Huntsville gazette., 1889-06-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

,,or,bar of the National DeQOcfdblc COM
n1ittee from South Carolina Colonel
HASKELL is a member of the Legislature.
and one Of the most prominent lawyers of
the State.
CONGRESSMAN CoRLOs FRENCH, on the
a0th. was elected a member of the National
democratic committee to represent the
State of Connecticut, in place Of William
II. Barnum, deceased.
OK the night of the 29th Henry O'Brien,
the defaulting treasurer of the Catholic
Kpigbts. of Columbus, Ind, returned to
mat city and surrendered. He was PEN
nuess and worn out with tramping.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER has
appointed a commission to investigate
and report upon the condition and needs
of the New York City post-office. This
commission is the result of a conference
recently held between Postmaster Van
Cott and the officials Of the POST office
Department.
SECRETARY TRACY, it is said, is vigor-
ously pursuing his policy, declared at the
beginning of his administration, OF push
ing to rapid completion the naval vessels
now under construction or authorized to
be built.
On the 18th Miss Emma jerks, daugh-
ter of Geo. A. jerks, a Brookville (Pa.)
solicitor will wed Congressman Benjamin
F. Shively of Indiana. Mrs. Grover
Cleveland will be bridesmaid, and the ex-
President will be a guest. Pittsburgh will
give the late occupants of the White
House q grand reception.
SIR JAMES FERGUSON, parliamentary
secretary to the Foreign Office, denied, in
the British House of Commons on the
Goth, the reports from V ictoria, British
Columbia, that three memo war in the
Pacific had been ordered to proceed to
Behring sea.
1T was announced recently that sick
ness prevented King Kalakaua of Hawaii
from going to the Paris Exposition, but it
is learned from good authority that His
Majesty, although desiring to pay visit
to the exposition, lacked the necessary
funds.
Mr.. VIsETTELLY, the we'll known book
seller of London, has been sentenced tC
three months imprisonment for publish
ing Zola's novels.
AT the sitting of the Farnell Commits
sion on the 31st, Mr. Reid, of the Parnell-
ite counsel, stated that inquiry had re-
suited in the finding of thirty books be-
longing to the National League which
would be produced in court
OK the 3Oth the silver wedding Of the
Count and Countess of Paris was cele-
brated in England with garden party
The Prince and Princess of Wales and
large number Of persons Of high rank, in
cuding the full group Of Orleans Princes,
were present.
On the 31st a cablegram was received
in London from General Hippolyte, the
insurgent leader Of Hayti, saying that he
had defeated President Legitime, capt.
ured Port Prince, the capital Of that
country, and proclaimed himself Provis-
ional President.
PRESIDENT HARRISON and Presi dent
Diaz of Mexico, it is expected will meet
at Fort Worth, Tex, some time this
month.
JOHN GREEN, the English pedestrian,
has succeeded in beating Weston's rec-
ord of walking 5000 miles in one hundred
days, by walking one hundred miles more
iu the specified time.
IT is said that Mrs. John A. Logan will
open a school for young ladies in New
YORK or Chicago shortly.
On the ID Governor Hill of New York
issued a proclamation calling the atten-
ton of the people of that State to the
disaster which had befallen the inhab-
itants Of large section Of Pennsylvania,
and invoking the efforts of citizens and
organizations toward relieving the conse-
quent distress.
On the I'd the President did not attend
church, but was busy all day arranging
with Governor Beaver by telegraph for
the relief of the stricken districts in
Pennsylvania.
JOHN d. SPRECKELs, president of the
Oceanic Steamship Company, states that
New South Wales has renewed its con-
tract with that company for one year to
carry the Australian mails, which the Ca
madam line of steamships was seeking to
obtain. The government of New Zealand
has not joined in the contract, owing to
the failure of the United States to share
in the expense equally as heretofore.
THE resignation of F. NJ. Stockslager,
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
which was rendered March last, has been
accepted by the President to take effect
June 30. Assistant Commissioner Stone
will act as commissioner in the mean
time.
OK the Sd it was expected that the pro-
tocol to be drawn up by the Samoan con-
ference would be signed by the repre-
Sentatives of the three governments con-
cerned on the Sth. The Commissioners
were then preparing to take their de-
parture from Berlin,
On the Sd the Times counsel, assisted
by the counsel for Mr.. Parnell, began an
inspection of the private letters of the
latter. The correspondence covers Pc
ROD of SIX years, and comprises 5000 let
ters.
AMONG the prominent citizens of Johns
town, Pa, who perished in the great del
uge, was Judge Fulton, general manager
OF the Cambria Iron Works, which lost
without insurance S2.500,0O0 worth OF
property. Judge Fulton's wife and chill
dren were also drowned.
On the Sd Mrs. Maybrick, who, 1t IS al
legged, poisoned her husband at Liver
pool, was so i'll that she was unable to
appear in court. 1t is alleged that Mr.
Maybrick, before his death, wrote to his
brother that if his illness proved. fatal an
autopsy ought to be held.
On the I'd Miss Clara Barton went TO
Harrisburg, Pa, to supervise the work OF
the Red Cross Society in relieving the dis
tress at JOhnstown.