Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-18

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
! News from Everywhere.
cru.rHY for Louis Riel at Quebec has
..',.a the shape of defense fund.
vp. has crossed the Spanish from
into the French department. OF the
Auge.
IT,, rranch have taken the King OF
.an prisoner. and captured 100000
treasure
ArsrR1A is protesting against the ap-
'...rxort of Mr.. Jones American Consul
at Prague.
1opn SALISBURY declares himself OPP
rosed to the disestabiishment OF 'he
Scottish Church.
Fx.CH1EF OF POLICE CURTIN, of Buffa-
H. N ". it is said, is to be chlet OF 'he
Government secret service.
couxr EsTERHAzY proposes TO set1ie
% 600 Hungarians along the Canadian "a
oiic Railroad in the Northwest.
IT is understood that the Attorney
conarol has decided that tho Governmen
!. hound to accept the Dolphin. &
-e
L Io lar
ad bv the President to the command OF
the Department of the Columbia.
Tur Mexican Consul at San Francisco
denies that there is any scheme to sell
Mexican territory to the United States.
JAMES G. WINrEasMIrH, door-keeper of
the House of Representativ es, is dying.
He has been i'll since the adjournment of
Congress.
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A STORY is current that England, before
the fall of Khartoum, rejected an offer
from Ell Mahdi to release General Gordon
for a ransom.
GENERAL DECoURCEY informs the Gov-
ernment at Paris that the Anamlte troops
at Hue have disbanded and surrendered
the r arms to him.
A DECREASE of 1881 emigrants from
Berlin for America is reported for the
past six months as compared with the
same period year ago.
The clerk of the English Consul at
Askabad was imprisoned, fogged and put
at hard labor by the Russians What
will England do about it? ~
DURING the storm in Madison, Wis, the
night of the Sth the spire was blown from
the Presbyterian Church, and Colonel
Villas residence was unroofed.
The State Department has made eighty
seven appointments of Ministers, Consuls.
commercial agents and secretaries OF lega-
ton and has dispensed with two clerks.
THE total number of new cases of chcl-
era reported from all points in Spain on
the 9th was 1,45O, and deaths, $50. The
disease is rapidly decreasing at Aran-
iuez
vIcE-PREsIDENT HENDRIcKs left Wash
mgton for home on the 9th, and expects
to start early in August for trip to the
Pacific coast, where he will stay some
weeks. Ia& t4
Ex-CoNGREssMAN CROWLEY, of New
York, saws Cleveland's course pleases the
people of his State irrespective of party,
and Democratic dissensions are nearly
obliterated.
Nor to be outdone by London, several
cities of the United States are striving to
come to the front with exhibitions of
wickedness similar to that exposed by the
Pail Nall Gazette. lff5 ....
BERLIN is agitated over a court scandal.
relative of the Emperor, during ca
rousal, slapped an.officer. TheI latter, eti-
quette forbidding duel with a Hohenzol-
lern, killed himself.
THE Secretary of the Navy has appoint
ed board to examine the present force
Oh navy-yard shops and applicants for
such position, with view to determining
lhe efficiency of the incumbents and max
Ing changes where it is necessary.
IT is understood that the designations of
the Deputy Comptroller of the Treasury
and all the officials of that bureau above
the civil service grades have been tender
ed to Secretary Manning, by request, but
are not likely to be acted upon for some
time.
THERE were 10 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
nth, as compared with 1872 the preceding
week, and with 1914, 40 and 1o4 respect
Weay' in the corresponding weeks of 1884,
i'sS and 1882. Canada had "a, an in
crease Of.
:; Legal Proceedings for the determine
C rOn oi lhe mental condition of John Nc
anOugh have been taken by his wife.
0uuse Allison, of Philadelphia, has ap-
pv'n'ed Geo. W. Arundel Commissioner to
;4A' testimony under the writ de lun atico
laquirendo.
me number of new cases of cholera re-
,S t"'sa IN Spain on the 7th, exclusive of
use IN Murcia and Castellon de Ia Plana,
T. l'lVs AMI the number of deaths 62S.
aa. ane town of Aranjuez the number of
si~ s reported during the same period was
's ana the deaths thirty.
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