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Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
Lost With All On Board.

DULUTH, MINI, November l0.-A tel
egram received here from winnipeg at
seven O'Clock last night states that the
magnificent ironclad steamer Algoma, OF
the Canadian Pacific Line, was wrecked
off Port Arthur Yesterday morning
and thirty-seven lives lost. Many
private kilograms are pouring in connrm-
ing the disaster, but only meagel 2
steamer left Port Arthur at four O'Clock
Sunday afternoon, and was wrecked at
Isle Royale just at the outside
of Thunder Bay. A storm was prevail
ing at the time, and the steamer lay 70
for time. When the weather cieareu
slightly the vessel started again, put lhaue
slow progress. dense fog prevailed, anu
the beat felt her way along, blowing her
fog whistle Suddenly she struck Teei
and went down, all hands On board De-
ing reported lost.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
THE CURTAIN DROPS.

Death of the Celebrated Tragedian John
McCuIIough at His Home in PhiIadel-
phia.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, November g.
John Mccullough, the actor, died at five
minutes past one o'clock yesterday morn
ing at his residence, 26l East Thompson
street. He passed away without strug-
gle. and did not ever utter groan. Fol
several hours prior to his death, there
were present Mrs. Vert, his daughter,
Mrs. James Mccullough, his daughter-in-
law, Mrs John Mccullough, VIM. +. Jonn.
son, his legal adviser, DR.. Engel ano
his nurse, William Mutt He having
been brought hera from the New YORK
ASYLUM q couple of weeks ago, MS I'M
proyement the past few days had oeen
so marked thst mis- death has caused con.
siderable surprise His physician had
piyen his family and friends reason 10
hone for his final recovery, and that ne
would return to the stage. No arrange
ments have vet been made for his fun-
sraI Mccullough leaves a widow, two
sons and one daughter. He was III MS
fftv- fifth year.
DIR. Hugo Engel, McCullough's physi-
clan, says death was due TO an aHectioh
of the brain, caused by blood po sonlng.
DR.. Engel asserts that Mccullough was
perfectly sane, and that he should not
have been placed in the BloomIngaaie
Insane Asylum.
McCullougn was born In Coleraine,
County Antrim, Ireland, November IN,
1883. being almost filty-two years OF a2e'
He came to America ID 1916.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
Double Murder and Suicide.

BUTTE, MONT, November 9.-Jonn
Foley, doorkeeper at the Tne ater Com
ique, yesterday morning at four O'Clock
wavlaid and shot Alice Flick and her es-
cort, Joe Yates, and then committed sui
eide. Foley had been living with the
woman Flick for about four months I'M
til a month ago, when he beat her very
badly. A separation then occurred.
Foley became very jealous, and on Thurs
day evening went 10 the Toledo Variety
Theater, where Mrs. Flick was employ
ed, assaulted her, snapped his gun in
the face of the Chief of Police, who es-
caped by grabbing the revolver, the ham,
mer being caught In his thumb as it
fell. He was released on bail. Yester-
day morning he followed the woman and
a musician who was seeing her home,
and committed the crime. The woman
is still alive, the bullet having passed
through the upper portion OF her right
lung. She cannot live. Yates escaped
with bullet through his right cheek.
MIS-. Flick was from Ohic, where
she was known as Mrs. Blade. Fo-
lev was an old buffalo hunter, and at
one time Marshal of Durango, Cal, and
was known as q dangerous and fearless
man.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

In consequence Of the coal operators re
fusing to pay the 10 cents per ton advance,
between 5000 and 1000 men quit work in
the Hooking Valley, Ohio Central and
Shawnee Valleys on the 7th.
THE United States Consul at Palermo,
Italy, reports that there had been $3.50
cases and zoos deaths from cholera In that
city up to October 18th.
THE body of Mrs. J. w. Taylor, who died
six years ago at Louisville, KY, was re-
moved to a new cemetery on the 9th, and
was found to be completely petrified.
Every feature was well preserved and life
like.
LOUIS RIEL has been respited until the
10th instant.
THE Cumberland river is raging at and
above Williamsburg, KY, and many
thousand logs and slaves are floating Oft.
THE Agricultural Department has re-
ceived very satisfactory reports from the
big sorghum farms near Nashville, Tenn.
The Pennsylvania Coal and Iron Com
pany have purchased 1900 acres OF coal
and iron lands in the mineral regions near
Hot Springs, Ark.
A TERRIBLE shipwreck on Lake Superior
is reported, with loss Of more than forty
lives.
WATSON & BARTHoLow, dry goods COM
mission merchants offNew York, failed on
the 10th. Liabilities 100000.
THE 18th annual convention of the Ma
tional Butter, Cheese and Egg Association
met at Chicago on the 10th. Between 400
and 500 delegates were present.
A SUIT has been entered in the United
States Court at New Orleans, by the heirs
of w. w. Smith, residing in Kentucky, for
| 1856 acres of land within the corporate
limits.
| GEORGE SCHAEFER, banker, cotton buyer
and general merchandise dealer at Hamp-
ton, Ca, made an assignment on the 10th,
with liabilities Of $4,000.
| J. II. ACKERMAN, alias Jew Jake, con-
fine in the Mississippi psnitentiary, es-
capped on the night Of the 10th.
| PETITIONS are in circulation to abolish
the Brooklyn postoffice as aseparate office,
and to place it under the jurisdiction OF
the New York office.
FORD and Murphy, who were sentenced
TO be hanged on the 18th at New Orleans,
have been granted respite of thirty days.
| ED. SHADROCK, an ex-convict of Barbour
county, Tenn, has sued Conner & McCurdy,
mining convict contractors, for S1s,0Co
damages for keeping him employed at hard
labor eighteen months over his time.
1 THE report of the Commissioners of Gus
toms shows that during the year ending
June 80, 1885, there was paid into the treaE- :
ury S1s3, ,90s. The. amount paid out was
81, 7,125,973.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

Mr.. WILLIAM E. SMITH, the recently ap-
pointed Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, has qualified and assumed the duties
of that office.
DEAN O'LAUGHLIN fell dead on the 9th
while at mass in University College, Dub-
lin.
IT is stated that the Gear of Russia
struck Prince Alexander's name. from the
army list in fit Of anger, and without
consulting his Ministers.
A RUMoR was started on the New Y orb
Stock Exchange on the 9th to the effect
that work ON the Panama Canal had been
stopped for want of funds. Mr.. Colnes
Secretary of the American Commission
pronounced the report to be entirely with
out foundation in fact.
= CLEVELAND, O., has new music hall,
and one of the largest in the West. 1t was
opened the night of the 9th in the presence
OF magnificent audience, including Gov
ernor Hoadly and family Of Ohio and Gov
ernor Alger and staff of Michigan. Gov
ernor Hoadly presided. Emma Nevada
and her concert company were among the
attractions OF the evening.
1T looks very much as though the United
States would have to foot the bill for dam.
ages sustained in the burning of Aspinwall
A MOB of two hundred men stoned a bat
talon of soldiers at Limerick, Ireland, on
the 9th, without provocation. The disturb
ance threatening to become serious, a
strong force of police had to be called out
to quell the rioters. Three soldiers were
badly wounded.
ALBERT EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES,
England's future King, celebrated his
forty fourth birthday on the 9th.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ending Novem-
ber 7th was $7s6,047; during the CORE.
spending week last year, S396,996 The
shipment of fractional silver coin during
the week ended November 7th was S133,.
399.
SECRETARY ENDICOTT has sent instruc
tions to military commanders who are sta
toned in the neighborhood in which up
risings against the Chinese are apt to oc-
cur, to have their troops in readiness to
enforce the provisions of the Presidents
recent proclamation.
MAJOR EDMUND MALLETT, Of Washing
ton, d. c., the well-known worker in the
French cause in the United States and an
intimate personal friend of Louis RieI, the
Canadian revolutionist, had an interview
with the President on the 9th, and made
a strong appeal for the interference OF this
Government to prevent the hanging o
Riel by the Canadian authorities. The
President, however, declined to do so.
UNITED STATES MARSHALL j. W
GEORGE arrested Mayor Weisbach, Dolpf
Hanna, Probate Judge Wickersham and
twenty five others at Tacoma, W. T., OF
the 9th, charged with being implicated il
| the recent expulsion of the Chinese from
that city. The prisoners were taken tt
Vancouver.
THE Taber divorce case at Boston was
closed on the 9th by the court granting q
decree to Mr.. Taber and dismissing the
cross-bil of Mrs. Taber.
THE steamer Algoma, of the Canadian
Pacific line, struck reef during a fog of
Isle Royale, Lake Superior, on the morning
of the 9th, and went down with all or
board, some thirty seven persons.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINS tele-
graphed the Secretary of the interior
from Muskogee, I. T., on the 9th, that he
had found large number of squatters IN
his progress through the Territory whom
he believed to be "boomers.n He ex-
pressed the opinion that military force
must be employed to expel them.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

JUDGE RoNLEAU, OF Battleford, N. W.T.,
has tried forty-six Indian prisoners; six
teen OF these were discharged, twenty mine
were sent to the Penitentiary for periods
ranging between twenty and two years
and eleven were sentenced to hang Novem-
Der 9th
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

ORDERS were received at Roach's ship
yard, at Chester, Pa, on the 9th, to start
up on the 9th, and the machinery has been
put in order to that end. Naval Contractor
Steele, who will have charge of the COM
pletion of the cruisers, arrived at the yard
on the 9TH About 300 men will be put to
work
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

LOUIS RIEL, who was to have been
hanged at Regina, N. W. T., on the 10th,
was again respited until the 10th inst.
Preparations are being made for his exc
cution on the date mentioned, although
the warrant had not arrived.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON has been reap
pointed temporarily to position on the
National Civil Service Commission.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

INDICTMENTS have been found by the
Grand Jury in the Superior Criminal
Court az Boston, Mass, against A. J. Mel
len, of Baltimore, Md, and Mrs. Emma
Coolidge, of Boston, for conspiring to kill
the wife of the son of Mellen.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

PETITION has been forwarded from
New York to the Postmaster General ask
ing that q regular and punctual mail
service be re-estahlished between the Unit
ed States and the regular mail connections
OF Mexico, Central and South America ivia
Colon and Panama.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE men who have been dynamiting
street cars in st. Louis have been arrested.
Their names are: w. P. Sears, M. w.
Weathers, Fred Pinkerton, P. S. Burns
and David Keenan,. They are all Knights
of Labor and street-car men.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE Balkan conference at Constantin :
ople has approved the principle of return
TO the status quo ante.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

AT the request of the English Govern
ment two Italian officers will witness the
maneuvres of the Indian army in the La
hore District
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE President received large number
OF kilograms from prominent Democratic
politicians in all parts of the country, but
principally in New York, congratulating
nm on the result of the election in New
York as an unmistakable Endorsement of
bis policy.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

A SEVERE cyclone devastated portions
of Illinois on the afternoon and night Of
the 9th, accompanied by serious destruc-
tion of property and loss Of life.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE plant of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, within the District of Columbia,
was sold at auction ON the 9TH, to satisfy a
deed of trust, to Mr.. s. c. Elliott, the
plaintiff in the suit, for $4 900.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

mich cows in the vicinity of Evansville,
Ind, which in every case has proved fatal.
The disease attacks the eyes and from there
eats until it reaches the brain.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE Council of the Creek Indians has
decided by close vote against selling the
Oklahoma lands to the United States.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE monument of Washington erected
in Milwaukee by Miss Lizzie Plankington
at cost of 900, and presented to the
city, was unveiled on the 7th.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

OWING to disagreement over the Riel
question the editor of La Pdtrie at Mont
real has challenged the editor of LaMin-
erue to fight duel.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE Russian harvest of 1885 is above the
average for winter wheat, but below for
spring wheat, the latter owing to drought.
The total wheat crop will aggregate &c.
100000 quarters, or 2SS ,000, 900 bushels.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

IT is predicted that the nailers' strike in
the East will be terminated at the meeting
70 be held in Cincinnati on the 10th.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE total imports Of merchandise at the
port of New York for the week ended
the 7th were valued at s., ,766, ,2O3, exclusive
of dry goods.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

AN experiment will be made at McKees-
port, Pa, to use natural gas for illuminate
ing purposes, and, if successful, to pipe the
gas to New York and other cities.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

LIEUTENANT GREELY is Ito lecture before
the Scotch Geographical Society on the
10Th, and will return to the United States
about Christmas.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE total imports of dry goods at the
port of New York during the seven days
ended the 9th were valued at 81 ,4S6 ,473,
and the amount thrown on the market at
S1,422,979.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

PRESSURE is being brought to bear on
the President in favor of q recommend a
tion in his message to convert the Agricul-
tural Bureau into an executive department.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

LUDWIG HANSEN, the head of an old
Danish banking firm at Copenhagen, has
confessed to having unlawfully disposed
of moneys intrusted to his keeping to the
amount of 100000 kroners.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

JOHN MCCULLOUGH, the tragedian, died
at his home in Philadelphia, Pa, on the
Sth.
Huntsville gazette., 1885-11-14

THE Duke Of Edinburgh is to be appoint
ed commander of the Mediterranean squad.
ron.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-02
just a Family Affair.

Did you make that. papa'' in9uire.
Johnny Smithers.
'.Yes, my son." replied Mr.. Smithers.
dissatisfaction and paternal pride
beaming from his countenance.
"And you made it all out of your own
head. papa?'
..Yes. my son."
Really and truly
johnny" interrupted Mrs. Smithers.
in an icy tone of voice. '.you will often
be surprised, as you grow older, to learn
how many curious things can be made
from wood"
And then Smithers felt cold chill run
down his back rs he remembered that
he had not stopped at various stores on
his way home, rs directed, to get spool
of silk twist, paper of needles. a box
of matches, a pound Of coffee, paper
OF lacks, some sausage. a pound of but
tey. and one or two other things which
he could not just then cali to mind
OIL Cttg Bii=zard,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-02
A Harvest of Switches.

"Would you like to know very much
what I've got in this bag?" inquired a
bald-headed skater on Prospect Park
lake.
I'm rather curious" the Journal re
porter admitted. 1--WE noticed Won
skating around generally in the wake of
a pretty girl, and once in a while yoi
pick something from the ice and place
it in that bag"
''Well, if you don't repeat what say,
I'll tell you. l might as well, for you
would find out for yourself, suppose
''Well. to commence with, times are
hard. am out of job and must make
a living. I've noticed that pretty girls
generally wear nicer hair than plain
ones. Pretty. girls like to skate. but be-
cause girls pretty is no reason why
she should be exempt from collisions or
other little accidents which make her sit
down on the ice when she doesn't want
to-"
whats that GO. to do with the baep"
Everything. When girl falls she's
liable to lose some of her false hair. If
she does, she's too excited to notice the
fact or ashamed to pick up the switch.
l glide along, pick up the hair, and ram
it into the bag. There's always mar
ket for good hair. See the point?"
'Yes, see: but are You never de-
tected?''
Every seldom. only work at night.
and girl nine times out of ten is never
going to ask for her false hair when her
best young man is with her. But there's
a collision; I'm off."-N I. Journal,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-02
THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT
Opinion Of Colonel Casey. the Engineer, ~
to Its Stability.

Opinion Of Colonel Casey. the Engineer, ~
to Its Stability.
Colonel Casey, the engineer. says: "a
do not suppose it possible for man te
make anything that will endure forever
There is no substance in nature thai
will withstand the rayages Of time. and
the marble and granite of which that
shaft is composed are no exception t.
the rule. believe it will stand IS long
as there is anything left of it. How
many hundreds or thousands of years il
will take the frost and storm and sun e
wear away, particle by particle, thai
great mass Of stone, it would be idle
even to conjecture. 1t will be SO far il
the future that do not think there is
any occasion for us to feel distressing
apprehensions. Yet believe that if the
world and this nation shall endure SC
long, the memory of Washington will
outlive the monument. That can not
be forgotten while we exist as .
people; but the people must sometime
yield to decay. The effects of time are
already discernible on the old section
of the shaft, built thirty-five years ago.
True. it is only slight, but you can
plainly see it here and there on the ex.
ternal surface. 1t only enables us to
imagine what will be the result of the
beating and scorching of the elements
through centuries of time OF courss
no engineering skill can provide against
the contingency of earthquakes or other
extraordinary commissions of nature,
but l am absolute in the belief that the
broad and deep foundation ON which
the column stands will be firm and en-
during, and that years will only make
more perfect its stability.-Cor. Cere-
land Herald
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-02
Life in an African Village.

The busiest time in an African village
is when the long laboring wains drawn
BY spans of sixteen or twenty oxen are
outspanned on the village commonage.
and the rrouU makes her three months
purchase of tea, sugar, and the inevita-
Bile coffee. This latter beverage
is the beverage par excellence OF
South Africa. Coffee reniente die.
coffee decedentc die is the rule
The stores themselves in small South
African village are not the least re-
markable feature about it. Almost
everything that the wit of man can de-
wise for the need of an agricultural pop
ulation is there. There is silk dress
for the newly married wife. an Ameri-
can pillow for the young and enterpris-
ing farmer, there is Remington rifle
for the sportsman, and box of pepper
minis for the young kindern. The
amorous swain can purchase bright
saddle cloth to go upon his counting
expeditions and German ring for his
inamorata. The village is astir from
one end to another. and the excitement
spreads even to the Civil Commissioner
or resident magistrate. Amid all the
gossip Of the village have rarely heard
political matters discussed. If the
Civil Commissioner is comforting cheek
by jowl with worthy burgher it is
generally on the subject of disputed
water ''furrow." or about the INSIDE
meanors of the native servants, or
oftener still about buck and guinea
fowl Observation-Disclosures Maga-
cine
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1885-05-02
ORIENTAL BRASS WORK.

The New Made by Men, and the Repair.
ing by Damascus Women.
The trays usually called Algerine are
always beaten out ON thin brass. are no,
useful in a domestic sense, being apt tc
..wobble'' when a weight is carried or
them, but their color being peculiarly
golden. as decorations they are perfect.
They are ornamented with many pointed
stars or varieties of the double triangle.
They generally present n mosque. often
Il ship, a crescent and star. or one OF
the varieties of the conventional sign
known as the hand of Mahomet They
are never made now in Algiers: the
only brass work known there resemble.
that from Iangiers-patterns cut out in
low relief. Some very handsome trays
of this latter sort can be purchased. and
inscriptions of notices made to order:
they are more expensive than the 9th
ers. Women and children i'm Damas-
Gus are much employed in restamping
old trays from which patterns have be-
come etfaced by long use--this being
probably not thought such important
work rs the making new ones, a task
reserved for men.
Thus l have seen an old Venetian
platter preserving the familiar twisted
rope and embossed center, but with all
the rest of the surface incised i'm flat
Damascus work: the conventional loz-
enge could still be seen at the back.
This was most unnecessary waste of
labor on the part of the Damascus
workmen. as Venetian platters. though
riddled with holes like sieve when held
up to the light, are still cherished as
priceless bits of color. The inscriptions
on Venetian platters are unfortunately
often Qike those on Eastern work. so
degraded as to be ineomprehensible
even to the experts of the British Mu-
seum.-LondoH Queen.