Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS LIN BRlEF.
Committed FROM vaTiesss Sources.
-,r, ~ country fifty miles wide be-
fa,rostown and Lamourne, Oak.
hr,,,ad bv the recent prairie fires.
r,,r,cv PrsuARCK's second son, Will
,oi,,, has been named to succeed Herr
crapaeh as Governor of district in
T1au5Jar. .
THr Eaw York SIM Of the 27rh, saws
IN. Generel Harrson's contribution to
he Ra~ublican National campaign fund
Yas ,75o
NAv,GATTov on the Upper Missis slpri
is nearly at standsfill on account of the
almost unprecedented low stage of water
IN the channel
Mrs. BECKER, a counter in the REGISTRY
division Of the treasure, has been found
10 he S9H short in her cash and dismissed
from the service.
CorovrT. NIKE SHERTD ~ received from
{he publishers. on the 99'h, The revised
proofs Of tha last chapter Of General
Sheridan's memoirs.
N.r1ovAr hn0k depositories, on the 1st,
held S57 81 &S5 of Government money. or
abont million and three quarters less
than on September ].
Don CARLOS, the Spanish nretender,
has written q letter denving that he is
npcotiatirn for a reconciliation with the
Snanish Government,
TIE CITY Of Mexico will not declare
quarantine against the United States un-
til real cases of yellow fever appear in
New Orleans or Texas.
THE municipal elections throughout
Connecticut, ON the 1st, showed slight
gains for the Republicans. The Prohibi-
ton vote did not increase.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY. on the 9th, pub
lshed an Indignant denial of Mr.. Cham
ber'ain's alterations that Irish leaders
AaveIpr0fited by the Nationalist agitation.
". 7. SHERIDAN, Territorial statis-
tician of Dakota, estimates the wheat
crop at 3 OG0 09G bushels against - 000
300 pro duced III the Territory last year.
JUDGE THURMAN was made the recipient
OF rousing meeting in his honor at
Columbus, o., on the 29th. He reviewed
a procession OF over 5000, and spoke in
dne voice.
THE trial Of Mr. Edward Walsh. editor
Of the Wexford QrelandD People. w ho was
arrested in August for offenses under the
Crimes act, was, on the seth, postponed
Until November,
CONTRIBUTIONS received at Jackson
lille, Fla, for the benefit Of the fever snfe
lerers, un to the 1st, amounted to S23f,S6i,
and disbursem ents to $74,4iS leaving o
balance Of $l62 3s9,
IT has been definitely ascertained that
twenty members Of the Home Rule dele
CATION in the British Parliament are the
recipients Of stinands from the National
League OF other funds.
VIM Fl. PIT. professor of chemistry in
the Buffalo IN. W High-School, has dis
covered process for refining oil petrol
eum, which till now has refused to give
up its extra charge of sulphur.
"A BATTLE took place recently between
the VI qui Indians and the Government
Forces in GuaynGs. Mexico. I q Indians
were aeeeatel and are making efforts to
reach United States terr tory.
LATE aivioas from Auckland and Syd-
nev bring news Of the recent fighting at
Samor letween the forces of Tomasesz
aall8'oet0a, ths depose1 Kiug,in which
t'auaaher Of killel Is placed at 400.
-c-
e7v7axoR JACKSON of Marvland res
Pt=d T my J. s pencer, who was to have
been han"ed on the 29th, at Cumberland,
far tha murder Of Scott Dawson. The
execution il suspended until October 26.
JU0GE BARRETT Of the Supreme Court
Of Y w York CITY, in Chambers, on the
Isl, decided against the application of
the United Labor party for representa-
tion i'll the boards Of elections in that
ciy,
DOCUMENTS seized by the British au-
thori'i"5 III til palace Of the R1jah Of
sikkim prove that tha unrising of the
rhibe ans was instgeted by the Chinese
Government, acting through the Llama of
Ihibet
The treatment OF the nurses who have
gone to Jacksonville to attend Yellow
fever patients is said to he barbarous.
They are Greatly overworked, and On
dinattol.
EDWARD j. CARTER, VITO WAS arrested
at Denver, Col. on The 29th, on suspicion
Of bein- Tascott. the allege murderer OF
Millionaire Smell, Of Chicago. says he is
the son OF David Carter. potter, OF Fort
EIward, n. Y.
HE total number of women in Boston
assessed for the purpose of quallfylng
Nam TO vote for school committee was
"l4), Of whom more than one-haif are
Sald 70 have been Catholics. The books
closed on the 1st
HE Oceanic Steamship mail subsidy
was rejected by the New Zeal and Parma
ment by a vote of 45 to 27. The friends
q the measure will revive it al the May
session provided assistance from the
United States is assured.
lHE Empress of Austria explains tha1
although She admires Helne's poetry,
sAe wlthdraws her donation to the Helne
monument or ha rpnuoSf OF the