Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN expedition to explore the Congo
country will start from Hamburg on the
Both, under command of Lieutenant
Schultze.
GENERAL JOHN KoUNTzE, of Ohio, was
elected Commander-in-chiefo of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Minneapolis.
4 The Gar is going to visit Warsaw and
the most elaborate preparations are being
made. to insure his getting there safe.
THERE were 225 failures reported to Brad
streets during the week ended the 18th,
against 2l1 in the preceding week, and 16S
and % and IS in the corresponding week of
1888, 1882 and 1881, respectively.
The New York Police Commissioners
want to investigate charges that officers
were in league with Mother Mandelbaum,
the famous fence.
MISS MARY S. AULTERs, of Leachburg,
Pa, who attempted suicide by prussic
acid couple of weeks ago, tried it, again
on the 25th with pistol, inflicting NOR
tai wound.
JOHN p. ST. JOHN, the Prohibition nom.
inee for the Presidency, has accepted the
nomination. ta. M m E
THE Greenback leaders think that Butler
would poll heavy vote in Ohio on ticket
indorsing Greenback Views.
IT is thought that a man who drowned
himself in the bay at Erie, Pa, was Ed.
Sperry, the 100000 defaulter Of Chatauqua
County, N. Y.
The wall of rolling mill at Lexington,
KY, was forced out by load of wheat in
the building on the 25th, and one man was
Iyi1Ia1 nd foto mi,
JULIUS HALwEG, German janitor in
New York, committed suicide in most
elaborate fashion, on the 25th
CARL KEssLER and Albert Kellogg, two
newsboyS .at Lafayette, Ind, fought on
the 25th, and the former stabbed the lat
ter four times. 1t was thought that Kel-
logg would die.
ANNIE BENNETT, at Burlington, N. j.,
has been for some days suffering in man.
ner which leads people to think she is af-
tected with hydrophobia, although it is
not known that she was ever bitten by
mad dog.
THE first case against the liquor deal
ers under the Mott law at Cincinnati re-
suited in victory in favor of the County
Treasurer.
LIEUTENANT SCHWATKA, the Arctic ex
plorer, has resigned from the navy to
take a position, it is understood, under
some foreign power.
ELLEN TERRY is i'll, and the Lyceum
Theater at London is in CONSCIENCE closed.
She was vaccinated recently and took cold
in her arm.
JUDGE-ADvoCATE GENERAL SWAIN has
been suspended from duty pending his
trial by court-martial. .---.-.---e
IRISHMEN at Skibbereen have begun boy
cotting, because of the introduction of Ia
bor-saving machines.
AT Aries fear of the cholera drives
many people crazy. Advices from Mar
seilles are that the epidemic is not as Sc
we're as previous outbreaks.
FRANK HUTCHINs, the San Francisco
mechanic who strangled his mistress a
few days ago, was found guilty on the 26th
of murder in the first degree.
JUAN G. =BUCBA, New Mexican mil
lionaire, was drugged and robbed, it is
said, of $4,000 at the Latonla race crack
near Cincinnati, O., by pair of confidence
operators.
THE President and Cabinet are all out of
Washington, and subordinates are run
ming the machine.
THE Greedy relief squadron will be roy
ally received on their arrival at Ports
mouth, N. H., about August 2.
CHARLES P. MORTON, the missing. AS
sistant Postmaster of Brooklyn, N. Y, is
said to be insane and in the hands of
friends.
The Duke de Chartres has been attacked
with fever as a result of fatigue caused by
his recent visit to Toulon.
THE Salvation Army has invaded AL
bany, N. Y.
MRS. PAULINE GRIMM, a hotel pro-
prietress in Indianapolis, committed sui
eide on the 9th.
VIM MCDERBIG, aged twenty-one, en-
ployed in the Geographical Department
of the United States Navy in New York,
was drowned on the 9th in Harlem River.
. CROP reports from Iowa indicate boun-
tiful harvest in that State.
" A MINNEAPOLIS Nina mob endeav-
ored to lynch the men who murdered po-
liceman on the night Of the Goth, but did
not succeed. rA m At, zasstrEts# t
RUSSIANS in Germany who can not give
satisfactory reasons for being there are
summarily expelled.
A PASSENGER steamer capsized on the
Volga on the 18th, and twenty persons
were drowned @ fs*@ l A.
BILL BELL, a negro desperate OF the In
dian Territory, was captured on the 9th.
He killed an Indian, however, before he
was secured.
8 Mrs. ADAM j. MILLER was mortally
wounded near Y York, Pa, on the night of
the 26th, and an eccentric brother-in-law is
thought to be the one who did the deed.
IT is the general opinion that China will
back down and pay France the indemnity
demanded.
THE Mayor of Marseilles has again re-
fused to allow Catholics to parade and
pray in the street for an abatement of, the
epidemic. %@ @ 80
CAPTAIN PAYNE. aud others of the fill
clustering party have been called upon to
move out OF Oklahoma. Officers will have
to osiestroy all improvements on Cherokee
lands. Captain Bennett will have charge.
The issue of silver dollars July 26:
500, ass Corresponding period last year.
5000, ,494. " s
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