Huntsville gazette., 1886-07-17

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
.ro 99s new cases of cholera and
90 deaths reported in Italy on the 91n.
c Thompson, of SOUTH Carolina,
has qualified as Assistant oecfe'ery Oh 'ne
Treasury
co,oxrr GLIDER, the man who is TO
sTt to the North pole, has started on MS
perilous voyage.
ruv Jnlv report of the Department OF
innl+,,ra m shows a general decline in the
.Earoge condition of all crops.
.,,,crs from Hayti state Vthat a con-
sniracv against the government has been
discovered, and that an outbreak is feared
Germans have been elected
MANNERS of the Commercial Council in
hI.oce. Lorraine against four at the last
election.
r n, GRAHAM passed the whirlpool
,onds of Niagara falls, on the 11th, in
clo.ed in barrel, in attempting to swim
nhicb CAPTAIN Webb was drowned.
N-
Tur Washington gossip mongers are
cutting Garland out of the Cabinet again.
Tbev say now that ex-senator Mcdonald
ui succeed Garland and not Manning.
THEtelegraph operators at Omaha struck
on the 18th for extra pay for over time,
and the operators at Ogden and San Fran
cisco we're expected to follow suit on the
18th.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER preached
in Rev. Henry Allon's church at Islington,
London. on the 11th, attended service at
Westminster Abbey in the afternoon and
took tea with the Dean.
RETURNS received up to midnight of the
10Th show that in the British elections the
Conservatives have elected - candidates;
the Uuionists, So; the Gladftonians, 149,
and the Parnellites, r.
Ex-MNIsTER A. NJ. KELLEY, Hon. j.
Randolph Tucker and Hob. Pinckney
White are the persons most prominently
mentioned in connection with the vacant
Solicitor -Generalship.
CHAIRMAN ALLISON of the Senate COM
mittee on appropriations thinks Congress
will not adjourn before Monday, July 26,
while Speaker Carlisle is of opinion that
adjournment can be had on Tuesday, July
90
The Na1aTdctTers' Record, in its semi
annual review of the industrial growth of
the South, shows that during the first six
months of 1856 the value of the manufact-
Wlng and mining enterprises of the
South have been increased by about $685.
$4,000.
THE New York grand jury have taken
up the charges against Rev. Stephen
Merritt and the Undertakers' Union, who
are accused by John B. Caden of No. $40
west Eleventh street with having boy
cotted him so that his business was
ruined.
TWAS fifteen days in Connecticut
sald Colonel John A. joyce, "and deliy-
cred several lectures and got out of that
otate alive, Notwithstanding. l can not
say, though" con tinued he, "for certain.
now many of the people Of Connecticut
are alive.n
IHE Comptroller of the Currencv on the
i-'n declared fourth dividend of thirty
PFf cent IN favor of the creditors of the
nV'Sprlngs National Bank of Hot Spri ngs.
AIR. payable on the 10th inst. This makes
" per cent. paid ON claims proved
amounting to $36,537.
me cholera returns in Italy for the Sth
ere brndisi, 116 new cases, 40 deaths:
O"'aha' 4Snew cases, 10 deaths; Latiano,
.aSes, Il deaths; San Vito, 27 cases, 4
1'a'ns; Venice, 1new case, 9 deaths: Cod
sOo' new cases, l death; and several
,aa as'I -. IN the provinces of Bologna, Padua
and Vicenza.
ELECTIONS had been held in all but
''sn'y OF the British constituencies up to
NC evening of the 18th, and the result was
:! "SJori'y Of 15l for the Tories and Union
d ,s'' combined over the Gladstonites and
amenities. The Conservatives had a ma
sra Ivy Vi Two over both wings of the Lib
20 y and Nationalists combined.
A 'he executive departments were
81 'sehted at the Cabinet meeting on the
!, one OF the questions considered was
~; s"fa TO the status of the nominations
co.S H may remain unacted upon at the
ool the session. The Cabinet also had
of %'ei r' discussion concerning the course
huon. ~ '"''ei u pension legis-
jnc.- jNhRAL B. F. BUTLER was in Wash
is ono sai, oh private business on the 18th. He
hos; alu 70 be in most excellent health and
twon. as fresh and vigorous as he did
m.o,: years ago. He was admitted to
con.. cce IN the United States Supreme
Seva.sm N la5, the same year VIM. H.
sight Years old. ne IS no" si&'y-