Huntsville gazette., 1885-09-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


MINISTER FOSTER took his leave of King
Alfonso on the 29,h.
YELLOW FEVER is raging on the Pacific
Coast of Mexico.
wo sailors, Martin Thompson, of AL
pena, and Grant Carr, of Buffalo, were
drowned at Port Huron, Mich, on the
29th.
DR.. LEONARD has challenged Governor
Hoadiy to discussion on the liquor ques
tion during the Ohio campaign.
IT is now said that peace between En-
gland and Russia is assured.
ENGLAND is willing to evaeuate Egypt
ii Turkey will guarantee to maintain or
der.
The values of exports of merchandise
from the United States during the twelve
months ended July 3lst, were $733, ,3SS, 429.
The Gear and his family appear to be
unusually pleased over what trans pired
at the imperial meeting.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele :
graph Company has sued the Western
Union for damages to the amount of ST.
600, 900.
JESSE WARMER, while attempting to es-
cape from the City Marshal at Brazil,
Ind, was fired upon by the latter and ia
tally wounded.
Two ladies of rank were recently cap
were held until ransom Of $40, 900 was
paid
JOHN RossENHEIMER, Of Dearborn Coun-
ty, Indiana, while suffering from delirium
tremens on the Goth, set his house on fire
and cremated himself.
EMPEROR WILLIAM is enjoying better
health than he has for a long time, his
rheumatic trouble having entirely disap-
peared
The German Government is preparing
for the construction of number of canals,
one of which is ship canal from the
Baltic Sea to the German Ocean.
| The peasantry of South Germany are
alarmed over the disappearance of the
rocks, which they take as an Indication of
| the approach of cholera epidemic.
Two little boys of Anthony Phffner, of
Dubuque, Ia, were drowned on the 30th
| while fishing.
THREE persons were killed by the fall
of cliff at Dawlish, England, on the
.3Jth.
GARDNER, HOLMES e. Co.'s furniture
factory at New York was burned out on
the 30th. John Ennis, fireman, was
killed by falling wall.
Rev. Mr.. TALMAGE preached to i'm
mense crowds at Belfast, Ireland, on the
30th.
A YOUNG man named H. P. Shilth was
run over and killed by the cars near Wis
ner, Neb., on the 30th.
A NEW set Of glassware is being manu-
factured for the White House.
PHILIP LEM made murderous assault
on his step brother at Indianapolis, Ind,
on the 30th, caused by jealousy.
AN officer, who has seen arctic service,
is to have charge of the Greedy relics at
the st. Louis Exposition
THE President and Cabinet expect to be
back at Washingto ready for business by
the 9th of September.
A RIOT occurred at Almeria, Spain, on
the 30th in which eight persons were
killed and twelve wounded.
FIRE at Vincennes, Ind, on the 30th
did $40 900 damage.
The Earl Of Carnarvon, Lord Lieuten- i
ant of Ireland. says the mob must be
taught to respect the law.
The number of immigrants landed in
the United States during July was 2S,3o4.
MOODY and Sankey are holding meet
ings at Newport, L. |.
In a wreck of the Pacific express near
Catskill, N. Y, on the West Shore Road, /,
on the 3lst, Engi eer Cole was killed.
FRANCE has requested England to in
vestigate the death of Olivier Pain.
MARTIN BRocKMAN's livery stable
burned at Cincinnati on the 3lst, and N
unknown young man was cremated in 1t.
REFUGEES from Marseilles have carr ed
cholera into Italy, and it is spreading.
AT Texas Hollow, O., on the 31st, w. E.
Booth attempted to kill his mother -in-la w
and another woman and then killed him.
self.
EMPEROR WILLIAM took part in the an
nual shoot of the Foot Guards at Potts
dam on the 31st.
In the Walkup case at Emporia, Kas.,
the Coroner's Jury found that death was
due to arsenical poisoning, and that his
wife administered the fatal dose.
CHARGES of crookedness are made
a gainst the Governor of Herat. The
Ameer has ordered an investigation.
C. AMENDA, a Hoboken druggist, filed
a quinine prescription on the 3lst with
morphine, causing the death OF one young
lady and probably another.
RECENTLY compiled statistics show the
rate of mortality of the colored race in the
United States to be far greater than that
Of the whites. #
THE house of Hannah Gibso widow,
was burned at Plymouth, Me-. on the 3lst
and she perished in the flames. Her in
sane nephew is thought to have started
the fire.
THERE were q. S33 new cases Of cholera
and 1,24S deaths from the disease report
ed throughout Spain on the 3Oth. Since
the outbreak of cholera in Spain 523 $40
persons have been attacked by the dis
ease and 81, 619 have died.
IT is estimated at the Treasury De-
partment that there has been decrease
Of about 50, OO), 900 in the public debt dur
ing the month Of August.
BARNEY CoNNoR, noted desperate of
D ecatur County, Indiana, was shot dead
on the 31st, at Greensburg by City Mar