Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Cairo on the 9th.
AT Sandy Hilly, N. Y, on the night
of the 5th NJ. s. Teller, a druggist, shot
himself fatally with the same weapon, in
the same room and at the same hour that
his father had killed himself year ago.
A STEAMSHIP was recently discovered
driven ashore near Indian Harbor, n s.,
and was supposed to be the missing White
Star line steamer Ludwig. The Ludwig
sailed from Antwerp on the I'd of July, and
had not been heard of since. She had twen-
ty-six passengers and a crew numbering
thirty persons. XII
PRESIDENT ARTHUR reached WASH
! ington on the 7th.
ENGLISH harvest work was being Sc
riously retarded by wet weather.
Ten leaders of the Vienna working
mems riot were arrested on the 7th.
The steamer Eilley recently exploded
on the Saskatchewan, 600 miles west of
Winnipeg.
ADMIRAL PIERRE, the recalled French
| commander, was reported dying at Mar
seilles on the 7th.
FRANCE was mobillzing her transport
service, but hoped the trouble with China
might be compromised.
LATE estimates placed the Michigan
wheat crop at 23OO0,O00 bushels, being
slightly less than the July estimate.
& REV. THOs. OAKLEY, delivery clerk
in the Cleveland Postoffice, was arrested on
the 7th, charged with stealing postage
stamps.
The musicians quarters at the Long
Branch Hotel burned on the 7th. One man
| was burned to crisp, and several were
saved with difficulty. -
THE city of Pensacola, Fla, was re-
ported on the 7th as still healthy, but
yellow fever was ON the increase at the
the Navy Yard, eighteen new cases having
been reported within thirty-six hours.
No deaths.
Mrs. JULIA p. SMITH, novelist, was
killed by runaway horse while driving
at Hartford, Conn, on the 7th.
A CONGRESSIONAL election has been
ordered for the First District of North Car
olina on November 20 to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Walter F. Pool
AT the meeting of the American
| Social Science Association on the 7th. Mrs.
Sarah K. Bolton, of Cleveland, read paper
on Employer and Employed"
! RUDOLPH SCHLEGEL, who said he had
left his home in Chicago on account of fam
lily trouble, shot himself at East Cleveland
the night of the 9th and lay down in field
to die. It was thought the wound would
prove fatal.
The National Prison Association was
reorganized on the 7th at Saratoga, and
Ex-President Rutherford B. Hayes elected
President. Papers were read on preven-
ton of crime and prison reform.
THE business failures reported
throughout the United States and Canada
| for the week ending the 7th number 156, as
compared with 1856 the preceding week,
decrease of 20, distributed as follows: New
England States, Is; Middle, 80; Western,
| 4S; Southern, 80; Pacific States and Terri
tories, 13, and New York City, a.
AT session of the International
Labor Institute on the 9th at Munich,
Bavaria, John I. Dillon, Professor of the
| Law School, Columbia College, New Iork,
was elected an associate member.
HALF the village of Deep Creek, Nor
| folk County, Va, was destroyed by fire ON
the 9th.
| JOHANN GOTTLEINTZ JACKSON, who
robbed his employer, merchant in Mos
COW, Russia, was arrested on the 9th by the
New York police.
Ex-Gov. BEDLE, of New Jersey, fell
| on the Sth at Courtlandt street ferry, New
York, and broke leg.
BRITISH residents il Chinese ports are
indignant that there is no British fleet in
those waters Foreigners occupy pre-
carious situation there.
PROLONGED shocks of an earthquake
were felt at Lima, Peru, at eleven O'Clock
D. m. the evening of the 9th.
AT the instance of the Northern Pa
cific Express Company, the Wells-Fargo
Express has been enjoined from establish
ing agencies in Washington, Idaho and
/ Montana.
THE Elkhorn Tannery, Stroudsburg,
Pa, owned by Michael d. Kistler, burned
on the 9th Loss $150,000; property insured.
SNOW fell at Argentine, Colorado,
few days ago.
s SECRETARY FOLGER returned to his
duties in the Treasury Department on the
10th.
The drivers on the Metropolitan
/ Street Car line, Washington, struck on the
9th and traffic was suspended.
HUGH LAW, Lord Chancellor of Ire
land is very sick.
The Russian chapel was consecrated
at Copenhagen on the 9th. The Gar and
Czarina of Russia. King and Queen of
Greece. Princess of Wales and all the MEM
bers of the Danish royal family were pres
ent.
Two men named Powers and Mosier
were crushed to death by the fall of an i'm
mense amount of ore in the Highland Mine
at Deadwood, D. L, on the evening of the
Sth.
FRosTs were general throughout the
Northwest the night of the Sth and morning
| of the 9th. tsM
BISHOP DECKER, of the diocese OF
Washington, sailed for Rome on the sth.
| It is understood in Catholic circles that ne
would be made Archbishop. e
SBUcKwHEATa and tobacco in the East
suffered severely from the recent frost.
+ Dr.. HERMAN REDFIELD, of Monroe.