Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-13
VIEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
,,,psoNAL AND POLITICAL.

IL 4o,,.ord Zanzibar. Their force con-
P"n! ~ several thousand men, women
aJ obi1dren. and they carried with them
G000 tusks Of ivory.
nm Marouis of Ely died on the Sd,
,rbtIa travelling in Italy. He was born in
1913.
~ the jth James Gallery, of Pittsburg gh,
ono of the weafthiest aud best known men
in western Pennsylvania, died suddenly
a. bis residence on Highland street, pre-
sumably of heart disease.
MAJOR GENERAL SCHoFIELD will rec
onmend to Secretary Proctor that Major
George A. Armes, the retired army Of
fcer who assaulted Governor Beaver, be
,ried by court martial for conduct un-
becoming an officer and a gentleman.
on the 9Th Governor Bulkley of Con-
necticut granted reprieve of two weeks
in the case of John H. Swift, the Hart
ford wife murderer, sentenced to be
hanged.
BoULANGER has been persuaded by
Count Dillon and NJ. Rochefort to with
hold the manifesto he meditated sending
10 his followers in France, and the elec-
tOral campaign has been suspended.
COMMENTING on BOulanger'S flight the
North German Gazette says: "This last
retreat will not increase his prestige. He
would rather play the role of pretender
than submit to arrest"
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued proc
lamati0n recommending April 80, the
date Of the centennial celebration of
the inauguration of President Washing
ton, as q special centennial thanks giving.
On the 81 Mrs. Turner Sargent, daugh-
,n Nv. al InJ xyhn
had been i'll for nearly two months, died at
her fathers home in Boston.
TIE President appointed Joel B. Err
hardt collector of customs at New York
City,
OK the night Of the 9th Rev. Gilbert
Raymond, at one time Vicar-G G eneral Of
the diocese of New Orleans, and for thir-
ty-four years parish priest at Opelousas,
La, died, aged eighty years. He was q
native Of France, and for many years was
president Of st. Mary's College, Balti-
more.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY TRACY was the
guest of the Brooklyn Club, and received
the congratulations Of upwards of one
thousand people, on the 9th.
JAMES RAY, the English pedestrian,
record of 400 miles in seventy-two hours,
has arrived at New York and will start in
the international go-as-you-please con-
test in Madison Square Garden, May 8.
Geo. w. Atkinson, OF the London Sport
ing Life, is his backer.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the London Times
in Brussels says that Prince Victor Napo-
leon visited General DJuanger, and that,
on the 7th. the two held a long confer
ence in a restaurant in the outskirts of
the city
WISE a1d Morrill,, of the Boston Base
Ball Club, have been sold to the Wash
ingtons.
THE Knights of St Patrick of New York
City have forwarded to Mr.. Parnell the
sum Of 5000, the receipts of an enter
tainment given by thenx on st. Patrick's
Day last
On the 9th the United States Supreme
Court bar held a meeting in memory of
the late Justice Matthews. Senator Evarts
presided. and addresses were made by
General Mussey, Representatives McKin-
ley and Breckenridge, Ex-Governor Hoad-
ley OF Ohio and ex-senator Mcdonald, of
Indiana.
On the Sth the $50, 900 bond of Mr.. Hus-
ton, the new United States Treasurer, was
received by the Solicitor of the Treasury.
After being approved the bond was sent
70 Secretary Window.
DISTICT- ATTORNEY JOHN r. FELLOWS
has returned to New York from Orleans,
where lie had been sojourning for his
health.
THE action Of the United States Court
OF Claims in appointing Mrs. Mary H.
Seymour, of New York City, q court COM
missioner for the whole country, is caus-
ing much rejoicing among the Woman
Suifraglsts. The members of the party
claim that the court has thus settled that
a woman can legally hold office.
On the 8th Secretary Tracy paid his first
official visit to the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The officers, in full uniform, and the
marines turned out to receive him.
The charter election i'll Trenton, N. j.,
held on the Sth, resulted in a victory for
the Republicans, who elected the mayor,
school superintendent, nine of the eleven
conncilmen, and four out of the five free
holders
On the Sth Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife
ot the musician, died in New York City.
she had been confined to her bed since
last autumn with form of nervous pros
Uatlon which from the first puzzled med
cM skill. Mrs. Thomas was woman of
t1ue Intellectual attainments and unusual
-orce OF character.
lie message of the Duke of Nassau
naS read in the Luxembourg Chamber. on
'1g StA, and that body unanimously re-
SoI'eu to receive his oath as Regent.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has consented to as
SuHe the relation of godfather to the
lle:'tnth son of poor weaver in Mar
Alrch, Alsace.
IHE release of Morrill, and Wise to the
"aShlngton Base ball Club has led many
70 suspect that Ward might go to Boston
= part OF the deal. 1t is stated, how
e'er' on the authority of the Boston di-
'ec'orS, that such is not the case.
~ Detroit, Mich, an examination of the
Poll lists OF all the election districts shows
i4at despite the difficulties attending the
llSV attempt over two thousand women
,o'eu Tor school directors at the recent
IL! election. They were courteously re-
se SeI'ed at the polls, and the latter, in most
0IstrIctS, were very quiet and orderly.
GENERAL RoSENBACH, Governor of Tur-
AeStan, Is on his way from Kerki, on the
-AIshan frontier, to Tashkend, as the re-
II Tgu disturbances have been settled.
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