Huntsville gazette., 1884-12-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

1850.
The Salvation Army began a campaign
in Montreal, Can, on the 14th, and a mob
made things very lively for them.
In Boston, Mass, at the recent election,
in total vote of 81, 765, there was major
ity of Il, ,449 in favor of licences to liquor
dealers.
The sentences of death passed upon
Captain Dudley and Mate Stevens of the
Mignonette for killing and eating the boy
Parker have been committed by royal
clemency to imprisonment for six months
without labor.
BIsMARcK's golden jubilee, which will
signalize the fftieth anniversary of his
entrance into official life, will be celebrated
in Berlin next spring.
THE Radical press of London are poking
sharp sticks at Lord Granville for his
procrastinating tactics, which have enabled
Germany to outstrip England in the mat
ter of African colonization.
FRANCE has purchased seven British
steamers to transport additional troops to
China.
ANDREW MAY, a prominent manufac-
turer of indianapolis, Ind, and noted as
jealous temperance advocate, fell dead
from heart disease on the 18th, aged
seventy years.
A MEETING has been in session for sew
eral days, in Boston, of members of the
Masonic fraternity of the ninety-fifth de-
gree, Rite of Memphis or Mizraim, and
ancient and Primitive Rite, for the pur-
pose of establishing un on Sovereign
Sanctuary from the fortieth to the ninety
| sixth degree.
CHIEF BROOKS of the Secret Service is
confnedto his residence in Washington by
! serious illness.
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the Mercantile Bank of Cleveland,
O., to begin business with a capital of ST.
100000.
THE imports Of specie at the port of New
York for the week ended the 18th were
$49S, 900.
THE Central Iowa Railway Company has
cut down work in its shops at Marshall
town to five days per week instead of dis
charging men or reducing wages.
RUSSIA has raised the quarantine against
France, Italy and Spain, but the embargo
on rags is still maintained.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, is to have q new thea
ter capable of seating 1900 persons, to be
run at popular prices. J. Newton Gott-
bold will be its manager.
JOSEPH TAYLOR, a convict, was sem
| fenced to death in Philadelphia, Pa, on
| the 18th, for the murder of Overseer Mi
chael F. Doran.
AN international Agricultural Congress
will meet in Pesth, Hungary, during the
exhibition of 1885.
| THE British Petroleum Association has
refused to place the Russian product on the
same footing as the American, or to change
the standard test and color.
NINE. Colombier is undergoing fourteen
days Imprisonment in Paris for the author
ship of "Sarah Barnum."
BUFFALO, N. Y, and vicinity was visit
ed by very disastrous storm on the 18th.
The telegraph operators of Boston met
on the 10Th and formed protective asso-
citation.
Iowa farmers are complaining Of low
prices of grain and the high railroad rates
for transporting it.
Two of the Philadelphia carpet manu-
factories surrendered to the strikers on
the 18th, and resumed operations at the
old rates.
Two cases of yellow fever were discov-
cred on British vessel which arrived at
Galveston, Tex, on the 10Th from Havana.
Ell MAHDI has written Osman Digna ap-
pealing for reinforcements.
THE London Police are all at sea in their
search for the London Bridge dynamiters.
Not clew is to be found.
OWING to the dullness in the iron trade,
four thousand iron workers have been
thrown out of employment at Milan, Italy.
On account of the cutting down of wages
by the abolition of extra hours, the Teleg-
raphers' Independent Brotherhood of New
York have organized twenty-six new as
semblies.
THE opinion is growing that the Spanish
treaty will not be ratified by the Senate.
MRS. HATCH, wife of an ex-Mayor of
Mandan, Dakota, committed suicide on the
18th by cutting her throat with but cher
knife.
MARSHALL Fl. MCGEARY, a Pittsburgh
(Pa.) lawyer, shot himself in Cincinnati
boarding house on the 18th. Death was
instantaneous. He was stopping there
under an assumed name.
The opinion gains ground that Mr..
Bayard will receive the Treasury portfolio
in President Cleveland's Cabinet.
The Edgar Thompson steel works at
Braddock, Pa, have shut down for an in
definite period, throwing 1000 men out of
employment.
A MESSENGER from Khartoum reports
General Gordon well, and that he recently
severely defeated the rebels, killing large
number and blowing up their forts.
Mr.. BLAINE says he has not been inter-
viewed since he went to Washington, and
that ithe story concerning his relations
with Mr.. Conkling was forgery.
THE viii of the late Reuben r. Springer
of Cincinnati, O., was probated on the 18th.
He makes large bequests to public and
private institutions and to relatives and
friends. The estate is estimated at
$4,000, ,00C.
GENERAL HAzEN, Chief Signal Officer,
has preferred charges against Lieutenant
Darlington for disobedience of orders and
neglect of duty in connection with his
command of the Proteus expedition for the