Huntsville gazette., 1885-03-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AN insane man went into DIR. Lewis
church In st. Louis, No., and after acting
queerly gave the pastor $3.50 The man
was locked up and the money turned over
to the police.
GENERAL Dow PRosPERo FERNANDEZ,
President of Costa Rica, died suddenly on,
the 18th.
The resignation Of Second Lieutenant
Vasta E. Stolbrand, thirteenth Infantry,
under charges for duplicating his pay ac-
counts. has been accepted by the Presi-
dent.
The imports Of dry goods for the seven
days ended the 18th are valued at So, No.
600; amount marketed, s., 1888 900.
CHAs. w. McCUNE, Of the Buffalo Cour-
Ter, died on the 14th.
Mr.. FAxRcHIID qualified as Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury and began his
duties on the 10th.
THE Prince of Wales, on behalf Of the
Queen. held levee on the 18th.
The terms of the arrangements with
Russia are denounced by the Liberals at
London.
SOME of the striking miners of Pennsyl-
vania decided to return to work at the
operators prices.
FRENCH newspapers charge England
with eating "humble pie" in the Afghan
matter.
THE Oklahoma 0boomers" postponed
their pilgrimage to the promised land
until the 10th inst, and it looked as II
there might te further postponement.
ENGLAND continues her preparations for
war despite Gladstone's statements.
MRS. HERBERT, wife Of Congressman
Herbert, of Alabama, died at Washington
on the 14th.
THE st. Petersburg Zeitung claims that
the Afghan boundary question is not a
European question but merely a local af-
fair.
MEXICAN papers declare that General
Barrios shall be put down il the army of
that country has to invade Central Amer
lea.
THE London Times has advices that the
French losses at Kse Lung were greater
than reported at Paris, and that they only
took two of the forts.
| THE Secretary of the Treasury is receiv-
ing SO many anonymous letters that it is
becoming monotonous, and he announces
AS memorial to General Gordon a
great hospital and sanitarium is to be
built at Port Said, which will be open to
the people of all the realms of the earth.
| CONGRESSIONAL friends of the Okla
homa "boomers" advise them to keep out
! in view of the Presidents proclamation.
ZEBEHR PAsHA, the man General Cor
don wanted made Governor Of Khar-
/ ,oum. was arrested recently and docu-
ments were found proving his completely
with the MauL..
THE Federal Council of s witzer land ap-
proved the United States treaty for tn 6
protection of trade marks.
THE Secretary of the Navy ordered the
vessels at New Orleans to proceed at once
to Central America.
| SECRETARY LAMAR ordered the sale OF
all the fancy horses and carriages belong
| ing 20 the Interior Department and the
money to be put in the treasury.
| LEM, "King of the Air." fell from ca
bic stretched across street in San Fran
cisco on the 18th, and broke his neck.
SIR PETER LUAsDEN arrived at Herat,
and it is said that the Afghans are active
ly fortifying.
THE Sheriff at Denison, Tex, and posse
of 200 men offered protection to men who
went to work for the Missouri Pacific. The
affair was failure and tho posse left.
A HOTEL runner in Omaha, on the 18th,
shot barkeeper dead because the latter
refused to give him drink.
CONSTRUCTION work on the Canadian
Pacific will have to cease unless the Gov
ernment renders assiS stance.
THE celebration Of the Germans at the
New Orleans Exposition on the 18th was
postponed on account Of rain.
GENERAL GRANT was in a comfortable
! condition on the 18th, and the loc al disease
is believed for the present to be station
ary.
THE President on the 18th telegraphed
his sympathy to Mrs. NcCune, widow OF
the late owner of the Buffalo Courier, who
died on the 14th.
| ARTHUR JACKSON, a negro, who mur-
dered and robbed a farmer in Mercer
County, West Virginia, was taken from
Jail on the 18th and hanged by a mob.
A BRIDGE on the Texas Pacific Railway
gave way near Arlington, Tex, on the
18th, and three coaches and an engine Of a
mail train were precipitated into q creek.
One man was killed and several seriously
injured.
THERE was heavy storm-storm at Pitts.
burgh, Pa, on the 10th.
The Oklahoma boomers are watching
and waiting. Many have returned to their
homes.
THREE thousand mill operatives struck
| on the 10th at Saltair, England.
| WIN. M. CLEMENTS, General Manager OF
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, has re-
| signed.
The tea and indigo districts in India are
said to be suffering from severe drought.
| GENERAL HAzEN testified on his own be :
half before the court-martial on the 10th.
| Mr.. BEECHER lectured in Washington
on the evening of the 10th on Evolution
and Revolution"
GLADSTONE thinks the Queen should re-
| ward Earl Spencer for his admirable man.
agement of Ireland.
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy Road for 1884 were $25.
4S5, ,612.
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