Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09

InnIianaDoIis, raised over 9oo'ooo LOT
az dje,n nun, purposes on the 31st, inside OF
one hour.
u,,nrr tbe American bicyclist, won
EMS, os IN Dublin, on the ID, defeating
Nv m1In;Io II one. and Wood, of England,
in the other
rr,,-y snOw-storm was reported from
o., Tomond, Scotland, on the 4th, where
,ba weather had been unprecedented Tor
This season of the year.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Cleveland are ex-
roc+ed TO visit Buffalo early this month,
r attend the weddings of two of Mrs.
reyeand's schOol-day friends.
Tur sixtv-ninth birthday of Queen Vic
toria was officially celebrated on the 81.
The weather was bright and sunshiny.
The troops were reviewed as usual.
vr,pry five thousand saloons in Phila-
dsIrhia closed their doors to open no
more at midnight on the 31st, when the
Brooks Liquor law went into effect.
EMPEROR FREDERICK, who for awhile
suffered from exhaustion resulting from
his trip to Potsdam, had quite recovered
from Bis temporary indisposition by the
3d.
EMPEROR FREDERICK went from Berlin
TO Potsdam, on the yacht Alexandria, on
the 1st He was enthusiastically cheered
by the populace. The trip seemed to do
him good.
E. s. AND H. d. AUCHINCLoss' racing
slo0p Katrina, which has been in course
of construction at City Island, N Y, dur
inc the past few months, was successfully
launched on the Goth.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
for a double -scull race to take place at
the Point Of Pines on June IL, between
Hanm and Ross, Hosmer and Lee, and
Gaudaur and Mckay.
MoIIIE GARFIELD will be married at
Mentor, o., to her fathers private secre-
tary, J. Stanley Brown, on the 14th At
the same time and place one of her broth
crs will marry Miss Maxon.
THE Chief of Engineers reports that the
construction of the proposed brcakwater
in Santa Monica bay, California, is entire
ly feasible, but its cost will be necessarily
great, probably not less than $6,OOO,O0O.
The Propaganda at Rome considers the
conduct Of the London Times and London
Tdblct (the latter is the organ of the En-
glsh Tory Cathohcs) in mlsconstruing
the papal rescript, for the purpose of irri-
tating the Irish extremely blameable.
LORD STANLEY, the newly appointed
Governor General of Canada, expresses
confidence in the Canadian Ministry, and
says he has no preconceived ideas of
policy to force upon an unwilling peo-
pie.
The alleged newspaper man who re-
Gently sailed on the Sarmatian and ere
ated comment by his lavish display of
wealth, is said to have been john K.
Miles, who is wanted in Philadelphia for
forgery.
A MEETING of the Trades Assembly of
Western Pennsylvania, on the ID, repre-
Senting over sixty thousand men, adopted
series of resolutions emphatically con-
demning the Mills Tariff bill and all its
advocates.
Tue secret Of the failure of the Senate
committee on the judiciary to make re-
port on the case of Mr.. Fuller, is certain
charges preferred by one Dunlevy, of
thlcaSo, which the committee have under
investigation.
THE visiting delegates to the st. Louis
convention waited with anxious expect
ancy on Sunday. to hear the hour of twelve,
midnight, strike. They were not dry, but
wanted 70 observe how well the Sunday
law was kept.
OVER 1000 persons witnessed the game
Of base ball played at Buffalo, N. Y, on
the LIST, between the newsboys of the De-
troit Mich. Euening Journal and those of
the Buffalo On. " Ncsos. The latter won
BY score Of IS to-.
NJ, GOBLET, in his speech in the French
Chamber of Deputies, on the 31st, in re-
ply to an Interpolation regarding the
Ilsza incident, limited at line drawn
beyond which none of the enemies of
france would be allowed to go.
THE frame house at Point Pleasant, O.,
n which General U. S. Grant was born,
has been foated down the river on a
raft, aud hauled up to Race and Canal
streets, Cincinnati, where it is to be placed
IA exhibition under a canvass.
AMONG the passengers on board the
European steamers arriving in New York
vi the 3D. were James Gordon Bennett,
IfInce Roland Bonaparte, and NJ. Blon-
GA' who became famous, in 1859, by cross
-As Niagara Falls on tight rope.
INTERESTING developments are expected
III III lhe examination into the award to a
Mchmond (Va.) firm of recent contract
Or furnishing 10000 pounds of tobac-
20 Tor use in the navy at thirty eight
Wits per pound-the highest bid offered.
lHE Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail-
lodu announced, on the 30th, that, begin
.ainS June 4, its first class freight rate
"oh Chicago to st. Paul will be forty
glts instead of sixty cents as heretofore,
o,H mn a corresponding reduction in the
OAer classes.
AL'A Y. MERsHoN, of Des Moines, Ia,
M arrested, on the I'd, for forging the
apIne OF levi Roberts, of Newton, Ia, to
of