Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Az AAoA0 Q was also an explosion In the
"A''uiS1saron Rothschild at Ostrou in
r city this wh killed fifty-six men.
A., p IT Nexican officers not in
~ vt for Central Amer
r. nooga Times, was San Salvador and
Ell Mr.. j. I. Greer,ed N 8 ~,al mine
explosion at McAllister, Il T., on the 2sth
OsMAN DIGNA is reported to have 10000
men intrenched at Tamai.
The West Shore Railroad Company has
formed a new organization, and will issue
new securities.
In the sculling match between Hanlan
and Beach at Sydney, N. s. w., on the2Sth,
the latter won by six lengths.
RUSSIAN officers who have been in Paris
have all suddenly left.
j. B. BAIRD, son-in-law of Senator Col
quit, of Georgia, is to be appointed chief
of the dead-letter office.
TRADE is so dull throughout France that
bread riots are threatened in the larger
cities.
Hon. NORMAN ]. CoLMAN expected to
take charge of the Agricultural Depart
ment early this week.
BRANDY DRINKING has grown to such
frightful proportions in Switzerland that
local option is urged.
THE municipal authorities at Paris voted
$780, 900 francs for the relief of wounded
French soldiers in Tonquin.
AN officer was fatally shot by gang of
thieves while attempting their arrest at
Rochester, Pa, on the 2Sth.
DESPITE the dispatches received at Lon
of cfat ta IA
of the British soldiers in the Soudan is
very bad.
FURTHER reports from the back counties
Of West Virginia state that hundreds OF
people are on the verge of starvation.
INFORMATION was received at Washing
ton on the 2Sth to the effect that there is a
movement to overthrow the government
of Honduras.
PRINCE ORLoFF, the Russian diplomatic,
is dead.
THE strike at Oliver G. Roberts wire
mill in Pittsburgh, Pa, has been settled.
A TOW boat race on the Mississippi has
been arranged between Pittsburgh and St.
Louis crafts.
FRENCH reverses in Tonquin have in
creased the political excitement at Paris.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR arrived at Fort.
ress Monroe, on the Virginia coast, on the
Goth, where he proposes to sojourn awhR g.
THERE has been but one fight SO far near
| Winnipeg, and in that the rebels were re-
pulsed.
| THE lithographic art establishments of
| Schumacher e Ettlinger, New York, was
destroyed by fire on the 29th. Loss, $3.50,
| 900.
| HERMAN HOLMAN, of st. Louis, Mo-,
was elected treasurer of National asso-
citation of ex- German soldiers at a m eet-
! ing held at Chicago on the 29th.
CHINESE forces gained a victory over
the French at Lang Son on the 9th. Gen.
eral Negrier was severely wounded.
THE New South Wales contingent ar
rived at Suakim on the Goth.
w. M. QUIRIN & Co.'s carriage factory
burned at Boston, Mass, on the 18th.
Loss, $4,000.
A SALMON weighing sixty pounds has
been shipped from Portland, Ore, to the
President.
THE Chinese are reported $1,000 strong
at Dang Dong.
w. D. HoYr, formerly of st. Louis,
killed mulatto at Cleveland, O., on the
29th, who came into his yard and who first
drew a revolver on Hoyt.
THE Bankers & Merchants Telegra phi
Company filed mortgage of 100000 at
Baltimore on the 28th in favor of New
York trust company.
THE Methodist preachers of Philadel-
phia, Pa passed a resolution condemning
prize fights.
LEWIS WILSON, the negro under death
sentence at Sherman, Tex, died in Jail on
the 30th.
RIEL's rebellion in the Northwest terri
tory has caused the greatest excitement at
Toronto.
COLONEL NICK BELL, of Missouri, has
qualified as superintendent OF foreign
mails.
| THE excitement in Paris over the French
defeat at Lang Son is intense.
| The visible supply of wheat on the 3oth
was 4S,OSS,97S bushels; corn, 1881, ,206
bushels; oats, 2,799, 93l bushels.
ADMIRAL CoURBET is reported to be
making preparations to lombard Canton.
| The Produce and Corn Exchanges of
New York will consolidate and erect a
new building.
THE Paris Figaro states that the French
killed and wounded at Lang Son numbered
1900.
A REIGN of lawlessness is reported in
Rowan County, Kentucky. 1t sprang from
an election feud.
FRANCE proposes to send $4,000 rein
forcements to Tonquin at once.
The skating-rink man, who eloped with
the Sandusky (O.) heiress, was sentenced
to three years for bigamy.
BY the collision of British with Chi
| nese steamer, q few days ago, seventy
persons were lost.
PosTMAsTER-GENERA Villas says that
clerks who kept out of politics need have
no fear of removal.
A SPY from Tamai declares that Osman
Digna has been deserted by almost his en-
tire force.
THE President and his Cabinet will con-
slider the invitation to attend the CONNER
cial convention at Atlanta, Ga, in May