Huntsville gazette., 1884-09-06
: PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| I,
and the vessel will probably be quaran-
tined
THE Post-office Department has removed
| Assistant Postmaster Camp of Boston on
account of Irregularities disclosed by an
investigation of his management Of the
Post-office at Atlanta, Ga, which he held
for time as an inspector.
The Fall River (Mass.) mills all shut
down on the 30th for week.
The bulletin Of cholera cases in Italy
for the twenty four hours ended at D. m.
the 80 h shows 1lS fresh cases and twenty
4 six deaths. OF these La Spezia has thirty
new cases and ten deaths: Massa, eigh-
teen new cases and eleven deaths; Volte-
guesao had reported eighteen deaths to
| date.
A SINGULAR accident was reported from
Switzerland on the Goth. The horses at
| tached to tram-car on the mountainous
little road leading from the railway ter
minus to the town of Coire. SHE'D at an
obstruction and jumped over precipice,
dragging the car after them. Seven pas
sengers were fatally injured.
| AN unknown sailor, who was found un.
conscious on the. stree in New York, on
| the 9th, died in the hospital on the 29th of
| y elbow fever.
SIxTY-EIGHT members have withdrawn
| from the Baltimore Coffee Exchange.
| THERE were eighteen deaths during the
week ended the 30th at Havana from yell
low fever.
A FRENCH military journal insists that
the Government should send $1,000 sol
diers to China.
SOME of the French papers warn En-
gland that she is assuming too much pow
er in sending troops to Egypt.
DETECTIVES arrested Edw. Mason and
Chas. Parker, who last week robbed a st.
Paul bank of $4,000.
MESSRs. SEXTON and Redmond, who
came over to attend the Irish National
League, sailed for Ireland on the Both.
DURING the forty-eignt hours ended at 8
p. nj. ON the 1st, there were two deaths
from cholera at Toulon and twenty four
at Marseilles.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended the
30th there were ninety six fresh cases and
seventy deaths from cholera in the vari.
Gus provinces OF Italy.
A GREAT deaf of discussion is going on,
but nothing substantial is being done for
the starving Piegan Indians in Montana.
MISSIONARY" miners in camp i'll
Pennsylvania are making no more con-
verts, the men at work concluding it is
| best to stick to their job.
STATISTICS show that the consumption
of alcohol in Swi z,rland is greaYer than
in any other European country.
SEVERAL more bodies were recovered
from the wreck of the transfer boat Bel
mont at Evansville, Ind, on the 3lst.
THE Liberal demonstration at Brussels
on the 31st was a grea affair. There were
| over 90, 900 persons in the procession.
THE report of the cotton crop for Au
gust by the National Cotton Exchange is
| not SO favorable for the month as the July
report.
FIVE HUNDRED secret police have gone to
Warsaw to see that no one "blowS up" the
Gear when he arrives.
A New York lunch man was brutality
| murdered on the 3lst by gang of hood
| lums on an excursion barge. There was
afterwards general fight.
DELEGATES of the Extreme Left will see
| President Grevy and demand that France
| at once declare war against China.
| A LARGE amount of ammunition belong
ing to the insurgents in Peru has been cap
tured. The Governments has issued fierce
| manifesto.
ALI. French residents of Canton, China,
| have left, and the general belief is that Ad-
miral Courbet is preparing to attack that
| city.
The Wallace Savings Bank at Newcas-
tie. Pa, closed its doors on the 30th.
AT Canton, China, official rewards are
| offered for the heads of Frenchmen.
THE Post-office at WilIiamsport, Pa,
was robbed on the 3lst Of $500 worth of
stamps.
| ENOUGH names have been secured for
! the re-establishment Of the whisky pool at
| Cincinnati
| CHAs, A. BAKER of the Minnesota In.
| ternal Revenue service was appointed re-
| ceiver of the Second National Bank of
| Livingston, Montana.
| DRoUGHT in India causes poor prospects
| for crops.
| THE National Committee of the Labor
party decided not to hold convention but
| to support Butler.
| MRS ELIZABETH CADY STANTON voted
| for the first time in her life at school
| election at Johnstown, n. Y, on the 1st.
| DURING the month of August the public
| debt decreased SS,542, ,S52.
| AUSTRIAN Post-offices in Bulgaria have
been suppressed.
| A VIRGINIA Midland train was wrecked
near Lynchburg on the 1st for the purpose
| of robbery The wreckers were routed,
! however.
JAMES CASSIDY, of Spuyten Duyvil,
was fatally stabbed in New York by
r ebert McGregor, a workman in shoe
factory.
| DURING the twenty-four hours ended
the 1st there were nine deaths from chol-
era at Marseilles. The disease is increas-
ing in violence at Naples.
! IT is reported that S. S. Merrill. General
| Manager of the Milwaukee q st. Paul
Road, is to become President of the com
pany.
| LATE ra ins will make the tobacco CROP
of Virginia an average one, but the leaves
are smaller, which will somewhat change
the type.
REBELS are reported to have attacked
Suakim again. In passing over mine