Huntsville gazette., 1893-06-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND PoL1rrCAL.

ment being installed and peace firmly
established in Nicarauga.
THOMAS SULLIVAN, the New Zealand
oarsman, has arrived in London, on his
way to America, and will row all COM
erS.
On the lst D. n. Morgan, of Connect
took the oath of Office and entered
upon the discharge of his duties, re-
lieving E. N. Nebeker, of Indiana The
committee appointed to count the
money in the treasury assumed charge
at midnight and began the count,
which will take six weeks to complete.
THE trial of Judge julius J. Dubose,
of the Memphis (Tenn.) criminal court,
that had been pending for several
weeks before the state senate at Nash
vile, sitting as court of impeach-
ment, closed on the I'd, and the de-
fendant stands convicted. Three of
the charges against him were sus-
tanned by large majorities. The find
ings Of the court depose him from of
fee.
On the ID Archbishop Ireland, of st.
Paul. presided at the opening session of
the Worlds congress of social purity in
the Hall of Columbus at the Art palace,
in Chicago. There was large at
tendance, among those prominent
being uMrs. Julia Ward Howe, Baron
Bernard d. Watterville, of Switzer-
land; Mrs. Lydia A. Prescott. of Cali
fornia, and Mrs. Ballington Booth. of
the Salvation Army.
Mr.. ECKLEs, comptroller of the cur
rency, has had a circular printed con-
tanning the sections of the law defining
the duties and obligations of bank di-
rectors. When new bank is estab-
lished copy Of this circular will be
forw arded to each director. 1t also
contains the penalties prescribed for
neglect of duty. The comptroller says
he will endeavor to make the bank di-
rectors understand that they are liable
under the law for the fulfillment of
their duty to stockholders and de-
positors.
On the Sd President Cleveland re-
turned to Washington from his fishing
excursion to Cape Charles, Va, looking
brown as berry and much refreshed
physically and mentally.
THE seventyfo urth birthday anni-
versary of Queen Victoria, although
occurring on May "a. was by formal
order officially cele brated on the Sd.
DR.. EDWIN c. BoLLEs, a Universalist
minister of New York, at the close of
sermon on the Briggs subject, on the
4th, said: ''Dr. Briggs was defeated by
a number of country bigots who have
learned nothing of the advance of the
ology during the last quarter of a cen
tury."
IT is stated that the impression that
the nolle pressing of the cases against
II. c. Frick and other officials of the
Carnegie Steel Co. at Homestead, Pa,
would carry with it the quashing of the
charges against the strikers is a mis-
take, according to the district attorney,
who says that each case will be dis
posed of regardless of any connection
with the cases against the employers.
In quarrel with his trainer, on the
Vienna race course, on the 4th, the
Austrian Count Zedenko-Kinsky, who,
on horseback, rode the trainer
down and trampled him, and then
turning his horse repeated the barbara
ty. The trainer was very seriously in
iured. The cc.lnt was not arrested.
w. DAYTON has been appointed post
master of New York city.
REV. LYMAN ABBOTT, in a sermon on
the Briggs case at Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, endeavored to prove that DR..
Briggs, and not the general assembly,
during the last two years, had defend
ed the true Christian faith; that it was
not DIR. Briggs who was heretical, but
that the stand taken by the assembly
was one which was the result of inf
deity.
On the 5th Sir William Vernon-Har-
court, chancellor of the exchequer,
stated in the British house of commons
that Attorney-General Sir Charles Rus
sell received e., 600 for six weeks serv-
ices as counsel for Great Britain before
the Behring sea tribunal of arbitra-
tion. J. w. Williams, liberal unionist
member for South Birmingham. gave
notice of motion to reduce the amount
paid.
UP to the 5th the opinion of the ma
iority of the supreme court on the Chi
nese exclusion and restriction act, an
nounced by Justice Gray, had not been
fled with the clerk of the court.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.