Huntsville gazette., 1888-12-29

r,, ,rovs and means committee, on the
o,tb recommended an appropriation of
On COO to supply deficiency in the Gov
eminent printing Office.
II Il said that the persistent smuggling
Of oninm into the United States is con-
Grctfd by syndicate organized for the
nnrpose. with capital of S5,000,0O0.
FIVE Columbia College students were
arrested for creating a disturbance at the
B;jou New York City, Theater on the
q2d. They were subsequently fined $40
each.
DEsERTERs from the Arab camp near
Suakim say that there is a strong Arab
force at Handoub, where a large number
Of the dead from the field of the late bat
tie were taken.
A CONVENTION of South Dakota Demo-
Gratis met at Mitchell, on the 10Th, to urge
upon Congress the early admission Of the
south half of the Territory to Statehood,
under the Sioux Falls Constitution.
EDWIN BOOTH, Lawrence Barrett and
Joseph Jefferson have joined in the move
ment Of American actors against the i'm
portation of foreign actors to America
under contract to play in this country.
PROF. BRIcE's new book, "The Ameri-
can Commonwealth" is highly spoken of
BY English critics, and has even been lik-
ened in Importance to De Tocqueville's
great work on Democracy in America"
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
granted Surgeon-General Hamilton of
the Marine Hospital Service leave of abb
sence for sixty days from January l, 1899,
which period that officer will spend in
Chicago.
THE Treasury Department officials were
again excited, on the 21st, over the return
Of several twenty dollar National bank
notes that were supposed to have been
previously redeemed, Cancelled and de-
stroyed.
THE magnificent Lower Mississippi
steamer Kate Adams, plying between
Memphis, Tenn, and Arkansas City, Ark,
was burned on the morning of the 23d near
Commerce, Miss. Thirty-two people lost
their lives.
Mr.. GLADSTONE started from London
for Italy on the 10Th. His arrival at Dover
was greeted by thousands of his admirers,
who cheered him enthusiastically. The
channel was rough during the voyage and
heavy fog prevailed.
THE coal operators in the Hooking,
Sunday Greek and Shawnee (O.) valleys,
have formed a pool to regulate the output
and selling price of coal for the coming
year. The pool controls about two thirds
Of the output Of the State.
THE New York Journal says that George
Crouch, who was once on terms of init
macy with Jay Gould, is about to publish
a book on ''Gould and Gouldism," which,
the author claims, will make Mr.. Gould
wish he had never been born.
Mr. HoAR presented to the Senate, on
the 10Th, petition signed by 3,22S citizens
of Massachusetts,, praying the adoption OF
a constitutional amendment to prevent
the Interference of any religious sect
with the system of public schools.
WHOLESALE discharges of conductors
By the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Com
pany between Albuquerque, N. NJ, and
Nojave, Cal, have recently been made.
Fifty conductors, of both passenger and
freight trains, have been dismissed.
GENERAL BENZ. 4. BRUCE, one OF the
trainers of the present Constitution OF
-'NN VI lOI llCI1y oPSNbCA oSAASA''Af
Canal Commissioner and member OF the
Assembly, died on the DIST, at his home in
Canastota N. Y, aged seventy six years.
IT is stated that huge syndicate, con-
trolling a capital of $S,090,000, has been
formed by Henry Willard to buy up and
operate large list of electrical patents,
including the stock ticker service, and
Edison electric lighting and other inven-
lions.
AN extensive religious revival is going
On among the colored people Of Jefferson
Vile, Ind conducted by white lad sew
enteen years old, named Harvey Smith.
The boy is an eloquent speaker, and pro-
fesses to cure diseases by faith and the
laying on Of hands.
SOUTH DAKOTA is strongly opposed to
the plan outlined by Congressman
Springer for its admission. The people
have had Constitution for three years,
and are ready to enter the Union without
gong through the work Of framing an
0'aer organic instrument.
The President, on the 21st, pardoned
Benjamin Hopkins lin the Ohio State
F1So1 for embezzing funds from the FL
Qelty National Bank of Cincinnati) in
ofder as he he alleged, that he might
spend his few remaining days and die
anonS his friends at home.
NAN known as Franz Schneider died
suddenly at the Metropolitan Hotel, III
"ashlnghton, on the 23d. He is said to
nave been Count Arth, a member OF the
pernian nobility. He had been at the
NoIel for two months, spending large
sums Of money and living luxuriously.
HE municipal authorities at Batoum,
ASIA, have refused to grant the Roths-
Clllds the privilege of running pipe line
through the town to connect their petro-
leuru wells directly with the vessels at the
nharVes, on the ground that the pipe sys-
tM would work injury to small traders.
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9 IHE difficulty between the United
states and Hayti over the latter's seizure
u the American vessel Haytien Republic,
s ended. The Haytien Republic has been
iofmaly delivered to the American
sgladron, that vessel and the Haytien
sllpS at the same time saluting the Amer
lean flag.