Huntsville gazette., 1888-05-05

THE AmericuS club or PlttSburg, Ia, gave
their second annual dinner in celebration
of the sixty-sixth anniversary of the
birth of General Grant, on the 9th.
THERE were 1890 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden on the 2Sth. For the week
ended on the 2Sth, 21,7,2 immigrants were
landed, Of whom one-third were Italians.
DIR. CHARLES E. SIMMONS, who attended
the late Samuel J. Tilden during his i'll
ness, has brought suit against the Tilden
estate for $4,000 for professional serv
ices.
1T is stated that if necessary the Irish
leaders will advise the peasants to disre-
gard the POpe's edict against boycotting
and the plan of campaign and choose lib
crty before religion.
THE sentences of General Caffarel and
Nine. Lamousin, who were convicted Of
selling medals of the Legion of Honor,
were confirmed by the Paris Court of
Appeals on the 26th.
FUNERAL services over the remains of
the late Ex-Governor Hoffman were held
in Grace Church, New York, on the 9th,
after which the body was taken to Sing
Sing for interment.
A SPECIAL to the Butte (Mont.) Miner
says the Mullan tunnel through the main
range of the Rocky mountains on the
Northern Pacific, constructed at a cost of
100000, will prove total loss.
THE President has approved the act for
a bridge across the Mississippi river at
Memphis, and the act to facilitate the
prosecution of works projected for the
Improvement of rivers and harbors.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD has sent to the
Collector of customs at Baltimore, Md, o
list of salary reductions made necessary
by the deficiency in the appropriation.
The reductions average nineteen per cent.
SENATOR WILLIAM P. FRYE, of Maine /;
Hon. VIM. Mckinley, Jr, of Ohio, and
Hon. VIM. d. Kelly, of Philadelphia, will
address the protective tariff meeting at
the Philadelphia Academy of Music on
May
REPRESENTATIVE RANDALL, of Pennsyi-
vania, will introduce q bill in Congress
appropriating =, ,000,000 for an army-gun
factory at the Frankford arsenal, Phlla-
delphia, for the manufacture OF heavy
guns.
MRS. AMANDA COWAN, a so-calleG ma
terializing medium, was exposed as
fraud in Boston, on the 26th, by the sud-
den lighting of candles by party of gem
tlemen who attended the seance for that
purpose.
IT is stated that the action of the Pope
and Propaganda of the Holy See regard
ing the Irish ''Plan of Campaign" was
- ~
any representative of the British Gov
ernment.
THE election to fill the Parliamentary
vacancy in Mid -Lanarkshire, England,
which took place on the 9th, resulted as
follows: Phillips, Gladstonian, 3,S47,
Bonsfeld, Conservative, 2,917, Hardie,
Labor, Gil
COLONEL ELLIOTT P. SHEPARD, the
wealthy proprietor Of the New York Mdn
and cypress, assisted by Ira Sankey, late
Coadiutor of Mr.. Moody, held religious
service at Association Hall in New York
City on the 29th.
WALKER, son of James G. Blaine, in an
interview with a United Press reporter, on
the 25th, said that the reports so persist
emily circulated of his fathers illness
were very annoying and positively with
out foundation in fact.
GENERAL JOE E. JOHNSON says that in
becoming an honorary contributing men,
Der of a g. A. r. post he has but followed
the generous example of Northern soldiers
in contributing to the fund for COnfeder-
ate soldiers some time ago.
n,,lN Np t,n
9th, commenting on the late papal de-
cree against the 'plan of campaign"
urges the people to exercise calmness ana
patience, and receive it with profound re-
spect and loyalty to Rome.
The colored people of the District OF
Columbia held memorial meeting in the
Metropolitan A. NJ. E. Church on the 24th.
Eulogies were delivered on the life of ex-
Senator Conkling. Frederick Douglas
was the principal speaker.
HARRY Cooke, the young man who re-
Gently disappeared on the eve of his mar
riage, in New York, to Miss Jeanette
Minor, was found by his father on the
9th, wandering aimlessly about the
streets in demented condition.
y MAJORITY OF the deputies loi lho D0-
partment of the Seine have signed man.
festo to the electors condemnlng the
Boulangist movement. The Senators for
That department have been asked to at
tacd mir signatures to the manifesto.
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The ladies of Washington, having tired
OF the tricycle., have organized club and
mounted the fiery, untamed bicycle
Proposals for membership are so numer-
Gus that there is talk of limiting them IN
order to prevent she club from becoming
too large.
lHE editorial announcement by the New
ork Sm of the 26th, that the editor had
information from an undeniable source
mat MIR. Blaine wouid again decline the
nomination for the presidency, even If
rendered him at Chicago, is not generally
peHeved by the New York friends of Mr..
Blaine.
lRE Postmaster General sen: to the
senate, on the Goth, a list of pc St offices
AaFlng gross receipts amounting to $4,000
year and upward New York heads the
Stotes, with l51 such Offices. The other
boldltS l:rVinO IN b1In Ira aarb