Huntsville gazette., 1891-10-17
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AMP POLITICAL.

AN immense democratic mass-meet-
ing in Cooper Union, New York, on the
evening of the sth. was addressed by
ex-President Cleveland and Gov. Hill.
LIEUT.. SCHwATKA, the explorer has
returned from trip to Alaska, in which
he explored a great extent of heretofore
unknown country.
MELBOURNE, the Australian rain
maker, has closed his experiments at
Goodland. Kas., explaining that the
cold nights counteracted all the work
he did during the day. Since his ex-
perimenting began northwestern Kan
sas has had more rain than ever fell
there before at the corresponding time
OF year, and the people are satisfied
with his explanation.
MIR. FOSTER, secretary of the treas
ury, has ordered three clerks to 90 to
Philadelphia to aid in investigating the
affairs OF the Keystone national bank
They will be paid out of the fund of
S., 600 placed at the secretarys disposal
by the committee of fifty.
A BRIGHTON dispatch says that the
condition of Mrs. Parnell is one of utter
collapse Her physicians are said to be
becoming seriously alarmed as to the
final result of the shock which she has
sustained
EX-SENATOR INGALLS, has accepted an
invitation from Maj. Mckinley to make
several speeches in Ohio this month
The October term of the United
States supreme court began at noon on
the 18th. Chief Justice Fuller and
Justice Gray were not present. The
former was at the bedside of a very i'll
daughter in Chicago and the latter was
just recovering from an attack of ty-
phoid fever.
NEW ENGLAND survivors of confeder-
ate prisons at their late annual reunion
in Worcester, Mass, appointed COM
mittee to frame resolutions denying the
published statement of jefferson Davis
that northern prisoners in southern
prisons were treated no worse than the
exigences of war demanded.
In Philadelphia it is publicly charged
that Mr.. Burke, the official stenographer
to the legislative Investigating commit
tee before which State Treasurer Boyer
and Auditor-General McCamant gave
testimony, has fed, taking.his notes with
him, to prevent the evidence of Boyer
and McCamant from being submitted to
the special committee of the senate
which met in Harrisburg on the 18th.
On the 18th Ex-Gov. Bigelow of Con-
necticut died at New Haven.
On the 18th the meeting of delegates
for the organization of the Pan-Repub-
lie congress and Human Freedom league
took place in Philadelphia. Gov. Patti
son, on behalf of the state. and Mayor
Stuart of Philadelphia delivered adj
dresses of welcome.
The United States has just concluded
convention with Germany, through
the German minister at Washington,
by which all our cereals will be admit
ted free into Germany in consideration
of the continued free admission into the
United States of German beet sugar
after January 1, which, under the Nc
Kinley law, the president could stop.
UNDER the workings of the McKin-
ley tariff exports of barley from Can
nda to the United States during the tis-
cal year ended June 80 last, as COM
pared with last year, declined from TO-
04O, 900 to 4, 800, 900 bushels. During the
same period there was an increase OF
500 per cent. in the export of barley to
Great Britain.