Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-11

VOLUME vi.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
c;ows from Everywhere.
rrv Attorney-G eneral decides that the
,,,.,,, rasaryatioa in Dakota is not open to
settlement.
now said that Riel, the rebel, has
,al, orr,d men in the Northwest Terri
-, including 100 Indians.
TIE Amer of Afghauistan is much IN
II at Sir Peter Llmsden over his de-
..-;,r on the frontier question.
r i stated that by the burning OF
..aa,,or at tn, Aspinwall confiagr alton
hosvv mails Of the United States were de-
stroyed.
II riss,mi-otficialIy announced at farls
that bismarck offerel to aroltra1e lor tne
so+,lament of the dispute between hussia
and England.
rr,, Treasury Department decided that
Cl,inoman VINO has embraced the
CHRISTIAN religion can not bring MS wife
over from China.
rrpp1FI, explosion Of fre-damp oc-
,.od an th. 81 in coal mine near
Cbar.eroix, Belgium. Eighteen miners
,nor, killed outright and many more
unded.
Tur Oklahoma ..boo ners" held a meet
irr ot Arkansas City, Kan, on the lst,
and adopted resolutions. There was talK
D; starting for the promised land" wi1hin
few days.
TIE entire train service of the fennsyi-
yania Railroad is to be reorganlzeo anu
faster trains are to be put on. Inc tlfhe
between St. LOUIS and New York Will be
twenty eight hours.
TIE Goulois of Paris predicts tha5 tne
coming elec ions in France Will snow Vta'
the country has no confidence in repub-
lie. and desires re urn to announcement
form of government.
1JDINGs from the Northwest Territory
indicate that the state of affairs IS grow
mo worse. Rebels and Indians are swarm
ing over the country causing residents u
desert their homes.
Joseph PALMER was again convicted OF
of murder in the first degree at Cincinnati
on the "a. He was the acconpllce OF Ber-
ner in the Kirk murder, out of which grew
the Cincinnati riot OF 1881
THE Grand Shereef of Mecca has issued
n proclamation declaring Ell Mahdi al
outlaw, and notifying all true Mohamme
dams that the English have right to trea
him as common murderer.
THE French attacked and secured oc
cupation OF Pheng Hoo situated in th'
channel between Formosa and the China
main land. Chinese loss, 800; French
three killed and twelve wounded.
Reports to the LiUe Stock Indicator a
Kansas City, Mo-, on the condition OF tn
winter wheat crop in Kansas, Western
Missouri and Southern Nebraska are any
thing but encouraging as to prospects.
THE friends of Mrs. Garfield deny the
published reports that she is to marry
Rev. Mr.. Taylor, of Pennsylvania. She l:
living quietly in Cleveland, and is educat
inr her children for careers of usefulness
GENERAL. GRANT was resting easier the
night of the ID, but he was very weak
and his doctors thought the end near. H'
has great difficulty in breathing, and the
cancer is exten ling down the throat and
behind the nose.
THE Mexican Congress convened on the
1st. The Presidents message warmly op-
poses the attempt of BarrioS at a forci BILE
unlication of the Central American re-
publics. Strong sympathy for Salvador
and Nicaragua was manifested among the
members.
COMMISSIONER SPARKS OF the Land OF.
fee has made an order that no cases here
tofore made special shall be acted upon
until they have been reached in the regu
lar order of examination. This order doe:
not include cases already approved fol
patent, and in such cases patents may
issue.
PETER JOSEPH SCHROEDER, the ex
Alms-house attendant at Philadelphia
Pa, who was arrested on a charge of muir
der, growing out of the recent fire at th
Aims house, by which twenty-five live
were lost, was discharged by the Court O
the ground that there was not sufficien
evidence to hold him.
ADvICEs received at Shanghai indcat,
that Japan has threatened to join Franc
IN the war upon China unless China with
draws IRON Corea. The japanese Govern
nen' refuses to parley with Ii Hum
ohang, the Chinese Envoy, unless he b
properly accredited as having full powe
to,conclude a settlement on this basis.
QUEEN VICTORIA and her daughter
rflncess Beatrice, arrived at AK les Balm
on the lst. The depot was handsomely
decorated in their. honor. AS had beel
arranged by NJ. erry, a guard of no lo1