Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
SECRETARY MANNING was rendered a re-
cention by the bankers of Albany, but he
declined with thanks.
CONSERVATIVE members of the British
Parliament have resolved to oppose the
Egyptian loan of $45,Oo0,0oo.
Ex.CosGREssMAN RoBr. B. VANCE, of
North Carolina, has been appointed As
sssant Commissioner OF Patents.
II caneral Grant should live unit, sum-
nar an effort will be made to take him to
California. where the climate is invigorat-
ing.
Tur National Soldiers Home for dis
oblad volunteer solliers has sued BENZ. F.
Butler for $4,000, alleged to be due the
Home.
crNrpAI. GRAHAM has issued q prOcla-
nation urging the rebels IN the Soudan to
,rbmt 70 the British or take the conse-
guences.
THE United States vessel Tennessee ar
r;vod at Colon on the 1lth. The transit is
oman and all is quiet, but further trouble
is feared
THE Treasury Department. on the 9th
purchased 100000 ounces Of silver for de-
livery at the New Orleans and Phil ad ell
phia mints.
THE returns for April to the Depart
ment of Agriculture indicate a redu ction
of over ten per cent. of last years ar ca of
winter wheat.
CANADIAN troops in the Northw estern
Territory are suffering from the cold. The
mercury fell on the Sth from 90 above to
20 deg. below zero.
THE governments of San Salvador and
Honduras have signed a treaty OF peace,
and the latter has joined the alliance
against Guatemala.
A MORMON Bishop and an Elder pleaded
guilty to the C arge of polygamy at Phe-
nix, Ariz., on the Sth, and were sentenced
to ninety days in Jail.
MOST of the owners of collieries in En-
gland and Wales have Cancelled all orders
for coal to be shipped to Russia, at the
risk of being sued for breach of contr act
THE Chicago men, who took the contract
90 b,,;IJ fbo Stafo fo.
will forfeit the amount named in the bond
rather than go ahead with the works at a
loss.
THE Oticiel Messenger at st. Petersburg
furnishes General Komaroff's account Of
the recent battle on the Afghan frontier,
and he has been congratulated by the Rus
sian War Office.
SIR PETER LUMsDEN has occupied a
now to be able to prevent the Rus slams
from attempting coup de main in the di-
rection of Herat.
THE situation in the Northwest Terri
tory is unchanged. The Indians and reb-
els are riding about frightening the peo-
pie. The garrisons can probably hold out
until the arrival of troops.
Hon. J. HENRY SHAW, a Democratic
member of the Illinois Legislature from
Cass County, died suddenly at Springfield
on the 18th. This makes the third death
during the present session.
DELEGATES to the Western Waterways
Convention at New Orleans went on an
excursion to the jettes on the 10th, and
were much gratified at the evident sue
cess of Captain Eads' great work.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan has de-
cided the law providing for antemortem
wills to be imperative and unconstitu-
tlonaL This law allowed the will to be
probated before the death of testator.
JUSTICE ANDREW WYLIE, of the United
States Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia, has notified the President that
he desires to be placed on the retired list.
Justice Wylie is seventy-one years of age
Two children died at Cleveland, o., on
the l1th, and their bodies turned black.
Some fear was expressed that the disease
was cholera The Board of Health in
vestigated, and decided that it was not
cholera.
JOHN V. ONDERDONK, editor of the
Nyack On. Y.) Independent Adrertiser, was
publicly assaulted with horsewhips on the
18th, by the wives of two police constables
for publishing offensive articles about their
husbands.
1T was rumored in Washington on the
10th that Captain Howgate, the fugitive
signal office embezzler, had been seen on
The streets of the city. Detectives were
on the lookout, but they regarded the re-
port as a hoax,
In terrible hurricane at Tamatave,
Madagascar, on the 18th of February, news
OF which has just been Received, twelve
vessels foundered in the harbor. five