Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-28

VOLUME TX.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
rerorts are to the effect that
CANAD-.e., -, ,ragotiations of Washington
are proving failure.
nv behalf of the United States Postmas-
oC caneral Dickinson has signed par
vi ,,ast convention with British Hon.
duras.
ruv Secretary of State has received the
..sionotion of Mr. Frederick Ellison, of
Indiana, as United States Consul at st.
Helena.
BrL has been introduced in the Ken
tnckv Legislature practically prohlpltlng
marriage with any man whose morals are
not Of the purest.
rvroy Pacific coal trains in n Nebraska
have been stopped at several towns, and
toal taken from them by force to keep the
people from freezing.
Tr is rumored that England intends to
rrocIaim the National League in the
whole of County Donegal and parts of
Counties Down and Armagh.
SECRETARY Villas has relieved Assis-
tont Secretary Muldrow of the care of
land decisions, and has taken this class
of work under his own supervision.
Nh. WILLIAM O'BRTEN, editor of United
ireland was released from Tullamore
prison on the Goth. A number of other
similar offenders were sent to jail during
the day.
On the 23l the United States Supreme
Court, dismissed the write of error in the
Maxwell case for want of jurisdiction,
and the famous st. Louis criminal is now
in the shadow Of the gallows.
Mr.. SEvELLON A. BRowN, who has held
the position of chief of the State Depart
ment for about fifteen years, will. it is
said, retire, and will be succeeded by Mr..
J. Fenner Lee, of Baltimore, Md.
The Railroad Gazette's record of train
accidents in December 1887, includes 80
collisions, SO derailments and other ac-
cdents; total of 1S2 accidents, in which
Il pers ons were killed and 211 injured.
SIMULTANEOUSLY with the order of the
Serv an Government for the manufact
ure and delivery of 100000 rifles comes
the verified report that 10000 similar
weapons have been contracted for by the
Hungarians.
POLISH land owners are in despair over
the rapid depreciation in the value. of
their estates. They complain that the
government avoids buying army supplies
in Poland, preferring to buy elsewhere at
enhanced prices.
ALTHOUGH Speaker Carlisle is improv-
ing physically, it is not believed that he
will assume the duties of his office for sew
eral days, it being his intention to go to
Fortress Monroe for brief period of rest
and recuperation.
JOHN McLAIN, who left Can ton, o.,
thirty-five years ago to 60 to California,
and who has been given up for dead by
friends and relatives years ago, has just
returned to claim a farm valued at $35, 800,
to which he had fallen heir
THE President, on behalf of himself and
Mrs. Cleveland, has accepted ex-Govern-
Or Cornelps invitation to attend the
twelfth annual commencement Of Cornell
University at Ithica, N. Y, next June,
conditioned upon the possible emergen-
cles OF official duties at that time
"GRANDMA" GARFIELD the mother of the
late President Jas. A. Garfield, died at six
O'Clock on the morning of the 21st at the
home OF Mrs, Garfield in Mentor, o. Her
age was eishty-six years. She has grad
nauy been failing during the past two
months, the resuI Of old age.
-s
'ACVB oHARP sWofe on the 18th that he
expects 10 de soon, and that he wants to
ss.ue up all his earthly affairs without
\, T7iay' u order that he may die in peace.
-ne Suit IN which he made this melancholy
@niuaV'V Is one brought against him to re-
cover an unpaid bill for wire fence.
4 CONVOY Of prisoners, while being
aken from South Russia to the Caucasus.
Mutned and attacked the engine driver.
Inc train was stopped and a desperate
lsht ensued, in which eight soldiers, two
gendarmes and thirty-one prisoners were
Killed Twenty-one prisoners escaped.
| SATURDAY, the 21st. was the coldest dav
Eyer known at Minneapolis, Mimi. AT
M' thermometers showed 4S below. and
standard Government thermometer
showed 40 below, the lowest that can be
e9stered on it. At Chippewa Falls, Wis.
nj mercury was GS below on the night of
the 10Th.
hHf hEV. CHARLES A. VIsSANL o. S.
= VI the Commisariat of the Holy Land.
;psparlng great pilgrimage of Amer
.s ,tan ] atnolics to Palestine for the spring
D.. 1000 Ihe pilgrims will go by way of
. .aIIs and Rome, and will probably get
IIteea! aud ence from His Holiness, Pope
:. 0N 'ne 26d, at the meeting of the Me thod-
or. PREACHERS in Baltimore, Md, the res
oas I'-ohs offered at previous meet ing,
jnIsurlng President Cleveland or send
rss.a copy of the Constitution of the
Tbl.'eu states to Pope Leo, came up.
L. Slo was much di scussion, bat the reso-
N+o1o Nous we're finally adopted by vote of
r, - lli'pINAL GIBBONS received from Rome