Huntsville gazette., 1885-10-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

swiftly revolving a pair of "monkey"
rollers used in preparing the smaller sizes
of coal. Before the machinery could be
stopped his body was ground to pieces.
THE daughter Of General Newton who,
when two years OF age. closed the circuit
which fred the mine at Halletts Point
in 1876, performed the same service in the
blowing up Of Flood Rock on the 10Th.
IT is stated on tho authority of Rev. DIR.
O'Reilly, Treasurer Of the National
League, that about E1,000 s.erling per
week is being forwarded to Charles 8.
Parnell for the Parliamentary fund.
NINE. NEVADA PALMER, accompanied by
her husband, sailed on the Cunard steam.
er Etruria for New York on tie 10th.
The American box and shook factory
and planning mill, owned by Thomas w.
Thompson, of Williamspord, Pa, burned
on the h, together with large amount
of stock. Loss, nearly 100000; insurance,
$2S, 500.
THE special delivery system does not
work satisfactorily in many places, the
limitations for the compensation OF the
carriers making their earnings SO ridicu-
lously small that there is no object in re-
tanning their positions.
GEORGE RoNNEY and VIM. Rossiter,
Mormons, were each sentenced to six
months imprisonm-nt mt and to pay a fine
500 in the United States Court at Salt
Lake City, Utah. on the 10th.
A SHARP shock of earthquake was felt
| at Olympia, Washington Territory, on the
morning of the 10th. No serious damage
resulted.
The blowing up of Flood Rock, at He'll
| Gate, Eas River, New York, was success.
| fully accomplished on the 10th, in the pres
| ence of thousands of spectators. The
shock was felt for miles around, but no
serious damage was done.
| KATE CoYLE was shot and killed by her
husband, from whom she had separated,
| at Providence, r. l., on the 10th. Coyle
then shot himself, but did not succeed in
inflcting mortal wound.
DURING the temporary absence of Mrs.
Bartle B. cker from her home at Dodge
vile, Wis, her nineteen months old daugh-
ter fell into kettle of boiling water and
was literally boiled to death.
| VICTORIA, B. c., is said to be full of
Cinnamon awaiting passage back to Chi
na, being unable to obtain employment.
1t is thought that 1000 will leave within
| a month.
BULGARIA is receiving large quantities
| of grain and ammunition from Russia.
| RUMoRs are afloat in Paris to the effect
that the French troops will totally aban-
don Tonquin.
| THE report that Turkey had recognized
the Bulgarian Union was premature. The
| matter is in the hands Of the powers.
| CHOLERA continues to find fresh victims
| to feed upon in Spain and Italy, but it is
decreasing in virulence.
| PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, hus-
band of Princess Beatrice, was publicly
! Missed on the streets of Perth, Scotland, a
few days ago.
| The last spike in the Canadian Pacific
| Railway will be driven about the 25th inst
THE Monarch Skating Rink at Pitts
| burgh, Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
10th. McKeever's Riding Academy. ad-
joining, was badly damaged. Loss, $l0,-
600; fully insured.
THE Naval Board of Appraisers has
completed its work at Roach's shipy ard.
THREE men were seriously burned by an
explosion of natural gas at Tarentum, Pa,
on the 11th.
Spanish claims to the Pelew and Caroline
Islands.
Mr.. DoRMAN B. EATON will write a
history of the civil.service reform move
ment.
GENERAL NEILEY, of Ohio, says he has
paid $1,000 in board bills at Washington
in his search for an office.
ROBERT WHITE, an employe at Fore
paugh's circus headquarters in Philadel-
phia, was killed by the elephant Empress,
on the night Of the 9th.
IRON ore has been discovered at Wash
ington, Ind, just outside the corporation
limits.
WAR preparations continue in Turkey.
and the government is said to be well sup
piled with money from tithes.
THE first Hebrew Christian Church in
Anne, lea was dedicated with appropriate
services at New York on the 11th.
Mr.. FRED DODGE, of Brooklyn, N. Y,
some of whose doings have heretofore
been publ. he'd, has been expelled from
DIR. Talmage's church.
A MAN calling himself G. c. Whitney
swindled the First National Bank OF
Helena, M. T., out Of $1,000, and the First
National Bank of Butte, M. T., out OF
1000 by forgery.
SEVERAL cars were wrecked in colli-
sion on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Road
near Kalamaz 70, Mich., on The - h..
CARDINAL MANNING pays a high tribute
to the memory o! Ca, dinal McCloskey.
T. W. PowDERLY was reelected Grand
Master Workman by the General Assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor at Hamilton,
Ont, on the 18th.
MADRID newspapers consider the nego-
tiations on the Caroline Islands question
q failure.
THE Secretary of War has decided that
the corps of engineers is staff corps,
and its officers are not entitled to com
mand.
MINISTER PHELPS lunched with Admiral
Franklin on board he flagship Pensacola,
at Southampton, England, on the 18th.
THE cotton operatives at Oldham, Eng.
have refused to accept the terms offered
| by the manufacturers.
CONSIDERABLE excitement exists among
| a settlement of Swedes at Belgrade,
Mimi. over a case Of what they believe to