Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-11

| Cha lJes Tupper favOrs commerclal reel
pr ocitv betveen Canada and the United |
State.
THE eminently pacific character Of the
austro-German treaty, just published, is
favorably commented upon by the press
Of Europe.
THE Dominion debt statement to JAN
nary 81, shows: Gross debt, $276,374,-
@zSS: assets, $iG,34G 37109; net debt,
g3lO28, GIG y.
THE constables who arrested the whole |
sale liguor dealers at Dos Mones, Ia, and |
then released them, have been indicted |
for receiving bribes.
NEARLY $1,000 have been contributed |
for the three Nebraska school mistresses
whose heroism neaIy cost them their
lives in tile late blizzard.
The President and he Civil Service
Commissioners have just completed and
promulgated. n number of impor tant
changes in, the Civil Service rules.
The most noticeable effect of Prince
| BsT Arck's speech, in the Reichstag on
the 9th, was to stffen the price Of govern
Ihent and other securities on the bourses.
The swelling in the lower part of the
. German Crown Princes larnyx has
slightly increased, and interferes some
what with his respiration when he exerts
himself.
MGR. ADAM, of California, presented to
the Pope, on the 81, a photograph of
Gabriel, an Indian Ca atholic one hundred
and forty years of age, for whom he asked
special blessing.
The Grant Monument Association have
invited artists, sculptors and architects
to submit plans for monument or me-
mortal building, based on an estimated
expenditure of 100000.
THE special delivery system of the
Post-Ofice Department has become a
pronounced success The increase in
business for the quarter ending December
5lreached 1876 per cant.
The success and safety of Lieutenant
}. w. Graydon's invention for charging
shells with dynamite has been attested
by the official report of the board con-
Quoting the Sandy Hook experiments.
COMPETITION for the location of the Ma
tional Democratic convention is running
high at the National capital. New York,
Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and San
Francisco are the prime pal competitors.
THE annual banquet of the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association of Balti-
more, Nd, took place at the Hotel Rem |
merit on the night of the ID and was at |
tended bv representative business men to |
the number Of two hundred.
THE business failures during the seven |
days ended the Sd numbered for the |
United States, 247; and for Cana la, 80, |
Or total of 219, as compared with 317 for |
the preceding like period, and 261 for the |
corresponding week Of last year.
SERIOUS rioting was reported from |
shenandoah, Pa, on the evening of the |
o. started by an attack of a mob of men |
ana boys on the non-unOn miners as they |
were leaving their worl. Several persons |
were wounded, and more trouble was ex-
pected
~ olncef Of the Philadelphia & Read |
,lS haHroad Company estimates that at |
rdsl I'VE thousand miners returned to |
WORK durlnglast week, and said that there |
are enough mines being worked to avoid |
any inconvenience to the company or to |
consumers.
lHE San Francisco Chamber of Com
nerce on the I'd, adopted the majority
reports of the committee recently ap-
pointed to consider the tariff as affecting
sugar interests of the Pacific coast The
report advocates that the present tariff |
Oe maintained.
uENERAL SHERIDAN was driven around |
BOSTON on the 25th, and was greeted |
erywhere by tremendous crowds, who |
eueered him wildly. A public reception |
was was gwen in Faneuil Hall at noon, and |
:uS pace was packed, the crowds extend |
'ng lar out into the street.
NAPrAlN RITCHIE of the State Line |
Waher State Of Indiana was presented,
i 'ne 81, on behalf of Pres dent Cleve-
y %ll' with gold watch and chain, and
lr~poeu, the first officer, with a binocu-
IT,; sass, for saving the crew of the ship
npAant, of Bos ton, abandoned at sea.
fRoF' WM MCFARLAND. one of the old
aV'ors IN the country, was found dead
~ we 0lst. Mcfarland supported Mac
II y .i when the great Englishman was
,aa ,uS country, and later the elder Booth,
timers
T. LUZ GODS in the Federal Court at
n h1alapolis, Ind, on the 3d. overruled
I'll 'no'lon tor new trial in the case of
i: ana Bernhamer, the convicted tally
tsno' e' 'CohspIrators. Coy was then SEN
nos., 20 the penitentiary for eighteen
bsn'.I9 b,sn9 ana to pay fine of 800. Bern
N0oo 10 one year and to pay fine of
I'M, AIT industrial parade, many miles
h a"o occupy ing two hours and a hal f
rs ~so'hg given point, was the carni
III traction W at st. Paul, Minn., on the
ho HFery important busin ess house in
saL"y was represented. many by
II ~ ate hoats, showing goods tasteful
pti.Ap1ayed and others by crews Of