Huntsville gazette., 1889-05-25
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

~ the Metropolitan Opera House by the
prasbvterian Union Of that city. There
was music, luncheon and speaking. Gov
ernor Beaver of Pennsylvania and
others delivered addresses.
THE Duchess of Cambridge left an estate
valued at about E220,0O0. Most Of her
fortune was devised to the children of her
daughter, the Duchess Of Teck.
Oy the 17tb the reports of the commit
Tee Of the Samoan conference on the ques-
tons Of land tenure and the government
of tte islands were presented to the full
body. The latter report was approved
with the exception of a few details, which
were left over for discussion at the next
meeting of the conference.
IT is said that the principal publishing
houses of London are apparently vieing
with each other in their eagerness to OBJ
tain the right of publishing the history Of
Lord Lonsdale's Arctic adventures. Sew
eral houses cabled him magnificent offers
for the prospective book.
On the 18th the Bl itish House Of Com
mons rejected Mr.. Labouchere's motion
to abolish hereditary sittings in the
House of Lords.
On the 18th the Essex Club Of Boston,
OF which DR.. Geo. Loring is president,
gave farewell dinner to that gentleman
upon the eve Of his departure to assume
his duties as United States Minister to
Portugal.
PRINCE BISMARCK used the following
significant language in a speech in the
Reichstag, on the 18th, on the Aged Work
mems Insurance bill: ''We wish to dis
pose of the bill before the next election,
for nobody knows whether we may have
as much leisure next year as we have
now.
On the 18th Buffalo Bill gave private
performance of his Wild West show in
Paris. President Carnot, some of the
Cabinet and several members of the dip
lomatic corps were present After the
show President Carnot and the guests
were conducted over the camp. They ex-
pressed themselves as greatly pleased.
The show opened on the 10Th to the pub
lie.
LORD SALISBURY has conveyed his
thanks to the United States Government
for its congratulations on the escape OF
the Calliope from the fate Of the German
and American vessels in the hurricane at
Samoa.
ON the 10th Queen Mary of Bavaria,
mother of King Otto, died from dropsy
and cancer of the liver.
FRENCH papers compliment Miss Sybil
Sanderson, the American prima donna,
upon her success in Massenet's new
opera.
On the 10Th the twenty first anniversary
of the birth of the Czarowitz, Nikolai
Alexandrovitch, Grand Duke of Russia
hal IN ha
celebrated. He is bethrothed to Princess
Alice Victoria of Hesse, daughter
Of the late Grand Duchess Alice
Maud Maria who is a grand daughter Of
Queen Victoria. The marriage win take
place next autumn.
AN exciting encounter took place in
Regent street, London, on the 18th, be-
tween NJ. Henri Rochefort and the artist
Pilotel, in which the former drew
revolver and the latter proved himself an
excellent sprinter until stopped and capt
ured by the police.
On the 18th the Pope became suddenly
indisposed.
MRS. FICE-PRESIDENT MORTON and her
daughter, Miss Edith, were among the
passengers on board the French steamer
La NOrmandie, which sailed for Havre on
the 18th.
On the 18th Boyd N. Miller, who was at
one time an engineer on the New York,
Lake Erie & Western railway, obtained a
verdict for $50, 900, damages against the
company at Mansfield, o., for injuries re-
ceived in wreck.
ROBERT 7. LINCOLN, United States MIN
ister to the Court of st. James, has taken
house in Cadogan Square, London, for
the season.
IT is said that Mrs. Harrison's mail con-
tains every day appeals from office-seek-
ers to use her influence with her husband
in favor of the writer's.
On the 10th Fannie Davenport, the act
ress, and Mr.. Melbourne Mcdowell, lead
ing man in her dramatic company, were
married privately by Rev. Charles H.
Eaton, D. D., pastor of the Church of the
Divine Paternity, in New York City.
On the Goth the steamer Rockton ar
rived at San Francisco from Apia, Sa-
moa, bringing eight officers and $50 mel
Of the Vandalia and twelve officers and
three hundred men of the Trenton. Ad-
mlral Kimberly, ten officers and seventy
hye men remain at Apia.
THE remains of Oswald G.. Allen, the
Vagabond who shot his wife and then COM
mltted suicide at the jefferson School
building, in Washington. were taken to
IAarlottsville, Va, on the 10Th, and
oQrled Mrs. Aliens remains were buried
II Washington on the Goth.
MEssRs. ROBERT BURNS, general secre-
'ary OF the Young Mems Christian Asso-
clatlon of London; Carl Fries, general
secretary at Stockholm, and Robert Nc
uann, travelling secretary for Ireland, are
visiting the principal cities of this coun-
uyIor the purpose of studying American
association work and methods.
oN the Goth Henri Rochefort was ar
iTalgned at the Vine-street (London) po-
nee court charged with assaulting the
aftlSt Pilotel, on the 10Th, on Regent
Sueet. The magistrate bound NJ. Roche
Tort IN the sum Of f150 to keep the peace
1or SIX months.
IN the British House of Lords the Earl
0l Meath's proposal that women be al
lowed to sit as members Of the county
councils was rejected by vote Of 12S to
THOMAS W. KING, author OF 'The
Judge" and other successful dramas, has
nolhed Hamlin & Potter not to produce
Sle play of "The SPIDERS Web" under
mat title. Mr.. King copyrighted pls
0uuer that title March 10, 1888.
thn IL