Huntsville gazette., 1886-03-20

VOLUME VII.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
Mn. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN says the re.
oorts that he intends resigning his seat in
tbs British Cabinet are "all moonshine."
t. aati- Chinese convention at Sacra-
Il ., c. a@opfet ss lon ~ oy
co...-- G4in
THREE HUNDRED enployes q the Tao S3Q
Ont., StreetH Hallway Company were dis
charged ON the 10th for joining the knights
of Labor.
PRINCESS HELENE of Ypsilanti, Greece,
who with her husband spent $25 900 900 in
ten wears, has failed with liabilities of
$4,000 900.
AN immense socialistic meeting was
held at Glasgow on the 18th, at whlch
Rurns. one of the Socialist leaders, maze
an address.
ORDERS have been issued for the reduc-
ton of the Egyptian army OF occupation,
and the withdrawal of the British troops
from Assouan.
IT is given out that Mr.. Parnell's long
promised declaration of policy, to be made
in Parliament on the 18th, will be very
moderate in tone.
The imports of general merchandise at
the port of New York for the week ended
the 18th were valued at $j,9Sl, 1913, and of
dry goods at 81 2,9l2,4 ,464.
AN order has been issued by the Grand
Trunk railway that hereafter all Chinese
going over the road will be passed through
in bond and will not be allowed to stop in
Canada.
A MOTION made in the British House of
Commons on the 11th by Mr.. Labouchere,
reducing the grants for maintaining the
royal parks, was carried after a lively con-
troversv.
THE international billiard match between
Schaefer and Vignaux closed in New York
on the night OF the 18th with Schaefer
the winner in the six nights by a score Of
5000 to 1855.
IYDEsCRIBABLE distress has been devel-
oped among the inhabitants of the Arran
Islands, off Galway, many of whom are
living on moss and sea grass and are with
Out clothing or shelter.
As required by law Secretary Lamar has
submitted to Congress a list of about four
thousand and five hundred Indian depre-
dation claims. The total number of claims
call for an amount tapproximating $4,000,
000
TIE Postmaster g eneral has issued an
order prohibiting the delivery Of registered
mail Or the payment of money orders to
Marcus e. Frazier, operating at Des
Mones, Ia, as the Secretary of the Globe
Mutual Life and Assessment Association
INJUNCTION proceedings have been taken
at st. Louis and at all'important points on
the Gould lines, and the railroad officials
say if they can keep the strikers away
from the tracks they can run their trains.
There were no developments of interest on
the 14th.
NOTICE has been given the laborers en-
ployed at the Atlanta Iron works at Sharon,
Pa, that their wages have been advanced
to the price paid before the last reduction.
The increase amounts to fifteen cents per
day, and was made by the firm without
solicitation from the workmen.
NEARLY eight hundred employees Of the
American Hosiery Company, at New Brit
an, Tonn., are out on strike, their de-
mand for higher wages having been re-
fused The company's officers refused to
meet committee of the Knights of Labor
10 effect settlement by arbitration.
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SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has
olSaiiowed two claims Of John Roach, one
OF $5S'Si0 for extra work on the United
States monitor Puritan, and the other of
@-''-'4 Tor watching, care, towing and
p"o'aSe OF the monitor Roanoke from
March L, 1877, to September "a, 1888. @
lHE business failures during the seven
oayS ended the 18th numbered for the
United States 2l0, and for Canada 25, a
'o'al OF 30, against 245 last week aud 2lS
t'ie week previous. Failures are on the
uecllne IN every section of the country, es-
Pecialiy the Eastern and Middle States.
IHE trustees of the Mount Moriah ceme
tery at Philadelphia have presente d the
"cC"llough monument fund with a plot
OF ground thirty feet square. They. also
,"1W all the expense of the masonry
.of vault and a circular drive around
M NJ pot The offer has been accepted by
Mccullough and the trustees. W b 4
J. ohPRoAIsE has been effected between
na;, ,t "'l'ers and operators at the Falcon
"ofks at Niles, O., and fifteen Of forty
,Haenlnes resumed on the l1th, after
,.a ''eneSs OF eleven months. The feeders
tr, 'V dissatisfied with the terms, and re-
st,4 20 so to work, and the machines
'e" We're run by the nailers themselves
~, "''ners met at Nanticoke, Pa, on.
i, ish III Oh the 10th, aud debated the pos
,ho o'','y OF safely continuing the search for
Sn, D0uies of the entombed men in the
.quehanna !. mine. Women relatives of
oS' men attended the meeting and
idiued the miners for toxvardica Thnv