Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AHNIoCA1 oiSIlllerS are considering the
advisablity Of shutting down until the
surplus whisky is consumed.
TaE convention of Young Mons Chris.
tian Associations closed its sessions at
Atlanta, Ga, on the 10TH
RUss1A's reply to the British proposals
has not yet reached England, and there
seems to be a serious hitch somewhere,
SECRETARY EEDIcoTT inspected the Rock
Island Arsenal on the 18th. From there
he went to visit the Leavenw orth prison
A DELEGATION of prominent Boston
people arrived in Washington on the 18th
to tell the President what to do in the
matter OF Federal offices in Nassachu-
! setts.
Of Now Y ork, paid 1920 for what he
thought was SIS, 900 worth of gold. Itwas
q brass brick.
SERIOUS forest fires were reported In
Michigan on the 18th.
WM H. VANDERBILT has gone to Eu-
rope for his health.
F. j. FARGUs (Hugh Conway, the
| author Of SCALED Back" died at Monaco
on the 10th.
A WRIT Of habeas corpus has been grant
ed in the case of Juror Hunsell in New
York.
A RICHLY fEwELLED sword of honor
has been presented to General Komaroff
by the Gar of Russia.
ANDREW ]. DAM, proprietor OF several
hotels in New York, died on the 10TH.
The rival false prophets in the Soudan
are massing their forces for great battle
at Khartoum
POSTMASTER GENERAL Villas is filing
the small Post offices at the rate of 100 a
day.
GLADsToNE's promised Important pa
pers on Afghan affairs have been laid be-
fore Parliament. They contain nothing
new.
MINISTER FOSTER is about to reopen me-
gotiations ut Madrid for a commercial
treaty between the United States and
Spain.
IT is feared that First Assistant POST
master General Hay will be compelled by
ill-health to resign.
FRENCH radicals are demanding the i'm :
peachment of President Ferry and his
Cabinet.
ISAAC BRADBECK, Texan, was fieeced
| out of $3.50 on the pier at Jersey City on
the 10th by confidence men.
COMMODORE JONATHAN YOUNG, U. s. N,
died on the 17th at New London, Conn.
A HOME for aged Germans was dedi-
Gated in Baltimore, Md, on the 18th.
SPANISH interests in the Gulf Of Guinea
| are threatened by the French.
| GENERAL LEW WALLACE was offered "a
! high position in the Turkish service" but
declined it.
| PETER KNALBAUcK killed Julia Kramer
at Locust Gap, Pa, on the 18th. She had
refused to marry him.
| A MEDICAL commission is to be sent to
| Spain by England to test incubation as a
cholera preventive.
AFTER the usual Sunday consultation,
General Grants physicians reported his
condition not improved.
GENERAL WoLsELEY announces in a
farewell address the withdrawal of the
British troops from the Soudan.
AN emigrant family named Scott were
caught in Nebraska water-spout on the
17th and two children were drowned.
TIE sixty-frst anniversary Of the
American Sunday school Union was ap-
rcopria tely observed at Newark, N. j.,
on the 18th.
IRISH Nationalists are bitter in their de-
nunciation of the British Government for
the renewal of the crimes act
w. r. MORSE, clerk of the National Sus-
pender Company Of New York, is short
$4,000 in his accounts.
WHEN Prince Louis of Battenberg mar
ries Princess Beatrice he will be made q
Knight Of the Garter, with the title
"Royal Highness."
JUDGE FRENCH, at Muscatine, Ia, has
rendered a decision on prohibition which
is regarded as a victory for the saloon
men.
HEAVY rains have extinguished the for
est fires in Wisconsin.
An imperial ukase has been issued or
dering the Russian language taught and
used exclusively in the German provinces
of Russia on the Baltic.
A FAMILY of eight persons of Mason,
Mich. partook of diseased pork. One is
dead. and the 9th er seven are beyond re-
covery.
THr nrotests of Iowa Democrats against
Williams, the recently appointed Mar
shaI. have caused his commission to be
withheld.
ENGLISH workingmen are concentrating
their forces, and propose to support their
own candidates in the coming campaign
for seats in Parliament
A COAT of tar and feathers was applied
to Hugh Riley, Boston man who married
a girl of Oneida County, New York, and
treated her cruelty.
HOFFMAN HOOD, a United States sailor,
drew his pay, $500, at New York on the
18th. met confid ence man shortly after :
ward. and was swindled out of every cent.
IT. KENNER dropped dead in his barn
ward near Belle Plaine, Ia, on the 18th,
and before his family discovered it he was
horribly mutilated by hogs.
The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa, is on
the decrease, though there are many Sc
riously i'll yet
D1rHrHER1A in epidemic form prevails at
Kingston, Mass.
PRESIDENT ZALvIDoR Of San Salvador
has resigned.
The cotton mills are shutting down at
Fall River, Mass. .
JOHN BRIGHT heartily approves the Prin-
cess Beatrice's dowery grant.
GENERAL GRANT was feeling compara-