Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-16

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
rsews from Everywhere.
THE Agricultural Department estimates
tbe wheat crop for this year at 4S5, 100000
bushels.
MOVEMENT is on foot among pig-iron
mon 10 bank all furnaces for four weeks
in order to restrict production.
ForR earthquake shocks occurred at
rraseati. Albano, and Castelle Roman, a
saw miles southeast of Rome, Italy, on the
7th.
Axinyentorv of Commodore Garrison's
ostate shows: Liabilities. 81 Al ,22S; nom
insl assets, $17,G97,92S; acCuai assets, $5,-
g11,SlS
rpov workers are fearful of the COM
,rancement of making steel nails, claiming
that five men could then do the work OF a
hundred.
TrrryE persons were killed and an i'm
,oonse amount of property destroyed by q
.ovare hail storm near Sebastopol, Russia,
on the lth.
Tug Treasury Department on the 7th
purchased 10000 ounces of silver, for de-
lverv al the Philadelphia and New Or
leans mints.
Tur Catholic Total Abstinence Union,
in session at Chicago. on the 7th, declared
in favor of legal restrictions upon the
liquor traffic
MISS EVA MACKAY, daughter OF the Cal
;fornia millionaire, was betrothed on the
IN at Naples to NJ. Colonna, representa-
five of the well-known family OF Colonna.
IN Koch stated in a recent lecture that
he was convinced the delta of the Ganges
was the real home OF cholera and that re-
roious pilgrims brought the disease to
France
TUE weather was so cool in many parts
of the country on the 9 h that the Signal
Service predicted frosts. UP to inidnlght
there were no reports of any except from
Michigan.
INVESTIGATION has uncovered fraud in
the quality of envelopes furnished the
Post-office Department by the stationery
contractors, and suits are to be brought by
the Government.
Iiaf hearing
remains of the victims, arrived in New
York harbor the evening of the 1th. Cen
erals Sheridan and Hancock were at Gov
ernor's Island waiting to receive the bodies.
\ CHOLERA is ravaging the Department of
Herault, especially the Commune Gigean,
where there are 1900 inhabitants. Seven
persons died there during the twenty-four
hours ended the evening of the 7th, and
eighteen cases were under treatment.
TIE commission appointed by the
French Government to make experiments
similar to those of NJ. Pasteur in connec-
tion with the finding of a cure for hydro
phobia, has reported that investigations
decisively confirm the correctness OF that
scientists theory.
DURING the twenty -four hours ending at
9p m. on the 7th there were five deaths
from cholera at Marseilles. Five deaths
occurred at Aries and six at Toulon. The
record of the hospital at Toulon was: Ad-
missions, :; discharged, 10; deaths, /; un-
der treatment, 67.
DURING the week ended the Sth there
We're 25G failures in the United States re-
ported TO Bradstreet's, as compared with
.4l in the preceding week, and with 166,
Ing weeks of 1888, 1882 and 1881. Canada
had % decrease of l.
A SEVERE earthquake shock was felt In
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
In New England the afternoon of the 10th.
In some places it was violent enough to
crack the ceilings of houses, and in the
tenement house districts of New York the
Widest kind of panic prevailed. As far
as learned there was no loss of life or Sc
rlous damage to property.
A DECLARATION of principles Of the
Prince Of Wales has appeared in the
shape of an "inspired article" in the
chief organ Of the workingmen of Eng
land The heir apparent to the throne is
said to be free-trader, and to ''regret
the existence of a protective policy in
other countries, on the ground that hos
Tile tariffs baget other forms of interna-
tonal hostility"
oN the morning of the Sth the car used
as dormitory for the Hindoos and other
specimens of strange races belonging to
barnum's travelling circus took fire at
jamestown, N. V, and was destroyed, to-
setner with its contents, consisting of
eothnS and valuable accoutrements. The
ohlnese giant, Chang, and his manager,
MI Cameron, who were sleeping in the
car had narrow escape. The loss is
about $1,000.
lhE Acting Secretary of the Navy has
uirected Rear Admiral John Lee David,
commanding the Asiatic squadron, to
axe whatever precautions may be neces-
S"iy 10 protect American citizens in the
event OF an outbreak of hostilities be-
."eeh France and China. The dispatch
s-M .nSH ucts the Rear Admiral to regard as in