Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-08

TOPICS OF THE DAY. |
News from Everywhere.
THE Peruvian Minister of Justice says a |
M asonic temple will be perm tied to be |
erected at Lima.
COLONEL FRED GRANT has issued spe-
cial invitation to members OF his fathers
Cabinet to attend the funeral.
THERE is an Indian scare in Utah and
wyoming. Reports say the Nor mons are
inciting the Indians to bloodshed.
Iovnoy society is startled by the an
nouncement that L ord Chief-Justice Cole
ridge is about to marry an American
lady.
THE Provost of Glasgow, Scotland,
saws that a system of corruption OF minor
females. similar to that in London, exists
in Glasgow.
SECRETARY WHITNEY mas summohou
hoard of officers to cons ider the system OF
administration of the business of the nav
al department.
ABo.T 800 boys of tender age were dis
char ged from the collieries at Shamokin,
Ps.. on the 1st under the law forbidding
tner employment.
IT is reported that the house in which
General Grant was born has been sold for
81. and that it will be removed to one
of the New York parks.
RIGHT Rev. RICHARD PHELAN was con-
secrated coadjutor bishop OF the Catholic
diocese of Philadelphia, and tutelar
bishop of Phrygia, on the I'd.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent sub
scription of $3.50 to the fund for rebuild
ing Music Hall at Buffalo, N. Y, which
was destroyed by fire in March last.
JOHN D. SPRECKLEs, President OF the
Oceanic,Steamship Company, says the Pa
cific Mail will positively withdraw stheir
Australian steamers on November 1st
THE bark Hancock, from Cienfugos,
Philadelphia on account of yellow fever,
but no trouble is anticipated from infec-
tion.
THE Orangemen and English subjects at
Ottawa, Canada, consider Riel's convic-
tion and sentence righteous, while the
French Canadians are indignant and ex-
cited.
THE English holders of Wabash securi-
ties are convinced that the American
shareholders will not offer any solution of
the difficulties that will be acceptable to
the English shareholders.
THE only coinage executed at the Unit
ed States mint in Philadelphia during
July, the first m onth of the administra-
tion of the new Superintendent, Daniel
M. Fox, 1,sOO, 900 silver dollars.
THE Suet, the Russian military organ,
SAYS that the Afghan force on the Russo
Afghan frontier is 10000 men, and that
the Russian force consists of thirty COM
panies stationed between Penjdeh and
Zulfcar.
THERE were 1874 failures in the United
States during the seven days ended the
31st, as compared with 2l5 the preceding
week, and with 100, 155 and 1O5 respect
lively in the corresponding weeks of 1884,
1888 and 1882.
A DIARY containing an admissi on OF
murder and incendiarism in the United
States, found among the effects of man
arrested in London on a criminal charge,
is an unpleasant addition to his already
bad predicam ent.
STORMS of great violence swept over
the central and nor thern portions of Spain
on the ID, destroying much property and
in many places utterly running the tele-
graph lines. Many persons are reported
to have been killed.
THE rate of postage on letters sent from
the United States to Australia and New
Zealand via England, Brindisi and the
Suez Canal, has been reduced from fifteen
to twelve cents, making it uniform with
the rate via San Francisco.
SECRETARY BAYARD has received dis
patch from the United States Consul at
Marseilles, saying that the recs MT report
of an outbreak Of cholera in France is un-
founded. In one small village there has
been few cases Of cholerine, which is
not epidemic.
CHOLERA has broken out on the Fren ch
frontier. One-fourth of the people of
Monterguado, in Soria, died of cholera
during the ten days ended the 10Th. The
survivors fled, with the exception of one
gendarme, who remained to bury the
bodies of the victims.
The belief is gaining ground that
British and Indian troops will be sent to
Candahar despite all the protestations
made by both English officials and the
Ameer that no cantonment by the British
has ever bsen intended at that p oint or
elsewhere in Afghanistan.
MRS. GRANT desired that in case Union
officers like Generals Sherman and Sheri-
dan were selected as all-bearers, lead
ing COnfadorota off oar 1iko Gouaral John.