Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-07

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
asvvs from Everywhere.
=, ,.ers to be the general opinion that
a.. conference to settle the Balkan trouble
I'll, be q failure.
france and England have notified the
porta Of their readiness to take part In
tbe Balkan conference.
TIVE Secretary Of the Treasury has IS
,ued an order refusing free entry 70 arti-
6ciai mineral waters.
c~xrpA1. BLACK has ordered 500 names
...;or.r from the pension rolls OF the
Columbus (O) agency.
SAM JONES has, so he says, declined an
oner Of 500 week by New York parties
70 talk morality in the North.
srxAroR STANFORD Of California has
,o,ds . large donation for the endowment
~. college to be built at Palo Alto.
Rrrn and twenty.four half breeds con-
6ned in the Jail at Regina have petitioned
tho Dominion Government for mercy.
SIR MICHAEL HICKs-BEACH says he ex.
c.cts the Burmah expedition will open up
new and extensive channel for trade.
ha OOH kn a g
sassinate M. De Freycinet. the French
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, while taking
drive at Paris.
QUEEN VICTORIA is said to be very much
displeased with the book just published,
giving Greville's recollecti MS OF Hell
Majesty's court.
Mr.. STEAD, editor of the Pull Mall Ca
sette, addressed the jury In his own be-
half in the Armstrong abduction case q
London, on the 29th.
A MEETING of dignitaries of the Catholic
Church is shortly to be held at Baltimore
Nd. to further the project OF university
at Washington city.
AT the town of Bakau, on the Caspian
Sea, Russians and jMoslems recently en-
gagged in little blood letting. Severa
Russians were killed.
M. LAGUERRE, an irreconcilable member
Of the French Chamber of Deputies, has
been engaged to defend the Italian wht
attempted to shoot M. De Freycinet.
-O
w. R DAVIS, of Chicago. has been dis
barred from practice as an attorney be-
tore the Interior Department upon evi.
dence that he extorted illegal fees in PEN
sion cases.
Dr.. NOAH PORTER, for the past thirteen
years President of Yale College, handed
in his resignation at a meeting of the cor
poration on the Goth, to take effect from
next commencement.
The Typographical Union Of New York
has issued an address calling on all work.
ingmen to vote against the Republica n
candidates, because "the recognized or
gan of the party is issued from slave :
pen."
AT mass-meetine of the miners Of the
Massilon (O.) district on the 29sh a resolu.
ton was adopted instructing the dele.
gates to the State convention in Columbus
November Sd, to vote for an advance of
ten cents per ton and pay every two weeks
instead Of monthly.
THERE is no apparent decline in the raw
ages Of the smallpox at Montreal. OF the
252 persons who died from the disease there
during the week 237 were French Cana
dans, 9 were under 6 months. 25 from
months to year. 1877 from l to years,
and 81 from to 10 years.
THE value of imports of the United
States during the month of September,
1885, was $50, ,311, 759, against $50, ,529, 400 in
September, 1884. The value OF exports for
September was $47, ,6s4. $50. For the twelve
months ended September 5Oth. exports
reached $7l5, ,S9S,67l, against $57O, ,551 ,260 in
imports.
The meeting of the Naval Advisory
Board, called for the 2Sth to take into
consideration the subject of completing
the unfinished cruisers, did not take place
owing to the detachment, at his own re-
quest, OF Admiral Simpson, President of
the Board, whose successor has not vet
been appointed.
1HE accounting officers of the Treasury
department. have consented to delay
chargingin his personal salary the amount
expended by Admiral Jouett in entertain.
ing visitors to the Tennessee, at the New
orieans exposition, according to the deci-
SION OF the Second Comptroller, until the
matter has been brought to the attention
ofCongress.
l"ENTY-sEvEN thousand eight hundred
ana one immigrants arrived in the United
states during the month of September
past, against 81, 395 in September of 1884.
lhe total number Of immigrants to this
country for the nine months ended Sep
.ember 3oth, 1885, were 2jS,s36, against
1884.
IHE report Of the Fifth Auditor OF the
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