Huntsville gazette., 1892-01-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL.


On the night of the I'd E. Mccall
Cushman, for many years agent of the
Hartford Soldiers Aid association at
Washington, died in Willimantic, Conn.
He was 70 years old. He was the
founder of the Congregational church
i'll Washington, and one of the prime
movers in the organization of the
Howard university. He was closely
associated with Generals Grant and
Howard and other prominent men,
THE monthly debt statement for De-
cember, issued from the treasury de-
partment on the I'd, shows that there
was decrease of 81, 75s. 140 in the nom
interest bearing debt, an increase of
800 in the bonded debt. and decrease
of S4 532, 1896 in the surplus cash in
the treasury. The total debt less 1884,
574, 12S. so net cash balance of surplus,
and the S1O0, 10000 gold reserve, is
SS41, 407, 1881.
IT is now asserted that the curt note
sent out by Senor M. A. Malta, Chilian
minister of foreign affairs in the provi-
sional government, in reply to President
Harrison's message, which was cabled
to Chilli, was never submitted to his col
leagues or to President Montt, and its
tenor is being generally condemned in
Chilian official circles.
News from the Rio Grande up to the
night of the Sd showed that United
States troops had had brush with
band of Garza's adherents, the latter TAX
| ing refuge in the chapparal with the loss
of several horses and their camp outfit.
| Their commander, Col. Munez, was
captured.
| ADELBERT d. SLYE. arrested in Cali
| fornia and returned to ST. Louis as one
of the Glendale express robbers, has
been so thoroughly identified since his
arrival in St Louis, both in connection
with the express robbery and other
serious crimes, that he stands in line to
spend the rest of his life in prison.
On the 4th the navy department re-
ceived dispatch announcing the ar
rival of the Yantic at Montevideo, the
Lancaster at Hong Kong and the Mo-
| nongahela at Barbados
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, chairman of
the ways and means committee, is put
=
| up" as he terms it, on tariff facts and
| figures. He has made a study of the
reports issued by Statistician Brock of
the treasury department, and is outlin
ing the policy that will be pursued by
his committee in the way of tariff leg
.slation.
The governor of New York has
granted a reprieve, at the request of
the Italian government made through
Secretary Blaine, in the case of Niccoli
| Trezzi, the Italian under sentence of
death by electricity.
THE United States supreme court did
not, as was expected, announce de-
cision in the Nebraska governorship
case on the 4th.
DR.. GRAVES repudiates his alleged
confession, published in Denver. Col,
on the Sd, and says he did not tell any
| thing to the deputy sheriffs. He de-
clares that Ballou is a gentleman. and
truthful in every respect. Few people
in Denver believe the confession story.
On the 4th Surrogate Coffin of White
Plains, n. Y, granted an application
by the Tilden heirs to compel the ex-
ecutors of the Samuel ]. Tilden estate
to render an accounting and settle up
the estate. He granted week for the
filing of the report of the executors.
IT is stated in Valparaiso that EN-
peror William of Germany will be pro-
posed as an arbitrator in the Baltimore
case.
THE retiring message of Gov. Camp
bell to the legislature of Ohio is said to
have been the shortest document of the
kind ever issued by an Ohio governor.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.