Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-05
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

A MASS meeting on the 2G h at Lincoln,
ILL.,, adopted resolutions denouncing Orrin
A. Carpenter as the murderer of Fora
Burns, and demanding that he leave Logan
County without unnecessary delay.
THE nomination of Minister Sargent,
now at the German Court, to be transferred
to st. Petersburg, was sent to the Senate on
the 26th and promptly confirmed.
BILLS favoring woman suffrage were re-
jected by the Iowa and Connecticut Legis-
latures on the Goth.
In the second trial at Washington, Hal
let Kilbourne was on the Goth awarded
damages of $3.50 for false Imprisonment
by John G. Thompson, ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House of Representatives.
JOHN NJ. HAMILTON, Governor of Illinois,
has written a letter declining to compete
further for denomination.
THE bill prohibiting the buying or SELL
ing of grain or other produce on fictitious
contracts or margins passed the Iowa
House on the Goth. The act had already
passed the Senate.
CARL ScHURz, in letter expressing his
gratitude, d 'clued on the 9th to accept
the purse of 100000 which was being made
uD Dy HIS lIltuuS III NoW IOIk, tlll It.
quested that all contributions be returned.
AUGUSTUS SCHELL, the veteran banker
and politician of New York, whose death
had been expected for some time, passed
quietly away on the 9th.
MAY % has been selected as the date for
holding the State Democratic Convention
in Kansas.
The Legislature of New Mexico has
passed a bill fixing the capital at Santa
Fe, and appropriating 100000 for build
ing.
The Texas Democrats will meet in State
Convention at Fort Worth June 10 to select
delegates to the National Convention, and
the State Convention will meot at Houston
August 10 to nominate State officers.
MRS. STRATToN, the mother of the late
General Tom Thumb, died at New Haven
few days ago.
A MOTION to strike out the enacting
clause of the bonded Whisky Extension
bill was agreed to-131 to SIN Commit
tee of the Whole of the National House of
Representatives on the 9th. This action
was reported to the House and confirmed
-1S5 to S3-thus defeating the proposed
Extension law. The negative vote on the
motion was as follows:
Adams Qlll, Adams IN. W, Aiken, Barks-
dale, Barr, Belford. Blackburn, Brccken,
ridge, Breitung, Budd, Caldwell, Campbell.
IN. W, Carleton, Clardy, Clay. Collins, Cos
grove. Culbertson, Dargan, Davidson, Deus
ter, Dorsheimer, Dunham, Eaton, Ellis,
Findlay, Finerty Follett, FForranh; Glass 4 IS
cock, Hewitt On. W, Hill, Holman, Hoop
er, Houk, Houseman, Hurd. Jeffords,
Jones tAla.l, Jordan, King, Kleiner, Lamb,
Lewis, Lowering, Lowry, Matson, Maybury,
Morey, Morrison, Mouiton, Murphy, Murray.
Neece, Ochlltree, ONeill MOI Page. Patton,
Potter, Rankin, Riggs. Robertson, Robinson
tO.), Robinson tN. Y.l, Rogers N; ", Rose
Grams, Seney. Slocum, Sumner Call. Summer
(Wisl Thompson Tucker. Tuly. Turner tKy.l,
Van Eaton, Ward, Willis, Wood and Worthing-
ton-S3.
In the Illinois State Trade and Labor
Convention recently held in Chicago a
platform was adopted declaring in favor
of the total abolition of the contract con-
vict labor system; the es ablishment of
Boards of Arbitration to settle disputes
between employers and employees; the en-
actment of law making eight hours a
legal days work; fixing the liability OF
employers for damages 70 life and limb of
an employee; an efficient apprentice law;
the prohibition of the employment of
children under fifteen years OF age in fac
tories; the adoption and enforcement OF
compulsory educational system; the week