Huntsville gazette., 1883-12-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The Province of Yum Nan, China, is
organizing force for home defense.
The London police arrested Social
ist on the 23d and found two internal ma
chimes in his house.
Boston bank Presidents have held a
meeting and decided that they want
bankrupt law passed.
The Crown Prince of Germany ar
rived in Madrid on the 23d and was given
an exceedingly cordial reception by all
classes of the populace. The city was in
holiday attire, the buildings, both public
and private, being profusely decorated
with Spanish and German flags and flow
ers.
A FRENCHMAN named Soulier is said
to have organized the forces of the False
Prophet in the Soudan.
j. PHIPPs, a condemned murderer,
escaped on the 23d from the jail at Sand
wich, Canada.
The British Mediterranean squadron
has been ordered to support Egyptian in
terests on the Red Sea.
A MAN and his wife were found MUIR
dered in bed at Hickman, KY, on the
morning of the 23d. Robbery was the mo-
tive.
NINE Salvation Army constables have
been sworn in at Kingston, Canada, to pre-
serve order at the army meetings.
A NUMBER of inmates of the Indian
apolis Blind Asylum were slightly poi
soned recently by some unwholesome
food.
ANOTHER Liverpool cotton firm has
succumbed in consequence of the Morris
Ranger failure.
THE Haytien steamer Dessalmes has
destroyed war-ship of the revolutionists.
THE Egyptian Government wants to
send strong force to open comm unica
tion with Khartoum.
The Chinese Ambassador at Paris has
informed the British Foreign Secretary
that war between France and China is un-
avoidabe.
POLITICAL prisoners in Siberia are
represented as going mad and committing
suicide on account of the treatment they
receive.
A HUNDRED sacks of mail was s''report-
ed undistributed at Portland Ore, on the
23d. There is a complaint of mismanage-
ment in the postal service over the North.
ern Pacific.
The business failures for the seven
days ending the 23d throughout the United
States and Canada, numbered 247, against
235 for the previous week.
ANDY TAYLOR was hanged on the 23d
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execution in the State, the gallows being
hidden by screens.
AT Philadelphia, an express train on
the Pennsylvania Railroad on the night of
the 23d struck a wagon, killed Mrs. Christi
ana Frey, aged fifty-two years, her son
William, aged twenty-four, and fatally in
jured William Frey, Sr.
A. B. JOHNSON, the Utica On. W
lawyer, turns out to have been defaulter
for 1900, 900, to the Mcdonnell estate Of
Rochester, N. Y, of which he had entire
charge.
SERGEANT MASON was pardoned by
the President on the oath.
The recent massacre in the Soudan
has the immediate effect to call in question
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of British troops from Egypt.
THERE were 262 National Banks or
ganized in the year ended Nov. /; the total
number in operation, 1922 Charters of
976 banks expire in the next two years.
ALL members of the Canadian Civil
Service have been called upon to take the
oath of allegiance, the attention of the Gov
ernment having been drawn to the fact that
several members had recorded their nation
ality as that of the United States, while in
other cases they have reason to believe an
element hostile to British interests is being
introduced in some of the recent appoint
ments.
CHARLES TRUM shot himself on the
25th at his sweetheart's grave at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
ROUX DE FRoIssINET, Paris banker,
has failed for 100000 francs.
ABOUT ], 200 street lamps in Boston
have been displaced by electric light.
THE American Bishops at Rome were
given banquet by Cardinal Jacobini on
the oath.
The German Government has recent
ly ordered 100000 tons of railroad mate
rial.
THE Khedive of Egypt wants to dis
cuss the boundary question with King John
of Abyssinia.
JOHN w. MACKEY has been inspect
ing the railroad and harbor facilities of
Galveston, Tex.
A GRAND military review OF 10000
troops, with seventy-five guns, was held at
Madrid on the 18th in honor of the Crown
Prince of Germany.
THE Viceroy of Marking has been
ordered to begin hostilities against the
French in the event of an attack on Bac
Mini.
O'DoNNELL, Carey's slayer, took out
his naturalization papers at Youngstown,
O., October 10, 1876.
The new Manitoba railroad bridge
across the Mississippi at st. Paul, Mimi, is
of stone arches. 1t is 2,100 feet long and
cost 100000.
GARNER won the billiard match with
Daily at Brussels on the 25th by score OF
5000 TO 1883. Another match is to be
played at Lyons.
THE hOiStinp works of the Sumner