Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-23

VOLUME vi.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
v coUcu is endeavorlng to re-
his Oklahoma boom at Caldwell.
Kas.
.-.rr SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
Coox is confined to his bod with an
attack Of rheumatism.
THE New York Legislature adjourned
- tba 18th. but was immediately recon
yened in extra session.
SCHEME is on foot among the railroad
companies to make up a fund to reopen 'ns
New Orleans Exposition next year.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on tn
18th received conscience contrinu tioA u
500 in an envelope postmarked Caicaso
AcA1I. has been made for grand MILL
.,a encampmeut aud reunion at Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, from June Iesn
to July Goth.
l., .om,. officially announced at Paris
49, p;.marck offered to arbitrate for the
settlement Of the dispute between hussia
and England.
n.n,p,1nr's memoirs have been edited
h,t ot tba request OF the Italian Govern
nent will not be printed until ton years
after the date of his death.
ucp GRAND1N, Bishop of the North
west. has written letter giving a de-
scription of the deplorable condition OF
the French halt breeds in the country
Starvation and misery stare the m in the
face.
BARON WEMYRs made bitter attack or
the governments policy in the Soudan in
the British House Of Lords on the 18TH
He said Engl and's only memorials there
were "an abandoned railway and bleach
ing skeletons"
THE papers have all been prepared In
the case of Maxwell, the alleged muir.
derer of Preller at st. Louis, No., and
they have been forwarded to Washington.
James Tracy and F. R. O'Neil have been
appointed to 60 after him.
The committee appointed to count the
cash in the treasury and the finished notes
in the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing
completed the work on the 18th. The fin
ished and unfinished notes correspond
with the treasury books.
THE winners, as well as the losers, iI
the New York skating race are disgusted.
Snowden, who finished with a score Of
1,166 miles, won nothing but the belt, and
now finds he will have to win it twic
more before it belongs to him.
SLATIN BEY, who, it has been generally
believed, was killed with Gordon in Khar
toum, is, according to statements con
tanned in letters received by some of hi
relations in Vienna, still alive and a
present prisoner in Ell Mahdi's camp.
COUNT PAUL VAssALI has published il
q Paris paper charges of most sensa
tionally scandalous character agains
Gladstone, Sir Charles Dixie and othel
English people of note, not hesisating tt
strike at the Prince of Wales and even thu
Queen.
THE police census-takers Of Washing.
ton, D. c., have about completed theiI
work, and the result shows that there are
2Oi, ASS people in Washington and Ge orge-
town combined. This is a very rapid in
crease of the total population. There are
at least $4,000 negroes.
TIE President has decided to give the
District of Columbia offices to bona ffde
residents of the district. This will prove
sad dsappointm to some of the ap-
plicants, especially those who want to be
Marshal This is the place eagerly sought
after, on account of the prominence it
gives the person who fills it.
AFTER receiving the votes of all the
~NhiONi aue III tue 1illuOlS LSR SRlSldtuEc Ou
the l4th, Colonel VIM. R. Morrison with
drew from the contest for the United
States Senatorship. The Democrats then
concentrated on Judge Lambert Tree, of
Chicago. At caucus the Democrats se-
lected eleven names, for whom it was
resolved to cast the full vote, giving each
man three trials
-N
IHE Supreme Lodge, knight, of Honor
IN session at ST Louis, Mo-, elected the
following officers: Supreme Dictator, Cen
eral Frank D. Sloat; Vice. Dictator, Major
L. A. Gratz; Assistant Vice. Dictator,
John I. Millburn; Reporter, B. F. Nelson;
Treasurer, Joseph W. Branch; Chaplain,
Nev. Geo. W. Holland; Guide, E. j. Dav-
enp0r'' Guardian, P. c. Carlton; Senti-
Io, Lewis Wilson; Trustees, Hon. OBEY
Mott. 'nA -
"hlLE the President was receiving a
Nes corps from school in neighbor-
s'ale on the 18th, freckle-faced
W. wvman who managed to get into the
li'e House with the crowd, walked up
anu Snook hands with Mr.. Cleveland. She
lU0Aeu ~, him in the eye and said: s'Mr.
cleveland, do you ever expect to get mar.
i''u: lhe President blushed and smiled,