Huntsville gazette., 1884-09-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
ENGLISH bondholdsrs of the Denver
Rio Grande Railway are taking steps TO
reorganization of the company.
THE manic in the sugar trade at Vienn;
continues. Another large house failed o.
the 18th, with liabilities amounting to $500,
0jO.
Ov account OF an improved demand tn
ooka furnaces of the Connellsville (Pa.
region will run six days instead OF five il
the week.
FERRY, Prime Minister of France, SAY
that ewing to Chinese treachery it ha'
baen impossible to treat her like civil
lied nation.
OyE of the latest rumors out is that sew
eral of the Greely survivors have been Sc
cured by an owner of dime museums AM
will be exhibited.
THERE were, during the twenty -foul
hours ended at 8 p. M on the 21st, eight
cholera deaths at Marseilles, and ono il
the suburbs of Toulon.
THE artillery barracks at Nussrra bad
British India, were struck by lightning OF
+ba q3tb. Six men were killed by th'
shock and two were wounded.
The Pail Nail Gazette thinks that china
does not wisn to come to any agreemen
s;nca Admiral Courbet bombarded Fot
Chow, but is ready and willing to tight.
ELABORATE preparations have been made
for the annual meeting Of the American
Association for the Advancement Of
sciance which meets at philadelphia on
the 4th.
d Rr,OoMER, travelling salesman for q
New York house, was murderously as
saulted in hotel at Minneapolis, Mimi,
on the 18th. His recovery was considered
doubtful.
THE relief party that will soon go up the
Nile River will consist OF S,0oo Brltlsh
troops, $500 Egyptians and fotilla OF
o5o river boats. The campaign will cost
fS,000,000.
DETECTIVES think they have unearthed
a scheme by which the St Louis and Cairo
Na,row-Gauge Railroad Company has
been swindled out Of a considerable sum
of money.
WHILE proceeding from Evansville
Ind, to Henderson, KY, on the 29Jh, a
transfer boat with cars on board was
caugh. in a cyclone, upset, and fourteen
persons drowned.
QUITE a stir was caused in Chicago rail
way circles on the 18th over the receipt o.
letter from Commissioner Fink to the
joint agent of the freight pool, authorizing
reduction in certain rates.
THE postal authorities have decided th a
Lower Mississippi boats can carry let
ters to landings between st. Louis and
Grand Tower, H., and distribute the same
without violating the postal laws.
CACEREs, accompanied by mob, re
Gently attacked the city of Lima, Peru
and killed great many people. The Gov
ernmen5 troops finally succeeded in driv
ing oul the mob, and captured several hun
dred.
FIGARO says that if it is the English de-
sign to stop the passage of the French
l. A. iv,f fho n q
Anglo-Chinese alliance, French troops il
Africa are sufficient to seize Cairo wheI
ordered.
THE remains of the late A. McGahan,
thelamous war correspondents. arrived al
Columbus, o., from New York, on the
9th, and were received with military hon
ors. Governor Hoadly was among the
speakers at the ceremonies.
WILBUR f. STOREY, owner OF the Chl
cago Times, has been adjudged mentally
incapable OF attending to his affairs, and
the Probate Court has appointed Austin
L. Patterson, the present manager OF the
paper, conservator of his estate.
1HE hlnpal 1OrCS DelOW roo OuoW
which were not included in the recent
bombardment, were attacked on the 9th
but the French guns seemed to have but
little effect ON them. The attack was ex
pected to be renewed on the 2Sth.
O
THE Republique Frdncdise praises Ad
mral Courbet's astuteness in sending gun
Goats up the Min River the 18th of July, be
lore hostiIities began, thus enabling th'
gunboats to occupy position on the blint
side Of the formidable forts on the bank o
the river.
orIiKING miners near Murraysville, o..
attacked the guards on the 3lst, killing
one and woundlng another. They set fire
10 the hoppe.s, cut telegraph wires and
anu were very unruly and boisterous. The
uovefnor has been asked to send troops
4Aere Is great excitement.
p y. TALLMAGE, the Milwaukee statisti
eian' places the yield of spring wheat a
1o''VVV,oO bushels; winter wheat, 3So 900
Wv WV bushels; total, spring and winter, $50.
.UV'No bushels--2, 100000 bushels NOR
.uan ever before produced, and 1SO,OOJ,OO
'uSheiS more than last year.
oINERAL WoLEsLsY says he has thu