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Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
CURRENT COMMENTS.

EFy-Speaker Reed couldn't have ar
ranged his leading committees any bet
ter if he had tried twice as long.-Chi-
cago Journal.
sa Mckinley, as chairman OF the
House ways and means committee,
means that the tariff will be revised this
session, but that the protection principle
will be preserved. Blade.
GY-The gossip about Mr., Blaine's
''inaccessibility is nonsense. He Is
busy, and doesn't gush to any great ex-
tent. Men who have business with him
can always s'get at him." Men with a
pull" don't find it SO easy.-N. Y. Press.
gNWhat Southern Democratic news
papers and politicians will say about the
late jefferson Davis during the next
month will furnish Northern Republic
an newspapers and politicians texts for
many patriotic sermons. Washington
Critic.
EThe position taken by the Presi-
dent in regard to Civil-Service Reform
will cheer the hearts of those who be-
lieve in the present law and the enlarge
ment Of its application, and will go far
to silence the partisans who have hypo-
| critically caviled at the manner of its
enforcement under the present Admins
tration. Cleveland Leader.
GBThe President does not hesitate
to advocate subsidies for certain
lines of American steamships, not
ably those which may be established
| between our ports and those of Central
and South America, China and Japan,
and the important islands Of both the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Wi tn the
President thus committed, it is TO be
hoped that Congress will act upon his
suggestions in this regard. d.-Rochester
Democrat (Rep-). -a
| Hon. John B. Obell, editor Of
the Springfield (O.) Daily Telegraph,
saws of Colonel Brice's candidacy for
the United States Senate: ''The De-
mocracy will not dare elect him, The
stigma caused by Mr.. Payne's election
has been all they can stand" That is
true, but Mr.. Brice is in with the win
ming crowd, and he has the money. He
will be elected just az Mr.. Payne was,
with the same kind of arguments
cago Inter Ocean. lL
| In a general sense the patriotic
people of the North entertain about the
same sentiment touching jeff Davis that
the Christians at the crucifxion did Of
Judas; or that the patriots of the revo-
| luton did about Benedict Arnold. No
body doubts the ability, courage or de-
votion of the chief organizer Of the con-
1 spiracy and rebellion to perpetuate
slavery, but all his brilliant qualities as
man make his treason the more in
famous. OF course he was. brave man,
SO were all his victims, so are all des-
peradoes who engage in conspiracy and
rebellion. That is nothing new in the
worlds historY.-Dayton lO.} journal
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

w. r. BOYD was placed under Sl,ooo
bonds at Little Rock, Ark, on the 50th,
charged with counterfeiting. He lives at
Lakeville, Ark, and has good reputation.
A CONVENTION is to be held at Lawrence
burg, Tenn, Oh January 10th, in reference
to a railroad from Memphis to Pulaski.
MARIA LOUISE LoNGsTREET, wife of Gen.
Longstreet, died at Atlanta, Ca, on the
Goth. Mrs. Longstreet went through 1he
Mexican and civil wars with her husband.
She was a woman of remarkable strengtb
Of character.
CASH, notorious character, VINO mas
been confined in Jail at Trenton, Tenn, 1or
several months past, was released on the
29th on account Of failing health. he was
ordered to leave the county.
FANNIE BRYANT, the negro woman con-
victed as the accomplice Of Dick Hawes In
the II urder Of his wife and children at
Birmingham, Ala, was on the 3oth sent 10
the penitentiary to serve out a life sentence.
MRS. ROBERT TYLER died, at Montgom-
ery, Ala, on the Goth in the 14th year OF
her age. Mrs. Tyler was daughter OF the
tragedian, Thomas Cooper and Mary
Farlie, celebrated belle of New YORK.
In 1910 she married Robert Tyler, Oldest
son of President Tyler, and upon the
special request of the President and his
wife, who was an invalid, she presided as
"Lady Of the White House" during the
first three years of President Tyler's ad-
ministration.
THE six day working match, with eight
female entries, was finished at Birming-
ham, Ala, on the 29th. Eva West OF Cali
fornia, winning by about two miles. Belle
Fuller, of New Orleans, second and Lottle
Livingston third. Miss West made
fraction under Ill miles in thirty six
hours, walking six hours day.
The Ladies' Hermitage Association will
give jackson historic costume reception
on the evening of Wednesday, January
sth; at the Maxwell House, Nashville,
Tenn.
THE first genuine norther of the season
made itself felt at San Antonio, Texas, on
the 29th. The mercury fell p degrees in
"a hours.
A FAMILY named Gross, consisting of the
parents and eight children, were consumed
in burning dwelling at Hancock, Mich,
on the 10Th.
A WRITER in a Washington paper gives
the number of Government employees in
the postal service :as $4,000 and in other
branches s., 900, or 100000 in all, who are
drawing salaries ranging from $40 per
month to 1000 per year.
NEARLY $1,000 have been raised by the
Young Mems Committee of Atlanta for a
monument to Henry W. Grady, and only q
few subscriptions have been received FROM
outside of Atlanta.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
OUGHT TO RESIGN.
Why Clifton r. Breckenridge Is Not En-
titled to a Seat in Congress.

Why Clifton r. Breckenridge Is Not En-
titled to Seat in Congress.
Among those who took their seats as
members Of the Fifty-first Congress
there is one man, at least, who had no
moral right to claim his seat, and who
ought to bo held up to general execra-
ton for having usurped it.
Clifton r. Breckenridge, of Arkansas,
was not fairly elected member of this
Congress, and he knows it. He knows,
also, that the man who was elected was
foully murdered by Democratic partisans
of Breckinridge's while collecting the
evidence that would have shown con-
clusively that John M. Clayton was en-
titled to the seat that Clifton K. Breck-
inridge now occupies. He is the bene-
ficiary of political assassination. He
holds his seat by virtue of cold -blooded,
deliberate murder.
1t is true that at the time of the MUIR
der Breckinridge disclaimed any con-
nection with it, or any desire to bene-
fit by it; but talk is cheap. Actions
speak louder than words. He has ben
Gifted by it, and has never showed the
least sign of compunction in doing so.
Furthermore, Breckinridge's friends,
the Democratic officers of the State
of Arkansas, have never found the mur-
derer In fact, they have acted as
men would act who did not want to
find him They protested loudly at the
time, and Governor Eagle made a
| flourish of offering reward for the
murderer's apprehension; but there, Sc
far as has transpired, the matter
dropped, and so far as appears there
was never any sustained or energetic
effort made to bring the assassin to
| justice.
If Breckinridge had had any Of thai
vaunted personal honor on which some
| gentlemen of his name have justly
nrided themselves, he would have re-
fused to be made the receiver of stoler
| goods. the beneficiary of a politica
| murder, the condoner Of assassination
Instead of thus refusing, he ha:
grabbed at the chance of getting an
| other term in Congress- term which
! he knows he could not have served ou
if the man who was first counted out b,
his friends had not afterward beel
| murdered by his partisans.
| There are several Democrats wit
| badly tainted titles who have takel
| their seats in this Congress, but Clifton
&. Brsokinridge has the worst title Q
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
THE POWERS THAT BE.
Comparisons Which Speak Praises In Be
half of President Harrison,

half of President Harrison.
Let no good Republican think that he
mas any apologies to make for the main
positions and acts of the current Admin
istration. In every departm the Fed
eral Government is moving positively,
forcibly and sensibly. Between the
well-considered movements of this Adj
ministration that understands itself
and the erratic, half-insane perform
ances of its predecessor there could
hardly be greater contrast. The broad,
masterly lines of the Presidents mes
sage show we'll the constructive plat
form of vital principles upon which the
party stands and upon which the Ad-
ministration is calmly playing its splen-
did role. In eight months Mr.. Window
has Treasury and all its problems bet
ter in hand than his Democratic prede-
cessors in their four years. Manning
and Fairchild were personally able and
honorable men, and they would have
been apt pupils under an experienced
financier; but they were not qualified to
take control of the great department.
Mr.. Window is bringing the snarls out
vi UllC 10 NlUu UllC olll pic CdoC VA d
great finance minister.
The foreign affairs of this country
were, put it considerably, managed
with great timidity and awkwardness by
Mr. Bayard. Secretary Blaine assumes
the portfolio with aconfidence and vigor
that have already had a magical effect
His policy is not pyrotechnical nor vent
uresome, but is simply the strong, con-
fdent one of a man who understands
the country himself and the rest of the
world. tj DL
Secretary Noble and the heads of the
bureaus and commissions that are in
cluded in the Interior Department are
dealing with lands, Indians, pensions
and all the rest of their varied business
with a prompt, business-like air that
charms the West after some years of a
Vilas-Sparks-B Black administration. Res
ervations will be opened, public land
questions will be settled fairly and
without needless delay, and all that lies
in the department will be done to pro-
mote internal progress. 49,
The Post-Off1ce Department has taken
up new life. The navy is booming. The
new Agricultural Department is justify
ing it's creation. There are no pan-elec-
trio scandals in the Department of JUS
tice. .e. 5-h
The appointments of this Administra-
tion are worthy Of comparison with those
Of any preceding one. Not to speak with
lack Of respect of the man now sitting
as Chief Justice, it is but fair to contrast
the selection of Mr. Cleveland of an alb
solutely unknown lawyer for this posi-
tion with the merited promotion by Mr..
Harrison of Judge Brewer, who has
made his way up through the grades of
the federal judiciary.
Not to carry comparisons further, we
have but to point to the admirable prac-
tical programmes laid down by the
President in his recent message and by
the Cabinet officers in their reports, and
to contrast them with the vagaries and
crotchets that were contained in the pc
culiar literature promulgated by Mr..
Cleveland and his Cabinet advisers as
state papers. This Administration is
showing itself one that practical and ex-
perienced men can respect. = Mime
apolis Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
EIGHTY YEARS.

Hon. william f. Gladstone. the "Grand
Old Man. of England, Celebrates His
Eightieth Birthday at Hawarden-C Con-
gratuiations From All Over the World.
LONDON, Dec. 29-The eightieth an
niversary of Mr.. Gladstone's birth alb
sorbed so much attention as to make of
this quiet Sabbath day of national re-
membrance. kilograms and letters of
congratulation and admiration poured
into Hawarden from, not only all quart
ers of England, but literally from all
parts of the world, many coming from
Australia, America and India. All the
members of the Gladstone family
branches were gathered at Hawarden to
meet and greet their eminent kinsman.
The church attended by Mr.. Gladstone
was crowded at the morning service, and
a large throng remained outside, un-
able to gain admittance. Mr. Gladstone
took his usual part in the service, read
ing the lessons, and said few words of
devout thankfulness for the blessings of
health and friendship. The scene was
such as Shakespeare might have had in
mind in describing the ideal old adage:
surrounded by troops of friends show
ing love, honor and obedience. Be-
sides those who might have been ex-
pected to send congratulations as mat
ter of course-personal friends and
political admirers-many contributed
whose offering of remembrance at
tracted more than ordinary attention.
Among those may be mentioned the
Countess Tolstoi, the Speaker of the
House of Commons and number OF
prominent Unionists.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


DURING the absence of Mrs. Lena
Schip from her home in Omaha, Neb.,
on the Goth, the house caught fire and
her three children, boy of seven, a
girl of four and a six-months-Old baby
boy, who were locked in the house,
were burned to death. A hundred peo-
pie witnessed the casualty, but were
unable to save the imprisoned children.
On the 27th the scaffolding at the new
building of the First National Bank OF
Baltimore, Md, gave way and precipi-
tated Foreman William Devine and
bricklayers William DENLY and Thomas
Elliott fifty feet to the ground floor.
DENLY was fatally and Devine and Ell
lott quite seriously hurt.
w. DAVIS, day telegraph operator at
Peach Springs, Ariz., was shot and
killed, on the night Of the Goth, near the
telegraph office in that place. 0. l..
Abrose, night operator, was arrested,
charged with the shooting.
On the Goth the steamers Ovington
and Queen Victoria collided during a
fog on the river Clyde. The Ovington
was so badly damaged that she sank al
most instantly. Five persons were
drowned. The Queen Victoria wal
damaged, but remained aioat.
SEVERAL hundred masked men raid
ed the Jail at Barnwell Court House, S.
c., at two o'clock on the morning of the
2Sth, overpowered the jailer and took
out eight negro prisoners, charged with
murder, whom they carried to the out
skirts of the town and shot to death.
On the 29th the body of Miss Sarah T,
Nichols was found frozen in the ice ot
the Merrimac river near Lawrence
Mass. Miss Nichols, whose home was
in Belvidere, was recently swindled out
of 81 900 by Charles Metcalf. She had
been Respondent over this fact and un
doubtedly committed suicide.
JAMES A. BYRNs, an inveterate cigar
ette smoker, aged twenty years, com
mitted suicide at Terre Haute, Ind, or
the evening of the Goth, by putting a
bullet through his head.
News comes from Hurontown, in the
northern peninsula of Michigan, OF the
burning to death of a family na med
Gross and visitor, consisting in al ot
eleven persons, by the destruction Of
their dwelling caused by the overturn.
ing of lamp.
WESTMINSTER, British Columbia, suf-
fered loss of $4,000 by fire on the GOTH
A SHOE factory at Portland, Ore, was
burned by an exploding lamp; loss $685..
900.
JERRY O'NEIL and wife, of Mount
Sterling, Mich, were shot dead in bed
by an unknown assassin.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
NEWS IN BRIEF,
Compiled from Various Sources.



On the both Emin Pasha was reported
to be improving.
On the 30 George W. Swayn. an in
structor in mathematics at Harvard Col
lege, died at the Massachusetts Hospital
in Boston, of the Russian influenza.
THE formal accession of Dom Carlos
|. as King of Portugal was proclaimed,
on the Goth, with elaborate and impress
i've ceremonies.
On the 2Sth Princess Theresa Chris.
tina Maria, exEmpress of Brazil, died at
Oporto, Portugal. She was a daughter
of Francis l., King OF the Two Sicilies.
On the 2Sth John Tempieton Coolidge,
president of the Columbia Bank of Bos-
ton, died of ia grippe" Mr.. Coolidge
was one of the oldest bank presidents in
Boston,
Hon. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE received
two hundred kilograms and five hun
dred letters of congratulate on the
Goth, the eightieth anniversary of his
birth. The first telegram was from the
Prince and Princess of Wales.
THE scheme for lottery, the proceeds
of which are to be used in acquiring a
site for monument to the late Emper-
or William L., has been ratified by the
Emperor of Germany. There are to be
200, 0G0 tickets at 200 marks each.
M. CONSTANT, French Minister of the
Interior, has been elected Senator for
the Department of Haute Garonne.
PoRTUGAL's requestfo delay in regard
to action in the African matter until the
full account of Serpa Pintos doings
reaches Lisbon, has been assented to by
Lord Salisbury.
THE Russian Minister of War recently
proposed that only members of noble
families should be made officers of the
army. The Gar rejected the PROPOSE
ton.
REPRESENTATIVE Tom CARTER, of
Montana, chairman Of the committee
on mines and mining, is credited with
having forgotten more about mining law
and land law than most men acquire in
the course of life time.
HENRY 0. TRUBENBAcH, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, has just presented to the
German Military Society of that city a
magnifcently framed life-size photo
graph of the King of Saxony, which His
Majesty forwarded to him from Dres-
den.
VICTORIA MoRIsINI-ScHIILING, who
created a sensation in New York few
years ago by eloping with her fathers
coachman and finally adopting the stage
as profession, is dying with consump-
tion in hor fatbar'c homo
REV. WILLIAM HUBBARD, pastor OF
the First Presbyterian Church of Au-
burn, N. Y, stopped in the middle Of
his sermon, on. the goth, and dismissed
his congregation as a rebuke to the
choir, whose frivolous behavior during
service was scandalizing the sacred edi-
fee.
THE wife of Judge Barrett, of the New
York Supreme Court, is in an insane asy-
lum at Dresden, Saxony.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

The question Of irrigating the arid
lands Of the West is likely to assert its
importancecduring the present session
Of Congress. A great deal of informa-
ton upon the subject has been collect
ed during tho past year, and various
plans will be presented for elfecting the
desired object.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

THr extent to which British money
IA, been invested IN American enter
r,ises has been one of the most con-
,5nous financial features Of the year
M closed. Present indications, how
1rer are that the investments from the
same quarter will be fully as great in
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

IN CRoyIy died a poor man, it seems,
leaving only library and some surgical
irsrrpments, Il worth in all $500. He might
b,vo saved his life and filled his purse
r. ,e had been willing to keep still
,bopt the gross embellishments OF the
.rorod natriots who caused his death.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

SEPTEMBER 15 next has been set as the
tate at which elections will be held in
Brazil for members of constitutional
and November Is is named
as the time at which the convention is to
meet This body is to be charged with
'ae responsibility Of choosing the form
0l government which Brazil is to have,
as we'll as defining its powers and limita-
tinnS
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

THE St. Louis GlobeDemocrat pro-
poses for the inscription on the monu-
ment to be erected to the memory of
flenry W. Grady the following extract
from one Of his speeches: 81 am glad
that the omniscient God held the bal
ance of battle in His Almighty hand,
and that the American Union was saved
IRON the wreck of war"
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

!. ne report OF threatened hostilities
ao'"eeh Guatemala and Salvador comes
!.'' .. III ume to throw some doubt on the
5'OlieS ca OF ldyllic affection between the
.;.l, sn',al american countries which have
,1.ria'ed widely Of late. However,
ra., v. would be costly and unsatisfactory
vo.. ,.-Ou Oh settling the present contro-
Country. "''-' 'io "o"Aer
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

Nis to be hoped that the Interstate
Commerce Commission will give prompt
and practical attention to the petition
which 10000 railway employees have pre-
sented with regard to the present clumsy
and dangerous system of hand-braking
on freight trains. 1t is stated that 2, 900
bHkemen were killed and ten times that
number injured during the past year.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
The Death of the Ex-Empress of Brazil.

OPoRTo, Dec. 29.-The illness of the
ex-Empress of Brazil first assumed an
alarming phase Friday. 1t had been
the intention of the Imperial family to
start for France yesterday. The doc
tors forbade. the journey for fear that
excitement and fatigue would precipi-
tate crisis. The Empress was, how
ever, little better yesterday morning.
During the morning Dom Pedro went
out fcr promenade, and visited the
museum of fine arts. He was found
there by the Brazilian Consul, who had
been dispatched to hasten; his s-return to
the hotel because the condition of the
Empress had suddenly became critical.
Before Dom Pedro arrived the Empress
was dead.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

ZONE IDEA Of the magnitude of the past
years agricultural product in the West
lay be derived from the statement that
ne railroads are using all their cars,
-uu yet need $1,000 more in order to
transport !, the grain that is awaiting
snlpment. ! That is to say the only
snu''age ". IN the country is that of facili-
m.. meo lot getting surplus products to
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

rup United States has the smallest
...nJinr army of all the great nations,
'nJ vet it spends almost as much per
sa.d saa for military purposes as Prussia
:. ~ pnssia This is explained, of course,
br tbe fact that we maintain the most
I;bo-aI II pension system in the world.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

c.r,n, grows much more slowly in
oli, Al.tion than the United States does,
Fg--- tho nublic debt there is rapidly
..a.sioc Flnr and here rapidly decreasing.
M an,-a are some of the reasons why
d,J;ons lit desire and Americans are In
,.r..ont 10 annexation.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

all, a title obtained by fraud and in
timidation, and retained by midnight
assassination.
In the name of the people of the
United States, whose good name he has
polluted and whose moral sense he has
outraged, we demand his resignation
II. Y. Mail and Express. -..a4..t.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04

oxo little news of political interest
~ o'b been obtained from Brazil IN nth, the
has DpC .o Or three weeks, but that little
pass w. ~. +bat the United States has not
,lt acted unwisely in deferrlng recognition
,no now government.
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
VOLUME xI.

net he comforting to the citizens
: j % na Work who contemplate murder
q q 5or 5oow that the electrical death ,3,a ma
70 XIV. has been tested, and works like a
Huntsville gazette., 1890-01-04
MISCELLANEOUS.

IHE State Auditor and Public Exam.
lner of South Dakota are looking into
the affairs, of the livestock insurance
companies doing business in that State,
and the latter are rapidly dropping out
of existence.
IT has been discovered that the force
OF secret agents of Austria in Italy has
been considerably increased of late, the
special object of watchfulness being the
movements of the Irredentist party.
AT Liege, Belgium, a technical school
is being founded by Italian monks, at
which one thousand boys can be accom-
modated. The object is to furnish
mechanical training with such religious
accompaniments as it is hoped will
check the growth of Socialism among
the industrial classes.
1T is said that a number of French,
Portuguese, German and Italian mer-
chants residing and doing business in
Brazil have applied to their respective
governments for protection.
THE influenza epidemic in Paris shows
no signs of improvement. 1t is increas-
ing at Munich. In Berlin the disease is
accompanied by dengue fever. The or
dinary symptoms affecting the nose,
larynx or windpipe are absent, but the
patients suffer from rheumatic pains,
and the temperature is high, often reach
ing 1O4 degs. These symptoms disap-
pear after three days.
IT is stated that many officers of the
Russian aJmy, suspected of sympathy
with the revolutionary party, have been
arrested.
WHAT amounts to panic existsamon
the farmers of some of the counties of
Middle Tennessee, the cause being the
daring operations of gang of, horse
thieves that has been operating there
for several months.
IT is confidently expected that the
coming spring will witness serious
trouble in Oklahoma. The regular
settlers have arrived at the conclusion
that the ''sooners'' must go. The latter
are those who slipped in in advance of
the time appointed by the President.
EXTREME suffering is reported as ex-
listing in Stevens and adjoining counties
in Southwestern Kansas owing to the
failure Of the crops and scarcity of fuel.
Unless aid is speedily rendered many
families will perish from cold and hun