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Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
THE LATEST.

A TAIL-END collision occurred on the
Duluth & South Shore, near Saxon,
Mich, recently. One man was killed
and two badly injured.
HENRY w. GRADY, the noted orator
and editor of Atlanta, Ga, was re-
ported seriously i'll on the 22d.
THE Provisional Government has
Withdrawn ex-Dom Pedro's allowance
and confscated his property. Orders
have been issued exiling him from
Brazil.
BUSINESS was limited on the London
Stock Exchange during the week ended
December 81. Brazilians fell q per
cent. American railroads were better.
The new Mexican loan was largely
bought and went to II premium. The
Paris Bourse was fiat and inactive.
Berlin was weak and Frankfort was
slow and steady.
ANOTHER death has occurred in
Paris from influenza, making total of
five from this disease.
THE Russian Imperial Academy of
Arts has decided to exclude Jews from
membership.
NATIVES Of the Hammond island, in
the Solomon group, lately captured
three men Of British ship, who werc
roasted and eaten. A British war ship
shelled the native villages.
RACE troubles were reported at Potts
Camp, Miss, in which four whites were
bruised and two negroes shot, one fa-
tally.
J. j. TAYLOR has been shot in Mex
leo. He was train robber and makes
the third man executed for the robbery
and murder on the Sonora railroad last
May.
THE Wardell murder trial at Macon,
Mo-. ended in the acquittal of the two
defendants, George Roberts and Frank
Williams.
JOHN S. PARKER, late of Kansas
CITY, Mo-. where he had been in the
real estate trade, committed suicide at
Washington recently by jumping into
/ the Potomac. His Kansas City gains
/ had been invested disastrously at New
York and this preyed upon his mind.
CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH at Win
chester, Va, was badly damaged by
| fire recently.
THE town of Pineville, KY, was de-
vastated by storm on the 22d. Loss,
/ $50, 900.
PARIS lately has been. filed with
canards Of the abdication of various
European monarchs, revolutions and so
forth. The Brazilian revolution was
the incentive for the Mulhatton OF
France to exploit himself.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
uTIRY GRADY IS DEAD.
.,n nourns the Loss OF a Gifted
The so" xortb sends a Tribute
~ :, Tears and of sympathy.

GA. Dec. 23.-Henry w.
c..dr ai is de' d. Death came at 90, o:4, 'h,s h's
Gfau; ;og, Its coming had been feared oy
m@nD Tho had watched the case Closely
in.'s .. sobodv expected it so soon.
bu. HO'g ,onas at his home during the last
lu' .re most pathetic. 1t was shortly
nou' ~ O'clock that DR.. Everett announced
a'*' NJ " GRADY was sinking rapidly and
tna' .nd was near Then it was that
'ua, .sa ~ Members of the family aud rela-
=" - r.tbered about the sick bed, hoping
'Dn, Din.t hope. yet praying that the cup
ho taken from them. Friends who
m'sD' Y a. the Doctors suggestion, left the
No. laa,. few hours previously were hastily
u'-, n,orad The same questionable same
answer, mo hope"
'us~ s,.onr men wept like children, one by
IL thsn stole back, gazed for few Sec
Vu 0u5. nnon the ashy pale face, and came
y.at With bowed heads and burdened
Sa.rts They realized for the first time
49,. death was inevitable, there was no
-. He was still unconscious. At 3:4o
:, d,ow his last breath and the great heart
was still. j..
Tho bplletin carrying the message OF
death was given to the country few MN
~. after the announcement was made
tb.Iife had taken its flight. Then came
AM Of messages from all over the Union.
.mo,p those who sent kilograms of SYM
p,5v we're ex-President Cleveland, Gov.
Hill Samrsl J. Randall, Patrick A. Col
i,, Roswell P. Flower and Clinton b.
r.+
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
NICkEL-BEARING MINES.
One Thft Yields a Product of -Four Thou
sand Eons per Year.

sand Tons per Year.
In the Copper Cliff mine near Sud-
bury, Can, it is said more nickel is
being produced than the entire market
of the world calls for at current prices.
A little branch railway off the main line
of the Canadian Pacific railway, four
miles in length, leads out to the mine,
which opens into the face of crag Of
the brown, oxidized Laurentian rock
characteristic Of this region. The miners
are now at work at depth of about 800
feet below the surface. AS fast as the
nickel and copperbearing rock is hoist
ed out it is broken up and piled upon
long beds or ricks of pine wood to be
calcined, or roasted, for the purpose of
driving out the sulphur which it con-
tains. The roasting process is of the
nature Of lime-kilning or charcoal-burn-
ing. Each great bed of ore requires from
one to two months to roast. When roast
ed the rock goes to the principal smelt-
err powerful blast-furnace, "jacketed"
in mining phrase-with running water
to enable it to sustain the great heat
requisite to reduce the crude, obdurate
mineral to f1uidity.
The dross of the molten mass is first
allowed to flow off, and afterward the
nearly pure nickel and copper, blended
together in an alloy called the ''mat."
or matte, is drawn off at the base Of the
furnace vat into borrow-pots, and
wheeled away, still liquid and fiery hot,
to cool in the yard Of the smelter. The
mat contains about 20 per cent. Of nickel,
the remaining 30 per cent being mainly
copper. When cool the conical pot
loaves of mat can easily be cracked in
pieces by means of heavy hammers. The
| fragments are then packed in barrels
and shipped in Swansea in Wales and to
Germany, where the two constituent
metals are separated and refined by Sc
| cret processes which.are very jealously
| guarded by the manufacturers.
So jealously is the secret kept that no
one in America has yet been able to
learn the process, although one young
metallurgist spent three years at Swan
| sea, working as common laborer in the
factories, in order to procure it. At
present there are produced daily at the
Copper Cliff mine about ninety pot
loaves of mat, each weighing near 450
pounds, an output which yields an ag-
| gregate of more than 1000 tons Of nickel
year.-Youth's Companion.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
THE UBIQUITOUS SPOON.
Its Presence is an Imperative Necessity tc
Domestic Bliss.

Its Presence is an Imperative Necessity to
Domestic Bliss.
What is the greatest need -hich faces
the newly-married at the very doorsill
of connubial bliss? Is it deep, abiding
love, or an armchair that will carry
double?
No; the voices of their friends answer
in a mighty chorus:.
'Spoons!"
Without spoons, the robe of faille
franchise is the shroud of departed
hopes. The ''Lohengrin" march is .
wailing dirge, and the voice Of Rev.
Reredos Chasuble but sounding brass
and tinkling cymbal.
Devoted to each other, and resolved
to sacrifice all on the altar of their love,
the happy pair may struggle along with
only thirty-six nut-picks apiece. They
discern the path of duty by the feeble
glimmer of six oxydized silver lamps.
For the simple tastes of the lowly, seven
lemonade sets in Venitian glass will
suffice. Let only five pairs of bronze
negros with silver turbans smile benign
antly from the mantel, and the hum
bic home is happy.
Where King Cupid reigns, his scepter
Is none the less potent because single
Mexican onyx cabinet, bearing twelve
royal Worcester molasses jugs, adorns
the parlor Instances are not wanting
of happy welded life, where the high
contracting parties got less than dozen
copies of ''Dante's Inferno" with Mr..
Dores cheerful illustrations.
But spoons are imperatively necessary.
Humanity calls for them in tones OF
earnest pleading, and the brides uncle,
the maid of honor and the best man, lead
the phalanx that hastens to the rescue.
These excellent people are resolved
that their young friends shall not go
forth unprepared into cold and spoon
less world.
The clerks in papa's office, collective
ly send spoons The head book-keeper,
on his own personal hook, sends a satin
lined box of spoons. Papa's political
friends send spoons for after-dihner
coffee. Mammals aunt, in Chicago,
can't come to the wedding, but sends het
loving congratulations and berry
spoon. The bridegroom's elder brother
and his wife attach their card to a case
of spoons. In cleaning, shining rows
the spoons glitter in their blue, red and
old-gold beds.
To be sure, there are dolts who fail to
see why spoons, and spoons only, should
be sent to the newly welded. In every
| couples acquaintance are between nine
to twenty-seven persons who will make
the daring innovation of pie-knives.
The eccentric old woman who will make
herself conspicuous by sending a pict-
ure still lives; and the wrong headed rel
ative who thinks that no civilized home
is complete without books, inflicts his
obsolete notions upon the long-su1fering
couple.
AS If this vale of tears could be cheered
by any thing except spoons!
Happily, the picture and book -donat-
ing cranks are being crowded to the
wall, and the sanguine leaders of So
ciety hope the day is not far distant
when the display of wedding gifts will
include only the useful, beautiful, shin
ing Union-Square made spoons. Joseph
Eldridge Esray, in Puck.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
HUNTSVILLE. ALA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2s, 1885,
GENERAL.

THE Boulangists in Paris have called
a meeting to protest against the course
of the Chamber of Deputies, while M.
Naquet, who was unseated, has gone to
the Isle of Jersey to confer with Gen.
eral Boulanger.
SENATOR BARBOsA, Brazilian Min
lister of Finance, denounces as false the
statement recently made by ex-Impe-
rial Prime Minister Preto that treach:
cry caused Dom Pedro's overthrow.
The Guatemalan Minister at Paris
denies the report that there is a revo-
luton in his country.
The Italian Chambers of Deputies
by vote of 1876 to 9S passed the bill
depriving the clergy of the direction of
all charities. The Vatican organs Wig
orously opposed and condemned the
measure.
THE old soldiers and personal friends
of General Jackson have published an
appeal that the anniversary of the bat
tie of New Orleans be made public
holiday.
MALIEToA has been proclaimed King
in Samoa, and has been formally so
recognized by the Consuls.
THREE of Bushiri's head men have
been hanged by the Germans in Africa.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the eseven days ended December 10 num-
bered 342. The figures for the CORE
spending week of last year were 81.
THE strike of the Belgian miners has
ended in the defeat of the men.
THE German theater in Pesth, Hun
gary, has been destroyed by fire. The
adjoining buildings were also damaged.
DIR. PARKE, Stanley's physician, was
reported dangerously ill with fever at
Zanzibar.
THE Emperor of Germany has the
influenza.
REINFORCEMENTs for Captain Fran
coise. commissioner to the German
stations in Southwest Africa, have
sailed for Hamburg.
BEACH, the oarsman, has accepted
the challenge recently issued by Han
Ian for a rowing match, and is willing
that the race should be rowed over the
Paramatta course, Sydney, N. S. W.
THE Canada Southern, Michigan
Central and the Lake Shore Wander.
bilt lines) directors have declared the
regular dividend and extra dividends
of one per cent. each.
CLEARING house returns for the
week ended December 21 showed al
average increase of Al compared with
the corresponding week of last year
| In New York the increase was %.
THE boot and shoe operatives OF
Bristol, Eng, have been locked out
Nine thousand persons are affected.
THE steamship Britannia reports a
stormy passage on her last trip from
Liverpool. Two sailors were severely
injured by huge wave which struck
| the vessel.
A SYNDICATE with $4,000 capital
has been formed in London to buy up
the British carpet factories and run
them on American patents.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
THE SOUTH.

A MEETING of Virginia colored Re
publicans at Richmond adopted reso-
lutions calling on Congress to pass a
general election law.
In a fight between four unarmed
farmers and two armed robbers near
Waco, Tex, the other night, John t.
Mathes was killed and W. Ii. Harris Sc
qerely wounded. The robbers got little.
The commission of army engineers
appointed to select the best point along
the Texas coast for the location of a
irst-class harbor has submitted its re-
port recommending Galveston.
A MISSISSIPPI CITY special says that
the whole assessed valuation of the late
Jefferson Davis property in Harrison
County in s7,940. The personal assess
ment was 1851. Beauvoir is assessed
at 81, 500.
THE Gettysburg Battlefield Associa-
ton has refused to remove the Second
Maryland cavalry monument, and de-
clares that all ex-Confederates shall
have the right to commemorate their
dead similarly.
GOVERNOR LOWRY, of Mississippi,
has refused to pardon Kilrain, the con-
victed pugilist.
THE business portion of Franklin
ton, n. c., was destroyed by fire the
other day; loss, $4,000.
The west bound passenger train on
the San Angelo branch of the Santa Fe
was held up the other morning at Bang;
station, 1872 miles west of Temple, Tex
A brakeman named Penn shot at tht
robbers, but paid for his bravery witt
his life, the miscreants wounding hin
so that he soon died.
NELSON JOKES, living near Valdosta
Ca, has been attacked twice in the
near past by Whitecaps and both times
barely escaped with his life. He hat
threatened to avenge the whipping Of
an old friend.
]. r. JONES, a farmer living neal
Bloomfield, Tex, was shot dead BY
Dan Blackburn and Rufus Hughey
during quarrel recently.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
Skipped with the Doodle.

An advertisement was inserted in the
Birmingham (Ala.} papers by 0. NJ.
Stone for civil engineers to go to Texas.
In this way nineteen were secured, from
each of whom forfeit was required thai
they would not desert during the trip.
Stone was to pay all railroad fare. He
escorted the men to Chattanooga, Tenn,
where he disappeared with the amount
given him as forfeit. From valise left
behind with few bottles of patent
medicine 1T Is learned that he has been
a patent-medicine agent under the name
of Wood The men were left penniless,
without friends or employment.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
TERRIBLE BUTCHERY.
The Fearful Deed of an Ohio Man-He
Kills His Wife, Four Children and Him.

The Fearful Deed Of an Ohio Man-He
Kills His Wife, Four Chiidre en- and Him.
self.
NILES, o., Dec. 23.-This commu-
nifty was horror stricken last evening
by the discovery of one of the most
horrible and bloody butcheries
that has ever occurred in this section
of the State, the victims being five in
number-Charles Shelar, his wife and
three childron. The crime is supposed
to have taken place at an early hour in
the morning as when the inhuman deed
was discovered at about five o'clock in
the evening all five bodies were
cold in death. With their
throatS cut from ear to ear, Shelar
and his wife were found lying together
across the foot of the bed while the
three children, also with their throats
cut, were on the floor in different parts
of the house. Shelar was mill man
and had steady employment, but of late
had drunk heavily and it is rumored
that he and his wife did not live hap
PLY together. The theory advanced is
that Shelar in fit of madness cut the
throats of his wife and children and then
hiso own. The weapon used was razor
and was purchased by Shelar of a
hardware dealer Saturday evening.
Kittie Meeker, little sister of the
murdered woman, caused the diScov-
cry of the tragedy. She went to the
house to deliver the evenings milk, as
usual, and was unable to gain admit
tance to the house. Charles Mossman
was in the vicinity, and she told him
about it. He went with her to the rear
of the house and, finding a door open,
entered. The first floor of the house
was deserted, but a terrible sight met
the eyes on the second story. The
dead baby was on the floor of one
room, two children with blood
flowing all over them and ugly gashes
in their throats lay in another
chamber, while the murderer and his
wife were clasped in the embrace of a
bloody death On their own bed. 1t ap-
peared that the wife was the first
victim and made desperate fight for
life. The broken handle of the razor
was found by her side. Then he went
to the room where the eighteen-months-
old girl lay and nearly severed her head
from her body. Then came the bloody
slaughter Of the girls, aged five and seven
years. The murderer then apparently
took lamp, went to a mirror, delib-
erately cut his own throat and stagger-
ing to where his wife lay threw him
self upon her body. The scene of the
tragedy was sickening. Niles is in
tensely excited and strong men who
viewed the bodies turned faint and
rushed into the open air and women
had to be borne out of the house. The
only theory advanced as to the cause is
insanity.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28

THE WEST.

made in Salt Lake City in connection
with the recent developments before
the grand jury. All gave bonds.
WILLIAM S. HARRISON, nephew of
the President and assistant to the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul gen.
eral freight agent died at River Forest,
ILL.,, recently, aged twenty-five.
GEORGE CLARK, aged nine years,
was run over by cable car and killed
at Sioux City, Iowa, the other morning
while on his way to school.
INVESTIGATION Of two years Of the
accounts of the suicide secretary of the
Milwaukee school beard shows short
age of S12,063.
The Grand Portage Indians of Min
nesota who were in danger of starving
have been relieved by the Government
agent.
THE Western States Railway Pas
senger Association was dissolved at q
meeting of the general managers Of the
lines at Chicago on the 18th.
THE Meade Van Bokkelen Company,
commission merchants, dealing in
California fruits at Chicago, recently
failed for $250,G0 The assets were
much less.
EX-CONGREssMAN JOSEPH LYMAN,
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was stricken
with paralysis while at his office. His
chances of recovery were slight.
BY an explosion in rolling mill at
New Philadelphia. o., recently one
man was killed, another badly hurt and
part of the building wrecked.
ONE of the last places reporting the
Russian influenza is Kansas City.
THE winery, distillery and stock of
liquors of the Fresno Call Vineyard
Company have been seized for alleged
violation of the internal revenue laws.
The property is valued at $500, 900.
CULVER, the recalcitrant Cronin
juror, has brought suit against the
Chicago Herald for S25,0 900 damages
for libel.
A SAD accident occurred during a re-
hearsal of Christmas entertainment
at the Tilden public school, Detroit,
Mich. The gauZe clothing of num-
ber of girls became ignited and eight or
nine were burned, one fatally.
THE Prohibitory law has passed both
houses of the North Dakota Legisla-
ture.
THE Guernsey-Scudder Furniture
Company's building at Third and Lo-
Gust, st. Louis, burned recently. The
loss was heavy.
JUDGE BREWER, in the United
States Court at Kansas City, decided
adversely to the Beales claim to the
Maxwell land grant of 10000, 900 acres
in New Mexico, etc. 1t was said an
appeal would be taken to the Supreme
Court. The decision affects a Kansas
City land company that bought the
Beales claim.
ALFRED CowLEs, publisher Of the
Chicago Tribune, is dead.
In letter to the collector of customs
at Detroit, Mich, on the Mrs. Mccall
lum incident, Secretary Window seeks
to smooth over his former rebuke and
refuses to accept the resignation of the
derelict officers.
CHARLES BLYTHE, the negro coach
man who murdered Colonel Jones in
Cincinnati and hid his body in sewer,
has been condemned to be hanged in
the Ohio State penitentiary April 8
next.
THE Pawnee City (Neb.) Bank has
closed its doors.
The new Roman Catholic chapel at
Fort Leavenworth was formally dedi-
Gated to st. Ignatius Oh the 22d.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
THE BEALES LAND GRANT.
The Interstate Land Company Gets a
Setback.
insanity


KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 22.-Judge
Brewer, as United States Court judge,
has rendered decision in the famous
Beales land grant case, the most i'm
portant land suit ever brought in the
United States. 1t involves the title to
over 100000 acres of land in Colo
RADIO, New Mexico and vicinity.
The title Of the case pending is: In
ter-State Land Company against The
Maxwell Land Grant Company; also
Maxwell Land Grant Company against
Vincente Pucteca and others.
Judge Brewer decided in favor of
the Maxwells.
The decision is long but comprehen-
sive. BY reciting the conditions of the
grant to Beales and the laws governing
Mexico, Judge Brewer finds that Beales
had no title to any land except what
was set off to him by the Mexican Gov
ernment as an empresariO. AS Beales
claimed and decided the entire tract of
land granted, his titles are void ac-
cording to Judge Brewers opinion.
1t is not believed the case will stop
short of the United States Supreme
Court. Judge Brewer cites decision
from this court as justifying his opin-
ion. The ground on which Judge
Brewer bases his opinion is that the
Mexican Government limited the single
quantity of land owned by any one per-
son to eleven leagues square.
Charles Moonlight, of Texas, a lead
ing cattle man, is the largest owner in
the Interstate Land Company. N. b.
Childs, of this city, brother of United
States Commissioner William Childs, is
also member of the company. The
holding is against this company. The
company's headquarters are in this
city
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
A Negro Shot.

A serious difficulty occurred in sa.
loon at Hopkinsville. KY, at late hour
several evenings ago, which resulted in
Charlie Campbell, son of Hon. E. FL.
Campbell, prominent lawyer and poll
tician, and president of the Bank OF
Hopkinsville, shooting and fatally
wounding A. Terrell, colored waiter in
the saloon The trouble grew out OF
Terrell wanting to throw with Campbell
for drinks. Campbell went off and, re-
turning with a pistol, fired on Terrell
through the green doors of the saloon
one shot entering the colored mans
breast. Young Campbell accidentally
shot and killed his brother several years
since.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
Her Father Was Unkind.

Miss Lulu McLaine, a bright and in
telligent girl of twenty years. a favorite
in the neighborhood in which she lived,
near Woodlawn, Ga, was missed from
the house, and a search was instituted,
resulting in her body being found hang
ing to a beam in the barn. She had
committed suicide because her father
had been unl<ind to her. She had COM
planned to friends of his treatment, and
had expressed the wish that she were
dead. Her father is wealthy farmer.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
Gettysburg Confederate Monument.

The Murray Confederate Association
OF Baltimore, which erected monu-
mcnt on the Gettysburg battlefield last
year, which action Pittsburgh G. A.
K. post denounced two or three months
ago, has received letter from John M.
Krauth, secretary of the Gettysburg Bat
tie Field Association, assuring them that
his association had undergone no change
of opinion as to the propriety of having
Confederate monuments on the field,
and that the Murray association shaft
would remain where it was. The bat
tle-field association, he says, meant
what is said when it invited Confed-
crates to mark their positions at Gettys
burg.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
Dick Hawes Wants to Die.

Dick Halves, convicted of the murder
of his wife and two children, at Bir-
mingham, Ala, was caught few nights
ago making preparations to commit
suicide in his cell at the county Jail. He
has become despondent of late, AMI con-
fided to fellow prisoners that he would
never hang on the gallows- The sheriff
suspected that Hawes was planning self
destruction and searched him. A piece
of strong twine was found in the pris-
oner's pocket.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
A Special Session Called.

Governor Wilson of West Virginia has
issued a proclamation calling a special
session of the Legislature to convene
the third Wednesday in January, and
specifying thirty-three matters upon
which legislation may be enacted. The
most important one is the settlement of
the contest between A. B. Fleming and
Nathan Golf for the Office of Governor.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
VIII Remove the Wires.

The Birmingham (Ala.) board of al
dermen recently passed an ordinance
declaring the wires and poles of the
Southern Bell Telephone Company a
nuisance on account of bad service, and
instructing the chief of police to have
them removed.
Huntsville gazette., 1889-12-28
Death of a Theatrical Manager.

David Bidwell, one of the oldest and
most prominent theatrical managers of
the South and proprietor of the Acad-
envy Of Music and st. Charles Theater,
in New Orleans, died in that city few
evenings ago