Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-22

VOLUME vi.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
r deaths from cholera have oc-
IN the lunatic asylum at Mar
seilles.
,npun French soldiers have died
,oholora at Formosa and the epidemic Is
increasing.
rrvpr ware 16O failures In the United
c..tsssnd Canada during the seven days
sudei the 14th
r,,,rnop WILLIAM arrived at Potsdam
~ the 18th in good health. he was Oh
thusiastically received.
Tn. tota, amount received for the Hr anu
uonument Fund in New York A,p 70 sn'
avsnino of the 18th was S3S 649.
posrx.srrp- GENERAL Villas left
vashinpto, on the 18th for the We'' 70
tata a vacation of three or four "eeAS'
sr,Tcs CONSUL HEAP has again
,,rotasted to the Porte against tne eApuA
r;o, of American Jews from Jerusaiem'
~ EDGERroN, formerly of st.
1ia l. one of a committee of three ap-
i]oN'0' Now Work ROSGs
office.
c.,,onoRE OSCAR C. BADGER, recent
- -aIiaved from the command OF the
R,ston Navy Yard, has been placed on
the retired list.
TIE National Society of American
Florists met in Cine matt on the 18th. 1t
,ros their first convention, and was qui te
largely attended.
THE appointment of G. P. Judd as
special agent of the Labor Bureau mas
been revoked on account of his unfortu- :
nate weakness for horse flesh.
THE Pacific Mail Steamship Company
will continue to carry the trans-Pacihc
mails until the expiration Of its contrac ct
with the New Zealand Government.
IT is reported that Ben Butler is coming
out in support of the present tadministra-
ton with a vie w to making himself sohd
with his followers in Mass achusetts.
A PETITION is being circulated in Mas :
sachusetts asking Secretary Bayard to
nse his influence in behalf Of Riel on the
ground that he is an American citizen.
GENERAL reunion of ex- soldiers began
at Caldwell O., on the 18th, with large
attendance. Ex-Governor Noyes, Hon.
Joseph B. Foraker and others were ex-
pected.
The appointments of foremen OF the
Brooklyn Navy Yard were made public
on the 18th Seven Democrats were in
stalled and three Republicans were reap
pointed.
JOSEPH BARBIERE, the ex-Confederate
Colonel who was appointed to q clerk
ship in the office of General w. d. d.
Davis, the new Pension Agent at Phila-
delphia, has resigned.
IT is rumored that the Emperor and
Empress of Russia, after the meeting at
Kremsier, will go to Yminden to visit the
Duke of Cumberland, and it is likely they
will meet the Princess Of Wales there.
AN anglo Turkish agreement has been
proposedithrough Sir Henry Drummond
Wolff, by the terms of which English
men-of-war will be allowed to pass
through the Dard anelles in time OF war.
CLOUD BURST at Hoffman's Ferry,
near Amsterdam, N. Y, on the 18th
washed out 500 yards of the New York
Central Railways tracks, and played
havoc with the fences and telegraph
lines.
INFORMATION received from Montana
Territory shows that grasshoppers OF
both the migratory and non-migratory
species are swarming in that section, and
that they are about moving east in large
swarms.
DURING the week ended the .Sth 120,
VOO hogs were handled by Western pack
ers as against 105,00o year ago. The to-
tai since March 1st is $3.50, 600 compared
with 2,73O, 900 for corresponding peri cd
last year.
UNITED STATES CONSUL MASON, at Mar
seilles, in cablegram to the Secretary of
State. on the 14th, said the cholera in that
place was Asiatic and very fatal the
deaths numbering forty daily. The dis
ease was spread ing to the interior.
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THE Prob bition party of Massachusetts,
will place State ticket in the field the
coming election, and will hold its State
convention at Worcester September 10th.
Ex-Governor ST. John, of Kansas, will be
present and address the convention.
lHERE were 4, 500 new cases Of cholera
reported in Spain on the 10Th and 1856
aeaths' Twenty-four new cases and
iourleen deaths occurred in Madrid on
'ne l'th. In Marseilles fifty new cases
anu twenty four deaths were reported.
POWDER magazine at Silver City, N.
A., was struck by lightning on the 18th
anu seventy kegs Of powder exploded,
uo'ng considerable damage to windows IN
sne vicinity. The building was burned;