Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-24
Personal AND GENERAL.

boiler at Williamsport, Pa. on the 16th
HE Canadian Postmaster-Gen
intends to stop the circulation of lottery
circulars through the mails.
Ii is reported in Paris that Admiral
Courbet advises the Government to declare
war against China
AN agreement regulating the position
of Russian officers in Bulgaria has been
signed by Prince Alexander.
THE Pennsylvania Legislative Com
nittee to investigate the Standard Oil Com
pany began taking testimony in New York
on the 10th.
-FOUR HUNDRED men are thrown out
of employment by the burning Of the Bos.
ton & Providence repair shops at Boston.
Work will probably be suspended
soon in several Pittsburgh iron mills.
There is much disappointment at the way
orders are falling off.
The terms of the agreement for con-
struction of the second Suez Canal are
foreshadowed. 1t is reported to be forty
four per cent. English and fifty-six per
cent. French.
A GENERAL strike of railroad and
steamship laborers on the Isthmus of Pana-
ma is reported. They want an advance
from $3.50 to 800 per day. The railroad
belongs to the Canal Company.
A RUSSIAN Nihilist organ states that
the sentence of death passed by the cen
tral committee against an informer has
been carried out.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL MCCARTNEY of
Illinois has written a letter giving the opin-
ion that the law against circulating inde
cent literature in that State applies to the
Police Gazette and similar papers.
The President has4modifed the sem
tence against Lieutenant-Colonel Morrow
to suspension from command, loss of half a
years pay and reduction Of lineal rank to
The foot of the list of Lieutenant Colonels.
THE Livestock Mems Convention in
Chicago on the 10th adopted resolutions
calling for rigid inspection Of all stock and
meats shipped to foreign countries and in
dorslng the Government quarantine against
imported stock
In railroad collision in Canada on
the 18th forty hogs were killed.
The business portion of the little
town of Belmore. Ohio, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th.
PREPARATIONS are complete in Spain
for royal reception for the Crown Prince
of Germany.
TIE residence of I. W. England,
publisher of the New York Sun, at Pater-
son, N. j., burned on tbe-1Sth
De LEssEPs says he has assurances
from engineers at work in Panama that
the canal will be open for business in five
years.
Mrs. ZOE HAYWARD, wife of an opera
singer, shot herself in Baltimore on the 18th
with suicidal intent. The wound is dan
gerous.
THE freight depot of the New Jersey
Central at Communipaw burned on the
18th; loss heavy.
- A SYNDICATE of Egyptian bankers Of
fers to furnish money for another canal if
the Government viii build it.
EIGHTEEN deaths occurred the week
ending the 18th from yellow fever at Ha-
vana. There are more cases than usual at
this season.
GEORGE. alias lid Brimmer, a fu-
gitive incendiary, was captured in Harris
burg, Pa, on the 18th. The officers fired
number of shots at him, and one took effect
in his arm.
The citizens Committee of One Hun
dred in Philadelphia, are prosecuting cleo
ton fraud cases.
The Third Congregational Church at
Biddeford, Me-, burned on the 18th.
AT Romney, Ind, band of masked
citizens wrecked the store of G. G. Sutton,
a druggist, who sold liquor.
The Porte declines to admit that
Egypt and Bulgaria can negotiate treaties
of commerce directly with other States.
The Canadian Pacific has deposited
with the Receiver-General $S,000,0O0 on ac-
count Of the stock guarantee by the Gov
ernment.
THE Boston Board of Trade has posted
the names of merchants who make use of
swindling devices to obtain merchandise
from countrymen.
FOREIGNERS in China are uneasy.
Twenty thousand Chinese volunteers are
being raised at Hankow for service in
event of war with France.
The / 800 miners who struck at Iron
Mountain, Mich, threaten to destroy the
works if the companies do not come to
terms.
THE Bessemer steel-rail mill at Home
stead, Pa, has shut down.
AT Swanton, o., on the 18th, Samuel
Henry killed his wife and committed sui
eide.
THE st. Paul Chamber of Commerce
has voted to adopt the new time standard.
A. HI. ROWLAND, clerk of the Pitts
burgh Circuit Court, is charged with en-
bezzling $47, 600.
ANOTHER, severe storm, resulting in
several wrecks, is reported from New
foundland. +
New ENGLAND railroads killed 221
persons during the past year. Only six
teen were passengers.
SEVERAL of Ayoub Khan's admirers
have been put to death by order Of the
Ameer of Afghanistan.
A THOUSAND head Of sheep for export
have been detained in Montreal because
fourteen were infected with scab.
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