Huntsville gazette., 1885-06-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

"ho iedpeu iroin brooklyn bridge, blameS
"the low sports" for his death.
CHIcAGo's "Committee of S.afetvn are
going to invoke the courts to compel the
Council to complete the canvass of the
votes.
ALL the personal property Of the mother
OF Parnell, the Irish agitapor, has been
attached at her home near Bordentown,
NJ.
JAMES w. WHELPLEY, of New York, is
made Ass stant Treasurer of tho United
States. He was cashier in the Trea sur v
Department His promotion will make
room for others.
Mr.. VALENTINE p. SNYDER, Of New
York, who is at present acting as private
secretary to Secretary Manning. will be
appointed chief clerk of the Treasur er's
office.
The Gear is going to visit the King of
Denmark.
NEMEDI, a village in Hungary of 23o
houses, has been destroyed by fire. The
people are destitute.
JOHN TERRY, colored, was hanged at
Barnweu, S. c., on the Goth, Tor the mur :
der, in May last, of tn Rev. John G. Ses-
sions. His neck was broken and life was
pronounced extinct in twenty minutes
He made a con ession, attributing the
murder 10 whisky.
DECORATION Day was more generally
observed than ever on the 30th, reports
from all parts OF the country giving de-
tails of interesting ceremonies In many
portions of the South c. ife lerates joined
with Federals and the Blue and the Gray
We'd in doin. honor to those who had
fallen in defense of the opinions.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
was in session at Cincinnati, o., on the
9th.
JACOB STADFELr, a noted counterfeiter,
died at Dayton, O., on the 3oth.
THE Apaches continue their outrages in
Sou; hern New Mexico.
CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, Q. c., will
prosecute Riel.
Two Hussars were killed by lightning
while sitting in their tent at Hyderabad, /,
southern Hindostan, recently.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND reviewed the
Decoration Day procession at New York.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the Republic Iron
Works signed the Amalgamated Associa-
tion SCALE
IT is said that Russia agreed to the En-
glish proposals to keep the Tory party
from going into power.
PROF. YoUMANs defends Herbert Spen-
Ger against charges of literary piracy
made by Frederi TX Harrison.
The Bosphore Egyptien has made saw
age attack on Englishmen in Egypt and
there is more talk of suppression.
AT Milford, Mass, on the Both, the priest
forbade the G. A. r. entrance to the Cath
olic Cemetery to decorate the graves.
JEFF DAVIS thinks elements of disin-
tegra ton and disruption at work in
our sy stem of Government" and that the
Constitution has been made "a rope of
sand"
AUTHORS and journalists in Paris are
raising a subscription for bronze or mar
BILE representation of Victor Hugo.
| The Mayor of Cincinnati and seventeen
prominent citizens who borrowed S165, =
600 for the city, for which the Legislature
failed to provide, are exercised over the
prospect of having it to pay.
| M. LEssAR, the Russian Commissioner,
leaves London Immediately for Afghanis-
tan to assist in making the frontier line.
| j. PARKER VEAzEY has assumed charge
of the Baltimore (Md.) Post-of1ice.
! THOMAS SIMoNs, United States Assist
ant Attorney General, has resigned.
| MRS. PRESTON SMITH was killed by an
accidental shot at Portland, Ore, on the
3lst. i.
| IT is said fifty removals are to be made
| Immediately in the Pension Bureau.
BIG BEARS band of Indians gave the
| Canadian troops fight few days ago at
Pitt, N. w. 7.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS makes
some interesting disclosures concerning
the public domain.
AFTER the usual Sunday consultation
the physicians reported no change in Gen.
eral Grants condition.
The Farmers Reuie,o of Chicago says
the wheat out ook is the gloomiest known
at this season for ten years.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND spent Sunday
quietly at the house of Secretary Whitney
in New York. He did not go to church.
RUSSIA is pushing work on the Central
Asian Railway.
RICHARD HANDS, drug clerk in New
York. was murdered on the night of the
3Oth by burglars, whom he interrupted
robbing his employers store.
CHARLES HAROLD, resident of Chi :
cago, fell from the pier at the foot OF
est Forty fourth street, New York, on
the 3lss, and was horribly crushed be-
tween a canal boat and the dock. He was
taken to Roosevelt Hospital.
SECRETARY LAMAR has recovered from
his illness and is at his desk again.
DECREASE of the National debt for May
s., ,225, ,OOl.
THE Arabs around Suakim are growing 6
aggressive as the English leave.
A. N. HATHAWAY has been appointed
Consul at Nice, France.
THE London police authorities are again
stirred up over the Irish American dyna-
miters.
COLONEL SwITzLER, of Missouri, took
| charge of the Bureau of Statistics on the
| 1st
| The Court of Claims at Washington
has adjourned until October.
| RUSSIA is said to be very angry at
| Prussia for the recent wholesale expulsion
! of Poles.
| IT is denied that there are any grass
| hoppers in Kansas or Colorado.
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