Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ODONNELL' examination was con-
cluded on the 2sth at London. The prisoner
was committed for trial.
IHE Anamite Government has issued
orders to the Mandarins disbanding troops
THE bark Orontes recently picked up
three fishermen off the coast of Newfound-
land who had been out six days i'm an open
boat without water.
IHE steamer j. S. Robinson exploded
her boilers at Albany, N. Y, on the 2Sth
The Captain and fireman were killed and
several others badly hurt
A LARGE crowd of Parisians assem-
bled on the 2Sth around the Strasburg
monument and indulged in a counter-de-
monstration to the Niederwald celebration
FROM September 18th to the 2Sth the
Post-office Department had issued 102, ,605,-
600 new two-cent postage stamps.
The New York State tax suits against
the Western Union Telegraph Company
have been decided in favor of plaintiff
The amount involved was more than $780,
900.
IT is reported that Prince Alexander
of Bulgaria has gone incog to consult the
Emperor of Austria. The war clouds
thicken. The Porte calls the attention of
the powers to the armament of Bulgaria.
THE reported shooting of John Stew
art Parnell proved unfounded. He was in
London on the 2Sth.
GEORGE WALLACE, colored, was
hanged on the 2sth at Atlanta, Ga, for the
murder of sailor named Jansen. He
protested his innocence to the last.
The Pacific Express Company's car
on the Eel River branch of; the Wabash
masked men on the 2Sth near Newport, Ind
ALBERT TAFT, manufacturer, was
suffocated by gas at Burlington, VT, the
night of the 29th
THE Roman Catholic Provincial
Council closed its sessions in New York on
the 30th.
THE Conway Manufacturing Com
pany's planning mill burned at Milwaukee
the morning of the 30th; loss 100000.
JOHN CANTwELL, Celina, O., shot
himself and his wife in potato patch the
morning of the 30th. Both are dead.
TwENTY-NINE persons have recently
been sent to prison for long terms in Hun
gary for destroying the Hungarian escut-
cheon.
A PHYSICIAN at Glen's FAILS, n. Y,
claims to have cured lockjaw by hypo-
dermic injection of rattlesnake venom.
JAMES FAIR has brought suit in New
York to recover $4,000 damages from his
father-in-law for alternating his wife's affec-
tions.
CAPT ALLEN, of the schooner Ida
Walker, fell overheard on Lake Ontario
near Oswego, N. Y, the night of the 29th.
His son attempted to save him and both
were drowned.
NEAR Rockport, Ind, the body of
man was found in the hull Of burned boat.
He had been shot and pounded with
hatchet.
AMBROSE RINE, an attache of Fore
paugh's circus, was found with his neck
broken on the 30th under q railroad bridge
at Wheeling, W. Va.
THE newsdealers Of Boston have re-
solved that their interests ,demand that the
prices of New York daily newspapers be
maintained at old rates and have agreed
not to depart from formerIprices.
A RENEWAL of the disorders at Can
ton, China, was reported on the 30th.
GOVERNOR IRELAND, of Texas, was
cordially welcomed on his visit to Mexico.
Fully 10000 people assembled at Saltillo to
greet him and manifested great enthusi
asm.
The National Cotton Planters Con-
vention at Vicksburg, Miss, will be held
November 21st instead of the 14th, as here
tofore announced.
AT National League meeting at
Tipperary, Ireland, on the 3Oth 5000 people
were in attendance.
The yellow fever cases in San Fran
cisco harbor were reported doing well
on the 1st.
COLEMAN Bros, clotfliers New York
and San Francisco, have failed.
ST. JOINS Catholic Church at Tren-
ton, N. j., burned the morning of the 1st.
A PROPELLER carried away the gates
of the new canal at st. Catharine's, Cana
da, on the 1st
LIEUT.. DARLINGTON arrived at Wash
ington, on the 1st. He has nothing to say
at present.
A RAILWAY collision occurred on the
1st near Fort Plain, N. Y. Several persons
are reported killed and others injured.
In Chiapas, Mexico, 1900 persons
have recently died of smallpox out of
population of 10000.
The engine house of the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad at Lexington, KY, was
blown down Sunday.
A SAILOR from quarantine at Calves
ton was caught trying to escape to the main
land on the 1st and was sent back.
KING ALFONSO has returned to Spain.
His prestige at home is considerably in
creased by the Paris affair.
EDWARD LoBELL, charged with for
gerry in Bristol, Eng, was Arrested in New
York on ship-board on th8 1st at the in
stance of the British Consul.
The New York Grand Jury on inves-
tigating the water rates frauds declares the
bookkeeping system faulty, recommends
examinations of all financial records since
1877 and returns two indictments.
RANDc of inf,1riated Standards were