Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Saxtonl refuses to resign, insisting that
there are no charges against him, eitherIof
lncompetency or offensive partisanship.
COLONEL HUNTER BROOKE, of Ohio, a
clerk in the Adjutant- Generals office,
died IN Washing ton, D. c., on the 22d, of
pneumonia, after brief illness. Colonel
Brooke served as staff officer during the
war with Generals Robert L. McCook.
Roserrans and George H. Thomas.
PROF. SAMUEL JONES, professor emeritus
of physics and chemistry in Washington
and Jefferson College, Washington, D. c..
died on the 22d.
A TERRIFIC explosion took place under a
train near Denver on the oath.
The remains of Victor Hugo were laid
in state in the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
Hon. E. B. EWING. newly appointed
Consul General to Mexico, is at Washing
ton.
FRENCHY, noted cracksman, has been
captured at New York.
The night express on the PAN Handle
Road was wrecked on the oath near Mount
Vernon, o.
COMMIS SIONER COLMAN is investigating q
dairy products, butter limitations, etc.
MATTERS are assuming a violent shape
in the railroad strike at Denver.
AT Cincinnati the United States treas
ure has been removed from the old quar-
| ters to the new building.
THE sanitary conference at Rome has
declared land quarantine useless.
A RECEIVER has been appointed for the
Havana, Rantoul & Eastern division of
the Wabash sytem.
CAPTAIN INNE, owner of the steamer
John Greenaway, on Lake Onondaga, n
Y, was killed on the 24th by the explosion
| of a boiler.
THERE was a serious communistic riot in
Paris on the oath.
Two hundred thousand dollars have been
voted by the people of Pine County, Ari-
zona, in aid of railroad.
| M. II. PHELAN, of st. Louis, has been ap-
pointed Consul at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
FIRE destroyed the principal business
block at Lansing, Mich on the 23d.
VICTOR HUGO bequeathed $4,000 to the
poor.
AL FRANKS killed an Italian scissors
grinder at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the 23d.
THIRTY THOUSAND Russian Poles are
being expelled from Germany.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's French cook
has been superseded by an Irishman.
RECEIVERS have been appointed at New
Yorl-for the Postal Telegraph Company.
| D. w. WEAR, of Missouri, is appointed
superintendent of the Yellowstone Park
FRANCE gave $4,000 to defray the ex-
penses of Victor Hugo's funeral.
AN order abolishing Chandler's Naval
Board of Detail has been issued by Secre-
tary Whitney
JOHN SCoTr, general manager of the
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Pacific Rail-
road Company, has resigned.
SIX of the victims of the Sullivan fire
at Cincinnati were buried on the 23d All
six of the coffins were in the church at the
same time.
FROM Boston comes denial of the re-
port that the Union Pacific had to borrow
$500, 900 to pay its May interest.
THE efforts of Honduras to settle the
quarrel between Guatemala and San Sal
vador have failed.
| TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS worth of dia-
monds were stolen on the 23d from Alex
ander Bros, diamond merchants of Lon
don, Eng.
| GEORGE WHITE, of the st. Louis firm of
George White & Co., has been arrested in
| New York on charges of fraud made by II.
B. Claflin e. Co.
NH. PHELAN has qualified as Consul to
Halifax N. S.
HENRY F. PRENDLE killed DR.. n. l..
Bruck at Oakland, Cal, for alleged i'm
proper advances to Mrs. .Prendle.
THE carders and spinners are on strike
at Llewellen, Pa.
SECRETARY LAMAR refuses to order
survey of Arsenal Island, at ST. Louis,
A STRIKE of brakemen on the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada is probable.
SILVER dollars issued during the week
ended the 23d from the mints were 262, 497.
FIRE destroyed O,00o worth of LUMBER
and slaves at Menosha, Wis, on the 25th.
The Canadian authorities are discussing
how Riel shall be tried.
THE city editor of the Toledo Democrat,
was tarred and feathered at Norwalk
O., on the 25th by four men whom he had
written too plainly about.
PROF. RILEY says the seventeen year
locusts will not be destructive of crops.
JOHN SHERMAN was entertained at San
Francisco on the 25th, and spoke on the
silver question.
The general passenger agents are dis
cussjng a seventeen dollar first-class rate
from Chicago to New York.
FOREST fires are making clean sweep
of the country north and west of East
Tawas, Mich.
THIRTY Mexican editors will leave the
CITY of Mexico June 18th for tour of the
United States.
The diseaselthat is raging at Paris, Pa,
and vicinity, is pronounced black tongue
diphtheria.
MENTAL overwork is responsible for the
suicide of Lieutenant John Loomis Shock,
q. S. N, in England. He had been TAX
! ing course in naval construction at Wool
wich.
SLUGGER SULLIVAN has filedIa cross bill
for divorce. He alleges cruel and abusive
treatment and intoxication on the part of
Mrs. S.
THE residence of the Misses Carpenter
at Philadelphia, Pa, was robbed on the
25th of money and valuables valued at
$4,000.
The conference Of iron manufacturers
and the Amalgamated Association at
Pittsbureh b. Pa, failed to agree and