Huntsville gazette., 1886-03-27

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THE Secretary of the Treasury has is
sned call for $1O,OOO,OOO three per cent
bonds. The call will mature on May 1.
IT is said that General Henry K. Jack
son. the American Minister to Mexico, who
recently started for Washington, contem-
plates resigning.
On February 2, previous to leaving
Hong Kong for Yokohama, four of thu
crew of the United States war-ship Tren'
ton were sent ashore suffering from small
pox.
GOVERNOR IRELAND of Texas has Offered
$500 reward each for the arrest and con
viction of parties who removed the rali'
and burned bridges on the Texas q Pacific
railway.
HAMILTON COLE, referee in the Grant q
Ward case, decides that payment of money
IN so-caIled contracts was fraudulent and
cold. and that Warner must pay over to
the receiver 81 ,395, ,792.54.
TIE total exports of specie from the port
Of New York during the past week were
&9t7.G62 The total imports of merchan-
disc during the same period were valued at
5000. .323 exclusive of dry goods.
THE theory connecting Mike Humphrey
and "Texas" with the Rock Island ex-
press robbery has been exploded by both
men turning up and accounting for their
whereabouts at the time of the tragedy.
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The British Board of Trade has sus-
pended for six months the certificate OF
CAPTAIN Houand, who commanded the
steamer Missouri, which was wrecked at
Holyhead while on voyage from Boston
to Liverpool.
ALL the cloakmakers in New York, num-
bering $50. are out on strike. They
don't ask for increased wages, but merely
demand that the contract system be abol-
ished so they may deal directly with the
firms themselves.
THE Mikado Of Japan has signified his
intention of contributing $500 to the Grant
monument fund. New York, as a token of
his respect for General Grant, and has or
dered that amount forwarded to the presi
dent of the committee.
Mr.. HoxIE's reply to Mr.. Powderly's re-
quest on the 10Th for a conference was in
Substance a refusal to treat with the
Knights of Labor on the ground that on
previous occasions the organization had
broken faith with the corporation.
MANY of the Presidents callers on the
18th rtminded him that it was his forty
ninth birthday anniversary. Although
some social recognition of the day was
shown the President did not observe it by
departing in any way from his daily rou.
tine.
PLANS for a settlement of the railroad
strike proposed by the Governors of Mis-
som and Kansas have been accepted by
Mr.. Hoxie of the Missouri Pacific, with
some qualifications. 1t remains to be seen
how the strikers will view the "qualifica-
tions"
A MEETING of the oyster packers of Bal
tmore, Nd. was held on the 18th and an
agreement was reached not to pack any
oysters after the first of April, under a
penalty Of 1000. The oyster season has
heretofore continued until the first of Nav
In each year.
IHE House labor committee on the 10Th
nag under consideration bill proposing
authority to grant National charters to la
Dor organizations. This is regarded as a
matter OF considerable Importance as a
D'SlS tor statutory arbitration in the set
uement of labor troubles.
DAVID STRONG, a Midway CO., cooper,
was taken suddenly i'll on the 10th and died
!" lew minutes. No apparent cause was
manifest, and his friends were at a loss to
account for his death. A post -mortem,
uo"eVer, developed that he had died from
,uahgulation, having swallowed his false
Fe'h, which had lodged in his throat.
HISS ABIGAIL BATES died at Scituate,
Mass, on the 18th, aged eighty nine wears.
Que was one OF the heroines who, during
the war of 1912, drove the British forces
from the harbor of that place by conceal
n.g themselves in the bushes and playing
vigorously on the fife and drum, thereby
e"uIhS the enemy to believe that a large
was ready to receive them.
O. ~'ddecomb Furniture factory at
81, """ hapds' Mich, employing Eve to
ed men, adopted the eight hour
NJ. n ,oGntarily on the 18th. Nelson,
dios,e ',er 20, will soon follow, and the in
r.ns a''ohs are that every manufacturing
mn', loe,h III the city will be working only
f,sna., nours day by May /, without any
tor. 'ioiii 'he Anisnts oi Ia
All mat magistrates trial Of a m after
n,.,.',n negroes at Carrollton, Miss, ON
war, IT, m which about twenty negroes
sbor. pieSeht as witnesses, party of
renaa., i''y white men rode up, armed with
A. "''ls rifles, surrounded the building
of ~ yi'ened lire on the negroes, killing ten
iry h0Di outright, mortally wound
ee .",ee Others and more or less seriously
0lhs 3 the rest.
ci6a Err SHELDON of the Texas & Pa
n;,, 'oau at New Orleans received a COM
80. ol the strikers on the 18th, and
b;,ns. reeo with them on proposals for an ar
roia'' ra'ion OF Hall's case by the Judge Of the
,f Vu states Court on a full presentation
sbau Iacts A committee went to Mar
san,l, ex', to lay the matter before the as
.naa4 lhere, and it was hoped that a