Huntsville gazette., 1884-09-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Samuel Short, that he plunged knife into
| his side, inf cting fatal wound.
| SARA BERNHARDT has signed contract
to star in America, beginning in April,
| 1885, She is to receive $1,000 each perform
| ance.
BEN BUTLER spoke at Minneapolis on
| the 9TH, and had an audience of upwards
of 1000.
| THE police raided Chinese opium Joint
in st. Louis, Mo-, and among the plunder
| confscated was some parcels of Indian
| hasheesh.
| Two hicks in a knife led to the identifi-
cation of Howard Sullivan, a negro, as
the murderer of Miss Ella Watson near
Salem, N. j.
The coal mines along the Ohio Central
Railroad will all be closed owing to the
unsettled condition of business and the
trouble with the miners. The mines at
New Straitsville will also be abandoned.
JOHN GRAHAM, aged twenty eight. locked
up at Avondale, O., for stealing, hung
himself on the night of the 4th with strip
torn from blanket.
A DISEASE resembling hog cholera has
broken out in the vicinity of Alexandria,
Va, and several deaths among the swine
| are reported.
MCKEE BROTHERS creamery at Vim
cennes, Ind, was destroyed by fire on the
7th.
GEORGE SCHRIEBER committed suicide
at Indianapolis, Ind, on the 7th. He was
thirty three years old and unmarried.
The royal family of Russia were ex-
pected to arrive at Warsaw on the Sth.
In bar-room brawl at Cleveland, o.,
on the 7th, Jonas Hunkens had his throat
cut, and died in few minutes.
AN international conference on the
Egyptian and Congo questions is talked
of.
|. THERE were 153 deaths in New York on
the 7th. The intense heat is said to have
caused most of them.
JAMES N4LsON shot and killed Peter
Seip near Wheeling, w. Va, on the 7th.
They. were out hunting and Nelson mis-
took Seip's head for a squirrel.
The report that the German feet in Chi
nese waters is to be increased, is fi.ly de-
MED.
The River Nile is falling, and there is
prospect of trouble for the Khartoum re-
lief expedition.
The Second National Bank at X .nia, O.,
has been authorized to resume.
THE funeral of the late Senator An
thony, of Rhode Island, was solemnized at
Providence, on the 6sh.
SERGEANT JULIUS FREDERICKs Of the
Greedy party not satisfied, and declares
he is going to the Arctic regions again.
! TAN HILL, the Birmingham (Eng.)
boxer, is coming over to tackle some Of
the American liyht-weights. He has is
sued general challenge.
DIRECTOR GENERAL BURKE says the New
Orleans Exposition will be ready for busi-
ness on time. In fact, they could open on
the first of November.
THE Emperors of Germany, Austria and
| Russia will put their crowned heads to.
gether and discuss their common enemy,
the Anarchist.
THE French have seized Passaudava
Bay, Madagascar, without resistance.
A CLERICAL parade in Brussels on the
| 7th was made the occasion for riot, in
which many people were injured, three
being killed. The police were powerless
to protect the paraders.
| AN immense demonstration in favor oi
the franchise bill took place at Glasgow,
| Scotland, on the 9th. The procession was
ten miles in length.
| ALL the Anarchists in Austria are said
to be now in jail
! THE commander of German gunboat
has taken possession of a large portion ol
| country on the west coast of Africa.
| THE Government of New South Wales
has prohibited the importation of dynam
I'll fopc fhr
DoRMAN B. EATON, Civil Service Com
missioner, has written a letter in answer
to inquiries, in which he plainly says the
State Republican associations of Govern
ment clerks and employees, as they are
| operated at Washington, are in clear vio-
| lation of the Civil Service law.
| THE late Senator Anthony left $200,00(
in legacies.
THE Vatican will issue an encyclical
| against the French divorce law.
| COAL miners of the Monongahela pools
decided on the Sth to continue the strike.
| THE Chinese have closed the mouth Of
| Canton River to steamers.
| JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the actor, returned
on the Sth from Germany in fine health.
DR.. GEO. F. LEwELLING, of cottsburg
llu., Iell lTUIli lclI DOot OAi INV Ooli eAiA1
was drowned.
The relations of the Vatican and the
Republic of Costa Rica have been rup-
| tured.
! THE Emperor of China in a manifesto
to the people has practically declared wal
against France.
| UNION stove molders at Cincinnati, on
the S5h, severely beat two non-union men
who went out after beer. Several of the
strikers were arrested.
| B. w. WRENN, for sixteen years Gener'
| al Passenger Agent of the Western & At
| lantic Road, has resigned to accept an.
other position.
| THE losses occasioned by Sunday nigh 4
destructive confiagration at Cleveland,
| O.. will exceed million dollars. The fire
was not under control until late on the
morning of the Sth.
The wheat crops of France and England
are larger than last year, and the quality
of the grain is very fine.
| THE Gar and party arrived at War
saw on the Sth and were not molested.
The Imperial party reviewed $4,000 troops
| The issue of silver dollars for the weel
ended September Oh was S34S,49l; CORE
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