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Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE President on the 9th sent message
to Congress recommending legislation to
prohibit the importation of swine from
France and Germany.
THE State National Bank of Raleigh, N.
c., was closed on the 9th by order of the
directors, the president and cashier having
absconded.
AN official call has been made 0y Gov.
Lowry of Mississippi for State conven-
tion, whose object will be to induce immi-
grafton to the State from the North and
West. The convention will be held at
Jackson on the 14th of May.
A MAN named Derosett and companion
named Gazaway Smith got into difficulty
near Dayton, Tenn, on the eth, and
Derosett knocked Smith in the head with
rock, crushing the skull and killing him in
stantly. He threw the body into & creek
and fed.
A TERRIFIC wind and rain storm ragged
at Birmingham, Ala, on the 25th, doing
serious damage. A number of buildings
were unroofed and many outhouses blown
down, the damages done amounting to
several thousand dollars. A number of
people were injured, some of them seri-
ously, but no one was killed.
A BILL to amend the naturalization law
so as to require would-be citizens to make
oath that they are not polygamists, an
archists OF communists, was introduced
into the House on the 26th by Congressman
Stewart, of Georgia.
THE Mississippi river gets two million
of the nineteen million appropriated by
the rivers and harbor bill.
BALAAM SIMS, n twelve-year-old boy,
was frightened to death near Lansing,
Tenn, on the oath. Several young men
ened to kill him. He lost his reason and
died in few hours.
THE rains in Texas have lasted 126 days,
beginning in November. They have not
failed a week at one time, and often fell
six to ten consecutive days. Hence farm
ing is backward.
THE Louisville, New Orleans & Texas
Railroad Company has been granted right
of way through certain streets and alleys
of Helena, Ark. 1t is the design of the
company to put in transfer and ap-
proaches at that place at a cost of $125, 900.
This company acquires virtually the fran
chise granted to the old Mobile & North
western road.
AT Peru, Ind, on the 25th, Fred and Karl
Kuch were playing at Indian Scouts"
Karl WAS swapping revoler, supposed to
be unloaded, at his brother, when the
weapon was discharged, the ball striking
Fred in the forehead and killing him in
stantly. The dead boy was u years old
end his brother Is IS
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
a ROMANCE SPOILED.
The Much TaIkedOf ska-Fellows Ro-
nance Punctured by the Exposure OF
Some PaIpable Untruths in the Case.

The Much TaIked-Of Chaska-Fellows Ro-
nance Punctured by the Exposure OF
Some Pa1pable Untruths in the Case.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-The latest ad
vices from Pierre, Oak, report that the
marriage of Miss Fellows, of W Washington,
to the Sioux Indian, Chaska, is near at
hand; that invitations have been issued,
etc.: that the father of the bride and her
two brothers are present awaiting the
ceremonies, and that if the ceremony ac-
tually takes place the brothers intend
shooting Chaska.
Colonel Fellows is still in Washington,
and when shown the above dispatch, said:
''In the first place, | am not there, as you
see. Secondly, have no son, and conse-
quently Miss Fellows can not have two
brothers with her armed to the teeth, pre-
pared to stop the wedding. Again, no
white man is allowed on the Indian reserv-
alton, which is several hundred miles in
extent; and, therefore, no ranchlnen or
cowboys could have been invited. Lastly,
it is utterly impossible for any human be-
ing to get news from Swift Birds camp to
Pierre, owing to the condition of the Mis-
souri, river, which is choked with floating
ice.
The last letter received by Mr.. Fellows
from his much advertised daughter, con-
tanned a simple recital Of her daily life.
The only time the name of Chaska has
been mentioned by Miss Fellows is in a
letter to friend in this city, in which she
mentioned him as having been very KIND
to her. Members of the Fellows family
refuse TO believe that the young lady ccn-
templates marriage,
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL

John Brown, of New York, has
been the tailor of every President since
Andrew Johnson's time. He recently
spent three hours with President Clevc-
land and took orders for seven suits.
"A French writer states that not one
of the sovereigns Of Europe is native
of the country over which he rules, OF
at least belongs to a family that did not
have its origin in that country.
Jacques Wissler, an old Alsatian
engraver, who engraved nearly ali the
plates from which the money and bonds
of the Confederate States of America
were made, died recently in Camden,
n. J.
1t was Sir John Millais, the great
English painter, who gave Mrs Lang
try the name of Jersey Lily. Though
born in Southampton, Eng, -Millais
spent his boyhood on the Isle of Jersey.
Millais married the divorced wife Of
Ruskin.
A wealthy resident of Manchester,
H., was arrested at Beloit, Wis, on
charge of vagrancy. He had money in
the Beloit bank and gave a check for
800 for bail After his release he drew
all his money from the bank and for
feited his bail, leaving the court with
out security.
Ex-senator Tabor, of Colorado,
has an income of over $1,000 day
from his Vulture mine, near Tucson,
Ari. He recently received from the
mine gold brick weighing 633 ounces,
and valued ut $4,000, which repre-
sented the product Of the mine for
little more than week.
A Macon merchant of somnambu-
listic habits found one morning that
$195 was missing from his store. He
sent for detective, who suggested
that the gentleman had probably hid
den the money while asleep. A search
was instituted and the missing bills
were found securely hidden away in a
corner of the barn.
Among the jewels owned by Mrs.
Aver, the widow of DR.. Aver, is q
| large necklace OF rubleS set IN dIa-
monds Several of the rubies are as
big as a mans thumb-nail, and the
central one, which was formerly q
Rajah's tallsman, is about the size of
an English walnut. 1t is uncut, and is
literally nugget of fire.
/ Senator Edmunds is fifty-nine years
of age, but is made to look older BY his
bald head and patriarchal beard He
owns a $4,000 house in Washington,
and is said to make $4,000 year out
of his law practice. Senator Edmunds
is very domestic in his habits, and he
enjoys being at home with his family.
He is also fond of animals, and has a
dog on which he dotes, and for which
he has had private staircase leading
from his library built.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

Two children Of W. Ell. Duffy were res
cued with much difficulty, badly burned
and unconscious, from their burning
home, in Washington. on the morning of
the 2Gth.
Two STEEL rollers, used in crushing
malt IN Newark IN. J.) brewery, ex-
pioded on the 26th, bursting out the win
dows and doors. Several workmen who
were standing near miraculously escaped
injury.
The River and Harbor bill will appro-
prlate about S2,000,000 for the improve
ment Of the Mississippi river.
ALL hope for the safety of the missing
New York pilot boats Enchantress and
Phantom has been abandoned.
THE self -exiled president of the defunct
Pacific National Bank Of Boston, Mass,
died in Toronto, Ont, on the 18th.
The answer of Mrs. General Grant to
the suit of General Badeau was filed on
the 26th, and consists of a brief general
denial.
THE international Council of Women
was formally opened in Washington, on
the 26tb. Miss Susan B. Anthony presided,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton delivered
the opening address.
In his testimony before the special Sem
ate committee, to which was referred the
report of the Pacific Railways Commits
sion, Senator Stanford said that the
Central Pacific railroad had fulfilled
every obligation to the Government and
the people imposed upon it by the acts Of
Congress creating it, and that it had
saved enormous sums of money for the
Government.
In her opening address before the Inter
national Council of Women, in Washing
ton, on the 26th, Mrs. Stanton said: ''The
time is not far distant when, if men do not
do justice to women, the women will strike
hands with Labor, with Socialists, with An
archists, and you will have the scenes OF
the revolution in France acted over again
in this republic.''
THE arguments in the suit brought by
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Rail-
road Company against the Rock Island
Railroad Company, which were to have
been made before Judge Gresham, in the
| United States Court at Chicago, ,on the 26th
were indefinitely postponed on account of
! the Judges absence III Milwaukee.
| II transpired on the 26th that the i'm
| provement of Emperor Frederick's condi-
| ton is due to the removal from his throat
! of a large piece of diseased cartilage of
! Sucu T. NATURE aS HAS never DeeI huONu III
q cancerous disease. The cartilage re-
moved will be microscopically examined
| by Prof. Waldemeyer.
FIVE HUNDRED convicts in the Auburn
| IN. W prison were locked in their cells
in idleness, on the 26th, by reason of the
Legislatures failure to appropriate funds
for the continuance of the State e-account
industries. The receipts from sales of
products are paid into the State treasury,
and can not be applied for purchase of
material without reappropriation.
THE testimony Of VIM. S. Bartle, of st.
Louis, before the House committee on
agriculture on the 24th created great ex-
citement among lard and pork men of the
entire country. His startling statements
are generally discredited.
A storm that was general all over the
State of Nebraska on the 10Th, and con-
tinued for twenty-four hours, injured
winter grains and impaired the prospects
for fruit.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

IN the Senate, on the 2lst, Mr.. Evarts offered
an amendment to the bill for an inspection OF
meats Tor expectation, and prohibiting the i'm
portation OF aduterated articles of food and
drink, allowing the Inspection Of meats at
places of packing which was agreed to. A bill
was also passed to allow soldiers and sailors
who have lost both hands or the
use of both hands pension of one
hundred dollars a month In the House
bills were passed to prevent the product of con-
vict labor from being furnished to or for the use
Of any department of the Government and from
being used in public buildings or other public
works, and TO prevent the employment OF alien
labor on public buildings and other public works,
and in the various departments of the Govern
ment.
In the Senate. on the a2d. Mr. Salisbury
made long speech on the subject Of the Presi.
dents message and the relation of the parties
10 the tariff. number OF unimportant bills
were taken from the calendar and passed.
Ihe Dill authorizing the President to arrange a
conference between the various governments
OF the three Americas for the adoption of some
plan for arbitrating possible fferences and
disputes, ETC., was passed The bill reducing
the postage on seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots,
etc., to one cent for four ounces was passed.
In the House the day was almost entirely
occupied in the consideration of bills reported
from the judiciary committee. The report on
the Urgent deficiency bill was agreed to. AS
passed, the bill appropriates S. 500.
In the Senate, on the Esd, molten prevailed
to appoint five members TO represent the Sen
ate at the funeral of the late Chief-J Gstice
| Waite Of the Supreme Court, and as further
mark of respect the Senate Immediately ad-
iourned until the 24th In the House like
| action was also taken. and the body adjourned
until the 24th
THE Senate not in session on the 24th.
... In the House the proceedings were de-
voted almost exclusively to business reported
from the Judiciary committee The bill to de-
fine and regulate the jurisdiction Of United
States courts was taken up in committee OF the
whole early in the day, and discussed without
action until adjournment at 4:35 p. m.
IN the Senate, on the 10th, the greater por-
ton OF the day was devoted to the considera-
ton Of amendments to the House bill authorlz-
ing the purchase OF Government bonds with the
treasury surplus. -. In the House, the time or
the session WAS largely taken up in the consd-
| GRAFTON OF the bill TO prohibit the desecration
| of graves in the District Of Columbia. Senate
bill appropriating 5000 to defray the funeral
| expenses OF the late Chief Justice Waite was
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Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
LITTLE NONSENSE"

A rule that works both ways
When fleet goes outon a cruise. the
crews 90 out on the fleet. Golden
Days.
bobby, 90 out and tell Johnny to
quit filing that saw "He amt filing
the saw, papa. It's sister Lie singing
to Mr.. De Smack. "-Arc0l0 Record.
Ugly Dame-''Yes, my life has been
one long illness. Often have looked
on death face to face" Pretty Dame
'No wonder you are alive. ''-1id-Bit
-Artist-'Where are you going to
take dinner?" Author 40, I'm not
particular. Wherever you do" Artist
-"Well, was going to take it with
you. "-Judge.
-"Yes," he said, Il used to be
troubled with cold feet at night, too;
but that was some years ago." Then
you never are now?' mo, not since
I've been widower. IN r. Sun.
Late Arrival Whispering to stran-
ger at a concerD-'Is that the violin
uirtuoso just leaving the stage?"
Stranger-"Durned if / know whether
he is virtuous or not, but he can play
the fiddle like thunder y Washington
Critic.
Little boy" said country min
lister, who was on his way to church,
"what do you suppose your father
would say if he should find you here
fishing on the Sabbath dayP" He'd
ask me wot luck / was havin'," replied
the boy.
When Spriggins jumped out Of
bed the other night to find out for his
wife what "that noise" was, he lit on q
parlor match, and now is mean enough
to say that Mrs Spriggins prearranged
the combination for use as burglar
| alarm.-NeeO Haue's Nea0s.
you say Mr.. Fraudine, that you
have some experience in dynamite
blasting. What were your special i'm
pressions at the time?" "Quite ele-
vating, assure.you, sir! | felt, indeed,
as if was having what could be termed
| 'bang-up time. IN Y. Gossip.
Hostess to young Mr.. Sissy-"You
will kindly favor us with some music,
will you not. Mr.. Sissy?" Young Mr..
sissy Weii-aw, I'm not quite my
usual self tonight, Mrs. Hobson; but
| I will-aw. sing little if You like. !"
Hostess (graoiously)-"O, thanks, you
are so kind. Even little Of your sing
ing, Mr.. Sissy, goes great ways, you
] know. THE Ep0eh.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

THE constables who arrested the whole
,aIp liquor dealers at Des Moines, Ia, and
,ben released them, have been indicted
for receiving bribes.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

THOMAS B. MCGUIRE, of Assembly No. 49,
Knights of Labor, gives it as his opinion
that the Knights favor Judge Gresham for
prnsident.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

1rv,rED STATES MINISTER PHELPS will
sail from England for America early IN
April. on a two months leave OF absence.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

THE list Of deaths caused by the burn
:na If The Banquet Theater in Oporto
IIl'fo4,,r.ol no ,.-ill reach over one hundred.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

GENERAL tie-up of freight business
was exDerienced on the 9th ON the Bur-
ington system as result of the switch
mems strike.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

1..rrsrfi rIoy into the affairs Of Treas
Tota of Kentucky indicates that the
states loss viii not reach >2oo,ooo.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied fron Various Sources.

,,o,,v the American millionaire, de-
MES having any relations OF acquaintance
with General BoulanseL,
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

Mr.. MCKINLEY, of the House committee
on wavs and means, ,hasbeen authorized by
the minority to prepare a tariff bill in op-
nosition to the Mills bill.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

IT Is stated, and generally believed, that
the police Of London have recovered from
the Woodhull sisters, Harriet and Alice,
Sloo,oo0 Of the securities obtained by those
notorious women from Mr. Gill, of New
York, five years ago.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

EBEyEzER SrANYARD, twice convicted OF
The murder Of Alice Hancox, was, on the
22d, sentenced by Judge Johnston, at
Youngstown, O., to be hanged on July 13
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

THE Ohio State Senate adopted a Teso-
luton, on the I'D, to investigate reports to
the effect that three members had solicited
bribes to oppose the passage of q bill to
prevent the importation into tho State of
foreign beef.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

COLONEL L. +. Faulkner and Leonard
Kuhn, director and cashier respectively of
the defunct First National Bank of Dams
vile, \. Z, were arrested on the 2lst, upon
requisiti0n Of the United States Court, and
taken to Buffalo.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania, on
ihe 23d, issued proclamation containing
stringent regulations designed to prevent
the spread of pleuro- pneumonia, which
was known to exist within radius Of
eight miles OF PHILADELPHIA.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

The water in the Mohawk river rose
seven feet in three hours at Amsterdam,
n Y, on the 22d, owing to an ice gorge
ING tracks Of the New York Central were
covered with water, and the town of Port
jackson was completely inundated.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

RINGGoLD COOPER, the American forger
whose swindling operations cost the Lon
don and Westminster Bank many thou
sand pounds, was convicted and sentenced
to fifteen years penal servitude on the
9th
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

JoHN 7. HOWARD, one of the founders
OF Plymouth Church, father of several
Well-known journalists, father-in-law of
General Horatio King, and one Of the
leading citizens of Brooklyn, die d
ol apoplexy on the ed. He was eighty
years old.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

N. NETIEvITCH, Bulgarian Minister of
Finance, says the government has no in
tention to proclaim the independence OF
Bulgaria. The country will remain loya-
10 Europe.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

THE city Of Leipsic has bought Leibach's
celebrated portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm
and Bismarck for $4,000. The former
picture was painted in 1886 and the latter
in 1881.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

THE great discussion between the Home
Market Club and Tariff Reform League of
Boston was commenced on the oath. Ben.
Butterworth, of Ohio, and Everitt P.
Wheeler, OF Boston, were the speakers.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

The success of the British debt-refunding
scheme proposed by Mr.. Goschen appears
TO be contingent upon the recovery of the
health Of Emperor Frederick of Germany.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

ALL the countries represented at the re-
cent Sugar Bounties Conference, with the
ssxceptlon of France, have sent replies to
the British Government favorable to the
abolition of sugar bounties.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

lhh local branch of the National League
- 'he Mansion House ward of Dublin has
ICED u q resolution condemning Mayor
.lF%Ilt of New York for refusing to allow
r. tItS irlsh haG to be hoisted on the City
49,. 80 on 81 Patrick's Day, and declaring
NJ -. s:'eA refusal was an insult to the Irish
'"'s throughout the world.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

NEW recruiting bill has been prepared
Ii france which subjects all citizens to
service for twenty five years, with partial
exemptions in the case of students and
otners, with equivalent in taxes, which it
Is estimated will result in a revenue of
1aG00,000f. yearly.
Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31

The switchmen in the Erie-railroad
yard at Hornellsville, N. Y, went on a
strike on the 23d. 1t is reported that
the grievances are low wages and an OBJ
iectionable vardmaster.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-11-01

According to the report OF II. A. Shsckel.
ford, our consul at Nanter, the protected
ship building trade OF Frsuce is In quite an
bad a way 40 our own. Ho quotes from
French official report: "rhe condition OF
the ship building industry OF the Loire In
ferIepre, IS regards this company In partio
ular, may be characterized in the following
msnner-the usual activity In the construc.
tion Of vessels OF war, but absolutely no
orders for vessels OF commerce" The ves-
sells launched at this great ship building
port were six large ships, OF which two
were government war vessels, one aside-
wheel river boat aud one Q steam dYedge
They also butt twelve torpedo boats for the
government, which IL spending many mil.
Lions on Its navy.
"The attention Of our manufacturers
has frequently been called to the import
ance OF the trade with this consular dis
tric', bu. no effort has been made on their
part to secure y. With very few excep-
tions American products are unkno wn.
Carolina rice, petroleum from Pennsyl.
vanie. and lard, are advertised and largely
sold, but arc all purchased In Paris or
Havre, thus greatly increasing the price to
the purchaser. 4" A table showing the com.
merce OF the port does not bear the name
OF ono American ship, though Turkey Is
represented four times
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-11-01
The School Board Officers.

The school board is in danger of dead.
lock on the election of its own officers, the
Republicans Of the board having insisted
that they should be allowed to fill the
of1ce Of president with DIR. Wickersham
because Of that gentleman's eminence in
the school system of the state, ana also
demanding the right to appoint the trea.
surer and messenger. The board is
equally divided politically, and all party
feeling should be kept clear of its coun-
sels. To that end the members have
usually arranged for an amicable division
Of offices, but the Republicans now
Insist that the Office of the greatest
dignity and those of the greatest profit
shall be given to them; the Demo-
lcEAts having already, at the invitation Of
THAR colleagues, nominated DR.. Nc
Cormick for the presidency OF the board,
very properly refuse to abandon him.
Hitherto 1t has been the custom for the
Democrats to name the president and
secretary, leaving the other offices to be
0lled by the Republicans, but the Repub-
Lean members did not suggest any other
plan of equal division and simply propose
to the Democrats that they shall be given
the office of president in addition to
their regular share. Having half the mem.
bsEship they demand control of three
fourths OF the machinery of the board,
basing their request upon the dignity
that would be given to the Office by the
nomination of DIR. Wickersham. If they
had acted before the Democrats and
named but two officers, one being DR..
Wickersham, the sincerity Of their argu-
ment could not be doubted, but now it l.,
eutirely too thin to bear scrutiny.
Whatever may be said of the eminence
OF DIR. Wickersham, DR.. Mccormick
=. as a high school graduate, quite
- well able to discharge the duties of a
presiding officer of the Lancaster school
1aard. Self-respect and dignity demand
that the Democratic members should
maintain their position with firmness,
and we hope that the Republicans will
yield to the manifest justice of the argu.
ment Of their opponents, and Danish
political prejudices from their sessions.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1888-11-01
Election Poles on School Grounds,

Our attention has been called TO COM
plaint made In the local columns of our
cotemporaIy, the Egaminer, that Har-
xison pole, erected by NJ. p. Miller,
- ier, and the pupils of the Franklin
sehool, in Manor township, on October
18th, had been cut down; and that pole
ezected In its stead on October 22d, had
necn also thrown down. The work is
charged to Democrats, and it is designa-
ted as dirty.
We think that there was very dirty
work done in erecting the pole, not
10 cutting 1t down. School house premises
NJ not theplaces for politics and poles |;
and school teachers have no right to erect
them on the school grounds. The scholars
parents are Of different politics; the
onholaTs themselves are not voters the
ashOol teacher is not permitted to
h1'ruct his pupils as to which
pcoitical party is right or wrong /; and no
mnfesr how strong his own political bias
~ b 1t 10 his duty to remember that
~ employers are OF all parties and that
- taxes raised TO pay him and sustain
~ school are the contribution of men
k every political opinion. 1t was a
Dom outrage for Mr.. Miller TO engage his
Duptb In the erection Of political pole ;
~ Y was very naturally cut down by
- Who were justly offended by 1t.
eAn " wss lawfully cut down, having