Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.
comniIed from Various Sources.

NEWS LIN BhlET.
comuIIed from Various Sources.
,n;s officially stated that the Pope does
ir+ond 70 leave Rome, nor has he
tbourht of taking such step.
tAVN9 s@---
n,y,or, is surpassed by only four
states Of the Union in the number OF stu
dents attending her agricultural college.
Tur nress Of Alabama, for the most
n part. strongly favor the proposltioh "
a establish an educational quallnca'lon LUZ
81 voters.
Il THE Comptroller of the Currency has
q issued call for reports OF the condltlon
81 of National banks at the close OF business
q on December II.
STRIKES are reported from several
81 noints on the line of the Mexican
u National railroad, owing to the non-pay-
81 ment of wages.
d THE President, on the 18th, approved the
4 act making a deficiency appropriation for
q the contingent expenses OF the House of
\ representatives.
REV. DR.. B. COSTA, rector of the Church
of st. John the Evangelist, New York, de-
nounces the Sunday newspaper as "the
modern anti Christ"
THERE is considerable excitement at
/ Glens Falls, n. Y, over the discovery of
silver bearing ledges in the town. Claims
/ are being filed rapidly.
MAXINE OUTREY, formerly Minister
from France to the United States, has re-
tired to his villa at Cannes, with Nine.
Outrey, who is an American.
THE marked favor shown by the Car
of Russia to the divorced wife Of King
Milan of Servia is taken as an indication
of the early downfall of the latter.
IN the primary election which has just
been held throughout Servia, the Radicals
and Liberals scored a great victory, the
Progressionists being totally defeated.
JAMES C. MoRFoRD, of Baltimore, aged
ninety-four, the last of the old defenders,
who repeled the British attack on Balti-
more in 1914, died in that city on the 17th.
THE Senate committee on military af-
fairs, on the 14th, ordered favorable re-
port on a bill to retire General w. s.
Rosecrans with the rank of Brigadier-
General.
THE famous stallion Volunteer, the sire
of st. Julien and other noted trotters,
died at the Walnut Grove farm, in Orange
County, N. Y, on the 18th. He was thirty
four years of age.
Gross frauds in the count of the vote
for mayor Of San Francisco, at the recent
election, are being unearthed by the re-
count demanded by the defeated anti
Chinese candidate.
OFFICIAL notice was sent, on the 18th,
to the passenger agents Of all railroads
in the West and Northwest that, at the ex-
piration of ten days, passenger rates Will
be restored to the former basis.
FIVE applicants had already appeared
for appointment as Judge of the Federal
Court for the district Of FlOrada, made
vacant by the death of Judge Thomas Set
tie, less than two weeks ago, up to the 14th.
THE New York Press says that Governor
Gray of Indiana refused to allow the re-
ception room of the Governor in the Capt.
tol at Indianapolis to be used for the re-
ception of Mr.. and Mrs. Morton on the
14th.
Hon. EDWIN SALTER, the first Free-Soil
member of the New Jersey Legislature for
Ocean County, died at Forked River, N.
j., on the 10TH During the war he was
the Washington correspondent for several
newspapers.
GENERAL BOULANGER says that General
Sheridan was his ideal of a cavalry Gen
era He also speaks enthusiastically of
Generals Sherman and Mcdowell, and OF
the memories of his trip to the United
States in 1881.
E. L. HARPER, late vice. president Of the
Fidelity National Bank of Cincinnati, who
is confined in the Ohio State prison at
Columbus, gave unmistakable evidence
Of insanity, on the 18th, and was removed
to the insane department.
SEVERAL members Of the crew of
the oyster sloop Mahoney, sunk in Chesa-
peake bay in the recent engagement with
the State steamer McLane, were drowned.
Statements as to the actual number lost
vary from two or three to nine.
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JOHN G.. WHITTIER, the venerable poet,
celebrated his eighty first birthday at his
winter home, Oak Knoll, near Danvers,
Mass, on the 18th, receiving in a quiet
and unostentatious way his friends and
nelghbors. He is in fair health.
LATE advices from South Africa say
mat the King of Swaziland recently
caused the massacre of his Premier and
SIX chiefs and their people who were sup
posed to be concerned in a plot to de-
ulrone him in favor of his brother.
IHE French Government introduced
plll IN the Chamber of Deputies, on the
Ifth' providing for postponement for
1fee months of the payment Of the Pana-
ma Canal Company's liabilities, including
interest and the redemption OF bonds.
iHE Secretary of the Interior, on the
I'm, rejected the claim of the State OF
michigan to tract of land in the Upper
Fenmsula. Some thirteen hundred acres
are directly involved, while more than
one million acres are indirectly affected.
REPRESENTATIVE Catholics of New York
olty dlscredit the recent cable dispatch