Huntsville gazette., 1884-08-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

NCooC1o II OAA Aai SCAlACos
The Pennsylvania Central Railroad
depot at Jersey City, N. j., burned the
! night of the 4sb.
A BAR HARBOR (Me.) dispatch says the
| new Mountain House on Green Mountain,
built last year, was burned the night of the
Sd. Loss not known; insurance, $1,000.
The guests were quartered in tents.
THE Comptroller of the Currency has
authorized the Peoples National Bank OF
Greenport, N. Y, to begin business with a
capital of $4,000.
GLADSTONE has asked the House of Com
| mons to vote credit for the relief of Gen.
| eral Gordon.
The reception to Greedy and his COM
panions at Portsmouth, N. H., on the 4th,
was big affair.
| WILLIAM BLISS, charged with torgeries
amounting to 5,O1 marks on firm at
York on the 4th.
Owen collided at sea, the latter being
sunk and four of her crew drowned.
THE joint session of both houses of the
French Parliament to revise the Constitu-
| tion disbanded in a row.
THE sinking of the steamer Dione by
collision with the Camden off Gravesend,
Eng, on the 81, is reported. 1t was ter
rible affair. The Dione was filed with
pleasure seekers.
PosTMAsTER-GENERA GRESHAM re-
turned to Washington on the 4th.
THE Commissioners of Emigration at
New York have written to the Treasury
Department, asking what they shall do
with the pauper emigrant families that
came across the ocean on the steamer Fur
Eesia.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
9p. m. on the 4th, there were twenty eight
deaths from cholera at Marseilles and
none at Toulon.
BURROUGHS & CARTER'S refrigerator
building was burned the night of the 4.h,
at Flint, Mich. Loss, $1,000; insurance,
$4,000.
On the 4th a heavy gas vein was struck
on the property of Park Bros. & Co., steel
manufacturers, at Pittsburgh, Pa, at
depth of 1915 feet.
THIRTEEN lasters left the Walker, Strong
& Carroll factory at East Weymouth,
Mass, on the 4th, refusing to last shoes for
the Italians who mad been secured to fill
the places of strikers.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER has been
ill for some days at his residence in Peeks-
kill. Ga the night of the I'd his physi-
clan remained at his bedside until morn
! ing. He was much better on the 4th.
TwENTY-THREE inmates of a New York
tenement on Charlton street narrowly es
capped being burned to death on the night
| of the 4th.
Ell MAHDI, it is reported, has dispatched
force to khartoum to take Gordon, dead
or alive, and has ordered the wells be-
tween Korosko and Berber filled up.
IT was stated at the Indian Office on the
4th that the War Department will take
steps to eject Payne from the Indian Ter
ritory.
| THE Commissioners of Emigration at
New York inspected the steerage passen-
| gers on the City Of Rome on the 4th, and
found twelve in a destitute condition.
These were not permitted to land, and
can only be released by order of the Col
lector or Surveyor of the port.
| THE earnings of the st. Paul Railway
system for the fourth week of July, aggre-
gated $500, 900 against $57S,O0O for the cor
1 les POuuIuS WOOh AoSo OoA -CsA AiSA vase VI
$SS,OOO. The total earnings for July were
81 ,949, 900 against $1,s29,OO0 for the same
month in 1888, gain of 100000.
| The Supervising Inspector-General OF
| Steamboats, has notified Inspectors that
| they must refuse to issue original or re-
| new licenses to officers of steam vessels
except upon satisfactory evidence that ap
plicants are citizens Of the United States,
either by birth or by naturalization.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON writes to q
friend in New York that she hopes to see
a grand National conservatory of vocal
art established in America. She wishes,
as the result of her life's artistic work, to
be at the head of such an enterprise.
THE cholera is rapidly dying out in
France.
MONTANA has quarantined against cat
tie from the northern Texas ranges.
| THE British House of Commons on the
9Th, voted credit of 100000 for the relief
| Of General Gordon.
THE corner stone of the Bartholdi statue
pedestal on Bedloe's Island was laid on
the 9Th.
NEGOTIATIONS between France and Chi
ma have been broken Off
| AN extensive fire occurred at Akron, O.,
on the 9Th, burning number of frame
buildings.
| AT Birmingham (Eng.) demonstration
on the 9TH John Bright declared the divine
right of peers obsolete.
1T has been decided that justices of the
peace in Iowa can not try offenders against
the liquor law.
ALL trains coming over the frontier from
Mexico are to he inspected to prevent the
spread Of yellow fever.
| EARL GRANVILLE has refused the re
quest of the Marquis Tseng to mediate be
tween France and China.
| ScHMIDT's lithograph and label works
and Tatum & Bowen's establishment a
San Francisco burned on the 9th. Loss
s5oO,OO0.
THE English police have been informed
that a dynamite emissary has been sem
| over from America. He is priest.
BOLTON, Crown Solicitor, was awarded
ECO damages on his suit against Parnel
and other men of the United Ireland
COLONEL HATCH was renominated py tn
n~.ao-ct, for CnucraSS from the EirS