Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16

VOLUME VII.
| TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
ruv social season at Washington has
o,anod most brilliantly, and bids fair to
continue So
TIE New York Elevated Railway engi-
neers gained victory in adjusting their
troubles with the companies on a nine
hour basis.
REPRESENTATIVE of the French Gov
ernment is to be sent to inspect and report
on the condition and prospects Of the Pan
ANA Canal.
IT is reported that Robert Farquharson,
the manager of the Munster Bank, who
absconded from Ireland, has died at Bar
celona, Spain.
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OWING to the refusal of the Egyptian
Government to sanction modification Of
the treaty, the work of deepening the
Suez Canal is delayed.
"JACKsON's DAY" was celebrated in
elaborate style by the Democrats of New
York city by grand banquet at Delmon-
ico,s to Governor Hill.
An elevator scheme, by which it is pro.
posed to furnish each farmer separate
bin, and loan him money on its contents, il
needed, is ON foot in Dakota.
REPORTS were received from Kansas
Nebraska and the North on the night of
Tth that violent storm was prevailing
and travel on number of railroads was
entirely suspended.
NEW crematory has just been com.
pleted at Pittsburgh, Pa, which is to bt
operated with natural gas, and is designed
to completely consume a body weighing
$50 pounds in two hours.
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided not Il
reconvene the court-martial in the case o1
Paymaster General Smith of the Navy
He will approve the findings of the court
and submit the case to the President fol
his action.
ANOTHER suicide has occurred at Mont,
Carlo. A wealthy Mexican named Cheyre
gambled away his entire fortune at th,
tables and then took his life He was
buried in a common grave. He has left a
wife and family penniless.
The new Board of Trade at Duluth,
Minn., was dedicated on the 9th. Guests
were present from the boards at Chicago,
st. Louis, Milwaukee, Tacoma, Washing
ton Territory, st. Paul and Minneapolis
and other cities and from grain centers in
Dakota and Minnesota.
GATHER" JARDINE, the hero of the st.
Mary's Parish church scandal of Kansas
City, Mo-, on whose case Bishop Robertson
passed last week, was found dead in the
study of Trinity Church at st. Louis on
the 10th. Death was caused by chloro-
form, and indications point to suicide.
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IT was announced on the 9th that Miss
Sarah Althea Hill, the plaintiff in the cele-
brated Sharon divorce case, was to be
married on the 7th at Stockton, Cal, to
David S. Terry, ex-Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of California, her leading
counsel in her proceedings for divorce.
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THE furnacemen at the Edgar Thomson
steel works, Braddocks, Pa, who refused a
tom I,xy
the firm, unless their hours of work were
reduced, were notified on the 7th that their
places would be filled if the scale was not
signed by the 9th. A lockout was antici :
pated.
j. CLINsKILL, merchant of Battleford,
N. W. T., has gone to Ottawa to impress
upon the authorities there the necessity
OF taking proper precautions to prevent an
indian uprising. He says the Indians are
enraged because of the execution of the
eight Indians in November, and are max :
ing all sorts of threats
SECRET meeting of the Merchant Steel
Manufacturers Of the United States began
session at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 7th, for
the purpose of correcting existing incon-
slStencies of the trade and the conSidera.
ton of prices. The attendance was large
representatives being present from nearly
every steel mill in the country.
THE President will give the first State
dinner OF his administration on the even
ing of the 18th. His guests will be the
Cabnet and their wives, the General of
'ne Army and Mrs. Sheridan, the Presi-
ueh' OF the Senate and Mrs. Sherman,
ana the Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, and the
guests sojourning at the White House
ulrlng the week.
Co1oNEL HENRY L. ScoTT, U. S. A., died
III New York on the 9th of paralysis, aged
seventy years. He was married to Miss
sorhella Scott, a daughter of General Win
neia Scott, and acted as Inspector General
vi ueneral Scott's staff, but retired from
ac'Ve service after the Generals death in
M'Z' The wife of Colonel Scott died in
baltimore recently
MEssRs. Bates, Holden and Smith, three
Cleveland capitalists, have leased 5000