Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-04

VtHLO M IL As
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
.w has been passed allowing the
LA ,facture in France of weapons OF
war.
1,vn COMMISSIONER SPARKS Is ge51ing
,aaIf LaJf dislked by the land. d.grabbers and
survey swindlers.
snvcr.r. effort is to be made to defeat
I'D Randolph Churchill's reelection
with fair prospects of success.
WAnp1NGroN is urging Lord Sails
hnrv to name an early day for the with
drawal of troops from Egypt
TUE MARQUIS of Salisbury announces 10
General Wolseley in Egypt that the Sou
dan exnadition must be abandoned.
GOVERNOR REYNOLDS has completed MS
1york az Commissioner to the Spanish
American States and has filed his report
A CONFERENCE of representatives. ol ag'
r;crltural colleges is to be held at Uhe Ag-
ricultural Department in Washington July
S.h.
rvz Commercial Travellers Association
of tho limited States has ordere d its head
onarters changed from Cincinnati to Chi
cago.
Iopn RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, the Indian
Sacretary. was the first member OF the
Salisbury Cabinet to assum, the duties OF
office.
Colonel HOLLINGSwORTH, who has
long been superintendent of Mt Vernon,
Va. is to be succeeded by Harrison Il.
Dodge.
EDWARD A. BOYD is in jail in New YORK
awaiting sentenc for defrauding the
customs revenue. He is millionaire
glass importer.
On the 1st of July a school for sailors
will be opened at the Navy Yard, Wash
ington, D. C. The object is instruction in
modern ordnance.
JAMES P. FREEMAN, formerly of st.
Louis, No, has received letters patent on
telephone based on principles not now
employed in such instruments.
Mr.. RANDALL has an idea the President
is about to turn his attention to the Fed
eral officers in Philadelphia, therefore he
fingers anxiously at the capit9l
In his annual address Commander
Kountz. of the Graci Army of the Re-
public, states that the Adjutant- -Gener aps
report showed mem bership OF 2S7 ,63I.
OFFICIAL reports from the various
provinces of Spain on the Goth show that
there were 454 new cas- IS OF cholera and
20 deaths from that d seass on taa day.
TEE issu. of standard dollars from the
mi1ts during the week ended June 9th
was $444, 4,497. The issue during the cor
responding period of last year was $3.50, :
Al.
HENRI RoCHEFORT has received con =
frmation of the report that Oliver Pain
del of fever while in the camp of Ell
Mahdi, where he is said to have been held
as prisoner
A COMMITTEE of importers OF New York
and Philadelphia waited on Secretary
Manning on the 255h and presented a mo
mortal in regard to undervaluation and
reappraisem3nt
OFFICIAL reports of the ravages of
cholera in Spain on the 2Sth show total
of 1852 new cases and 46O deaths, among
them General Galois, Director of the To-
Iedo Military Academy.
IHE statement cabled from London on
the authority of the Vienn correspondent
OF the Times that the appointment of Mr..
Alaly to be Minister to Austria had been
withdrawn is officially denied.
hon. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL was
unanimously electe President Of Harvard
at the annual meeting OF the alumni at
boston on the oath. Twelve hundred per
sons sat down to the alumni dinner.
o
NEWS was received at Toronto, Ont, on
Inc 18th from London that the Canadian
lour per cent loan of Ga, 900, 900 opened on
That day was subscribed for three times
over, and that it had been taken up at
about 1O1 1-3.
THE Postmaster General and Superin-
lenient Of foreign mails held three
hours conference on the 29sh with repre-
sentatives of seven American steamship
lines running to foreign countries in the
Pacific Ocean.
DMScE iMScE ALBERT VICTOR, son of the
a1Va OF Wales, was rendered the free.
~ ~ VI ene city of London at Guild Hall
W l0 Lpln' The Prince and Princess of
mos. a,eS' United States Minister Phelps and
Y'1 oi Inc ambassadors in London were
present "oAo
dio.., n n'uirteenth annual National Sol
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