Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-31
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News from Everywhere.
rrr avcess of the value of exports over
.ar+s ~ If merchandise for tweve months
iin5 n5ad Decenlber 31st, 1884, was Sl2o,o16,-
072. --
crvvpA1. nail factories and copper
~. ro,nmed operations at Plttsbur gh,
po'I W. N the 2lst, after lying idle for sever
al weeks.
o.,,,-, - renorts OF the Mdnuyacturers'
.pH oir iI.i, .how that 100000 men have gone to
As.y'% t :, manufacturing enterprises since
January lSt
ru,, news of the London explosion
ad connection in Congress at W asn-
.81 -, and the occurrence was seriously
commented upon.
,osrrrox has been made to post
~ +ba dedication ceremonies of the
Washington Monument until ABOUT the
time of the Inauguration.
THE imports at the port Oh New OK
for tho week ended on the 24th were $o,4oo,-
IN of which S3. .554 900 were general mer-
chandise and 81 S66, 900 dry goods
p.pvrr1. in an address to the electors
Of Cork on the 2lst, said that the Irish
nartv would oppose every government
hat rafused to concede Ireland's rights.
THE thermometer at the Mt. Washing
ton IN. H. signal station on the 22d, IN
djcated fifty degrees below zero, with the
wind blowing at the rate of 1l0 miles an
hour,
The will of the late Schuyler Colfax
has been admitted to probate. The estate
i valued at 1910 900, unincumbered. Mrs.
Colfax and Schuyler Colfax, Jr., are the
sole benetciaries
GENERAL. MCCooK declares that what
General Grant writes concerning him
MGook) at the battle of Shiloh is abso-
| ln-slv without foundation in fact, and
be will make answer.
An Alexandria dispatch OF the 23l says
that the rebels are strongly intrenched al
Metamneh, which fort it will be necessary
for the English to occupy before they car
proceed to khartoum.
AN attempt was made on the 2ith to as
sassinate the st. Petersburg Chief of Po-
lice. The shots fired missed the mark.
The shooters were captured and were
as Nihilists.
SECRETARY CHANDLER is informed that
instead of proceeding to Congo the officers
cf the vessel Lancaster are abusing lin,
and are holding receptions and having a
high old time at Nice, France,
BILL. having been introduced in the
Missouri Legislature to allow the sale of
oleomargarine as such, the Butter Dealers
Association of st. Louis has determined to
aght It and all similar measures.
GERMAN colonization is making rapid
wogress on the west coast of Africa. The
German flag has been raisel in Sierra
Leone, long held by England. This news,
/ if true, may lead to serious complications
/
| CONGRESSMAN OATES claims that HM-
gliSh noblemcn now own about 21,0U,000
| acres Of land in the United States. His
bill, if passed, will prevent aliens and for
elgners from owning land in this country.
j. W. PHILLIPS Of st. Louis, Mo-, is at
inA lie 70 TO 70
Court against the Wabash on behalf Of the
Central Trust Company of New York and
James Cheney. The demand is for $780,
000,OO0
w. HEFFNER, an inmate of a Cincin-
hatl asylum for the insane, died on the
-ith from the effects of a bath in scalding
water. The Coroner found that death re-
suited from culpable carelessness of an at
tendaut.
NOTHING had been heard I'D to the 25th
lrom the Soudan since the battle of Abu
Aea wells, and the anxiety in England
was intense. Unauthenticated rumors
stated that General Stewards entire COM
mand ha II been annihilated.
NATHAN Il. COLE, the Oldest man in
hnode Island, died at his residence at East
Vfeenwich, the evening of the 23i. He
was l0l years Old on the 18th of August last !,
attended town meeting last November an
voted for President, since which time h
las not been upon the street.
o
HE House Committee on Railways and
Canals decided on the 2ist to report
lavorably the bill providing an appropria-
Won lor making a survey of the water
,9N's 10 connect the waters Of Lake Michi-
a@n WIN Detroit River. The cost of the
'SVN Water route will be -, 754, $50.
IN, 'ADoIhEET's weekly review shows
', au". 'ne severity of the weather had a
lTos. Ws. uniavorable effect upon trade in the
s "eS' ana Northwest. Failures for the
' @.'gh days ended the I'D were $50, as com
5'ni @ "i'n N, 10 IN the preceding week and
- 'n9 corresponding week of 1884.
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'hNERAL HATCH's command. en- route
Sa %,le Oklahoma Boomers, Camp on the
Al a'er' on reaching the Salt Fork of
a, a. ARKANSAS River and finding the ice too
" cross upon, pprforined the nm