Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-24

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VOLUME vi.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
.,r,n riot is threatened at Birming-
Enc. by five thousand men who are
ant Of employment.
,,-orurR shock of earthquake was felt
.cronada. Spain, on the 10Th, and caused
"a revival of the panic among tne lhhaoi'
ants.
- ,odv Of the late Major Charles B.
pradv of st. Louis, No., was cremated at
lancaster, Pc. on the 18th, with Mase !
honors.
4, ,n,.cb;st nlot was discovered a
,1oas, France, on the 10Th, py wnicn
arms were to be seized and a revolutlon
declared.
E,pr SPENCER, Lord Lieutenant OF Ire
land has prohibited the circulation OF the
,ast number of O'Donovan Rossa's paper,
raceiyed in Ireland.
THE King of Spain has conferred upon
Nine Christine Nilsson the Cross of the
poval Civil Order of Benefcence, as q
recognition of her deeds of charity.
THE town of Earling, Ia, was almost
,rined out by fire on the 10Th. Ten bust l.
ness houses, and the hotel and eating
house were destroyed. Loss, over Soo,oo9.
THE Pennsylvania Senate on the 14th,
adopted resolution requesting the Con-
gressmen from that State to use their IN
duence to make the trade dollar legal
tender.
SUCH heavy snow storms and 1rosts nave
recently prevailed in some of the provinces
of Spain that the sugar cane crop is de-
stroyed, and orange and olive groves arf
badly damaged.
GENERAL ROBERT MORTON BRINToN, tn
"Hero of the Roundhouse," during tn
Pittsburgh riots in 1877, died on the 16tl
at his residence in Philadelphia, of neu
ralgia of the heart.
THE House Committee on Military AT
fairs on the 10th practically killed tn
Edmunds bill passed by the Senate In
tended to place General Grant on the re
tired list of the army.
MORE earthquake shocks were felt O.
the 14th in the provinceso of Spain recently
shaken up. The storms continued, anC
the suffering among the people reported al
terrible in the extreme.
BISMARCK declared in speech on the
14th that the Government would require
in order to meet the demands of farmers,
that the duty upon wheat be increased t.
three times the present rate.
THE extensive wire and steel manu-
facturers, Oliver Bros. & Phillips, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have suspended, and asked TO
an extension. The liabilities are roughly
estimated at between So, ,000, 900 and So, 900,
900.
FULLY three fourths of the 1900 EN-.
ployes of Sanford e. Sons carpet mill a.
Amsterdam, N. Y, returned to work on the
10Th, after thirty days strike, accepting
the reduction. Members of labor unions
were excluded.
"a f,;I IN, %ho ,toc
States reported to Bradstreet's during th G
seven days ended the 18th, against AIS in
the preceding week, and 321, 31S and 210 in
the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1888 and
1SS2respectively.
ADvICES from Panama are that an
alarming condition of affairs prevails in
the entire Republic, and general war is
regarded imminent. War is already und er
way IN Cundinamarca, Boyaca, Santander
and Magdalena.
CONSIDERABLE anxiety prevails in Cath
oic circles over the alarming illness of the
rope, who Is confined to his bed with fever
occasloned by a severe attack of rheuma
tism. Grave fears are entertained lest the
attack prove fatal.
MR. IALLMADGE, the Milwaukee statis-
uclan on grain, has information that the
growing winter wheat is in a most unfa-
Vorable condition, owing to the unseason.
able weather in the fall; and the promise
lor a tar outcome is not very fatterng.
The effort to establish female collie pe
in Baltimore, Nd, under the auspices O
the Methodist Episcopal Church, has SC
far progressed that $135, 900 of the 500, ,OOJ
requisite is already subscribed. The indi
cations are the remainder will soon be oh
tanned,
Ihe funeral of the late Hon. Schuy Ter
oonaA TOOK place at South Bend, Ind.
On the l'th. Trains were so much de-
ayea oy the snow storm that many dis.
'lneul lShed citizens of Indiana did no,
,eacn South Bend in time to be present a,
the obsequies.
1hh discovery of the bodies of four in
-an'S' ranging from the age of one to three
yeaS' buried near Big Rock Bridge,
iidHklln, Pa. on the 18th oraotad ,raat