Huntsville gazette., 1883-10-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

''"' ofoi-P IOducllOH Oh une1r goods anu TO
make only limited quantity next year.
IHE autumn meeting of the Institute
OF Mining Engineers closed on the 18th in
New York. The next meeting will proba-
bly, be held in Cincinnati, in February.
LORD LANsDOWNE, the new Governor
General of Canada, and wife have sailed
for Canada.
ANOTHER telephone combination has
been formed, the Globe Telephone Com
pany, Of New York, absorbing the Shaw,
of Chicago.
The anniversary of the discovery of
America was celebrated on the evening of
the 18th with a splendid banquet in the
Opera House at Madrid, Spain. The build
ing was brilliantly illuminated and deco
rated with flags and the coats of arms Of
Spain and the republics of North and South
America.
AT the sale of seats for the first
nights performance in the new Metropoli-
tan Opera-house, New York, the highest
price obtained for box was $50 and for an
orchestra seat was $35. The lowest price
for an orchestra seat was $14.50.
The village of La Estrella, Province
of Tervel, Spain, was inundated on the
18th Sixteen houses were destroyed and
over forty lives lost.
The Evangelical Conference opened
its sessions at Allentown, Pa, on the 18th
In the Episcopal Convention at Phil
adelphia on the 10Th a report was made adj
verse to the. erection of the diocese of West
Tennessee.
A RUSSIAN has been arrested in Ger
many for sketching the forts at Konigs-
berg.
THE Spanish Ambassador to France
has rendered his resignation and insists up
on its acceptance.
THOMAS LIyERMORE, agent for the
Amoskeag Cotton Mills was before the
Senate Labor Committee on the 10Th. He
testified that the mills used 1900 bales of
cotton yearly, turned out 81, 100000 to co.
1000 yards of cloth at cost of between
s., 1000 and &c, 900. The cost of labor
was about thirty per cent of the total cost
of the goods, Or about $l,5OO,OOO. Amount
of capital employed in plant building, ETC.,
about equal to the yearly production.
American operatives number one-fifth of
the employed. They are the best opera
tives.
A FRENCH transport started on the
10Th for Tonquin with 79J men and guam
tity of war material.
The Chinamen in Salt Lake City,
Utah, are in ah uproar. The City Council
has ordered hem to leave their promiscu
Gus housings among the whites and con-
centrate in suburb by themselves. AS
many of them have long leases on their
premises they propose to resist in the
courts.
UPON the retirement of General Sher-
man, November /, 1888, it is understood
that Gen. Hancock will succeed Lieut.
Gen. Sheridan in command of the Division
Of the Missouri. Mai.-Gen. Pope will sue
ceed Gen. Hancock in command of the Di-
vision of the East, md Maj. Gen Schofeld
will remain in command of the Division of
the Pacific.
JUDGE ADVOCATE SWAIN is of the
opinion that the President will soon pardon
Sergeant Mason for shooting at the assas-
sin Guiteau The records of the War De-
partment show that the applications for
Mason's release form the largest petition
ever presented on any subject in the his
tory of the United States, the signatures
which are from every State and Territory,
aggregating more than 900, ,0G0 names.
PROF. J.ILAwRENCE SMITH, the dis
tinguished scientist, died at his residence
i'm Louisville KY, on the 18th, of diabetes.
He was a native of Charleston, S. c., born in
1918, and graduated at the University of
Virginia.
THE prohibition amendment in Ohio
is said to have been defeated by nearly 90,
600 votes.
LAST years statistics show that travel
by rail is ais safe in America as in Europe.
Two deaf mutes were ordained priests
of the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia on
the 14th.
RUSSIA is continually growing more
severe in her treatment of German subjects
on the frontier.
THIRTY EIGHT delegates attended the
meeting OF the International Socialist Con-
gress at Pittsburgh.
The Central Labor Union OF New
York advises the workingmen to form mil
itarv organizations to defend their rights.
ROBINsp ON BROWN, farmer, was
murdered the night of the 18th near Indi-
annapolis a nd his body placed on the rail
road track
IT is re- ported that a syndicate has
been formed to purchase the Sioux lands
which it was proposed to throw open 70 the
public.
REV. d. B. KNICKERBOCKER,o OF Geth-
semane RI E. Church, Minneapolis, was
consecrated Bishop of Indiana at Philadel-
phia on the 14th.
The PAGER Johnston has been sold to
Commodore N. w. Kittson, of st. Paul, for
S25. .OO0 The horse lately paced mile IN
2:1O on the Chicago track.
A PASSENGER train and coal train col
Hded near Reading, Pa, on the l4th, smash
ing balf.a dozen cars. Nobody hurt.
Mrs. LANGTRY landed in New York
on the evening of the 14tP by the steamer
Oregon.
THE Florida Press Association left
Jacksonville on the 18th for the Louisville
Exposition.
CrNCINNATI is making preparations