Huntsville gazette., 1889-09-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

LEWIS Bros. & Co, Philadelphia and
New York, offered their creditors 621z
cents on the dollar aud asked that they
be given eighteen months in which to
make the settlement.
THE Paris correspondent of the London
Times telegraphs to his paper that he is
confident General Boulanger will return
TO France before the elections which
take place next month.
In response to inquiries sent out by the
Washington Post, the Governors Of sew
enteen States declared themselves in
favor of the removal of the remains of
General Grant from the negle spot in
Riverside Cemetery, nearly all agreeing
upon Arlington Cemetery or the National
Soldiers Home near Washington. Six
teen Governors were away from home,
and two, Hill of New York and Penoyer
of Oregon, declined to express opinion.
IT is said that the four American tour
lists who were arrested in Switzerland
upon an unfounded charge of theft were
imprisoned two days in lOathsome cells
before being discharged without explana-
ton. Minister Washburn has demanded
the apology which the police officers
should have given voluntarily.
Mrs. ALLEN HAMILTON, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, sister of Congressman Holman, of
Indiana, and mother of eX-Congressman
Hamilton, of Fort Wayne, bequeathed
81 600 to the cause Of woman suffrage. the
money to be held in trust by Mrs. Lucy
Stone and Susan B. Anthony.
IT is announced at St. Petersburg that
the Czarowitz will shortly start on tour
of the world. His itinerary was not made
public, but it was understood that it en-
braced several Of the principal cities OF
America, and included fortnight's So
journ in Paris.
WHILE giving an exhibition of her dars
ing at North Shields, England, on the
3lst, Miss Beaumont the American para
chute performer, became entangled in
the rigging Of her airship, and only
saved herself by grasping the lightning
rod Of lofty building as she passed it,
where she remained suspended in mid
air until res cued from her perilous posi-
! ton by men with ladders.
COUNT HUBNER, the octogenarian dea-
con of European diplomacy, and who,
more than any other man, was responsi.
Bile for the Austro-P -Prussian war of 1866,
is in Vienna.
On the 81 Mr.. Gladstone started for
Paris, to remain fortnight. During his
stay at the French capital he will be en-
| tertained by President Carnot, and will
| undoubtedly experience much difficulty
in escaping a degree Of social attention
greatly interfering with his principal OBJ
ject in going abroad-rest and recrea-
ton.
THE report published in merica that
United States Consul Severance was not
well received by King Kalakaua is denied
by the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser,
which says that Mr.. Severance was most
cordially received By the King, who sent
his band to serenade him at the hotel.
DISSATISFACTION has developed in the
ranks of the Irish party over Mr.. Parnel's
compact with Balf0ur, by virtue of which
Ireland is to secure the endowment OF
Catholic University.
KING MALIETOA'S return to Samoa and
the meeting with his friends and relatives
is described as affecting in the extreme,
IT is said that the retirement of Herr
Won Scholz, the Prussan Minister of
Finance, is imminent on account of the
shelving by the Cabinet OF his proposed
tax reforms.
BERLIN papers are unanimous in their
opinion that the Catholic University
scheme is a trick OF Balfour's to split the
coalition between the Liberals and Nle
Parnellites. They speak of it as a mas
terpiece of diplomacy and predict that
its fruits will not be for Irisbmen to
pluck.
AT a meeting on the ID the United La
Dor League of Philadelphia voted to send
a cablegram to John Burns, leader Of the
London strikers, expressing sympathy
for the strikers and urging the N to stand
firm.