Huntsville gazette., 1891-04-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND PoLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
THE bill passed by the Arkansas
house appropriating $4,000 for the
states exhibit at the Worlds Column
blan exposition was defeated in the
senate, on the Sd, after a long debate.
IHE allowance Of Prince Victor has
been doubled by ex-Empress Eugene,
thus giving him an annual income of
$1,000.
THE Paris Figaro asserts that besides
his memoirs the Due de Broglie pos
sesses the whole of Talleyrand's corre-
sposdence from the year 1889 to the time
OF hss death, all of which he will presa-
bly, eventually publish.
AT a recent meeting of Chinese ner-
chants of San Francisco, it was agreed
to petition the Chinese minister at
Washington protesting, in the name of
the Chinese residents in California.
against the appointment of Senator
Blair as minister to China. and request
ing the Chinese minister to bring the
matter to the attention of the president
Of the United States.
The British governments refusal to
accept Michael Davitt as an Irish rep
resentative on the labor commission
is generally approved by both parties in
England, and the London trades union
lists do not conceal their satisfaction at
. the rejection of one convicted of con-
nection with dynamiters, who, they say,
is not proper person to sit in royal
commission, dealing with most i'm
portant interests of the empire
HONDURAS has granted to Messrs. E.
w. Perry and F. M. Imboden, citizens
of the United States, concessions of
land covering the entire region known
as Mosquito. the payment of which is
to be made in construction of expensive
public works, including an army road
from Tegucigalpa to the coast of the
Caribbean sea, more than 800 miles in
length.
II is said that Lord Salisbury has
been notified by Chancellor Won Ca
privi that Germany Will abandon south
west Africa unless the Anglo-Gcrman
syndicate succeeds in procuring the
capital which was agreed to be neces-
sary. 1t is extremely doubtful whether
this can be done.
SIR JAMES L. STEPHEN, A. NJ, justice
of the queens bench, division of high
court of justice, will soon retire from
the bench in consequence of long ILL
ness attributed to the strain and excite
ment to which he was subjected during
the May brick trial. His mental condi-
tion has also been subject of public
gossip
A BUENos AYREs dispatch to the
London Standard says President Pelli-
grim authorizes the statement that the
Argentine republic has decided on a
paper currency issue on a metallic basis
LIEUT.. GRANT has sent dispatch to
the military authorities in Calcutta in
which he says that he believes himself
to be the only European who escaped
massacre in the recent fight at Manipur
On the 9th Secretary Foster made the
statement that he did not believe there
would be surplus in the treasury next
year. The net surplus on the 9th was
s12, ,0O9.0 .00o. 1t is probable that within
a short time the government deposits in
national banks will be withdrawn.
THE king of Roumania has refused to
accept the resignation of M. Vacaresco
as minister of Roumania at the court of
Vienna, in order that he might be able
to challenge the German am bassador to
Austria, the prince of Reuss, for an af-
front recently put upon M. Vacaresco's S
son, by the wife of the German ambas-
sador..