Huntsville gazette., 1885-05-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

DR. J. II. MILLER, of Islip, l. l., made
a desperate effort on the Sth 10 murder his
wife but failed.
The jailer at Marshal, Tex, prevented
Jail delivery on the Sth by fatally wound
ing one of his prisoners.
GERMANY has given no Indication of
her attitude in the Afghanistan a.,air. but
it is evident she still thinks there will be
war.
The ordinance under which. s'opium
joints" have been suppre ssed in ST. Louis,
Mo-, Is declared invalid by Judge Noonan,
on the ground that no penalty is provided
for selling opium for other than medical
| purp oses.
A. P. SwINEFoRD of Marquette, Mich,
editor and proprietor of the Mining Jour-
Governor Of Alaska.
SIXTY EIGHT people were killed by an
avalanche on the borders of Lake Van, in
| Armenia, on the 9th.
| AN unknown person attempted to assas-
sinate Deputy United States MaRshal At
kinson at Charleston, w. Va, on the 8th.
The shot was fired through a window OF
| his Office.
The publishers Of General Gordon's
| diaries have refused $3O, 900 for the copy
right.
E. B. EWING, of Missouri, is to be Con-
sul-General to Mexico.
| A. NJ. KUHN is to be Surveyor of Gus :
toms for the port Of Indianapolis.
JOHN II. OBERLY, of Illinois, has been
nominated for Superintendent of Indian
schools.
| THE harbor of Cronstadt is now open to
shipping.
| IT is estimated that about one-half of
the vote of credit asked for by the gov
ernment has already been absorbed in En-
glish war preparations.
THE Russian war ship Strelok and the
British ship Canada remain in New Y ork
harbor. The Garnet has gone.
THE aggressive policy of France is said
| to be on the wane
A BUFFALO lady who was injured by a
cable car at Chicago was awarded $6, 900
damages.
A SETTLEMENT of the Russo English
trouble is apparently as far off as ever.
Hoe cholera cost the people of New Jer
sey 500, 900 in 1884, and has cost them $50, :
900 SO far this year.
THE London Times thinks Canada has a
long and bloody war in prospect in the
Northwest.
IRON manufacturers were in session at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9th, considering
the Amal<samated Associations scale OF
| wages.
A BASIS of settlement Of all differences
has been arrived at by the managers of
| Western and Northwestern roads in ses-
sion at Chicago.
A POLICY Of conscription in India is un-
der consideration to meet the aggression
| of Russia.
| ALEXANDER STEEL, an attendant In the
Pennsylvania Insane Asylum, whose bru
tality caused the death of a patient, is
charged with murder.
ORDERS for the transportation of 1000
British troops to India have been ordered
Cancelled.
A COMMISSION of Russian men of letters
are preparing the correspondence of Peter
the Great for publication.
THERE is a disagreement in the English
Cabinet on the subject Of abandoning the
Soudan.
A TEMPERANCE wave is sweeping over
Pittsburgh, Pa.
GENERAL GRANT increases the length of
his walk each day.
PROFESSOR ]. w. SANBoRN, Of the Mis-
souri, Agricultural College, is laboring
with Governor Oglesby of Illinois with a
fair prospect of having the quar- antine
raised.
FIVE masked men took Jim Green out to
hang him at Vinitia, /. T., on the 9th.
After the rope was around his neck he
begged for mercy and was released on a
promise to leave town.
ALL developments favor a successful is
sue to the Franco Chinese peace negotia-
tions.
Two men were killed and two slightly
hurt by powder explosion at Tarrytown,
N. Y, on the 10th.
AN unknown man was found dead in a
field near Toledo, O., on the 10th, evident
lv murdered. His socks were marked sc.
G. Loomis."
Two masked men entered the house OF
F. S. Thrall at Oswego, N. Y, and cut a
fourteen year-old girls hair OH 10 Do re-
venged on her father"
THE colored sexton of a fashionable
church at Washington has just confessed
that for twenty years he has been stealing
| CHURCH IuuOS.
R1EL's rebellion seems to have developed
into real war. Latest reports from the
front show serious fighting between Mid
dleton's men and the Indians.
FIRE was raging in the Hampton Coal
Mine at Williamsburg, Pa, on the 11th.
GENERAL GRANT took long drive on
the 18th, and returned home greatly re-
freshed.
OsMAN DIGNA is reported to be at Ber.
ber with only a handful of followers.
CHEF JAMES of the customs division OF
the Treasury has resigned by request.
FRANCE is reported to have made new
grab of territory on the southwest coast
of the Red Sea.
OWING to a lack of funds business in all
the courts Of the District Of Columbia is
at standstill
THE trial Of Cunningham and Burton,
tho alleged dynamiters, began in London
on the 11th.
WILLIAM WR IGHT has been arrested al
Terre Haute, Ind, charged with the re.
cent express robbery near Harrodsburg,
Ind.
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