Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-21

Z u n Id LILLE VA AA61 Ii OUl
VOLUME VII.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
LORD DUFFERIN has ordered the Burmah
expeditionary force to proceed with all
haste to capture Mandalay.
CHURCH disestablishment has taken a
foremost position as topic of discussion
in the English political campaign.
THE eleventh week of the strike Of 5000
miners in the Monongahela Valley closed
ON the 14th with no signs of settlement.
TIE Burmese envoy to Paris has gone to
Berlin to ask Bismarck to arrange with
ENGLAND for the settlement Of the Burmese
dispute.
PRINCE ALEXANDER complains to the
powers that the Servian agent in Bulgaria
withheld for eight hours Servia's declara-
tion of war;
THE friends of Mr.. Stead, the imprisoned
editor of the Pail Mall Gazette, are making
preparations for public demonstration
in his honor on his release.
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LORD SALISBURY telegraphed to the
British representative at Constantinople to
assure the Porte that England will do her
utmost to preserve the integrity of Turkey.
THE announcement on the 14th of the de-
claration of war by King Milan of Servia
against Bulgaria, had stiffening effect
on speculative grain and provision dealing.
THE American Humane Association has
issued circulars saying it will hold its ninth
annual session at ST. Louis, Mo-, COM
mencing November 18th and lasting three
days.
ACCORDING to the laws of Massachu-
setts six months elapse before decree OF
divorce becomes operative, and conse-
quently Mr.. Taber is not yet freed from his
matrimonial alliance.
PRINCE FRANCIS JOSEPH OF BATTENBERG
has resigned his commission as an officer
in the Prussian Foot Guards. His reason
is that he wishes to support his brother,
Prince Alexander of Bulgaria.
IT transpires that Mr.. Charles Foster, of
indianapolis, Ind, who recently sailed for
Europe as Consul at Elberfield, Germany,
was not citizen of the United States
when he took the oath of office.
BARTHoLDI, the Nrench sculptor, who
presented to the United States the colossal
statue of "Liberty Enlightening the
World" was dined by the Lotus Club at
New York on the evening of the 14th.
SERv1A has a total military establish
ment of 10000 officers and men, 900 of
which are cavalry, and AIS guns. The in
fantry are armed with the Mauser rifle,
and the artillery with muzzle-loaders and
Krupp guns.
ALL the bureau and department chiefs
at Washington are at work on their re-
reports, and the President has shut his
doors on office-seekers and their friends.
Old residents say they never saw Wash
ington so dull
BARON DE LoRME, who recently arrived
at New York from China, says the EN-
peror wants railroads, is favorably dis
posed toward the American system, and
win grant Liberal concessions to Ameri-
can capitalists.
THE Governors of the Northern States
are invited to attend the Southern States
Forestry Congress at De Funiak Springs,
Fla, in December, to participate in the
ceremony of planting and dedicating trees
to all the States.
THE Servian army crossed the Bulgarian
frontier, on the morning of the 14th, in
three divisions, at Tsaribrod, Klessura and
Bregova. The Bulgarians retreated at all
points after some sharp skirmishing, in
which many were killed on both sides.
THE Grand Jury at Galveston, Tex, at
meeting on the 14th, resolved that, in
their opinion, the citizens of Galveston
were unable to provide adequately for the
relief of the victims of the recent fire, and
that contributions from every source were
solicited.
THE total value of domestic cattle and
hogs exported from the United States dur
ing the month of October was $6,S06,0OS,
and for ten months ended October 31st,
Sls,S26,O74; exports of beef and pork prod
ucts for twelve months ended October 31st,
SSo,O62,O ,Os6; and dairy products for six
months, S7,597,421.
THE combined forces of Bulgaria and
Eastern Roumelia number 124, 900 men and
$50 guns of the Krupp and the latest Rus
sian pattern. The infantry are armed
with Berdan rifles. There is scarcity of
competent officers, by reason of the return
home of many of the Russian officers re-
Gently attached to their military establish
anents.
THE annual report of the Commissioner
OF Customs shows that 1851 claims were
settled during the year. The business of
the Bureau resulted in receipts of $751;
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