Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-28

VOLU AA LIZ
| TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
OFFICIAL and press kilograms between
u','at.a and Burmah have been stopped
80 some unknown reason.
tOI '' o-
c.x,n.. it is thought, will excel all the
o-i.isb dependencies in her exhibit at the
london colonial exhibition. -
ruv failures in the United States during
A.. sevep days ended the Goth numbered
oal. during the year up to date, 1854.
A. imnrovement in the Bessemer steel
nrocess is announced which Is to make IL
the equal of crucible steel and materially
reduce the cost.
Mr.. PARNELL has issued manifesto TO
thg electors, signed by several Irish men,
hers of Parliament, severely denounclng
the Liberal party. s
coxsu1 CARROLL at Palermo telegraphs
,o tbe Secretary Of State that cholera is
virtually ended, and quarantine from Pa
,ermo is suspended.
IT is rumored that the Duke of Con-
naupbt is to be made chief of Her Maj
estv;s forces, vice the Duke of Cambridge,
who will shortly retire. 4 M 9Th
THE Servians have raised the siege Of
Widdn, and at last accounts General
Leschjany was marching with his army
to the assistance of King Milan.
Hon. LEVI P. MORTON, ex-Minister to
France, and family, arrived in Washing
ton on the goth. Mr.. Morton says he will
take no active part in politics this winter.
THE Servian General Govanovitch has
been dismissed from his command for fall
ure to execute an order given him previous
to the repulse of the Servians before Sliv.
nitza.
SECRETARY MANNING has directed the
dismissal of H. N. Gassaway, assistant
chief of the Internal Revenue and Mer.
camille Marine divisions to take effect No.
vember 30th.
PORTIONS of New York city were inun-
dated by high tide on the 23d, and much
damage was done to railroad and wharf
and passenger traffic was con-
Inconvenience.
THE Gear of Russia has ordered the re-
moval of the initials Of Prince Alexander
from the epaulets of the officers of the
Thirteenth Rife Battalion, of which Prince
Alexander was honorary Colonel. si
DIRECTOR GENERAL JOHN w. GLENN of
the North, Central and South American
Exposition at New Orleans has resigned,
and ex Director General Samuel NJ. Burke
has been appointed to the position.
SAMUEL JENNINGS, who set the type for
the first printed copy of "The Star Span
gled Banner,D and who was one of the
"Old Defenders" in re14, died at Baltimore,
Nd, on the 23d, aged eighty-eight.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the
Philippine Islands on the 21st. Eight thou
sand buildings, including numerous
churches and schoolhouses, were destroy
ed and dtwenty two persons were killed.
TURKISH troops and batteries of artillery
continue to arrive at Salonica, and the
authorities maintain the greatest secrecy
in regard to the numerical strength of the
forces and material concentrated at that
point. M So
A DECISION of the United States Supreme
Court is to the effect that neither police
officer nor private citizen can lawfully
arrest, without warrant or order of mill
tary auth hority, deserter from the United
States army.
INDICTMENTS were found on the 23d by
the United States Grand Jury in New Fork
against Ferdinand Ward, William s. War
ner and j. Henry Work for conspiracy to
aeiraud the creditors and stockholders Of
tne Marine NationahBank.
AT the meeting of the Cabinet on the
lsth each of the members submitted q
statement of affairs in his department
deemed of sufficient consequence to be
brought to the attention of Congress in the
residents forthcoming message.
THE Excise Commissioners have recently
mad their eyes opened to the fact that the
rlee liquor sold by the Chinese in New
York is alcoholic, and they are beginning
70 inquire If the slant-eyed Mongolians
.avS ,a been evading he lawful payments of
l.; me eerVians are becoming somewhat
i.'ourased over the recent successful re-
sn s,s'anee nc to their advance by the Bulgari-
,..s,, -s' ine latter are correspondingly stimu-
,1'Iu oy their victories, and are steadily
Sasning the Servians back to where they
came from. a2n& y L 9
>. ihE second annual convention of the Ma
a. soliai Cattle and Horse growers Associa-
>, r'S q. assembled in the Exposition building
- ''' Louis on the 23d. The attendance at
,h hs opening session was quite large, and
Sa ue proceedings give promise of being
warm and interesting. s.tst