Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

comment, Whue Cne conservative press
,riticise it slightingly. a8
IT is reported that if King Milan refuses
Immediate peace under the terms Of the
Balkan conferences final protocol two of
he signatory powers will enforce his de-
position.
SIR JOHN MACDONALD has started for
England to confer with the home govern
nei1t infregard 20 NE fsheries,,~eciprocity
with the United States and other ques.
ions.
Rev. DR.. s. SToRRs has just entered
lpon the fortieth year of his pastorate Of
he Congregational Church of the Pilgrims
1t Brooklyn, N. Y.
MRS. JULIA SMITH PARKER, who gained
tame in New England by refusing to pay
taxes because she was not allowed to vote,
Is at Deaths door.
THE anti-silver men are working hard to
have the House committees SO arranged
that Mr.. Bland will not be at the head of
the committee that will handle the silver
bill.
A CONVICT in the Nebraska Penitentiary
confeses to the murder of Colonel Watson
B. Smith, Clerk of the United States District
Court, at Omaha, whose death has been q
mystery since 1881.
GEORGE STEVENSON, confined in jail at
Fort Dodge, Ia, for murder, hanged him.
self in his cell on the 23d.
A SOFIA dispatch of the 23d said the
Servians had bombarded Widdin and that
the town was on fire.
A COMPLAINT has been filed against
Westford (Wis.) woman for attempting to
kill by sorcery.
KING MILAN is concentrating his forces
and q decisive attack on Slivnitza Is immi-
nent.
A PEDDLER named Hanfield was robbed
on the 23d of 81 900 in money and his stock
Of goods by highwaymen in Holmes Coun-
ty, Ohio.
KING THEEBAw has ordered $4,000 addi-
tional troops to be held in readiness for
action.
HANCOCK (Mich.) fishermen, who have
returned from Lake Superior, found three
bodies of victims of the Algoma wreck.
THE steamer Iberian, ashore in Dun
manus Bay, on the south coast of Ireland,
has broken up and fourteen men are miss
ing.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has agreed to
open the American Exposition at London
next year by touching a button in Wash
ington, which win start the machinery by
electricity in London.
Mr.. GLADSTONE unveiled cross in Edin-
burgh on the 23d, and joined in singing
"Old Hundred"
A SUIT has been filed against the Stand
ard Distilling Company of Cincinnati, O.,
by the Sour Mash Distilling Company, Of
Greensboro, KY, for alleged infringe
ment of their trademark.
MARY TIALKA, a Bohemian widow, and
her two children were burned to death in
tenement-house fire in New York on the
23d. Henry Kohot has been arrested for
setting fire to the building, which involved
loss of 100000.
ELIzUR WRIGHT, the wel1- known Aboli-
ZIONIST of lang syne, died at his home in
Medford, Mass, on the 23d. He was well
known in the field Of journalism.
JOSEPH GRoBLEwsKI, convicted of the
murder of his wife by poison at Brooklyn,
N. Y, was sentenced on the 23d to be
hanged January 15, 1885,
THE Congressional Gun Foundry and
Armor Plate Commission visited Pitts
burgh, Pa, on the 23d, and made tour Of
the iron and steel manufactures.
THERE was panic in the Pittsburgh oil
market on the 23d, and it was thought that
manv of the operators would come out
badly singed.
JOHN SHARPLEss, one Of the most promi-
nerft Orthodox Friends in Delaware Coun-
ty, Pa, was foully murdered in his harmon
the night of the 22d, whittier he had been
enticed by negro under pretense of get
ting some straps to mend a broken car
riage.
The mortality from smallpox in Mon.
treal is steadily decreasing.
FIFTY-sIx arrests were made in New
York on the 22d for infringement of the
the excise law.
THE issue Of standard silver dollars dur
ing the week ended the 21st was $67e, ,818;
during the corresponding period last year
$4S1 ,497. The shipments of fractional sill
yer coin from November 1st to November
21st amounted to $439, 9,O64.
BELGRADE advices are to the effect that
Servia's hopes of final victory are fading,
and that foreign Intervention is hoped for.
A VIENNA, dispatch says Austria has
joined Germany in urging Turkey to inter-
vene in the Bulgarian war.
MRS. CoLMAN, wife of the Commissioner
Of Agriculture, was reported better on the
morning of the oath, and the family were
much encouraged. Ma
IT is not true that the Porte has sum-
moned the Servians to evacuate Bulgaria.
WILLIE DESMOND blew Of his thumb and
finger. with dynamite, at Williamson,
Mich, and the fright caused the boys
grandmother to fall dead from heart dis
ease.
SUBSCRIPTION lists have been opened
throughout Austria and Hungary In aid of
the Servians. Liberal responses are being
made to the appeals for help. There are
5000 wounded men at Pirot.
\ THE police of Philadelphia have arrested
q negro answering the description of the
murderer of John Sharpless, at Chester.
He gives his name as Isaac Lewis, and
says he has no home.
NEAR the town of Franklin, w. T., on
the 22d, three men were killed by a wind
storm. A large tree was blown down and