Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


that Colonel Stewart and party were mas.
sacred by Arabs.
GRIFFIN HALsTEAD, father Of Murat
Halstead of the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette. fell from bridge on the 26Sh and
broke his neck.
CHINA will call all the imperial princes
together and then decide whether or not
to go to war with France.
NEARLY all of the Protestant pulpits in
st. Louis, No., were filed by women on
the Goth, who were in the city in snd-
ance up he convention of the Temper
ance Union.
BEN BUTLER writes a letter denying
that he made any bargain on the Talla-
poosa with handler in the interest of
Blaine.
II is denied that there is any cholera at
Havre, France.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium has opposed
the formation of the new Cabinet.
SHERIFF ZIBBELL Of Nance County
Neb., left Omaha on the 26th for Mississip
pi with requisition papers for man be-
iieved to be Geo. Furnival, who is charged
with the murder of the Percival family
and two others.
A NATIONAL hod-carriers' union was or
ganized at Pittsburgh. Pa, on the 25th.
The Egyptian army is to be reduced to
four thousand men.
: The jury in the Clawson polygamy case
at Salt Lake City, U. T., returned a ver-
dict Of guilty on the 25th.
FORIsTIN HEELIE, the well-known
French jurist and legal writer, died on the
25sh.
MISS AMELIA BURGUER, teacher of Co.
lumbus, O., was killed on the 18th by be-
ing thrown from buggy.
The franchise bill passed first reading
in the British House of Commons on the
25,h without division.
The Baltimore g. Ohio has obtained con-
trolling interest in the Sharpsville Road
in Pennsylvania.
The Prohi bitionists claim they will poll
so 900 votes in New Y ork State.
A MAN named James Harper, of Nebras-
ka, shot himself dead on the stl sets at ST.
Joseph, Mo. ,on the 255h.! mo cause,assigned.
THE Southern Exposition at Louisville.
KY, closed on the 25th. Forty thousand
people took part in the closing scenes.
A GAS explosion completely wrecked the
residence of J. R. Hutchins, Montreal,
Can, on the E25th, and seriously injured
most of the inmates.
EARL GRANVILLE. English Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, had an inter
view on tho 25sh with tho German ard
French ambassadors in reference to the
Congo question.
DURING a Democratic parade at Rond :
out, N. Y, on the 255h, two cannons ex-
ploded while the salute was being fired.
Five men were seriously injured.
The French Government ha S decided to
send large reinforcements to Tonquin.
JAMES F. JOY, President of the Wabash,
arrived in New York on the och from
Europe. He refused to be interviewed on
any other subject.
IT is proposed to erect at New Orleans
statue of Captain Sam Chester Reid, who
commanded the United States brig Gen
eral Armstrong in the battle with British
squadron, which resulted in saving Louis
lana from British conquest.
FURTHER arrests of Nihilists have been
made at St. Petersburg. One desperate
fellow, wanted for four years, was cap
tured on the 255h. Arrests were made at
Warsaw.
PROF. LEWIS r. PACKARD, of Yale Col
lege, died on the 26th at his residence in
New Haven, Conn, Of consumption, aged
forty eight years.
WILBUR f. STOREY, owner Of the Chi
cago Times, died on the 9th. = va %
J. S. & J. RANKIN, East India mer-
chants, failed at London on the 27th for
f6o,0Oo. 60
LooGooTEE, Ind. was visited by 5000,
,OoO confagration on the 9th.
A NIECE of Richard Wagner, the Ger
man composer, with her husband, Ger
man Baron, are said to be living in Chicago
in great want.
THE Irish party has decided to withhold
is vote ON the franchise bill now before
the British Pariamen-.
The National Travelling Mems Associa-
tion began three days session at Ctun'
Gil Bluffs, Ia, on the 9th.
HEAVY rains have fallen in nearly all
sections of the country that have 50 long
suffered from drought.
TIE ship Little Beck, on voyage
from Ibraila to Rotterdam, was wrecked
recently, and fourteen PERSONS were
drowned.
r SAMUEL j. TILDEN'S stable at Yonkers,
N. Y, was burned on the night of the
9th. His horses were saved. Damage,
$4,000
GERMANY has protested against block,
ing the Chinese coast before France has
made formal declaration of war against
China.
SULLIVAN, the colored youth who mur'
dered Ella Watson at Salem, n. j., refuses
food and will not talk to any one. 1t is
thought he desires to starve himself te
death.
On account of the heavy track at Lex
ington, KY, Maud S. did not attempt te
lower her record on the 9th. The tria
was postponed until the 3)th.
1T transpires that package consigned
to Pitts burgh, Pa, by bank at New Lis
bon, o., was stolen last week from the ex
PRESS car. The amount missing is $500
No clew.
THE Grsnd Jury at Louisville, KY, re
turned indictments on the 9th, agains
George c. and Andrew Bucs anan, the
whisky dealers who fed to Canada.
-BFLGIAN Liberals express great discon
+ant NTH the new ministry, for the reason