Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ing at the rate of 800 barrels per day and
to a height of forty feet. There is great
excitement in the town.
THE glass chimney workers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, have formed union.
REV. SAM JONES is to bring his power to
bear on Washington City.
Two Germans were carried over Niagara
Falls in boat on the Sth.
STATE AUDITOR KEISEwETTER of Ohio
shot and slightly wounded w. J. Elliot,
editor of the Columbus Sunday Capital on
the evening of the Sth.
hEv. DIR. c'CoNSELL is expected this
week in Baltimore, Md, bearing the ap-
proval of the Pope Of the work Of the re-
cent Plenary Council.
THE story comes from New York that a
fierce telegraphic war lies in the near fu-
ture, the Western Union intending to crush
its rivals by low rates.
A ROW has occurred in the Society of
Artists of Paris over question of moral
ity.
ENGLAND has asked satisfaction of Spain
for damage to British subjects by natives
of the Caroline Islands.
Rev. R. D. PHILLIPS was arrested at
Branchport, Yates County, N. Y, on the
| 7th, for forging two notes of $1,000 each
| against his father law, and other notes
aggregating $4,000.
| G. E. LEWIS salt works at West Bay
| City, Mich, burned on the 7th: loss, $l0,-
| 600.
| Bayard, has been appointed Secretary OF
the Territory of Arizona.
A MEETING of the Knights of Labor has
been called in San Francisco Cal, for
| November 2Sth to take action for the re-
moval of the Chinese from the city.
SIR HECTOR LANGEvIN, Canadian Minis
ter of Public Works, and Hon. NJ. Chap
leau, Secretary of State, threaten to re-
sign in the event of Riel being hanged.
THE United States Consul at Palermo,
Italy, reported to the Department of State
that there had been 1887 cases of cholera
and 1908 deaths from the epidemic in that
city up to October 18th, and that from
! 10000 to 10000 persons had fed from the
| city.
IT is announced that the Hon. James
Russell Lowell will return to England next
| spring and remain there during the sum-
mer ana autumn.
| THE Grand Jury at Tacoma, Ore, has
| returned indictments against thirty two of
the participants in the recent outrages
against the Chinese at that place.
THE strike of the cotton operatives at
| Glasgow has terminated adversely to them.
THERE are 1900 miners out on a strike in
| the Hooking Valley, and trouble is antici-
pated
THE McMicken University building at
Cincinnati, o., was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000 on the 7th.
! DIPHTHERIA is raging with great sever
| ity at Greenville, Pa, in one family alone
| three members having died last week and
| the remaining three lying in critical con-
dition.
In the recent battle at Massowa, in the
Soudan, the rebels lost 5000 men and the
Abyssinians 1900 Osman Digna was not
killed, as at first reported.
HEAVY snow storms were reported in
| Minnesota and Colorado on the 7th.
RoAcH's ship yard at Chester, Pa. was
| started up on the 9th amid great enthu-
siasm among the worlmen.
THE Austrian Government is massing
troops in Herzegovina.
THE Texas & st. Louis Railroad will at
once change from a narrow gauge to a
standard gauge.
Mr.. GLADSTONE received an ovation
while en- route from Hawarden to Edin :
burgh on the 9th.
THE Pennsylvania Coal & Iron Company
has purchased 1900 acres of coal land in
Arkansas, and will open mines.
IT, 70 of tbo To,.
Mayor of London on the 9th was celebrat-
ed in the usual grand style.
WORK has been resumed on the cruiser
Atlanta and the dispatch boat Dolphin at
the Morgan iron forks, New York.
THE authorities at Montreal are meeting
with continued opposition in the work OF
isolation.
HARRY G.. BELL, charged with robbing
the mails, was acquitted on the 9Th at
Louisville, KY, on the ground that he was
a natural kleptomaniac.
THE Egyptians are greatly delighted at
the appointment of Mouktar Pasha as
Turkish Commissioner to Egypt.
THE wife of Hon. Charles r. Pratt, OF
New York, was killed in railroad wrecR
on the West Shore Road on the 9th, and
her husband and a number of others were
injured.
THE Servian army, on the Bulgarian
frontier, are thinly clad and are suffering
| greatly on account OF the weather.
THE German army estimates show an in
crease of 81, 100000. The total expenditure
| is estimated at $62, 100000, of which $780,
| $4,000 will be covered by loan.
| AT the cathedral in Cleveland, o., on the
evening of the Sth, Bishop Gilmour invest
| ed Mgr. Felix NJ. Rolf, Vicar-General OF
the Cleveland diocese, with the title ano
insignia of domestic prelate to the Pope
The ceremony was one of much interest.
THE Spanish frigate, Aragon, was un
| able to annex the Pellew Islands, finding
that the Germans had arrived at th'
| islands before the affair at Yap.
| UNOFFICIAL returns of the recent cleo
tion in Dakota show a plurality of 1000 IL
| favor of making Huron the new State cap
ital. Prohibition is carried. Minority rep
resentation is believed to be lost.
THE reply of King Theebaw to the Brit
ish ultimatum not being considered ade