Huntsville gazette., 1885-04-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sixty days.
TELEaRAMs to Bradstreet's from prin-
cipal distributing points report that de-
mands from country merchants have thus
far been disappointing. Spring trade is
afortnight late, even where the demand
is most active. Failures for the seven
days ended the 18th, 1876; previous week,
ia; corresponding week, ISS4, 15a.
Two ballots were cast for United States
Senator at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th.
Logan received 100 votes. The Demo-
Gratis did not vote.
NEAR Paducah, KY, on the 18th, Lucin-
da Beerdan killed her newborn babe and
disappeared, and the suppossition is that
she has committed suicide.
BENZ. NJ. PRATT, a Cincinnati lawyer
committed suicide on the 18th.
w. K. Ross, q hardware merchant Of
New York, who was in the room adjoin-
ing Maxwell's at the Southern Hotel, st.
Louis, ON Easter Sunday, says he heard
low moaning.
The gross earnings of the Union Pacific
system for the year 1884 were $25, 791 900;
expenses and taxes, $l5, III, 900; net earn
ings, $10,67S, 146.
THE Suez Canal Commission adopted a
clause extending the principle OF neutral-
ity to the Sweetwater Canal
JUDGE KINNE, of Des Moines, Ia, has
been rendered but has not yet accepted the
mission to Austria.
The rolling mill of the Falcon Iron and
Nail Company at Cleveland, O., was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th.
The strike of the power loom ingram
Ia1y pu
five months duration, termin ated on the
18th in compromise by which the weav-
ers are to receive five and five and half
cents per yard. 1t was believed that all
would return to work on the Goth.
HON. BAYLIss W. HANNA, of Indinna,
has been appointed Minister to Persia.
| AN Italian fleet is being fitted out for
the Baltic Sea.
| A MILITARY conspiracy on q vast scale
| is reported in Spain.
JAMES NJ. BUCHANAN, Postmaster at
Victor, Ia, has been arrested for alleged
| crookedness.
THE general opinion at Winnipeg is that
tn ere will be no serious fighting.
A LARGE party of school teachers from
the Northwest will soon visit the New Or
leans Exposition.
The London papers, with but few ex-
ceptions, still think there will be war.
| EDwARn SUMNER seventy years of age
and a wealthy man, hanged himself at
West Dedham, Mass, on the 18th.
| BILL SMITH snd Charles Hodges, alias
"Dutch Charlie" two noted thieves, were
jailed at jamestown, Dak.. on the 18th.
THE Berlin press generally express the
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gland. -sS ts
| MRS. HENRIETTA MORGAN, mother of
the Confederate General John H. Morgan,
has inherited $1,OOO,O0O by the death of a
French Baroness.
Two HUNDRED English vessels are in
port on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
seeking cargoes of grain.
THE opera festival at Chicago ended on
the 18th. The total attendance was over
1000 at each performance, or about 100, 900
in all. Gross receipts, $4,000.
The German and Austrian Govern
| ments will annul the treaty with Turkey
if Russian and English war ships are al
lowed to pass through the Bosphorus in
the event of war between England and
Russia.
The blockade.of Formosa has been raised
by the French.
THREE native clerks at Baybreach, on
the African coast, were taken on German
man -of-war and fogged.
DAN MACE, the veteran trainer and
driver of trotting horses, died at New
York on the 10Th.
FIRE at Sullivan, Ind, on the 10th de-
stroyed 1000 worth Of property.
BY order of the United States Court
the Cincinnati Northern Railroad is soon
to be sold.
REV. DR.. STERN, a Jewish Rabbi, took
laudanum at Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the
18th, with suicidal intent, and died on the
10th.
FRIENDS of Stephens, the ex-Fenian,
met at New York on the 10th and decid ed
to raise O fund for his benefit.
AT Glendale, near Cincinnati, O., D. w.
Charles was approached by a stranger the
night of the 10Th, who ordered him to
throw up his hands. Charles threw ball
into the stranger, killing him instantly.
Two other men rushed up with an express
wagon and carried the corpse away.
AFARM hand near Plainfeld, N. j., on
the 18th murdered an old lady for whom
he worked, because sne objected TO his
making love to her daughter. He then
hanged himself.
GENERAL GRANT took drive on the af-
ternoon of the Goth.
LARGE forest fires were reported burn
ing on Long Island on the Goth.
TH1RrY-rwo Russian men of-war have
hoisted their flags and put to sea.
REV. DIR. TAYLOR died at Auburn, N. Y,
on the Goth in his one hundred and first
year. - a
New YORK telegraph operators want
extra pay for extra hours of labor.
AT London it is generally thought that
Russia has overstepped the bounds Of En-
glish forbearance.
Two Of the New York bull ding inspect-
ors were indicted by the Grand Jury on
the Goth.
TEE effective strength Of the regular
British army is placed at $4,000 men; re-
serves, 1900; militia, 1000.
THE Chicago wheat market went wild