Huntsville gazette., 1889-01-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
NJ. f,rd to pay the expenses OF Mr..
THE It'nU bis litigation with the London
Times already amounts " -0''''
Vt WIssMAN will be appointed
-lLo consnl-General at Zanzibar,
tTe!Hlan ae3ce he will undertake in addition
70 his other duties.
,.,-rrv,vr CHADWICK, naval attache
l1r' 4no American Legation in London, will
ot III III. rat1rn home and be succeeded by
: Iiio- Iio1tenant buckingham, Q. 5. n.
up THOMAS A. STEVENS, who has an
..lncod his intention of penetrating Afri-
l.ot'r' ~ IN search of Henry NJ. Stanley, started
49,, London for Zanzibar on the 18th.
nnsn,rr repeated warnings from the
Risbop. four hundred families LETT Liner
II, Ireland. on the 22d, to embark at
onaenstown for the Argentine Republic.
Nm Fp1FDRERG. Prussian Minister of
,nstice. has resigned his Office in conse-
o,,ence Of the publication in the Reichs-
aanzp;ger Of the indictment against Prof.
Geffcken.
TUE Free Masons and the Radical Fed
oration of 1879 have declared against
General BouIanger in the coming Paris
rf,l.a Will nr.t
NJ jacques
PRELIMINARY charges have been filed
Nth the House judiciary committee for
irpeachmant proceedings against Judge
Barnes. Of Tombstone, Ariz., for resort
ing to gag-law.
4 GIGANTIC ice trust is about to be
formed in New York City, and thirty
wholesale companies have already COM
bined to advance the price Of ice for the
coming summer.
THERE are rumors in the Suakim baZar
that the dervishes are massing at Khar-
toum. with view of marching on Don
cola. ana that the Mahdi is contemplating
the invasion of Egypt.
The thirteen White Caps who were s.r-
rested at North Salem, N. H., for assault
upon John E. Welch were, on the 10th,
fined So and costs each, upon payment of
which they were released.
A DEPUTY United States marshal arrest
ed John J. Burton, alias J. Warren Miller,
at Trinidad, Col, on the 18TH on charge
of having defrauded the Government of
Sl,l13 while postmaster at Royal City,
Ind.
NEARLY one hundred Canadian and
American sealing vessels will shortly
start from British Columbia for the Behr-
ing Sea sealing grounds and take chances
of being captured by United States reve-
nue. cutters.
A PARTY Of revenue officers returning
from a raid on Illicit stills in the North
Carolina mountains, on the 10Th, We're
fired upon from ambush by moonsh1ners.
Several men were wounded and a prisoner
was rescued.
THE largest mortgage ever recorded in
Kanawha County, w. Va, was that of the
Chesapeake s. Ohio Railroad Company
for $50 100000, made to the Central NJ ort-
gage Company of New York, and placed
on record on the 10Th.
REPRESENTATIVE NICHOLS, of North
Carolina, is the latest candidate for Pub
lie Printer. He IS practical printer, and
member Of the Typographical Union,
and will receive the Endorsement of q
great many members of the House.
The Senate committee or the District of
Columbia made favorable report, on the
18th, on the House bill to allow the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad to cross with its
tracks, during the period of Inauguration
Preparations, certain District streets.
The Secretary of War, on the 21st,
transmitted to Congress q letter from
General Casey, Chief of Engineers, stat
ng that it would cost 100000 to make a
twenty-foot channel in the Willamette
river, between Portland and Oswego, Ore.
The Secretary of the Navy, on the 10Th,
requested Congress to make available the
appropriation of $1,000 for observing the
eclipse of the sun on December q and %,
lSSS which was appropriated and not
used for observing the eclipse in January,
lSS9
The statue Of Benjamin Franklin, which
mad been placed upon the pedes tai in the
space formed by the intersection of D and
Tenth streets with Pennsylvania avenue,
IN the city of Washington, was unvailed,
On the Eth, the 1S3d anniversary of Frank
Inns birth.
GENERAL SPINOLA submitted a minority
report on the 18th, from the Ford COM
Il'Vee on immigration. He opposes the
Aed0-taX OF S. as favored by Mr.. Ford
anu other members of the committee. On
some other minor details he also disa-
s'sss wllh the majority.
1t4fVRFS OF principal articles of pro-
os-, ,-.-yA from the United States during De-
S,HoeI 20 past aggregated in value $9, ,S69,
49,, against SS025,35i in December, 1887,
has ," -oF ~, the twelve months ended Decem-
a. o. lSSS, We're valued at SS7,061, ,137,
1s"lust -, ,29S GIG in 1887.
ha 9I'ERAL New York jewelry firms have
oooi 'r Heeced Of amounts aggregating 49,
~. ~! man claiming to represent A. NJ.
o. oI Cincinnati, to whom they sold