Huntsville gazette., 1885-10-10

vOLO ME- L.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
.ews from Everywhere.
rgr Postmaster-General has decided
I'm l.hs snecial delivery service shall OF
:. ~ lucrative on Sunday.
rzar Of Russia has called confer.
nf tha Governors of provinces to con-
',I~r the condition of the Empire.
:, her coming tour Mary Anderson will
.,ro company of seventy-fve people,
AVID viii carry all her own scenery.
c,,o tbe famous Indian chief, is
mid TO have died from the wounds no re-
coived in the fight in Guadaloupe Canon'
o;,.co at the mints during the
month of September amounted 10
S54, of which S2,5oO,O5) were IN S'anuaro
silver dollars.
e.,cs ore being gathered by the
c:o,a1 Service Bureau with view to pre-.
dieting tornadoes and giving warning OF
their approach.
ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch says the
epclish have taken possession OF Herat
and ordered the inhabitants to quit the
town Immediately.
TIE recent census shows Boston, Mass,
n have a population of 39), ,406, gain OF
$3.50 since 1880. There is preponder-
snce of 16. .204 females over the males.
WHITE miners in the employ OF the
Union Pacific at Carbon, Wy. T., and
Louisville, Colo, have struck against the
smployment Of Chinese by the road.
THE people of Crete have sent an ad-
dress to the powers asking the mainte.
nance of the Berlin treaty; otherwise
that Greece be permitted to annex Crete. i.
THE number of pension certificates ls'
sued by the Pension Office last month was
5546, an increase of thirty three and a
third per cent. over the issue during Sep
tember last year.
COMMISSIONER GREGORY, OF the civil
Service Board, had long interview with
the President on the Goth, at which it Is
understood arrangements for his retire
ment were perfected.
FRANKLIN j. MOSES, ex Governor o1
South Carolina, was sentenced at Boston
on the 1st to three years. Imprisonment
in the State Prison for obtaining mon ey
under false pretenses.
ARCHDEACoN FARRAR was at Balti :
more, Md, on the 3oth, the guest Of Pres
ident Gilman of John Hopkins University,
where hs addressed thu fellows and stu
dents the following day.
The Mormon contingent which went to
British India some time ago to promulgate
heir doctrines have given up the field
,fter an unsuccessful campaign. They
were in state of destituton when they
left.
IMMENSE frauds have been discovered
In the Turkish War Department. Money
voted for military purposes was spent in
,ther ways. soldiers are poorly equipped,
and only small supply of coal is avail
able for war vessels.
THE total receipts of the National Treas
ury for September were 500, 971, 026, against
$29,229, 119 in September, 1884. Govern
ment expenditures for September were
S15,0130 054 nearly n million and quarter
less than in September, 1884.
CoMMANDER FREDERICK PEARSON,
whose resignation is announced, has been
regarded as the wealthiest man in the
navy, having married lady of great
wealth. He has been on a leave of abb
sence in Europe for a year and half.
HERR KuNKuL, the German Socialist
leader, was arrested the ID, charged with
nigh treason in having stated at public
meeting that not only was the army an
engine of wholesals slaughter, but to it
was chargeable the murder OF ths public
en- massa,
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been elected
nm honorary member of tho twenty first
New York Veteran Association, which
nonor he has accepted, intim ating that he
snail be pleased to assist in the proposed
Undertaking of erecting monument to
the fallen heroes of the regiment
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INFORMATION having boon received a.
Washington that employees on the Grani
Trunk Railway are in communication
with their families who reside in Cana
dian districts infected with smallpox.
Instructions have been issuei for the en-.
'orcement of strict quarantine on that
road
LIEUTENANT GEO. NJ SroREy. com.
Hianalng the expedition to Alaska. re-
pOfS to the Secretary of the Navy, under
da'e OF July 18th. Lis arrival at Hotham
nnel on July 11th Ha was to start on
wv aay of writing with the larger part Of
River. "
BUSINESS is almost at a standstill in
.uOhIreal by reason of the smallpox epi-
uelnic' The hotels are deserted, and the
UH''re city presents almost Sunday still
HeSs. The auth critics are determined to