Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-30
TOPICS OF TIE BAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Eews from Everywhere.
A SHAFT is to be sunk to the buried min.
srs at Nanticoke, Pa, to satisfy their rela :
tiyes.
CONGRESSMAN BLAND says his COM
mttee will not report in favor of a suspen-
sion Of silver coinage.
I'm. LAWRENCE, of Mississippi, chief Of
division of the First Comptroller's Office,
Washington, died on the I'D.
EARL GRANVILLE is to be presented with
testimonial in honor of his thirty years.
service as leader of the Liberals.
MRS. PRUDENCE PHILLEo, aged eighty
three, the famous Connecticut Abolition
ist. has been found in Kansas living in
poverty.
THE recent discovery of a Nihilist resort
opposite the Annitchkoff Palace in st.
Petersburg has resulted in the arrest of
seventeen persons.
THE Cincinnati theater managers agree
70 close their houses on Sunday if the Law
and Order League succeed in closing Sun
day concert saloons.
MAJOR WALSH, of the Canadian North
west Mounted Police, thinks the only way
to prevent an Indian outbreak is by dis
arming and dismounting the redskins.
THE Secretary of the Treasury on the
Goth received letter containing $500,
postmar,:ed New York, which he was re-
quested to pass to the conscience fund.
A RELIEF department for the benefit of
its employees, similar to that in existence
on various other roads, has been created
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
THE Italian Minister of Finance an.
nounces deficit in the budget of 50,000,000
francs, which is attributed to cholera and
the expense of the Massowah expedition.
THE Porte has contracted with Krupp
for a large number of guns, those made at
the Turkish factory being useless. The
outlay will press heavily upon the Turkish
treasury.
THE Berlin correspondent of the London
Times says that the French flag has been
hoistod over Sumbg, one of the Sunda
Islands which has hitherto been under
Dutch protection.
TUE dinner given by The President at the
Executive Mansion on the night OF the
2lst in honor OF the diplomatic corps was
the most brilliant social event of the pres
ent administration.
THE 81. James Gazette charges that
O'Donovan Rosa has several employees
among Irish members of the House Of
Commons, and that the pistol and knife
are to take the place OF dynamite.
VERY severe weather has been-experi-
enced in the Province of Ontario. With
heavy snow storms, the thermometer flf-
teen degrees below zero, and the railroads
biockaded, the situation has been soma
what trying.
COMMISSIONER GOTHAM has called the
annual convention of National Sugar Grow.
ers 10 meet i'll ST. Louis on February 4th
and 5th, and the Mississippi Valley Dairy
mems Association to meet at the same
place the week following.
EXTRA preca utiOnS were taken at the
recent opening Of the hIersey tunnel to
guard the Prince of Wales on account of
the supposed presence OF an Irish emissary
who was said to have left Dublin with the
intention to assassinate him.
SPAIN win appoint governors of the
caroline and Pelew Islands, and will send
troops to establish garrisons. She will
also send an expedition to the point where
the gunboat Albatross planted the German
flag during the Yap incident.
Miss CLARA BARTON, President of the
American Association of the Red Cross,
has received 800 from the st. Louis (Mo.l
branch of the Association, which will be
forwarded for the relief Of the sick and
wounded of the Balkan armies.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended January
- was S20545 The issue for the corre-
spending period last year was $I20 ,496.
The shipments OF fractional silver coin
from January amount to Sl51 400.
The uncertainty regarding the removal
OF the treaty of commerce between Aus
Ua-Hungary and Roumania will, il
longer continued, cause the removal to
germany of number OF Austrian mer-
Grants doing business with firms in Rou
mania.
eERIANY is determined 20 denational-
ize her Polish provinces, aud to that end
VIII purchase estates in those provinces
ana portion the land out to German peas
ants, and will also increase the number of
schools in which the German language is
taught.
IHE President, in an interview with
Congressman O'Neill, of Missouri, on the
-oa, expressed himself as heartily in favor
oI the Eight-Hour law, and promised to
see that the full spirit and letter of the