Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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night of the 21st. A temporary house
built around the shaft to protect the cary
ers while at work was burned and the
heat was sufficient to ruin the stone. The
loss will be upward of $4,000.
SIGNoR benefits, the well-known Italian
painter, died on the 23d.
THOS. CAMPBELL, traveller for a st.
Louis millinery house, committed suicide
at Burlington, Ia, on the 22l.
FREE delivery service will be estab-
lished at the following Post-offices Octo-
Der 1st: Elgin, ILL.,, five carriers; La
Crosse, Wis, five carriers; Decatur, ILL.,,
five carriers; San Jose, Cal, five carriers;
Sioux City, Ia, four carriers; Sedalia,
Mo-, five carriers; Ft. Worth. Tex, five
carriers; and Eau Claire, Wis, five car
riers.
|. EDWIN NJ. LEWIS, President of the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank, Philadel-
phia, died on the 23l.
LUCIANO PADILLo, a Mexican, was
lynched at Beatrice, Neb., on the 23d, for
committing an outrage.
MARY ANDERSON opens at the Lyceum
Theater, London, September 9Th.
JAMES G. BLAINE is expected to shortly
take up his residence a. Deer Park, Nd.
JOSEPH KENNEDY, an Englishman, was
killed by the cars near Vincennes, Ind,
on the oath.
REPORTS from Manitoba say the cold
weather has not injured the growing crops.
PosTMAsrER-GENERAL GRESHAM will not
Judge Drummond.
RILEY. the champion swimmer of Amer
lea, defeated Simpson, the English cham
pion, at Old Orchard, Me-. on the 23l.
HENRY E. ABBEY has re-engaged Mrs.
Langtry for the London season, which
opens in January.
THE Austrian Consul at New York re-
ceived a dispatch on the 23d that valuable
Austrian Government bonds had been sto
len and that list of the securities had
cen sent him.
THE Gear of Russia and the Emperor of
Germany will meet early in September.
HON. CARTER HARRISON, in ssumping
Illinois, travels in special coach, AMI is
accompanied by brass band and a dele
CATION from the Cook County Democratic
Club.
JAMES PILLAR, of Dublin scandal notori-
ETY., was sentenced 10 twenty years penal
servitude.
The strained relations of England and
Germany are attaching the attention OF
other nations, especially Russia.
TURKEY is considering the advisability
of sending fresh circular to the powers
on Egyptian affairs.
THREE iron clads will start at once to re-
inforce the Russian fleet in Chinese
waters.
A MATCH between the famous PAGERS,
Johnston and Richball, for 5000 a side,
took place at Chicago on the 23d, the form
er winning easily with coed time placed to
his credit.
THE worlds convention of the Y. M. G.
A. met at Berlin on the 23d. Rev. Walter
C. Douglass, of st. Louis, Mo-, was in at
tendance.
Kenmore CLAYTON, of Middiefeld, n.
V, in fit of insanity caused by drink on
the oath deliberately shot his son to death
and tried to kill his wife.
FIGHT took place at Cannellton, w.
Va, on the 23d between a mountain wild
cat and a dog. The cat won the fight.
The owner will match his cat against any
dog in the United States for 81 900.
JUDGE CHARLES ZANE, the newly ap-
pointed Chief Justice Of Utah, arrived at
Salt Lake City the evening of the 23d.
THE committee of the Ohio Legislature,
consisting of Assemblymen Ferguson and
Greiner and Senator O'Nei1l, appointed to
take charge of the body of McGahan, the
late war correspondent, arrived at New
York on the 24th. The remains were re-
moved from the Powhattan to the City
Hall and laid in state until the evening
of the 9th. From thence they 60
to Columbus, O., and will lie in state in
the rotunda of the State-house till the
Goth, when they will be removed to Zanes-
vile, and there remain till September IL.
They will be finally inferred at New Lex
ington, 0.
THE National Association of Retail Drug
gists met at Milwaukee, Wis, on the 25th.
PRINCESS VICTORIA, wife of Prince Will
liam of Germany, is ill with scarlet fever.
HOG cholera has made its appearance in
the vicinity Of Hamburg, Pa.
CHAs. BRADLAUGH will lecture in the
United States during October and Novem
ber.
The Cincinnati & Eastern Road was
opened to Portsmouth, Ohio, on the 25th.
The closing exercises for the year at
.Chautauqua took plac, on the 25th.
Ono WILLIAM LEOPOLD RUSSELL (Baron
Ampthill), British Ambassador to Berlin,
died on the 2oth.
WIN. ROBERTS, of Oxford, N. Y, fatally
shot Miss Jennie Tracy on the 2osh be-
cause she refused to marry him.
THE French squadron at Foo Chow re,
newed the attack on the 25th, and then re
treated to safer distance.
KATE SMoLsEY, of Ft. Plaine, N. Y, has
reached the 1675h day of her fast, and
takes neither food nor nourishment.
FRENCH papers are indignant over the
comments of the London Times on the
bombardment of Foo Chow.
The inner safe of the First National
Bank at Albany. N. Y, was forced and
President Warner was found to have made
clean sweep.
AT Fall Creek, Pa, on the 25th, thieves
crushed the skull of all the inmates of a
house, and then took what money they
could find.
A PARIS paper declares that France will
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