Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-26

take effect June l.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency, on the
| ot-4. authorized The tirst National Bank of
HAYS City. Kas., to begin business with q
cap.tal Of $4,000.
TIE wife Of Senator Sawyer, of Wiscon-
sin. died suddenly at Washington after
lingering illness, on the 21st, while her
husband was at the Capitol.
THE General Term of the Supreme
corrt of New York, on the 18th, sustained
tha conviction of Doodle Alderman A. J.
,fcOuade, who is serving term In Sing
Sing
~ the meeting of Nationalists at
Phoenix Park, Dublin, on the Goth, Mr..
O,Brien said the Pope's rescript was
worse than twenty years of Balfourian
coercion
Tue General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church, representing sixty
nine Prasbyteries covering the territory
from Maryland TO Mexico, met in Balti-
more on the 10th.
IT is charged that Harry Phillips, John
L, Sulliyan's late manager, is a burglar,
and wanted in Canada to answer for the
robbery Of the vault of the Grand Trunk
Railroad Company.
THE appropriation for the equipmc ut
and maintenance of the militia of the
United States is this year placed at 5000.
eo. Last year it was 100000, and pre-
Eious to that 100000 annually.
THREE steamships landed 2,007 immi-
grants at Castle Garden on the Goth. The
Umbria, from Liverpool, brought e67s the
LA Bretagne, from Harye, AT, and the
SchIedam, from Amsterdam, COL.
TIE thirty-fftn annual conclave of the
Grand Conmandery Of Knights Templar
oi Pennsylvania opened i'll Philadelphia,
On The 2lst, with an informal reception by
the various local Communicates.
John BATcnELDER, Of Michiga re-
Gently placed upon tho pension rolls as
The dependent father OF u young man
killed at Shiloh, is III his 10th year, and
the Oldest pensioner in the United states.
TIE four Delegates at large and seven
teen of the twenty district delegates from
Tennessee to the National Republican
convention are for Blaine. Sherman's
namo was not mentioned in the conyen-
ton
SENATOR MORRILL, chairman of the COM
nittee on finance, on the 10th designated
Senators Allison, Aldrich, Hiscock, Beck
and Harris, us sub committee to COM
pile q tariff bill as q substitute for the
Mills bill.
THE New York World, Of the goth, CON
taincd an interview between its special
correspondent IN Paris and Mr.. Blaine, to
which the writer adds most positive as
surouces Of air. Blaine's perfect and ro-
bust health.
GEORGE BENSON, the Patti ticket swim
oicr, awaiting extradition to Mexico,
killed himself in Ludlow Street Jail, New
lorE City, cn the 10th, by throwing HIM
set oyer The staircase rail to the stone
fo0r below
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to cele
ofaje the anniversary of the battle of Get
iFsbGrg on July next. The ceremonies
WIi be conducted by the First Corps, on
tle battlefield where General John F.
Eeyl0lds fell.
TWENTY ONE members Of the Honora-
bla Artillery Company Of London, IN
cluding a number of field and staff Off
GERS, sailed, on the 18th, from Southamp-
< ION, to become the guests Of the Ancient
ana Honorable Artillery Company Of Bos-
ton.
II was reported, on the 18th, that Colonel
FRED p. Grant had offered and General
BadcGu had rejected the $4,000 claimed
I'M assisting General Grant in preparing
~ fA-. t1,A
badeau prefers vindication at the hands
" court OF law.
The South Carolina State Democratic
convention elected delegates to st. Louis
on the 18th. The platform indorses the
administration of President Cleveland
ana his message on the tariff; declares
Inc Treasury surplus menace to the
country and approves the Mills Tariff bill.
TIE iron manufacturers of the Mahon-
lhE valley have formed an association,
N.iA headquarters at Youngstown, O., to
oppose freight discrimination. They
rlaim that for a long time the railroads
LaI9 Disseminated against them by
charging high rates in favor of Pittsburgh.
THE suit of Inventor Edison against the
United States Electric Light Company
-or infringement of patent, begun three
years ago, and on which twenty-six SINH
Iar suits depend, was decided by Judge
wallace, in the United States Circuit
court IN favor of the defendant, on the
10TH
MRs, SCoFIELD, held for completely in
Vle death OF Broker Hatch, of New York,
WAS taken before the Supreme Court
IN me 18th, on q writ OF habeaS corpus,
"nd discharged from custody on the
ground that the court had no authority to
rluNe her confinement i'll the House OF
Detention.
GOVERNOR Hu.Leof New York issued a
H"clamation, on the 10th, declaring con-
.o'-'us pleuro-pneumonia prevalent
@Aong the cattle in New York, Kings,
Gueens, Richmond and part Of West
onester counties, and proclaiming them
L1@rantlned under the Federal Animal
Industry act,