Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-23
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
po,ys from Everywhere.

pousFR. of Murraysville gas-wells riot
..rns in Pennsylvania, was convicted on
tbe l4.h of murder in the second degree.
MILITARY and naval movements on the
~, ., China look warlike. Pirates are
'Iso active and are ravaging the country.
rur ARMY of the Tennessee, at it's meet
..ra- Lake Minnetonka, elected all the
~ -osont officers for the ensuing year. Chi.
200 is the next place OF meeting.
1.,rrs G. BLAINE has instructed friends
Indianapolis to enter suit against the
nnbishers of the Sentinel of that city for
fI..ea libel concerning his marriage.
aHN0 s-
r.rrcp.us received a5 Washington
..om Consul Mason report cholera de-
a.oosing in the cities of Marseilles and
Toulon, but spreading in other localltles'
F,pr. GRANVILLE has assured Bismarck
not England is friendly toward Germany
y tbe DEVELOPMENT of colonial enterprises
= .ba unsettled part of Southern Africa.
Tur Western Union Telegraph Company
hos cu+ the rate on messages between the
c. Iouis and Chicago Merchant Ex
ICES TO five cents for message of ten
words.
nopc,x. United States Minister to
,,o,ico started to Washington on the
15-h and il is believed the visit is in con-
pection with the imprisonment OF Amerl-
can citizens.
,rropvEy.GENERAL BREWSTER denies
tbu renorts about the extravagant and
sbovv manner in which he is living at
Long Branch. He says he Is there Tor
tranquility.
Ivn11ATloNs now are that Arkansas Will
nroduce the largest cotton crop in the his
torv Of the State. In some localities pick
inc has already commenced. Ihe crop Is
two weeks later than usual
GOvFRNOR MURRAY of Utah tele-
yrapbed on the l4th to the Indian Depart.
ment that the Ute Indians were on the
war-path in Colorado and Utah, ana asked
that troops be sent to protect the whites.
THrRE were 2C4 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ended the 10Th against 216 in the pre-
ceding week and ia, l4S and "A in the cor
responding weeks of 1888, 1882 and 1881
respectively.
THE gross earnings o. the Louisville &
Nashville Road for the last fiscal year, $14,-
3jl,092; operating expenses (6l.4S per
cent?, $S,S-3, 7S2; after deduc5ing other ex-
IF Il
The surplus was SSl ,595.
A POWDER magazine and five Govern
mem offices at Kason, Russia, were blown
up by dynamite on the 145h inst, and 100
persons were killed. The authorities had
previously received an anonymous warn
ing, bu. mad disregarded it.
A KNIGHTS of PythlaS excursion train,
bound or Detroit on the new Michigan &
Ohio Road, was derailed and badly
wrecked between Battle Creek and Mar
shall, Mich, on the 14uh. The engineer
was scalded, perhaps fatally.
A NUMBER of arrests have been made in
the Guy OF Mexico of prominent persons
alleged to be concerned in conspiracy 20
depose President Gonzales, assassinate
General Diaz and make Jose Maria
Iglesias President. 1t is said they will all
be shot.
THIRD OFFICER KELLY of the steamer
Bear says the Greedy party admitted,
when they came on board, that they had
eaten the dead bodies of Henry and Kis-
hngbury in crder to keep life in their own
bodies. At the time of the rescue every
one was sworn over to secrecy.
The French Government declares that
the reason for the higher duty which 1t has
been proposed to put upon imported cat
tie is the existing depression in agricul-
tural in erests. 1t is deemed to be sa-
cred duty to assist the farmers, and it is
earnestly hoped that the bill will pass.
CHINA, according to a London dispatch
Of the 10th from Foo Chow, re used to pay
the indemnity demanded by Franco, and
has declared war. French troops from
-onquin were being massed at Foo Chow,
and the Chinese are making the most ac-
tive preparations for war. The report is
not confirmed, however, at Paris and Lon
don.
ON account of the trial of two brewers
at Iowa City, la under the prohibition
law, mob on the 18th, stripped the Pros
cutting Attorney of his clothing and tarred
hm in the street. They assaulted wit
ness, and roughly handled officers of the
law The crowd was excited and intoxi-
Gated. A citizens meeting was held to
raise force to quell the riot.
lHE British Government decided on the
!oth to send fleet of So boa.s with the
uordon relief expedition and contracts
nOr building them were being made.
ihey are to be built in England and to be
,ohpieted within twenty-seven working
uays, under penalty of five dollars per
oay for each boat in case of -fulfillment
Vi Tue contract. The boats will be thirty
Two lee, long by seven wide, carrying four
teen men each.
BANQUET was rendered at the Delmon-
NJ Tue night of the 18th to the officers of
'ne freely relief expedition by the Ameri-
@i Ti YACHT Club. j. Frank Lawrence,
resident of the cub, presided,
Du among those present were Com
-iander Schley, Lieutenant A. Sebres
r 'N NNlef Engineer Melville of the Thetis,
a.. .''.,la u hder Coffin OF The Alert, Lieuten-
~ 4. H. CrOShy and (ybipf Enor;paay-