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Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

THE house committee on naval affairs
is in favor of the construction OF one or
more war vessels each year until enough
shall have been provided to meet any
possible emergency. This policy will
doubtless be indorsed by the people, as
it can be pursued without any danger
of financial embarrassment.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
OF Good Descent.

Mrs. Augustus Ramon Salas, de-
scendant of the Berrien family OF New
Jersey and Georgia, one of the presi-
dents of the United States Daughters
Of 1912, has been appointed regent-at-
large to aid state organizations Of the
society in all the southern states
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

EASTERN newspapers are responsible
for the statement that Henry Barna,
an Austrian detective, is in Brooklyn
looking for an American heiress with
not less than $4,000 900 who will con-
sent to wed IAN unknown" prince of
the imperial house of Austria. The
Young ladies are requested to not all
sneak at once.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
Left over One hundred Night-Caps.

When the appraisers came to make
list of the personal property of Mrs.
Julia Swinford, an old lady who died
recently at Berry Station, KY, they
found 115 night-caps, all Of different
styles and patterns, ten pairs Of shoes
that had never been worn, fifteen pairs
of scissors and an innumerable lot Of
spools of thread.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

IN the democratic national conven-
ton this year there will be 800 votes,
and under the two-thirds rule which
usually prevails in the conventions of
that party it will require 597 delegates
to nominate the candidate for presi-
dent Any ombination that can secure
and hold 800 votes, therefore, can pre-
vent the nomination of any candidate
not satisfactory to it.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
HUNTSVILLE ALA. SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1892.

On the 18th three-story house in ST.
Petersburg, on which large mum Der
of workmen were employed, collapsed
and thirteen of them were killed by
falling walls
On the 18th the first execution in
Switzerland since 1868 took place at
Lucerne, when an Italian named Gatti,
who murdered Mile. Degan, a teacher,
was guillotined.
AT Roseburg, Ore, on the 18th, A..
Hansborough, brother of Senator Hans
borough, of North Dakota, was stab
bed and killed by Nicholas Jones. The
latter gave himself up and was jailed
JIM CALHOUN, an aged pioneer and a
"squaw man." was jailed at Cheyenne,
Wyo., on the 18th, from Big Piney,
Vinta county. He was postmaster, and
for months has been using stamps for
currency, buying anything and every
thing with them.
On the 18th an explosion of nitro
glycerine at Susa, about 81 miles west
of Turin, Italy. destroyed ten lives.
THE Banque des Chemins de Fern of
Paris has failed for $4,000, 600 francs.
The director of the bank, NJ. Dugou-
reau, committed suicide
On the 21st the Liverpool police re-
ceived information which led them to
recommence digging at Rain Hill villa,
on the theory that other victims of the
murderer Williams, alias Deeming, may
be buried there.
On the 2lst the Hotel Drechausen at
Halle, Prussian Saxony, was destroyed
by fire. Two boys were overlooked in
the excitement and perished in the
flames.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

CHANCELLOR Won CAPRIvI offered his
resignation at the cabinet meeting in
Berlin, on the 18th, as the result of the
protracted contest on the educational
bill, which the chancellor, as Prussian
premier, has championed'from the first.
There is no definite information yet as
to the action of the kaiser.
QUEEN VICTORIA and Princess Beat
rice have gone to Hyeres, in the south
of France. Her majesty will reside in
hotel at the foot of hill at Notre
Dame, below Hyeres, at a short dis
tance from the town.
On the 21st it was reported in Berlin
that Prince Bismarck had been at
tackled with sudden illness.
CAPT. OSBORNE, it is said, will proba-
bly, be offered civil post in one of the
colonies about the same time as the re-
lease OF his wife from prison. The
captain. it is expected, will resign from
the army.
THE Russian czar has bestowed gift
upon Capt. Sergeant of the steamer
sia's gratitude.
On the 21st Secretary Foster resumed
his duties at the treasury department.
He was almost overwhelmed with call
ers.
SARAH ALTHEA TERRY has been put
in straight jacket at the asylum at
Stockton, Cal, where she is confined,
on account of her refractory conduct.
At times she is very violent. She will
lean against the wall and says that she
receives spirit messages ordering her to
do all sorts of strange things
Mr.. BLAINE is rapidly improving, and
is attending at his house to official busi
ness.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

A PICTURE of Washington surrounded
BY the Stars and Stripes is the emblem
adopted by the Maryland prohibi-
nonlsts. These well-meaniug people
must have confused the father of our
country with the old Washingtonians
VINO once started in to smite the demon
q lntemperance hip and thigh. Total
abstinence was not among the virtues
OF the "Father of his country"
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
IL Costs to Bury Congressmen.

The Knoxville (Tenn.) firm Of funeral
directors who attended the burial of
Congressman Houk's remains, made
special rates to Uncle Sam, putting in
a bill of S1,97490, the casket and trim
mings being at 81, 400
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
VOLUME XIII.

THE Baconion theory in regard to the
writing of Shakespeare is to have an
organ styled Baconiana. AS an effort
to boom foreign bacon by Americans it
NAV meet with unanticipated antagon-
ism from the manipulators of the ma
hoO
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
srprRsr1r1ous people in Iowa are

SUpERsTITIoUs people in Iowa are
much worried over a lunar phenome-
non witnessed few nights since. A
well-defned black cross is said to have
appeared on the face of the moon; and
those who believe in signs and omens
declare that similar cross was seen
just before the outbreak of the war OF
the rebellion.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

GERMANYs self-sufficient and prag-
matical young emperor recently die
tated to his Prussian ministers COM
pulsory educational bill, and is now
himself in receipt of a course of COM
pulsory education in politics. as unex-
pected as it is unpleasant
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

nraah aEf nave the boss marrying man
80 arrest in New York. He is said
o nave been engaged for quarter Of
noaIury IN marrying women for their
~. ana SO successful has he been
of ~. sri, me Is believed to be the possessor
VI 'ally sixty living wives,
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
over One Hundred.

Mrs Rose Lockhart, the oldest resi-
dent of McCracken county, KY, died
the other day, aged 100 years and few
weeks. Mrs. LoclShart outliyed all %
her immediate fapiiy.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
Remarkable Archaeological Find.

A most remarkable archaeological
End has been made on Jolly's island,
Tennessee.
During the sersni -E'1od and folto~ins recent
heavy rains seven prehistoric statues were un-
covered on land belonging to J. ii. Rench, OF
Nashville. The figures in question show well
developed knowledge Of the art Of sculpture in
the mound builders, or race ante dating
them The statues are in each case kneeling.
and represent seven types OF races. One is un-
mistakably an Indian another anegro, the others
Mongolan or Asiatic, two male and five fe-
male. The attitude and expression indicate de-
votion to pagan deity or the Great Spirit. IL
is thought that these remarkable specimens OF
antique art will be sent to the Smithsonian in
stitution at Washington.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26

sequel TO thIcagO ScnsatIOn.
A dispatch from ClarlEsville, Tenn,
says:
The news from Chicago of q young Tennes-
seean, John @. Williams, finding his runaway
sweetheart lying prostrate on the doorstep Of 4
fashionable fiat, was received here with inter-
est. The lady mentioned was Mrs Carrie Thom-
as widow of Warner Thomas, a prominent man
of New Providence, a suburb of this city She
is highly connected in this place One OF her
brothers is Banker John w. Faxton, Of Chatta-
nooga, whose signature was 50 clcverly forged
on the back Of one Of the raised drafts lately
cashed at a Cincinnati bank by the mysterious
Thomas Hunt. 1.-THE man with cough" She is
also sister Of Chas. o. Faxton, once editor Of
the Louisville Courier journal When Mrs
Thomas became stage-struck she left here and
went to Nashville, and from that time untb
now her identity has been unknown.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
SOUTHERN GLEANIllGS.
Death of 8 Gallant Tar.


Thomas L. Harrison, the hero on the
confederate side in the battle of Mobile
bay, died at Mobile, Ala, aged 81 years.
He graduated at Annapolis, and at the age OF
20 entered the confederate naval service. He
was ordered to Mobile in 1852 and appointed
executive officer on the gunboat Morgan. In
the terrific battle in the spring Of 1865, when
Farragut forced an entrance into Mobile bay,
the little vessel was soon driven under the shell
ter of the guns of Eert Morgan. Tho ram Ten
ne ssee and the gunboat Selma having been
captured and the Gauboat Gaines burned,
the captain Of the Morgan gave orders
to abandon the ship, and set her on fire.
Lieut. Harrison, howev er, reminding the crew
that this was the only free vessel in the bay,
and would be of incalculable value to the con-
federacy If saved, asked the men to volunteert TO
run the boat up to Mobile. Every man stepped
to the starboard Thereupon Harrison request
ed the captain to step below. The captain de-
clared the act one of mutiny, but Harrison said
they would talk about that later. 1t was now
night and the Morgan, with full steam, ran
right through the federal fleet, the vessels open
ing fire upon her on either side. Tie Metacor-
net and the Lackawanna put out in pursuit.
and running fight of twenty three miles
followed. Arriving off the upper forts the
confederates, not trusting the signals from the
advancing vessel, opened fire upon her and had
the gate through the obstructions closed.
Under the double fire the gallant lieutenant
put out in small boat, hailed the nearest fort
and got his friends to train the full force Of
their guns the pursuing vessels, thus keep
ing them at bay. Before daylight the gate was
lifted and the Morgan passed into Mobile river
In safety. The vessel served few weeks later
with signal effects at the landing naval battle
at Blakely, Harrison, however, having in the
meantime been given command of the gunboat
Nashville. Since the war he engaged in busi-
ness and later has filed the post Of United
States commissioner.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-26
TRUST is DEAD.

The Standard Oil Trust at Meeting IN
New York City, Resolves Itself Out OF
Existence by a Vote of Over Two-Thlrds
of the Stock-Trustees Chosen to Wind
Up Its Affairs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
vAMo0sE's FIRST DEFEAT.
Tho Famous Steam Flyer vanquished in
New York Harbor

Tho Famous Steam Flyer vanquished in
New York Harbor.
NEW YORK, July 10.-The steam flyer Va
moose met her first downright defeat yester.
day. Chief Engineer Heilbron thought it
would be good thing to try his craft-that
has been so much before the public of late in
connection with the Norwood-wfth the
twin screw steamboat Monmouth on her
morning trip down the bay. The latter car
ried crowd Of turfmen and score or so of
bookmakers on their way to the Long
Branch track hoping to increase the size of
their bank rolls. The Monmouth Captain
knew OF the Vamoose's designs ana when
about of South Brooklyn slowedup to give
the little craft chance. Vamoose slipped
along on time until she was on even
terms with her big sister, The Monmouth
was let go and so was the Vamoose. 1t was
a race that stirred the blood OF the passen-
gers on the twin screw and made the
fbookies" offeR to bet.
They did SO among themselves ami with
Chief Engineer Heilbron kept his flyer
alongside Of the Monmouth well through
the Narrows and into the lower bay, when
the bigger boat began to draw away. Try
what she would apparently the Vamoose
visibly dropped astern- The "bookies'' began
to hedge, the passengers thought it good
thing to be noisy and were so, and whistles
from passing tugs and steamers added to the
din and excitement. The Vamoose was
beaten quite handily-something like quar-
ter of a mile-tO the Monmourh's landing at
the Atlantic Highlands. 1t was surprise.
The Norwood last year beat the Monmouth
over about the same distance Will this de-
feat of the Vamoose bring the Norwood any
nearer Mr.. Hearst's craft for that hoped for
and much laughed over race through the
Sound3
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
A HARMLESS DERAILMENT.

The accident to the limited mail on the
Fort Wayne road last night illustrates at
once the danger and the safety from that
latest development of rapid travelling.
1t was probably due to the high rate of
speed reached by the train that the derail-
ment occurred at all. The train was
thrown off the track at the point of the
switch, something which could not occur
if it had been running at the rate of a
few miles an hour, as the danger in
creases in proportion to the rate of
speed. On the other hand, the safety of
these improved trains is shown by the fact
that while the entire train left the track
not single person was injured, nor the
couplings broken. The strength of the
cars and the frmness with which the en-
tire train was Joined, as in single body,
prevented any serious injury under cir
cumstances which with an ordinary train
would have produced disaster.
The balance in this case seems to be on
the side of safety for the strongly ironed
and rapid trains which now transport
passengers at rate of speed heretofore
unknown in daily practice But it is not
wise to rely too confidently on the ability
of vestibule trains to withstand derail-
ments without injury. 1t will be much
safer and better in every way to keep
them on the track.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
PERTINENTLY PERSONAL.

A REUNION of General Grants family,
including all of the grandchildren, has been
projected for next autumn.
ZoLA uses black ink ordinarily, but red
when his Imagination begins to halt. and
finds that it inspires him-to paint French
society very black.
A FINE bust of Louise M Alcott, bv
Ricketson, has been presented to the Old
Concord Public Library by the story writer's
sister, Mrs. Anna B. Pratt.
THE Rev. c. W. Huntington, of Lowell,
proposes to make O tour of Great Britain on
bicycle, and will give bimself a month in
which to see the chief points of interest.
LORD SALISBURY, it is said. drinks a
bottle of port wine for dinner every day.
Pitt frafl and delicate as he was, used to
consume two so Lord Macaulay tells us.
IT is said that Mr.. Gladstone hardened
himself for exposure bareheaded at outdoor
public meetings by habitually sitting at a
window from which q strong draught was
coming.
In an Grafton be delivered at the Dart
mouth commencement Prof. Everett dwelt
on the great sons of the college and named
them as Webster, Choate and George Fred
Williams.
.IhE neF. rrank u. lyrrell, OF tne Cen-
trail Christian Church of st. Louis, proposes
to introduce into his church the beneficial
features of club. His plan embraces
library, reading room, gymnasium, bowling
alley, opera chairs, popular lectures, etc.
GENERAL BUTLER's corpulence, added
to the weakness of his ankles, makes him
walk with a rather uncertain gait, which to
a stranger seems due to the feebleness OF
age. 1t is not. however, for even while in
active service during the war he was
hampered by this difficulty.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
AN UNUSUAL CONVICTION,

A striking reaction in the direction of
answering enforcement of the law is
presented from Tennessee in the aff1rma-
ton and conviction to capital punishment
of Colonel a. G. King for murder. We
are accustomed to condemn the Southern
tendency to hold human life lightly and
to pay little regard to the law and aveng-
ing private injury. But, when the State of
Tennessee has within a short time put
down a lynching mob and condemned a
leading citizen under the circumstances of
the King case, that State will have to be
given prominence as possessing excep-
tional firmness in answering enforcement
of the law.
The offense for which Colonel King shot
his victim was one which has been widely
held to Justify homicide. There have been
some very prominent cases of acquittal on
this theory accorded to Americans on
different sides of the globe. The justi-
fication was urged in Colonel Kings case
by large portion of the Southern
press But the Tennessee judiciary, with
almost Spartan firmness, declared the su-
premacy of the law, and made it clear
that the enforcement of the law in that
State is not to be swayed either by popu-
lar clamor or the social position of the
prisoner.
But it is not yet certain that the ex-
treme penalty will be inflicted. If Ten
nessee does present the remarkable spec
tacle of hanging citizen of brilliant abil-
ity and high social position for the COM
mission of crime that comes close to be-
ing popular, it can claim to be the one
State of all others where the law is un-
questioned and supreme.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
RAILROADS AND IRON MARKET.

One cause which contributes to the
dullness of the iron and steel trade is to
be found in the exceedingly light totals of
new railway construction. A railroad
authority places the total laying of track
for the first half of the year at /, 1866 miles.
This is 25 per cent less than the 1,72S
miles of track laid in the same half of last
year; and the total for the whole of last
year was the lowest for six years before.
1t has for some time been evident that
the railroad demand does not exercise
the controlling influence on the iron and
steel trade, that it did fifteen years ago.
This was made evident five or six years
ago when railroad building fell off to
low totals while the totals of the iron and
steel expanded to proportions previously
unknown. In 1890 railroad building was
at low total compared with the 10000 to
1900 miles of new track known in former
years; but the aggregate of the iron and
steel trade reached imposing proportions
which would surpass the Imagination of q
score of years ago.
The average commercial demand for
iron and steel now SO far surpasses the de-
mand for railroad construction and equip
ment, as to render the industry much less
subject to the fluctuations of railroad en-
terprises than formerly. But concurrent
ly with the vast increased production and
the rise of new competitive fields, the de-
crease of this demand, is enough to turn
the scale toward dullness and depression.
While this cause may not be the only fac
tor, its influence may well be reckoGed
as adequate to account for the present las
situde of the iron market.
But that fact contains the promise of
early Improvement Railroad building
wakes and wanes in terms of about half a
dozen years for each fluctuation. 1t is at
low ebb now, and its improvement may be
expected to bring new vigor to our indus
tries in the not very distant future
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
A MEDAL $50 YEARS OLD.
A Missouri Man Unearths an Amulet Buried
Many Years.

A Missouri Man Unearths an Amulet Buried
Many Years.
WARRENsBURa, Mo-, July 10.-At the meet
ing of the State Teachers Association here,
there WAS on exhibition a queer medal,
which is supposed to be an amulet worn by
Desoto during his explorations through this
part of the country. 1t is ofpure silver and
bears inscriptions on both sides, while it
also bears the insignia of the Pope and an
image. On one side Is a representation of
Christ on the cross between the two thieves,
while on the other is the represent tation of
the Last Supper The date is very plain in
large, bold letters, and shows that the anu
let was made in 1545, or nearly $50 years ago.
The amulet is the property of Major
Turner, who purchased It of jeweler in the
southern part of tho State, who said he got
it from q negro who had dug it up on his
farm on Turn Back creek. The man was
plowing and in breaking a new piece Of
ground discovered the silver medal, and car
ried it to the jeweler, who paid him its value
in silver for 1t, supposing it was simply some
relic of the Indians and without much his
tortcal interest. The medal has been exam
ined by several antiquarians, who all agree
that It is genuine and believe that it had
been thrown away on account of its time ex-
piring, as these amulets were blessed by the
Pope for a certain length of time and given
to those who were about to travel.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-11
ARBITRATION AND ITS USES.

Numerous contemporaries throughout
the country are using the tragic conflict al
Homestead as a text for enforcing the
value of arbitration The general idea is
expressed in the language of an exchange
that if Pennsylvania had possessed law
for settling wages disputes by means of
arbitration, this collision could not have
occurred.
1t is true that if the spirit which lies at
the foundation were universal such war
fare as now confronts us would be impos-
sible. That spirit is the one to settle all
differences by reason instead of by the re-
sort to tfial of strength. Where it gov
erns the action of both sides, wages dis
putes can often be settled by conference
as there is good hope will be done in the
conference between the Amalgama ted
Association and the iron mill owners now
going on. But that the recognition of ar
bitration by law will provide a universal
panacea for labor troubles, is disproved
by the fact that Pennsylvania has an arbi-
tration law in force at the present time
but that no one has thought worth while
to appeal to it for some years.
This may, of course, be met by the as
sertion that a compulsory arbitration
which the Pennsylvania law is not-is re-
ferred to. But when we come to contem-
plate the idea of compulsory arbitration
we find that the same difficulty presents
itself as in the case of a non-compulsory
arbitration, namely, the means of enforce
ment Supposing that the constitutional
difficulty is overcome to the extent of
forcing employers to bind themselves to
the results of arbitration, how is the work.
man to be bound? Is he, if Ihe regards
the finding as unjust, to be, compelled to
work by the legal power2( If that were
done, would not the possible results Of
such legal compulsxoh be worse than
any subjection of /, + present system, and