Huntsville gazette., 1889-06-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
,,rpsoyAL AND POLITICAL.

M.pTIv AGENS, Oh Lltlle ais, N. L :,
.iahratad his hundredth birthday on the
estb He was a soldier of Wellington's
INV and fought under him at Waterloo.
r., r. rotains a vivid remembrance of the
I.aa+ hattie, and his mind is remarkably
oIaor He came to this county in 1910.
RopFRT T. LINCOLN, American Minister
% the Court of st. James, was presented
il Oneen Victoria at Windsor Castle, on
the 18th.
IT was stated on the oath that the ap-
continent of Captain William nj. Mere
din, Of Chicago, to be chief Of the Bureau
of Printing and Engraving, would be
made at once.
On the 24th Mr.. Washburne, the new
American Minister to Switzerland, pre-
sented his credentials to President Ham
mer.
OK the 23d Charles Clendenning. the
Oldest resident of Allegheny County, Pa,
died, aged one hundred and one years.
The deceased never used whisky or to-
bacco in any form, and up to few weeks
before his death was remarkably healthy.
CAPTAIN MURRELL of the steamship
Missouri and his officers and crew were
received by the Lord Mayor of London at
the Mansion House, on the oath, who pre-
sented them with testimonials for their
bravery in rescuing the passengers of the
sinking steamer Danmark. A letter
which had been received from Prince
Bismarck was read. 1t was highly lauda-
tory Of Captain Murrell and his men.
On the oath John Bright's will was pro-
bated in London. He bequeaths an es
tate OF about f36000 to his children.
There are no public bequests in the will.
On the 26th Mr.. R obcrt McLane, the re-
firing American Minister to France,
sailed for New York. His wife and
daughter will remain in Paris for the
present.
HAVING attained the age Of sixty two,
Adiutant- General Drum was, on the 2Sth,
retired from the army.
ROGER T. SPooNER, of Wisconsin, was
appointed Consul at Prague, Austria, on
the 25th.
IT is announced that Count Ignatius has
been appointed assistant Minister of the
Interior of Russia.
IT is stated that J. G. Clark, Of Boston,
has presented to the Maine State College
his herbarium, one of the finest in the
country, containing about thirty thousand
Rev. Joseph Blake, OF Andover, Mass,
aud was purchased by Mr. Clark for $40, :
Co., --'
on the 26th King Humbert and the
Prince Of Naples started on their journey
home from Berlin. There was large
crowd at the railway station to witness
their departure.
In July Sir Julian Pauncefote will re-
turn to England for the purpose Of bring
ing Lady Pauncetote and daughters to
Washington.
THE Massachusetts House of Represent
atives has passed the bill granting suf.
frage to women on liquor-license ques-
tions to the next Legislature.
The Navy Department has decided that
the remains of the inventor Ericsson
shall be taken back to his native land
in a National ship and it is unde rstood
that the Chicago will be selected for the
duty.
IT is stated that the Pope will protest
at the coming consist0ry in Rome against
the erection of the proposed monument
ID honor Of Giordano Bruno, the Italian
philosopher who was burned as hereto
in 1000
ON the 26th Rev. James II. Harding,
formerly chancellor of the Diocese of Con-
nectlcut, died at st. Francis Roman
catholic Orphan Asylum, New Haven,
where he had lately acted as chaplain. He
was eighty-one years old.
The appointments of General Lew
Wallace and Beverly Tucker as commits
sloners to visit Hayti and San Domingo
nave been withdrawn, on account, it is
alleged. in oil tc in
fuckers career that have been brought
to the notice of the Administration.
SECRETARY PROCTOR, who returned to
Washington, on the 25th, from a Joint
visit to his home in Proctor, Vt, and to
West Point, left again for his home, on
the 9th, on receipt of telegram stat
ing that his son was seriously i'll with the
measles.
On the 9th NJ. Faure, member of the
French Chamber of Deputies, withdrew
the questions regarding the reported
treaty between France and Hayti that he
Intended asking the government during
ne discussion OF the budget.
IT Is reported in Paris that King Hum
oert renounced his intended visit to
nTasburg in Difference to a telegram
HomlQaeen Marguerite, at Rome, appeal
l1g TO him not to give such an affront to
the French.
~, oN The 9th Count Memabrea, Italian
a. I,.Ale'ef Z TO France, called upon NJ Spul-
an5 ,i flench Minister of Foreign Affairs,
a-N assured him that King Humbert had
l. 'er Intended to visit Strasburg while
IL IL guest of Emperor William, as had
been reported
oN Ihe 9th Judge Gilkeson, the new
SUOud Comptroller of the Treasury, took
oaln OF office, and left for his home in
IFanla in the afternoon.
-nE former wife of Dion Boucicault,
4sneS Robertson, secured judgment
S'HSt The actor for alimony, which he
- 10y paid, and the court gave her per-
ri.ta ,t,ssion to sell Boucicault IS English copy
,T,, on" boucicault, or the 26th, entered an
asIS appeal IN the case, and the government
s.IGuiolted, s.I., temporarily, the seizure and
'ole n OF the copyrights.
ysg y0N tne 18th, in the Bishop inquest in
eN ork Robertson, the mind-reader's
sular physician, testified that he had
s.., .0u seen Bishop in catalepsy when he
a,9. oH-ed dead. Witness would not have
done. '4''s 81 sun "' ~ was
pr;- me 2Ith King Humbert and the
tba;p tbOe OF Naples arrived at Frankfort, on
HILL HILL way home from Berlin. The King