Huntsville gazette., 1885-08-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The police have discovered some of the
nissi ng securities of the Munster Qre-
and) Bank at Farquharson's Dublin
lodgings.
The property and franchises of the
Bankers and Merchants Telegraph Com
pany were sold at auction in New York
On the 3lst for S50J,0oO to Edward S.
Stokes.
The indianapolis POST office investiga-
tion has been concluded, and the Commis-
sioners have gone to Washington to pre-
pare their report.
A PRIZE fight took place at Pittsburgh,
Pa. on the 31st between John Beck and
Philip Bulger. Eleven rounds were fought,
and Bulger was knocked out and terribly
punished.
THERE is a conflict of authority be-
tween the Governor of West Virginia and
the judge of the Federal court over the
payment of Chesapeake and Ohio back
taxes.
The six chiefs of divisions in the Sec
ond Auditors office (Treasury Depart
ment) have beenirequested to tender their
They are: Thos. c. Bailey,
F. H. Goodall, c. Tomell, Thos. Rathbone,
H. A. w Wallon and c. G. Snow.
THREE hundred employees of the Lake
Erie Bolt works, at Cleveland, O., are out
on strike.
ALL the men believed to have been lost
in the fallen mill at Wilmington, Del,
have been accounted for.
The Secretary of State received from
Lima on the evening of the 3Oth, tele
gram announcing the death of Lieu tenant
Nye, naval attache to the American Le
cation at that place. The Lieutenant was
instructed to accompany the remains of
ex- Minister Phelps to the United States,
but before the date of departure he be-
came ill and died.
The jury in the Riel trial at Regina, N.
w. T., returned verdict of guilty, and
the prisoner was sentenced to be hanged.
IT is unders TODD that the President,
within a few days, will fill the vacant Sec
ond lieutenancies existing in the line of
the army from civil life. There will be
ten vacancies after the nom commission ed
officers who are now being examined shall
have been assigned to regiments.
THE steamer Star of the East went
ashore near Bath, Me-, on the 1st.
FRENCH troops in Tonquin are reported
to be dying Of fever.
GENERAL GRANTS body is said to be
excellently preserved.
ANOTHER official of the Munster Ire-
land) Bank is missing.
SENATOR VOORHEES,, of Indiana, is re-
cuperatng at Hot Springs.
THE Mexican editors were the guests of
fho boy. Of at napUar
Col, on the 1st.
MINISTER R LoTHROP has presented his
credentials to the Czar.
PATRICK MALoNEY has confessed to the
murder of Patrick Corners near Atkinson,
Mass.
COUNT Won MUNSTER has declined the
German ministry at Paris.
CHIEF SHAW of the London fire brigade
will visit the United States.
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON started
on the 1st from Portland, Ore, to attend
the funeral of General Grant. He is one
of the pail bearers
Four lives were lost by the burning of a
vessel at the wharf at Pembroke, Ont, on
the 1st.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has rem
dered an opinion to the effect that Indians
have not the power to lease their lands.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Italy for a
demonstration in honor of Columbus in
1892.
A NEW YORK Supreme Court decision
compels the return to France of the gyp-
sizes who recently arrived on the steamer
Bordeaux.
SUDDEN activity in Chinese naval cir
cles is believed to be caused by the Corean
situation.
ANOTHER member Of the Gladstone Cab
met is the central figure of a fresh Lon
don scandal.
THERE is no prospect of an immediate
settlement of the strike at East Saginaw,
Mich.
JOHN CAMPBELL and T. A. Loba have
been arrested on charge OF numbering
Samuel Jones in Colorado.
THREE hundred scholars at Eton, En-
gland, are concerned in scandalous sem
sation, and none of them will be permit
ted to return after the present session.
GENERAL SPARKS, Commissioner of the
General Land Office. is taking months
vacation at his home in Carlyle, Ill.
A SNEAK thief tried to burglarize the
safe of the Arcade Hotel, Omaha, Neb.,
on the I'd. He was shot at by the night
clerk and driven off.
AN Austrian and an Italian army officer
fought duel in a suburb of Trieste on
the 1st. The Austrian was mortally
wounded.
The schooner Margaret Ann, which
left Charleston, S. c., April 10Th last, for
Ga, has not been heard from
since.
HARVEY KEITH was murdered in Van
Buren, County, Michigan, on the "a. His
name had been connected with some scan
dals in the neighborhood.
GENERAL HANCOCK and staff arrived at
Mt McGregor on the Sd.
The Wisconsin Central Railway has
secured an entrance into Chicago.
2 The loss by the Toronto (Ont.) fire on
the I'd is placed at 81, 900, 900.
JAMES SALz has been arrested on a
charge of wife murder at Anamosa, Ia
THE Delaware River was swept by
terrible cyclone on the Sd, and a large
amount of damage is reported at points on
both sides.
FIVE persons were suffocated in Jaen.