Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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GENERAL IGNATIEFF has been appointed
Governor of Eastern Siberia.
The banking house of Amos Henderson
at Lancaster, Pa, suspended on the 18th.
1t is believed that the wreck was caused
by stock speculation.
ANOTHER severe earthquake shock was
felt in the province of Granada, Spain, on
the 18th. 1t was becoming monotonous.
PARTY has been arrested at Brussels,
Belgium, charged with having some con-
qection with the ns-rder of Rumpff at
ffnRkfort t-ou3he- -Ms;r.
~ DE. CARVER succeeded in his great task
Slf hitting 60,000 balls in six days at New
Haven, Conn. The score was Shots,
4,SS1; misses, 4,S65; hits, 60,016.
AN attempt was made to blow up hat
store at South Norwalk, Conn, with dyna-
mite on the 18th. The crime is charged to
some of the striking hatters.
The Oklahoma boomers at Saltwater are
800 strong, well armed, and are intrenched
When General Hatch's troops reach the
settlement they will likely have lively
| time
| UNEMPLOYED workingmen of London
held monster mass-meeting in front of
the Royal Exchange on the 18th.
| IT is now said that France, Germany,
| Russia and Austria have reached an
| agreement upon the settlement of the
| Egyptian financial difficulties.
JOHN P. ST. JOHN, the late candidate of
| the Prohibitionists for President, has pub
lished long statement denying the
charges made against him to the effect
that he endeavored to sell out to the Ma
tonal Republican Com mittee.
A MESSENGER fresh from the Mahdi's
| camp, and who has also recently seen Gen
eral Gordon is reported to have reached
Cairo. He has told enough to keep the
correspondents busy for week.
The Earl of Wilton died in London on
the 10Th. &
GENERAL GRANT is regaining his health
and is hard at work on his boOS.
THE thermometer registered nineteen
degrees below zero at Chicago on the 10th.
Four more bodies were recovered from
the ruins of the Insane Asylum at Kanka
kee, ILL.,, on the 10Th.
THE levees along the river at Madison
Parish, Louisiana, are weak, and serious
damage is feared.
The President has decided to appoint a
Mr.. Wright, of Massachusetts Commis-
sioner of Labor Statistics.
| GERMANY now claims the Fiji Islands,
and the white book has much to say on the
subject.
THE King of Italy has apologized to En-
gland for the assault on one of b er officers
by a gendarme.
THE Republican caucus at Albany, N.
", on the evening of the 10Th, nominated
VIM. NJ. Evarts as the party candidate for
Senator from New York.
Hon. DAN. w. VOORHEES, was renomi-
mated on the 10Th by acclamation by the
Democratic caucus at Indianapolis for
| United States Senator.
The United States Supreme Court
affirmed the judgment Of the Utah
court in the Clawson case, and the poly
gamist will have go to prison.
| A SPECIAL committee of the New York
Chamber of Commerce gives special rea-
sons why the Spanish American treaty
should not be ratified.
THE Emperor of Germany is i'll and con-
| fined to his bed.
| A MAN with several aliases and repre-
senting himself as an agent Of the Stand
ard Oil Company, is travelling around the
country and has had several drafts on that
concern cashed.
GEORGE and Ray Sweet, two little boys
| of Kalamazoo, Mich, ''played doctor"
| and Ray died. from the effects of poison
| which was given him by his brother.
| Coal operatives in Luzerne County,
Pennsylvania, returned to work on the
| 10Th at ten per cent. reduction rather than
remain idle. The order affects about ten
| thousand men.
ONE THOUSAND cases'of measles are re-
ported at New Bedford, Mass, an average
of one case to every thirty two persons.
A RECENT incendiary fire completely de-
stroyed the town Of Hong Ham, near Hong
| Kong. Cochin China. No details are fur
nished but it is believed many lives were
| lost.
GENERAL WoLsELEY has urgently tele-
graphed to the War Secretary advising
immediate reinforcements for the pur-
pose of holding Osman Digna in check and
preventing him from harassing his rear OF
cutting up the roads behind him. An
other battalion has been ordered from
Malta to Alexandria.
STEERAGE passenger rates between New
York and Antwerp are now down to ten
dollars each way.
| FEARS are entertained that the steamer
Charles Townsend Hook, which sailed from
Saigon for Hong Kong, has been lost with
| 250 souls aboard.
| EIGHT thousand people attended the
Sullivan-Ryan ''slugging match, in New
York the evening of the 10Th for the
benefit of SCIENCE" Roscoe Conkling
among the number. The receipts were
$1,000. The fight was early stopped by
the police, much to the disgust of the
spectators and against the protests of the
trainers and pugilists. Ryan had the best
! of it as far as it went.
/ THERE is considerable excitement in En-
! gland over the intention of Turkey to send
| troops to Egypt. 1t is understood that
| the British ministry have determined not
| to allow the Turks to interfere in Egyp-
tian affairs by placing an armed force in
any part of the country. High officers of
| both governments have held a conference.
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