Huntsville gazette., 1886-02-06
TOPICS OF THE BAY.
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NEVIS from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
rar remains of Jacob w. Thoman, the
tor who died on the 26th at the Forrest
Home for Actors at Philadelphia, were
80, m Lancaster, Pa, on the 2Sth and
,esig.
nation of the Salisbury cab,- rr., on the
aeth summoned Gladstone to Osborne for
conference.
PRINCE BISMARCK, referring to his recent
speech in the Landtag, said coup de'etdt
or the dissolution of the Reichstag is not
intended.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has re-
fused to give the Senate the papers con-
earning an ALBANIA removal, and the issue
is thus joined.
A RECENT article in the Nineteenth Gen.
tury by Arnold Forster charges the Irish
with being race of conspirators and ad-
yises firmness in the treatment of Ireland.
On the 29th Murat Halstead, editor of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gasettefend Joseph
I Mcdowell, business manager Of the En-
o,,iyer, were arrested on a charge of pub
fishing lottery advertisements.
GENERAL J. B. Fry reiterates his state
ment that General Sherman had said that
"had C. F. Smith lived, Grant would have
disappeared to history after Donelson,"
and produces letter containing the ex-
preston.
A POLITICAL article in the Fortnightly
Reuiew advocates a frank concert Of the
Wings with the Nationalists, and in case
of failure of negotiations with Parnell
they should try to deal with the Home
Rulers through Healy.
THE MARQUIS OF SALISBURY has in
structed Admiral Hay, the co mmander of
the English Mediterranean squadron, to
employ force against the Greeks whenever
they attack the Turks.
In the case of Paymaster- General j. A.
Smith, United States Navy, the sentence
of the court-martial having been con-
firmed by the President, was promulgated
on the 29th, and it is: "To be dismissed
from the position of chief of the bureau of
provisions and clothing in the department
of the navy; to be suspended from rank
and duty as pay Inspector, on furlough
pay for three years, and to retain his pres
ent number in his grade during that Pc
riod.
COMPTROLLER DURHAM has just finished
an examination of the accounts of the
Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims for the five months from April to
August, 1885, inclusive. He has disallowed
of these accounts So, $50, because the pay
ments were not authorized by law.
SECRETARY MANNING on the 29th is sued
call for $4,000, 900 three per cent. bonds,
to mature March next.
THE Democratic Senators, at caucus in
Washington on the Both, agreed to support
the President in his issue with the Repub-
lican Senators on the question of suspen-
sions Of federal office-holders.
THE billiard match, 5000 points, for
$1,000 side, between Schaefer and Wig
naux at New York, which was played last
week, closed on the night of the Goth with
a victory for Schaefer, the score at the
close standing: Schaefer, 1900; Vignaux,
2,S3S.
MRS. LOUISA LEE BAYARD, wife Of the
Secretary of State, died at Washington on
the 3lst.
OsMAN DIGNA is said to be advancing on
Massowah with large army.
On the 30th the Ohio Senate adjourned
to the I'd inst, without having come to any
settlement of the differences between the
two factions. Meanwhile the conference
committee were endeavoring to agree
upon compromise.
JUDGE STALLo, United States Minister
TO Italy, is reported to have said in re-
cent speech at the German club at Rome,
that 'he called himself an American off
cially, but the more he saw of German CIV
hlzation the more he felt that in compari
son with it the Americans were barbar-
ous."
Mrs. MOORE, of Cincinnati, is credited
with having given the handsomest enter
tainment seen in Paris during the past
week. Many French guests were present.
ON the 30th Postmaster General Villas,
who had been confined to his room for a
week with neuralgia, was reported as i'm
proving.
THE House committee on agriculture has
Under consideration a number of bills in
tended to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia among domestic animals.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA of Spain has
conferred the order of the Golden Fleece
upon Cardinal Jacobini, in testimony Of
MS services to Spain in adjusting the Car
oilnes dispute with Germany.
SOCIAL circles at Greensburg, Pa, are
considerably agitated over the disappear
ance of two society people, Mrs. F. E.
Hill, the rich young wife of a prominent
merchant, and j. Thornton Marchand, a
leading lawyer and son of Admiral Mar.
chand
RUMoRs are current in Washington that
secretaries Bayard and Lamar and Attor-
hey General Garland want to resign.
FREDERIC HARRISON, in lecture in Lon
oon on the 31st, pronounced landlordism a
crime against human nature and society
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
OS the 26th Jacob Lotzenbliser and his
vile and child, living near Wabash, Ind,
We're poisoned with "Rough on Rats" the
husband, it was thought, fatally.
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