Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-25

"A BILL was introduced in the Senate on
the 10Th to reimburse the State of New
York in the sum of $26, 900, 600 for princi
pal and interest paid by that State IN aid
OF the suppression of the rebellion.
DAsTARDLY attempt to bow up the
handsome freight house of the Reading
railroad COMPANY, at Shamokn. Pa, on
the night of the 10Th, was frustrated by
the ignorance of the dynamiter
THE killing of Captain Whitehurst, of
Baltimore. Nd, in the battle with the po-
lice boat Folly, on the night of the 18th,
has caused intense excitement in East
Baltimore, where he was we'll and favor
ably known. The coroner's jury failed to
fix the res possibility for his death.
DELEGATIONS from st. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati, San Francisco and Now York
City are in Washington pressing the
claims of their respective cities for the
honor of entertaining the next Demo-
cratic National Convention.
THE sugar trust investigation was be-
gun by the New York State Senate com
mittee in New York City on the 20th.
Henry Havemeyer, one of the parties to
the compact, and John E. Parsons, coun-
sci for the trust, were examined. They
gave their testimony grudgingly, but dis
closed the fact that the price of sugar had
been forced up by twenty-five per cent.
falling off of production.
The New York Produce Exchange de-
cided on the Goth to make formal com
plant to the Interstate Commerce Com
mission of discrimination by the trunk
lines against seabord cities in favor OF
Western cities in the matter OF through
freight rates. They adopted resolu tions
that if, not checked, this discrimination
would ruin the seaboard commerce.
SIX THOUSAND striking miners in and
about Shamokin, Pa, went cheerfully to
work on the morning of the Goth, com
petely modified by President Corbin's
gift of 1900 to the miners,
IT was stated in the House of Commons
on the goth that agricultural values in
Great Britain had shrunk f42 100000 IN
1885, and could not now be loss than
E)0,O00,O00. Thousands of acres of land
ad gone out of cultivation, greatly in.
creasing idleness and reducing wages.
1T is stated that Mr. Joseph Pulitzer,
proprietor of the New York World and
st. Louis Post Dispatch, will probably be-
come totally blind. His treatment at
Santa Barbara was not successful.
The fisheries treaty was con sidered by
the Senate in secret session on the goth
An evident des ire to order its immediate
publication was barred by the code of
rules governing the body.
A RULING of the Supreme Court of the
United States on the goth, in effect defers
for the present the execution of the sem
tence of death pronounced npon Brooks,
alias Maxwell, the slayer Of G. Arthur
Preller in st. Louis in 1885
A BILL was introduced in the House on
the Goth by Mr.. Blount, of Georgia, pro-
viding for the reorganization of the
postal service. Three classes of post
masters arc created, with salaries rang
ing from 5000 per annum, with per-
qusites, to $50 per quarter.
SECRETARY OF WAR ENDICoTT's reply to
the Boutele resolution of inquiry relative
to the disposition OF captured rebel flags,
was read in the House of Representatives
on the 9th. The author of the resolution
characterized the reply as weak attempt
to evade responsibility for the acts of the
present Adm inistration.