Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-21
NEWS IN BRIEF.
C0muiled from Various Sources.

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conr;,ed from Various Sources.
u,os nominated for Governor
hi0he-, MT haIlot BIZ the Louis lana Dem
OH "a: ctate convention at Baton Rouge,
ON the 18Th.
r-,, residence of United States Senator
,,roIIs at Atchison, Kas., was destroyed
NV fire ON the 18th. The loss is, in some
respects, irreparable. -a~aa
JOHN MANLY, young man OF bloom
;ngton. H., died on the night OF the 10Th
from the effects Of dose of aconte, taken
by mistake for cough medicine. s..
THE value OF the export is of breadstuffs
for tbe twelve months ended December
81, 1887, was SIS, ,301, ,T6S, as against Sl4o,.
12302) for the twelve months ended
December 81, 1856
THE reports of loss of life result
inc from the recent blizzard in the North
west are simply appalling, nearly every
section Of Minnesota, Dakota and Nebras-
ka furnishing its quota.
TIVE recent blizzard throughout the
North has been the most severe Of the
winter, greatly delaying trains and BUSH
ness. causing much suffering, in some
cases resulting in death.
THE a arv Of Dr. Abbott, as temporary
pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn,
has been fixed at $500 per annum. This
is one-third the remuneration paid to the
late Henry Ward Beecher.
ADvICEs from the Russian frontier say
the troops in the Lubiin district are suf-
fering terribly from cold. Forty sentinels
have been frozen to death. Dysentery
and typhus fever are prevalent.
THE council of the Russian Empire has
decided to introduce into the Baltic prov
nces the Russian police system. The
mobiles of the provinces have protested
against this innovation without avail.
THE corner block of the st. Paul
(Minn.) ice palace was laid on the 14th in
the presence of large concourse of spec
tators, notwithstanding the temperature
was lurking about twenty degrees below
zero
SCARE has been caused in Cork, Ire
been informed of plot to wreck the gov
ernment building. All the steamers and
trains are being watched for suspicious
persons.
AMONG the men arrested in connection
with the latest plot against the Car of
Russia, is an employe of the Baltic rail-
way, who kept the Nihilists informed of
every journey of the Car to and from
Gatschina.
THE business failures during the seven
days ended tho 18th number, for the
United States, 25S, and for Canada, 80, or
total of 2SS, as against 279 the preceding
like period, and 1913 for the CORES ponding
week of 1887.
The convention for a parcels post be-
tween this country and the Bahamas has
been returned duly signed to Superintend-
ent Bell of the foreign mail service, and
was laid before the President on the 10th
for his approval.
THE first of series of fortnightly re-
ceptions was given by the President and
Mrs. Cleveland at the Executive Mansion
N Washington, on the night of the 18th,
to the diplomatic corps and a large num-
Der of invited guests.
THE Warsaw police have issued orders
that all Austrians who have not permits
. reside in Poland must quit Russian
territory nStanter. All Polish officers are
being removed from the frontier regi-
ments and sent to take commands in the
interior.
oEcRETARY FAIRCHILD has prepared a
ietter 10 Speaker Carlisle, showing the
necessity Tor additional legi Station to pre-
FeHt the smuggling of opium, and recon-
Hehdng either a reduction of the duty
on that commodity or its restriction a.
together
GRANDMA" GARFIELD, as President
Garfield's mother is called by those who
knew her, is i'll at the old homestead at
Mentor. She wants to see Jimmy" as
she terms her dead son, and, although
not very SICK it is thought that her end
Is drawing near, as she is very aged.
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IHE President has grant ed a pardon in
the case OF Levi c. Pratt, convicted in the
southern district of Iowa of passing
counterfeit money, and sentenc ID Febru-
aFy /, 1886 to five years Imprisonment.
~ acting on the case, the President said
the convict has served two years and was
good soldier in the war.
AFTER eluding detectives for year,
Charei Bourton, the man who, represent
ing himself as brother of Marcus R.
mayer, and who SO successfully swindled
tHe residents of the City of Mexico out of
So4V00 by spurious advance sale of
ucNets for series of concerts by Nine.
1a't, has been arrested in New York.
At the meeting of the Michigan State
Doafl OF Health at Lansing, on the 10th,
rfof' Vaughn reported successful ex-
perment of producing in a cat a disease
similar to typhoid fever in the human
y-by the use of the germs found in
.ue water used by the three hundred vic
'iiiiS OF the scourge at Iron Mountain, Mich.
lHE Secretary of the Treasury, on the
n'n' transmitted to Congress asdeiciency
est mate of S29, 800, submitted by the Sec
Ie!ary OF the Interior, to meet losses sus-
,aIaed by Colorow and other Ute Indians
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