Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-04
TOPICS OF THE |, III.
News from EveryWI

News from EverywI n,
THF Oxford boat crew defea
onnonents of Cambridge Universx
the 18th. Sles'
IT is stated that Osman Digna lost last
won in the vicinity of Suakim during r
last weeks engage nent. q.
TIE total loss by the Buffalo fire, on the
D;gbt of the 18th was $4,000, including
Music Hall. valued e. $5oO, 900.
49, Ordnance Department et Oh hathaIf,
Encland. has been ordered to ship to In
dia all the Martini Henry rifles available.
THE Government Of Burmah is sending
600 camels to India to be used IN the
transport service of the Afghan frontier.
THE body of the late DR.. Carl Luede-
hing. of st. Louis, Mo-, was lnclnerated al
tha Lancaster (Pa.) crematorium on the
9th.
FRENCH newspapers urge that reinforce
mems be sent to Tonquin at once, and
that an expedition to Pekin be COM
menced.
THE opinion prevails at Constantinople
nat war is commenced between En-
oIand and Russia it will extend to the
Black Sea.
ACCORDING to dispatches received from
Tonouin at London on the Goth the French
were in full retreat, w tn the Chinese hot
ly pursuing.
IT is semi officially announced at Paris
that Bismarck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement of the dispute between Russia
and England.
MEXICAN troops are practising daily,
and are preparing to enforce the position
of the Government against Barrios II II
should prove necessary.
THE Congressional apportionment bill
passed the Pennsylvania Senate on the
och. 1t gives nineteen Republican and
nine Democratic districts.
1T is CROWN impression in New York
that many of the European war reports
circulated on the Stock Exchange are
manufactured in that city.
THE revolt near Winnipeg causes the
gravest apprehensions at Toronto. The
Dominion Government is taking active
steps to put down the rebels.
THE British War Department has or
dered 100000 pounds of canned beef from
one Chicago firm, and 5,400,0oo pounds
from another house of that city.
THE agitation of the question to plac
duties upon certain cereals has caused
heavy advance in flour and grain il
France, and has given spectators grea
opportunity.
GENERAL GRANT had a relapse the even
ing of the 2Sth, and was reported in seri
GUS condition. The doctors were with hin
constantly on the 29th, but say there is NJ
immediate danger.
THE reported serious illness Of the First
Assistant Postmaster General, Malcolm
Hay, is unfounded. Mr.. Hay is at his
home in Allegheny settling up his private
affairs, prior to his departure South. His
health is better than for months.
THE Texas Legislature passed the bill
to bring suit for forfeiture of fran chise
against all railroad companies which
have obtained control of competing or
parallel lines by purchase of lease or 9th
in viz of
The Commissioner of Pensions has is
sued an order directing that for the pres
ent, until the mass of business before the
board of review is disposed of, members of
that division of the Pension Office shall
begin work at $50 a. m. and finish at
p. m.
E. E. BRYANT, Of Madison, Wis, the
new Assistant Attorney General of the
Post -otfice Department. was in consulta-
tion on the Goth with Mr.. Freeman, the in
cumbent of the office, in regard tc the law
business of the department. He will quail
ify April 1st.
The Secretary of the Treasury has pre-
pared circular letter to collectors of Gus
toms requesting information as to the
practicability of reducing the expense OF
collecting the revenue from customs by
curtailing the present force of clerks and
other employees.
AT meeting in Chicago, on the 25th, o
the Western Cracker Bakery ASSOCIATE on
embracing lis bakeries distributed owe
the territory between Pittsburgh and tn,
Missouri River, New Orleans and ST. Paul
" was decided to dissolve that BODY
Each bakery is now at liberty to make its
own prices.
ACTIVE preparations are making in En-
eiand to get all available cruisers and
IRON 'clads belonging to the navy in con
dltlon for active service as soon as pos
sioie 1t is known that the destination o
these vessels is the Baltic Sea and the
biack Sea, entrance to the latter, how.
ever, being conditioned on the assent Of
Turkey.
ORDERS were issued by the Canadian
government on the 25th for 400 men o
Batteries A and B, to be dispatched al
once to the Northwest to aid the Manitoba
militia in coping with Riel's outbreak. II
is also stated that the Government tele-
graphed to Washington asking permis-
sion to send troops through American ter
ritory.