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Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Roies, Candidacy.
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The reelection of Gov. Boies will not
make him the democratic vice presi-
Dental candidate next year His vic
tory is too plainly due to the unwilling
ness of majority of the voters of Iowa
to indorse the hopeless attempt to en-
force prohibition in counties a decided
majority of whose people are against
prohibition, preferring high license.
The democrats have sense enough to
see that on free trade platform, or
on any kind of platform which did not
involve the prohibition question, Mr..
Boies could not carry Iowa for gov
ernor, vice president or anything else.
Hence the national convention will not
waste a nomination on him next year
If Cleveland is put at the head of the
ticket, which seems to be settled now
beyond peradventure, the second place
will be given to Gray, of Indiana. The
state he halls from is one the demo-
Gratis must hare to ioin, and they will
throw away nothing which will helpin
securing it. With Hendricks and Nc
Donald dead, there is no Indianian
able to contest Gray's claim. If the
republicans should carry Indiana they
can afford to lose New York. - Chicago
Tribune.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Wellston, o., mining town on
the Ohio Southern railroad. Julius Bos-
wicker. miner, became displeased
with his wife and tied her thumbs to-
gether with string. He then fastened
a rope to her thumbs and hoisted her
by pulley. She is in precarions con-
dition. There are threats of lynching.
A FIRE that broke out in the Ameri-
can house stables at st. Albans, VT,
early on the morning of the Goth, de-
stroyed eight business blocks and the
Congregational church. Loss over
500, 600, with good amount of insur-
ance.
J. X. CUMBERLAND, who murdered
the Robertsons near Burlington, Ia. !,
two years ago, has been sentenced to
be hanged February 10. He has been
taken to the penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son for safe-lzeeping.
On the 2Sth Daniel Brown, aged 40
years, one of the jury commissioners of
Berks county, Pa, while adjusting a
belt in flour mill at Fleetwood, was
caught in the shafting and whirled to
death.
Four charges of embezzlement and
extortion have been preferred against
Mayor Wyman of Allegheny City, Pa.
The charges specify assessment of wit
ness fees, collecting the same, and fail
ure to turn the money thus collected
over to the city treasury.
On the 2Sth Watson Thompson,
owner of the Farmers mill at Clinton,
Ia, was caught in the betting at his
mill and dragged through stone, be-
ing instantly killed.
On the goth John George Roth, a
crazy German of middle age, attempted
to kill Rev. John Hall. D. D., pastor of
the Fifth avenue New York; Presby-
terian church, after the morning serv-
ice, by firing three shots at him from
revolver. None of the shots took eff
feet. The would-be assassin was i'm
mediately arrested and lodged in Jail.
WHEN the Office of the wholesale gro
Gerry of Bursley & Co., of Fort Wayne,
Ind, was closed on the evening OF the
2Sth, water on the fourth floor was lett
running full force by the oversight of
an employe. 1t flooded the building.
doing much damage to the goods stored,
composed mostly of teas, coffee and to-
bacco.
FIRE in the big grain elevator of the
500 road at Escanaba. Mich, on the
morning of the goth, destroyed it, to-
gether with 10000 bushels of grain.
The flames communicated to the -four
shed and coal pits and 10, 600 barrels of
flour and 90, 900 tons of coal, owned by
the Lehigh Valley company, were de-
stroyed,
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
THE GENERAL RESULT.
Encouraging Prospects for Republican
Victory in 1892.

Victory in 1892.
Looking over the whole field of the
recent political engagement, we find
that the general result is much more
favorable to the republican party than
was at first indicated.
While the republicans have not re-
gained the governorships of New York,
Massachusetts, and Iowa, they are more
than comforted in recovering the con-
troll of the legislature in both Massa
chusetts and Iowa, and in retaining a
majority in the New York senate, with
a majority in its assembly If fraudu-
lent methods do not prevail.
Then, too, the republicans have elect
ed their state ticket, with the excep-
tion of the governor, in Massachusetts,
and in part probably also in Iowa.
Pennsylvania has been swept by a
large republican majority, which af-
fords most gratifying confirmation of
the confidence with which we are won't
to look to that state in times of party
peril. The good people of Pennsyl-
vania are still stanch in their allegiance
to the principles, policies and practices
of the repu blican party, and are not to
be daunted in their party fealty by the
claptrap hue and cry against few rec
reant republicans.
Michigan's congressional district,
contested in this campaign, has been
recovered from the democrats, and the
Farmers Alliance vote in Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota has been
so sternly rebpEed by the people OF
thqss states as to redpes 1t to the eops
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

\
Mrs. ANTHONY j.. DRExEL, wife of
the head of the banking firm Of Drexel
& Co., died, on the 27th, at her country
house, Runnymede, Delaware county,
Pa.
The Kentucky Democratic club of
Covington, KY, has extended to Gov.
Russell of Massachusetts an invitation
to attend their annual celebration of
ANDREW Jackson's victory" on jan
uary s and deliver an address. The
governor feels highly honored by yhe
courtesy. but will be unable to attend.
On the 27th Peter Kerns, aged S5 years,
one of the oldest citizens of Cass county,
Ind, dropped dead in Logansport while
transacting some business in the office
of a justice of the peace.
SIGNoR NICoTRA, minister of the in
terror, in reply to an interrogatory in
the italian chamber of deputies, on the
2sth, stated that regardless of what
might be said and done inside or out
side the country, Italy considers the
question of the status of the papacy as
having been finally settled The min
>
chamber with loud and loDg-continued
applause.
Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS has, through
her attorney, Gen. Hoadley, brought
suit against the Belford Publishing Co.
of New York to recover royalties on
the sales of her book, Jefferson Davis,
ex-President of the Confederate States;
A l., 70 rho Toll o,-1
company did not live up to their con-
tract with Mrs. Davis, it is alleged, and
she sues to recover possession of the
publication.
JUDGE JAMES M. CoFFINBERRY, one
of the oldest members of the Cleveland
CO., bar, a fine orator and a brilliant
writer, died on the Goth, aged 73.
On the 2sth Rev. James Field Spauld-
ing, for twelve years rector of Christ
church. Cam bridge, Mass, who recent
ly resigned, announced to his parish
toner's that he had become convert to
Romanism.
IT is said that an effort is being made
by friends of DIR. J. w. Hamilton to
have the president reappoint him sur
geon. general of the marine hospital
service.
ARCHDUKE HENRI RENIER of Aus
tria. whose wiic, Baroness Won VAL
deck, died on the goth, died on the fol-
lowing day, of pneumonia, the disease
which caused the death of the baron
ess. The latter was formerly Leo
poldine Hoffman, and she was morga-
natically married to the archduke in
1868. Their marriage gave offense to
the emperor, and it was not until some
years later that he recognized the re-
lation and elevated Leopoldine to the
mobility.
On the 3Oth the fiftieth anniversary
of the conservation to the episcopate
of Peter Richard Kenrick, archbishop
of ST. Louis, was celebrated in that
fr
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

dition of an insignificant factcr in
future elections. In Kansas, as an cx-
ample, the alliance got last year 424
principal county offices, while the re-
publicans got only II. This year, in
lightweight counties heard from, the
alliance can claim only o.. while the
republicans have been conceded 24S
and the democrats TO- The alliance as
a factor in Kansas politics is therefore
dead beyond resurrection.
The most substantial and signal re-
publican victory, however, is that in
Ohio. 1t is a victory of such peculiar
significance and influence, in view OF
1892, that it affords us compensation
for temporary losses elsewhere. IL
only one of the two states, New York
and Ohio, could be carried by the re-
publican party at this particular juno
ture, then it had much better be Ohio
than New York.
The contest in Ohio attracted the at
entire country, but that as well of all
Europe. The campaign was founded
upon national issues, in which the tar
iff was clean cut in its prominence and
emphasized in its central and essential
Importance to the future prosperity
and progress of the American people.
The great battle was conducted upon
identically the same lines that the cam
paign of next year must be contested
upon with even greater desperation.
But the brave and brilliant champion
of the distinctive American tariff sys-
TEN was the courageous standard
bearer of the invincible republican
forces in Ohio, and Notwithstanding
the enormous interests at stake, and
che intense concern which the free
trade party, both in this country and
in England, felt and manifested in the
struggle for supremacy, Mckinley mag
nificently gained the day, and the
splendid republican principles and
policies of protection for American in
dustries, and of sound sagacious and
honest financial system, received the
emphatic Endorsement of the people Of
Ohio, as a stimulating presage of a
still grander republican victory that
shall sweep the whole country in 1892,
when the party of protection, reciproc-
ity and an honest currency shall not be
handicapped by merely state issues and
the petty contentious, rivalries and
jealousies of factional leaders and local
politicians. Y. Mail and Express.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

On the Goth the United States steam
er Yorktown arrived at Valparaiso.
THE Potters' association of the United
States will hold their national couven-
ton in Chicago the second week of JAN
uary. 1t is proposed by the association
to make an elaborate display at the
Worlds fair. A large amount of space
will be applied for, and no doubt
granted, in order that the American
potters may make good showing
against their foreign rivals.
THE grain movement for the first
three months of the crop year in the
spring wheat states of Minnesota and
North and South Dakota shows receipts
at the two terminal points-Duluth and
Minneapolis-of So, S96, 600 bushels. The
figures are official for both Cities ex-
cept for the last day of November.
This is estimated at one-third of the
entire crop of these states. OF this
Duluth received 49, 069, 900 bushels and
Minneapolis "a, $50, 900 bushels. There
are now in store at the two cities S,0O0,-
coo bushels. This movement far ex-
ceeds anything ever known in this
country or elsewhere.
RICHARD POWER, member of parlia-
ment for Waterford city, and well
known as the whip of the Parnellite
party, died on the Goth. The event
was great shock to the Irish parlia-
mentary party, and to politicians in
general.
TIE miners strike in the Pas-de-
Calais district of France, involving 40,-
600 men, is over, and the men have re-
turned to work.
THE Novosti of st. Petersburg says
that Caprivis speech in the reichstag
deprives the hostile articles in the Ger
man Russophobe papers of all their inn
portance. The visit of M. De Giers has
had valuable result in dispelling the
clouds between Germany and Russia
and France.
On the 30th the suit to test the valid
ity of the Mckinley tariff law was be-
gun in the supreme court of the United
States.
On the Goth Rev Father Peter Haver-
mans, of Troy, N. Y, commemorated
the sixty-frst anniversary of his ordi-
nation in the priesthood He is the
oldest priest in this country, having
been born in Belgium in 1905, and en-
tering the ministry in this country
twenty FIVE years later.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
To Be Seen at Augusta.

In the Augusta (Ga.) exposition thel.
were twenty-four states represented by
their agricultural, mechanical, artistic
and other products. Among the things
run by electricity in the electric depart
ment were dental instruments, ice-
makers, automatic tank filters, pumps,
fans, drills clocks, bells and an ele-
vator LOG feet high Many of the people
living in the mountains and other back
districts were among the visitors to the
exposition.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

iPE revenue marine divisio,, of the
dsGsury department. had in commission
wb: Ilag the last fiscal year 3e vessels,
Dc on ncI crulsed 301, 900 miles and boarded
r;oY. ,I'- vessels, of which !, ,O42 were found
l., a''ng the law. The fines incurred
ooo 'nese violations amounted to 1884,
A.. one hundred and twenty-three
r.1'a 1esSea vessels were assisted, their
oOo "es =, with cargoes aggregating 50, s0O,-
rana ne revenue cutters, furthermore,
0'eo material service to the life
craa service during the year and res
sons -'oh drowning twenty-six per-
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

CHICAGO is evidently preparing to ex-
hibit the primitive as well as the pro-
gressive side of American life to her
visitors in 1898. Recently wolves have
been turned loose on the streets in or
der, perhaps, that they might become
acquainted with the other beasts of
prey that infest the city. The dog
catchers mistook one of them the other
oay Tor an ordinary canine and roped
MIN IN, at which the authorities were
exceedingly wroth.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

THAT must have been an unusually
unsoph isticated Marylander who re-
Gently applied to the United States
treasury in Washington and, rendering
fourteen dollars, desired as much money
at four per cent. as that would pay the
interest on, offering his farm as Sc
curity. He was sorely grieved when
he learned the government had not yet
gone into the real estate loan busi-
ness
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

HIGHLY successful trial of an cleo
VI .ic locomotive @ designed and built by
.He lhomson-Houston Motor Co, for
nau,iuS freight cars, was recently made
~ IT. 'iie company's works in Lynn, Mass.
ne tnT machine is the first one of it's kind
, 'uu' In this country. 1t Is nearly
sfuare !. and all the machinery is below
o one platform. It's total weight is 49,
wv pounds, and it is rated at 100 horse
ssNef' but the trial showed four times
oon4 much power as the original design
Vntemplated.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
HUNTSVILLE ALA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER s. 1891
THREE laborers on the Northern Pa

THREE laborers on the Northern Pa
cific railroad have made affidavit that
twenty five or more men were killed in
the landslide at Canton station, on the
line of the Northern Pacific, on the
25th inst. The statement was published
that only two men were killed
On the S0th an awful calamity oc-
CURED at Black burn, England An ex-
plosion from some unknown cause took
place in the cellar of the Crown hotel,
causing the collapse of the hotel and
two adjoining stores, and burying a
large number of persons in the ruins,
most of whom were burned to death in
the fire which followed. Thirty-two
persons are believed to have lost their
lives.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

PRESIDENT MoNTT of Chilli was Of
iered an opportunity to distinguish him
Seif and accepted it. He imperatively
refused the proposed reward for his
distinguished services in the late con-
mc' between the junta and Balmaceda
! lie resolution was offered by Deputy
0ofuan IN the lower house of congress.
AonVt says that he desires no COM
pensatlon for what he did, as he was
a''ualed only by q desire to serve his
conntry's best interests.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

A DISPATCH concerning the use of
American corn for the relief of the fam
ne-stricken sufferers of Russia con-
cudes with the odd statement that
"Jews have been forbidden to purchase
corn" Each act of the Muscovite saw
age is more disgusting than the last. He
has all the vices, but none of the virtues
of a medieval tyrant.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

OF course it was only coincidence,
but during. weeks .stIA OF The Stow
away" in St Louis. in which the more
Or less notorious Spike" Hennessy and
Kid Mccoy, the alleged reformed
burglars, nightly cracked safe in the
presence of the audience, four actual
safe blowings and attempts at the oper-
alton occurred in the city.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

TwENTY-sIX thousand people are in
iured and over 5000 are killed on Amer
lean railways every year. This is a
fearful record seventeen daily deaths
and seventy-two daily casualties. 1t
should be the aim of every railroad
manager to study this problem and
lessen the record of suffering as speed
iIv as possible.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

IF latest reports are correct Dictator
Tonseca of Brazil has stepped down in
response to demand presented in such
shape as left no alternative. Ambitious
men in South America are beginning
to realize that they are not living in
the seventeenth or eighteenth cent
uries but in the last lap of the nine
4peDth
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

PRESIDENT PEIxoTo of Brazil an.
nounces himself as opposed to a dicta-
torship and in favor of the re-establish-
ment of the regular order OF things
What the regular order of things is in
South America is what the North Amer
lean people would like to find out.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Dealt of a Noted Horse Man.

George Brownfield, the widely-known
trotting-horse man and driver, died at
the home of his brother Wiley, in Lex
ington, KY, aged about 45 years. He
had been suffering with heart disease
for years, and for the past eighteen
months had been unable to attend tc
business.
He was one of the foremost drivers of his
time. He owned and developed Director, 2:17l2,
sir of the sensational Direct, 2:06, and developed
such great performers as Lula, 2:l5; May Queen
2:20, and Roslyn, 2:2l, besides many other good
ones. He was unmarried, and his property con-
sists of mining shares in Colorado, having quit
the horse business five years ago on account Of
ill-health.l
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Retaining Indian Names.

More than any other state Of the
Union Georgia has retained the Indian
names of its rivers, and most of them
have musical sound as, for example,
the Ocmulgee, the Ohopee, the Ogee-
chez, the Cannouchee, the Oconee, the
Chattahoochee, the Saltilla, the Alta
maha and others. Florida is another
state that has retained many of the In
dian names of its rivers
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

Mr.. BALFoUR proudly declares that
bs has restored order in Ireland. 1t is
,he sort of order, however, which
reiened in Warsaw on certain memor-
able occasion, effected by similar means
and which will possibly be followed by
similar consequences.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
, is = significant fact that 5000, 600

IT is significant fact that 5000, 600
more errors were made last year by the
patrons than by the employees OF the
nostal service. That is to say. such was
tbe difference between the number OF
misdirected letters and the number OF
mis-sent ones. The errors are not all
on the side of the post office depart
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
VOLUME XIII.

TINS has been the best year which
,be farmer has had since 1879 and 1880.
A. agriculture lies at the basis of the
eountrv's interests and activities, pros
,,eritv is more widely diffused this year
than in the average years
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
What the South Needs.

President Hickman of the Southern
Manufacturers association says that in
addition to reciprocity the south needs
more steamship lines to the West Indies
and South America and banking facili-
ties in the latter country.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Shot His Baby Brother.

A deplorable accident occurred at
Shreveport, La, the other day at the
residence of John N. Hicks, prominent
lawyer. His son Conway. years old,
was accidentally shot in the head with
a rife ball The wound is fatal. His
eldest brother, aged 16 years, was
handling the rife when it went off.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Death of an Honorable Man.

Col. c. A. Brougher, aged 6a, died at
Jackson. Miss. He was secretary of
state just after the war. clerk of the
legislature several sessions and for
number of years grard treasurer of the
Knights of Honor Of Mississippi.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Want a Creditable Exhibit.

The Virginia association of the
Worlds fair met at Norfolk and adopt
ed resolution requesting the general
assembly to appropriate not less than
500, 900 for the purpose of making an
exhibit for Virginia at the Worlds fair.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05

cor,, ANiCAN pork as well as American
EnrorS acquiring high standing in
n,oh:pP. Just at present, and with the
pnsli pioiVlon OF the export Of wheat from
"a, 9s.a o' an extended market will be open
p.icaa safpins wheat at remunerative
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Want Their Money.

Myra Clark Gaines heirs in New Or.
leans are tryingto collect the Judgment
affirmed by the United States snprems
com 4. for $500. oGa.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
Bradstreet.s Sued for Libel.

Ia the civil district court at New Or
leans John G. Grant, a furniture deal
er, has entered suit against the Brad
streets company, proprietors of ithe
Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency. for
S35, ooe, for using and publishing libel
Gus, slanderous, false, malicious and
defamatory statement concern ming him,
as follows:
Isur savorably regarded by the local trade, who
do not fliink it advisable to grant the extension
asked f'- His methods have been criticised
ever. q !. l.. has hsen here, and those consulted
now claim to never have had any confidence in
him, There an article published in local
paper on the 18th inst. which charged him with
hypocrisy, dishonesty and immortality. Up to
this time the charges have not been refuted.
July H. 1891
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
The Legal Heirs in a ouandary.

IN 1854 George Alwell, one of Clarls-
riile's (Tenn.) oldest citizens, was ap-
pc nted trustee over the property of
Wm. Reynolds. Mr.. Reynolds was in
fihs ncial difficulty, and named Mr.. AL
well to hold his property for his chill
dren. A few months ago sWm. Rey-
noisss died. His widow died only a few
weeks ago. The children of Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Reynolds, who live in differ
ent states, desired to divide the prop
erty which their aged parents left them.
Upon investigation it was found that
they could not touch the property, for
it was held in trust by George Alwell.
1t turned out further that Mr.. Alwell
did not know that he had control of the
property as trustee.
Huntsville gazette., 1891-12-05
SOUTHERN GLEAN0GS.
The Virginia Bond Question.

The Virginia bondholders' commit
tee have submitted their report to their
advisory board, composed Of Grover
Cleveland. chairman; Thomas f. Bay
ard, Edward j. Phelps, George G.
Williams and George S. Coe. The lat.
ter Immediately took the matter under
consideration and rendered an opinion
approving and recommending the plan
OF settlement of the Virginia debt as
embodied in the report of the bond.
holders committee, as follows:
The state of Virginia, in settlement and can.
aellation Of S2S000,0O0 of such indebtedness,
hall execute and deliver its bonds for the sum
u Sl9,O0,0O0, or in that proportion, for the
amount of Indebtedness which shall be sur
rendered. Said bonds shall be payable in 10O
years after their date, and draw interest from
the lst day of July, 1891, at the rate of per
cent for the first ten years after that date, and
+ the rate of per cent for the remaining nine
ty years and until the maturity of said bonds.
The advisory board says it is decided
in it's Judgment, that if the terms Of
settlement, now presented are rejected,
the prospect of an advantageous agree
nlent is far from encouraging.