Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-13
Personal AND GENERAL.

AN 1nNinflDIe vengeance cOmmlttee
has been FORMED to hunt down all inform
ers.
A CLERK in the Auditors office at
Halifax, N. S. was arrested on the 9th for
embezzling $4,000.
Ice half an inch thick formed on the
crops are killed.
The Frenth consulate at Saragossa,
Spain, was m iQbbed by a crowd on the 9TH
whom the pokce dispersed.
The Canadian Government is endeav-
oring to tighten Sunday labor in the postal
service.
SIR STAFFORD NoRTHCoTE, in a
speech on the:5th, censured the foreign and
home policy Of the British Government.
THERE were frequent snow squalls on
the 9TH in Nova Scotia.
The French Cabinet is in favor of
pushing the Tpnquin campaign vigorously.
The volume of business transactions
for the past week shows an increase in the
West and decrease in the East.
BRITISH merchants are making claims
against France because of the blockade in
Madagascar.
The Spanish ambassador at Paris has
submitted a statement of grievances with
a demand for satisfaction.
A MEETING at Manchester represent
ing 10000 miners resolved to demand a
fifteen per cent. advance in wages.
A NATIONALIST meeting announced
to be held on the 7th at Ennis, Ireland, was
prohibited by the British Government.
IHE Boston Executive Council on the
9th rejected the nomination of E. G. Wal
ker, colored, to be Judge of the Municipal
Court.
The Minnesota Conference of the M.
E. Church, on the 9TH adopted resolution
looking to an extension of pastoral terms.
The yellow,fever epidemic at Vera
Cruz has subsidized. Quarantine against
Pensacola has. also been raised by neigh
boring cities.
The New Orleans National Bank has
sued Postmaster General Gresham for $780,
600 damages onaccount of the recent lottery
decision.
JOHN SMITH, who murdered Josiah
Harden last spring, escaped from Jail on
the 5th at Oakland, Md. He was under
sentence of death.
CLAIB YOUNG, Texas desperate
who killed a man named O'Donnell in 1878,
was arrested recently near Rawlins, Wy.
A READING locomotive smashed q
street car in Philadelphia, on the 5th, kill
ing two persons and seriously injuring
eight or ten others.
In a freight collision on the 9TH on the
Panhandle Road, near Columbus, o.,
Thomas Cranshaw was killed and another
man wounded.
NEGOTIATIONS between France and
China were reported on the 7th as at a
standstill.
THE Gar and Prince of Wales are
going hunting together in Sweden.
SIAM has been invaded by predatory
bands similar to the Black Flags of Anam.
WORK has been begun on the Garfield
Memorial Hospital at Washington.
CHARLES CREIGHTON HAZEwELL, for
twenty five years writer on the Boston
I1nueHer, died on the 7th.
The Presiding Elders Conference Of
the Northern Methodist Church meets No
vember 5.
The Socialists will hold national
conference at Pittsburgh, commencing on
the 18th.
THE trial of O'Donnell, who killed
Carey, is set for the 10Th inst, but a post
ponement will be asked by the defence.
AT Northboro, Mass, on the 7th, a
man named Brockton shot his wife and
himself. He is dead; the woman will re-
cover.
REPORTS from the cattle ranges in the
Indian Territory say the autumn round-ups
are progressing rapidly and with satisfac-
tory results.
AT Milwaukee, on the 9th, Albert
Estermann killed his wife with an iron bar
and disappeared, leaving note that he had
gone to hang himself.
THE Northern Pacific stockholders
have reelected the old directory, and au-
thorized the issue of S20,000,000 second
mortgage bonds.
AMBROSE DAGGETT worked for David
Greelv near Liberty, Me. He fell in love
with his employers daughter Ella. On the
7th he killed the young lady and then blew
his own brains out. He was jealous OF her.
ADMIRAL COJRBET, after consulting
the French commanders in Tonquin, has
concluded that an advance is impossible at
present.
A BERLIN diSpatch of the 9TH says
Nihilist proclamations have been issued
solemnlv sentencing the Czar of Russia to
death because he has failed to grant liberty
to the people.
THE Catholic Diocese of Portland,
Maine and New Hampshire is to be divided
because of the increase of Catholic popula-
tion. New Hampshire will be called a do
cese.
THE National Association of Street.
car Companies met in annual convention
in Chicago on the 9Th.
BILL HENsLEY and Red Jack, two
outlaws. were killed by a sheriff's posse,
near Wilcox, Arizona, on the Sth
AT Macedon, n. T., on the 9th, tour
men were killed and seven injured by the
exnlosion of an old blast which they were
removing.
ELEVEN THOUSAND dollars was stolen
from the paymaSter OF the Mexican Na-