Huntsville gazette. [volume] (Huntsville, Ala.) 1879-1894, 1891-04-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AGRcON<AA AND fOLIIlCAYh
MARIE HoLToN will introduce the
operetta LA Cigale" in this country
next season.
WIN. HEARST, son of the late Senator
Hearst, of California, will sell the race
horses owned by his father, on May
IA, the day before the Brooklyn handi-
cap
Mrs. ANNA DICKINSON, the reader, is
undergoing medical treatment at Go
shen, N. Y.
LETTER to the viceroy of India, the
marquis of Lansdown, declares that
after the massacre of the British at
Manipur the usurping rajah was put to
death by loyal tribesmen.
On the evening of the 18th Henry NJ.
Stanley, the explorer, was the guest of
Maj. j. b. Pond, at the New York Lotus
club. The dinner was purely informal
and private, and was given as fitting
climax to the tour of Stanley in this
country. After few remarks by Maj
Pond, Mr.. Stanley made an appropriate
response. Informal speeches were made
by Chauncey M. Depew, Gov. G. B. Peck
of Wisconsin, Rev. DIR. Buckley and
Richard Watson Glider.
The late Thomas Charles Barring left
the bulk of his fortune at the absolute
disposal of Barring Bros, of London, un-
til that company RECEIVERS from it's pres
ent difficulties.
/. NEvITT STEEL, a noted lawyer of
Maryland, died, on the 1lth, in the SD
year of his age. In 1S49 President Tay-
lor appointed Mr.. Steel charge d affaires
to Venezuela. While there he gained
considerable reputation by securing the
settlement of heavy claims of citizens
of the United States against Venezuela.
AS mark of respect the court ad-
journed upon the announcement of his
death.
A SUIT for 50, 900 has been instituted
against DR.. U. X. Mayo, of Boston, by
Mrs. Jane S. Fowle. She charges that
an apprentice in the Office of DIR. Mayo
pulled the wrong tooth while she was
under the influence of laughing gas.
On the 18th Count Lewenhaupt, who
was married to daughter of ex-Secre-
tary Bayard ten days before, died in
Wilmington, Del
On the 18th the United States su-
preme court decided the cases of See
berger, collector at Chicago, against
| Farwell & Co. and others, and Magone,
| collector at New York, against Ed
ward Luclkemeyer, in favor of the de-
| PENDANTS.
On the 18th the New York presbytery
met and appointed committee to in
| vestigate the charges of heresy against
Rev. DIR. Charles Briggs, of the Union
theological seminary.
No APPARENT uneasiness exists in
Washington official circles over the at
titude of the italian premier, the gen.
eral impression being that his threats
against the United States are entirely
for ''home consumption" and for polit-
ical effect.
| SECRETARY FOSTER will advertise
anew for proposals for site for the
erection of a public building at Buffalo,
| n. Y. The former proposals under the
considered.
| Cor. FRED ID. GRANT, United States
minister at Vienna, visited Rome on the
18th, and was received by King Hum
| bert.
| On the 18th Senior Don Felix Cibraino
! G. Zegarra, minister from Peru to the
United States, presented his recall to
President Harrison. Senor " Rigoyru,
secretary of legation, is accredited as
charge d'affaires until the arrival of
| Senior Zegarra'S successor