Huntsville gazette., 1891-11-14
NEWS IN BRIEF
Compiled from Various Sources,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

TEnSONAL AND POLlTICAI.
Hon. DANIEL BLoTcHER and wife, of
Scottsburg, Scott county, Ind, cele-
brated their golden wedding on the 5th.
Upwards of 1000 people participated, in
the notable event, and two beeyes, five
fatted calves, besides a number of sheen
and swine, were killed and roasted in
honor thereof Is. n
ADMIRAL MoNTT has been unanimous
ly elected president of Chill, and has
accepted on the condition that he be
free from partisan obligations. He
considers his acceptance personal sac
rifice to the wishes of the country.
A PROMINENT Boston banker is quoted
os saying that he telegraphed to Comp
troller Lacey at Washington six months
ago that the Maverick bank was in a
shaky condition; that he received a re-
ply that he (the comptroller) knew it,
but advising him (the banker) to with
hold any report in the hope that the
bank might recover and regain its pros
peritv
SENATOR IIscoCK, of New York, says
that the 1eport that he has been ten
dered the portfolio of secretary of war
is unfounded.
The election to filithe vacancy in the
house of commons from the city of
Cork, created by the death of Charles
Stewart Parncll, resulted: Martin
Flavin (McCarthyite), 1869; John Red
mond (Parnellite), =, ,157; Capt. Sars-
field (conservative), 1,1G1
Mp RJ-au conrato,-v of t,,ca
in his annual report to the president,
estimates the probable increase in the
value of agricultural products for 1891
over 1890 at not less than 500, 900, 900.
QUEEN VICTORIA has permitted Baron
de Reuter- to assume in England the IT,
tie of baron conferred upon him by the
duke of Saxe-Coburg. This is privi-
lege rarely granted, and is in recogni-
ton of the barons services in promote
ing systems of international intelli-
| gence.
| Gov. HILL. of New York has issued
| proclamation designating Thursday,
the Goth day of November, as a day of
| thanksgiving in New York.
Mrs. BRIDGET CUNNINGHAM died at
| Alameda, Cal, on the night of the 7th,
at the age of lO7, She was the mother
of the notorious Kate Townsend 7
who was murdered by Treville E. Sykes
| in New o1ieans few years ago.
A MoNTEvIDEo dispatch states that
| information has been received there
that the province of Rio Grande do Sui
| has seeded from Brazil
On the 9th the fiftieth anniversary OF
| the birth of the prince of Wales was
enthusiastically celebrated in England
THE department of state has issued,
| for the information of exporters, a new
edition of the dominican reciprocity ar
rangement, containing an alphabetical
repertory Of lists of all articles of Amer
| lean product or manufacture entitled to
| free or favored admission into San Do
mingo.
THE porte has refused Russia's request
to allow7a monument to be erected at
San Stefano to the memory of the Rus.
sian soldiers who died there in 1878,
and has informed the Russian ambas,
sador that the request is irritating.
On the 9th the Austrian budget fol
the year 1892 was made public. The
gravity Of the situation of affairs in
Europe can be judged from the fac'
that the estimated amount of money
asked for the expenses of the war de
partment is l21, 700, 900 florins, or an in
crease of 4,50o, 600 florins over the esti
mates for 1891.