Huntsville gazette., 1884-12-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


ture has adopted resolution requesting
Senators and Representatives in Congress
from that State to oppose the execution of
the Mexican reciprocity treaty
IMPORTS to the port of New York for
the week ended the 9Th were S6,523,OOO, of
which 81 ,06S, 600 were dry goods and $5,-
455, 900 general merchandise.
ID. w. SANFORD, of Dubuque, Ia, died at
Sherburne, N. Y, on the 9th, aged seventy
years. He leaves fortune of over 81 ,OO0,-
900. Sidney Sanford, his brother, is his
only heir.
FIRE in West Randolph, VT, on the 9th,
destroyed six blocks of business houses,
seven dwellings and hotel. Loss, 500, =
600; insurance, $4,000. Most of the goods
| were removed from the business houses.
The Hawaiian treaty was signed at
Washington on the 9th by Secretary Fre-
linghuysen on behalf of the United States
and by Mr.. Carter, representing the
Hawaiian Government.
CHARLES ROGERS, a guard in the Peni-
tentiary at Westminster, British Columbia,
has been sentenced to be hanged January
| 2Sth, for the murder of another guard in
| November last.
JOEL PARKHURsT, Pennsylvania mil
lionaire, died at Elkland, Pa, on the 9th,
aged eightyfive years.
A BENEFIT was rendered Manager John
| w. Norton of the recently burned Grand
| Opera house, ST. Louis, Mo-, ON the even
| ing of the 9th which netted the beneficiary
about $500. Prominent actors from all
parts of the country bought seats at fancy
prices and gave them back to be sold
| again.
MRS. j. s. MILLS, living near Ashton,
| Oak, and her three-y ear-old child were
burned to death on the 9th.
ADvIcEs from the west coast of Africa
state that two Mohammedan slave -catch-
ing tribes attacked the King of Talaba in
his capital. The Kings household and Of
ficers We're blown up with gunpowder.
UNITED STATES MINISTER KAssoN, at
Berlin, is said to be preparing an elaborate
project concerning the neutrality of the
Congo BASIN
SEVERAL British ship owners are fitting
out vessels designed to run the French
blockade of Formosa.
INCENDIARIEs fired bridge on the Ohio
, Central Railway near McCutch ensville,
O., on the 9th, and train of twenty three
loaded coal cars went through the burning
structure into the creek below.
The Merchant Rolling Mills at Bay View,
Wis, shut down on the 9th, throwing 400
men out of employment.
A STEAMER, supposed to be the Alliance,
| of Cardiff, foundered off the Cornish
Coast (Eng.) on the 7th, and all hands
were lost.
CLEMENT F. TAYLOR, an old and esteemed
citizen of Tiffin, O., dropped dead on the
street in that city on the 9th.
QUEEN VICTORIA has given her assent to
the British franchise bill.
THE issue of silver dollars for the week
ended the 9Th was 526,996; for correspond
ing period last year, 521 ,49S.
GENERAL FOSTER, Minister to Spain, ar
rived in Washington on the Sth, and
presented to the Secretary of State copy
OF the treaty recently entered into be-
tween Spain and the United States.
THE requests for accommodations in
Washington during the Inauguration are
said to be beyond all precedent in number
and urgency, and the. National capital
will be crammed on the Sd and 4th of
| March.
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unanimously on the Sth to report favorably
upon the nomination of Secretary McCul-
loch.
THE Spanish Government has accepted
the modus vivendi treaty with England.
THE big carpet works of Smith & Sons
at Yonkers N. Y. concluded to resume run
ming on the 11th, giving work to 1900 men
A HEAVY snow storm fell on the 9Th in
portions of the Province of Quebec. AT
Montreal and vicinity, up to the evening
of that date, snow had fallen to the depth
of two feet
THE hat manufacturers of South North
walk, Conn.,, declare they will hereafter
employ no union men. o Ar.nf .s
ALFRED ST. JOHN, one of the editors OF
the Cincinnati Times Star, died of con-
sumption on the Sth. n
FARMERS in Southern Minnesota and the
older portions of Dakota are reported to
be selling their wheat freely.
The press censor at Havana, Cuba, has
condemned El Integristd to suspension for
forty weeks.
| THE French Senate passed the Sena-
torial reform bill on the Sth.
| THE United States Supreme Court decid-
| ed on the Sth that Chinese laborer VINO
left the country before the restriction act
| was passed, has right to re-enter without
the required certificate.
A PEARL weighing ninety three carats
and valued at $4,000, was shipped from
Guaymas, Mexico, to London recently.
1t is believed to be the largest in existence,
and was purchased from an Indian for 500.
THE j. L. Case Plow Company, of Ra-
cine, Wis, filed an assignment on the Sth.
Liabilities estimated at S750,000 to $4,000.
This does not affect any of the other prop
erty of Mr.. Case.
ANOTHER circular in regard to the i'm
portation of rags from cholera infected
countries has been issued by the Treasury
Department.
MOTHER" MANDELBAUM, her son and
clerk were arrested at Hamilton Ont, ON
the Sth, and held to await extradition pro-
ceedixgs. A strong effort viii be made to
secure the return to New York of this no.
torious trio of receivers of stolen goods.