Huntsville gazette., 1886-06-05

the Belfast police.
THE Black Diamond Steel COMPANY. of
Pittsburgh, Pa, has voluntarially ad-
vanced the wa ges of all employees ten per
cent.
THE Mayors office at Gallipolis, O.,
was entered by burglars on the night of
the 29th, and the city records stolen.
ANDREW CARNEGIE has given $3.50, 900 to
Allegheny City, Pa, for free library and
music hall.
The estimated decrease of the public
debt for the month of May is placed at
S9, 600, 400. The r.eeipts for the month
were unusually heavy and the disburse-
ments light.
THE name of the Presidents bride-elect
is simply Frank Folsom-not Frances.
SPAIN is thinking Of spending S45, 600, 900
on her navy.
Rev. F. KATzER has been made Bishop
of the Catholic diocese of Green Bay, Wis.
DURING the month of May $6 500, 900 was
disbursed by the Treasury on account of
pensions.
MAJOR H. c. RUSSELL, formerly of Mis-
souri,, committed suicide at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the 30th.
UNITED STATES MINISTER Cox and wife
took dinner with the Sultan Of Turkey on
the 30th
CHAs. WARINa has prepared an elabo-
rate paper advocating the purchase of En-
glish railroads by the government.
AT Nashua, N. H., on the 30th, occurred
double funeral of most imposing char
acter, that of Stillman S. Davis, Past
Grand Chancellor of the world, Knights of
Pythias, and his wife. They died at the
same hour.
A FIRE occurred in Berlin on the morn
ing of the 31st, which burned over an area
of forty acres, causing a loss of $750,000.
Several lives are reported lost.
The total value of the Dominion fisheries
for 1885 was $l7,722,O00 a decrease of $43,-
600 as compared with 1885.
A CREvAssE, twenty feet wide and eight
feet deep, occurred below New Orleans on
the 3Oth in the levee in front of the Du-
cross plantation, situated on the east bank
of the Mississippi. 1t is likely that the
vegetable crop on the plantation will be
destroyed.
THE presentation of evidence in the Max
well case at st. Louis was concluded on
the 31st with the introduction of testimony
in rebuttal by the State showing that the
story of the defendant that he was treat
ing Preler for structure when he died upon
his hands was entirely devoid of truth.
The embalmed body had been exhumed,
dissection made and the parts said to have
been affected microscopically examined by
the best medical experts, and they were
found to have been in a perfectly normal
condition. The arguments of counsel be-
gan on the 1st.
THE White House at Washington was
besieged on the 31st by newspaper re-
porters and correspondents in search of
special information in regard to the Presl-
Dental wedding. All were disappointed,
however, being informed that what there
was for the public would be diffused
through the medium of the Associated and
United Press associations.
THE amount of National bank notes out
standing May 81 was S311 1,510,243, de-
crease during the month of $2,O32 ,33339, and
a decrease since June l, 1885, OF $6,9l4,-
IFS.
BILLY MALoNEY is still sojourning in
Canada, Notwithstanding the stories that
he had gone to Europe, and he continues
to draw hush money from the Broadway
''syndicate," and he is not at all modest
in his demands.
JAMES WHELAN, seaman, was hanged
at Winchester, Eng, on the 31st, for muir
der on the high seas, in having killed the
mate of the vessel on which he wa
shipped.
nx D,,,4; 4;,lr 1c, Str,V Vn1n n O
and Sir Donald Stewart are Ell route from
England to New York on the steamer
Aurania.
GLADSTONE has received latter, signed
by five hundred Protestant residents OF
Ulster, in favor of Irish home rule.
MRS. SERAFINo CoMFoRTI, of Philadel-
phia, was brutally murdered by Henry
Basel on the 31st.
THE Porte complains to the powers that
the Greeks are dilatory in disarming.
A ANATIoNAL convention of nailers and
heaters of America began its sessions at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 31st.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York expresses
himself vigor >,usly against the confirming
power of senates.
THE single scull race between Courtney
and HOSmer at Albany Oh tHe olS' 10
suited in a dead heat.
THE Pail Mall Gazette, alluding to the
organization of the Orange army in Ul-
ster, urges instant action by the Govern
ment..
DOMINION cruisers are said to be watch
ing for several American vessels reported
to have purchased bait within the Cana
dian limits.
MRS. Cox, wife of the American Minis
ter at Constantinople, has been presented
with the grand Gordon of the Order OF
Chenket by the Sultan of Turkey.
MEAGER but trustworthy news received
shows that the extensive fires that have
ragged in Northern Wisconsin and Michi-
gan recently have done an inestimable
amount of damage to timber.
DECORATION DAY was observed very
generally Throughout the country on the
3lst, in some cases the ceremonials being
especially elaborate. A car load of flow
ers arrived in New York from Oakland, ,
CAL, sent especially by devoted Califor-
mans to be placed upon the grave OF Cen
eral Grant.