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Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS.

A LARGE oak was, on the 9th, felled
on the farm of John Abel, south of
Muncie, Ind. 1t was perfectly sound
sound issued from the stump. A match
was applied and a blaze shot up ten
feet in the air and burned with consid-
cradle force. The tree was filled with
natural gas, which flowed out through
the grain of the wood.
The Chronicle mine, seven miles
west of Pitkin, Col, on Ohio creek,
which is being worked by Pueblo par
ties, has developed body of very rich
ore, a sample of which gave the re-
markable assay of over %, 600 ounces
of silver to the ton. This ore is from
the 320-foot level, and indicates the big
gest silver find of this season.
THE elections in the Argentine prov.
inces resulted in favor of compromise
between Generals Mitre and Roca,
They did not pass off quietly, however.
There were several conflicts on election
day, in which several persons were
killed and many wounded.
On the Sth the supreme court of the
District of Columbia denied the writ OF
mandamus in the celebrated silver.
brick case, to compel the secretary OF
the treasury to coin into silver dollars
all silver bullion presented at the
United States mints. The decision is
construed by those interested TO be a
blow against the free coinage Of silver.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
SAVING AT THE SPlGOT.
An Instance of the Cheese-Paring Econ.
omy of the Democrats.

An Instance of the CheeseParing Econ
omy of the Democrats.
The new congress has str rangely
gone back on it's party antecedents.
The farmers and millers of the north
west have made generous offers of grain
and flour for the starving peasantry of
Russia. The senate promptly passed a
resolution to make this offer available
by providing transportation for these
donations. The house, under the lead
of Holman, struck out the appropria-
ton, and also negatived the request for
United States vessel to convey the
relief supplies. If Mr.. Holman had ap
piled his pruning knife to the extra
mileage pocketed by congress, for
which no reciprocal benefit is enjoyed
by taxpayers, he could have offset the
cost of both ship and cargo, besides
saving handsome bonus for the ma
tional treasury.
As an exhibition of partisan spite and
legislative parsimony, the proceeding
does marked discredit to the American
people. When the Irish famine of 1S48
prevailed, democratic congress dis
played no such petty scruples, and it
is safe to presume that if the blight of
famine extended to-day over Ireland or
Germany instead of Russia, congress
would not wait to be petitioned, nor
would it dare deny the use of a gov
ernment vessel for the relief of fam
ine-stricken people. According to
trustworthy accounts about ten mil
lions Of people are within the grasp Of
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

RECENTLY a man was arrested on the
streets of New York for splitting on
women's gowns, and now the police are
looking for a crank who makes spe-
ciality of shipping women's dresses at
places of public amusement with a pair
of scissors.
THERE was recently in the Bellem
(Mexico) prison forty-pine murderers
under sentence of death.
ALICE MITCHELL, the murderess of
Freda Ward, in Jail at Memphis, Tenn,
was so disappointed when informed by
her lawyer that she would not be hanged
that fears are entertained that she will
commit suicide.
In Coffee county, Ala, Farmer Shall,
on learning that cotton was still de-
clining. set his crop on fire and then
committed suicide by jumping from a
bluff
EARLY on the morning of the 7th an
awful disaster occurred in the city of
New York. The Hotel Royal. at
Fort1eth street and Sixth avenue, was
burned to the ground, and number OF
persons, probably thirty in all, lost
their lives either by jumping from the
windows or by burning.
C. H. BENEDICT, for several years
confidential book-keeper of ii. Clay
Baseom, of Troy, N. Y, prospective
prohibition nominee for president, has
disappeared under clond, leaving a
shortage of several thousand dollars
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES.
Memphis, Tenn, in the Fervid Embrace
of a Mighty Confiagration.

Memphis, Tenn, in the Fervid Embrace
of a Mighty Confiagration.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Feb. "a most dis
astrous conflagration, which was still
raging at midnight with unabated fury,
broke out in the building 23O Main
street, occupied by the Druz-Berne
Hat Go. at $50 last night. The
building, which was of six
stories, was soon seen by the iremen
to be doomed and all their efforts were
concentrated in an endeavor to save
adjoining property. They were unsuc-
cessful, however. At 1915 the Druz-
Be- ne building fell in with crash and
few minutes later the building OF
the Langstaff Hardware Co., which
adjoined it at the south, fell into
the space formerly occupied by
the hat building. The trunk fac
tory to the north, occupied by S. Levy,
was then a mass of flames and soon
was a total wreck. The fire continued
spreading and by midnight, Leuper-
mans hotel, the finest south of the
Ohio River, ''the Ruby" saloon, large
harness factory and another building
were either burning or destroyed. So
far as known there has been no loss OF
life. The loss will probably exceed
81, ZOO. 900.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS,

The Bland Free Coinage Silver bill
was on the 10th ordered reported to the
House with the recon mendation of the
majority of the Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures that it pass.
NEAR Spring Valley, Mimi, on the 9th
B. f. Holman, aged Al, was found dead
in the timber beside his team. His
death was caused by strain from lift
ing heavy stick of timber.
BENCH warrants were ordered by Judge
Nelson, of the United States Court, at
st. Paul, Mimi, on the 10th, for the
arrest of all the principals in the Mis-
sissippi River Lumberman's Associa-
tion, the corporation indicted at the ses-
sion of the grand jury for maintaining a
lumber trust
MANY families of Richmond, Ind,
have become converts to new faith and
taken their departure for Detroit, the
"City of Deliverance," and the dwelling
place os ''Prince Michael" the leader Of
the new sect, which is denominated the
Disciples of the Flying Roll"
ANOTHER heavy snow-storm has pre-
vailed throughout Southern Idaho,
greatly to the discouragement OF the
stocl1men. The present fall will amount
to six inches or more, making it impos-
sible for the starving cattle and horses
to uncover their scant feed.
In the New Jersey Senate on the 9th
a bill was introduced appropriating S1O,-
600 toward the erection of national
monument costing S125,000 at the
Worlds Fair, which shall commemorate
the emancipation of the slaves, and the
part taken by the colored troops in the
civil war.
AT Delhi, Texas, on the 9th, a receiver
was appointed for Ainsworth & Upton's
rancho and stock business. The concern
consists OF 10000 head of cattle and 95,-
600 sheep, and much land.
Mrs. L. H. ROGERS, of Adger, Ala,
died on the 9th, aged 106 years. She
was never before her fatal illness seri-
ously sick.
THE government will construct dry
dock at Algiers. La. not to cost more
than $4,000.
PROPERTY valued at 81, 900, 900 was de-
stroyed by fire at Memphis on the 9th.
HORACE F. SPEED. Attorney-General
of the Territory of Oklahoma, is in
Washington to plead for the consolida-
ton Of that Territory with Its neighbor,
the Indian Territory, and for their ad.
mission as State,
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
DRIFT OF OPINION.

tW The democratic leaders announce
that this is to be do-nothing year for
the nation can make it so, but the great
republic has never yet stood still, and
it doesn't propose to begin now.-N. Y.
Mail and Express.
.B The fact about the financial rec
ord of the government for the first half
of the current fiscal year is that the
receipts were seven million dollars
more than the expenditures, and the
democrats cannot make it otherwise
by any process of fantastic and dish on
est figuring. st. Louis Globe Demo
crat.
sB Forty-four states will participate
in the presidential election of 1892 and
444 presidential electors will be chosen.
The total popular vote was 100000
in 1884 and II, 100000 in 1888. This
year, at the same ratio of increase, it
will be $4,000, 600, and the margin Of
majority on either side will be small
full and fair vote at the south would
add 500, 900 to the total of the ballots,
that being the extent Of the present
suppressed vote. Chicago Journal.
LB NOU OemOcTdClc paper uhS llitSu
its voice in protest against the pro
gramme of the Hill -Tammany buc-
cancers to steal the legislature,
gerrymander the state and disfran-
chise the people. Never has bolder
scheme of political piracy been con-
ceived and carried into execution, yet
the organs of democratic opinion have
nothing to say Their party is the
beneficiary of the thievery, and that
fact seems to have cauterized their
conscience. Troy Times.
~ There have been SO far eight
hundred and forty-seven bills for the
benef of southern war claimants in
trodu led in the present congress.
Claims for damages done during the
var. and all other similar claims,
should be barred by the statute of linn
itations The war has been over for
twenty-seven years, and a great many
of those cognizant of the facts in any
or all of these cases are dead, and it is
impossible to determine the facts. The
door is thus open TO fraud Toledo
Blade,
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
PURELY FOR EFFECT.
Democrats Forced to Admit the Needs Of
the Country.


the Country.
The democratic congress. under the
whip and spur of the democratic press,
has promised to cut down the appro-
prlations at least 500, O00, 900 at this
session. Where viii the crippling pro-
gramme begin? That is the question
that confronts the democracy. 1t al
ready realizes that it is very serious
question.
Several newspapers that were loud
est a few months ago in denunciation
of so called "billion dollar congress-
now admit that this is a growing coun-
try; that the demands upon the. public
treasury are necessarily increasing;
that the protection of domestic inter-
ests, the care of the pensioner, the ex"
tension Of the postal service, the needs
of the agricultural department, of the
new navy, and of the worlds fair all
call for larger and not smaller appro-
priations.
Where shall the Gripping process be
gin? 1t has been proposed to repeal
the sugar bounty, but the democratic
sugar planters of Louisiana unite with
the republican sugar beet raisers of the
north and northwest in fierce opposi-
tion to this proposal 1t is proposed to
repeal the steamship subsidy, against
which the democracy in congress
fought so bitterly last session. But the
splendid results of governmental aid to
American shipping interests confront
and confound the obstructionists, and
democrats and republicans unite in
their demand ''hands Off"
Last of all, the cripplers proposed
not to have river and harbor bill this
session. But the proposition is scarce
ly heard before the people along the
Mississippi river and along all the bay
Gus and creeks in the south and the
west, along all the harbors of the gulf
and the South Atlantic coast cry out in
protest against the mere thought Of
such a thing.
The democratic congress is advised
that this is a great country. Generous
appropriations by congress have not
been made in the interest Of the thick
ly settled and republican east, but
largely for the democratic south and
the growing and expanding states of
the west and of the Pacific coast The
"billion dollar congress" was a good
enough cry for election purposes, but
1t is not too early to predict that very
little of it will be heard during this
session of congress.-N. Y. Mail and
EXPRESS
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
HUNTSVILLE. ALA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
WILLIAM REHMANx. a German

WILLIAM REHMANS, a German
weiner-wurst street peddler, aged so,
at Terre Haute, Ind, determined to kill
himself, on the 7th, SO he went into the
back room of his house and fired shot
into his left side. Evidently repentinT
the deed. he bandaged up the wound,
and later, changing his mind, fired two
shots into his mouth and one above the
eye, killing himself.
EX-SENATOR Bowen, of Colorado, and
his wife are visiting Washington and
staying at the Riggs house. During the
senator's absence from the hotel few
nights ago, and while Mrs Bowen was
at dinner, some one entered their room
and stole diamond jewely valued at
$1,000 There is no clew to the thief.
On the oth Charles McElvaine, the
murderer of Christian Luca, was exc
cuted by electricity at Sing Sing (N. Y J
prison. The sentence of Nicola Trizza,
who was to have followed McElvaine
to the electric chair, was commuted by
Gov. Flower to life Imprisonment.
On the 7th the stage from Mohelumne
Hill to Spring Valley, Cal, was robbed
OF the express box by lone highway
man, at the same spot where a similar
robbery occurred on January 7, and
probably by the same person.
On the Sth another unsuccessful at
tempt was made to set fire to the royal
castle at Konigsburg, Prussia.
The editor of the London Financial
Observer has been sentenced to two
months Imprisonment for libel.
On the morning of the 10th four an
archists, sentenced to death for partici-
patton in the recent attempt made to
sack the town of Xeres, Spain, were
executed in public
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
NUMBER II.

hunger. and. as disease goes band ip
hand with famine, ther is no reckon.
ing the extent of suffering in all the
agricultural districts of the Russian
empire. Mr.. Holman's ''cheese- pairing
economy" takes no account of the SEN
timent that zone touch of nature
makes the whole world kin" The ac.
tion of congress in refusing free car
riage for American relief supplies will
not repress the generous popular sym
pathy. From New York to California
active measures have been taken in
this direction. Americans abhor the
Russian despotism, but they realize
that Russia is great country with n
great people, and that her government
has always been staunch friend of the
American union. Sooner or later the
august sovereign of today, Alexander
Ill, must yield to the influence of Eu-
ropean civilization, and give to his
thirty millions of serfs a liberty that
shall be real instead of apparent, real
izing the generous conception which
has immortalized the memory Of Alex
ander IL-Chicago Graphic
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
CARA TO HARRISON.

The Mexican Revolutionary Leader Writes
a Letter ten the President of the United
stafes In an Effort to Set Himself Right
with the American People.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb "a sem
sation was created among the Mexican
population and in military circles here
yesterday by the publication of let
ter addressed to Hon. B. Harrison,
president of the United States, from
Catarina E. Cara, the revolutionary
leader in Ell Chinaco, the leading Span
isn newspaper of this city The letter
is dated La Sierrieta. state of Tamau-
lipas, Mexico, January 81, 1892. In
his preliminary remarks to the editor,
Cara states that he has forwarded
President Harrison the letter but that
he fears that the latter will not make
II public, and as he desires to have his
position and action toward the United
States clearly understood he decided to
send copy of the letter to Ell Chinaco
for publication. The letter is for the
most part an attack on the Mexican
government and particularly President
Diaz. He offers strong objections to
being charged with having violated the
neutrality laws of the United States,
and defends his position as follows:
Being resident of Texas when 1
decided to raise the banner of insurrec-
ton in my beloved country, Mexico. it
was but natural, logical and inevita BILE
that should travel, be it alone or ac-
companied, through your territory in
order to reach Mexico. That such ac-
ton has absolutely nothing to do with
the so-called neutrality laws is gener-
ally conceded by public, international
and political right"
Cara continues in this strain
throughout his whole letter. He gives
no news concerning the progress of the
movement of which he is at the head.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

A BILL has been introduced in the
ohlo legislature providing for the ap-
pontmentof an Examiner Of Railroad
lelegraphers," with salary of $1,000,
10 see that none but competent
are employed as operators. The bill is
all right, but it should go further and
PROVIDE that competent operators
should receive the equivalent of COM
Petent work, with no longer hours of
iaoor than is compatible with energetic
and intelligent labor.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

iHE German government has lately
saused models of the best-equipped
pos'al cars that can be produced in all
countries in which that kind of service
- - III use to be made for exhibition in
'ne German museum and for the con-
..ueration ~ OF the postal authorities Of
.ne empire. The models of the postal
o'tS used In the United States were
aue oy the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
p T aui Railroad Co. at their shops in st.
aul' and are beautiful specimens of
initiative skill.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

AS result of the arrest of Daisy
nopkin In Cambridge, England, and
hef confinementin the spinning-house
VI the university by the proprietor for
having been seen walking on the street
with student, the musty old law un-
uer which the arrest was made is likely
y Oe abrogated, together with all 9TH
CT university rights" over the persons
Vi private citizens. A damage suit
WI! WI probably follow, fathered by the
Rights.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

REAR ADMIRAL ANDREW BRYsuy, U.
S. n, retired. died, on the 7th, at his
residence in Washington.
THERE were references made in all
the churches of London on the 7th
to the late DIR. Spurgeon. The bishop
of Bedford, at st. Paurs cathedral, and
Archdeacon Sinclair. in the same place,
delivered eloquent tributes to the great
dissenter.
NINE. SALoMoN, widow of the ex-
president of Hayti, died, on the-7t at
her residence in Paris, of stomach
trouble, aged 54. She leaves one son
and three daughters. One of the latter
is studying medicine. The burial will
be in the cemetery of PassY, beside her
husband
Mrs. KILLER, the widow of the mill
ionaire Boston physician of that name,
is dead. During DR.: Killers lifetime
he ordered two coff MS, one for himself
and one for his wife, costing $40, 900
each. He was buried in his, and the
one designed for her was on exhibition
in Horticultural hall for some years.
On the sth Hon. Robert P. Porter,
superintendent of census, returned from
his trip to Cuba.
On the sth the United States senate,
in executive session, confirmed the
nomination of Rathbun to be postmas-
ter at Elmira, N. Y, vice Flood. re-
moved. This is the nomination which
Senator Hill has been opposing.
On the 7th Andrew Carnegie, the iron
king, delivered sermon in Unitarian
church in New York, on 1.-THE Gospel
of Wealth"
On the sth, at an adjourned meeting
of the trustees of the New York Life
Insurance Co., held in New York city,
Mr. William H. Beers, the president,
resigned, at the request of the sub
committee, and was voted a pension
for life of $685. year Several 9th
er trustees and officers of the company
rendered their designations.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

Gov. FLOWER of New York, while in
the company of a party of friends re-
Gently jocularly responded "rats'' to an
assertion made by one of the party,
whereupon itwas asserted by the press
at least portion of it-of the me-
tropolis that the new governor was
getting trifle too democratic in his
speech to comport with modern ideas.
lie should have said rodents
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

SPURGEoN, like Grant, loved good
cigar, and he smoked almost as many
of them as the general did. The great
preacherwas a man of curious physique
lie was short and fat, or of ''portly
habit" as the doctors say euphemisti-
cally. In attire he looked more like a
country squire than famous metro
poltan minister.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13
VOLUME XIII.

The war department reports that
there are s.567,25o men in the United
States who are available for military
duty. This information should be care
fully noted by all nations, great or lit
tie, that may feel disposed to pick
duarrels with us.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

AT ball in honor of the German
emperors birthday a young lady
dropped dead from the effects OF tight
lacing. The moral of this incident is
plain: Women who do not want to
shorten their stays on this earth should
lengthen their STAYS.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

The bill providing that national
banks shall not make loans to their
own officers or employees except by a
vote of the board of directors is a
measure based on sound business poll
cy. If such law had been in existence
during the last two years, some of the
worst bank failures that the country
has ever known would have been pre-
vented
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

THE late Cardinal Manning died worth
only $500 and a collection of books,
having given all of his earnings to OBJ
iects of charity and benevolence. This
fact speaks more eloquently in his favor
than all of the elaborate eulogies that
have been written of him.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

THE lottery people may be sincere in
their declaration that they do not de-
sire their charter renewed. but until
the corpse of the concern gives forth
unmlstakable signs of putrefaction it
would be well to rememb Der that there
is an animal called the 'possum.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

THE newspapers of the state of New
York have gained decided victory in
the passage by both houses of the legis-
iature of bill which abrogates the pro-
vision of the electrical execution law
forbidding the publication of the details
of such executions. 1t is a difficult mat
ter to keep the muzzle on an American
nRWSnanar
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

THE supreme court of Wisconsin has
the question before it as to whether
gerrymanders are constitutional 1t
makes but little difference what the
decision may be, fair-minded men with
whom purity of motive is above parti-
san politics will always regard the prac-
tice as subversive of good and honest
government.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

In view of the confidence of the rain
makers in their ability to head off
drought the Dakota farmers are conf
dently looking forward to the time
when they can dispense with the care
and keep of cows and draw their lacteal
supplies from the milky Way"
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

!, lance has sent commissioners to
He United States to examine our
uethods u, OF pork inspection, and DIR.
1'-an' 1Aliiion' OF the bureau of animal in
,'astry viii afford them every facility
10 familiarize themselves with our
""FS o. hunting the deadly trichinm.
Huntsville gazette., 1892-02-13

BROOKLYN has been having an epi-
demic of till-tapping recently, and it
trauspires that the work has all, or
nearly all, been done by gang of
young misses under the direction Of a
female "Fagin," who also has several
adopts at pocket-picking among her re-
timers