Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Avres has caused much alarm. The
steamer Bruzzo and another italian steamer
were reported on the 7th as detained at
Montevideo.
In the Evans polygamy trial at Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 7th the mother of the
second wife testified that her daughter was
married to Evans, and the second wife ad-
mitted the marriage. She said it was
without the consent Of the first wife, who
was very mad and stoned her windows
when she first went to live with Evans.
The jury brought in verdict of guilty.
Two West Shore passenger trains collid-
ed on the 7th on the Buffalo, New York &
Philadelphia Road, on which the West
Shore trains enter Rochester, N. Y. Both
locomotives and two cars were badly
wrecked, and several persons were injured.
The Fish Commission car left Washing
ton the night of the 7th with carp for the
supply of all applicants In Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan.
THE Spanish Government will restore the
quarantine against France.
IMPORTS at the port of New York for the
week ended the Sth were $S, ,036, 900.
The MARQUIS DE CAUx, the husband of
Patti has received an absolute divorce
from the songstress.
THERE were thirty seven fresh cases of
cholera and twelve deaths in Paris on the
Sth.
THE British Cabinet have not reached
an agreement on the redistribution of
Parliamentary seats.
The banking house Of James NJ. Mas
ka,.toD 2y 70 Mt Vorrop c1OcaI
it's doors ON the Sth.
MRS. WILBUR F. STOREY asks the court
n Chicago to appoint receiver for the
estate of her late husband.
PHoF. JONES, of the city schools, Bur-
lington, Ia, and three young ladies were
drowned in an artificial lake on the sth.
ADMIRAL CoURBET telegraphs that an
other tilt has been had with the Chinese,
who were repulsed with heavy loss.
FAJARDo, the new Governor General of
Cuba, arrived at Havana on the 8th.
THE eminent historical painter, Felix
Emmanuel Henri Philip Potteaus, died
in Paris on the Sth.
NINE million feet of lumber were de-
stroyed by fire on the Sth in Mark Paine &
Co.'s lumber yard, at Northern Pacific
Junction, twenty-five miles from Duluth,
Mimi.
TWENTY persons were killed by col
liery explosion at Wasmas, near Mons,
Belgium, on the 9th. Five others were in
jured.
A coLLIERY explosion at Tredegar, En-
gland, on the 9th, resulted in the death of
fifteen persons and forty three horses.
Cholera seems to have taken fresh
start in France. During the twenty -four
hours ended the evening of the 9th there
were 1856 cases and sixty three deaths in
Paris.
MICHAEL HUGHES, aged twenty three,
shot and mortally wounded his father,
whom he waylaid on his way home from
church near Penn Van, N. Y, on the 9th.
The murderer escaped.
HENRY IRVING and Ellen Terry arrived
ia New York from Montreal on the 9th.
COMMISSIONER EVANS of the Internal
Revenue Bureau has issued his report for
tae fiscal year..
A MAN named Henry Moore gave himself
up at Cleveland, o., on the Sth, saying he
had killed a man out in his township, near
tae city.
HON. OILAS DEASONs IOI iICi Va
ILL.,, met with an accidental death near Au-
dubon, Ia, on the 9th. His remains were
sent to his old home.
THE Cabinet met at the White House on
the 11th, for the first time in several
rlonths.
THE President has appointed Thomas
Adamson, of Pennsylvania, United States
Consul at Panama.
REAR-ADMIRAL ALEXANDER MURRAY
Gied in Washington, D. c., on the 10th,
after short illness. He participated in
the war with Mexico and was actively en-
gagged in the naval conflicts of the re-
hellion.
MRS. w. S. HOWARD, Of Mill Creek,
Mich, aged fifty, deliberately locked her.
self in a room, poured kerosene oil over her
clothes, set fire to them and burned herself
fatally. She was mentally deranged.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SHERIDAN has
made his report for the period covering
the time in which he has been in command
Of the army.
THE new Lord Mayor of London, En-
gland, was inaugurated on the 10th with
the usual imposing pageant and ceremo-
NAL.
THE British franchise bill passed the
House of Commons in committee of the
whole on the 10th, and the result was
greeted with much enthusiasm.
ALBAUGH's Grand Operahouse at
Washington, D. c., was opened the even
ing of the 10th by Emma Abbott, in Semi
ramide.
PASSENGER rates from New York to
Chicago were reduced on the 10th to 5000.
THE President has appointed Governor
Schuyler Crosby of Montana First As
sistant Postmaster General.
ALL the law students of Lowell Univer-
sity, Montreal, Can, but six have been ex-
PEELED for violating the regulations which
prohibit attendance at political meetings.
Tom THUMBS will was probated at Ply
mouth, Mass, on the 10th. 1t showed a
balance over all debts of $18,431.
THE loss by the recent lumber fire near
Duluth, Mimi, foots up over $4,000.
A RUMoR was current on the 10th that
General Sheridan had been ordered to New
York, but it was officially denied by the
Secretary of War.
A-p-ny ono IF tha Un1d da-