Huntsville gazette., 1889-04-20
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Complied from Various Sources.
prpsoS.L AND POLITICAL.

bar of Parliament, Is tHPioyluS Inc rem
nant of his liberty before his imprison-
nant under the Crimes act, in vigorous
campaign in various parts OF England.
His appeal is fixed for April 20, at Clon-
val Int he is determined that he shall
be heard before he goes behind prison
walls.
W. H. II. SMITH has been appointed
chief clerk of the Naval Bureau Of Steam
Engineering, vice julius J. Feeks, re-
eiq1ad. Mr. Smith was the immediate
predecessor of Mr.. Feeks, and went out
after service Of twenty three years In
the bureau - IL
os the 18th the French Senate assem-
bIed for the trial Of General Boulanger
and other. The President Of the Senate
read the decree constituting the Senate a
tribunal for trial. The Procurer- General,
Ouesnay de Beaurepaire, then read the
charges against Boulanger, Rochefort
and Count Dillon, and the grounds for the
trial. The session then became q secret
one and the public withdrew.
IT is said that Sir Charles Russell's
speech before the Parnell Commission is
70 be printed in pamphlet form for circu-
lation through Great Britain, America
and The colonies.
Ir is asserted that upon the return of
Henry II. Stanley to England he will be
naturalized as British subject, forsaking
his American adoption, and that the gov
ernment will confer upon him higher
honors than have ever before been con-
ferred upon journalist or an explorer.
The Belgian Government will join in
decorating and otherwise honoring Stan
ley.
THE report that an attempt had been
made to assassinate the Car Of Russia
has been neither contradicted or con-
frmed. 1t is widely credited.
IN concluding his address before the
Parnell Commission Sir Charles Russell
said the court was trying the history Of
the Irish revolution, and he asked for it
fair and generous consideration.
On the 18th Lyman E. Knapp, of Mid
dlebury, VT, was appointed Governor of
Alaska; James P. Luse, of Dakota, to be
register Of the land Office at Rapid City,
Dak., and Thomas NJ Reed, Jr., to be reg
lister Of the land office at Seattle. w. I.
Ok the 14th eX-Congressma Chitten-
den died at his home in Brooklyn, after
long illness, aged seventy-fye.
ESTES G. RAfHBoNE, Of Hamilton, O.,
has been appointed Chief Post Oiice In
spector.
MRS. RUSSELL HARRISON has recovered,
and Mrs. Scott Lord is the latest occupant
OF the White House on the sick-list
OK May ID Adjutant General Drum will
retire, when he will at once go TO his eOun-
Try home near Tennallytown, D. c.
IT is stated that the President contem-
plates taking the whole south front, first
floor, OF the State Department for exec
11fiva hIrciopcc CfgioAc and asto hi h IN
routine Office hours.
THE race for the position of Adjutant-
General Of the Army is commencing to
wax warm as the date for the retirement
Of General Drum draws near.
JOHN A. KASsON, William Walter
Phelps and George H. Bates, the Commits
sioners appointed to represent the United
States Government at the Berlin confer
ence on the Samoan question, were among
the passengers on the steamship Urn bria,
which sailed from New York for Liver
pool on the 18Th Ex-Mayor Hewitt and
family were also among the Umbria's
passengers.
TdE Vienna Neue Freie Press says the
illness from which Enpross Elizabeth is
SuEerlng is neuralgia.
\ CIRCULAR letter has been issued by
Bishop O'IIara ordering special services
IN all the Catholic churches in the Scran-
ton (Pa.) diocese on April 80, to commem-
crate the centennial of Washington's in
augural
THE Secretary of State has been in
formed of the death, at Breslau, Prussia,
on the 18th, OF Consul Dithmar, the United
States representative there. Mr.. Dithmar
was appointed to the position by Presi-
delt Hayes in 1878 and had held the office
ever since.
On the 18th Attorney General Miller
presented in the Supreme Court of the
United States the eulogistic resolutions
recently adopted by the bar of the court,
touching the death OF Associate Justice
Matthews, and in q short speech asked
that they be placed on the records of the
court. In receiving the resolutions Chief
Justice Fuller delivered n beautiful trib-
Ute to the memory Of the dead jurist.
DURING his visit to England Emperor
William will not go to London, but will
only 60 to Osborne and Spithead.
IT is telegraphed that Gabriel Dumont,
Appointment leader in the Riel rebellion,
mas arrived at Duck Lake, N. w. T., the
scene Ct the battles of 1885, and is ad-
Wesslng meetings of breeds, urging
n. press lneN grievances upon the
Dyliinl1n Government.
uS lhe 18th the election to fill the vacant
S'"t n the British Parliament for the
eeITal division Of Birmingham, resulted
- 'le choice Of Mr.. Albert Bright by
9U.7 OF 56lO and 1850 for Mr.. Beale, the
LIBERAL candidate.
LORD SALISBURY, it is stated, will pay
'S.' p Prince Bismarck about Easter.
LIE IuEeral Of Rear Admiral Taylor oc-
'IrFed IN Washington on the 18th.
LIE Car viii be represented at the
"a r"Ils Exposition by his second son
r oN lhe 18th Mayor Bruck Of Columbus,
~ upon being reinstated in office, an
aounccd that he would stringently en-
ioEce the laws against gambling. Colum-
c C"9 Is the lea ding gambling city in the
aSH'Fal States, there being fourteen faro
sai1eS IN operation. The gamblers, who
cast
DR. GEORGE SHELTON, Of New York
SI,s!' mas been presented by H. NJ. Flag
ro WIN securities of the par value Of $780,
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