Huntsville gazette., 1889-08-17
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

EhnoOINA1s AND
THE daring tight rope performer, Blon-
din, has accepted a wager of f4, 600 to
walk on cable stretched from the Eiffel
Tower to the dome of the main exposition
building in less than five minutes.
UPON taking his departure from Os-
borne the Emperor of Germany expressed
to Queen Victoria his utmost pleasure at
his reception in England. He also ex-
pressed the hope that the Queen, in re-
sponse to his earnest desire, would re-
turn his visit.
On the Sth Sheriff James Flack, of New
York ;City, sent to Chairman Cochrane
and Secretary Gilroy, of. the Tammany
Society, bis resignation as grand sas hem
OF that organizstion. e =
PRESIDENT HARRISON aud Secretary
and Mrs. Blaine. Congressman and Mrs.
Lodge, Miss Harriet Blaine, Walker
Blaine and Mr.. Halford attended divine
service on the 18th. Services were held
in the Episcopal chapel of st. Mary's-by-
the-Sea, q quaint little building twelve
miles from Bar Harbor.
On the 10th Lawyer Dickinson, coun-
sci for the embarrassed firm of Brown,
Steese & Clark, of Boston, filed a petition
for insolvency in behalf OF his clients.
The petition is voluntary as to Messrs.
Steese and Clark, and Involuntary as to
Mr.. Brown.
In the Washington Territory Constitu-
tiunal convention the article on corpora
tions other than municipal was placed on
its final passage and adopted. An arti-
Gle was passed giving the Legislature
power to pass homestead laws. and also
! another declaring that the water ways of
the State belong to the people for irriga-
| ton, mining and manufacturing pur-
| poses.
| POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER, on
the 11th spoke for half an hour before
the Young Mems Christia Ass ociation
of Saratoga N. r., on the subject of
practical Christianity" There was a
very large attendance and at the close a
! large number shook hands with Mr.. Wan
amaker.
| BISMARCK had a conference with En-
peror William on the 18th, presumably
upon the subject of the Emperor's recent
exchange of views with Lord Salisbury.
The Shah of Persia will attend the Aus
trian military maneuvers in Galicia.
IT is believed that the agreement
reached at the recent conference between
Emperor William and Lord Salisbury is,
to oil intents and purposes, to amount to
an alliance, although no formal treaty
was concluded.
BELIEF is expressed by members Of
! Parliament whose relations with the
Home Secretary are intimate, that he
will postpone action in the case of Mrs.
Maybrick, condemned to be hanged in
Liverpool on the Goth, for 1.-THE murder of
her husband, until the last moment, with
the idea that she may yet confess.
THE State Department is informed by
Minister Reid that the general conference
on weights and measures will meet at
Sevres, near Paris, September a.
OK the 12th Keyes P. Cool, one of the
oldest business men Of Glens Falls, N. Y,
and pensioner of the war of 1872 died,
aged ninety-four years. He was born at
Vergennes, VT.
On the 18th, at mass meeting held in
Springfield, o., to select delegates to the
Republican Senatorial convention, ex-
Mayor Snyder denounced the work of the
convention, claiming it was run by Gen
eral Bushnell, who wants to be the next
United States Senator, and other bosses.
OK the 12,h Receiver w. Gray of the
North River Sugar Refinery Company ap-
piled to Judge Ingraham, of New York
City, to restrain the Sugar Refinery Trust
from declaring or paying any further
dividend. A temporary injunction was
granted.