Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
,.-vcr notifies the Powers that she VIII
ohhIS +air her armaments, but will grad
uaIy disarn.
u+ ;llness of Count Herbert Bis
rot was so serious that for several days
l'' ls.,ifa was despaired of. he is now out
Of danger.
nnonrs from Chicago indicate chaotic
li.;or Of affairs there resulting from
tbe eight hour movement ana consequent
str;kes and lockouts.
r,. President has vetoed the bill extend
,uato omaha. Neb., the provisions OF the
Te IN relation TO immediate transporta-
tion of dutiable goods. e.
p.-rr and Nicolini, after brief stay in
,anJon following their adventurous con-
t;nental tour, have returned 10 tne Iair
s,noer's chateau in Wales.
THE italian bishops have been instructed
-, tho Vatican to exhort Catholics to alb
stoir from voting at the approaching elec-
tons for members of Parliament.
Tuv Vienna Fremdenblatt says the alb
,.rca of Baron Won Schaeffer from Wash
ington is on account of i'll health, and not
as 4 retaliation for the Kelly affair.
THE special committee of Congress spent
the lst in St Louis listening to the state
ments of merchants concerning the effects
of the Southwestern strike on business.
SAN FRANCISCO had three -quarter-of-
e.miIlion dollar fire on the 30th. Patrick
Beatty. fireman, was killed by falling
wall, and several others were reported
killed and injured.
BROADER GENERAL THOMAS H. RUGER
has been assigned to the command of the
Department of Dakota and Brigadier-
General J. H. Potter to the command of
the Department of the Missouri.
THE new Chinese Minister was formally
presented to the President on the Doth
by the Secretary of State. He was at
tired in full court costume, and was ac-
companed by three of his suite and an
interpreter.
THE rumor that Mr. ParnelI was about
to appear in the role of a novelist originat-
ed in the fact that novel entitled Lady
DTusilla" is shortly to be published by a
gentleman named Parnell, who is not,
however, the Irish statesman.
MYSTERIOUS and fatal disease has
broken out at Rowlesburg, w. Va, and
doctors are powerless, so far, to save the
lives Of any attacked. The victims are
first seized with pain in the head, and
are corpses within twelve hours. After
death the bodies become spotted,
The Treasury Department has decided
that Chinese seamen do not fall within the
TropoSltory provisions of the Chinese re-
stctions and therefore NAV be allowed to
land temporarily in the ordinary pursuit
OF their calling for the purpose of ship
ping on return voyage as soon as possi-
tie.
JOHN Il. AUFDEMORTE, late redemption
cierk IN the sub-treasury at New Orleans.
ana Erasmus Shepard, recently convicted
VI conspiracy to defraud the Government.
we're each sentenced on the 1st by Judge
innings 70 pay fine of $4,000 and to i'm
prSonment for two years-the maximum
penalty.
MISS FOLSOM, the Presidents fiancee. is
"PeSent IN Paris, and her approa chin o
marriage IS as much talked about there as
'1@l Oh the Comte de Paris or as was that
" IrihcesS Beatrice last summer. The
ra,'S OF which Miss Folsom is member
I i" probably visit Northern Europe and
A''slaha before returning home.
London morning papers of the 29th
VH'uieht upon the Confederate celebra-
'H at montgomery, Ala. The general
oP'i'oh Is that nothing could be more con-
non 'e proof Of the perfect unity which
~" [eigns among the American people
n,"| " 'ue possibility of such g gathering of
'0"'erS OF the South in the late war.
I BOTTLE found on the beach seven
i ''9s north Of Fortress Monroe, Va, on
IL. S,n oii contained the following: "The
siai. P oliVette from South America is in a
pI~s condition. John Jones, Albert
wards George Samuels. General D. "
i'enlere'" IL There was no date or bear
III me vessel sailed March 5 from Bahia
,..' .hE follsh parishioners of st. Albertus
tba. III Detroit, Mich, are determined
RAJ. ~ other priest shalt succeed Father
ana d,as'lskl, deposed by Bishop Borgese
,bon' assembled in large numbers on the Cd
rumor taelf church, which is closed, on a
snaul ul lnat the Bishop was about to in stall
priest, and were somewhat riotous
Der demonstrations.
from .s s OF Wholesale conflagrations comes
Of FL erefa! parts of Austria. The town
iceland in Noray;. -