Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-25

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
nrr town of Highmore Oak. has been
,,mnIetely wiped out by cyclone.
ruv Salvation Army opened its Nation
! camp-m meeting at Old Orchard, Me-, on
the 18th.
rur Senate Territorial COMMITTEES will
renort against the admission OF New Mex
leo as State.
THIRTY THOUSAND Russian Poles' OF
Uhom 900 are Jews, have been ordereo 70
leave Eastern Prussia.
TIN Enolish Government will do It's
.os+ 70 obtain an early issue of the $io,-
0oeO3O Egyptian loan.
THE Ameer of Afghanistan has isSues
proclamation announcing the receipe oy
him of the decoration of the Star Oh III
dia.
SPAIN is agitated by threatened Re-
,,nblican uprising. Several arrests have
haen made, and quantity Of arms
seized.
SECRETARY WHITNEY says the Govern
v,ant i not responsible for Roach's fall
,,ra and will not be greatly affected
thereby.
RoyDs of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad to the amount of S4 6l5, 600 have
been listed by the New York Stock Ex-
change.
THE receipts of the Patent Office for the
months of March, April, May and June
were $42O,72 for the same period IN
1854, $406,s6S.
THE report that the German Crown
Prince and his wife were not invited to
Princess Beatrice's wedding is untrue.
They are her special guests.
WARRANTS were recently issued for the
arrest of Couch and his followers at Cald-
well, Kas, but as they refused to give
bail the warrants were not served.
GOVERNOR HUBBARD. of Minnesota has
issued call for delegates from States IN
terested in the river Improvement to at
tend convention in st. Paul, September
Sd.
BARON DE STAAL had a conference with
members of the English Cabinet on the
18th on the Afghan question, at which Sir
Peter Lumsden's special courier was
present.
THE British soldiers stationed at Suakim
are suffering from the intense heat, and the
mortality among them is described as
frightful, enteric diseases being very
prevalent.
THE French Senate has ratified the Tien
Tsn treaty. The Chamber of Deputies
has adopted all the clauses of the budget
except two, which are reserved for fur
ther discussion.
THERE were L. 1876 new cases of cholera
and 664 deaths from the disease in Spain
on the 10Th. 1t is now admitted that
ch olera exists also in the provinces of
Albacite and Navarro.
AT the inspection of Canadian volun-
teers at Wimbledon, the Du Ike of Cam
bridge eulogized their proficiency and
complimented them on their conduct in
the Canadian Northwest
A NEwsBoY was arrested in Chicago
for hawking a reprint of the Pail MdH
Gazette disclosures. He was fined 500 for
distributing obscene literature, and the
Judge suspended the fine.
1
The Secretary of the Interior is still in
receipt of kilograms from cattlemen in
the Indian Territory, complaining that
the cattle trails through the Cherokee
strip remain obstructed, and asking for
relief.
The American Gymnastic Society en-
tered the city of Dresden, Saxony, on the
18th, and was accorded a popular ovation.
The procession which escorted the society
into the city bore at its head an Ameri-
can flag.
A. I. SMITH, the expert accountant en-
ployed to examine the accounts of Treas
urer Anderson of Hoboken, N. j., has
found a deficiency of $26,675. Anderson
is requested to explain at the next Coun-
Gil meeting.
Mr.. CYRUS w. FIELD will give BAN
quet at the Star and Garter. Hotel, Rich
mond, Eng, on the evening Of Wednes-
day, August 9th, to celebrate the ami
versary of the completion of the first At
lantic cable
The Washington Post building was
burned out on the 10Th, involvin in the
general destruction the National Repubyi-
caa the EUening Critic and the SUNDAY
oaze te, all of whose plants of machinery
ana material were destroyed.
lHE people of Winnipeg celebrated the
return of the troops by a grand torch
HSht procession and display of fire.
works on the night of thu 18th. M any
thousands, including the military, took
part In the process ion. The streets were
'hronged with people.
IHE Board of Railroad Commissioners
OF New York reports that for the year
IN, 4SS02S, 200 passengers were trans
ported in that State by the various kinds
OF RAILWAYS. OF this number the horse