Huntsville gazette., 1885-01-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

body be sent at once to dissecting table.
His wishes were carried out.
THERE were 366 failures in the United
States reported during the seven days
ended the I'd: 27S in the preceding week,
and 2S2, 257 and 152 in the corresponding
weeks of 1884, 'S3 and 'S2 respectively.
EX-GOVERNOR CoBURN, aged eighty-two
years, died at Skowhegan, Me-, on the
4th.
MOB of 500 atts ked 4 Salvation Army
meetingAat Dayton, O., on the 4th, and
the Army were compelled to dispense.
BISMARCK charges England with the sole
responsibility for the Egyptian troubles.
SPAIN has informed the Powers of the
annexation of certain territory on the
west coast of Africa.
THE Hawaiian Minister at Washington
says the proposed extension of the treaty
will greatly benefit Americans.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is in favor of the
Nicaragua treaty and is taking lively
hand in the proposed legislation.
EARL GRANVILLE declines to give his
consent to the proposal to hold formal
conference on the Egyptian question at
Paris.
THE Connecticut Valley tobacco crop is
a good one, according to reports received
by the Springfield Republican.
EMPLOYEES of the keystone Bridge Com
pany at Pittsburgh, Pa, have accepted the
reduction in wages, and work has been re-
sumed.
THREE men attempted to rob Baltbazar
Kraus, a German barber, at Bellaire, O.,
%bo nd nf tha raSCalQ
fatally shot.
A FORMIDABLE railroad lobby is gather
ing at Washington, bent on defeating the
Reagan inter State commerce bill if such a
thing is possible.
THE Albany Express says that President
Arthur is not candidate for United
States Senator, and that paper therefore
favors Depew as its next choice.
In fit of insanity on the 4th DR.. Ru
dolph Tauszky, of New York, wounded
seriously both his wife and himself. He
has been an authority in medical circles
on insanity matters.
AvIoLENT shock of earthquake was felt
in Frederick County, Maryland, on the Sd.
ITALIAN farmers are forming National
League for mutual protection.
The number of school children in Iowa
is 626, 00O-31S,000 females and 30S,000
males.
CLINTON SMITH, nineteen years of age,
was arrested for numbering his father near
Terre Haute, Ind, on the ID.
JOHN LIPPENCoTT, one of the notorious
Buzzard gang of outlaws, was arrested at
Columbia, Pa, on the Sd.
IT is said that the French Minister of
War has resigned because Ferry insisted
upon reinforcements being sent to Ton
quin.
an address upholding the protective tariff
system.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, ex-Viceroy
of India, will return to England by the
way of San Francisco.
GLADSTONE has gone to Hawarden Cas-
tie, where he will remain until-his sickness
is over. His trouble is from loss of sleep.
BEFORE returning to work the Hooking
Valley miners are required to sign an IRON
clad contract.
The Standard File Company, of North
Hanson, Mass, has been petitioned into
insolvency by creditors.
WIN. F. DEvLIN, telegraph messenger
boy, was arrested on the 81 for stealing
81 800 from a New York stock broker.
IT is denied at London that Earl Gran
vile received letter from Bismarck
charging England with causing the Egyp-
tian troubles.
THE present land laws of Wales are un-
satisfactory, and legislation will be urged
looking to a change. Parnell has promised
the support of the National party.
e. S. GRANT, JR., in testifying on the I'd
at New York, said that Ward, his late
partner, had confessed to him that he
(Ward) was great rascal.
THE Bristol tunnel, on the Baltimore d
Ohio Road, which has solid walls Of coal
on either side, is still burning, having
been fired by incendaries, and the tunnel
is a complete wreck.
Two HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN mil
lion feet of logs were scaled at Saltwater,
Mimi, last year, and 1863, 600 feet manu-
factured into lumber, leaving 11S,O0O,0OJ
feet in the booms.
THERE was a slight earthquake shock
felt at Tarrytown, N. Y, on the 9TH.
THE Pittsburgh (Pa.) Exposition Society
has filed deed of assignment
A FEW cases of cholera have recently oc-
CURED at Gaeta, Italy.
AN ice gorge in Grand River has caused
a disastrous overflow in Michigan. Por-
tions of Grand Rapids were badly flooded.
ITALY has decided to occupy Tripoli and
will send troops there.
LYNCHBURG (VA.) tobacco manufactur-
ers prophesy an active revival of trade
within a few weeks.
REPRESENTATIVES, RANDALL and Nc
Adoo returned to Washington on the 9TH
from their Southern trip.
SEVERAL deaths from cholera are re-
ported in an island off the coast Of France.
A NEW YORK court decided on the 9Th
that a female notary was eligible, the
question having been raised.
FRANCOIS & BoDART, merchants and
seed-crushers of Lon don, Eng, failed on
the 9Th, with 8, ,0O0,0OO liabilities.
MAYOR Low in his annual report de-
clares that the Brooklyn bridge is not
paying institution.
Mr.. CLEvELAND's resignation as Gov
ernor of New York was read in the Senate
at Albany on the 9th.