Huntsville gazette., 1888-08-04

THE praat eclipse stake of fl0.000 was
won at Sandown Park, England, on the
9th, by Orbit; Ossory second, and Mart
ley third
CoRNE1Ius VANDERBILT and his family,
consisting Of wife, four sons and two
daughters, arrived in New York, from
Europe, on the 2Sbh
THE House committee on commerce,
on the 18th. directed favorable report
upon the Senate bill to amend the Inter-
State Commerce law.
THE Canadian Pacific Railway Com
pany will buy the Southeastern railway
charter and shorten the distance from
St Hyacin he to s.. Johns, N. B.
BARLEY CAMPBELL the dramatist, who
had for some time been confined in an
asylum for the insane at Middletown, N
Y died, on the s)th, of general paresis.
For the half year ending Juue 80 the
gross earnings Of the Canadian Pacific
railway We're 1888 800, and working ex.
penses s., 719, 520, leaving a net profit Of
$1,u3,S70.
The Southern Railway & Steamship
Association, on the 25th, resolved to re-
new their present neutral agreement for
the maintenance Of rates, for another
year from August l.
THE Senate committee on mines and
mining reported favorably, on the 2Sth,
the House bill appropriating $4,000 for
the investigation OF the mining debris
question in California.
A SERIOUS break occurred in the three
mile level Of the Erie Canal at Brighton,
N. Y, on the 9th. Several boats were
broken in two, and all of the east bound
boats were delayed.
MAJOR Downs, OF New York City, who
began the crusade against the bobtaiI
car bv refusing to put his fare in the box,
was fined one dollar on the 26th. The
case will be appealed.
THERE was almost total abandon
meut of trains on local divisions Of the
Southern Pacific and the Sonora railroads
on the 3)th, because OF the immense wash
outs caused by heavy rains,
EMPEROR WILLIAM, accompanied by
King Oscar and Crown Prince Gustaf of
Sweden. Prince Henry of Prussia and
Count Herbert Bismarck, took an extern
sive drive in Stockholm on the 9th.
s
MAJOR GENERAL MAKsHNA R. PATRICK.
Governor OF the Central Branch Soldiers
Home at Dayton, O., died on the 9th.
He was Provost Marshal General Of the
Army Of the Potomac during the war.
TIE annual examinations of the class
OF naval officers under instruction at the
torpedo station, at Newport, r. L., begun
on the ?lst. The examination covered all
modern and improved torpedo practice.
THE London Chronicle's Rome dispatch,
of the 3)th, says that Emperor William
will not only visit King Humbert at
Rome, but will sojourn at the Quiriual
and hold receptions at the German en-
bassy.
THE monster steamboat Puritan, build
ing at Chester, Pa, for the Fall River
line, was launched on the 25th. She is
the largest vessel of her class in the
world, and will cost when completed,
Sl,QQOQ0,
IHE coroner in the MitchelIstown (Ire-
laldl inquest summed up the evidence,
On the 2Sth, against incrimin ating any
persons for the death of John Vaudeville.
L was evident that Barr lied in the wit
Ness box
GERMAN namod CIotten was arrested
n London, on the 26th, charged with
sending letter to Mr.. Gladstone, threat
enlng to murder him because the latter's
|lfe had mislaid a manuscript Clotten
hadsent her.
HE Senate committee on education
and labor reported favorably, on the 2Sth,
ihe House bill to create boards of arbi-
uatlon for settling controversies and diff
lerences between railroad corporations
and their employees.
REPRESENTATIVE FoRAN Oem.), of
ONO, said, on the 30th. that the next
house Will be Republican by about ten to
Ai'een majority. He expects that his
own district and Mr.. Campbell's, in Ohio,
WILL be lost to the Democrats.
NATHAN MYRICK began suit in the
CAlted States Court at st. Paul, Mimi, on
ule 26th, for interest on $1l,321, the pur
NnaSe price of bill of goods sold by
Palntlt to the Sioux Indians in 1851, but
"nAch was not liz Undated until 1885.
IhE husslan Government has ordered
y - same uutleS as are leVleu Dy
european Russia shall be imposed at the
t"clhc ports OF Eastern Siberia upon i'm
poIteQ sugar, preserves, sirup, chocolate,
"idcK' spirits, liquors. wine and beer.
Thirty machine molders went out on
81. S.FlAe at j. W. Foleyis machine works, in
"a SsuC;'nnati, on the 3oth. The proprietor
pnscharged the shop committeeman,
Nooert Schoor, because he had told the
n IIeu they could not work under $15 week.
Hence the strike.
ooONr MENABREA, the Italian Ambassa
m aoF 10 France, handed to M. Goblet, Min
,''er OF Foreign Affairs, on the 2Sth, {.
49," addressed to all the European Pow
r. l@, Ho'llylng them that Italy had definite
oatn tSAen possession of Massowah and the
adjacent territory.
itN ner speech on temperance in Wash
s.iS 5,on' on the Goth, Mrs. Clara Hoffman
NJ ~ eNat money and party were the gods
coriS american people; that Congress
xarN .u De bought, and that the courts
ttnS 'enal. She also condemned the at
snagt ol the Protestant church on the
l--'l9a or temperance