Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

years on the 31st, and was immediately
sent to Sing Sing.
SEVERAL officials of Port Washington,
Wis, have been arrested on charge of
grave robbery.
OSCAR WILDE is said to have turned his
artistic attention to nightgowns.
GERMAN officers are placing the Turkish
army in respectable shape.
DAVID CoNGER, of GAINESVILLE, O., was
sentenced on the 31st to the Penitentiary
for life for wife murder
The rent question is a prominent feature
of the campaign in Ireland.
MATTEL, who tried to shoot De Freyc net
in Paris has been declared insane.
ENGLISH mercantile and manufacturing
circles are seriously agitated by German
competition.
DIsrRICT-ATToRNEY Scale, of s.. Paul,
Minn., notifies the President that he will
resign if there no charges against him.
M. DE LEssEPs has asked for permission
to issue $12O, 100000 new Panama Canal
bonds.
THE Congo Free State is proving an ele-
plant Of huge proportions to the King OF
| Belgium.
A SUDDEN rise in tke Kanawha River at
Charleston, w. Va, on the 31st, caused the
sinking of a number Of barges and the loss
| OF half million bushels of coal.
A COLLISION occurred on the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Ra lway at Delta
Station, Ohio, on the 31st, in which En-.
| gineer Sparklin was badly injured.
| FLAGMAN RHoADs and Operator Pratt
| are to be held responsible for the recent
accident on the Pennsylvania Road at
| Hackensack Meadows, N. j.
ONLY disagreements in the party stand
between the English Liberals and victory.
| Gladstone is said to be making splendid
progress in making peace.
| JAMES HAMILTON Duke of Abercorn,
died on the 31st.
A FIRE at Geneva, o., on the 1st de
stroyed property valued at 1000.
JOHN ROACH has paid off several of his
heaviest obligations.
MRS. WALKUP said on the 1st that she
! was hopeful, but thought there might be "a
hung jury.
THE Northern Minnesota Indians have
decided to surrender their lands for set
tlement.
| MRS. GENERAL SHERMAN is sail to be
winning quite reputation at Washington
| as an office-seeker.
The livery stable Of Hunt & Pence, to-
gether with some valuable horses, burned
at Anderson, Ind, on the 1st.
AT Bustamento, Mexico, political fac
| tion war is in progress. There have been
| six fatalities, and it is probables there will
be bloody pitched battle.
The nailers and feeders at Brooks iron
| works, Birdsboro, Pa, have had their
| wages advanced ten per cent.
! A STOCK train was wrecked and two
men killed at Norwood, on the Burlington,
| Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway on tie
1st.
Four men were killed and several
| wounded by the explosion of the boiler of
the tugboat Frank Moffett on the 1st, op-
posite Marine City, Mi:h.
THE Sultan has appointed Said Pasha
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Roumelian
Conference.
GLADSTONE says the question of church
discs .ablishment belongs to the dim, dis. !.
tant future.
The wife Of Eph Simmons, of New
York, is charged with getting divorce
from her husband to marry a consumptive
for his money.
ARGUMENT was begun before the jury in
the Walkup case at Emporia, Kas.. on the
2nd.
ALARM is felt at st. Paul, Mimi, over
the continued prevalence of smallpox.
The Shah of Persia refuses to allow the
escort OF this English Frontier Commission
to cross Persian territory.
designated by the President as Thanks
giving Day.
A BATTALION Of the Durham Regiment
of Infantry has been ordered up the Nile.
The municipal authorities of Paris, in
order to relieve workingmen's distresses,
have decided to collect $500. 900 to be ex-
pended on a series of grand fetes.
The testimony was closed in the Taber
divorce case at Boston on the 81, and the
case was laid over for argument.
ENGINEER SEVERANCE, of Minneapolis,
Minn., was killed on the I'd in a collision
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
RaHway.
BRITISH residents of Morocco, in petit
tion to the Marquis Of Salisbury, say they
intend to ask the protection of a foreign
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dressed.
COLONEL KING, Of Minneapolis, Minn.,
saws the North American Telegraph Com
pany will not build line TO st. Louis as
was reported.
In the Federal Court at Indianapolis,
Ind, on the I'd, Judge Wood rendered
decision in effect that Evansville Ind.)
bonds are valid, and that the city must
paw both the bonds and interest.
THE funeral Of Admiral Don Juan
T op ete at Madrid, on the I'd, was made
the occasion of Democf attic demonstra-
tion, he AIDED by S,enors CASTELAR,, Martcs,
and Dominguez
ELECTIONS took place on the Sd in Il
following ten States, viz: New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virgin. a,
Iowa, Maryland, Mississippi, Massachu.
setts, Colorado and Connection.
THE Egyptian Government has been in
for med that the Senaar garrison, recently
reported mas sacred. escaped northward,
and have been joined by three Arab
tribes.