Huntsville gazette., 1889-02-02
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.

Compiled from Various Sources.
p c.zAURAx, the playwright, died
:; Nh ~ York City, on the 9th, after long
illness.
r,,r State Department was, on the 26th,
.d,ised of the firing upon an American
s-o.-oI On the Zanzibar coast by a German
war-ship.
Dr., povD VINCENT was, on the 25th,
oonsacrated assistant Bishop Of the Pro-
tostant Episcopal Church Of the Southern
Ohio diocese.
A DISPATCH from Sydney, N. s. W., says
tbat the German gun-boat Olgo has taken
Malietoa. ex-King Of Samoa, to the Mar
shall Islands.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has informed SEN
ator Allison that if he refuses to accept
the Secretaryship of the Treasury Iowa
will not get a Cabinet position.
THE Paris Figaro states that Empress
Frederick has accepted a French legacy
of5.OOO,0 900 francs, and becomes the pos
SCISSOR Of landed property in France.
THE Secretary of State, on the oath, re-
ceivea cable message from the United
States Consul at Colon, stating that af-
fairs on the Isthmus of Panama are quiet.
CARDINAL HAYNALD, Archbishop Of Co.
Iocsa and Baes, has offered his herbarium,
rare and extremely valuable collection
Of specimens, to the Hungarian National
Museum
THE London Times says Englishmen are
curious to know the value of Bismarck's
assertion that Germany is absolutely one
with England with regard to the Samoan
difficulty.
ADEAL by which the Pullman company
secured control of all the palace-car
business Of this country, except that Of
the Wagner company, was consummated
on the 23d
IT has been decided by the Post-office
Department that the cylinders used in
monographs and glaphophones gl are to be
treated as first class matter, subject to
letter postage.
MRS. FAYErrE C. SNEAD, who was wide
ly known as a popular writer on social
topics under the psuedonym OF Fay, F"
died, on the oath, at her apartments on II
street. Washington.
DELEGATE CAREY was given hearing;
on the 23d, by the House committee on
Territories, in favor of the admission of
Wyoming as a State. His argument was
very able and quite long.
Mr.. C. P. HUNTINGTON, of the Central
Pacific Railroad Company, was, on the
loo, +1,n TO
mittee on Pacific railroads, which has the
Mitchell bill now pending before it.
THE messengers with the electoral votes
of California, Colorado and Oregon ar
rived III Washington, on the Goth, and de-
livered their precious burdens to the
President pro tempore of the Senate.
GENERAL CHARLES K. GROsvENoR, pres
ident of the National Union League, has
called meeting of the National Council,
to be held at the Ebbitt House, Washing
ton, on Saturday, March 2, at a. m.
s
GENERAL BoULANGER was elected to tn
French Chamber of Deputies, for the De-
partment Of the Seine, on the 9th, by
majority Of 81, ,55O-2o, 900 more than his
most extravagant ante election claim.
NEOkGE LYNCH, one HuuuTcu iHu TWO
years old, got lost in Harlem, N. Y. The
police took him to a station-house and adj
vertised him, and later his son Patrick,
seventy five years old, called for him.
The London bureau of the New York
Herald announced, on the 29th, that ow-
ing to defects in the machinery the pub
hcation Of the London edition of the
Herald would be delayed for some days.
The House foreign affairs committee,
on the 2ith, adopted the Senate Panama
resolution. A subcommittee was ap-
pointed to consider all correspondence
sent to the committee on Samoan affairs.
The Military Appropriation bill for
1880, which was reported to the House on
the 25th, carries au appropriation of $2i,-
4G8,6l5, against $2i,4Il 800 in the bill Of
1889. The estimates for 1899 were $25,-
O78,35S.
The Foo Choo (China) Echo says that
China will annex Corea after the EN-
peror's marriage, and the present King
and his family will be deposed, and Mar
gus Tseng will be appointed as Viceroy
Of Corea
BEFORE the adjournment of the Senate,
On the 18th, Mr.. Harris entered motion
10 reconsider the vote by which the Pen
sion oil was passed. This was done with
view to Introducing some amendments
70 the bill.
STUDENT in the School of Pharmacy
= me Ann Arbor (Mich.) University is
~g"A With smallpox. A great scare
~" among the students, and the doe
vo ~'o are overrun with applications for
vaccination.
ASSISTANT SURGEON GENERAL WYMAN
=, uIe Marine Hospital Service received
sIam from Dr.. w. j. Pettus, at Gal
.eS'on Tex, on the 2sth, stating that
t'sn' cases Of smallpox had broken ont
IN that city.
a. uoBLET, French Minister Of Foreign
an"irs' has telegraphed to NJ. Wadding
h., ambassador to England, instru citing
tia 4-'n 10 ask Lord Salisbury for all explana-
-. .'.i u the seizure by Great Britain of two
'A7 IongWay islands.
D
rals r1nE present hope in Berlin is that the
s4eSI 4slISA Will agree to join Germany in her
vnoft TO drive the Americans out of
tSoiloa but the masses in England are