Huntsville gazette., 1884-10-25
Personal AND GENERAL.

Six different forest fires were ragingsil
New Jersey on the 18th.
The annual report of the Superintend
ent of the Hot Springs, Ark, to the Secre
tary OF the Interior, states that new
spring. with temperature Of 16) degrees
or three degrees higher than any othel
known, has been discovered on the reser,
vation.
BY the breaking of frog on the LIE ba
non Valley Railroad, near Reading, Pa.
the morning of the Itch, fast freight
train was derailed and ten cars were
smashed to pieces. This engine wa.
wrecked and the engineers back injured.
The track was blocked for several hours
FRENCH's wooden mill, at Foster Sta
| ton, near Ann Arbor, Mich, burned the
morning of the 18th. Loss, $4,000; in.
surance unknown. 1t had twelve thou.
sand pounds Of wool on hand, and orders
for six months ahead.
WILHELM, first Duke of Brunswick, died
on the 18th.
| The cigar mandatory of Jacoby &
| Bookman, in New York, was damaged by
| fire the night of the 18th to the extent OF
| 100000. The fire will temporarily throw
| out of employment 400 cigar makers.
THE Bennett Mackey cable was success.
fully landed at Coney Island, N. Y.
The new Japanese Minister was pre-
sented to President Arthur by Secretary
Frelinghuysen on the 18th.
THERE were six deaths from yellow
fever at Havana during the week.ended the
18th.
GENERAL SHERIDAN is the acting Secre-
tary of War during Mr.. Lincoln's alb
sence.
THERE were sixty-four fresh cases of
cholera ut Naples on the 18th and thirty
seven deaths.
MUCH sickness is reported among Ell
Mahdi's troops in Egypt.
JAMES WORMLEY, the well-known hotel
proprietor at Washington, D. c., died on
the 18Th at Boston.
The imports received at New York dur
ing the week ended the 18th amounted in
value to SS,007,O00
THE steamer Nevada reached her dock
at Liverpool on the 18th. The cargo was
greatly damaged by fire. One female pas.
senger died of fright
A DROP in corn for the near options
caused the widest excitement on the Chi
cago Board of Trade on the 18th.
STEPHEN F. WILSON, of Pennsylvania,
has been appointed Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court Of New Mexico.
THE public schools of Portsmouth, Ont,
have been closed to prevent the spread of
diphtheria.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has
closed a contract for 1,G0o tons Of steel
rails at go IL. --..L .
concern.
A TRAIN on the Louisville, New Albany
& Chicago Road was wrecked near Green
castle, Ind on the 18th. The cars took
fire and were consumed. No one serious
ly injured.
POLICE OFFICER GORMAN, Of Cincinnati,
who was shot III the political riot on elec-
ton day, died on the 18th. On learning OF
his death his sister died.
ADMIRAL. CoURBET is calling vigorously
for reinforcements.
THE communal elections in Belgium on
the 10Th resulted in great triumph for
the Liberals.
THOMAS KENNEDY was burned TO deatn
at Philadelphia, Pa, on the 10Th.
A. w. NORTON, absconder, wanted in
Pennsylvania, was arrested in New York
on the 18Th.
FIRE destroyed German theater and
several other buildings in Moscow, Russia,
on the 10 h.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Com
pany is pushing its wires into Texas with
energy.
GREAT damage has been done by recent
heavy rains and floods in Jamaica.
THE dispatch boat Dolphin, Roach's lat
est naval achievement, is not pronounced
success.
Two men were killed and five injured by
a boiler explosion in Taylor County, West
Virginia, on the 18th.
SARDoU's new drama, "Theodora," is
said to open to Bernhardt chance for
her greatest creation.
LORD NORTHBRooKE and the Khedive OF
Egypt had conference on the 18th, at
which Egyptian finances were discussed.
THE Postmaster of Washington, Pa,
whose mysterious disappearance" cre-
ated a sensation recently, has returned
home. He has simply been visiting friends
in Omaha.
AN insane man named Bull was confined
in padded room in his brothers. house at
Erie, Pa. The house burned, and he per-
ished in the flames. He was worth $4,000.
His brother was badly burned in endeav-
ors to rescue him.
ARCHIBALD STEWART, hotel-keeper at
Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia, died on the
10th from eating wild parsnip, which he
supposed was sarsaparilla. boy named
Murphy was in critical condition from
the same cause.
The re ceiver of the Wall Street IN. "
Bank paid the depositors twenty per cent.
on the ooh.
DURING the twenty four hours ended the
Goth, 12) fresh cases of cholera were re-
ported in Italy and sixty-six deaths.
THE Grand Hotel at Lauterbrunner,
Switz ,rland, Turned on the Goth, with a
loss of 100000.
TEN thousand people have been thrown
out Of employment by the shutting down
down of the mills at Fall River, Mass.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL advocates
continued opposition to the British fran
chise bill.
THE Lockport (N. Y.) Banking Associa'
tion transacted no business on the 2Oth
owing to embarrassment.