONER BUTTERwoRTH, in
his annual report for the last fiscal year,
shows that 3S,S22 applications for patents
were received; 2,672 caveats filed, and
24,6lS patents, ETC., granted. The receipts
from all sources aggregated $1,145, ,433.10,
and the expenditures (not including print
ing) were 1901, ,413.39, leaving surplus of
$244, ,019.n. The increase in the receipts
during the last fiscal year over those of the
previous fiscal year was 49,54S.40.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND received
numerous calls from distinguished citizens
in the Capitol at Albany on the 18th.
THE Androscoggin Mills at Lewiston,
Me-, employing 1900 hands, have an
nounced an indefinite shut down the last Of
the month.
SERIOUS floods have desolated several
villages in the Province of Aleppo, Sy
ria. Many persons have been drowned,
and hundreds of camels and cattle have
perished. Some villages were entirely de-
stroyed.
FIFTY soldiers in the garrison at Olmitz,
Moravia, were arrested on the 18th on ac-
count of being connected with Socialistc
organization. Many seditious documents
were found in their boxes.
Two prominent German citizens of
Wheeling, W. Va, made a bet on the cleo
tion that, no matter what the result, the one
was to wheel the other through the street.
The terms were carried out on the 18th, and
there was a great procession, and the fun
spr the incident was unbounded.
| Upon the rumor reaching Canton that
General Gordon was dead, the Chinese
Viceroy paraded the garrison and caused
funeral salute to be fired. The squadron
in the harbor also lowered flags and fred
minute guns.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
Personal AND IIPERSONAL.

Christine Nilsson made her first APP.
pearance in Paris twenty years ago.
Daniel Stuart and his wife, of Troy,
Ala, have been married seventy years.
Scott Madkins, youth Of nineteen,
was married to Annie Ingersoll, his
twelye-year-old step-sister. at Snowhill,
Md, recently.
A negro woman, in Holmes County.
Mississippi, recently gave birth to trip
lets, whom she appropriately named
Faith, Hope and Charity.
Miss Helen Williams is tho "Amer-
lean girl'' who has scored the latest
dramatic success in Paris, under the
name Helene d'Auvray. - Chicago
Inter Ocean.
AIRS. Fair and Miss Fair. wife and
daughter of the Pacific coast Senator
a;1 millionaire, have taken house in
the suburbs Of Paris, where it is said
they will henceforth reside. CAscagg
Jouraal.
M Theirs, when in London, wrote to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer as fol-
lows: Il wish to become thoroughly
acquainted with the financial system OF
England. When can you spare me i've
minutes?"
DR. Edward Davy, who is now living
in the wilds of Australia. at the age OF
eighty years. was one of the originators
of the electric telegraph in England,
but others have stepped in and reaped
the reward. ".
Secretary Lincoln has appointed W.
Hallett Green, colored, to a position in
the Signal Service, and assigned him to
Fort Never. This is the first appoint.
ngton Star.
Gath" is told that Chanfrau had Sc
lected his own epitaph, Itwas quota
ton from his kit, the Arkansas Tray
eler" Il done my level best; ain't
got nothing to take back. "-Gncaanati
Commercial.
MIR. Livesey, the founder of teeto-
talism in England, who died lately, over
ninety years of age, lost his parents
when he was seven and had a most dis
couraging experience OF water in his
early DAYS, as he had to work in ardamp
cellar, which was often inundated, for
years.
The Oldest person in Connecticut IS
said to be Isaac Clarke, colored, who is
106 years of age. After working as
sailor and whaleman for about fifty
years, he became physically disabled.
and entered the New England Aims
house, where he has outlived two gen.
erations. ns.-Boston Post.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
LYNCH LAW.
Kansas Town Marshal in a Fit of Over
Exuberance Shoots a Man, Defies Arrest
and Becomes Subject of Lynch Law.

WICHITA, KAs., November II.
A shocking murder, followed quickly by
summary justice in the way Of lynching,
took place in Belle Plaine,a small town in
Sumner County, about thirty miles south
of this city, on Friday. About eleven
O'Clock, after political jollifcation, a
crowd assembled in billiard room and
got warmed up over the situation. John
Walden, the Town Marshal, became very
abusive, and, fiourishing his revolver
about, said that he could clean out the
house and run the town. This created
great deal of excitement, and in the
melee Walden shot into the crowd, in
stantly killing a young man named Crouch.
He then defied arrest, and threatened to
kill any one who approached. The Mayor,
assisted by several bystanders, arrested
him, and he was lodged in the County
jail. About two O'Clock in the morning
a mob broke into the jail, tgok Wa.den
out and hanged him 70 q rafter Of the
house where he did the killing.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
ga LITTLE NONSENSE" -

An Oregon bicycler has two
wooden legs. And he hasn't had his
bicycle much over six months. either.
This is unusually quick work. .-BurEing-
ton Free Press.
-"How does the milk get into the
cocoanut?" asks subscriber. 1t does
not get into it at all The cocoanut
grows around the milk. Ask us hard
Burlington Hawkeye.
Dentist Ito jolly sailor, who bad
seated himself in the high chaf):
s.Well, mariner, which tooth do you :
want extractedp Is it the molar, or the
incisorP"? ?' Jack (short and sharp):
'It is in the upper tier, on the flarboard
Golden Days.
An Ohio farmer says that a mule
can be cured of kicking. by catching
hold Of his leg while in the act. But. !.
when the unfortunate operator is sailing
through the empyrean dome he proba-
bly, wishes he hadn't interfered with
the inalienable ard hereditary customs
Of the mule.-Puck.
Young man." said the Professor,
"you should not allow yourself to be
guided altogether by your own opinions.
You should defer to the opinions Of
Others" Student-"nut the poet says.
.'tis madness to defer" Professor
"True, but the poet was Young who.
said that. ''-BOstoa Transcript.
Doctor-"You see, wiley dear, have
pulled my patient through, after all; :
very critical case. can tell youn'r HIS
Wife-''Yes, dear hubby; but then you
are SO clever in your profession. Ahl
if / had only known you i've years'
earlier feel certain my first husband
my poor Thomas-w would have been
saved" Chicago Tribune.
A map wanted:
o, bring me a map of the seat OF warl
hear the guns on the River Min!
want to see where the missiles tore
Through far FoO-chow with devu's din
Just show me Ke-lung and Sinon-choo;
And where. o where, can be Kinteching,
Chow-choo, Chang-chow, and where Cha-Oo1
Is Hing -wha far from old Yeu-ping?
Pltlddetphtd fTese-
He left her in the wagon at the
market, after selling his potatoes, and
as he started off She called to him:
.sRemember, John--g twelve yards
VI udI ahU bO otiO "
ask if it will wash" When he returned
twenty minutes later, she held out her
hand for the package he carried. but he
tossed it into the carriage with the re-
ply: Didn't get no caliker. ''Whyp"
s'Well, diskivered that plug terbacker
was comm up an caliker going down.
and made up nay mind you'd better
wait. - Wheeling L,tettigencrr.
He was polite. but difident, and
had got entangled in conversation with
a couple of young ladies, and was strug.
Cling along the best he could. They
were discussing the merits Of different
actresses. '.Y-yes,' he said. mime.
b is certainly very c-clever act
ress, but II think she is one of the
p-plainest women ever saw. That is, y; !;
he added politely, under the vague inn
preston that some qualification should.
be introduced here, ''I-er-mean Of
course, present company always e.
eepted.,, IN. Y Sans Lt.'s-se a:
aG = w
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
IT'S SETTLED,

and Grover Cleveland Will Be President Of
the United States for Four Years From
the Fourth of March Next-Mr. Blaine
Gracefully Accepts His Defeat - The
Causes Which Led to 1t.
NEW YORK, November H.
The Tribune contains the following edi-
torial: ''The official count is so near
over that there can no longer be doubt
about the result. Governor Cleveland is
elected President by plurality of little
over |, 100 in vote of nearly 10000 in
this State. On the morning after election
we believed there was plurality few
hundred smaller than this on the other
SIDE, and were subsequently con-
f'rned in that belief by the
--%itidentss statements received by
the committees as to errors and ,sSsrse in
the count in Albany. Ulster, Sullivan,
New York, Kings and other counties.
The Albany fraud proved to affect
only county Office, where it reversed
the result, and in the other cases the
boards of canvassers have made only
small reductions. In this city an ex-
aggerated idea of the number of defec-
tive ballots improperly rejected seems
to have been adopted because of the occa-
sional report, ''thirty-six defective,n
when the inspectors really meant
cone defective, with thirty-six
names on it." Elsewhere many
still think Butler votes were counted for
Cleveland, but, with the ballots de-
stroyed, the canvassers did not establish
it. Until the New York and Brooklyn fig
ures were developed we thought there
was reason to believe that the plurality
would not go above 500 either way.
Though over double that, it is still a very
small vote on which such momentous
consequences hang. We profoundly re-
gret the result, but it is the duty of every
good citizen to accept it, and to give to
the President-elect the respect the office
demands.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
TOO PHUNNY.

A Calcutta Tea COmpany's Abscondine
Agent, Who Had Committed Heavy
Forgeries, Arrested in Louisville, KY,
and Awaiting Extradition.
LOUISVILLE, KY, November II.
Robert Bryce McPhun, Scotchman of
noble birth, went to Calcutta five years
ago as the agent of the Halta Tea Com
pany. He was broker and speculator
outside and lived high. About two years
ago he forged the paper of the tea COM
pany for 100000 and disposed of it to
George Dickson, the Superintendent OF
the Bank of Bengal in Calcutta, for $780,
000 The larger part of this he squan-
dered, and just before the forgery was
discovered eighteen months since, he fed
to Colorado, where he dropped the rest
in mining operations. He then came to
Louisville where he engaged several cap
italists in schemes for money-making.
Four or five months since Dickson's
younger brother, who was in the
Calcutta Bank, came to visit
friends in Louisville, where his father
had been wealthy tea merchant. He met
McPhun, who had assumed the name of
Bryce, face to face on the street.
Charged with the forgery, McPhun at
first denied has identity, but this proving
useless confessed and promised to devote
the rest of his life to making restitution.
He gave young Dickson deeds to property
in Calcutta. These, on Dickson's arrival
in India proved to be worthless, and Geo.
Dickson telegraphed Detective Bligh, in
this city to arrest McPhun. This was re-
fused unless an officer would come from
India for him, Bligh kept McPhnn under
surveillance, and Saturday Sergeant
Webb of the Calcutta police arrived, and
the forger was yesterday lodged'in jail
where he awaits eXtradition.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

rur Swiss Government has prohibited
- nnn cars from Paris crossing the from
.;or op account of the cholera.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

THE British House of Commons passed
~ a. deficiency bill on the 18th aprropriat-
~, nae sss,s .ssanay 70 defray the expenses OF the
Nile expedition.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

,ccopp1SG to the report OF the Governor
,onlotion Aooi of Montana has increased
4 roo during the past year.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

rur British Government has ordered the
,o,.,otion of an irregular mounted force OF
sra hundred men, for service in Bechuana-
land. South Africa.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
sews from Everywhere.

,onrs for the week ended the 18th, re-
MI a. New York, amounted to $685.
600 in value.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

SIX HUNDRED employees of the Singer
saving Machine Works at Elizabeth, N.
j. were discharged on the 10Th, and 1t is
oaid 100 more will be discharged this week.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

rt,r Paris tribunal which recently grant
Cd a decree Of divorce to the Marquis oe
Caux husband of Adelina Patti, con-
de,nned the diva to pay the costs OF the
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

Tx his forthcoming report to Congress
Secretary of the Treasury McCuiloch, IL IS
minated will make some important rec
concentrations in regard to revision OF
tho tariff
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

THE official report of the French harvest
returns for the year show the 1olo"lhS
Weld: Wheat, 111,lA,s43 hectohtres,
against 103, ,7o3,426 in 1888. Rye, 2o,4o'
hectolitres, against "a ,S42 ,652 in 1888.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

GovHayoR ST. JOHN and G. NJ. Stone,
editor Of the st. Johnsbury Caledonidn,
and candidate for Governor OH the lnde-
pendent ticket, were hung in efiigy from
telegraph pole at st. Johnsbury, Vt, on
the night of the 18th,
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

THE British Consulate at New orK an
nounces that an International Inventions
exhibition will be held at London IN 1880.
II PROMISES to be an event OF great IN
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

GENERAL LORD WoLsELEY has received
a letter written by General Gordon on No
vember 4th, stating that he had learned of
the murder of Colonel Stewart, Mr.. Power,
the correspondent, and Mr.. Herbin, the
French Consul,
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

EARL SPENCER, Lord Lieutenant OF Ire
land, has gone to London, to at1enu d
special Cabinet Council to discuss re-
newal Of the crimes act and other import
ant questions relating to Ireland.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

THE magazine of a giant powder factory
near Toledo, o., was blown up on the loth
by an explosion that was terrific, beng iei1
over radius of a hundred miles. Severa
men rera injured.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

THE critics who were present at the
Paris Comique when Miss Van Zandt was
oblistd to retire from the stage recently,
have formed committee to learn the true
character Of the prima donna's indisposi-
ton, with a view to protecting themselves
from libel suits. They said she was drunk.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

A LATE dispatch from the Mudir OF Dom
COLA states that one of Ell MahdI's chief
ieutenants is marching against Dongola
with $1,000 men, and another with 5000
men is advancing on the Kabbabish tribe.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

A NUMBER of prominent physicians
petitioned the Secretary of the Treasury
on the 18th to see that old rags coming
from. foreign countries are thoroughly
disinfected before being received at United
States DOrts
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

DURING the month of October 36,44l inn
migrants arrived in this country, and 1000
citizens Of the United States returned from
a ID. For ten months ended October,
10, the total number of immigrai is COM
ing to this country was 414,324, against
oVl'V5. during the same period of last year.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

DIRTY OF the Spanish newspapers
nail the prospect Of conclusion of the
treatJ OF commerce between the United
States and Spain, and the matter will be
among the first measures submitted to the
Cortes December. The highest hopes
are expressed Of a prompt revival Of com
merce.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-22

A. .igation Of the losses sustained
py 'hs Strike in the Hooking Valley, Ohio,
since June 18th, shows a loss of trade to
members oI the Board and Coal COMPANIES.
Fi'o'g,oJo; loss to business men outside of
'ne Beard, SS5O,O00; loss of freight to rail-
roads centering there, S1,lOO,OOJ; loss to
furnaces III the Valley, $225, ,OO0 Agere-
gate losses, S4,0l1,OoO. Of this it is esti-
i,ia, mated mat the loss to the City Of Co
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-04

a BRoCKwAYtLLE, Pa, Dec. 21.-Fos
some time Dobinic Morille, an Italian, has
been ~keepingta house of bad reputation
and an Illicit Auor shop ON the property Of
the Ridgwayk Clearfieid Railroad at this
place. Every effort was made to put I
stop to tn proceeding, but without
avail until Thursday evening, when A. j
Cooper. an Engineer, broke up the nest
When his locomotive pulled up on the sid
ing a numbtr of men girdled the house vii
cables, whikl were attached to the engin{
and as soortas the ropes were firmly fix&
the Locomotive pulled out. The who
building WIS torn from its foundation al
completelyNrecked, the inmates escapi6s
without fnjury.- After the wre3-
ing of the structure
wal lighkd and the building burn ).
A large crowd quickly collected, ~
the confu}on for awhile approached a uks
as but fe$ were in the secret. The hos
stood within a few feet Of the railway, afkrt
from Otld buildings. As its f0undat ms
cracked md the pressure OF the he IVY II e
lightenedwild sllrieks issued from the In
dOws, ii$.s were overturned, and doors 43t
tered dotn, half-naked girls and druffseu
mel em&gin, through ths cracking : Inn
berA y
The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-04

DIR. j. G. REID, of WOODBURY., Ill,
recently sent to the State Board o.
Health a piece of bologna sausage, sup.
posed to contain trichine spiralis. The
bologna was examined, and under a
good microscope it was easy to discover
nine distinct trichina in a. small piece
OF the meat, not exceeding a quarter OF
an inch square and about the thickness
OF tissue paper. A number of the doc
tors patients were suffering with a pc.
culiar disease, which he was suspicious
was caused by eating of the sausage:
hence the examination.