Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-07

VOLUME vi.
TOPICS OF THE Il I DAY.
News from Everywhere.
Police are arresting and driving out
,narcbists in various parts Of Switzer-
land.
TIE Congo Conferences had q final sit
ting at Berlin on the 10Th, with Bismarck
in the chair.
WITHIN the seven days ended the 9th
.-hoot declined five cents bushel in the
Baltimore market.
r,, coinage at the mints during Feb
mary was 81. 1S3, 100, of which $500, 600
was standard dollars.
THE decrease in the public debt during
February was S3,2O4,91o; decrease since
June 80, 1884, S44, 126SS5.
rur Italians will attack the Turks in the
soudan if the Sultan's troops interfere
with General Riccis forces.
Dr-p1xG th he winter months Of 1SS4-S5,
inst nassed, Cincinnati packed 3S5, 435
bogs. against So, ,451 the previous season.
ADAUGHrER has been born to the Prin-
csss Victoria, wife of Prince Louis Of Bat
tenberg, and granddaughter OF Queen Vic
toria.
THE "Grdiron Club" composed OF
Washington correspondents, gave ban
auet on the 2Sth the Vice President elect
being among tho guests.
RUSSIA is said to be urging Turkey on to
assert her Suzerian rights in the Soudan,
and to oppose the establishment of the
Italian flag on the Red Sea.
THE President ELECT arrived at
Washington on the 9th, and was received
formally by number of political organ
izations and distinguished men at the Ma
tional Capital.
The House foreign affairs committee
decided to submit favorable report upon
the resolution calling for retaliatory ac-
ton for ffermany's restrictions upon
American products.
SECRETARY MCCULLoCH sent q com.
munication to the House on the 25th rec
ommendng the appropriation of $4,000
for the revenue marine service to protect
the seal fisheries in Alaska. r.
THE Prince of Wales visited the London
Stock Exchange on the I'd. He was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. The mem
bers sang "God Save the Queen" and
"God Bless the Prince of Wales"
lord SALIsBURY's motion in the House
of Lords to censure the British Govern
ment was adopted, 1S9 to 6S. A similar
motion by Sir Stafford Northcote, in the
Commons, was rejected, 3o2 to 2SS.
SENATOR SHERMAN reported to the Sen
ate on the 26th an amendment to the sun
dry civil bill, which provides for the erec-
ton in the District of Columbia statue to
the memory of General Lafayette, to cost
$4,000.
Ex-MAYoR Tom NAvIN of Adrian, Mich,
who has been fugitive from justice for
several years, having been concerned in
heavy forgeries of city bonds, has been
arrested at New Orleans. Rewards ag-
gregating $1,000 were out for his capture.
BRADsTREETS weekly review, based on
kilograms from leading commercial CEN
Shoup for ho
trade outlook in the early future than has
been reported of late. Failures for the
seven days. ended the 9th, numbered go,
as compared with 254 the previous week.
The Government receipts from all
sources for the eight months of the cur
rent fiscal year were $21l ,095, 100, or nearly
SzoN0o,0V0 less than for the correspon ding
eight months in 1884, while the expendi-
lures for the eight months of this year
were =, 800 900 more than in 1884.
A SUPPLEMENTARY treaty with Spain
has been concluded. The principal
changes are the provisions that the re-
duction of duties on cigars and tobacco
shall be twenty per cent, and the reduc :
N-AA ~ ehO 81 duO VI sugar iTee duIulS-
sion from No. 16 Dutch standard to No. 10
Dutch standard.
COLONEL FRED. GRANT informed a re :
porter on the 2Sth that his father was in
very bad health. The doctors assert that
there is a cancerous growth at the root of
the tongue which is steadily growing
worse, and he is compelled to take nourish
ments in the liquid form. On the 1st his
his condition was somewhat improved.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred on the
.o'h at the Royal School of Gunnery at
onoeouryness, Eng, while a number of ar
'niery officers and scientists were testing
he" patent fuse. Three men were killed
outright and several fatally wounded.
among the latter were some of the most
prominent officials of the Government Lab
ofatory at Woolwich.
a LETTER has been received at Korti
'fom a nun taken prisoner when Khar-
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