Huntsville gazette., 1885-07-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Captain and first mate of the Brit.
ish brig j. Williams, which arrived at
on-Tyne April 23d from Will
N. c., were sentenced on the
10th each to seven years. penal servitude
for killing Seaman Limberg. t.E-
ADMIRAL JoUETT has been ordered home
from Panama.
ANARCHY reigns in the Soudan. The
Mahdi is reported dead.
FIRE destroyed the Portland -four mills
at Seymour, Ind, on the 11th. so-,E;
JESSE R. GRANT obtained Judgment
against Grant & Ward for $121, 472.
A PAPAL nu Nio is to be appointed for
Pekn, China.
CHOLERA is ravaging several districts
in India.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has pur-
chased the Delaware, Maryland & Vir-
ginia Road.
COLLECTOR SPAULDING of Chicago will
hereafter refuse to clear grain-laden
Canadian vessels.
RIEL, the Northwest rebel leader,
hopes to escape through flaw in his in
dictment.
FIRE swept away the establishment of
the Vincennes Manu- acturing Company
at Vincennes, Ind, on thu 11th.
NEGOTIATIONS of the Government of
Peru with the rebel Caceres have failed.
ABOUT 4 900 soldiers will be Immediate
ly concsntr ated at the scene of threal lened
Indian trouble.
RUMoRs are afioat that General Logan
will oppose in the Senate the confirmation
of Judd, as Postmaster at Chicago.
, M. GREvY says he will not again be a
candidate for the sidency of France
SECRETARY LAMAR says that the cattle
trail must be kept open, and he has taken
steps to enforce the order.
THE strikers at Cleveland, O., were ex-
pected to return to work on the 18th or
14th.
TEN lives were lost by the capsizing of
yacht on Lake Minnetonka, Mimi, on the
18th.
SUNDAY was a quiet day for General
Grant. DR.. Newman held services at the
cottage.
A YOUNG man of Cincinnati, crazed by
overstudy, committed suicide at Quebec
on the 18th. --.
s Two lives and $4,000 worth of property
were lost by fire at Belfast, Me-, on the
18th.
A STRANGER, still uncaught, robbed the
Fourth National Bank of Pittsburgh, Pa,
on the 1lth, of S., 900.
FIRE destroyed fifty buildings in Kursk
Russia, on the 18th.
STEWART CRAWFORD, negro, was MUIR
dered at Delaway, O., on the 18th. His
wife is suspected.
The Boyne celebration by Orangemen
in London caused some rioting, but Moth
ing serious.
CHINA is pushing preparations for war
with Russia on the Corean frontier
Two firemen were killed and two seri-
ously injured by falling walls during a
fire at Albany, N. Y, on the 18th.
AN Austro- Servian alliance is reported,
thesobject being the dividing up of Mace
donia and Bosnia between them.
A NEGRO was lynched near Oxford,
Miss, and another at Towson, Md, both
for assaulting white girls. a. s-sa
ARTHUR BRANNIGAN got drunk on the
night of the 11th and went to sleep on the
railroad track near Cleveland. Funeral
on the 18th.
,PINKERToN men have been called into
at Bay City, Mich, which has
caused an extremely bitter feeling among
the striking mill men.
COLONEL LAMONT, the Presidents secre-
tary, is an expert telegrapher, and ends
and receives much of the White House
business.
CHARLES DYER, of Shenandoah, Pa,
killed himself because one of his three
wives got angry and threatened to prose-
cute him for bigamy.
COLONEL SwrrzLER started from Wash
ington on the 14th for swing around.
He will visit Cincinnati, st. Louis and
in quest of information.
The weavers' strike in the Schuylkill
di strict of Pennsylvania is over.
FIRE destroyed the principal business
block at Bagley, Ia, on the 18th.
GENERAL WoLsELEY arrived at London
on the 18th, and was enthusiastically re-
ceived.
DAVID CoNGER killed his wife and
chopped her body up with an axe at
Woodsfield, O., on the 18th.
A HEAVY and destructive storm passed
over London the night of the 18th. The
ALL the electric light and power COM
panies in Boston have consolidated, with
a capital of 100000.
Four men were drowned at Mattawa,
Ont, on the 18th.
RICH deposits of mica have been dis
covered in Lebanon County, Pennsyl-
vania.
THE East Tennessee, Virginia e Georgia
Railroad is cutting rates from New Or
leans to the East.
WARWICK MCCRARY, a cadet at West
Point from Pennsylvania, was drowned
at Newburgh, N. Y, on the 18th.
Ex-PREsIDENr ARTHUR has recently
been doing some remarkable fishing in
Canada.
VICE-PREsIDENT HENDRICKS has rec
an Indiana man for superin-
tendent of the Hot Springs >(Ark. reser-
vation.
TEXAS cattlemen and territory ranch
men construe Secretary Lamar's order
and trouble is imminent on the
border.
Mr.. STURGEON preached powerful
sermon on Sunday, the 10Th, in defense of
the Pail Mall Gazette.