Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
-u,srnFvr ARTHUR received the officers
,,reeIv relief expedition on the 21st
Al New York.
y is reported that the followers OF Ell
.,-h.,i are diving at the rate OF thirty per
dsy from disease.
,,,.v sections of the country in which
-.t AA, prevailed have been benefited by
.,osnt y, copious rains.
FIRE destroyed w. II. Wilson's Abdal-
1.obles at Cynthiana, KY. Seventeen
i'u horses and one man were burned to
death.
ru.ov we're fourteen deaths from. ch olera
.marseiIles during the twenty-four hours
~ Vino ta al 8 D. m, on the oath, and five at
foalon.
r-r Damocratic State Convention of
,r,s nominated as electors -at-large,
.t,o silas Hare, of Grayson, and Jno. II.
gcLeary, of Bexar.
rurpp were, during the twenty -four
,.nrs ended at p. m. on the 21st, eight
.boIsra ss deaths at Marseilles, and one in
.bs suburbs of Toulon.
TUE Government launch Daphne explod-
a nor boiler at Memphis, Tenn, on the
gIst. killing Paymaster Golden and Sc
riousjv scalding others.
THE United States charge d'atfalres at
pone has notified the State Department
Of 3 sudden outbreak of cholera at Spezia.
N s;vtv.one cases on the 23d, forty proved
btaL.
TUE Kansas Democrats fused with the
Resubmission Republicans, and nominated
covernor Click for reelection and Y. K.
Halliday. Resubmissionist, for Lieutenant
Governor.
s WARNER. President of an Albion
IN. " Bank, is missing, and matters are
N a verv crooked shape. He is said to
have speculated quite extensively with
trust funds.
WARRANTS for conspiracy were issued
on the 2lst against all miners in camp at
Woods Run, Pa. Trouble is anticipated
in making arrests. Strikers are returning
to work in the Third Pool.
ITALIANS are said to be leaving Now
Y ork in droves. Nearly two thousand have
returned to their native land.
Cessation of railroad building and inabil-
ity to ob.ain employment are the causes.
A STATEMENT is published in Chicago
that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
WM has offered S23,0O0,000 for a control
ing interest in the Illinois Central; but
the President of the latter declares there
will be no sale.
ACCORDING to reports made to the Gen
era Land Office, land grabbing in the Ter
ritories by the big cattle companies is on
the increase. Fraudulent entries and IL
legal fencing have been on a greater scale
The past year than ever before.
THERE were 20S failures in the United
States reported 10 Bradstreet's during the
week ended the 22d, as compared with 264
in the preceding week, and with 179, 132
and % respectively in the corresponding
weeks OF 1883, 1882 and 1881. Canada had
H. against II the week previous.
The Secret Service Division is in posses
sion of news of counterfeit $40 note on
the Third National Bank of Cincinnati.
It's of the series of 1882, with chocolate
colored back. The vignettes on the face
dthe note have coarse, scratchy appear
alce, but tie back is well executed and
calculated to deceive.
The Postmaster General has annulled
he Government contract with T. p. Kel-
hgg, Springfield, Mass, for furnishing
dhcial, dead letter and registered pack
age envelopes and tags. The
action is based upon the recent investiga-
Won made by the Postmaster General him
Fli who says he found the envelopes of
mlerlor quality, and not up to the stand
ard contracted for.
ASSISTANT LAND COMMISSIONER HARRI-
SON Will so to Dakota early next month to
9amme and straighten the fraudulent
surveys made in that Territory. Persons
WIN whom the Government contracted
VlA years since to make surveys of Gov
aH'nent lands in Dakota made returns of
piaS without really having made sur
F!s Numerous complications have
~Sen IN consequence.
4 REPORT has been received at the Treas
department from Lieutenant Healy
s'us details of the cruise of the revenue
amer Corwin in Behring's Sea and the
,-V't Ocean from June to July "a. He
~ dillgent search for the schooner
e. S1'ha, which sailed from Goodwin Bay for
b. francisco in October, 1888, and says
s'' can be no doubt of her loss with all
&c Passengers and crew.
r. .NSIRUCrIoNs have been forwarded to
'liahaer Schley Of the Greedy relief
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