Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
ComDjIcd from Various Sources.
rur Cambridge (England) University
4oan, was defeated by the Canadian
Iacrcss team eight games to one.
crcpFTARY Villas has requested the At.
.orney-C General to institute suit against
fbe perpetrators of the Redwood land
frauds in California.
TEE New Yogk State Democratic COM
mittee met ON the 9TH, and decided to call
the State, convention to meet in New
York City on May 15.
THE three mile, single-scull, straight
away race on the st. Johns river, at Jack
sonville, Fla, on the 7th, was won by
Teemer, over Mckay, second, and Hamm.
A CAUCUS of Democratic Representa-
tives was held in Washington, on the Sth,
to consider the question of the admission
of Dakota and other Territories into the
Union.
\ DISPATCH from Rome, on the 5th,
stated that, owing to recent letter from
Cardinal Gibbons, the papal authorities
have decided not to condemn the writings
of Henry George.
Oh the 9th Empress Victoria and Prin-
cesses Victoria, Sophie and Margaret
visited Posen, Prussia, to inquire as to the
condition of the sufferers by the floods,
and offer them relief.
THERE is said to be determined move
ment on foot in Washington to oust
Statistician Dodge, of the Agricultural
Department, for offensive partisanship,
committed four years ago.
JOHN T. STONE, the indicted embezzling
manager of the Pennsylvania School Sup
ply Company, of Philadelphia, pleaded
guilty, on the 9Th, and was sentenced to
two years in the penitentiary.
A DISPATCH from London, on the 5th,
says the subscription to the Mexican loan
has progressed favorably, apparently
finding favor in German quarters. -Four
times the amount asked for has been Of
fered
UNITED STATES MARSHAL W. II. CHAP
MAN was wounded in the arm in fight
with moonshiners in Lauderdale County
Ga. on the 9th. Eight of the lawbreak-
crs were captured, and the distillery de.
stroyed.
ALL negotiations between Andrew
Carnegie and his employees at the Edgar
Thompson Steel Works having failed,
Mr.. Carnegie, on the 4th, ordered the
works boarded up. This lockout affects
about three thousand men.
AT Newark, n j., the various Grade
Assemblies and Knights Of Labor lodges
have pledged themselves to boycott pool
beer, unless the brewers consent to re-
new their agreement with the Journey
man Brewers Association.
On the 9th the Comptroller of the Cur
rency declared second dividend-ffteen
per cent.-in favor of the creditors of the
Fifth National Bank of st. Louis, making
in all sixty-fve per cent on the claims
presented, aggregating $951, ,592
The formal celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the settlement of
the Northwest Territory, from which the
States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin were formed, was held at
Marietta, O., on the 9Th, 9th and 7th.
THE Secretary of State received
cablegram from Consul General
Lewis, at Tangier, on the 9TH, from which
It Is inferred that an early and satisfac-
tory settlement of the trouble with the
Moorish Government will be reached.
4 LETTER Of cordial thanks from Pope
Leo has been received by President Cleve-
land for the present of copy of the Con-
Stltutlon Of the United States, sent by the
PRESIDENT 10 the Pontiff, on the occasion
OF the latter's sacerdotal jubilee last jan
uary.
On the 9th the bark Reindeer, which ar
rived at New York from st. Pierre,
Martinique, reported that when two hun
urea miles off Bermuda she passed
through water-spout which cut away all
her masts and rigging, and nearly sub
merged her.
The Dublin (Ireland) Freeman's Journal
says; ''Balfour's provocative and foolish
boast that the National League had been
Killed, when pricked, exploded like burst
bladder. The meetings held yesterday
establish conclusively that the League is
alive and kicking"
At meeting of the Anti-Poverty wing
q the United Labor party antagonists Of
henry George), in New York, on the 9Th,
ne chairman said the United Labor party
intended to unite with the Union Labor
ana Greenback parties, and nominate a
candidate for the presidency.
IHE Senate committee on education and
labor gave hearing, on the 9th, to sew
eral clergymen from a distance, repre-
sentlng various Sunday observance asso-
ciauons. They advocated an amendment
70 the Interstate Commerce law, looking
the stoppage of Sundas trains.
Mr. HENRY IRVING, Miss Ellen Terry,
ana Josef Hofmann arrived in England, on
ue 9th, all in excellent health. Miss Terry
proceeded to Bremen, en- route to Heidel-
oerg During the voyage Mr.. Irving gave
readings, and young Hofmann entertained
We passengers with piano selections.