Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


record of the hospitals at Toulon on the
Sth was as follows: Admissions nine; dis
charged, eight; deaths, three; under treat
ment, eighty-six. There were two deaths
from cholera at La Seyne.
The French Government will not in
struct Admiral Courbet until after con-
sultation with the Chamber of Deputies.
The Interior Department has declined
| to grant a motion for reconsideration of
the decision refusing to order a survey of
Arsenal Island, opposite st. Louis.
On the Sth hencoop was found in the
Bay of Biscay with two dead men on it.
1t is supposed the men were from one of
the steamers Laxham or Gijon, which col
lided and sank some days ago off Cor
| runna.
In an attempt at Buffalo, on the Sth, to
lower the record, Jay y-Eye-See failed to
make better than 2:104.
IT is advised by the Surgeon-General
of the Marine Hospital service that
| the importation of rags be totally pro-
| hibited, for the present at least, be-
cause, as he says, they are compan-
| ions of filth and disease, no matter
from what quarter OF the world they
come, and so are always liable to con-
vey disease.
| The alleged counterfeit ESD Bank of
| England notes recently passed at Boston
prove to be genuine.
| CHOLERA is spreading in Italy.
| MICHAEL DAvITT denies that he is sat
war" with Parnell.
A DENIAL is made by John w. Mackay
of the statement telegraphed on the I h
| from Naples Of the engagement of his
| daughter Eva to a member of the Colon
ma family.
| SEVERE frosts occurred in various sec
tions of Michigan on the OH.
| THE Omaha lard refinery works burned
| on the 9 b. Loss $4,000.
| SIR ERASMUS WILSON, the well-known
Medical writer of London, Eng, died On
| the 8 h.
TEXAS fever is reported to have broken
out among cattle in Pennsylvania.
THE Reading Railroad Car Wheel Fac
tory at Elizabeth. N. j., burned oathe 9th.
The area affected by cholera in France
is widening. Intense heat is causing an
increase in The mortality at Marselles.
THE Washington monume Mt at the Ma
tional capital is now ) 70 feet high.
THE remains of Lieutenant Lockwood,
one of the Greely expedi ion, arrived az
Annapolis on the 9th.
THE English Governm snt has decided to
limit the Gordon relief expedition by way
Of the Nile to Khartoum to $500 men.
THREE men were arrested and fined i'll
New York on the 9th for posting Socialist
proclamations.
| HUGH j. JEwETT denies the report that
he is to resign the Presidency of the Erie
| Road.
| THE Agricultural Bureau report shows
an improvement in the various crop !
| over last month.
| ENGLISH cholera has appeared in sew
| eral districts of Lancashire, England.
| Over two hundred people were afflicted
and five had died up to the oh.
| GEORGE METZ, an insane man of Pitts
burgh, Pa, threw an infant child of
his sisters out of a secondstory window
on the 9th. Marvellous as it may ap-
pear, the little one was not injured.
| MONTANA cowboys surrounded cabin
| containing fourteen horse thieves on the
9th and shot nine of them.
| Rev. DIR. j. PINCKNEY, a well-known
! Episcopalian minister of Baltimore, Nd,
| died suddenly of heart disease on the 9th.
| ADvICEs of the 9th from Shanghai stated
| that five vessels Of the French squadron
| bombarded and captured the town Of
! Ketung on the Island Of Formosa.
| OWING to dullness in prints nearly all
| the cotton mills at Fall River, Mass, have
shut down.
PARTISAN and Russian capitalists have
| decided to build a railway from the Cas-
| plan Sea to the Buzorcks on the Persian
| Gulf. Tho Gear and the Shah OF Persia
| will support the scheme.
THE manager of an Anarchist paper at
Marseilles, France, was sentenced to i'm
| prisonment for encouraging demonstra-
tions by mob during the cholera panic.
| LoCUsTS are threatening the fields in
Vera Cruz and other portions of Mexico.
SERGEANT DAVID LINN, of the Greedy
party, was buried at Mt. Moriah Gene
terry, Philadelphia, on the 10Th.
THE Philadelphia Natural Gas Company
has been making extensive purchases of
natural gas territory in West Pennsylva-
MIA.
A GLOVE fight between John P. Glow and
George A. Morrison, near Denver, Col, on
the 10th, for the championship of Colorado,
resulted in free fight in which many heads
were thumped.
THE Denver (Col.) Tribune and Republi-
can have consolidated.
THE British forces in Egypt are to be
increased to 10000.
THE State Labor Convention met at AL :
bany, n Y, on the 11th.
JOHN BUTLER, a farmer of Hanover
County, Va, shot his wife fatally on the
11th.
A TERRIBLE storm in Hungary on the
10th destroyed several towns, together
with many human lives.
ADMIRERS of General Butler propose to
give him public reception in New York,
August 3Oth.
THERE was another slight shock of
earthquake in portions Of the East on the
11th.
THE Mudir of Dongola asks for more
guns and ammunition.
THE Wall Street Bank, New York,
closed its doors on the 11th on account
OF irregularities of the Cashier involving