Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER H. /

VOLUME vi.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragedian, died
at his home in Philadelphia, Pa, on the
Sth.
THE Duke of Edinburgh is to be appoint
ed commander of the Mediterranean squad.
ron.
THE Balkan conference at Constantin :
ople has approved the principle of return
to the status quo ante.
Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON has been reap
pointed temporarily to a position on the
National Civil Service Commission.
IT is predicted that the nailers' strike in
The East will be terminated at the meeting
TO be held in Cincinnati on the 10th.
THE Council of the Creek Indians has
decided by close vote against selling the
Oklahoma lands to the United States.
AT the request of the English Govern
ment two Italian officers will witness the
maneuvres of the Indian army in the La
hore District.
THE total imports Of merchandise at the
port of New York for the week ended
the 7th were valued at s., 766, ,203, exclusive
of dry goods.
LIEUTENANT GREELY is Ito lecture before
the Scotch Geographical Society on thu
10th, and will return to the United State!
about Christmas.
OWING to disagreement over the Riel
question the editor of La Patife at Mont
real has challenged the editor of L0Min
erue to fight duel.
THE monument of Washington erected
in Milwaukee by Miss Lizzie Plankington
at cost of $4,000, and presented to th'
city, was unveiled on the 7th.
A SEVERE cyclone devastated portions
of Illinois on the afternoon and night o
the 9th, accompanied by serious destruc
tion Of property and loss Of life.
AN experiment will be made at McKees
port, Pa, to use natural gas for illuminat
ing purposes, and, if successful, to pipe tn
gas to New York and other cities.
PRESSURE is being brought to bear OF
the President in favor of a recommends
tion in his message to convert the Agricul
tural Bureau into an executive department
THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the seven days
ended the 9th were valued at $1,4S6,47
and the amount thrown on the market al
S1,422,979
LUDWIG HANSEN, the head of an ole
Danish banking firm at Copenhagen, ha
confessed to having unlawfully disposed
of moneys intrusted to his keeping to th'
amount of 100000 kroners.
THE plant of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, within the District of Columbia
deed of trust, to Mr.. S. c. Elliott, the
plaintiff in the suit, for S4 900.
A STRANGE disease has broken out among
mich cows in the vicinity of Evansville,
Ind, which in every case has proved fatal
The disease attacks the eyes and from there
eats until it reaches the brain.
THE Russian harvest of 1885 is above the
average for winter wheat, but below fol
spring wheat, the latter owing to drought
The total wheat crop will aggregate 36,
100000 quarters, or 2SS.0O0,OO0 bushels.
THE men who have been dynamiting
street cars in st. Louis have been arrested.
Their names are: w. P. Sears, M. w.
Weathers, Fred Pinkerton, P. S. Burns
and David Keenan,. They are all Knights
of Labor and street-car men.
LOUIS RIEL, who was to have been
hanged at Regina, N. W. T., on the 10th
was again respited until the 10th inst
Preparations are being made for his exc
cution on the date mentioned, although
the warrant had not arrived.
INDICTMENTS have been found by the
oW III tuc OuptIlOI
Court al Boston, Mass, against A. J. Mel
len, of Baltimore, Md, and Mrs. Emma
Coolidge, of Boston, for conspiring to kill
the wife of the son of Mellen.
JUDGE RoNLEAU, OF Battleford, N. w. T..
has tried forty-six Indian prisoners; six.
teen Of these were discharged, twenty nine
were sent to the Penitentiary for periods
ranging between twenty and two years
and eleven were sentenced to hang Novem.
Der 9th.
The President received large number
Of kilograms from prominent Democratic
politicians in all parts of the country, bu
principally in New York, congratulatine
him on the result of the election in New
York as an unmistakable Endorsement Of
his policy.
A PETITION has been forwarded from
New York to the Postmaster General ask
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