Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-01
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY,
News from Everywhere.
rrisnot thought probable that Congress
riI be able to adjourn before the lst OF
August.
GREAT damage has been done to light
,orsos along the st. Lawrence in Canada
bv ice.iams and floods.
ruv Canadian Government has reduced
,bo canal tolls on grain shipped through
IN Montreal to two cents per ton.
~
atov,r1sT meeting was held at Glas-
cow on the 24th, and the usual collisions
took place between Catholics and Orange
men.
THt labor investigating committee
rlosed its sitting in Washington on the
93d. and the members intended to leave
for st, Louis on the 9th.
Iris reported that ex-President Arthur
l. rapidlv convalescing, and that he is
very much better than at any time since
the commencement of his indisposition.
THERE were 1874 failures in the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the esd compared with 1S2 the pre-
ceding week and 2l5 the week previous to
that.
SENIOR ELNoRE, who has represented the
Government of Peru at Washington for the
past FIVE years, has been recalled, and will
take official leave of the President this
week
SECRETARY MANNING continues to I'M
prove daily. He left his room OH the 25th
and walked down stairs. His physicians
expected that he would be able to take g
drive in a few days.
CHARGES have been filed with the Attor-
nev-General at Washington that the fee
bills presented by District Attorney Bliss
in the Lindsay case are Illegal, and the
matter has been taken under consideration.
THE ignorant Galicia peasantry are dam
gerousy excited over rumor that the
government intends to restore the forced
labor laws and that the aristocrats are
organizing TO massacre the Polish peas
ants.
Mrs HENRY AGNEw was arrested in
Philadelphia on the 2lst on a charge of
arson her residence, in which the furni- :
ture wa heavily insured, being recently
discovered on fire ten times within four
hours.
STATE PRISON KEEPER LAvERTY of New
Jersey was found guilty of one of the
charges against him, and he has been dis :
missed from office and disqualified from
holding any office of honor, trust or profit
In the State hereafter.
The visible supply of wheat in the United
States and Canada, with the quantity
aioat for Europe, on the 23d amounted to
oGlS' '4S3 bushels, against "A, $3.50. .9S1 bushels
one year ago. and of corn 10, 235 ,026 bush
els, against 1892 ,195 bushels last year.
INDEPENDENT coke manufacturers, op-
peratng nearly eight hundred ovens in
'ne McConnellsville region in. Pennsvl-
'anla, and employing 5000 men, have fol-
lowed the example af the coke syndicate
ana advanced wages from five to ten per
eent'' to take effect May 1.
ooNGRESs has been in session nearly
nS months, yet more than half the num-
uF q general appropriation bills remain
"''''ea upon by the House, in which BODY
n, must originate. The Consular and
'P4ohatlc and Military Academy bills
,b r'' 'mne m general appropriation bills now on
le calendar.
iht statement is current that the oraat
ah'a'lstS OF the country, including all the
.,"I .a ial railroad corporations, have en-
combination whose avowed mr.
MI =" ahtaSonize the Knights of Labor
that organization makes a show
iieSlstance to or encroachment upon in
Vested capital, 'f''' -
boaly m city ministers of Cleveland, O.,
CbaI, Gu oy Bishop Beden of the Episcopal
dN"' are preparing to boycott the Sun
cri.., "'dr newspapers. Confidential cir
an ,s h. iiaVe been issued to clergymen, and
mi a'e ! oeen urged to join the movement
ppni. aVnounee Sunday papers from their
Pulplts On Maya.
food .VIFecs list of the victims of the
,r' VA. East Lee, Mass, is as follows: A.
sg.s %'e' aged forty eight: Mrs. White,
len. 'n 'Unt'y-seven; Ida May White, aged
Dor5A Alce ,I l. White, aged eight; Simon
Ena mrs l. King and Mrs. Charles
WIFI. he bodies of Mr.. Dowd and Ida
- not been found up to the 2lst.
Nini1.G NiaANG YEN Wox, the new Chinese
in.,on ana his suite, arrived in Wash
ister aa VI the night of the 22d. The min
BY tho r1.i MS party We're met at the depot
oftho, retiring minister and the attaches
enbss1es sation and were escorted to the
ninisto III carriages, after which the ex-
te. "'iu MS suite returned to the no.
birth of = y fourth anniversary of the
&, General Grant n;uI