Huntsville gazette., 1884-09-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ganized "tin-pan Brigade" and propose
to serenade the non-Unio men every
morning until they quit work.
THE Agricultural Bureau sends out a
| report in reference to wheat in India,"
and endeavors to show that that country
has no advantage over America.
JOHN LANCE, of Dubuque, Ia, shot his
wife through the head on the Goth, and
then killed himself.
GENERAL SCALES, the Democratic candi-
date for Governor of North Carolina,
while crossing Cowee Mountain on the
18th, was thrown down a. precipice by the
upsetting of his buggy. The General
caught in a tree, which saved his life, but
the buggy was SIN ashed to pieces and his
horse killed.
MILTON, Ind, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire the night OF the 18th.
The Opera-house, drugstore, hotel, busi-
ness houses, in fact, almost everything ex-
cept the Wayne Agricultural Works was
consumed.
IT is understood that the Porte has ad-
dressed a note to the. powers protesting
against England's action in regard to the
Egyptian debt.
AT political demonstration at Utica
Ind, the night of the 18th Melvin Swartz,
unmarried, was shot and killed by by
stander named James Clark. Swartz was
taking part in the parade. No cause is as
signed for the murder.
SIXTEEN fran, residences and stores
burned at Berlin, Wis, on the 10 h. An
hour after the flames broke out the build
ings were consumed. 1t was feared the
whole town would burn. All the inhab-
itants were out fighting the fire.
COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS DUDLEY has
resigned to go into the banking business.
DR.. WOLF, of Zurich, Austria, has dis
covered comet.
BISMARCK is going to pay visit to the
Prince of Wales.
ROBBERS gagged widow named Calf at
Heath, Mass, on the night Of the 20th and
obtained a large sum of money. /.
The French have destroyed the Chinese
police junks in Min River.
CAPTAIN JAMES B. EADS arrived in New
York from Europe on the 2lst.
RUSSIA has concluded treaty of COM
merce with Corea.
THE Anarchist murderer, Kammerer,
was hanged at Vienna on the Goth.
The 100-mile race at st. Louis, Mo-, on
the 21st, between c. III. Anderson, cham
pion long distance rider, and three Broad
way mule drivers, was won by the latter
by nearly three miles.
The loss by the burning of the Grand
Trunk shops at London, Ontario, on the
21st, is placed at half million dollars.
Five hundred men arc thrown out of
work.
BY the explosion of boiler Emerson &
Calendars mill at Vincennes, Ind, was
fatally injured.
THE Pope has granted $4,000 for the
| establishment of hospital at Rome.
A MONSTER meeting in favor of the fran
chise bill was held at Dundee, Scotland, on
the goth.
| THEODORE DwYER was killed by James
| Peterson in a saloon at Butler, Pa, on the
21st.
| AN Irish Nationalist demonstration at
| Castle Mellan resulted in a riot in which
many heads were broken.
| ABOMB with lighted match was found
at the door of a crowded synagogue in
Pesth just in time to prevent terrible loss
of life.
THE reported reorganization of the an.
| thracite coal combination is denied.
AT NEE ing of the National League in
| Dublin res solutions were adopted in favor
of Irish independence and peasant pro-
prietary.
Isaac L. LANG, Grand Secretary of the
Independent Order of Chosen Friends, of
California, being $4,000 short in his ac
counts, swallowed a vial of laudanum on
the Goth, and at last account was at
deaths door.
| HENRY MARTIN, fifteen years old, OF
! Youngstown, o., while running with an
| open knife in his hand on the night of the
| Goth, stumbled and fell. The blade pene-
| trated his heart, causing instant oeatb.
Surgeons were called, and upon examina-
| ton it was found the heart was nearly
ut in two.
| CAPTAIN W. P. CLARK, of General Sher-
idan's staff, died at Washin ston. D. c., on
| the 22d.
| THE report of the collapse of the siege at
Khartoum is officially confirmed.
TAILoRs of Davenport, Ia, and Rock
Island and Moline, ILL.,. all left their
benches on the 22d and went out on a
strike.
A PANIC prevails at Shanghai in conse-
quence of the Franco Chinese difficulty.
RECEIPTs of wheat at Minneapolis on
the 22l were over 100000 bushels, the
| largest this season.
1T is reported that Ell Mahdi will in
crease his fighting forces in front Of Khar.
| toum.
| JAMES GORDON BENNETT, of the New
| York Herald, was badly shaken up in a
railroad accident near San Francisco, Cal.
on the 22d.
GENERAL WoLsELEY telegraphed the
| British War Office on the % to stop send
ing troops 10 Egypt for the present.
Hon. HARRY CLAY, of Kentucky, grand
son of the illustrious Henry Clay, died
from the wounds inflicted by Council.
man Wepler of Louisville.
THE Chinese have blocked the mouth
| of the Woo Sung River, but have left a
passage for neutral ships.
ONE of the finest business blocks in
Portland. Ore, was destroyed by fire on
the 22d. Eureka. New, was also visited
by disast rous confagration.
| FDwARD CIAYToR of W heeling, W. Va,