Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-17

THE Jamaicans are again indulging
in rebellious talk, being dissatisfied with
the course of the British Government.
ANTOINE, the Alsatian deputy charg-
ed some time since with treason by the
German Government. has been released.
A STEAM Boiler Insurance Company
has been Incorporated in New York with q
capital of S250.0o0
HIRAM MCAFEE, of Newport Town
ship, near Marietta, O., accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting on the
! 9th.
THE bark Margarita, laden with 1875
barrels of naphtha and 2,100 barrels of re-
| find oil. burned at New York the morning
| of the 9th.
COUNTERFEIT half dollars, made in
| imitation of well-worn coin, have been in
troduced in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Mayor of New York asks gen.
eral suspension of business ON the Goth of
the present month, which is to be celebrat-
ed as the anniversary of the day on which
the British evacuated the city.
DANIEL SCHOOL, railroad watch
man at High Trestle, on the Northern Pa
cific, near Missoula, NJ. T., was shot through
the head, in his watch-house, and robbed
of 800, on the Sth. The murder was done
for plunder.
The Monmouth Presbytery, in New
York, celebrated the 400th anniversary o.
the birth of Luther, on the 9th, with appro-
pirate ceremonies.
A PANIC was caused by false alarm
of fire as the audience was leaving the
Twenty-third Street Theater, in New Y ork,
the night of the 9th. Many were bruised,
but none seriously.
The business failures for the seven
days ending the 9th in the Uuited States
and Canada were I'll, against 215 for the
previous week.
ENGLISH railroads continue to pur-
chase American sleeping-cars.
AUGUSTA KoEBLER committed suicide
at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 18th, by taking
rat poison.
EDMUND MCCURTAIN has been nomi
mated for Chief Of the Choctaw Nation.
WILLIAM Rosa was dangerously shot
by burglar at East Saginaw, Mich, the
night of the 10th.
A SINGLE eastern railroad recently
discharged twenty-seven employees for
color blindness.
The New York, West Shore & Buff
falo Road is to be opened for through traffic
January 1.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has
established a large number of experimental
farms along its line.
The Acknowledgement of Indiana
proposes National encampment Of State
troops at Washington next year.
MGR. CAPEL preached two sermons in
Cincinnati on the 18th on Martin Luther
from the Catholic standpoint.
THE Civil-Service Commissioners and
the President can not agree on a scheme to
regulate promotions in the Civil-Service.
THE London police claim to have
clews to the perpetrators of the recent dy-
Mantle outrages, and there are reports that
Americans are implicated.
w. S. KIRKER, absconding teller of
the Second National Bank of Ironton, o.,
has returned home. He had been on
prolonged spree.
Ii mas Deeu ulScONercu lHdU lHG peu--
sion claim agents have been guilty Of
fraudulent practices in connection with
claims for additional bounty.
The failure of Higbee & Co., Ere
mont, O., is announced, and is expected to
prove serious. The firm had numerous ele
vators along the Nickel Plate line.
IT is stated that the commander OF
the French forces in Tonquin has informed
the Government it would be impossible to
operate in Tonquin with the present force,
and that nothing can be done until Febru-
ary.